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Explore games not in game jams tagged Text based on itch.io. Focused on using its text, moreso than its visuals or audio, to tell the bulk of its story/plot. (Still can have great a · Sell your games not in game jams on itch.io to have them show up here.

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Break the curse and uncover your fire.
Interactive Fiction
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Text-based open world roguelike
Interactive Fiction
A fantasy and love story influenced by the Guanche culture.
Interactive Fiction
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Type commands, roast marshmallows, throw logs onto a crackling fire. Enjoy
Simulation
A horror game about working in a 90's call center.
Puzzle
A time-loop based experimental text adventure.
Adventure
A cozy mystery adventure game set in early 1900s Ontario, Canada!
Adventure
When the last thread becomes entangled, their song will be heard.
Interactive Fiction
Undersea horror where your only form of navigation is an unreliable AI.
Adventure
BBirthday - Visual Novel
Visual Novel
Christmas has come to Wayhaven! And it's magical…quite literally.
Interactive Fiction
Paradise is an interactive fiction playground.
Interactive Fiction
Perfect Tides is a point and click adventure game about the agony and anticipation of being a teen.
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Adventure
Welcome to the Corporate Ladder.
Role Playing
Once you glimpse behind the shadows, you’ll never be the same.
Interactive Fiction
A collection of horror games, each with their own distinct styles
Adventure
Sharpen your critical thinking skills in this quiz game that challenges you to spot rhetorical fallacies.
Educational
text-adventure MMORPG
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Role Playing
Replica
$2.99
Everything in the State, nothing against the State, nothing outside the State.
Adventure
An ode to text-adventures.
Interactive Fiction
Subtext
$6.99
A mystery told through real SMS messages, phone calls, and emails.
Interactive Fiction
Text-Mode Social RPG
Role Playing
A horror fantasy kidnapping sim.
Interactive Fiction
A Murder Mystery Visual Novel.
Visual Novel
beautiful twine compilation
Adventure
A novel-length "bat-romance" Twine.
Detective noir clickable text adventure
Interactive Fiction
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Hey there, welcome to the Echo of Mobius! Here, you’ll step into a world shaped by everyone’s wildest dreams.
Role Playing
Laser Moles, Knife-Fighting Chimps, and an ASCII Snail
Action
Issue #22 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.
PIZZAPRANKSVerified Account
ASCII Action! As minimal as an RPG can get
Role Playing
A visual novel about a death game which erupts aboard a train
Visual Novel
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Issue #17 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.
PIZZAPRANKSVerified Account
a story about computers, memory, and the end of the world
Adventure
Acolyte
$10.99
A narrative ARG/Detective game that gives you your own digital assistant.
Interactive Fiction
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