Best Text-Based Games on Steam

Unlike generic lists, our strategy game recommendations use a rigorous analysis of Steam user reviews to identify and feature only the best, community-validated text-based games. For those who prefer not to search, check out lists of the most played, top deals and best free to play Text-Based games on Steam.

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Momotype An experimental, horror visual novel about raising a virtual pet. Help a tamagotchi-like creature navigate his angst. We love Momo!

Price Free to play
Rating 9.1
Release 03 Dec 2021
Soccer Manager 2022 Sign official FIFPRO licensed players and compete to become the ultimate football manager!

Price Free to play
Rating 7.1
Release 26 Nov 2021
Arcadia Fallen Play the role of a young alchemist apprentice who is unwillingly bound to an illegal spirit. Suddenly drawn into a war between humanity and magic, they must join a group of unlikely heroes to escape their own doom, hopefully saving the world along the way.

Price -91% 1.91€
Rating 8.7
Release 17 Nov 2021
Football Manager 2022 The closest thing to real football management. FM22 brings new, progressive ways to find your winning edge, instill your footballing style and earn it on the pitch.

Price -78% 11.99€
Rating 9.0
Release 09 Nov 2021
Saimin Gakushū: Secret Desire Saimin Gakushū is a school adventure visual novel by popular Japanese developers Dark One! Soichi Akano acquires a sleep-learning machine through a dubious online shopping site, and plans to imprint his knowledge on the female students and teachers at his school.

Price -70% 5.03€
Rating 7.1
Release 04 Nov 2021
Sacred Fire: A Role Playing Game A text-based RPG full of choice and action. Fight for survival in the midst of the Roman invasion of ancient Caledonia. Strategize one dice roll at a time as emotions affect your performance. Use willpower to outsmart opponents, gain allies, wage war, or strive for peace. How will your story end?

Price -63% 6.99€
Rating 8.8
Release 18 Oct 2021
Increlution Survive the ever increasing pressure of time for as long as you can! A minimalistic incremental game about time management that takes inspiration from roguelite games, with a focus on meta-progression. Every generation has a better chance at survival, because previous lives influence its instincts

Price 3.99€
Rating 8.2
Release 13 Oct 2021
Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.

Price Free to play
Rating 9.3
Release 24 Sep 2021
Gamedec - Definitive Edition Gamedec is a single-player cyberpunk isometric RPG. You are a game detective, who solves crimes inside virtual worlds. Use your wits to gather info from your witnesses and suspects, getting to the bottom of deceptive schemes. The game continually adapts to your decisions and never judges.

Price -92% 2.51€
Rating 7.7
Release 16 Sep 2021
BUSTAFELLOWS A new visual novel from the legendary eXtend! Mixing dangerous romance with murder mystery, BUSTAFELLOWS is a steamy noir mystery that will make you shiver but ask for more!

Price -15% 34.00€
Rating 8.2
Release 30 Jul 2021
The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles Immerse yourself in a dramatic yet charming and witty world of evidence-gathering, deduction and courtroom battles with this double-pack of the adventures of rookie lawyer Ryunosuke.

Price -82% 7.40€
Rating 9.1
Release 26 Jul 2021
Legend of Homebody The simple game of a shut-in learning from home and earn money. (The game is purely fictional, do not try this out in reality. This is a somewhat serious and heavy game, so don't be fooled by appearances.)

Price -80% 1.18€
Rating 7.8
Release 08 Jul 2021
Billionaire Lovers You’re a broke college graduate. Your rich, distant uncle has just shown up and given you 100 million dollars! And right at this moment, four handsome men come into your life. Could this be… the romance you’ve been waiting for!? But wait, there’s something behind their smiles that says otherwise…

Price 2.39€
Rating 9.1
Release 02 Jul 2021
Doki Doki Literature Club Plus! Welcome to the club! Write poems for your crush and experience the terror of school romance in this critically-acclaimed psychological horror story.

Price -25% 11.24€
Rating 9.5
Release 30 Jun 2021
Motesolo : No Girlfriend Since Birth On a late afternoon in Seoul, you discover two people talking at a local cafe, and you spy on their conversation.

Price 18.99€
Rating 8.1
Release 09 Jun 2021
Overboard! GET AWAY WITH MURDER. Highly replayable detective game where you're the one whodunnit. From the creators of 80 Days and Heaven's Vault.

Price -88% 1.51€
Rating 8.5
Release 02 Jun 2021
幽灵高校(Ghost College) An average college girl takes an elective class and everything is different. Death, spooky, enveloped her, uncovering the truth, looking for clues, making the right choice was the only way.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.3
Release 28 May 2021
RONIN: Two Souls CHAPTER 1 Create your own adventure with Kenji who wants to be a samurai and is trained for it. But beware, you might go out on your own way in this path, it is entirely up to your choices. Can someone else’s desire of revenge lead your purpose and choices? Or, does he decide that?

Price Free to play
Rating 7.4
Release 27 May 2021
Lacuna – A Sci-Fi Noir Adventure A murder. A hack. A bombing. All it takes to plunge the solar system into war – unless you do something about it. Help CDI agent Neil Conrad make a string of increasingly difficult decisions in this modern dialog-driven adventure set in a gorgeous 2D sci-fi noir universe.

Price -97% 0.53€
Rating 8.8
Release 20 May 2021
cyberpunkdreams 2090s America, torn apart by war and corporate greed. A lone traveller stands outside the gates of Cincinnati, greatest of the border cities. How far will you go to make it to the top? How far will you go to fulfil your mission?

Price Free to play
Rating 7.3
Release 14 May 2021
Untrusted Untrusted is an online multiplayer (10 to 16 players) hacking / social deduction game: as an hacker, hack your target - as an undercover agent, disrupt the operation. Follow your objective or kill everyone - the choice is yours.

Price 4.99€
Rating 8.0
Release 09 May 2021
Insurmountable Confront various terrains as a lonely mountaineer and endure the countless dangers of climbing! Many tough decisions await you in a risky environment. Make your way up and down the mountain, overcoming insurmountable heights!

Price -97% 0.67€
Rating 7.6
Release 29 Apr 2021
The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark Delouse your room with sage and pack up your travel-sized ouija board, it’s time to re-enter Twin Lakes - America’s 34th most haunted city. Join Detective McQueen as he puzzles his way through 9 chilling cases, risking life and pixelated limb to solve the macabre mysteries that plague the poor town.

Price -98% 0.42€
Rating 9.1
Release 15 Apr 2021
Your Chronicle "Let's begin your own story." This is a text-based idle RPG game. There are already more than 3,000 unique story actions and it's still growing.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.7
Release 04 Apr 2021