The Ghost shooter example from the Beginner's guide is set to work on desktop computers, using mouse and keyboard input.
The tutorial How to learn Construct 3? Next steps for beginners relies on templates you can find in the start page of the editor and which a lot of are made so they use the Touch input and work on mobile devices as well.
Being browser based is what allows to go cross platform (your game works in a browser on desktop computers as well as on mobile devices).
Construct 3 is rather designed to allow you to make graphical games.
But the Text plugin and the TextInput plugin should help you achieve your text game fantasies :)
The rest is game logic, achieved in Construct under the form of Event sheets, or Scripting.