diff --git a/examples/lib/stories/rendering/rendering.dart b/examples/lib/stories/rendering/rendering.dart
index 8e9f7df1e..0fb17fac9 100644
--- a/examples/lib/stories/rendering/rendering.dart
+++ b/examples/lib/stories/rendering/rendering.dart
@@ -67,7 +67,15 @@ void addRenderingStories(Dashbook dashbook) {
     )
     ..add(
       'Rich Text',
-      (_) => GameWidget(game: RichTextExample()),
+      (context) => GameWidget(
+        game: RichTextExample(
+          textAlign: context.listProperty(
+            'Text align',
+            TextAlign.left,
+            TextAlign.values,
+          ),
+        ),
+      ),
       codeLink: baseLink('rendering/rich_text_example.dart'),
       info: RichTextExample.description,
     );
diff --git a/examples/lib/stories/rendering/rich_text_example.dart b/examples/lib/stories/rendering/rich_text_example.dart
index d7560f3fb..a6ce405d7 100644
--- a/examples/lib/stories/rendering/rich_text_example.dart
+++ b/examples/lib/stories/rendering/rich_text_example.dart
@@ -4,6 +4,10 @@ import 'package:flame/text.dart';
 import 'package:flutter/painting.dart';
 
 class RichTextExample extends FlameGame {
+  final TextAlign textAlign;
+
+  RichTextExample({this.textAlign = TextAlign.left});
+
   static const String description =
       'A non-interactive example of how to render rich text in Flame.';
 
@@ -23,11 +27,15 @@ class RichTextExample extends FlameGame {
       ),
       paragraph: BlockStyle(
         padding: const EdgeInsets.symmetric(vertical: 12, horizontal: 16),
+        textAlign: textAlign,
         background: BackgroundStyle(
           color: const Color(0xFF004D40),
           borderColor: const Color(0xFFAAAAAA),
         ),
       ),
+      header1: BlockStyle(
+        textAlign: textAlign,
+      ),
     );
     final document = DocumentRoot([
       HeaderNode.simple('1984', level: 1),
diff --git a/packages/flame/lib/src/text/nodes/text_block_node.dart b/packages/flame/lib/src/text/nodes/text_block_node.dart
index 007b6eebb..a663c4a70 100644
--- a/packages/flame/lib/src/text/nodes/text_block_node.dart
+++ b/packages/flame/lib/src/text/nodes/text_block_node.dart
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+import 'dart:ui';
+
 import 'package:flame/src/text/common/utils.dart';
 import 'package:flame/src/text/elements/group_element.dart';
 import 'package:flame/text.dart';
@@ -26,6 +28,7 @@ abstract class TextBlockNode extends BlockNode {
     final lines = <InlineTextElement>[];
     final horizontalOffset = style.padding.left;
     var verticalOffset = style.padding.top;
+    final textAlign = style.textAlign ?? TextAlign.left;
     while (!layoutBuilder.isDone) {
       final element = layoutBuilder.layOutNextLine(contentWidth);
       if (element == null) {
@@ -36,7 +39,12 @@ abstract class TextBlockNode extends BlockNode {
       } else {
         final metrics = element.metrics;
         assert(metrics.left == 0 && metrics.baseline == 0);
-        element.translate(horizontalOffset, verticalOffset + metrics.ascent);
+
+        final dx = horizontalOffset +
+            (contentWidth - metrics.width) * _relativeOffset(textAlign);
+        final dy = verticalOffset + metrics.ascent;
+        element.translate(dx, dy);
+
         lines.add(element);
         verticalOffset += metrics.height;
       }
@@ -50,4 +58,19 @@ abstract class TextBlockNode extends BlockNode {
       children: elements,
     );
   }
+
+  double _relativeOffset(TextAlign textAlign) {
+    return switch (textAlign) {
+      TextAlign.left => 0,
+      TextAlign.right => 1,
+      TextAlign.center => 0.5,
+      // NOTE: we do not support non-LRT text directions
+      TextAlign.start => 0,
+      TextAlign.end => 1,
+      // Not supported by Flame
+      TextAlign.justify => throw UnimplementedError(
+          'The text rendering pipeline cannot justify text.',
+        ),
+    };
+  }
 }
diff --git a/packages/flame/lib/src/text/styles/block_style.dart b/packages/flame/lib/src/text/styles/block_style.dart
index e30ff4089..abc1e4d3e 100644
--- a/packages/flame/lib/src/text/styles/block_style.dart
+++ b/packages/flame/lib/src/text/styles/block_style.dart
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ class BlockStyle extends FlameTextStyle {
     EdgeInsets? padding,
     this.background,
     this.text,
+    this.textAlign,
   })  : _margin = margin,
         _padding = padding;
 
@@ -18,6 +19,7 @@ class BlockStyle extends FlameTextStyle {
   final EdgeInsets? _padding;
   final BackgroundStyle? background;
   final InlineTextStyle? text;
+  final TextAlign? textAlign;
 
   EdgeInsets get margin => _margin ?? EdgeInsets.zero;
   EdgeInsets get padding => _padding ?? EdgeInsets.zero;
@@ -29,6 +31,7 @@ class BlockStyle extends FlameTextStyle {
       padding: other._padding ?? _padding,
       background: other.background ?? background,
       text: FlameTextStyle.merge(text, other.text),
+      textAlign: other.textAlign ?? textAlign,
     );
   }
 }