These free text games are narrative adventures that blend all of the exploratory fun of your favorite text-based RPGs with the depth and replayability of classic choose-your-own-adventure stories. Browser-based and mobile-friendly, these titles require no downloads and can be enjoyed over and over again on any computer or smartphone.
New to text-based games? You’re in for a treat! Players take on the role of both reader and protagonist, immerging themselves to become full participants in the action. As you work through these narrative adventures, you’ll unearth clues, solve puzzles, complete quests, prevail in combat, manage resources, balance relationships, and more—just as you would in a more traditional role-playing game.
Our library of titles is always updating and growing, so be sure to check back often.
Disclaimer: All of our text-based, multiple-choice games are programmed in Choicescript, a proprietary language developed and owned by the fine folks at Choice of Games LLC. No relationship or affiliation exists between Sleeping Bearcat Studios and Choice of Games LLC; we’re just big fans of the excellent language they’ve developed and overjoyed to be able to use it to put our free text games out into the world.
Legends of Biternia
This tongue-in-cheek fantasy adventure asks players to navigate puzzles, pitfalls, and occasional puns as they work to save (or doom!) Biternia. Legends of Biternia firmly embodies the idea that actions speak louder than words. The choices you make as you journey into the heart of Biternia influence everything from personal relationships and combat abilities to future story options. Will you be the hero Bitneria needs, or the villain it fears? The choice is up to you!
Features
- Engaging storyline with meaningful choices and intuitive consequences
- 4 unique classes, each with their own fighting style and story arc
- Nonstandard attributes like “insipidness,” “courage,” and “malice”
- Dozens of unique characters to befriend (or bedevil)
- Dynamic turn-based combat system
- Highly replayable
- Officially licensed story set in Stone Circle Game‘s Battle for Biternia franchise
Spacewrecked! Adventures
You knew the life of an interstellar gig worker wasn’t easy, but that doesn’t mean you expected to be left stranded in the vhttps://sleeping-bearcat.itch.io/spacewrecked-homeworldsast expanse of space in a derelict vessel that had until recently been keeping you and the rest of the crew alive and hurtling through the stars. You’ll have to act fast if you hope to pry survival from the gaping maw of the void.
Features
- Pixelated graphical goodness
- Hard sci-fi setting with realistic technology and limitations
- Gather information as you explore and repair your starship
- Officially licensed story set in Stone Circle Game‘s Spacewrecked! franchise
Detective Sleuth Gumshoe: Private Eye
Discover clues, dodge bullets, and collect greenbacks as you guide disgraced detective Gordon Price’s affable assistant, Pennyworth, through the snowy back-alley streets of an unnamed 1940s metropolis. No case is too big, too small, or too dangerous for Detective Sleuth Gumshoe: Private Eye…as long as the price is right.
Features
- Thrilling whodunnit mystery steeped with twists and turns
- Cutthroat resource management requiring hard choices
- Match your wits against a cunning criminal mastermind
Flint
You awaken flat on your back, staring up at pockets of stars through the dark branches of a surrounding forest. It’s dark. It’s cold. And you have no idea how you got here. Armed with nothing but the clothes on your back and whatever you can scavenge from the wilderness, you’ll have to hike, climb, and craft your way to survival–and to find some answers along the way.
Features
- Suspenseful, layered exploration
- Satisfying gathering and crafting system
- Realistic outcomes: survive, thrive, or die
Want more free text games?
The best way to guarantee the production of new games and the continuation of existing ones is the tell us you’re enjoying the ones we’ve already made! Send an email to aaron@sleepingbearcat.com, and consider joining our Discord page (shared with Stone Circle Games).