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Antioch: Scarlet Bay
Adventure 25 November 2022
A text adventure game focusing on co-op experience and investigation-related aspects. It was created by Mi-Clos - a French developer. The year is 1983 and the plot is set in the titular Antioch - a fictional town surrounded by sea and mountains. The game follows the adventures of two detectives working on an exceptionally complicated case.
Eldrum: Red Tide
RPG 26 September 2022
The second part of a series of text-based RPGs, started by Eldrum: Untold. In Eldrum: Red Tide we find ourselves in a war-torn fantasy world, which we traverse as a former soldier searching for his missing sibling.
Rubicon: A Conspiracy of Silence
Adventure 20 October 2021
Narrative adventure game in which we play as a heroine who tracks secrets of her company. In Rubicon: A Conspiracy of Silence the gameplay is based on conversations and making choices influencing the further course of the story and how much information we manage to gain.
Knights of San Francisco
RPG 04 May 2021
A text-based RPG set in a postapocalyptic world. In Knights of San Francisco we play as a young necromancer who explores the city and faces various threats.
Bitburner
Simulation 11 December 2021
An unusual idle game, Bitburner lets you play as a hacker and discover the secrets of the cyberpunk world using a real programming language. The game is available completely for free.
Letters: A Written Adventure
Adventure 09 February 2022
Adventure platform game in which we accompany a teenage Sarah in her adolescence. In Letters: A Written Adventure the gameplay is about filling in gaps in texts with selected words, which we literally push into the right places.
Dimday Red
RPG canceled
A text-based RPG in which we find ourselves in a world standing at the threshold of the apocalypse. In Dimday Red we play Cillian, an assassin working for the Syndicates, who tries to protect himself and his partner Meg at all costs.
The Textorcist: The Story of Ray Bibbia
Action 14 February 2019
Bullet hell shooter, in which we play as an exorcist fighting with demons trying to take control of Rome. Characteristic feature of The Textorcist: The Story of Ray Bibbia is control - entering into interaction with the game world and leading out attacks is done here by typing specific words.
Alt-Frequencies
Adventure 15 May 2019
Alt-Frequencies is a unique text game in which we listen to fragments of radio broadcasts in an attempt to extract information about experiments with time loops conducted by the government. The production was created in cooperation with Accidental Queens and ARTE France.
Wanderlust: Transsiberian
Adventure 02 April 2020
A stand-alone add-on to the warmly welcomed text adventure Wanderlust Travel Stories. Wanderlust: Transsiberian tells the story of two travellers on board the Trans-Siberian Railway, whose fate is shaped by our choices.
A Case of Distrust
Adventure 08 February 2018
A Case of Distrust is a text noir adventure game set in San Francisco in the 1920s. In the production of the independent studio The Wandering Ben, we play the role of a young woman, Phyllis, who decided to become a private detective.
Hypnospace Outlaw
Simulation 12 March 2019
Hypnospace Outlaw is an unconventional production from Tendershoot studio. The player takes on the role of the guardian of the Internet simulation - Hypnospace. Its task is to deal with reports of various types of abuse committed in the network.
Unmemory
Adventure 13 October 2020
The original noir adventure game realized in the form of a text-visual novel. In Unmemory we play the role of a hero trying to find the killer of his girlfriend. To do this, we have to go through a journal and solve a number of puzzles.
Werewolf: The Apocalypse - Heart of the Forest
Adventure 13 October 2020
An adventure game set in the universe of the World of Darkness. The creation of Werewolf: The Apocalypse - Heart of the Forest is the responsibility of Polish studio Different Tales, creators of Wanderlust Travel Stories.
Bury Me, My Love
Adventure 25 October 2017
Majd and Nour are the main characters in Bury me, my Love - they are a married couple from one of the Syrian towns destroyed as a result of bombings. The player is required to make choices while reading and sending back text messages and images.
Simulacra
Adventure 26 October 2017
Original adventure game, in which our task is to find the owner of the found phone. We need to collect information by chatting with her friends, checking the content of files stored on the device, and sometimes fixing corrupted data.
Nanotale: Typing Chronicles
Adventure 31 March 2021
A spiritual successor to Epistory: Typing Chronicles. In Nanotale: Typing Chronicles, the players find themselves in a dying fantasy world. The main character of the game, the archivist Rosalina, travels the distant corners of the land, discovering its secrets. The characteristic feature of this production are the controls, which are based on manually typed verbal commands.
Lifeline: Whiteout
Adventure 24 May 2016
Another installment in a series of mobile adventure titles developed by 3 Minute Games. The plot is centered around a man called V. Adams, who wakes up in a distant corner of the Earth one day, right in the middle of a raging snow storm. Without remembering how he got there, he realizes he has no chances of survival just on his own. However, a special text message system allowing him to contact the player becomes helpful in his attempt to make his way out of that dangerous place.
Sorcery! 4: The Crown of Kings
Adventure 22 September 2016
The fourth (and, according to its creators, final) entry in the warmly-welcomed adventure RPG series from inkle based on Sorcery!, a popular gamebook from 1983. Like the three previous titles, Sorcery! 4 offers a completely new story, so knowledge of the earlier games isn’t necessary to play. Once again, we can create a completely new character or import our old hero from the previous parts of the series. The gameplay of Sorcery!
The Martian: Bring Him Home
Adventure 01 October 2015
A text-based adventure game, based on the movie The Martian by Ridley Scott. The Martian: Bring Him Home was released for mobile devices as a premium game. Just like in the movie, the main task is to help the astronaut stranded on the surface of Mars. You play as a NASA specialist, who aids Mark Watney by giving him useful tips and takes care of his emotional state. The gameplay consist of conversing with the “Martian” and choosing the right dialogue options.
Emily is Away
Adventure 20 November 2015
A nostalgic text-based adventure game developed by the independent developer Kyle Seeley. The game calls back to the beginnings of the internet boom and the first instant messengers that made it possible to befriend people online. The objective of the game is to develop an internet friendship with a student named Emily. The gameplay consists of typing commands and selecting dialogue sequences using interface that looks like classic communicators such as AOL Instant Messenger.
Star Trek (1981)
Strategy 30 November 1981
A strategic text game in which the player's task is to defeat a certain number of Clingo ships and prevent them from attacking the command center of the Federation. This is one of the first games released on IBM PCs.
DEVICE 6
Adventure 17 October 2013
DEVICE 6 is an unusual Simogo adventure released for iOS, in which the text narration on the screen not only describes the events, but also the visual arrangement of letters and sentences on the screen represents a map of the explored world. The game consists mainly in finding the way to the destination using this unusual method of navigation and solving logical puzzles.
The Sin Collector: Repentless
Adventure 09 November 2021
Paragraph game with visual novel elements. The Sin Collector: Repentless allows us to take on the role of one of the Sin Collectors, who have been sent to Earth to obtain payment from mortals for their sins and thus end the biblical apocalypse.