51 Fantastic Text-Based Games on Steam

This co-op narrative survival adventure lets you road trip like no other. Visit fun spots, meet odd characters, and manage your resources well. You can even date hot monsters.

Katawa Shoujo is a bishoujo-style visual novel. The setting is Yamaku High School, a fictional school for disabled children in modern Japan. Hisao Nakai, a regular boy, faces a life change. A heart defect forces him to move to a new school after a long hospital stay. Hisao finds friends there. He might find love if he plays smart. Five main paths exist, each following the story of one of the five female characters.

Fight and romance the soul hunter in A Date with Death, a chat simulator visual novel. You date the Grim Reaper. Create your character, decorate your apartment, and chat with the charming, dangerous Grim Reaper via voiced video calls.

This short story shows what everyday small things present as challenges. Help the girl buy milk. Be the first to stop her disappointment.

Choice of Robots is an epic 300,000-word sci-fi novel where your choices control the story. It is entirely text-based; no graphics or sound effects fuel your imagination. Play as male or female, gay or straight, with nine characters to romance, four alternate climax chapters, and over seventy achievements to unlock.

This sequel follows Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk. Dive into bizarre, demented worlds again. Help the girl become a little happier.

Follow Yan the Defective One as he fights the Fire Troops. Yan unveils the Facility's mystery in this action platformer.

The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog is a new Sonic visual novel. It is a point-and-click adventure. Amy Rose is hosting a murder mystery party on the Mirage Express for her birthday. Sonic becomes the game's victim. Everyone investigates the crime. Something feels wrong. Is this an innocent game, or is something sinister happening?

Clean your room with sage. Pack your travel-sized ouija board. Re-enter Twin Lakes, America's 34th most haunted city. Join Detective McQueen. He solves six chilling cases. He risks life and pixelated limbs to solve the dark mysteries haunting the town.

Twelve years after Senior Inspector Jeon Gyeong retired, a young police officer visits her. The officer pleads with her to reexamine Seowon's case. Each uncovered memory shows only one thing: everyone near Seowon was lying.

Roadwarden is an illustrated text-based RPG. It uses isometric pixel art. The game mixes mechanics from RPGs, Visual Novels, adventure games, and interactive fiction.

The game shows insomnia. Its plot appears through the hand-drawn paintings of KeKe, the chief artist of "A Perfect Day".

"Monster Prom 2: Monster Camp" offers the world's best multiplayer dating sim. You experience it in a way you did not expect!

In 'Warsim: The Realm of Aslona,' you must stop the Kingdom of Aslona from falling. You decide the method. You can act as a harsh dictator, a blood-hungry warlord, or a charismatic diplomat who builds trade routes with goblin tribes and orcish chiefdoms.

Program and tune a drone to automate farming. It does the work for you. Collect resources to unlock better tech and become the most efficient farmer globally. Improve your coding and problem-solving skills.

Assume the role of President Anton Rayne. Guide the nation of Sordland. International conflicts, reform needs, deep corruption, and an economic slump exist. You must make these political choices. How do you lead?

"Hira Hira Hihiru" is a visual novel set in a fictional Taishō Era. The story follows two protagonists fighting Aerodema, a disease that brings the dead back to life.

I Wani Hug that Gator! Is a choice-driven story about teenagers searching for their path. Help Inco, a loser high schooler, manage his budding friendships (and romance!). Survive being the only human in a dinosaur-filled school.

This game focuses on starting a relationship while working a delivery job.

Roleplay in the ruins of interplanetary capitalism. Live as an escaped worker, stranded on a lawless station at the edge of an interstellar society. Using TTRPG flexibility, explore the station, pick friends, escape your past, and change your future.

"Open Sorcery" explores technology, magic, and personal identity.

When the truth hides, go underground. Step into this new text-based adventure from the team behind Thomas Was Alone and Volume. A short story gives you the world's fate as a detective searches for answers on the Subsurface Circular.

Friendship with Benefits is a unique eroge game. It mixes free-roaming, visual novel, dating simulator, and role-playing mechanics. Over 20+ romanceable characters await. Where do you start in this new world?

KnightsCollege is a kemono visual novel set in the Knight College where elite knight candidates reside. Every choice appears as a card. The protagonist stays in the dorm collecting cards.

Taste your mother’s culture via food while the train travels deeper into time.

"The Crimson Diamond" is a text-parser EGA mystery adventure game made by indie developer Julia Minamata. The game borrows from late 80s and early 90s adventure games, like Sierra On-line's The Colonel's Bequest. Explore Crimson Lodge and its surroundings. Eavesdrop on characters. Solve mysteries.

Space Bear is a multi-choice text adventure typing game! There aren't many real choices; the typing feels more like mashing...

A=B is a programming puzzle game. It has one rule: A=B, meaning replace A with B.

Perfect Tides is a point and click adventure game about teen agony and anticipation. Set in 2000, you play as Mara, an internet-obsessed writer living on an island paradise. Over four seasons, Mara experiences the island's beauty and silence, family turmoil, public school life, and a quest for love, friendship, and experience.

Please Be Happy is a yuri visual novel. The story makes you laugh and cry. It covers love, trust, mortality, and understanding how to be human, not just happy.

The year is 1482. Exploration and the Renaissance approach in Europe, but the War of the Roses ends in England. Change approaches, yet in a northern convent, people seem unaware. Everyone except Sister Catherine, a nun and thinker, has just been murdered. In an isolated monastery with a strange reputation, any Sister could be the killer. Mother Superior is stumped. You step in as an An

Pro Wrestling Sim is a text-based pro-wrestling booking simulator. Control a wrestling promotion. Decide your roster. Create storylines, feuds, and matches where you control the winners and losers.

Deep beneath the dead Earth, the City, humanity's last refuge, hides. Engineering genius and mankind's efforts built a giant structure of steel, concrete, and biopolymers. It keeps civilization's remnants one step from total extinction.

They called you a hero; you call them fools. Use telepathy, romance, old friends, and fight new enemies as you become the greatest villain Los Diablos has known!

Football Manager 2022 offers the closest thing to real football management. FM22 brings new, progressive ways to find your winning edge, instill your style, and earn it on the pitch.

You wake up in a carriage with an annoying stranger.

《My Vow to My Liege》is a visual novel dating game. You play as a girl disguised as the King of Ng, a man. Four characters await: the guide, the enemy, the minister, and the guard. Will you choose the man over the country? Love over hate? Who will you end up with?

Next-gen AI technology powers BUDDY SIMULATOR 1984, simulating hanging out with a best buddy. Your buddy learns your interests and personality. Your buddy also plays games with you.

The Chicheng police developed a test system to improve talent selection efficiency. This is the true detection system, involving the black robe company. As a tester, you must crack the case following the system's rules.

"Uncover the Smoking Gun" puts you in an urban investigation. Real detective work awaits. As a seasoned detective, you interact in real-time chat with suspects. This adventure-puzzle game uses dynamic dialogue. Every conversation shifts your investigation. Gather clues and persuade suspects to reveal the truth. This demands sharp intuition and cunning strategy. The game also features confession mechanics, forcing players to extract vital admissions.

Autumn arrives. Leaves start changing color. A boy reaches Yunagi Village. He meets a girl handing out flyers—a cute, cat-eared waitress.

"In FLATSPACE, on HJÖ, where HJÖRIANS live in DOMES in symbiosis with RAINCOATS...you'll find MR.RAINER'S SOLVE-IT SERVICE. You have a problem—we solve it." HEINO's partner dies. He gets a new one.

A mysterious senpai appears. A murder case fills the world. A huge fish shadow swims at my feet. If all these elements connect and surround me, what do I do?

Detective Reiji Tokisaka confronts a mystery spanning decades, perhaps centuries. The fallout from his last case weighs on his soul. A long-silent cult rises again. Can he solve the crime, or will it become his curse?

Nothing Together demands you do nothing. Act in the game, and it ends. You must remain an idler. Multimode offers two modes: Together mode and Battle Royale. Together mode lets up to 20 people do nothing. Battle Royale makes you compete to do the least.

This is an 18+ Romcom about a girl with cute ears!

Michitaka sees marks left by others. Paths and touched objects show colors unique to each person. This ability helps sometimes; mostly, it causes trouble. Before his second year, his father asked if he wanted to live alone at the Ouka-sou, run by his cousins. Wanting solitude, he took the chance. Arriving excited, he met the silver-haired Ouka. He saw no colors coming from her. "I am"

Fancia and Alina, two young illuminators, begin their adventure in bright, fascinating Inlixaland. They seek to become trustworthy "Arborangers."

This story breaks fate's bonds and introduces cute guys along the way.