The Best Adventure text Games for Playstation 4

Update 16 April 2023: The War added at rank #6.

Here are our 10 Best Adventure text Games for Playstation 4:

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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 + 68 Bad match - 71

Play Video: Goodbye World

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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

Play Video: The Innsmouth Case

PC Windows Nintendo Switch Mac OS Playstation 4 IOS iPhone Xbox One

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 - 32

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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 + 3 Bad match - 17

Play Video: Stories Untold

PC Windows Mac OS Nintendo Switch Playstation 4 Xbox One

"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 + 23 Bad match - 51

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Rule the land as you see fit, using alliances, intrigue or warfare to establish your House as a dominant force in the realm's politics.

• text
• violent
• choices
• rpg
• adventure
• novel
• interactive
• medieval
• fantasy
• politics
• assassin

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Play Video: A Place for the Unwilling

PC Windows stadia Nintendo Switch Xbox One Playstation 4 Xbox Series X Playstation 5 Mac OS

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 - 1

Play Video: The Book of Regrets

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Escape a nightmarish realm filled with puzzles and deadly beasts!

• dungeon
• adventure
• text
• visual-novel
• interactive
• book

Good match + 15 Bad match - 22

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