TextFate: Detective Stories
Choose Your Own Adventure
Only for iPhone
Free · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
iPhone
New: darker noir cases and branching sci-fi routes. Every choice rewrites your fate — how many of the endings can you uncover?
TextFate is a retro-terminal interactive fiction game where every choice branches the story and leads to one of many endings. No ads mid-story. Fully offline.
▸ CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE
Read, decide, and live with the consequences. Your path is yours alone — rewind any choice and try a different fate.
▸ MULTIPLE ENDINGS TO DISCOVER
Each story hides several endings. Track how many you've unlocked and hunt for the ones you missed.
▸ FIVE WORLDS, ONE TERMINAL
Crack a neon-noir mystery, pull off a heist, survive deep space, walk a cyberpunk city, or brave a fantasy tower — all in a hand-crafted pixel terminal aesthetic (VT323 font, typewriter reveal, three themes).
▸ BUILT FOR FOCUS
• 100% offline — play anywhere
• No timers, no energy, no pay-to-continue
• Ambient soundscapes you can toggle
• Light, Sepia and Dark terminal themes
Pick a story. Make a choice. Change your fate.
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• Bold new neon terminal app icon
• Sharper store presence and performance polish
Thanks for playing TextFate — leave a rating if a story pulled you in!
The developer, Jeroen Lamberts, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Usage Data
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- Jeroen Lamberts
- Size
- 6.4 MB
- Category
- Roleplaying
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Age Rating
13+
- 13+
- Infrequent
Horror/Fear Themes
Alcohol, Tobacco, Drug Use or References
Guns or Other Weapons
- Copyright
- © 2026 Jeroen Lamberts