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Arguably "Disco Elysium" is a modern text adventure.

A text adventure crossed with a point & click puzzle game in a 3D world admittedly but the vast majority of the actual game itself is contained within the text.

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It's a text adventure by anything but the most hidebound traditionalist definition. The text is where all of the real action takes place; the graphics are more an illustration of that text than the reality of the game.

and illustrated text adventures have a venerable history; i still have fond memories of "twin kingdom valley" which was released back in 1983. (the graphics were necessarily crude, given the technology of the time, but surprisingly evocative)

I’d call it a point and click adventure as that’s a known genre but I see your point

That’s… kinda a good point I suppose, I see the comparison.

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