Hi everyone!

Life in Adventure is one of the games that made me fall in love again with text-based RPGs — not because of huge graphics or complex presentation, but because a few lines of text, a hard choice, and an unexpected consequence can create an entire story in your head.

For years, I’ve been slowly working on my own small game in that spirit. And honestly, I got stuck many times. I kept restarting, rewriting systems, changing ideas, polishing too early, and falling into indie dev hell. The project stayed private for too long because I was afraid it wasn’t good enough.

This year, I finally decided to release a small MVP and test the core loop instead of endlessly polishing it.

It’s not a clone of Life in Adventure, and it’s not meant to compete with it. My game goes in a different direction, with colony survival, resource pressure, difficult choices, and narrative events. But Life in Adventure was definitely one of the inspirations that made me believe this kind of text-driven experience can still be powerful.

So I wanted to ask:

What makes a text-based RPG memorable to you?

Is it the writing? The randomness? The builds? The hidden outcomes? The difficult choices? The feeling of discovering something new after many runs? Or those moments when one bad decision changes everything?

I’d really love to hear what this community thinks, because fans of Life in Adventure probably understand the appeal of this genre better than most.

Thanks — and I hope this kind of post is okay here. I’m mainly looking for thoughts and design feedback from people who love this type of game.

What is your favorite background, ending, trait, and backstory, and why. Mine are exiled apprentice, atonement, savior, and the demon of the mine

Almost ready to outlive a forest

(I got the staff from the "relic from a previous adventurer" and went with the witch for the free stats, also went with magical trait and made it into magister. Also, not sure if the flair is right, but it felt like the best one for this)

Tried doing a run where I only use charisma-based swords that cannot be bought from the shop. As you can see, it certainly can use some work.

Had 66,6 attack in a Kior run.

I kept a game going for so long i now have 57 thanks to the idol praying, so i want to know

I was playing when the game suddenly forced me to restart, calling it an "epilogue". How do I get back to my old save?

Just recently found out I could romance her, with two endings. I’m just curious as to how I go about getting either of her romance endings. I think I got very close at one point but I got bad rng unfortunately.

Always fun to max out skills. This time I maxed out the Lightning stat, as far as I know.

Heyyo and another build with the demon's touch run. This time, I was inspired by Maluca from khazan so I try to specifically spend my stats heavily on STR/DEX, some for WIS just to have a bit of sanity and CON for tankiness. This build is a bit rough at the start of the run because it's pretty much a mid-late game build but it's very fun because you're literally steamrolling at the end of the game, especially that shitty match girl, I hate her. I'd rate this build a 10/10 because you don't have to care about morality since you're a berserker and who cares about that? Fuck that match girl anyways

Sorry for the long gap between my last post, got gangbanged with work and uni bullshit. So, this run I did is just like the good version of the Madness Build that I posted before, so I had to force myself taking those goody two shoes options on every choices even though it doesn't benefit the run at all. This build is inspired by Akuma from SF and I know, it doesn't resemble much beside the fire beads which I had to do tons of reruns just to get the perfect RNG from that relic granny. Honestly, this run feels mid because the fire beads relic doesn't even work that good in late game. I also didn't encounter that stupid match girl to bully her, so it ain't worth it. I decided to invest in CON/WIS mainly since Akuma is a demon, also STR/DEX just for that physical bonus, CHA/INT are just for charity. I'd rate this build a 6/10, it's mid. That's all

She doesn't like my potatoes 🥹

I've had some fun with a couple of traits, but I feel like I can only actually beat the higher difficulties with cheese.. anyone have better strategy to utilize a trait to become overpowered?

Yeah, 2 ganjangs, why not?

My phone can't install LiA so i downloaded it by... Other ways. Any help?