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

Ghost in the SQL Data - a game in the Text quest genre

Educational game (Education), Puzzle, Indie, Free game, Text quest, Detective, Strategy, Simulation

Game in development: Mac → 2027

Steam: 75/100

A detective game where players will investigate crimes using the SQL programming language. Instead of the usual search for clues in locations...

Needy Girl Overdose

Simulation, Visual novel, Anime / Manga, Adventure, Text quest, Point & Click

Game released: Mac → 21 January 2022

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 95/100

The main character is the manager of the aspiring streamer Ame. He helps her reach her goal of gaining a million subscribers within a month. Ame is a...

A Dark Room

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

Game released: Mac → 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...

Stories Untold

Adventure, Horror, Visual novel, Indie, Text quest

Game released: Mac → 27 February 2017

Players: 10/10

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 80/100

Stories Untold is a text adventure with horror elements in the style of 80s films. The game is based on the series of the same name, which was never...

The Life and Suffering of Prince Jerian

Role-playing game, Adventure, Indie, Text quest, Medieval era, Replayability, Visual novel

Game released: Mac → 20 July 2026

Players: 9.2/10

Steam: 73/100

A new narrative role-playing game from the creators of The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante. The game is not a direct sequel, but a standalone story...

AI Dungeon

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

Game released: Mac → 15 January 2021

Players: 4.2/10

Steam: 50/100

A text adventure in which the story and world around the character are generated by artificial intelligence. Players just have to set some basic...

Milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk

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

Game released: Mac → 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: Mac → 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: Mac → 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...

The Wanderer: Frankenstein's Creature

Adventure, Indie, Arcade, Isometric, Text quest, Point & Click, Exploration

Game released: Mac → 31 October 2019

Players: 7.1/10

Steam: 84/100

The Wanderer: Frankenstein's Creature is a watercolor adventure with an isometric camera view. In the game you will try on the role of the Creature...

Wednesdays

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

Game released: Mac → 25 March 2025

Steam: 99/100

An interactive story about growing up and memories of childhood trauma. The player returns to the world of the childhood video game Orco Park, where...

Homicipher

Adventure, Horror, Visual novel, Text quest

Game released: Mac → 1 November 2024

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 98/100

An unusual adventure visual novel that combines horror, exploration, and the deciphering of a fictional language. The main character finds herself in...

Choice of the Vampire

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

Game released: Mac → 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: Mac → 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...

Suzerain

Role-playing game, Strategy, Top-down view, Historical, Visual novel, Benchmark program, Text quest

Game released: Mac → 4 December 2020

Players: 9.7/10

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 81/100

Suzerain is a political strategy game with elements of a text role-playing game in which the player controls a fictional state. The player's goal is...

Guilt Free

Free game, Visual novel, Point & Click, Text quest, Casual game

Game released: Mac → 2 October 2020

Players: 8.6/10

Steam: 85/100

Guilt Free — A free-to-play adventure visual novel with elements of point-and-click, created to shed light on the problems of mental and eating...

Six Ages 2: Lights Going Out

Medieval era, Text quest, Old school, Strategy, Procedural generation, Survival

Game released: Mac → 21 August 2023

Steam: 96/100

Sequel to Six Ages: Ride Like the Wind, which is a collection of survival stories combining interactive fiction and turn-based strategy. The world...

60 Parsecs!

Simulation, Strategy, Adventure, Indie, Text quest, Science fiction, Business / Management

Game released: Mac → 18 September 2018

Players: 7.8/10

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 68/100

Continuation of the game 60 seconds!, the events of which occur in open space. After the explosion of the station, the team of evacuated astronauts...

The Innsmouth Case

Adventure, Horror, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Mysticism / Supernatural, Visual novel, Text quest

Game released: Mac → 23 June 2020

Players: 7.9/10

Steam: 67/100

The Innsmouth Case is an adventure game inspired by the works of Howard Phillips Lovecraft. A desperate mother, a missing girl and a mystical city...

Thousand Hells: The Underworld Heists

Role-playing game, Adventure, Visual novel, Text quest, Fantasy, Demons, Strategy, Simulation

Game released: Mac → 8 September 2026

Steam: 85/100

A text-based role-playing game about journeys through the afterlife, where souls go after death. The starting point is the Eternal City, reminiscent...

Самый дорогой человек

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

Game released: Mac → 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: Mac → 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: Mac → 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...

Quarantine Circular

Visual novel, Text quest, Science fiction

Game released: Mac → 22 May 2018

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 73/100

This text-based adventure takes place during a pandemic threatening the world, when a group of scientists discovers that the galaxy is watching...

Incremental Adventures

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

Game released: Mac → 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: Mac → 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: Mac → 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: Mac → 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: Mac → 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: Mac → 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: Mac → 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: Mac → 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...

The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog

Visual novel, Free game, Comedy, Casual game, Text quest, Point & Click

Game released: Mac → 31 March 2023

Players: 1/10

Steam: 97/100

Metacritic: 82/100

Fox Tails is investigating the mysterious murder of Sonic, which occurred at Amy's birthday party. The newly minted detective will have to interview...

Arcadie 2: Cold Lands

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

Game released: Mac → 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: Mac → 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: Mac → 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...

The Night Fisherman

Adventure, Visual novel, Benchmark program, Horror, Point & Click, Text quest

Game released: Mac → 29 June 2020

Players: 6.7/10

Steam: 82/100

The Night Fisherman is a game about a fisherman who suddenly becomes a hostage to a situation — an armed man swims up to him and starts asking...

Fabled Lands

Role-playing game, Indie, Turn-based, Fantasy / Medieval, Adventure, Roguelike, Open world, Text quest

Game released: Mac → 26 May 2022

Steam: 79/100

Fabled Lands is an old-school role-playing game with turn-based combat in a fantasy setting. In the game you can be whoever you want: explorer...

Zork Anthology

Adventure, Collection, Text quest

Game released: Mac → 1994

Steam: 94/100

This collection of text adventures from Infocom, Inc. brings together entries from the Zork series and Planetfall. It includes Zork I, Zork II, Zork...

Choice of Robots

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

Game released: Mac → 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...

Text quest

Best Games in the Text quest genre for Mac