Text quest for Linux — top best games in the Text quest genre

A Dark Room - a game in the Text quest genre

Role-playing game, Adventure, Indie, Roguelike, Text quest

Game released: Linux → 6 July 2023

Steam: 90/100

A text adventure with survival and resource management elements, inspired by classic games in the genre, including Zork. The story begins in a dark...

Vaudeville

Adventure, Detective, Procedural generation, Text quest, Sandbox, Exploration

Game released: Linux → 28 November 2025

Players: 10/10

Steam: 47/100

An unusual detective adventure, the main feature of which is that dialogues with NPCs in it are generated in real time using artificial intelligence...

Milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk

Horror, Visual novel, Anime / Manga, Indie, Text quest

Game released: Linux → 16 December 2021

Players: 9.7/10

Steam: 97/100

Milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk is a visual novel in the horror genre with point and click elements. A psychedelic narrative full of...

The Sin

Visual novel, Text quest, Detective

Game released: Linux → 20 May 2021

Players: 9.2/10

Steam: 86/100

The Sin is a visual novel based on popular mystical folklore about witches. The main character, the boy Roma, moves to the village with his family...

Another Lost Phone: Laura's Story

Adventure, Puzzle, Interactive movie, Text quest, Indie, Casual game, Detective

Game released: Linux → 21 September 2017

Steam: 91/100

Another Lost Phone: Laura's Story is an unusual adventure for mobile platforms. The game is based on the gameplay where all the events take place on...

Choice of the Vampire

Role-playing game, Horror, Adventure, Text quest, Indie

Game released: Linux → 9 February 2018

Steam: 53/100

Choice of the Vampire is a horror role-playing adventure game. It's an epic, four-volume, 850,000-word interactive novel by Jason Steven Hill. It's...

Werewolf: The Apocalypse - Heart of the Forest

Visual novel, Role-playing game, Fantasy / Medieval, Mysticism / Supernatural, Horror, Text quest

Game released: Linux → 13 October 2020

Steam: 82/100

Metacritic: 76/100

Werewolf: The Apocalypse — Heart of the Forest is an atmospheric visual novel with role-playing elements in the Vampire: The Masquerade...

Самый дорогой человек

Free game, Visual novel, Adventure, Exploration, Text quest

Game released: Linux → 26 June 2024

Players: 9.7/10

Steam: 94/100

The visual novel is not only about the emergence of artificial self-awareness, but also about the true essence of loneliness. This is a game about...

Katawa Shoujo

Adventure, Adult game, Visual novel, Free game, Anime / Manga, Text quest

Game released: Linux → 16 August 2024

Players: 8/10

Steam: 97/100

A free visual novel about girls with disabilities. The main character, Hisao Nakai, is an ordinary high school student in his last year. One day he...

Wanderlust: Transsiberian

Visual novel, Adventure, Arcade, Indie, Trains, Text quest

Game released: Linux → 9 April 2020

Steam: 63/100

Wanderlust: Transsiberian — adventure visual novel with a non-linear narrative. The two main characters embark on an amazing journey through...

Incremental Adventures

Free game, Visual novel, Indie, Text quest, Role-playing game

Game released: Linux → 11 August 2020

Players: 7.1/10

Steam: 77/100

Incremental Adventures — a shareware text auto-battler in which you will become a guide for a group of brave heroes in their never-ending...

Cryptozookeeper

Role-playing game, Adventure, Futurism (Future), Text quest, Comedy

Game released: Linux → 14 August 2011

Steam: 100/100

This futuristic text adventure with role-playing elements follows William Vest, who is tasked with delivering alien bone marrow to a dusty town in...

Your Chronicle

Role-playing game, Adventure, Arcade, Free game, Fantasy / Medieval, Text quest

Game released: Linux → 5 April 2021

Steam: 80/100

Your Chronicle is a free-to-play text role-playing game with arcade clicker elements in a fantasy setting. The game offers many stories, plots...

The Away Team: Lost Exodus

Top-down view, Simulation, Text quest, Adventure, Science fiction, Exploration

Game released: Linux → 22 July 2016

Steam: 73/100

The scientific and fantastic adventure of the AI-Pilot of the last inter-star ship of the Earth, which is instructed to find a house for his team-the...

Bitburner

Role-playing game, Educational game (Education), Sandbox, Free game, Text quest, Cyberpunk

Game released: Linux → 10 December 2021

Steam: 94/100

An unusual role-playing game with elements of programming and automation, set in a cyberpunk world. Instead of the usual battles and quests, the...

Vampire The Masquerade: We Eat Blood

Adventure, Text quest

Game released: Linux → 16 February 2017

Players: 8.8/10

Vampire The Masquerade: We Eat Blood is a text adventure set in the World of Darkness universe, in which you choose what the main character does as...

Heroes Rise: The Prodigy

Role-playing game, Adventure, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Text quest

Game released: Linux → 14 June 2014

Steam: 79/100

Heroes Rise: The Prodigy is a text adventure with role-playing elements in a fantasy setting. In the game you will find yourself in an amazing world...

Nighthawks

Role-playing game, Adventure, Visual novel, Mysticism / Supernatural, Text quest

Game released: Linux → 22 September 2026

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 82/100

A text-based role-playing game about a vampire who returns to life six months after death in a world where the existence of bloodsuckers is no longer...

Arcadie 2: Cold Lands

Adventure, Visual novel, Casual game, Fantasy, Text quest

Game released: Linux → 18 June 2026

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 84/100

After defeating the enemies, the throne ends up in the hands of the last bearer of Aether — a mystical power capable of commanding fire and...

I'm Making a Monster

Adventure, Visual novel, Text quest, Casual game, Simulation

Game released: Linux → 6 July 2026

Steam: 71/100

A short narrative game that combines an interactive novel, a monster creation simulator, and a story about experiencing loss. As a mage-scientist...

Buried: An Interactive Story

Indie, Adventure, Text quest

Game released: Linux → 22 January 2016

Steam: 95/100

This text-based adventure follows logger Roger Hastings, who wakes to find his crew missing and has no memory of what happened. As he searches for...

Choice of Robots

Role-playing game, Adventure, Futurism (Future), Indie, Text quest, Combat robots

Game released: Linux → 19 December 2014

Players: 10/10

Steam: 96/100

Choice of Robots — fantasy role-playing game with adventure elements in the visual novel genre. This is an epic 300,000 word interactive sci-fi...

Idling to Rule the Gods

Free game, Text quest, Casual game, Clicker, Fantasy, Role-playing game, Mysticism / Supernatural, Indie, Simulation

Game canceled: Linux → 28 May 2016

Steam: 83/100

The game takes place in the year 9001, where people have destroyed all the inhabited planets in the universe. On the last planet, they managed to...

Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk

Adventure, Horror, Visual novel, Indie, Old school, Text quest

Game released: Linux → 26 August 2020

Steam: 96/100

A small visual novel that turns a simple everyday task into a story with a deep emotional subtext. Behind the attempt to buy regular milk lies...

Typefighters (Steam Edition)

Educational game (Education), Casual game, Text quest

Game released: Linux → 18 April 2016

Steam: 70/100

A competitive two-player game built around typing contests, where success depends on more than speed and accuracy. Its eight modes also test reaction...

Eerie Estate Agent

Adventure, Horror, Text quest, Role-playing game, Indie

Game released: Linux → 18 January 2018

Steam: 66/100

Eerie Estate Agent — adventure text quest with horror elements. Your work — rent out a haunted house before your tyrannical boss fires...

Zombie Exodus

Role-playing game, Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Text quest, Indie

Game released: Linux → 23 October 2015

Steam: 85/100

Zombie Exodus is a role-playing adventure horror game with a first-person view. You'll create your own character and fight your way out of a...

The Hidden and Unknown

Visual novel, Text quest, Science fiction

Game released: Linux → 23 January 2023

Players: 2.1/10

Steam: 100/100

A visual novel that teaches life lessons through fictional...

Hacker Evolution

Simulation, In real time, Puzzle, Text quest

Game released: Linux → 14 September 2010

Players: 10/10

Steam: 71/100

This hacking simulation and puzzle game follows a former intelligence agent who specializes in computer security. After a chain of events disables...

Untrusted

Online, Adventure, Text quest, Puzzle, Role-playing game, Cooperative (co-op), Educational game (Education), Cyberpunk

Game released: Linux → 9 May 2021

Steam: 50/100

Untrusted is an adventure text quest with puzzle and co-op elements. In this game, hackers from the fictional group NETSEC are tasked with hacking a...

Choice of the Deathless

Role-playing game, Indie, Text quest

Game released: Linux → 29 August 2014

Steam: 91/100

This text-based role-playing game is a necromantic legal thriller set in a fantasy world of scheming magicians and monsters. The protagonist works at...

Mecha Ace

Role-playing game, Indie, Text quest

Game released: Linux → 5 December 2014

Steam: 86/100

Mecha Ace is a text-based science-fiction role-playing game set during an interstellar civil war fought by pilots in giant robots. The protagonist...

Sixth Grade Detective

Role-playing game, Adventure, Visual novel, Indie, Text quest

Game released: Linux → 21 December 2015

Steam: 93/100

Sixth Grade Detective is a text-based adventure role-playing game. Based on the novel by Laura Hughes, the game tells the story of a school detective...

Midsummer Night's Choice

Role-playing game, Adventure, Text quest, Indie

Game released: Linux → 25 August 2016

Steam: 86/100

Midsummer Night's Choice — role-playing adventure text quest. When your father, the Duke, tries to force you to marry, you leave civilization...

За Закатом Неминуем Рассвет

Text quest, Adventure, Role-playing game, Visual novel

Early Access: Linux → 1 April 2023

Players: 9.4/10

Steam: 87/100

A traveler named Victor wandered into an unusual village called “Rassvet”. In winter, this place is closed from the outside world. The main character...

The Hero of Kendrickstone

Role-playing game, Indie, Text quest

Game released: Linux → 13 March 2015

Steam: 79/100

This text-based fantasy role-playing game follows a fledgling adventurer tasked with rescuing Kendrickstone from an evil wizard and his troop of...

[Redacted] The Safehouse

Detective, Text quest, Walking Simulator

Game released: Linux → 10 April 2026

Steam: 99/100

This detective game, combining text-adventure and walking-simulator elements, follows an investigation into the murder of Ann Peterson and her...

Wild Romance

Visual novel, Casual game, Anime / Manga, Text quest

Game released: Linux → 19 October 2016

Steam: 61/100

This visual novel follows Kazuma, who leaves Tokyo for his hometown in the Japanese countryside and reconnects with four childhood friends. During...

Heroes Rise: The Hero Project

Indie, Role-playing game, Text quest

Game released: Linux → 17 June 2014

Steam: 77/100

This text-based role-playing game continues the story of Heroes Rise: The Prodigy, placing the protagonist on The Hero Project, a reality show where...

A Wise Use of Time

Role-playing game, Indie, Text quest

Game released: Linux → 4 September 2015

Steam: 79/100

A text-based science-fiction adventure about a person who can freeze time. The power makes it possible to rob a casino, rescue a celebrity, or escape...

Text quest

Best Games in the Text quest genre for Linux