Kriss' Journey
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], Between the Lines [Score: 0.9] and Universe For Sale - Prologue [Score: 0.9] The top rated games you can find here are Buddy Simulator 1984 [SteamPeek Rating: 7.6] ranked #34, Stories Untold [SteamPeek Rating: 6.9] ranked #11 and 幻想乡:有罪推定~夜明前的三色堇 [SteamPeek Rating: 5.0] ranked #35 Also don't forget to check the newest releases 幻想乡:有罪推定~夜明前的三色堇 [Release date: 2026-03-12] ranked #35, Run TavernQuest [Release date: 2026-01-27] ranked #5 and Head in the Cloud [Release date: 2025-12-17] ranked #8 While it is tempting to play with the newest and the best, there might be some other gems in the results, like Sisyphe's Backspace [SteamPeek Rating: 4.8] ranked #21, Buddy Simulator 1984 [SteamPeek Rating: 7.6] ranked #34 and 幻想乡:有罪推定~夜明前的三色堇 [SteamPeek Rating: 5.0] ranked #35.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
Dull Grey is an award-winning visual novel about growing up. Experience an emotional story of a mother and son in a dystopian world, make simple but meaningful choices and discover multiple endings. Will you see your story unfold in full colour?
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!
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.
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.
Stories Untold is a compilation tape of four experimental adventures, including a remaster of the original hit episode “The House Abandon”.
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.
Atmospheric fantasy 2D-RPG. In a world where everything has a Plot, Fate, and a Name. Your role is to save Fate. To find that Name that was erased from reality.
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.
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.
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.
RSSU - Retro Style Soviet Undies is an adult visual novel with a unique story, made in pinup style and filled with humor, sex and romance. Go back to the 80s, meet beautiful Soviet women and discover the exciting mystery of the town of Maryino.
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.
SpaceNET is a non-linear retro sci-fi adventure. Less graphics, more story! Along with an amazing soundtrack and a really atmospheric soundscape, the minimalist graphics allows a deeper immersion into the story.
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.
A 5 minutes game about love and hesitation. Use Backspace to play. Hope you will never experience this hesitation.
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.
Do you enjoy listening to stories and having the ability to influence their unfolding? If so, then immerse yourself in the role of an active participant as you join Yaren on her quest for freedom.
Embark on a thrilling journey through this highly engaging science fantasy visual novel with memorable characters and multiple endings. Journey through space, uncover the past and pull off a heist or two as you negotiate the pitfalls of friendship and a crumbling reality. Can you save the universe?
LIMITS is an experience of observation and obedience, concealed beneath the logic of a planetary restoration program. Execute the protocols. Analyze the zones. Cleanse the anomalies. C.A.L.L guides you. It watches over you.
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.
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.
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?
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.
Lunar Strike blends speculative fiction with a game world grounded in hard science. The game focuses on compelling survival and character-driven storytelling over combat. A race against time to preserve the evidence of humanity’s presence on the Moon before its inevitable collapse and destruction.
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.
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.
A choice-based, visual novel with time travelling teapots!
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!
Explore the intertwined fates of humans and youkai in this interactive fiction. As an unwitting protagonist, enter the sealed realm of Gensokyo to investigate a series of bizarre murders. Unearth ancient secrets and witness a gripping saga hidden for millennia.
Classic Zork meets Existential Crisis. A modern text adventure that explores themes of control, isolation and mental health while levelling up the genre with beautiful pixel art.
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