Sarah has been an editor and contributor for Game Rant since 2015. After meeting her first Chocobo, she never looked back. Sarah majored in game design in college and utilizes that knowledge to ...

Thanks to text messaging, it’s now easier than ever to stay connected with friends and partners. Text-based games are a fun way for young women and couples to bond and have fun together. They can play ...

Jessica Filby is a filmmaker, writer, and gamer based in Cumbria, Uk. She's been a student all her life as well as an obsessed gamer. Who knows how much money she could have saved had she not been ...

Born from a passion for caving and the wish to turn this into a digital adventure for all ages, Colossal Cave Adventure has grown from its quiet introduction in 1976 by William Crowther into the ...

The news that old-school adventure game pioneers Roberta and Ken Williams are returning to gaming after 25 years with a virtual reality version of classic game Colossal Cave got me thinking about how ...

Ingold attributes the game’s success to the avoidance of certain pitfalls text games often encounter. The most obvious is reading fatigue — countless text games toss walls of impenetrable text at ...

We all love a good, elaborate Easter egg, and Google has gained a reputation for laying those around consistently over the years. The most recent one is an old-school text-based adventure game that ...

If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. We tested the iOS version briefly, and although there were a few game-breaking errors, it’s generally ...

For many couples, spending time apart can be healthy and a way to make their time together even more enjoyable and meaningful. But when you’re a couple in a long-distance relationship, you might find ...

Last year, Aaron A. Reed published 50 Years of Text Games, a fascinating history of the kind of games where you have to "get lamp" or "float down the Columbia river". It covered ancient classics like ...

For a medium that's so focused on visuals, video games ask people to do a surprising amount of reading. Players are often faced with menus, inventory screens, item descriptions, text prompts, dialogue ...