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269 games like Quarantine Circular · 1978 – 2026
Nintendo console exclusive
Switch, Nintendo Switch 2, Windows
When the world is coming to an end, who would you want to speak to one last time? Schrödinger’s Call is a visual novel that lets you experience the pain and salvation of human connection, as if you were turning the pages of a picture book.
95 rating2 listsOften paired
Nintendo console exclusive
Mountains · Android, Linux, Switch +3
Florence is an interactive storybook from the award-winning lead designer of Monument Valley about the heart-racing highs and heartbreaking lows of a young woman's very first love. Experience every beat of Florence and Krish's relationship
77 rating2 lists0.5 h main storyOften paired
Timed PlayStation exclusive
Inkle · Switch, PS4, Windows
Explore the lost ruins of the Nebula, read ancient inscriptions, and uncover a forgotten past in this narrative archaeological science-fiction adventure game from the creators of 80 Days.
76 rating2 lists16 h main storyOften paired
Nintendo console exclusive
Zerocreation Games · Android, Switch, Windows
A travel text adventure game with Chinese traditional style. Player will escort four girls to Luoyang in order to discover the truth and make decisions along the way. This game involves themes of “Revenge, Cannibalism, etc.” the darker side
1 list7.5 h main storyOften paired
Nintendo console exclusive
Mike Bithell · Switch, Windows, iOS +1
When the truth is buried, go underground. Step into this new take on text-based adventure from the award-winning team behind Thomas Was Alone and Volume. A short story that hands you the fate of the world above, as a detective looking for a
69 rating1 list2 h main storyDescribed alike
Nintendo console exclusive
Linux, Switch, Windows +2
Neo Cab is an emotional survival game about staying human in a world disrupted by automation. You play as Lina, the last human driver on the neon-drenched streets of Los Ojos. When your friend and only lifeline mysteriously vanishes, you'l
76 rating1 list4 h main storyOften paired
Timed Xbox exclusive
Switch, Windows, Xbox One +1
Birth is a pleasantly creepy point-and-click puzzle game about living alone in a large city and constructing a creature to keep you company out of spare bones and organs you find lying around. Explore libraries, post offices, museums, cafes
75 rating1 list1 h main storyOften paired
Variable State · Switch, PS4, PS5 +3
Last Stop is a single-player third-person narrative adventure game set in present day London, where you play as three separate characters whose worlds collide in the midst of a supernatural crisis. An anthology drama, Last Stop is three sto
72 rating6 lists6 h main storyOften paired
Timed PlayStation exclusive
Switch, PS4, Windows
A deep, interactive adventure about love and loss, beautifully depicted and offering an intense cinematic experience. What would you do to save the one you love?
76 rating2 lists2 h main story
Simogo · iOS
Device 6 plays with the conventions of games and literature, entwines story with geography and blends puzzle and novella, to draw players into an intriguing mystery of technology and neuroscience.
89 rating1 list
Nintendo console exclusive
Switch, Windows, macOS
A sci-fi adventure into space station management, mysterious radio messages, motherfucking AIs, sociopathic people in charge, and finding one's true self in a galaxy way too far, far away. How far is far enough?
75 rating1 list5.5 h main story
Nintendo exclusive
An adventure game based on an anime film of the same name, published for the Famicom by Kemco. Toki no Tabibito "Time Stranger" is an adventure game with a heavy emphasis on text commands and dialogue, similar to other NES adventure games
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Engine Software · Switch, PS5, Windows +1
Max Caulfield, photographer-in-residence at the prestigious Caledon University, discovers her closest new friend Safi dead in the snow. Murdered. To save her, Max tries to Rewind time – a power she’s not used in years… Instead, Max opens th
78 rating5 lists11 h main story
Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, Commodore C64/128/MAX +2
The Secret of Bastow Manor is a mystery text adventure.
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Commodore 64, Commodore C64/128/MAX, ZX Spectrum
You play Trixie Trinian and muist find out why everybody at St. Brides Boarding School thinks she is living in the 1920s and must restore normality.
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ComonGames · Switch, PS4, Windows
The Uncertain is a story-driven adventure game set in a post-apocalyptic world. Humanity disappeared from the face of the Earth and has been replaced by robots. Together with Emily, one of the survivors, you will have to witness how people
49 rating2 lists4 h main story
Amstrad CPC, Amstrad PCW, Atari 8-bit +4
Set a century after the events of Return to Eden, The Worm in Paradise is the third and concluding game in the Silicon Dreams trilogy.
4 lists
Nintendo Switch 2, PS5, Windows +2
to a T is a 3D narrative adventure game developed by Keita Takahashi and the uvula team, with a strong focus on character, interaction, story and exploration. Play as a teenager (Teen), with a unique posture just trying to live a normal lif
79 rating4 lists5.5 h main story
Timed PlayStation exclusive
Red Entertainment · Switch, PS4, PlayStation Vita +2
Japanese visual novel for PS Vita published by Red Entertainment.
34 rating4 lists28 h main story
Timed PlayStation exclusive
Switch, PS4, PlayStation Vita +1
Island is an intricate visual novel with multiple routes and endings. Through use of the game’s flowchart system, players navigate through the story and uncover clues to unravel the mysteries of Urashima, the titular island.
70 rating4 lists17 h main story
ZX Spectrum
A UK only 007 text adventure for the ZX Spectrum.
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Adventure International · Acorn Electron, Apple II, Atari 8-bit +14
While orbiting an asteroid your space ship malfunctions. In this text adventure you have to find five alien artefacts - and a way home.
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Nintendo exclusive
Genius Sonority · Nintendo DS
100 Classic Book Collection turns your Nintendo DS into a portable library containing must-read novels from iconic authors such as Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, William Shakespeare, and many more. From Sense and Sensibility to Treasure Isla
68 rating3 lists
Nintendo exclusive
Nintendo DS
Time Hollow follows the story of Ethan Kairos and the mysterious disappearance of his entire family. As Ethan searches for his family he comes across a Hollow Pen, an uncanny object with the unique power to open portals to the past. This al
61 rating2 lists
Apple II
Educational adventure in which the player travels through the human body in minitaturized form.
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Apple II, Commodore PET, TRS-80 +1
Inspired by Star Wars this is a text-adventure game written by Lance Micklus.
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Graham Nelson · Windows, Z-machine, macOS
New Year’s Eve, 1999, a quarter to midnight and where else to be but Century Park! Fireworks cascade across the sky, your stomach rumbles uneasily, music and lasers howl across the parkland… Not exactly your ideal party (especially as that
1 list19 h main story
Level 9 Computing · Amstrad CPC, Amstrad PCW, Atari 8-bit +7
You are a time traveller and have to find nine objects from different time periods in order to prevent the Time Lords to alter human history.
80 rating3 lists
Linux, Switch, PS4 +4
After a night of fun, passion, and one too many drinks, you awake to discover a complete stranger lying naked beside you in bed. With only hazy memories of what happened last night, explore a stranger's bedroom in search of clues and try an
70 rating4 lists0.5 h main story
Scott Adams · Acorn Electron, Apple II, Atari 8-bit +13
A text based Adventure Game for the TRS-80, later enhanced with visual scenes in various ports. Only allowed 2-Word input and was largely based on Colossal Cave Adventure.
60 rating8 lists
Linux, Windows, iOS +1
Heaven Will Be Mine is a queer science fiction mecha visual novel from the creators of queer cult horror visual novel We Know The Devil, about joyriding mecha, kissing your enemies, and fighting gravity’s pull. Follow three women piloting g
80 rating1 list2.5 h main story
Switch, PS4, PS5 +5
Enter and explore memories from long ago. Relive moments frozen in time. Hindsight is a narrative exploration game spanning the entirety of a woman’s life, from birth to present day, as she tries to make sense of it all. Revisit her childh
75 rating2 lists2 h main story
Level 9 Computing · Amstrad CPC, Atari 8-bit, BBC Microcomputer System +3
The second game in Level 9's science fiction trilogy dealing with the colonisation of the planet Eden.
2 lists
Amstrad CPC, Atari 8-bit, Atari ST +7
The second game in Level 9's science fiction trilogy dealing with the colonisation of the planet Eden.
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Adventure International · Acorn Electron, Apple II, Atari 8-bit +13
You are Count Cristo and a curse has been put on you. Your have to lift the curse in this text adventure using two word commands.
67 rating5 lists
Amstrad CPC, Apple II, Commodore 16 +3
A text-adventure written by John Rausch and the first installment of the Other Venture series published by Adventure International.
3 lists
Timed PlayStation exclusive
Android, Linux, Switch +4
"Dead Synchronicity: Tomorrow Comes Today" is the first part of the "Dead Synchronicity" series: help Michael face a dying reality, a universe that’s fading away. Face a merciless world that gets sick and vanishes. Face no past, no present,
75 rating1 list5.5 h main story
Timed PlayStation exclusiveFictiorama Studios · Android, Linux, Switch +4
"Dead Synchronicity: Tomorrow Comes Today" is the first part of the "Dead Synchronicity" series: help Michael face a dying reality, a universe that’s fading away. Face a merciless world that gets sick and vanishes. Face no past, no present,
75 rating2 lists
Apple II, MS-DOS, macOS
A text adventure in which the player discovers on a world-wide journey who has stolen the peculiar inheritance, the painting Parrish's 'Earthly Delights', that was left by the recently died uncle.
2 lists
Sega Saturn, TurboGrafx-16, Turbografx-16/PC Engine CD
The first in a series of visual novels about Yuna, a happy go lucky girl, intergalactic celebrity idol, and Savior of Light in a far future galaxy.
2 lists
Digital Fantasia · Acorn Electron, Atari 8-bit, BBC Microcomputer System +5
In order for Andromeda to become your, Perseus', wife, you have have to slay the hideous Medusa.
2 lists
Nintendo exclusive
Game Freak · GameCube
Pokémon Box: Ruby & Sapphire (Japanese: ポケモンボックス ルビー＆サファイア Pokémon Box Ruby & Sapphire) is a Nintendo GameCube Pokémon utility. Pokémon Box itself is not so much a game as it is a storage system for Trainers' Pokémon. Trainers can store up
3 lists
Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Commodore 64 +4
A text adeventure written by Tim Wilson and published by Sirius Software for various 8-bit platforms.
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Acorn Electron, BBC Microcomputer System
Castle of Riddles is a text-adventure game, first released for the BBC Micro in 1982. It was primarily written and designed by Peter Killworth.
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Peter Killworth · Acorn Electron, Amstrad CPC, Amstrad PCW +2
Countdown to Doom is a text-adventure, designed and written by Peter Killworth, originally for the BBC Micro. It is the first in Killworth's "Doom" trilogy.
4 lists
PDP-10, DECSYSTEM-20
Haunt is a text adventure game created by John E. Laird while he was a student at Carnegie Mellon University. The purpose of the game is to find treasure in a haunted house and then escape the house.
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Northway Games · Linux, Switch, PS4 +3
Spend your teenage years on an alien planet in this narrative life sim with card-based battles. Explore, grow up, and fall in love. The choices you make and skills you master over ten years will determine the course of your life and the sur
76 rating3 lists12 h main story
Infocom · Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Amstrad PCW +14
The year is 2186. Humanity has established colonies on the moon, Mars, and several of the larger asteroids. Earth's sky is dotted with space habitats, and the spaceways are always busy. As usual, there is the urgent need for energy to power
63 rating4 lists