
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.
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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.

Verbal Verdict
In Verbal Verdict you're a novice investigator in 1950's Brooklyn, solving crimes and climbing the ranks by interrogating suspects and solving problems in a detective game powered by artificial intelligence.

Persona Shard
Emotional highs and lows, but make it interdimensional.
In Verbal Verdict you're a novice investigator in 1950's Brooklyn, solving crimes and climbing the ranks by interrogating suspects and solving problems in a detective game powered by artificial intelligence.
Why similar: Noir 21%, Typing 20% ★, Artificial Intelligence 15.5%, Detective 10.4%, Mystery 8.1%
Emotional highs and lows, but make it interdimensional.
Why similar: Typing 41.1% ★, Artificial Intelligence 18.4%, Dynamic Narration 17.9% ★, Text-Based 15.1%, Simulation 6.9%
Couch Detective is a text-based deduction game hosted by AI. Ask questions to uncover bizarre yet logical truths. You can also feed the AI your ideas to generate new puzzles and share them with friends.
Why similar: Typing 31.2% ★, Text-Based 16.9%, Artificial Intelligence 15.9%, Detective 11.7%, Dialogue Heavy 7.2%
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: Noir 23.7%, Text-Based 19.3%, Typing 16.6% ★, Mystery 8.4%, Detective 7.7%
A stranger arrives at a quiet and isolated town... PIGBLUE.
Why similar: Text-Based 26.9%, Typing 21.1% ★, Noir 17.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.1%, Mystery 11.7%
A mysterious murder has shocked the inner city, and as the lead detective, it is your job to catch the real killer. Armed with words and wits, you uncover the secrets and capture the murderer, and make sure justice will be served.
Why similar: Typing 23.8% ★, Text-Based 16.5%, Detective 13.2%, Investigation 12.6%, Mystery 9.8%
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 35% ★, Artificial Intelligence 17.3%, Text-Based 14.3%, Detective 10.7%, Investigation 8.5%
DREAMIO is a 'choose-your-own-adventure' game where stories and visuals are dynamically created through the power of generative AI in response to your decisions. Explore endless worlds with limitless possibilities; go anywhere, do anything.
Why similar: Typing 30.2% ★, Text-Based 19.8%, Artificial Intelligence 18%, Dynamic Narration 10.4% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.2%
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 49.6% ★, Artificial Intelligence 20.8%, Text-Based 12.7%, Puzzle 5.6%, Dialogue Heavy 5.6%
An interrogation mystery aboard a 1936 ocean liner. Five suspects. One murder. No dialogue options — every suspect is powered by AI and will remember every word, deflect every question, and only surrender their secrets under pressure. Four voyages. One truth. Break someone.
Why similar: Artificial Intelligence 23.5%, Noir 23%, Text-Based 14.8%, Detective 13.5%, Mystery 11.3%
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 55.4% ★, Text-Based 17%, Simulation 9.2%, Retro 6.6%, 1990's 5.2%
Officer Jia has vanished, leaving a classified message pointing to the CaseCracker 2.0 system. Tear through suspects' alibis, look beyond the text, and extract hidden threads from seemingly unrelated intel. Will you find the ultimate truth, or a trap?
Why similar: Typing 30.6% ★, Noir 20.5%, Text-Based 17.6%, Detective 12.1%, Mystery 9.5%
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 27.1%, Artificial Intelligence 23.1%, Detective 14.1%, Typing 14% ★, Dialogue Heavy 12.1%
Think you're clever? Prove it with an enigmatic AI, the ultimate master of riddles beyond imagination.
Why similar: Typing 29.9% ★, Artificial Intelligence 26.3%, Text-Based 21.7%, Dialogue Heavy 11.7%, Puzzle 5.1%
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 46.5% ★, Artificial Intelligence 22.3%, Text-Based 18.9%, Simulation 6%, Dialogue Heavy 4.3%
The Mournmore Killings a story-driven, deduction based mystery game where you step into the shoes of a detective trying to solve the enigmatic riddles left behind by a serial killer.
Why similar: Typing 24.7% ★, Detective 21.2%, Mystery 15%, Noir 11.9%, Text-Based 10.2%
A retro early 1980s text adventure experience involving a murder mystery that is generated differently each time the game is played.
Why similar: Typing 36.1% ★, Text-Based 29.4%, Mystery 13.9%, Investigation 10.1%, Retro 5.9%
Crack the case of the missing video store employee in this 3D point and click mystery game by solving escape room puzzles, combing the computer database, and scouring shelves as an undercover detective posing as a cashier during your first weekend at the suspiciously understaffed Neighborhood Video.
Why similar: Typing 28.5% ★, Text-Based 18.5%, Detective 14%, Mystery 12.6%, Investigation 11.7%
Hysteria in Howlsbend is an Interactive Narrative Experience driven by conversational AI Characters, created with the cutting-edge ChatGPT Language Model.
Why similar: Typing 40.2% ★, Text-Based 16.5%, Artificial Intelligence 15.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%, Investigation 5.9%
A terminal‑based hacking simulator focused on realism and system‑level interaction.
Why similar: Typing 35.1% ★, Text-Based 17.3%, Artificial Intelligence 15.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.7%, Simulation 8.2%
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 45.2% ★, Text-Based 22.2%, Artificial Intelligence 9.8%, Mystery 8.2%, Dialogue Heavy 6.8%
Murder Mystery Mayhem AI is a single-player detective game set in a stylish 1920s world of secrets, suspicion, and social intrigue. Talk freely to a colorful cast of cunning suspects, gather clues, uncover motives, and deduce who among them is the killer.
Why similar: Noir 19%, Detective 13.9%, Text-Based 12.5%, Investigation 11.5%, Artificial Intelligence 10.7%
Void Future: Prologue is a standalone free experience set in the universe of Void Future. Play as a hacker in a cyberpunk world ruled by corporations and complete a single, fully designed mission. Hack systems, solve puzzles,and uncover secrets — while staying hidden from a system that never sleeps.
Why similar: Typing 42.3% ★, Text-Based 17.5%, Artificial Intelligence 15.6%, Simulation 10%, Puzzle 6.2%
Scour police records. Antagonize your suspects. Comb through a disturbing crime scene. You'll stop at nothing to expose the truth. Ring of Fire is a search-based detective noir puzzler with a mature narrative set in the hyper-stylized streets of New London.
Why similar: Typing 33.8% ★, Noir 24.5%, Detective 11.8%, Investigation 10.9%, Mystery 8.9%
Master the machine. In RE_ALLOC, you are the architect of execution. Design intricate hardware circuits, write custom assembly code, and optimize data flow across memory nodes. Efficiency is your only metric. Can you reach the kernel, or will your logic fail?
Why similar: Typing 45.7% ★, Text-Based 20.4%, Noir 14.7%, Simulation 9.4%, Puzzle 6.3%
Hymer 2000 is an interactive text puzzle game, where players freely converse with the "Hymer" and use an open "Search" function to retrieve past conversations. By discovering keywords, gathering clues, and collecting "Faces", players uncover Hymer's secrets and ultimately shut it down.
Why similar: Typing 32.7% ★, Text-Based 22.1%, Artificial Intelligence 17.2%, Dynamic Narration 10.9% ★, Detective 8.4%
Welcome to What’s father’s father called? — a relative relationship puzzle game that has you laughing your head off while questioning life itself!
Why similar: Typing 52.1% ★, Text-Based 19.1%, Detective 15.3%, Simulation 12.8%, Singleplayer 0.8%
No criminal has ever been a match for you, and everybody is looking forward to a description of your brilliant deductions. There is just one small problem. One tiny detail that makes it different this time. A mere trifle, really. This time you have no idea who did it.
Why similar: Text-Based 24.9%, Detective 13.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.2%, Investigation 11.6%, Dialogue Heavy 9.6%
Pour a coffee, light a match, and crack the case. Micro Mystery Investigator offers infinite procedural logic puzzles in a stylish noir setting. Sift through clues, cross-reference alibis, and deduce the culprit before the trail goes cold. Pure deduction, zero guessing.
Why similar: Noir 34.9%, Text-Based 24.1%, Detective 12.8%, Investigation 9.8%, Mystery 9.5%
You are a detective on a rogue manhunt through the beautiful country of Italy. Gather clues, interview witnesses and uncover dark secrets to solve the case. Follow your own path to the solution in this 1970's noir crime road-trip.
Why similar: Noir 32.6%, Detective 18.2%, Investigation 14.3%, Mystery 13.8%, Retro 7.3%
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 27.8%, Typing 23.2% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 16.7%, Investigation 12.1%, Mystery 12.1%
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 37%, Typing 33.3% ★, Mystery 10.2%, Investigation 8.7%, Puzzle 7.1%
A text-driven noir murder mystery where you literally read the room. Search for clues in the text, photograph evidence, and interrogate suspects to solve the murder of fashion icon Margot Voss.
Why similar: Noir 23.9%, Detective 19.3%, Text-Based 18.9%, Investigation 15.1%, Mystery 12.9%
Millennium Whisper is a next-gen dating-sim set in 1999 at the fictional Escafeld College with an AI trained by real actors portraying the cast! Who will you confess your feelings to at the end of the millennium?
Why similar: Typing 36.9% ★, Artificial Intelligence 19%, Dialogue Heavy 11.4%, Text-Based 8.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8%
As "person in charge" in this game, you will travel to the scenes of classic negotiation events and become that crucial negotiator. Use your rhetoric to persuade the stubborn AI to give up their ideas.
Why similar: Typing 33.6% ★, Artificial Intelligence 22.2%, Text-Based 16%, Detective 12.8%, Dynamic Narration 11% ★
探偵となって依頼人の失踪した婚約者を探しましょう。 現場にいるキャラクターからさまざまな情報を引き出すことで、思わぬ真実にたどり着くかもしれません。
Why similar: Typing 45.2% ★, Text-Based 18.9%, Detective 14.2%, Investigation 11.6%, Mystery 4.2%
In this hostage simulation, take the mic and negotiate the ransom to free the hostages. With advanced AI and complete freedom of choice, use your charisma, your narrative decisions, and your power of persuasion to manipulate unpredictable situations. Every word matters—and could come at a high cost.
Why similar: Typing 30.9% ★, Artificial Intelligence 25.6%, Text-Based 13.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.6%, Simulation 7.5%
A point-and-click mystery set in 1998. Explore the early Internet for clues, connect overlooked details, and uncover what really happened at Thornhill Academy. Come for the mystery, stay for the cozy New England private school vibes.
Why similar: Typing 42.1% ★, Detective 15.9%, Mystery 11.3%, Dialogue Heavy 7%, 1990's 6.9%
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 29.8% ★, Text-Based 22.7%, Detective 17.6%, Investigation 14.5%, 1990's 5.8%
To know a language, know the world, and finally know you.
Why similar: Typing 32.9% ★, Text-Based 18%, Investigation 10.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.8%, Mystery 8.4%
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 45% ★, Text-Based 16.8%, Artificial Intelligence 14.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.4%, Dialogue Heavy 6.3%
In this classic Investigative Mystery game, you are hired to find the truth behind Mr. Grady's untimely death. Explore 40+ areas, compile a multitude of evidence, and interview over 30 unique characters to assist you in your search for answers. Do YOU have what it takes to crack the case?
Why similar: Noir 24.3%, Text-Based 18.5%, Detective 14%, Mystery 11.9%, Investigation 11.2%
Neon lights. Cold coffee. One case at a time. In One Way Mirror: AI, each investigation is AI generated and every suspect can talk back. Interrogate, connect the clues, break alibis, and expose the killer before the truth slips away into the night. Every question matters. Every lie has a tell.
Why similar: Noir 30.1%, Artificial Intelligence 19%, Detective 15.9%, Investigation 13.4%, Dialogue Heavy 8.2%
Acolyte is a narrative ARG/Detective game that gives you your own Acolyte; a digital assistant you can talk to freely with unlimited dialogue options. Just like a real conversation.
Why similar: Typing 25.3% ★, Artificial Intelligence 20.7%, Detective 13.9%, Investigation 11.2%, Mystery 9.6%
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 46.5% ★, Text-Based 25.8%, Investigation 11.1%, Mystery 10.6%, Puzzle 5.2%
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 39.5% ★, Text-Based 17.3%, Investigation 13.1%, Detective 13%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.8%
Speak of My Sin is a word reasoning game - players are supposed to find the truth of the cases, restore the story in a number of interrelated cases and finally detect the identification of “me”, speaking out “my” sin.
Why similar: Text-Based 26.2%, Typing 23.9% ★, Detective 15.2%, Mystery 12.5%, Investigation 7.1%
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 60.3% ★, Text-Based 25.6%, Puzzle 6.3%, Retro 4.5%, Adventure 2.9%
A series of murders is shocking Hollywood! Use your detective skills: search the crime scene, find clues, solve the mystery. Who is pulling the strings behind these Confidential Killings?
Why similar: Noir 23.9%, Text-Based 14.3%, Detective 14.1%, Investigation 11.8%, Mystery 10.6%
Confined to a woodland cabin in the 1906 Rockies, your only way to solve a family massacre is by letters. The one responsible is already on the move — silence and madness claim your contacts, and you may be next. He will find you, and death resets the world; only your notebook carries on.
Why similar: Noir 22.1%, Artificial Intelligence 17.3%, Text-Based 16.5%, Detective 10.4%, Investigation 9.1%
A true test of your typing skills, Keyboard Kommander is a fast-paced zombie type’em up, and the story of a conspiracy theorist vindicated. Type through five brutal chapters of gameplay to learn the fate of humanity through the eyes of its would-be savior. Need to kill that zombie? Use your words!
Why similar: Typing 39.4% ★, Noir 24.4%, Text-Based 21.4%, Dynamic Narration 14.2% ★, Singleplayer 0.5%
(Text Base Adventure Visual Novel) Input via text with VN graphics. Waking up in a mysterious field, you find yourself invited into a quaint house overseen by a gaunt old lady and her children. Yet, an unsettling feeling grows. The house's rules, seemingly straightforward, begin to unravel.
Why similar: Typing 40.2% ★, Text-Based 23.6%, Dynamic Narration 15.7% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 11%, Retro 5%
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 58.6% ★, Text-Based 34.4%, Adventure 7.1%
A narrative puzzle-thriller that blurs the lines between games and books, reality and fiction, puzzles and storytelling.
Why similar: Noir 24.2%, Text-Based 17.9%, Detective 14.7%, Investigation 12.4%, Mystery 8.4%
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 30.6% ★, Artificial Intelligence 27.6%, Investigation 15.4%, Mystery 13.5%, Text-Based 12.7%
A murder mystery interrogation game - where you can ask the suspects literally ANYTHING! Dive into a macabre conspiracy of burgers and billionaires, getting up-close and personal with an eccentric cast of cold-blooded killers - using voice or keyboard.
Why similar: Noir 27.9%, Typing 27.6% ★, Detective 13.3%, Investigation 11.2%, Dialogue Heavy 9.3%
Connected Clue is a quarter-view detective adventure game inspired by the atmosphere of 19th-century mystery novels. Gather clues, see through lies, and uncover the identity of the culprit shrouded in secrecy!
Why similar: Noir 21.1%, Text-Based 17.7%, Detective 14.9%, Investigation 11.4%, Mystery 9.9%
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 38.1% ★, Text-Based 27.7%, Mystery 12%, Retro 10%, Puzzle 5.1%
[Telltale - Casino Murder] is a full-voice indie mystery game with the youngest lawyer, Kang Ho-yeon, who reveals the truth of the casino murder case and achieves innocence at trial.
Why similar: Mystery 19.7%, Detective 18.6%, Text-Based 18.5%, Investigation 15.1%, Dialogue Heavy 10.3%
Typing Fireworks is a casual game where your fingers run across the keyboard to set off fireworks! You can only move to adjacent keys, escape the danger zone before the fuse burns out, and look up to enjoy the dazzling display when the fireworks bloom!
Why similar: Typing 61.3% ★, Text-Based 29.7%, Puzzle 5.9%, 2D 2.3%, Singleplayer 0.7%