Nick's Text Adventure

About Nick's Text Adventure

Nick’s Text Adventure is a minimalist, text-based RPG from GXPlay that subverts genre norms. Released January 24, 2026, it plays out entirely in sparse lines of dialogue and cryptic prompts. You navigate a tower of 100+ shifting floors, each with its own warped logic. Spells deceive, equipment degrades, and random actions like fishing can backfire. The story is fragmented, the rules are vague, and the game actively remembers your worst decisions. It’s a brutally ironic take on turn-based strategy, where planning ahead feels pointless. If you like games that punish certainty and reward paranoia, this is your labyrinth.

Gameplay

Each move is a text input with no visual feedback. You choose actions like “cast fireball” or “fish in pond,” but results are either irrelevant or malicious. Combat is turn-based but nonsensical, enemies mock your choices, and health regens only if you do something illogical. Floors reset with new arbitrary rules, like “doors close after 3 vowel-heavy sentences.” Progression feels like negotiating with a sadistic algorithm. Sessions average 30, 60 minutes, but retries are common due to the game’s memory of past failures. Controls are simple but frustrating: you’re always one typo from permadeath.

What Players Think

Community rating: 8.7/10. Critics average 7.5/10. 23% of players finish it, with 5.2 hours average playtime. Top moods: frustration (68%), curiosity (82%), dark humor (54%). Reviews highlight “the satisfaction of surviving a floor by accident” and “feeling like the game is actively cheating.” 45 achievements exist, but only 12 are meaningful. Price: $14.99. 32% of players skip floors to avoid RNG-based penalties. One user wrote, “It’s like being trapped in a broken choose-your-own-adventure book, hauntingly brilliant.”

PlayPile's Take

This game is for masochists who find joy in chaos. The $15 price is fair if you relish unpredictable systems and broken logic. 45 achievements add minor replay value, but most players quit before earning them. Not for fans of clarity or fairness, it’s a test of patience disguised as a RPG. If you like games that mock you while you suffer, play it. Otherwise, skip. The community’s 23% completion rate says everything.

Storyline

Nick’s Text Adventure is a dark, minimalist text game where the story unfolds one line at a time. You descend through a strange, shifting tower made of one hundred floors—and a few that aren’t meant to exist. Each floor has its own rules, its own dangers, and its own fragments of a story that never fully explains itself.