>> 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%

35 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	The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles	18 players	beats 76%
03	Ace Attorney Investigations Collection	3 players	beats 88%
04	I Wani Hug that Gator!	6 players	beats 79%
05	Suzerain	47 players	beats 73%
06	No Case Should Remain Unsolved	13 players	beats 75%
07	Football Manager 2023	13 players	beats 75%
08	Lost Wiki: Kozlovka	9 players	beats 75%
09	Terraformental	15 players	beats 73%
10	Confidential Killings - A Detective Game	6 players	beats 77%
11	CHRONO CROSS: THE RADICAL DREAMERS EDITION	6 players	beats 76%
12	Werewolf: The Apocalypse — Heart of the Forest	7 players	beats 75%
13	The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark	6 players	beats 76%
14	Homicipher	4 players	beats 79%
15	NUTMEG! A Nostalgic Deckbuilding Football Manager	7 players	beats 75%
16	The Message from Deep Space	12 players	beats 72%
17	Citizen Sleeper	56 players	beats 69%
18	Agatha Christie - Murder on the Orient Express	6 players	beats 74%
19	Corruption of Champions II	5 players	beats 75%
20	Football Manager 2022	10 players	beats 69%
21	Aristocunts	3 players	beats 75%
22	Magic Research	9 players	beats 68%
23	CompactO - Idle Game	7 players	beats 69%
24	The Forest of Doom (Standalone)	3 players	beats 74%
25	Football Manager 2024	24 players	beats 65%
26	Lilycle Rainbow Stage!!!	4 players	beats 71%
27	Card Survival: Tropical Island	4 players	beats 70%
28	Digimon Survive	12 players	beats 65%
29	Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney Trilogy	6 players	beats 67%
30	Home Safety Hotline	10 players	beats 65%
31	A Date with Death	19 players	beats 63%
32	Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector	16 players	beats 63%
33	Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It	20 players	beats 62%
34	Milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk	58 players	beats 61%
35	STONKS-9800: Stock Market Simulator	6 players	beats 64%
36	Desktop Explorer	8 players	beats 63%
37	Urban Myth Dissolution Center	4 players	beats 65%
38	Who Wants To Be A Millionaire	3 players	beats 65%
39	Epigraph	8 players	beats 60%
40	Welcome To The Dark Place	4 players	beats 62%
41	家有大貓 Nekojishi	4 players	beats 59%
42	Emily is Away Too	34 players	beats 54%
43	JudgeSim	3 players	beats 56%
44	Subsurface Circular	9 players	beats 54%
45	Stories Untold	22 players	beats 53%
46	Reincarnated as a Dark Lord Before Taking Over the World with Power 999999999	6 players	beats 53%
47	Stone Story RPG	3 players	beats 54%
48	The Farmer Was Replaced	85 players	beats 52%
49	Vampire: The Masquerade — Night Road	3 players	beats 53%
50	Monster Prom 4: Monster Con	8 players	beats 52%
51	A=B	4 players	beats 52%
52	PARANORMASIGHT: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo	7 players	beats 52%
53	Lords of Infinity	3 players	beats 52%
54	7 Days to End with You	23 players	beats 51%
55	Typefighters (Steam Edition)	3 players	beats 51%
56	Fabled Lands	3 players	beats 51%
57	60 Seconds! Reatomized	60 players	beats 50%
58	King of Dragon Pass	8 players	beats 50%
59	Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk	90 players	beats 50%
60	Roadwarden	39 players	beats 50%
61	60 Seconds!	33 players	beats 50%
62	Age of Gladiators	4 players	beats 50%
63	Help Me Remember, Satori-sama!	3 players	beats 50%
64	Hymer 2000	3 players	beats 50%
65	Final Sentence	3 players	beats 50%
66	Overboard!	11 players	beats 49%
67	Word Play	10 players	beats 49%
68	Pro Wrestling Sim	4 players	beats 48%
69	Petit Game Collection vol.1	4 players	beats 47%
70	60 Parsecs!	35 players	beats 48%
71	Mr. Rainer's Solve-It Service	4 players	beats 47%
72	Monster Prom 2: Monster Camp	31 players	beats 47%
73	The Best Duck Clicker	4 players	beats 44%
74	Hooked on You: A Dead by Daylight Dating Sim™	20 players	beats 46%
75	The Silver Case	8 players	beats 44%
76	This Book Is A Dungeon	4 players	beats 40%
77	Sorry, James	4 players	beats 40%
78	Kyle is Famous: Complete Edition	14 players	beats 42%
79	cyberpunkdreams	6 players	beats 38%
80	Coffee & Boobs	3 players	beats 35%
81	World Seed	4 players	beats 34%
82	AI2U: With You 'Til The End	8 players	beats 35%
83	The Monster Inside	14 players	beats 35%
84	Yet Another Incremental Game (but this time about coding)	4 players	beats 30%
85	Milky Way Idle	18 players	beats 35%
86	SanctuaryRPG: Black Edition	19 players	beats 34%
87	DEAD LETTER DEPT.	3 players	beats 25%
88	Murders on the Yangtze River	3 players	beats 25%
89	Fighting Fantasy Classics	3 players	beats 24%
90	The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante	81 players	beats 34%
91	Magic Research 2	13 players	beats 31%
92	Increlution	24 players	beats 32%
93	Vampire: The Masquerade - Coteries of New York	17 players	beats 32%
94	GPRO - Classic racing manager	4 players	beats 25%
95	The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog	91 players	beats 32%
96	Emily is Away	122 players	beats 31%
97	Hacker Evolution	19 players	beats 29%
98	Who Needs a Hero?	4 players	beats 21%
99	Buddy Simulator 1984	27 players	beats 29%
100	AI Dungeon	7 players	beats 25%
101	hackmud	7 players	beats 25%
102	Trolley Problem, Inc.	7 players	beats 25%
103	Trimps	49 players	beats 29%
104	Lacuna – A Sci-Fi Noir Adventure	18 players	beats 28%
105	Incremental Epic Breakers	8 players	beats 25%
106	CaseCracker	5 players	beats 20%
107	Throne of Lies®: Medieval Politics	13 players	beats 25%
108	Wednesdays	16 players	beats 25%
109	Warsim: The Realm of Aslona	16 players	beats 24%
110	Grey Hack	3 players	beats 12%
111	Depression Quest	10 players	beats 22%
112	SIMULACRA 2	11 players	beats 22%
113	Incremental Adventures	39 players	beats 25%
114	Your Chronicle	49 players	beats 25%
115	Idling to Rule the Gods	40 players	beats 25%
116	Monster Loves You!	9 players	beats 19%
117	Soccer Manager 2027	4 players	beats 10%
118	Koltera	8 players	beats 15%
119	Wolvesville	10 players	beats 9%

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