

Signal’s server is open-source. Of course, they could do something else in secret, but the openness of the client (here’s the client) is enough to verify that E2EE exists.
Your phone number alone just doesn’t give any real insight: you can derive that the person behind it prefers to communicate in private and that they’re probably alive, but that’s about it. Also, I don’t think Signal can get your name without a government to look it up. That does happen sometimes, it’s just that nothing importmant ever comes out of it.
Collossal Cave Adventure is a text-only adventure game. It uses the most primitive technologies in the most primitive ways (as it’s old, but it’s free and even has a web version as it’s old).