In the late 70s, the first real text-based game, Colossal Cave Adventure, was burning up the very limited interconnected networks of ARPANET, which was the precursor to the internet.

Here's where Shambles gets clever: it's text-based. That sounds like a limitation until you realize what it means. When developers don't have to model, animate, and voice-act every weird idea ...

RPGs excel when combining narrative and worldbuilding through engaging text. Roadwarden, Wildermyth, Citizen Sleeper, Suzerain, and Disco Elysium stand out for their immersive text-based ...

If you love text-based games, these nine fascinating titles might be just what you're after.

Archero and Survivor.io publisher Habby has soft-launched its latest title, idle RPG Capybara Go. The game is described as a text-based roguelike adventure RPG, starring the titular capybara. The ...

Stephen King's The Mist Game Is A Bizarre Text Adventure Text-based games have massively evolved since their boom in the late nineties, having branched into subgenres including text-based ...