- #1 Never Gives Up Her Dead
97% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2026
Dev: Brian Rushton
Windows
Time is running out after a meteor strikes your interstellar starship. While the crew is under full alert, only you seem to notice the strange red portals opening up throughout the ship. Old school text-based parser: no graphics, huge worlds, no hints. Recommended for text game veterans.
Why similar: Typing 46% ★, Interactive Fiction 17.7%, Text-Based 15.3%, Puzzle 7.1%, Sci-fi 6.1%
- #2 Ghost//Root
96% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Adam CoburnPub: Think New Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Enter a locked network through one surviving terminal. Read conflicting records, question witnesses, and use recovered programs to uncover why an autonomous machine refused its orders. A retro terminal mystery in four acts, with six endings shaped by your decisions.
Why similar: Typing 49.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 18.9%, Text-Based 17.4%, Sci-fi 10%, Adventure 3.9%
- #3 Book of Decisions
96% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2024
Dev: SayrGames
Windows
A game in the Chatbot Roleplay category.Among the ancient Egyptian ruins, a book is found, and in our game, we talk to this book. The book answers everything we write. The book's general power is that everything written in it becomes real in the world, but we discuss the consequences with the book.
Why similar: Typing 46% ★, Interactive Fiction 16.8%, Text-Based 9.2%, Artificial Intelligence 9.2%, Puzzle 7.8%
- #4 Event[0]
95% matchVery Positive80% of 2,299 reviews2016
Dev: Ocelot Society
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Event[0] is a sci-fi narrative exploration game where you build a relationship with a lonely spaceship computer to get home to Earth.
Why similar: Typing 29.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Psychological 12.1%, Sci-fi 9%, Artificial Intelligence 8%
- #5 Case #1472
94% matchMixed57% of 68 reviews2025
Dev: Broken at Release Game Studio
Windows
A mysterious woman is sitting in front of you. Who is she? And who are you? And why are you both there? Case #1472 is mystery information digging interrogation thriller game where there are more things going on than what meets the eye, but are you able to unravel what has happened?
Why similar: Typing 35.3% ★, Interactive Fiction 17.9%, Psychological 11.2%, Dialogue Heavy 8%, Puzzle 7.4%
- #6 Implight
94% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Short Road Studios
Windows
Type in what actions you want to take in this comedic text-adventure game inspired by choose-your-own-adventure books! Implight uses 3D visuals and absurdist humor to convey an entertaining and introspective story.
Why similar: Typing 46.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 18.4%, Dialogue Heavy 11.7%, Text-Based 10%, Story Rich 5.3%
- #7 Tachyon Dreams Anthology
93% matchPositive92% of 25 reviews2024
Dev: Cosmic Void
Windows
Time itself is breaking up, and Dodger, the dishwashing dude onboard Penrose Space Station, is the unlikely fixer. Join the chaos in this 80s-style comedy, sci-fi text-parser adventure as Dodger tackles a cosmic crisis like no other! This version includes all three episodes + new extra content!
Why similar: Typing 38.6% ★, Interactive Fiction 18.9%, Text-Based 11.8%, Sci-fi 11.3%, Story Rich 6.7%
- #8 Dante's Cowboy
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Cameron Murphy Reikes
Windows
A Neo-Western town is simmering with conflict: mysterious forces fight for power, and you're the lynchpin that can save or destroy it. With a novel dynamic text system, you can say and do anything to the NPCs, then they generate personalized actions and speech in response.
Why similar: Typing 50.9% ★, Interactive Fiction 24.4%, Artificial Intelligence 10.9%, Adventure 7.6%, Story Rich 6%
- #9 The Watch Post
91% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: Robert Hendrickson
Windows
In The Watch Post you will explore areas through a living CRT television in this atmospheric dark-fantasy text adventure. Find strange items, unlock hidden paths, solve optional mysteries, and decide whether the signal should ever be answered.
Why similar: Typing 27.8% ★, Text-Based 26%, Interactive Fiction 23.1%, Puzzle 6.9%, Adventure 5.6%
- #10 I doesn't exist - a modern text adventure
91% matchMixed68% of 79 reviews2023
Dev: LUAL Games KIGPub: DreadXP
Windows · Mac · Linux
Classic Zork meets Existential Crisis. A modern text adventure that explores themes of control, isolation and mental health while levelling up the genre with beautiful pixel art.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22%, Psychological 18.9%, Text-Based 13.3%, Dialogue Heavy 10.5%, Story Rich 9.8%
- #11 Unreachable
89% match7 user reviews57% of 7 reviews2026
Dev: 颜文字Pub: KAOMOJI ENTERTAINMENT
Windows
An urgent message from home, a choice with an impossible price tag. In a 20-minute high-stakes dialogue, you must dismantle a "perfect" engineer's facade. Faced with $100,000 and a family tragedy, will you help him preserve his costly "American Dream," or force him to face the half-packed suitcase?
Why similar: Text-Based 22.1%, Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Dialogue Heavy 14.8%, Typing 14.6% ★, Artificial Intelligence 11.5%
- #12 Stranded 2
90% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2020
Dev: JimJams Games
Windows
Following a not highly unexpected crash landing (which seems to happen to you a lot), you find yourself stranded on a hostile alien world full of humour, mystery and quite a bit of walking - Your task is clear, find a way off of this planet and get home. - Should be simple!
Why similar: Typing 42.6% ★, Interactive Fiction 21.9%, Text-Based 17.8%, Sci-fi 6.9%, Adventure 6.4%
- #13 EVER
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Bada O Studio
Windows
Awaken into the quiet ruins of a world left behind in EVER, a narrative text adventure. Piece together lost memories, use protocols to uncover hidden choices. No more orders. What kind of robot will you be?
Why similar: Text-Based 26.5%, Typing 24.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 17.2%, Sci-fi 10.4%, Story Rich 9.4%
- #14 Finish Report
88% matchPositive88% of 24 reviews2023
Dev: D4
Windows
Finish Report is a short science fiction horror game. All communications have been lost to a space station far in deep space. You as a one-man investigation unit has been sent to find out why did the station go silent.
Why similar: Typing 45.1% ★, Text-Based 19.5%, Sci-fi 8.4%, Puzzle 7.5%, Mystery 7.4%
- #15 Playstories
87% matchNo user reviews
Windows
Play a role. Write your story. Step into a live AI story hall where every choice can reshape relationships, memories, and fate.
Why similar: Typing 44.2% ★, Interactive Fiction 20.9%, Text-Based 12.9%, Dialogue Heavy 7.2%, Artificial Intelligence 7%
- #16 Recollect
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ShuffleHouse
Windows · Linux
Recollect is a 2D adventure puzzle game based on typing, where you explore a world of lost memories. Solve unique puzzles, uncover forgotten spells and look for meaning in dreams to find out who you really are.
Why similar: Typing 52.6% ★, Psychological 20.7%, Puzzle 10.7%, Adventure 7.3%, Exploration 4.3%
- #17 LOVE alt delete
86% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Circle Maiden Name
Windows · Mac · Linux
DATE. DESIGN. DESTROY. A psychological chat simulator between you and two digital personalities who desperately want to be people. Type keywords to control them, uncover their secrets, and choose their fates.
Why similar: Typing 37.6% ★, Interactive Fiction 17.6%, Dialogue Heavy 13.1%, Mystery 6.7%, Puzzle 6.4%
- #18 CMChar: Your Virtual Companion
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: AlanBotics
Windows
Bring your favorite characters to life on your desktop! CMChar offers interactive mascots with unique AI-powered personalities that talk, react, and evolve with you. Build affinity, level up, and boost your productivity with built-in tools.
Why similar: Typing 50% ★, Interactive Fiction 17%, Text-Based 15.9%, Artificial Intelligence 11.5%, Dialogue Heavy 5.4%
- #19 Persona Shard
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: DR Studio CodingPub: DR Studio Games
Windows · Linux
Emotional highs and lows, but make it interdimensional.
Why similar: Typing 50.4% ★, Interactive Fiction 24.2%, Text-Based 14.4%, Artificial Intelligence 10.8%, Singleplayer 0.2%
- #20 BORK
83% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: halfdrunkinteractive
Windows
A perfectly normal text adventure. Explore 141 rooms, solve bizarre puzzles, collect questionable objects, and discover multiple endings in a world of dark humor and increasingly unreliable guidance.
Why similar: Typing 48.3% ★, Interactive Fiction 24.9%, Text-Based 19.5%, Adventure 5.2%, Horror 1.7%
- #21 Ozapell Mystery Text Adventure
85% match3 user reviews33% of 3 reviews2019
Dev: Ozapell
Windows
A retro early 1980s text adventure experience involving a murder mystery that is generated differently each time the game is played.
Why similar: Typing 38.8% ★, Text-Based 24.7%, Interactive Fiction 19.3%, Mystery 10.8%, Adventure 5.7%
- #22 Kriss' Journey
82% match9 user reviews89% of 9 reviews2025
Dev: orlodax
Windows · Mac · Linux
A science-fantasy retro-flavoured textual adventure running in your terminal
Why similar: Typing 29.9% ★, Interactive Fiction 20.1%, Text-Based 19.4%, Sci-fi 11.9%, Dialogue Heavy 10.8%
- #23 Coldwake
81% matchPositive100% of 39 reviews2026
Dev: MadLeap Games
Windows
Explore an abandoned facility in this narrative-driven terminal adventure. Unlock hidden files, solve text-based puzzles, and piece together a fragmented AI as you uncover the truth behind a failed salvation and a buried past in this cold, atmospheric mystery.
Why similar: Typing 41.6% ★, Text-Based 13.3%, Artificial Intelligence 9.9%, Female Protagonist 8.1%, Puzzle 7.5%
- #24 7 Days to End with You
81% matchVery Positive88% of 3,483 reviews2022
Dev: LizardryPub: PLAYISM
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 68%
To know a language, know the world, and finally know you.
Why similar: Typing 33.7% ★, Text-Based 14.5%, Interactive Fiction 14.2%, Psychological 12.4%, Dialogue Heavy 10%
- #25 The Door Of Redemption
82% match6 user reviews83% of 6 reviews2020
Dev: 地航者
Windows
When you wake up in a dungeon full of peculiar smell, someone tells you: you must find a way to escape from this dungeon, and be careful, you are not alone……
Why similar: Typing 35% ★, Text-Based 30.3%, Puzzle 11.2%, Mystery 7.7%, Interactive Fiction 6.8%
- #26 Soulfused
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Confoxing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Soulfused is a modern take on the classic text adventures from the early days of computer gaming. Dive into a dystopian future ruled by an empire focused on conquest and control. Take on the role of a newly converted Soulfused; a part human/part robot soldier in service to the Empire.
Why similar: Typing 44.9% ★, Text-Based 22.1%, Interactive Fiction 10.9%, Sci-fi 9.1%, Story Rich 6.7%
- #27 The Pilgrimage
79% matchPositive92% of 12 reviews2023
Dev: Nicholas Brakespear
Windows
One thousand years beyond the fall of Earth, one last drink may yet be your epitaph, in this post-post-apocalyptic hangover odyssey by a novelist you've never heard of! A parser-driven text adventure for the ages! Or at least a weekend! Fun for all the family (except the kids)!
Why similar: Typing 28.2% ★, Interactive Fiction 18.4%, Text-Based 16.1%, Sci-fi 10.8%, Dialogue Heavy 10.5%
- #28 Naomi’s End
78% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: emagnetic
Windows
Naomi wakes decades older in a house she does not recognize, and discovers that escape may cost the future.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22.5%, Psychological 18.2%, Text-Based 16%, Sci-fi 10.4%, Female Protagonist 9.9%
- #29 Head in the Cloud
78% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: Phosphor Fables
Windows
In the text-adventure “Head in the Cloud,” you play as a Marine hacker on a mission to sabotage a crime syndicate’s supercomputer. When things don’t go to plan, you must use your head to survive, or risk losing it!
Why similar: Typing 31% ★, Interactive Fiction 27.3%, Text-Based 22.1%, Sci-fi 6.4%, Story Rich 5.3%
- #30 Talk to Aya
80% matchPositive85% of 13 reviews2017
Dev: LightPub: Nekomura Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Chat with Aya! Ask questions, discuss hobbies, or simply input keywords.
Why similar: Typing 53.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 21.8%, Dialogue Heavy 11.4%, Female Protagonist 9.5%, Mystery 4.1%
- #31 Book of Infinity: 1001 Nights
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ada Eden
Windows · Mac
Can you survive an evil King who kills a bride every night by telling stories? A story-crafting game based on a unique narrative system — Become the storyteller Scheherazade from Persian folklore, weave tales to the King through typing, and guide his words to forge magical weapons for your revenge!
Why similar: Typing 40.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 17.2%, Text-Based 13.5%, Female Protagonist 9.8%, Artificial Intelligence 9.3%
- #32 Penrose
77% matchPositive83% of 36 reviews2023
Dev: doublespeak games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Penrose is a non-linear interactive novella unlike anything you've played before. Scroll forwards and backwards through an ever-changing story. Manipulate the environment, explore every possibility, and unravel the mystery at the heart of everything.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.6%, Text-Based 24.2%, Psychological 14.1%, Puzzle 9%, Story Rich 7.6%
- #33 Chatting ChurroBun
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: maltsoup
Windows · Mac · Linux
Chat with a virtual friend from a cancelled mobile game! Ask questions, start arguments, and find the right responses to progress the story. Can you solve the horrific mystery hidden beneath the surface?
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.6%, Typing 23.3% ★, Text-Based 15.9%, Story Rich 9.6%, Dialogue Heavy 8.8%
- #34 what-if
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Other Tales Interactive
Windows · Mac
A guided ARG that spans across dimensions. Decipher cryptography, search digital footprints, and retrace scientist Jessie's journey to uncover what happened to her and her assistant.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 31.3%, Text-Based 15.4%, Puzzle 12.6%, Sci-fi 10.5%, Adventure 9%
- #35 The Tenth Minute
74% matchNo user reviews0% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: XU S.A Studio
Windows
The Tenth Minute is a short narrative game told through chat and novel-style reading. Revisit a school-day memory shaped by unspoken feelings, misaligned memories, and belated understanding between three people. A youthful story with light psychological mystery, complete in around 2 hours.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.8%, Text-Based 22.5%, Psychological 17%, Story Rich 9.9%, Female Protagonist 7.8%
- #36 Anachronism\>
76% matchMixed66% of 55 reviews2021
Dev: EloTherePub: Easy~ Interactive Software
Windows · Mac
It's 1999 and your friend sends you a floppy disk, titled "RemBo". It turns out to be the installer for an old BBS service, filled with both strangers and a familiar face. How are you going to use it?
Why similar: Typing 45.2% ★, Interactive Fiction 21.8%, Text-Based 21.1%, Female Protagonist 8.5%, Story Rich 3.1%
- #37 Inglobe
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: moggmogg lunch box
Windows
Become a mailman in a snowy town and deliver the thoughts of its inhabitants in this 3D adventure. Without a map, figure out where to deliver your letters, explore, and drop them in the mailboxes of the right buildings.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.7%, Text-Based 23.1%, Dialogue Heavy 12.6%, Sci-fi 9.4%, Exploration 8.1%
- #38 Space Bear
75% matchVery Positive98% of 456 reviews2020
Dev: Damon SmithPub: Space Bear Games
Windows
Space Bear is a multi-choice text adventure typing game! Sort of. I mean, there isn't many actual choices, and the typing is more "mashing"...
Why similar: Typing 61.1% ★, Text-Based 28%, Adventure 10%, Indie 0.9%
- #39 Ann's Parlor
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MIQIISM Studio
Windows
Awakened from years of slumber, the witch Ann returns to her old cabin, where visitors arrive seeking love, truth, or glimpses of fate. Through crystal-ball readings, you interpret their stories and guide their paths—every choice reshaping their destinies and the secrets that await within.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.9%, Text-Based 17.5%, Dialogue Heavy 12.2%, Female Protagonist 12.1%, Puzzle 9.4%
- #40 The Riddler
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: SemanticOverlordPub: Bunker 22
Windows
Think you're clever? Prove it with an enigmatic AI, the ultimate master of riddles beyond imagination.
Why similar: Typing 34.6% ★, Text-Based 19.6%, Dialogue Heavy 15.9%, Artificial Intelligence 14.6%, Puzzle 8.8%
- #41 Stories Terminal
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: OddlyGames
Windows
Stories Terminal is a detective text adventure inspired by classic parser games. Type your own commands, explore pixel-art locations, collect evidence, and solve a murder case on a midnight university campus.
Why similar: Typing 45.1% ★, Text-Based 22.1%, Artificial Intelligence 9.8%, Mystery 8.2%, Dialogue Heavy 6.8%
- #42 12 Abroad St.
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Studio Ronpoingue
Windows
12 Abroad St is a solo textual adventure game for PC set in a present and urban setting. You have been invited to a party you don't want to attend. Roam the city of Seaforth and try to dodge the party.
Why similar: Typing 56.5% ★, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Text-Based 13.1%, Exploration 5.4%, Story Rich 3.3%
- #43 Human.exe
72% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Weird EnginePub: Black Lantern Collective
Windows · Mac
An AI has isolated the mind of a philosophy professor to evaluate human morality. As the terminal operator, you access files, run programs, and take his consciousness through ethical dilemmas. Your decisions will train the AI's final algorithm.
Why similar: Typing 43.5% ★, Text-Based 18.1%, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Sci-fi 8.1%, Story Rich 6.2%
- #44 > Terminal
71% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2026
Dev: Terminal CLS LLC
Windows · Mac
Terminal is a command-line escape room. You aren't just reading a story; you're unlocking a machine. You are Tera, alone in your terminal window on a cold Illinois night. Your identity is lost, embedded somewhere within a haunted computer. Its code is a prison, but it's also your escape.
Why similar: Typing 37.2% ★, Text-Based 13.9%, Interactive Fiction 13.5%, Sci-fi 8.4%, Puzzle 7.7%
- #45 NO WAY OUT:Prison
70% match9 user reviews100% of 9 reviews2026
Dev: Co's Studios
Windows
10 days until execution. Every choice could save you — or prove you deserve it. Escape or die.
Why similar: Typing 43.9% ★, Interactive Fiction 22.1%, Psychological 11.3%, Text-Based 10.8%, Adventure 6.1%
- #46 Pikku Adventure
71% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Pikku Studios
Windows · Mac
A challenging puzzle adventure about learning an alien language. Explore a strange world and meet its cute inhabitants. Decipher the language and earn their trust. With every word learned, you will uncover more secrets. Can you solve the mystery of this world and decide the fate of the Pikku?
Why similar: Typing 32.2% ★, Dialogue Heavy 12.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Text-Based 11.6%, Puzzle 7.9%
- #47 Nanotale - Typing Chronicles
71% matchMostly Positive76% of 865 reviews2021
Dev: Fishing Cactus
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Something is wrong with the heart of magic. Play a young archivist venturing out into a dying world, cataloging its mysteries and its wonders to unearth the truth. Nanotale is the new adventure from the Typing Chronicles franchise and the spiritual successor to the acclaimed Epistory.
Why similar: Typing 62% ★, Female Protagonist 9.3%, Story Rich 7.4%, Puzzle 6.2%, Exploration 5.8%
- #48 Gata Guressi
70% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Elliot George Mann
Windows
Learn to communicate with the people of Hierre by speaking their languages and understanding their cultures in this sci-fi translation game. Use your translation skills to navigate Kallay Tirridor, uncovering its dark secrets while solving the sudden disappearance of your brother.
Why similar: Typing 29.1% ★, Dialogue Heavy 15.6%, Sci-fi 12.9%, Text-Based 10%, Puzzle 9.6%
- #49 Trilingual
70% matchPositive91% of 11 reviews2024
Dev: Wyatt HubersPub: Tetrafi
Windows
Welcome to the planet, Triangulus. Can you solve the hidden mysteries of each island and escape with your brain intact? Scan these ancient runes to decode a new alien language. Use this alien language to grow plants, move trains, and even save the Trilings of the planet.
Why similar: Typing 61.9% ★, Puzzle 12.6%, Sci-fi 10.7%, Dialogue Heavy 7.5%, Adventure 4%
- #50 Spark of Tales
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Endless Worlds
Windows
Ignite the spark of inspiration while writing tales in a cozy environment where readers become part of the creative process. Follow stories as they're being written, interact with other authors, shape worlds through your ideas, earn reputation, unlock unique abilities, and get rewarded for your aid.
Why similar: Typing 36.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 28.5%, Text-Based 23.7%, Story Rich 8.4%, Atmospheric 2.8%
- #51 Hysteria in Howlsbend
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Jingyu Z.Pub: Chatbot AI Team @ CMU ETC
Windows
Hysteria in Howlsbend is an Interactive Narrative Experience driven by conversational AI Characters, created with the cutting-edge ChatGPT Language Model.
Why similar: Typing 46.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 25.7%, Text-Based 14.9%, Artificial Intelligence 8.4%, Mystery 4%
- #52 The Last Question
66% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2026
Dev: Horo_tech3Pub: Hooroometa
Windows · Mac
An AI-powered detective mystery where you question suspects in your own words. Investigate scenes, collect evidence, compare testimony, expose contradictions, and solve each case through your own reasoning.
Why similar: Typing 54.4% ★, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Text-Based 9%, Puzzle 6%, Exploration 5.8%
- #53 The Unsolved
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tricky Cat
Windows
In The Unsolved, be a detective in an endless world of instantly AI-generated crimes. Investigate freely, interrogate suspects who hide secrets, and bring your own trusted AI engine to drive the narrative — all alongside your exclusive assistant, Aya.
Why similar: Typing 45.8% ★, Interactive Fiction 18.5%, Text-Based 13.6%, Puzzle 7.3%, Dialogue Heavy 6.2%
- #54 Streamer's Court
69% matchPositive90% of 21 reviews2022
Dev: Metehan SENER
Windows
Streamer's Court is an interactive game that can be played with your Twitch chat! In this game, you as a streamer will judge your viewers (the game assigns the crimes), get their defenses via chat decide whether they are guilty or not guilty, and learn the decision of your viewers!
Why similar: Typing 59.2% ★, Interactive Fiction 23%, Puzzle 9.3%, Dialogue Heavy 8.2%, Indie 0.2%
- #55 The Hidden and Unknown
68% matchMixed68% of 22 reviews2023
Dev: ProX
Windows · Mac · Linux
The Hidden and Unknown is a story-based game, that aims to widen the perception of its audience in the areas of psychology and philosophy.
Why similar: Text-Based 21.4%, Interactive Fiction 18.4%, Psychological 17.5%, Artificial Intelligence 11.6%, Sci-fi 10.7%
- #56 Project DeepWeb
69% matchVery Positive81% of 138 reviews2020
Dev: NightCat Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 88%
This is a deep web exploration simulator. Discover hundreds of websites and files around the Web to get to the Silent House and save your friend. Find out creepy stories from the Web and meet its inhabitants. It's showtime!
Why similar: Typing 39.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Puzzle 9.3%, Mystery 7.6%, Story Rich 7.6%
- #57 In Silence Waits
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Silent Shoals SoftwarePub: Hadrosaurus Software
Windows · Linux
IN SILENCE WAITS is a modern take on classic graphical adventures. Solve puzzles and avoid dangers as you explore the desolate wastes of a cruel world in search of a new home. In this world, not all monsters must be feared... and not all friendly faces should be trusted.
Why similar: Typing 44.9% ★, Interactive Fiction 23.9%, Text-Based 13.3%, Exploration 6.3%, Adventure 4.9%
- #58 The Aching
68% matchPositive96% of 25 reviews2023
Dev: Silent Shoals SoftwarePub: Hadrosaurus Software
Windows · Mac · Linux
In a dark world somewhere between dream and nightmare you find yourself alone, cold, and without memory of who you are or where you came from. Guided by little more than a silver locket and questions, you must find your way off an isolated island in pursuit of answers.
Why similar: Typing 41.4% ★, Interactive Fiction 23.4%, Text-Based 10.7%, Mystery 6.4%, Exploration 5.8%
- #59 Soul Nexus
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ocean.lol
Windows · Linux
Soul Nexus is a text-based adventure game where you explore strange environments and interact with even stranger individuals. Will you wander the spaces forever or will you eventually fulfil your goal of being free?
Why similar: Text-Based 22%, Typing 21.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 21.2%, Mystery 8.6%, Story Rich 8.4%
- #60 Terms of Service
66% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Echorift Studios
Windows
Terms of Service is a short first-person psychological horror game where you answer 100 increasingly invasive Yes/No questions at an old CRT terminal. As the form becomes more cursed, disturbing memories bleed through the screen, the CRT deteriorates, and the agreement starts to feel less voluntary.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 24.3%, Text-Based 19.7%, Psychological 19.5%, Dialogue Heavy 13.8%, Mystery 10.7%