video game dialogue box

A pop-up message on a screen, usually at the bottom. This is typically used in a visual novel or RPG games either to narrate the story or to represent character's dialogue.

Not to be confused with speech bubble, which refers to a dialogue box stylized from comic and manga.

See also

• dialogue options
• error message
• gameplay mechanics
• narration
• speech bubble
• user interface
• visual novel

The following tags are aliased to this tag: adventure_text_box, visual_novel_dialogue_box, and visual_novel_text_box (learn more).