
A retro early 1980s text adventure experience involving a murder mystery that is generated differently each time the game is played.
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Adventure, Text-Based, Singleplayer, Interactive Fiction.

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

Stranded 2
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!

Never Gives Up Her Dead
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.
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 27.5% ★, Text-Based 19.1%, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Investigation 14.4%, Adventure 9.4%
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 40.4% ★, Text-Based 22.2%, Interactive Fiction 17%, Multiple Endings 10.6%, Adventure 6%
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 32.2%, Typing 20.8% ★, Interactive Fiction 18.9%, Adventure 9.6%, Investigation 9.3%
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 42.5% ★, Text-Based 24.8%, Interactive Fiction 17.7%, Adventure 7.5%, Retro 4.6%
Explore an abandoned movie theater and step inside five black-and-white films in this mystery text adventure that pays tribute to classic Hollywood B-Movies and combines the best elements of interactive fiction, visual novels, and gamebooks.
Why similar: Text-Based 34.2%, Interactive Fiction 17.5%, Adventure 15.1%, Casual 11.8%, Mystery 11.3%
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 41.2% ★, Text-Based 31.3%, Adventure 15.2%, Indie 9.4%, Casual 2.9%
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: Text-Based 36.5%, Typing 25.4% ★, Mystery 12%, Investigation 10.3%, Adventure 7.2%
Find your missing father and uncover the dark conspiracy surrounding a sacred artifact and an enigmatic brotherhood in this haunting text adventure that combines the best elements of classic interactive fiction and gamebooks.
Why similar: Text-Based 30.5%, Interactive Fiction 20.1%, Adventure 14.7%, Mystery 12.9%, Casual 12%
A text adventure game about a 19th century explorer who finds himself stranded and alone.
Why similar: Text-Based 42.3%, Interactive Fiction 32.4%, Adventure 16.4%, Indie 8.8%
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 29.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 18.4%, Text-Based 12.7%, 1980s 10.9%, Mystery 9.8%
Peek into the sins and memories of five personalities through surveillance cameras──This is an immersive, mystery adventure game that unravels the thoughts of the dark past that lie dormant inside Sofia,a suspect in the murder of a presidential candidate, and uncovers the truth behind the crime.
Why similar: Text-Based 28.4%, Typing 19.4% ★, Investigation 14.8%, Mystery 14.7%, Multiple Endings 11.3%
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 33.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 18%, Text-Based 17%, 1980s 15%, Retro 8.3%
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: Typing 23.9% ★, Text-Based 23.3%, Interactive Fiction 21.1%, Investigation 17.7%, Mystery 7%
Unravel the mysterious past of your parents and homeland while journeying through four unique lands in this exciting science-fantasy adventure!
Why similar: Text-Based 35.3%, Interactive Fiction 21.9%, Adventure 15.6%, Casual 11.7%, Multiple Endings 11.4%
A text-based escape room horror with multiple endings. Trapped in an abandoned hospital, use classic text-adventure commands to explore, solve puzzles, and uncover sinister secrets. Will you find your way out?
Why similar: Text-Based 41.7%, Typing 22% ★, Multiple Endings 16.9%, Adventure 11.2%, Casual 6.2%
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 30.2%, 1980s 18.1%, Interactive Fiction 15.5%, Adventure 13.3%, Mystery 10.1%
Be a convenience-store clerk in a first-of-its-kind chat game—and kick out AI Karens. There are no preset choices. Say what you couldn’t in real life and enjoy how the AI responds differently each time. A stress-relief game where your what-ifs come to life!
Why similar: Typing 31.4% ★, Text-Based 23.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Multiple Endings 14.6%, Casual 6.1%
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 38.8% ★, Text-Based 24.7%, Interactive Fiction 19.3%, Mystery 10.8%, Adventure 5.7%
Follow amateur geologist and reluctant detective Nancy Maple to the ghost town of Crimson, Ontario to investigate the discovery of a massive diamond in this retro-inspired, EGA text parser mystery adventure!
Why similar: Text-Based 22.3%, Mystery 17.3%, Typing 13.1% ★, Investigation 11.5%, Interactive Fiction 11.3%
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 39% ★, Text-Based 26.2%, Interactive Fiction 22%, Adventure 9.5%, Indie 2.5%
You are shopping on a major online store when strange listings gradually begin to appear. The more you look into them, the more clearly the whole picture of a crime comes into view…
Why similar: Text-Based 34.1%, Interactive Fiction 24.5%, Mystery 24.1%, Adventure 12.9%, Indie 3.3%
A co-op, text- and audio-driven collection of stories. Lead expeditions into uncharted cold waters, hiding a presence older than the Earth. Coordinate via proximity voice chat. More stories come after the release.
Why similar: Text-Based 33.7%, Interactive Fiction 18.9%, Multiple Endings 11.1%, Mystery 10.7%, Investigation 10.4%
Campanillas, 1963. A stranger leaves you a ruined house and a district hiding its disappearances. You don't solve a crime: you learn to read a place. Weigh every account —Trust, Doubt, Dismiss. Andalusian rural horror.
Why similar: Text-Based 34.6%, Investigation 21.9%, Mystery 18%, Adventure 9.9%, Interactive Fiction 8.9%
The legendary Okhotsk Disappearance... is coming back.
Why similar: Mystery 20.2%, 1980s 19.6%, Multiple Endings 16.3%, Interactive Fiction 15.4%, Adventure 15.1%
The Nazis are scouring the globe for powerful occult artifacts. Can you beat them to the treasures and save the world from a thousand years of darkness?
Why similar: Text-Based 32.4%, Interactive Fiction 22.3%, Multiple Endings 10.2%, Adventure 9.7%, Casual 8%
Retro terminal mystery: explore a live IBM PS/2, decode corrupted logs, and learn who waits behind the blinking prompt.
Why similar: Text-Based 31%, Typing 22.6% ★, Mystery 11.6%, Casual 10.2%, Interactive Fiction 9.9%
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 38.4% ★, Text-Based 27.6%, Investigation 14.2%, Mystery 13.6%, Multiple Endings 4.4%
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 37.5%, Typing 20.9% ★, Interactive Fiction 16.1%, Adventure 11.3%, Multiple Endings 7.4%
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 25.2%, Interactive Fiction 17.3%, Typing 16.6% ★, Mystery 12.9%, Investigation 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: Text-Based 29%, Typing 24.6% ★, Interactive Fiction 23.7%, Retro 9.5%, Casual 5.4%
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 30.4% ★, Text-Based 28.7%, Mystery 14.7%, Retro 8.6%, Adventure 7.8%
Trapped in a high-stakes interrogation room, you must defend your innocence against an adaptive AI detective. Every answer is evaluated in real time—watch your words, because your own claims can convict you.
Why similar: Typing 35.8% ★, Interactive Fiction 19.8%, Adventure 11.1%, Investigation 10.6%, Mystery 8.8%
Your Future Self is a 1-2 hour long story-driven experimental text adventure with unique conversational mechanics, time loop based gameplay, and an emotionally gripping time travel mystery set against the backdrop of a darkly realistic vision of our world ravaged by climate change.
Why similar: Text-Based 27.9%, Adventure 14.8%, Interactive Fiction 14.4%, Casual 13.3%, Mystery 13.1%
見知らぬ密室で目を覚ました主人公。 頼れるものは、手元に残された一台のスマートフォンだけ。 通話、メッセージ、アプリなどに残された痕跡をたどりながら、脱出の手がかりを探していく。 しかし、情報を集めるほどに、 この事件の裏に隠された異様な真実が浮かび上がっていく。 スマートフォンを操作して進める、サイコロジカル・ホラーADV。
Why similar: Text-Based 31.5%, Interactive Fiction 26.2%, Adventure 15.8%, Mystery 13.3%, Multiple Endings 9.7%
To know a language, know the world, and finally know you.
Why similar: Typing 28.2% ★, Text-Based 20.1%, Investigation 13.4%, Interactive Fiction 13%, Mystery 11.1%
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 34.8% ★, Interactive Fiction 20.2%, Text-Based 17.1%, Adventure 8.7%, 1980s 8.2%
Identify how every participant in the death game died, and submit your report.
Why similar: Mystery 33%, Text-Based 16.8%, Investigation 15.7%, Adventure 12.8%, Casual 9.6%
『表示画像変更可能タイピング』は問題をクリアした際に表示される画像をユーザーが任意の画像ファイルに差し替えることができるタイピング練習ゲームです。
Why similar: Typing 56.8% ★, Text-Based 26.4%, Casual 10.4%, Indie 4.7%, Singleplayer 1.8%
A science-fantasy retro-flavoured textual adventure running in your terminal
Why similar: Text-Based 27%, Typing 25.2% ★, Interactive Fiction 18.5%, 1980s 15.9%, Retro 7.6%
A Battle of Wits with AI: Solve the case by conversing with a suspect robot using GPT to gather evidence. What single truth emerges from countless dialogues and pieces of information?
Why similar: Text-Based 22.3%, Typing 18.4% ★, Interactive Fiction 16.9%, Investigation 16.7%, Mystery 10.8%
Thaumistry: In Charm's Way is an all-new comedy text adventure from award-winning Infocom and Legend Entertainment author Bob Bates.
Why similar: Text-Based 38.3%, Interactive Fiction 23.7%, Adventure 22.6%, Indie 14%, Singleplayer 1.4%
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 36% ★, Text-Based 29.3%, Mystery 14%, Investigation 10.1%, Retro 5.9%
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: Text-Based 23.4%, 1980s 19.9%, Typing 19.7% ★, Interactive Fiction 10.5%, Retro 10.5%
The Storyteller is an indie game developed by a single person, where one player becomes the storyteller narrating mysterious tales, while others attempt to unravel unexpected solutions. A multiplayer experience blending suspense and questionable humor.
Why similar: Typing 25.8% ★, Investigation 20.1%, Mystery 17.5%, Text-Based 13.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%
It's time to make a name for yourself in the big city. In this first half of a two-part epic, can you unravel the mysteries of Lux, City of Secrets?
Why similar: Text-Based 35%, Interactive Fiction 26%, Multiple Endings 11.9%, Mystery 9.5%, Casual 7.3%
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 31.3%, Typing 25.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 13.7%, 1980s 11.4%, Adventure 8.5%
In 1996’s digital haze, command DarkPulse, a rogue terminal torn from DARPA’s grip, to pierce Saraksen’s veiled conspiracy. Crack codes, hunt real-world clues, and decode cryptic media to expose forbidden truths. It's an ARG, and you’ve already been seen.
Why similar: Typing 30.5% ★, Text-Based 20.7%, Interactive Fiction 20.7%, Investigation 10.4%, Multiple Endings 7.3%
A short literary mystery game set in Oxford and Borneo
Why similar: Text-Based 31.7%, Interactive Fiction 21.8%, Mystery 17%, Investigation 12.6%, Adventure 9.9%
A nostalgic interactive fiction game set in the early 2000's. Chat with your friends, update your LimeJournal, and discover yourself through a rich world of storytelling, love and friendship.
Why similar: Typing 35.8% ★, Text-Based 26.9%, Interactive Fiction 18.3%, Multiple Endings 11.5%, Indie 3.4%
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: Text-Based 31.7%, Typing 29.2% ★, Interactive Fiction 25.2%, Casual 9.2%, Indie 3.9%
Alchemy, puzzles, and a crashed starship. Old-style interactive fiction — a classic text adventure. No graphics! No dialogue trees! No point-and-click! You type your commands, and read what happens next.
Why similar: Text-Based 47.5%, Interactive Fiction 37.9%, Adventure 9%, Indie 5.7%
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 55.1% ★, Text-Based 21.4%, Casual 12.4%, Retro 6.9%, Indie 3.2%
To Type a Tale is a fantasy choose-your-own-adventure story where the only method of interaction is typing. Story progress, choices, and menus are all achieved through typing highlighted words.
Why similar: Typing 40.4% ★, Text-Based 14.8%, Multiple Endings 12.5%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Mystery 6.5%
Help the eccentric inventor navigate the intrigue of the emerging electrical industry! Can you outsmart Thomas Edison and electrify the world?
Why similar: Text-Based 33%, Interactive Fiction 25.5%, Multiple Endings 11.1%, Investigation 10.2%, Adventure 7.1%
Hysteria in Howlsbend is an Interactive Narrative Experience driven by conversational AI Characters, created with the cutting-edge ChatGPT Language Model.
Why similar: Typing 38.2% ★, Interactive Fiction 23%, Text-Based 20.2%, Investigation 8.7%, Mystery 7%
A PSX Detective Mystery Horror game. You play as an investigator solving bizarre crime cases. The story unfolds through a blend of interviews, computer based investigations and unsettling psychological elements.
Why similar: Typing 35% ★, Text-Based 19.9%, Investigation 18%, Interactive Fiction 16.2%, Multiple Endings 7.7%
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: Text-Based 47.7%, Interactive Fiction 36.7%, Adventure 15.5%
A hacking text adventure.
Why similar: Typing 30.6% ★, Text-Based 22.4%, Adventure 15.7%, Investigation 14.8%, Indie 9.7%