The Best Adventure text Games for Xbox One

Update 16 November 2022: Goodbye World added at rank #2.

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Ord is a captivating text-based adventure game with five unique stories to choose from. Choose your own adventure as you become a god and create your world or take on an evil warlock in a thrilling quest. With fast-paced narratives, your choices matter, and you'll be engaged in no time. Plus, create and share your own stories with Steam Workshop support. Available in multiple languages.

• Cleverly conveys changes in atmosphere and mood with minimalistic visuals and sound effects
• Multiple scenarios with vastly different outcomes provide high replayability
• A fun and creative take on the text adventure genre
• Multiple languages supported
• Workshop support allows for user-generated content and experimentation with storytelling

• No save-states or continues, with every death resetting the player to the beginning
• Poor controls and other quirks make the game feel more like an art project than a polished video game experience

• text
• minimalist
• adventure
• experience
• story
• narrative
• perma-death
• rpg
• experimental
• innovative
• casual
• book
• fast-paced

Good match + 56 Bad match - 65

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"GOODBYE WORLD" is a narrative adventure game. Play through 12 stages of a puzzle platformer while following the two protagonists through 13 chapters of their story.

• platform
• visual-novel
• linear
• text
• cinematic
• pixel
• fiction
• narrative
• story
• atmospheric
• scroller
• emotional
• puzzle
• interactive
• adventure

Good match + 1 Bad match

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The Innsmouth Case is a choose-your-own-adventure game inspired by H.P. Lovecraft and the very first text-based adventure to combine horror and comedy in a fit and proper way.

• choices
• lovecraftian
• detective
• text
• horror
• multiple-endings
• visual-novel
• adventure
• mystery
• comedy
• atmospheric
• story
• combine
• speculative
• novel

Good match + 9 Bad match - 23

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A classic and funny point & click adventure game. Designed for all the family, including the kids. 4K@120FPS

• funny
• cartoony
• fantastically
• point-and-click
• mythology
• 2d
• family
• text
• adventure
• action-adventure
• puzzle
• hand-drawn
• platform
• space
• stylized

Good match + 5 Bad match - 8

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"Stories Untold" offers a unique and fascinating interactive storytelling experience that combines text-adventure, point-and-click, and psychological horror with a gorgeous retro-aesthetic and a sublime synth-wave horror soundtrack. Play the four interconnected vignettes with its own gameplay and mechanics now and join the nightmare!

• Wonderful storytelling, sound design and visuals
• Real fun gameplay mechanics
• Short and sweet, can probably be played and finished in a few hours
• Good mix of horror/tension and puzzle solving
• A chilling adventure that draws players into its world and slowly twists it into something entirely different

• Puzzle answer hidden within a strobe effect which could be harmful
• Some trial and error on some parts of the mechanics
• The game's precise typing responses don't always work

• horror
• text-adventure
• text
• adventure
• puzzle
• 1980s
• interactive
• narrative
• retro
• story

Good match + 21 Bad match - 44

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SELF is a suspenseful Kafkaesque text-based adventure game with simulation and puzzle mechanics. Could you seize the opportunity to find your father and your SELF back in this introspective journey?

• kafkaesque
• text
• adventure
• psychological
• nonlinear
• puzzle
• word
• mystery
• experimental
• story

Good match + 2 Bad match - 15

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An auto-RPG with strategic combat, deep crafting and programming elements, animated entirely in ASCII-art. In a realm of perpetual darkness, a single stone could change everything...

• programming
• idler
• logic
• rpg
• text
• casual
• clicker
• retro
• adventure

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SELF is a suspenseful Kafkaesque text-based adventure game with simulation and puzzle mechanics. Could you seize the opportunity to find your father and your SELF back in this introspective journey?

• kafkaesque
• stripped-back
• psychological
• kafka
• text
• nonlinear
• adventure
• mystery
• visual-novel
• word
• experimental

Good match + 1 Bad match - 8

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Deep under the sea, there is a princess who didn't know anything about french fries. This is her story, Princess Takorita's fated encounter with the french fries.

• comic
• choices
• visual-novel
• text
• colourful
• hand-drawn
• magic
• book
• anime
• family-friendly
• 2d
• comedy
• adventure
• cute
• underwater

Good match + 3 Bad match - 11

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You only have 21 days until this living city dies. The clock is ticking. You can’t be everywhere at once. Decide what to explore, who to meet and see every decision shape the curious stories and terrible secrets of this branching narrative game.

• narrative
• lovecraftian
• choices
• trading
• adventure
• rich
• exploration
• atmospheric
• open-world
• mystery
• dialogue
• text
• dark
• story
• freeform

Good match Bad match - 4

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