I love the modern text game, because in a way it subverts some of the audience problems traditional video games face -- for all my friends who tell me they don't play games because they feel pressured, or dislike action, or don't understand the ingrained, nerdy visual vocabulary, I beg them to try something like 80Days (App Store or Android Marketplace). If you can read and touch a screen, you can go on a journey.
If you're up for something a little bit weirder, play Horse Master (you can play right in your browser). It was released in 2013, but ensure you haven't missed it. Much of the criticism of games made in Twine, as Horse Master is, revolves around the dismissive idea that it's "just Choose your Own Adventure.