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Best text based games for iphone

1.Reigns

Paid: $2.99

Reigns is an indie strategy and simulation video game developed by Nerial and published by Devolver Digital. Players take the role of a medieval monarch with the aim of juggling requests from advisors, peasants, and allies.

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  • Dong Fang

    by Dong Fang

    I'm an old school gamer. I miss the days of the text based games for pc. I came on here looking to see if there were any text based games for i phone. Turns out there are! I was told to try the game Reigns. This is everything I wanted and more!

2.Device 6

Paid: $3.99

Device 6 is a text based game in which the written word will be your map. Get into an intriguing story and follow Anna in this adventure. Read, listen and peek into 3D photos to solve the puzzles.

  • Website:http://www.simogo.com/
  • Age rating:12+

  • Category:Games,Book,Adventure,Role Playing

  • Publisher:Simogo AB

  • Size:851.31 MB

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  • Yuan Cao

    by Yuan Cao

    It's a very interesting Detective Game that lets you explore and consider things you would've missed the first time!! It also looks elegant and I love More

  • Billy Payne

    by Billy Payne

    I just downloaded Device 6 on my phone. It is okay but I couldn't really get into it.

3.Lifeline

Paid: $1.99

Lifeline is a game with an interactive story in which you have to take life or death decisions. Help Taylor to survive in an immersive story full of dangers with many possible outcomes.

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  • Age rating:9+

  • Category:Games,Entertainment,Adventure,Role Playing

  • Publisher:3 Minute Games, LLC

  • Size:29.69 MB

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  • Trishla Patel

    by Trishla Patel

    This interactive reading/text based game is amazing. It is played in real time and is the very best choose your own path type game. The game is about survival and completely depends on you to make the right choices. The haunting yet beautiful graphic More

4.Choice of Robots

Paid: $5.99

Choice of Robots is an interactive sci-fi novel that you can play on your mobile devices. Choose your genre, sexual orientation and build a unique robot character. Make your own decisions and instigate or prevent a robotic uprising.

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  • Age rating:12+

  • Category:Games,Adventure,Role Playing,Books

  • Publisher:Choice of Games LLC

  • Size:32.98 MB

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  • by Jeremy Stevens

    What an interesting game!! I have enjoyed the sort of choose-your-own-path play.

5.To Be Or Not To Be

Paid: $4.49

To Be Or Not To Be is an interactive game based on the popular William Shakespeare's Hamlet. Play as the popular character and revenge your father's death in a story in which you have to decide what happens next.

  • Albert Silva

    by Albert Silva

    I'm a Shakespeare fan and this is the best game for me!! The game also gives justice to Shakespeare's wit and humor!! The art in the game is so cute a More

  • Xie Fu

    by Xie Fu

    Awesome game that has an art style similar to Persona 5! Get it if you love Shakespeare!

  • Jose Baker

    by Jose Baker

    This game is so intriguing. Play the part of Hamlet and decide what get's to happen. Very original.

6.Sorcery!

Paid: $4.99

Sorcery! is an interactive gamebook adventure created by the designer Steve Jackson with illustrations of John Blanche. In this game the story changes in real time depending on your choices. 

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  • Peter Murphy

    by Peter Murphy

    Older nerds will feel nostalgic for this text-based adventure. Unfortunately, it is overpriced. The game is not long enough. It's good while it lasts though.

7.A Dark Room

Paid: $1.99

A Dark Room is an open-source text adventure role-playing game that gives you options as the story progresses. What you choose will determine your fate.

  • Crystal Fox

    by Crystal Fox

    Have you ever wondered how you could bring a story to life? This game is just for you. You can make decisions which will alter the outcome of the story. It is a way for you to be creative with your decisions. It is simple, no graphics but easy design More

8.King of Dragon Pass

Paid: $9.99

King of Dragon Pass is a text-based strategy game with a fantastic atmosphere. With almost 600 interactive scenes, you can replay it a lot of times and still different. Choose your own adventure and take the right decisions.

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  • by Donna Miller

    This is a great game! I have really enjoyed the gameplay and the strategy required. It's my favorite mobile game that I've tried on my iPhone!

9.Blackbar

Paid: $2.99

Blackbar is a text based game set in a dystopian future. Full of black humor, the game critiques censorship and will keep you trying and thinking to solve the puzzles featured.

  • Website:http://mrgan.com/blackbar
  • Age rating:9+

  • Category:Games,Word,Adventure,Books

  • Publisher:Mrgan LLC

  • Size:4.60 MB

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  • by Zoe Hu

    Always been a fan of text-based games and this one is great! The puzzles are challenging but not anger-inducing and it's a good way to get the kids into reading while gaming. Forewarning there's mild adult language.

10.Choice of the Deathless

Paid: $4.99
Choice of the Deathless is a text-based necromantic legal thriller game where you'll battle demons and undead attorneys, and win souls to pay back your student loans.
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  • Miguel Luna

    by Miguel Luna

    You get to argue against dead lawyers that are skeletons. It's a battle of wits where all choices are being weighed and will affect the outcome of the More

  • Ralph Morris

    by Ralph Morris

    Choice of the Deathless is a great text game. I have played many text based games. This being of the text based choose your own adventure vein and it  More

11.Heavy Metal Thunder

Paid: $3.99

Heavy Metal Thunder is a Sci-Fi gamebook that lets you travel across the darkest regions of space. It has a powerful plot with a branching narrative, so you can replay it several times and it will be different.

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  • by Amanda Castro

    Heavy Metal Thunder is an app that doesn't give you the same game to play every time. The games will be different and maybe the goal is to play all of them. This is a fun game for your Apple phone that will take you to the limits of your imagination.

12.Choice of the Vampire

Paid: $3.99 with in-app purchases
Choice of the Vampire is a gamebook set in New Orleans in 1815. You play as a vampire and have different options: to seek love, power or redemption. Make your own decisions as you negotiate the growing-pains of the young Republic.
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  • Robert Davidson

    by Robert Davidson

    As someone who grew up loving the old Text Based Internet Games I was looking for a solution to have a nostalgia feel and I found a Gem in Choice of the Vampire. The gameplay is really fun and absorbant and the story line is fun to follow along. Defi More

13.Magium

with in-app purchases

Magium is a role-playing text adventure game which is played by having to play the role of an ordinary guy called Barry. The story of the game will be based on the player's choices. The goal is for the player to become a mage.

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  • Genre:Adventure

  • John Louw

    by John Louw

    This is by far the best writing and storyline I’ve ever seen in a free game, the story is great high-fantasy, with choices that have an influence on what happens later. The story and the characters make me think of something that Telltale would be in More

14.InYozh

With in-app purchases

InYozh is an amazing game about a man who has a plane crash and hit the shore of an island. In this app, players have to reveal the secret of this mysterious place.

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  • Age rating:9+

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  • Genre:Survival

  • Ярослав Захаров null

    by Ярослав Захаров null

    New great story touching story. It catches you and you can't stop before you know the end!

15.Victoriana - Text Adventure

Free download

Victoriana - Text Adventure is a choose your own adventure based game, set in 1888 Dr. Cyril Splutterworth - an eccentric inventor - needs brave adventurers to help him explore the Victorian world.

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  • Genre:Text Based

  • Terry Reynolds

    by Terry Reynolds

    I played this cute little game on a whim, and found myself quite amused. It didn't have werewolves or Dr. Jekyll, as an adventure in the 1800s should, More

  • Brenda Jensen

    by Brenda Jensen

    I love this game!! The interface looks so classy and Victorian. It actually makes me feel like I time traveled back!!

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