>> best Text-Based games on steam the full ranking

These are the best Text-Based games on Steam, as voted by our community.

Nobody wrote a review to land on this list. Players duelled Text-Based games out of their own libraries against each other, and a game's percentage is the share of a typical library it beats — so the top of this ranking is what Text-Based fans genuinely keep coming back to.

Doki Doki Literature Club Plus!

beats 78%

32 players

percentile across every personal ranking, weighed by the crowd behind it

Games ranked by the share of a typical library they beat.
rk	game	players	beats
02	Suzerain	41 players	beats 75%
03	The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles	17 players	beats 76%
04	Football Manager 2024	23 players	beats 74%
05	Football Manager 2023	11 players	beats 75%
06	No Case Should Remain Unsolved	11 players	beats 75%
07	I Wani Hug that Gator!	5 players	beats 79%
08	Subsurface Circular	7 players	beats 75%
09	The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark	5 players	beats 77%
10	Homicipher	4 players	beats 79%
11	Confidential Killings - A Detective Game	5 players	beats 77%
12	CHRONO CROSS: THE RADICAL DREAMERS EDITION	5 players	beats 76%
13	Lost Wiki: Kozlovka	8 players	beats 71%
14	Werewolf: The Apocalypse — Heart of the Forest	4 players	beats 75%
15	Magic Research	8 players	beats 71%
16	Agatha Christie - Murder on the Orient Express	4 players	beats 74%
17	Football Manager 2022	10 players	beats 69%
18	The Message from Deep Space	9 players	beats 69%
19	Citizen Sleeper	50 players	beats 66%
20	Aristocunts	3 players	beats 75%
21	Digimon Survive	11 players	beats 66%
22	Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney Trilogy	6 players	beats 67%
23	Home Safety Hotline	10 players	beats 65%
24	Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector	16 players	beats 63%
25	Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It	20 players	beats 62%
26	Milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk	56 players	beats 61%
27	Desktop Explorer	8 players	beats 63%
28	Urban Myth Dissolution Center	4 players	beats 65%
29	Lilycle Rainbow Stage!!!	3 players	beats 66%
30	Terraformental	10 players	beats 61%
31	Who Wants To Be A Millionaire	3 players	beats 65%
32	Card Survival: Tropical Island	3 players	beats 64%
33	Welcome To The Dark Place	4 players	beats 62%
34	Stories Untold	18 players	beats 57%
35	家有大貓 Nekojishi	4 players	beats 59%
36	A Date with Death	16 players	beats 56%
37	JudgeSim	3 players	beats 56%
38	The Farmer Was Replaced	67 players	beats 54%
39	Emily is Away Too	29 players	beats 54%
40	Monster Prom 4: Monster Con	7 players	beats 54%
41	Corruption of Champions II	4 players	beats 54%
42	Stone Story RPG	3 players	beats 54%
43	Epigraph	7 players	beats 52%
44	STONKS-9800: Stock Market Simulator	5 players	beats 52%
45	Lords of Infinity	3 players	beats 52%
46	PARANORMASIGHT: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo	6 players	beats 51%
47	60 Seconds! Reatomized	53 players	beats 51%
48	Typefighters (Steam Edition)	3 players	beats 51%
49	Fabled Lands	3 players	beats 51%
50	NUTMEG! A Nostalgic Deckbuilding Football Manager	5 players	beats 51%
51	The Best Duck Clicker	3 players	beats 51%
52	Roadwarden	37 players	beats 50%
53	7 Days to End with You	22 players	beats 50%
54	King of Dragon Pass	8 players	beats 50%
55	60 Seconds!	29 players	beats 50%
56	Age of Gladiators	3 players	beats 50%
57	Help Me Remember, Satori-sama!	3 players	beats 50%
58	60 Parsecs!	30 players	beats 50%
59	Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk	84 players	beats 50%
60	A=B	3 players	beats 49%
61	SanctuaryRPG: Black Edition	16 players	beats 49%
62	Word Play	9 players	beats 49%
63	Petit Game Collection vol.1	4 players	beats 47%
64	Pro Wrestling Sim	3 players	beats 47%
65	Mr. Rainer's Solve-It Service	4 players	beats 47%
66	Hooked on You: A Dead by Daylight Dating Sim™	18 players	beats 46%
67	Kyle is Famous: Complete Edition	13 players	beats 45%
68	The Silver Case	8 players	beats 44%
69	Reincarnated as a Dark Lord Before Taking Over the World with Power 999999999	4 players	beats 42%
70	This Book Is A Dungeon	4 players	beats 40%
71	Monster Prom 2: Monster Camp	29 players	beats 41%
72	cyberpunkdreams	6 players	beats 38%
73	Throne of Lies®: Medieval Politics	10 players	beats 37%
74	AI2U: With You 'Til The End	8 players	beats 35%
75	Milky Way Idle	14 players	beats 36%
76	Yet Another Incremental Game (but this time about coding)	4 players	beats 30%
77	CompactO - Idle Game	3 players	beats 25%
78	DEAD LETTER DEPT.	3 players	beats 25%
79	The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante	76 players	beats 34%
80	Magic Research 2	12 players	beats 32%
81	Sorry, James	3 players	beats 24%
82	Vampire: The Masquerade - Coteries of New York	13 players	beats 32%
83	GPRO - Classic racing manager	4 players	beats 25%
84	Increlution	17 players	beats 31%
85	Incremental Epic Breakers	4 players	beats 25%
86	Trolley Problem, Inc.	4 players	beats 24%
87	The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog	90 players	beats 32%
88	Overboard!	8 players	beats 28%
89	Hacker Evolution	16 players	beats 30%
90	AI Dungeon	6 players	beats 25%
91	hackmud	5 players	beats 23%
92	Who Needs a Hero?	4 players	beats 21%
93	Trimps	37 players	beats 29%
94	Buddy Simulator 1984	23 players	beats 28%
95	Depression Quest	9 players	beats 25%
96	SIMULACRA 2	9 players	beats 25%
97	CaseCracker	4 players	beats 18%
98	Wednesdays	12 players	beats 25%
99	Lacuna – A Sci-Fi Noir Adventure	16 players	beats 25%
100	Warsim: The Realm of Aslona	14 players	beats 24%
101	Incremental Adventures	26 players	beats 26%
102	Idling to Rule the Gods	30 players	beats 25%
103	Your Chronicle	31 players	beats 25%
104	Monster Loves You!	7 players	beats 19%
105	Koltera	6 players	beats 15%
106	Soccer Manager 2027	4 players	beats 10%
107	Wolvesville	10 players	beats 9%

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