Games Like Kriss' Journey

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 23.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 16.7%, 1980s 16.2%, Text-Based 11.9%, Retro 9.9%

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 36.1% ★, Text-Based 21.5%, Interactive Fiction 20.3%, Sci-fi 10.7%, Retro 6.8%

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 35.6% ★, Interactive Fiction 20.3%, Text-Based 20%, Sci-fi 7%, Minimalist 6.5%

You play all four heroines in this big multi-chapter sci-fi text adventure. Negotiate underwater mechs, AIs, abandoned cities, crime, friendship, suspense, horror, humour, an art exhibition, virtual realities and a tank. Experience each PC via first-person prose as you puzzle, converse and explore.

Why similar: Typing 29.9% ★, Interactive Fiction 20.1%, Text-Based 19.4%, Sci-fi 11.9%, Dialogue Heavy 10.8%

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 28.4% ★, Interactive Fiction 21.5%, Text-Based 20%, 1980s 15.2%, Sci-fi 6.7%

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 32.8% ★, Interactive Fiction 19.1%, Dialogue Heavy 16.7%, Text-Based 11.8%, Old School 8%

Embark on a journey into the heart of an old-school text adventure game that beckons you into a world veiled in shadow and mystique. Here, your wits are your greatest weapon, and your keyboard, the tool to wield it.

Why similar: Typing 23.5% ★, Text-Based 22.5%, Old School 18.2%, Retro 11.5%, Fantasy 9.4%

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: Interactive Fiction 24.7%, Text-Based 22.9%, Typing 19% ★, Retro 12.8%, Lore-Rich 8.3%

You are hurtling through space aboard an industrial freighter. The crew already had their hands full with failing systems. But now there is a new threat on board. Something is hunting you. TERMINAL PANIC is a survival-horror "interactive fiction" text adventure RPG with '80s terminal aesthetics.

Why similar: Text-Based 24.1%, Typing 19% ★, Interactive Fiction 14%, 1980s 13.6%, Sci-fi 11.6%

A retro early 1980s text adventure experience involving a murder mystery that is generated differently each time the game is played.

Why similar: Text-Based 27%, Typing 25.2% ★, Interactive Fiction 18.5%, 1980s 15.9%, Retro 7.6%

Be kind, rewind… and fall in love. Summer ’86 in a small U.S. town: save a cozy VHS shop from a corporate chain, choose your girl, and help a secret dropout shoot his first film. Six heroines, 14 endings, one last take.

Why similar: 1980s 25.8%, Text-Based 14.6%, Retro 14%, Old School 10.9%, Dialogue Heavy 10%

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 25.6% ★, Interactive Fiction 21.4%, 1980s 14.8%, Text-Based 11.2%, Retro 10.7%

LOOK, USE, TALK, and TAKE your way through this old-school text-based mystery of a broken kingdom. Only you can pry at the castle cracks and discover what lies at the core of a heart-breaking disappearance.

Why similar: Text-Based 25.7%, 1980s 23.8%, Interactive Fiction 17.4%, Retro 14.5%, Old School 9.8%

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 27.9% ★, Interactive Fiction 21.9%, Text-Based 14%, 1980s 10.4%, Retro 9.9%

In this pre-smartphone-era text adventure, use that good ol’ T9 phone to text your way through the highs and lows of school days. Choose replies piece by piece to shape your own story. Friendships grow; feelings get complicated; secrets flicker. Every reply matters—it all happens Between the Lines.

Why similar: Typing 20% ★, Interactive Fiction 18.1%, Dialogue Heavy 17.5%, Text-Based 16.5%, Old School 9.5%

Typing Stars is a relaxing, typing speed and skill based game set in space. Improve your typing dexterity, race against the clock and beat your friends scores.

Why similar: Typing 28.9% ★, Text-Based 15.5%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, 1980s 12.2%, Retro 10%

Silent Earth is a short sci-fi text adventure about finding one’s place despite an uncertain future. Explore an off-world mining colony ship, navigate multi-linear character relationships, and steer the story toward one of five endings.

Why similar: Text-Based 29.1%, Interactive Fiction 27.3%, Sci-fi 15.3%, Futuristic 12.3%, Romance 8.6%

A 60-minute adventure where all you do is glow.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 30.2%, Text-Based 22%, Sci-fi 17.5%, Futuristic 14.3%, Adventure 9%

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 18.9% ★, Text-Based 18.2%, Interactive Fiction 18.2%, Dialogue Heavy 14.2%, Sci-fi 10.6%

Entered ■■■■■■■... A retro-style horror visual novel branching into various horror subgenres.

Why similar: Text-Based 21.3%, 1990's 19.8%, Old School 15.8%, Dialogue Heavy 14.1%, Retro 14%

The Prologue of Universe for Sale, a sci-fi narrative experience about human relationships and self-acceptance, follow the stories of the nameless Master, a mysterious cultist and Lila the universes vendor.

Why similar: Text-Based 22.8%, Dialogue Heavy 22.2%, Interactive Fiction 16.1%, Sci-fi 14.4%, Lore-Rich 12.9%

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: Interactive Fiction 28.3%, Text-Based 26.8%, Typing 24.2% ★, Fantasy 6.3%, Lore-Rich 4.2%

Thanks to next generation AI technology, BUDDY SIMULATOR 1984 simulates the experience of hanging out with a best buddy! Your buddy learns from you, constantly adapting to your interests and personality. But most importantly, your buddy can play games with you!

Why similar: 1980s 26.6%, Text-Based 20.1%, Typing 16.7% ★, Retro 15.4%, Interactive Fiction 12%

A 5 minutes game about love and hesitation. Use Backspace to play. Hope you will never experience this hesitation.

Why similar: Text-Based 20.9%, Interactive Fiction 20.5%, Dialogue Heavy 16%, Typing 15.9% ★, Minimalist 10.1%

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 31.5% ★, Text-Based 24.8%, Interactive Fiction 22.5%, 1990's 19.5%, Story Rich 1.2%

A deadly virus is decimating the world's population and you are the only one who can stop this threat. Run around the scene collecting the necessary ingredients to produce the vaccine, after that, eliminate the virus and save the population, can you do it?

Why similar: 1980s 27.4%, Old School 25.1%, 1990's 20.6%, Retro 16.1%, Minimalist 10.5%

Economic simulator based on late 1980's game President

Why similar: Old School 28.5%, 1980s 27.3%, Interactive Fiction 24.2%, Text-Based 13.3%, Minimalist 6.5%

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 35.6% ★, Interactive Fiction 27.2%, Text-Based 24.4%, Fantasy 6.7%, Adventure 5.7%

The first agentic RPG. An AI Game Master that doesn't just tell your story — it plays it, through real decisions in a living game engine. Any genre, any world, any story. Your adventure, your novel.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 25.5%, Text-Based 18.8%, 1980s 18.2%, 1990's 13.3%, Old School 10.6%

A short space-horror game where you desperately try to keep the crew members of a defective spaceship alive, as you are all the last hope for humanity's survival.

Why similar: Text-Based 19.2%, Interactive Fiction 17.5%, 1980s 16.7%, 1990's 13.3%, Sci-fi 12%

Detailed, gritty text-based fantasy RPG centered on dungeon crawling with traps, puzzles, fights and loot. Recreates the gameplay of the old gamebooks. Simple battle system and hassle-free inventory management.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.2%, Text-Based 23.5%, Old School 17.6%, Minimalist 12.9%, Fantasy 8.8%

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: Text-Based 36.2%, Interactive Fiction 28.1%, Typing 22.9% ★, Adventure 6.9%, Atmospheric 5.6%

Small in scope, detailed, gritty text-based fantasy RPG. Recreates the gameplay of the old gamebooks. Simple battle system and hassle-free inventory management.

Why similar: Text-Based 28.5%, Interactive Fiction 27%, Old School 18.3%, Minimalist 10.6%, Fantasy 8.8%

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 34.7%, Interactive Fiction 19.7%, Typing 19% ★, Sci-fi 11.8%, Adventure 6.7%

A psychological horror you never see — you read it. Blind and deaf, you sense an arctic station through a neural implant: text, smell, touch. Quarantine rules say only one person may leave their cabin at a time. You are out. Five bodies are found by morning.

Why similar: Text-Based 26%, Interactive Fiction 21.8%, Sci-fi 11.4%, Retro 10.4%, Minimalist 9.5%

A total-immersion kinetic novel: boot up a PC running Prisma OS and descend into the psyche of a broken protagonist as 2001 Argentina collapses in the background. Late-night chats, obsession, music, and raw Y2K bleakness — all the way to a point of no return.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 26.4%, Dialogue Heavy 21.5%, Text-Based 21.1%, 1990's 12.9%, Retro 7.8%

I found myself at the station. The story unfolds as you type commands on your keyboard. As the days repeat, I keep wondering what I can do for her. A command-driven adventure steeped in nostalgic pixel art and sound.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 42.4%, Text-Based 41.6%, Adventure 8.7%, Atmospheric 7.3%

A story-rich coming-of-age experience told through a 2004 desktop, where friendships, music, and late-night conversations shape who you become. Explore chats, drama, mini-games, and the early internet in a branching story about growing up, making mistakes, and finding your place.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 27.6%, Dialogue Heavy 22.8%, Text-Based 22.7%, Retro 10.1%, Romance 4.9%

Explore the fantasy world of Orm and build a life within it. Take on quests, duel its inhabitants, farm, fish, cook, craft and trade as you develop your character. An 80s-style text RPG with typed commands, clickable actions and illustrated locations.

Why similar: Text-Based 34.8%, Interactive Fiction 26.8%, Dialogue Heavy 13.3%, Fantasy 10.8%, Lore-Rich 8.7%

CozyTyper is a relaxing game where you can enjoy a cozy atmosphere while you spend your time improving your typing accuracy and speed, without the pressure of a ticking clock. Take your touch typing to the next level with calm practice and muscle memory training! Slow is smooth, smooth is fast.

Why similar: Typing 47.7% ★, Text-Based 18.9%, 1990's 11.7%, Old School 10.8%, Retro 10.4%

Are you bold enough to enter A Lively Haunt alone? Or must you join a friend to investigate this 2-player, old-school, text parser adventure game?

Why similar: Text-Based 22.8%, Typing 21.7% ★, Old School 17.8%, 1980s 16.9%, Retro 14.2%

Retro Memories: Brick Breaker is a block-breaking game inspired by classic arcade games of the past, making you remember how fun it is to break blocks

Why similar: 1980s 30.1%, Retro 21.5%, 1990's 19.7%, Old School 17.4%, Minimalist 10.8%

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 33.7% ★, Text-Based 28%, Interactive Fiction 12.1%, Sci-fi 9.9%, Futuristic 9.1%

CL27 is a modern fantasy life simulation. Play as a clone in Juland: manage your farm, care for yourself, craft strange recipes, visit the weekend market, and spend time with the town’s residents. Choices shape relationships, uncover the ju-flower’s secret, and determine Juland’s future.

Why similar: Typing 33.5% ★, Dialogue Heavy 18.4%, Text-Based 16.8%, Lore-Rich 12.5%, Interactive Fiction 12.4%

You're a detective. Investigate the haunting events surrounding the murder of Ann Peterson and her boyfriend. Explore an old safehouse for clues, deduce keywords and reveal redacted words as you search Ann's digital journal, and piece together your case report as this unfortunate story unfolds.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28%, Typing 23.4% ★, Text-Based 23.4%, 1990's 12.1%, Retro 5.5%

Mykyta Pylypovych, PhD, has a little secret, an inner voice guiding him through difficult situations. Use classic parser commands or advise Mykyta with a natural language, to aid his perilous research activities and, maybe, to save the whole free world!

Why similar: Text-Based 29.4%, Interactive Fiction 28.5%, Old School 14.2%, Typing 12.8% ★, Retro 8.1%

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 33.8%, Text-Based 19%, Minimalist 12.1%, Futuristic 11.7%, Sci-fi 11.3%

Embark on a magical adventure through a spiritual world.

Why similar: Text-Based 31.7%, Interactive Fiction 29.8%, Lore-Rich 11.5%, Fantasy 9.7%, Sci-fi 9.3%

You are stuck in gnostic cyber-hell. The followers of your cult are summoning you. Chat with an offline neural net AI through the microphone to escape hell and return to the land of the living.

Why similar: Typing 21.5% ★, Dialogue Heavy 16.1%, 1980s 15%, 1990's 14.3%, Text-Based 13.1%

Learn an artificial language to chat with a cute AI. Manage a list of words and connect them in novel ways to build any sentence. The AI will remember all your interactions, forever.

Why similar: 1980s 25.5%, Text-Based 21.7%, Interactive Fiction 14.9%, Retro 13.9%, Dialogue Heavy 13.5%

Terminal Tales: An Interactive Fiction Anthology features multiple text-based adventures from a variety of genres. Explore a curated vault of brand-new, modern mysteries and sci-fi epics. No graphics. No limits. Just your imagination and a world waiting for your command.

Why similar: Text-Based 28.4%, Interactive Fiction 27.4%, Old School 12.1%, Dialogue Heavy 11.6%, Retro 7.6%

In this game, you play as Yan, a delivery man working for a tea diner, who has a crush on a girl customer.

Why similar: Text-Based 25.6%, Interactive Fiction 24.8%, 1980s 24.5%, 1990's 18%, Adventure 5.3%

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 31.8% ★, Text-Based 22.4%, Interactive Fiction 18.8%, Retro 10.2%, Sci-fi 8.6%

An analog horror adventure where you work as a staff member at the uncanny facility named Sunberry Care Center, which is dedicated to the treatment of a mysterious disease called Sunberry Syndrome.

Why similar: Text-Based 27.6%, Old School 21.4%, 1990's 20.9%, Interactive Fiction 17.7%, Retro 6.3%

The Baron's daughter is missing, and you are the man to find her. No problem. With your inexhaustible arsenal of hard-boiled similes, there is nothing you can't handle.

Why similar: Text-Based 24.2%, Interactive Fiction 22.1%, Typing 15.7% ★, Retro 11.3%, Old School 9.9%

In this classic graphical text adventure, originally released in 1985 for the Commodore 64 by the same studio that brought you The Hobbit, explore an adventure in the world of Count Dracula.

Why similar: Text-Based 27.9%, Interactive Fiction 24.8%, Retro 15.6%, 1980s 12%, Old School 8%

YOU CONTROL THE FOUND FOOTAGE. Another tape has been leaked, this time a recording of a training protocol. By answering questions and resisting jumpscares, can you beat the Entity Exam?

Why similar: Text-Based 35.8%, 1980s 31.1%, 1990's 17.4%, Interactive Fiction 9.2%, Atmospheric 4.2%

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 30.5%, Text-Based 20.2%, Typing 17.5% ★, Lore-Rich 14.4%, Dialogue Heavy 13.4%

A text adventure game about a 19th century explorer who finds himself stranded and alone.

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 44.8%, Text-Based 44.1%, Adventure 11%

What made the MZ-700, which couldn't even display graphics, a national computer? Only the MZ-700 knows the answer...

Why similar: 1980s 35.1%, Retro 21.9%, Old School 21.2%, Dialogue Heavy 11.3%, Adventure 7.3%