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A science-fantasy retro-flavoured textual adventure running in your terminal
The top results based on the latest update are Tachyon Dreams Anthology [Score: 0.9], VHS Romance [Score: 0.9] and Sisyphe's Backspace [Score: 0.8] The top rated games you can find here are Buddy Simulator 1984 [SteamPeek Rating: 7.6] ranked #27, Stories Untold [SteamPeek Rating: 6.9] ranked #9 and Sisyphe's Backspace [SteamPeek Rating: 4.8] ranked #3 Also don't forget to check the newest releases Commutator [Release date: 2026-07-14] ranked #16, LifeSimOS [Release date: 2026-04-17] ranked #29 and Terminal Tales: An Interactive Fiction Anthology [Release date: 2026-04-01] ranked #26 While it is tempting to play with the newest and the best, there might be some other gems in the results, like Buddy Simulator 1984 [SteamPeek Rating: 7.6] ranked #27, Run TavernQuest [SteamPeek Rating: 4.5] ranked #33 and.
A science-fantasy retro-flavoured textual adventure running in your terminal
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!
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.
A 5 minutes game about love and hesitation. Use Backspace to play. Hope you will never experience this hesitation.
Keizudo is a command based visual novel that uses pre-rendered low polygon graphics. It has a sci-fi romance story with cyberpunk aesthetics reminiscent of 90s video games and anime.
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.
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!
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.
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.
Stories Untold is a compilation tape of four experimental adventures, including a remaster of the original hit episode “The House Abandon”.
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.
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.
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.
He’s been searching for his missing friend for days. She’s been searching for her long-lost clan member for decades. Now their paths cross.
Hifuu OS: Immersive hacking simulator based on the Touhou Project. Play as Renko Usami, learn and use authentic terminal commands to hack into the Great Hakurei Barrier. Unravel the truth behind Maribel Hearn's mysterious coma as you search through Gensokyo's secret and private documents.
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.
A HUD-only psychological horror. You are an operator on a night shift that never ends, watching a frozen Arctic station through a dead man's terminal. No body, no camera, no music — only the interface, and the thing learning to use it back. Fully playable text-only.
A humorous sci-fi text-driven adventure where you play a support engineer sent to fix system failures in a secret research complex. Explore strange labs, investigate bizarre incidents, solve absurd problems, talk to depressed robots, and make choices that lead to multiple endings.
When tragedy sparks the advancement of science, a sentient android is created. Now, in this heart-wrenching, romantic, and beautiful visual novel, you will explore whether or not it's possible for man and machine to truly love each other.
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.
Apsis Online is a minimalist multi-user roguelike (MUR) in which you play a Voyager. A human, mentally and physically augmented for a new life in deep space.
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.
Do you know Mud? It was a popular multiplayer online game 20 years ago ~ It is only declining with the development of graphical games, and My Mud Game is to let everyone recall the past and even create games developed by their own games.
They steal your crew and force your ship to crash-land on an alien planet where you must start fresh with nothing but a dilapidated base and a... talking cat?
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)!
This is a text adventure game about time travel, developed and published by the Scorched Heaven Community. The total text volume of this work is approximately 250,000 words. It also includes more than 30 scenes. This work advances the story through mouse clicks.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
An interactive story about hacking, unveiling secrets, chatting with people, and searching for purpose.
A choice-based, visual novel with time travelling teapots!
A classic text adventure - but you're not the one playing it. You're the game master for an idiot player named STEVE. Parse the player's enigmatic commands and decide how NPCs react to him. Who knew that running an RPG would be so frustrating?
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.
War Flavor is a high-intensity side-scrolling run-and-gun inspired by Contra, where time is your life and a custom-produced original soundtrack drives the arcade chaos.
B.E.S.T 2 is an erotic visual novel with multiple decisive choices and several possible endings. Participate in various challenges ! Help your friends or betray them ! There is only one goal: to be the best. It's up to you to decide what you want to become !
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