Comment on Games with Text-based Interaction?
Saperlipopette@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
Modern Text Parser Games:
The Crimson Diamond - Highly Recommended
Description: Follow amateur geologist and reluctant detective Nancy Maple to the ghost town of Crimson, Ontario to investigate the discovery of a massive diamond in this retro-inspired, EGA text parser mystery adventure!
Tachyon Dreams Anthology - Recommended
Description: Time itself is breaking up, and Dodger, the dishwashing dude onboard Penrose Space Station, is the unlikely fixer. Join the chaos in this 80s-style comedy, sci-fi text-parser adventure as Dodger tackles a cosmic crisis like no other!
Buddy Simulator 1984 - Recommended (Only partially text-parser based)
Description: Thanks to next generation AI technology, BUDDY SIMULATOR 1984 simulates the experience of hanging out with a best buddy! Your buddy learns from you, constantly adapting to your interests and personality. But most importantly, your buddy can play games with you!
Code 7: A Story-Driven Hacking Adventure - Unfinished
Description: Try to save humanity in this episodic and fully voiced hacker story. Guide your partner through a thrilling and emotional science fiction journey by hacking systems and extracting information. All from your keyboard.
Classic Text Parser Games:
Eric the Unready - Recommended
Description: Eric the Unready established his reputation by impaling his instructor during jousting class. Then, when Princess Lorealle the Worthy is kidnapped, Eric begins a madcap quest through his hilarious fantasy world packed with horrible beasts!
Longer list of games not all of which I’ve played: Parser Graphic Adventure Games
List of highly rated interactive fiction not all of which I’ve played: IFDB List
tiramichu@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Thank you for all the suggestions! :)
Buddy Simulator 1984 looks great, and the most interesting, because it (seems to?) combine text chat with other gameplay.
I honestly did a bad job with the title of my post (entirely my fault!) because most people have been going straight to the text adventure genre for recommendations, and that wasn’t quite what I had hoped for.
Text adventure games are easy to find. So are games that simply involve a lot of typing of any kind. There’s a typing tag on steam, after all!
What’s not easy to find are games which aren’t necessarily entirely text-based or text parsing, but have natural language chat as part of their gameplay.
So they could be any genre - walking sim, puzzle, horror, anything, even an FPS or an RTS! Though I struggle to imagine how a game could fit natural language chat as part of a single player FPS, but if they did it, I’d be interested!
In all, what im interested in is a pretty specific and weird non-genre that doesn’t fit established categorisation, and that’s why I needed Fellow Humans to help, because tags on steam simply cannot.
So, thank you for the Buddy Simulator recommendation. I’ll certainly be playing that one! :)