Text based adventure games deliver choose your own adventure or gamebook styles to play through. The primary portion of the game is text, often with a choice of text as the main player input. These games deliver deluxe storylines, usually through accessible text based chunks.
Highest scored apps in the category
** Winner of Apple Design Award 2014 **
Puzzles abound in what is in essence a mystery story supplanted with all kinds of challenges to work your way from chapter to chapter. Rather than a simple page by page layout, each chapter is one continuous flow with the text continuously unfolding in a unique manner.
Send text messages to progress the storyline of your wife, a Syrian refugee, trying to cross into Europe.
A text messaging based adventure game that lets you play as Majd communicating with his wife, Nour. Nour is a Syrian migrant trying to find her way to Europe. The game includes 19 different endings based on your text message choices.
*** Four BAFTA-nominations -- TIME Game of 2014 -- IGF Award for Narrative Excellence -- IMGA Award for Narrative -- DICE nominated
A new iOS game based on the Jules Verne classic, but updated with a steampunk world filled with all kinds of intriguing contraptions. The classic story of Phileas Foggโs wager is included, but now itโs a choose your own adventure with an over 500,000 word script waiting to be explored. You get to play as Passepartout, Mr. Foggโs valet, in charge of of trips, lodging, and Mr. Foggโs well being. 80 Days is a text based adventure above all else, that offers various dialogue choices that can completely change the progression of the story. While text is a key to the game, thereโs a great deal of strategy involved in choosing the path to travel around the world with multiple potential choices ready to be discovered.
You're his only hope.
Help an astronaut survive against all odds in Lifeline. A game that defines Apple Watch gaming allows you to have a text based conversation with the fictional astronaut. The entire story is drive by a choose your own adventure set-up.
Solve the case of disappearing robots in this intriguing text based adventure.
A text based adventure game set in the future in which you play as a detective trying to figure out the mystery of disappearing robots. The game aspect tests your ability to collect words and phrases to use in dialogue puzzles to solve the case, and mystery of the futuristic world.
Apps with average score
An epic four-part adventure through a land of monsters, traps, and magic. Start your story here! FREE FOR A LIMITED TIME ONLY!
*** Rock Paper Shotgun Best RPG of 2016 ***
"You should choose to own this adventure" -- Eurogamer
"Inkle's adaptation of Sorcery! takes the genre to a whole new level"...
How to save a life.
In the game, players will be introduced to a new character โ V. Adams. Heโs stuck in a frozen wasteland, and youโll need to help discover his past and salvage his future. Youโll be his only communication with the outside. You'll interact through notifications and choose how to answer. Answers...
CHOICES THAT MATTER is a collection of epic text adventure games similar to the classic Choose Your Own Adventure books (CYOA).
New content is written and delivered weekly, making our stories the most complex in the CYOA category. No one player can discover the entire story in a single play through....
โปNOTICEโป
This game does not support devices running iOS 11 (including beta versions) or later. Please be aware of this when changing devices and/or updating your device's iOS as the game may not run properly under an unsupported version of iOS.
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ใปPlease read "Supported iOS and Devices" before purchasing or playing.
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An epic adventure through a mysterious mountain filled with monsters, magic and mayhem!
โ...it looks downright incredible.โ - Pocket Tactics
"Spectacular Re-Envisioning. It's rather special." - Gamezebo
โIf youโve ever played a tabletop RPG and been lucky enough to have your dungeon master build out a miniature set, thatโs what Tin Manโs done...
The hearts and imaginations of countless players worldwide were captured when the original Lifeline took the App Store by storm and became the #1 Top Paid Game, and now Taylor needs your help again in Lifeline: Silent Night!
Acclaimed author Dave Justus returns with a suspenseful new story that plays out...
The Lifeline series takes a terrifying turn in this interactive horror experience. Every decision you make could help Wynn to safety, or lead her to an untimely end.
Something has gone horribly wrong... Venture deep into a mysterious scientific facility, where a woman named Wynn has just woken up strapped to...
Defend the innocent and save the day! Experience the original trilogy in clear, retina-quality HD graphics, and choose to play horizontally for larger backgrounds or vertically for one-handed ease!
"Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trilogy HD" includes "Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney", Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Justice For All", and "Phoenix Wright:...
An epic adventure through a cursed wilderness of monsters, traps and magic. Begin your journey here! (Parts 1 and 2 not required.)
*** Rock Paper Shotgun best RPG of 2016 ***
"Sorcery! 3 is unlike anything youโve ever played. Its mix of puzzle-solving, combat, and choose-your-own-adventure stylings have created a unique form...
An epic adventure through a cursed citadel of monsters, traps and magic. Begin your journey here (Parts 1-3 not required) - or conclude your epic adventure.
"One of the finest RPGs ever made" - Rock, Paper, Shotgun, Best RPG of 2016
"Sorcery! pushes and exploits both genre tropes and limitations, not as...
The original Lifeline took the App Store by storm, reaching #1 Top Paid Game on iPhone and Apple Watch in 29 countries. Its compelling mix of real-time storytelling and Dave Justusโs suspenseful writing continues to capture the imaginations of countless players worldwide.
Lifeline 2 raises the bar with a new...
Based on the best selling novel and critically acclaimed film, The Martian is a real time, text based adventure game that tells the story of Astronaut Mark Watney who finds himself stranded on Mars. Play as a NASA communications specialist and Markโs sole contact with Earth in this riveting story...
Court Is Back In Session
Star as rookie defense attorney, Apollo Justice, as he visits crime scenes, questions key witnesses and collects vital evidence before stepping into the courtroom to prove his clientsโ innocence.
Features:
ยท All-new high-resolution graphics
ยท A new touch screen interface
ยท Interactive forensic testing mini-games that allow players to...
A dead lawyer, a mysterious green-eyed woman, stolen crystals with unexplained powersโฆ and itโs only your first day on the job! Youโre a HelpText volunteer, and the app has just paired you with Austin homicide detective Alex Esposito. Dive headfirst into a dangerous investigation as you help Alex untangle the...
Impersonate your identical twin as the Swashbuckler, masked champion of justice! You have two weeks to rescue the REAL Swashbuckler and marry the mayor before superpowered criminals take over the city.
The Hero Unmasked is a 300,000 word interactive novel by Christopher Huang. It's entirely text-based, without graphics or sound effects,...
Steal and raise a baby war gryphon! Will you fight dragons together to save the empire, or defy the empire and lead your people to freedom?
"Runt of the Litter" is an 150,000 word interactive fantasy novel by Kelly Sandoval, where your choices control the story. It's entirely text-basedโwithout graphics or...
Hunt down the killer who murdered the Wolf god! As Wolf's last avatar before his assassination, will you revive your god, take revenge on his killer, or destroy the pantheon and bring about a new order?
"Avatar of the Wolf" is a 135,000-word interactive fantasy novel by Bendi Barrett. It's entirely...
Claw your way to the top of Moreytown, a furry slum for human/animal hybrids. Will you take down the gangs who rule the town, or take them over instead?
"Welcome to Moreytown" is a 150,000-word interactive novel by S. Andrew Swann. It's entirely text-based, without graphics or sound effects, and fueled...
Defend Napoleon's heir in this steampunk alternate history game of political maneuvering, airship adventure, and romantic intrigue! Will you bring liberty to France, or plunge Europe into bloody war?
"The Eagle's Heir" is a 200,000 word interactive novel by Amy Griswold and Jo Graham. It's entirely text-based, without graphics, or sound...
The Golden Age of heroes is over, but you're just beginning. Will you use your powers to help the world or help yourself? Set on a near-future Earth that has been irrevocably altered by the arrival of superhumans, the world has been dealing with a radical shift in the nature...
In London, 1729, before they had police, they had you: thief-takers, hunting criminals for cash! Fire a flintlock and sip gin in the age of powdered wigs. Will you grow rich catching smugglers and highwaymen, show mercy, or become a crime boss yourself?
"Trials of the Thief-Taker" is a 140,000-word interactive...
Are you ready for nightmares?
Interactive Horror Stories is a collection of 7 horror stories in which you are the hero. In the style of Choose Your Own Adventure; you make choices, they change the plotline and bring you different endings. You encounter various evil entities in this stories (humans...
An epic adventure in a city of thieves, traps, and magic. Begin your adventure here! (Part 1 not required.)
*** Rock Paper Shotgun's best RPG of 2016 ***
"Another spectacular rendition of classic interactive fiction" - (Kotaku)
"Fantastic, and you should buy it" - 5/5 (Gamezebo)
"Bigger, better, stronger" - 4.5/5, Editor's Choice (148Apps)
Top...
Ace Attorney returns with a new protagonist and set up.
Instead of playing as Phoenix Wright in the court room, you get to play as Miles Edgeworth at the crime scene. Figure out the puzzle sequences in the crime scene to solve murders.
As they flee a dying Earth, the human race is in need of a new home. Who has the intelligence, the wisdom, the courage, and the empathy to save our species from extinction? Meet the crew of the Little Brother...
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"One of the freshest, funniest, and most unique iOS titles." -iFanzine
"Star...
Gamebook Adventures returns for its fourth outing in the critically acclaimed series of newly imagined interactive fantasy gamebooks in which you, the reader, control the direction of the story! Along with a realistic dice-based battle system to fight creatures, a great story and beautiful artwork, Revenant Rising will give you...
Fighting Fantasy, the world famous interactive gamebook series is back! Steve Jackson and Tin Man Games present House of Hell on iOS!!
"Taking refuge in the infamous House of Hell has to be the worst mistake of your life! The dangers of the torrential storm outside are nothing compared to the...
The world famous Fighting Fantasy interactive gamebook series continues! Ian Livingstone and Tin Man Games present Island of the Lizard King!
You can relive the adventures on Fire Island on your phone or tablet, lovingly updated for digital devices. Presented in full colour with realistic physics-based dice rolling for battles, auto-mapping,...
A vast choice-based digital gamebook set within the Warhammer 40,000 universe where you are a Space Marine!
** REVIEWS **
"Another solid turn from Tin Man, Legacy of Dorn uses its licence well, and shakes things up enough to make it feel fresh." - Pocket Gamer - 8/10 - Silver Award
"Legacy Of...
Taylor's journey continues! Deep in the isolated vacuum of space, trapped in orbit around a strange black hole, our intrepid astronaut must once again reach out for a lifeline - YOU! Inside the spaceship Veridian, Taylor thought it was time for some hard-earned quiet solitude and a little R&R, but...
A text driven adventure game set in the last 21st century with a noir theme.
The game features over 40,000 words spread across 35 illustrated scenes. There is a branching storyline with mini puzzles along the way as you try to solve the case.
Ever wondered what you would do if you were given the chance to turn back time and relive your past?
In this text-based interactive game, you wake up in a new body and unfamiliar environment, after having just died.
"Replay" starts at birth and ends at adulthood -- that is....if you survive...
*** A branching storyline. You choose the path you take
*** 12 different endings
*** 50 different illnesses with unique symptoms and gory details
*** Over 200 game characters to interact with
+++ Play as one of the five characters: Barber, Chemist, Scholarship, Wise Woman, Monk.
+++ Diagnose the patient and choose the...
An interactive fantasy adventure! It's a book. It's a game. It's an RPG. It's a Gamebook Adventure!
First in the series of critically acclaimed interactive fantasy gamebooks in which you, the reader, control the direction of the story! Along with a realistic dice-based battle system to fight creatures, a great story...
An interactive fantasy adventure! It's a book. It's a game. It's an RPG. It's a Gamebook Adventure! Please note that you do not need to have read any of the previous gamebooks in order to read and play this.
The critically acclaimed gamebook series returns with gamebook legend, Jonathan Green at...
