Text-based games drive their experience through written words rather than rendered 3D scenes, presenting choices, narration, and interfaces as readable prose or terminal output. They reward attention, deduction, and imagination, often blending storytelling with simulation or puzzle-solving. Hacknet casts you at a command line unraveling a mystery, Orwell: Keeping an Eye on You turns reading and surveillance into gameplay, and Plague Inc: Evolved leans on data and menus to shape its outcomes.