Text-Based Games – Steam Marketing Tool
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Found 542 games. It's 1.2% of all Steam gamesPopular Tags
Text-Based 100%Indie 87%Adventure 63%RPG 52%Casual 43%Choose Your Own Adventure 42%Singleplayer 39%Story Rich 37%Interactive Fiction 32%Choices Matter 31%2D 27%Visual Novel 27%Simulation 22%Multiple Endings 16%Atmospheric 15%Strategy 13%Puzzle 12%Relaxing 12%Female Protagonist 11%Romance 10%Point & Click 10%Replay Value 10%Family Friendly 10%LGBTQ+ 10%Anime 10%Horror 10%Short 9%Sexual Content 9%Mystery 9%Minimalist 9%
Revenue
Average: ~$13,000
Median: ~$1,300
Total: ~$6.1 million
| # | Title | Release | Price | Tags | Followers | Reviews | Score | Net Revenue | |
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| 1 |
Seize forbidden treasures. Summon alien gods. Feed on your disciples.Cultist Simulator is a game of apocalypse and yearning. Play as a seeker after unholy mysteries, in a 1920s-themed setting of hidden gods and secret histories.
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Cultist Simulator
Steam Publisher: Weather Factory |
$19.99 $13.39 -33% | 27,530 | 3,562 | 9/10 | ~$1.4 million | ||
| 2 |
Stories Untold is a compilation tape of four experimental adventures, including a remaster of the original hit episode “The House Abandon”.
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Stories Untold
Steam Publisher: Devolver Digital |
$9.99 $2.49 -75% | 9,033 | 2,466 | 9/10 | ~$470,000 | ||
| 3 |
Event[0] is a sci-fi narrative exploration game where you build a relationship with a lonely spaceship computer to get home to Earth.
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Event[0]
Steam Publisher: Ocelot Society |
$19.99 $9.99 -50% | 22,819 | 1,117 | 7/10 | ~$430,000 | ||
| 4 |
The 3D online multiplayer game of social deduction and mischief, inspired by medieval politics and the Werewolf/Mafia (1986) genre. Gather 'round the tabletop, uniting allies of the realm with strategy to distinguish friend from foe.
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Throne of Lies® The Online Game of Deceit
Steam Publisher: Imperium42® Game Studio |
$9.99 $1.99 -80% | N/A | 1,829 | 9/10 | ~$350,000 | ||
| 5 |
Emily is Away Too is a brand new story featuring new characters and multiple different endings. Message your friends, surf the web and choose your path through this branching narrative.
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Emily is Away Too
Steam Publisher: Kyle Seeley |
$4.99 $0.99 -80% | 12,410 | 3,241 | 9/10 | ~$310,000 | ||
| 6 |
hackmud is a text-based multiplayer hacking simulator for Intel-compatible personal home computers. Crack protected systems and solve puzzles as you explore the abandoned internet of the future. Write scripts to protect your winnings and trick other players. Lose everything. Get it back.
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hackmud
Steam Publisher: Drizzly Bear |
$19.99 $14.99 -25% | 8,022 | 556 | 7/10 | ~$210,000 | ||
| 7 |
Your robots will change the world! Will you show them the true meaning of love, or conquer Alaska with your robot army? A 300,000-word epic interactive sci-fi novel.
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Choice of Robots
Steam Publisher: Choice of Games |
$5.99 $3.95 -34% | 5,801 | 1,747 | 10/10 | ~$200,000 | ||
| 8 |
Computer Tycoon is a Business Grand Strategy game about Computer Evolution. Start in the 70s and invent until 2034, create the best computer systems, upgrade your infrastructure and alter the computer history! Rule the global market and become an immortal!
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Computer Tycoon
Steam Publisher: Progorion |
$19.99 $11.99 -40% | 6,437 | 442 | 7/10 | ~$170,000 | ||
| 9 |
Live the life of a Monster, from birth to elderhood and beyond, making decisions that affect the world of Monsters and Humans. Solve problems. Meet animals and interesting people. Get to know them. Eat them. Make your own story!
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Monster Loves You!
Steam Publisher: Radial Games Corp |
$9.99 | 4,637 | 779 | 7/10 | ~$150,000 | ||
| 10 |
SanctuaryRPG: Black Edition is a humorous and strategic turn-based dungeon crawling ASCII adventure. Drawing heavy inspiration from both Roguelikes and Japanese RPGs, the game offers a robust action-RPG inspired combat system.
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SanctuaryRPG: Black Edition
Steam Publisher: Black Shell Media |
$7.99 $0.79 -90% | 7,471 | 885 | 9/10 | ~$140,000 | ||
| 11 |
When the truth is buried, go underground. Step into this new take on text-based adventure from the award-winning team behind Thomas Was Alone and Volume. A short story that hands you the fate of the world above, as a detective looking for answers on the Subsurface Circular.
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Subsurface Circular
Steam Publisher: Bithell Games |
$5.99 $4.79 -20% | 6,171 | 1,068 | 10/10 | ~$120,000 | ||
| 12 |
Age of Gladiators is a single-player strategy/management sim set at the height of the bloody gladiatorial games in ancient Rome. As your fighters increase in level, it will be up to you to decide how to forge their attributes and abilities.
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Age of Gladiators
Steam Publisher: Creative Storm Entertainment |
$9.99 $1.99 -80% | N/A | 573 | 7/10 | ~$110,000 | ||
| 13 |
What Ancients Begat is a complete (~15 hour) game of family generations surviving the rise of western civilization. Survival is the ultimate goal. The sub-goals, you choose, build their story.Experience an abstract telling of the lives of our earliest recorded ancestors.
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7 Grand Steps: What Ancients Begat
Steam Publisher: Mousechief |
$19.99 $11.99 -40% | 668 | 284 | 6/10 | ~$110,000 | ||
| 14 |
Autumn. With the leaves just starting to change color, a boy arrives at Yunagi Village. The first person he meets is a girl handing out flyers -- a cute, cat-eared waitress.
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Amairo Chocolate
Steam Publisher: Sekai Project |
$24.99 $21.24 -15% | 3,166 | 203 | 9/10 | ~$97,000 | ||
| 15 |
Sense of reality has not yet returned after a teleportation experiment. Purple hamsters, girls with tails, medieval knights - a fantastic world of an alien planet, where you will lead special forces soldier...
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Zeliria Sanctuary
Steam Publisher: Phoenix_co |
$9.99 $5.19 -48% | 2,918 | 464 | 9/10 | ~$89,000 | ||
| 16 |
Academagia, the greatest of the ancient schools for wizards. Build the legend of your mage with thousands of options, emergent storytelling and endless replayability. The definitive version of the magical life simulator is at last on Steam!
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Academagia: The Making of Mages
Steam Publisher: Black Chicken Studios, inc. |
$15.99 $7.99 -50% | 1,767 | 200 | 7/10 | ~$61,000 | ||
| 17 |
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Sorry, James
Steam Publishers: GrabTheGames, Konstructors Entertainment, WhisperGames |
$4.99 $2.49 -50% | 3,555 | 531 | 7/10 | ~$51,000 | ||
| 18 |
Warsim is a deep and rich text based kingdom management game unlike anything else. Complete with charming ASCII graphics, navigate the millions of different procedurally generated races, events and areas with a huge emphasis on player choice. Don't let its look fool you, there is depth in every direction.
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Warsim: The Realm of Aslona
Steam Publisher: Huw Millward |
$7.99 $3.19 -60% | 1,748 | 325 | 9/10 | ~$50,000 | ||
| 19 |
Join spirit detective Kagami Makoto and his demon familiars as they hunt down the wandering ghosts disrupting the peace of his small town.
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Nanairo Reincarnation
Steam Publisher: Sekai Project |
$29.99 $22.49 -25% | 3,155 | 72 | 9/10 | ~$41,000 | ||
| 20 |
In this platform game you embody ":" ready to travel through the History of typography, from it's origin to today! Overcome obstacles, escape your enemies and collect asterisks, but beware not to fall down! Will you come out of this journey unscathed?
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Type:Rider
Steam Publisher: ARTE France |
$4.99 $0.99 -80% | 1,284 | 432 | 9/10 | ~$41,000 | ||
| 21 |
First, do no harm. From the award-winning team behind Thomas Was Alone and Subsurface Circular comes another experimental short, the next mutation in text-based adventure. In the middle of a world-ending pandemic, a group of scientists discover the galaxy has been watching.
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Quarantine Circular
Steam Publisher: Bithell Games |
$5.99 $4.79 -20% | 1,299 | 313 | 9/10 | ~$36,000 | ||
| 22 |
Forest Fortress Live2d is an animated visual novel in an eroge genre with elements of fantasy. Non-linear branching storyline may lead to multiple romantic endings with different girls.
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Forest Fortress
Steam Publisher: Flaming Firefly |
$14.99 $4.49 -70% | 4,929 | 122 | 9/10 | ~$35,000 | ||
| 23 |
Take the Watson-Scott personality test and discover your deepest and darkest fears. 30 multiple-choice questions will tell you if you're more afraid of clowns, snakes, or something more sinister...
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The Watson-Scott Test
Steam Publisher: Normal Wholesome Games |
$4.99 $2.49 -50% | 1,048 | 335 | 6/10 | ~$32,000 | ||
| 24 |
Omen Exitio: Plague is inspired by the gamebooks of the '80s and '90s, mixing the alien and horrifying universe created by H.P. Lovecraft with an original plot and characters, all guided by your choices similar to the visual novel / CYOA genres.
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Omen Exitio: Plague
Steam Publisher: Tiny Bull Studios |
$9.99 $2.99 -70% | 1,915 | 143 | 9/10 | ~$27,000 | ||
| 25 |
Do you have what it takes to become a legendary Powered hero? "Heroes Rise" is an epic interactive novel where your choices control the story. The game is entirely text-based--without graphics or sound effects--and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination. How high will you rise?
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Heroes Rise: The Prodigy
Steam Publisher: Choice of Games |
$3.99 $2.99 -25% | 519 | 357 | 9/10 | ~$27,000 | ||
| 26 |
Addictive and vicious retro-styled comedy puzzler chock full of profanity, abuse, unfairness and warped logic. Will You: Go North? Find Light Switch? Cower and whimper like a beaten swine? Make your decision and escape The Dark Room! Just remember - YA DIE! YA DIE! YA DIE! YA DIE!
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The Dark Room
Steam Publisher: Stirfire Studios |
$13.99 | 940 | 97 | 9/10 | ~$26,000 | ||
| 27 |
Ride out into the Old West as a U.S. marshal in the biggest interactive novel ever made! Confront outlaws, find romance, defy the elements, and craft an enduring legend as you uncover a conspiracy whose deadly web stretches from San Francisco to New York City.
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Tin Star
Steam Publisher: Hosted Games |
$4.99 $2.99 -40% | 903 | 256 | 9/10 | ~$24,000 | ||
| 28 |
Join the journey of a funky space archaeologist who crashed on an unknown planet. A text turn-based adventure RPG in which your choices actually matter. Talk, explore, fight, make decisions to find a way out! Colourful graphics and the old comic book spirit.
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Star Story: The Horizon Escape
Steam Publisher: EvilCoGames |
$14.99 $5.99 -60% | 1,254 | 84 | 9/10 | ~$24,000 | ||
| 29 |
Battle demons and undead attorneys, and win souls to pay back your student loans! At the elite demonic-law firm of Varkath Nebuchadnezzar Stone, you'll depose a fallen god, find romance, and maybe even make partner, if you don't lose your own soul first.
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Choice of the Deathless
Steam Publisher: Choice of Games |
$3.99 $2.99 -25% | 679 | 305 | 9/10 | ~$23,000 | ||
| 30 |
It starts with a daring escape from a zombie-infested city; it ends at Zombie Exodus, when a horde of zombies swarms outlying settlements like locusts.
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Zombie Exodus
Steam Publisher: Hosted Games |
$7.99 $4.79 -40% | 862 | 133 | 9/10 | ~$20,000 |