7 free text quests for smartphones

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

While some game developers try to achieve realistic graphics, others focus on involving the player in the story with minimal means. Lifehacker has prepared a selection of games using the most powerful graphics engine - your imagination.

1. Pass Dyatlov. Behind the north wind

You will have to act as the coordinator of the work of Pavel Shilov, a member of the expedition exploring the mystery of the Dyatlov Pass. The game has alternative endings, and the making of fateful decisions is interspersed with simple riddles.

2. Rest beyond the bounds

In this game, you often have to die, as evidenced by the presence of three lives and the only paid option is immortality.

This time you need to help a lost traveler who has contacted you using a communicator. The non-linearity of the plot is an important advantage of Rest Beyond the Boundary. Many users play through the game over and over again until they have unlocked all 10 possible endings.

3. Excitedly

"Excitedly" falls out of the collection a little: this is not a game, but rather a library in which books are presented in the form of correspondence in instant messengers. Despite the lack of interactivity, the application has the same effect as the text quests: the involvement in the plot is enhanced by the imagination.

In the free version, reading will be periodically interrupted for half an hour, during which you cannot follow the progress of the story. To avoid this, you can buy a subscription.

4. Object 17

A popular quest in which you need to help an ordinary office manager in trouble. Atmospheric music, high-quality introductory video - all this contributes to immersion in the world of Object 17.

There is no free version of the game in the App Store, but the original application from ROM Games can be downloaded for only 15 rubles.

5. Hotel "Silence"

The user in this game traditionally acts as a remote savior. This time Aleksey needs help - a smiling guy who has chosen a hotel unsuccessfully.

When he wakes up, he discovers that the little finger on his leg has been cut off, his mouth is sewn up, and the only contact left on the phone is yours.

The game is free, ads are disabled for an additional fee.

6. Pandemic. Way home

"Pandemic" is a compromise between a book and a game. The plot, according to the developers, has about 600 pages of text, and also includes several alternative endings. If you loved the Horror series of books by Robert Lawrence Stein as a child, then you will love Pandemic.

7. Memories. Leaving the room

In this quest, Leo is waiting for help - a character who wakes up in a hospital room. The goal of the game is to get out of a strange place and stay alive.

The game goes beyond the usual framework for this genre: it is necessary not only to advise the character to perform this or that action, but also to solve puzzles or apply inventory items to objects in the room.