The Dark Eye Text-Based Games

Choose Your Own Adventure (CYOA)
Games in which players make choices at critical points in the narrative, leading to branching storylines and multiple endings.
What are text-based games?
Text-based games encompass various genres and types. Here’s a list of some popular text-based game types with brief descriptions:
Escape the Room
Text-based adaptations of real-life escape room games, where players must solve a series of puzzles and riddles to progress through a story and ultimately "escape" their predicament.
Gamebooks
Print-based games that present a narrative and allow readers to make choices that influence the story’s direction, sometimes involving dice rolls or other random elements to determine outcomes.
Interactive Fiction
Narrative-driven games that emphasize storytelling, exploration, and decision-making, allowing players to influence the outcome of the story.
MMO Text-Based Games
Multiplayer games that take place in a persistent virtual world, allowing players to interact with one another and engage in activities such as trading, combat, and exploration, all within a text-based interface.
Multi-User Dungeon (MUD)
Multiplayer, real-time text-based games set in virtual worlds where players interact with one another, explore, and undertake various activities, such as combat, puzzles, and role-playing.
Roguelike
Turn-based games that typically involve dungeon crawling, permanent death, and procedurally generated levels, ensuring a unique experience each time the game is played.
Text Adventure
Games focused on puzzle-solving, exploration, and manipulation of objects within a story-driven environment, often featuring a text parser for inputting commands.
Visual Novels
Games with a focus on storytelling, featuring static graphics, character portraits, and text-based dialogue, occasionally incorporating decision-making elements or branching storylines.

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