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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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Type commands, roast marshmallows, throw logs onto a crackling fire. Enjoy
Simulation
A horror game about working in a 90's call center.
Puzzle
Hey there, welcome to the Echo of Mobius! Here, you’ll step into a world shaped by everyone’s wildest dreams.
Role Playing
Text-based open world roguelike
Interactive Fiction
Christmas has come to Wayhaven! And it's magical…quite literally.
Interactive Fiction
Welcome to the Corporate Ladder.
Role Playing
When the last thread becomes entangled, their song will be heard.
Interactive Fiction
Paradise is an interactive fiction playground.
Interactive Fiction
A time-loop based experimental text adventure.
Adventure
Perfect Tides is a point and click adventure game about the agony and anticipation of being a teen.
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Adventure
A collection of horror games, each with their own distinct styles
Adventure
In this interactive sci-fi adventure novel, you are the AI pilot of Earth's last interstellar ship.
Interactive Fiction
Issue #22 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.
PIZZAPRANKSVerified Account
text-adventure MMORPG
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Role Playing
A Murder Mystery Visual Novel.
Visual Novel
BBirthday - Visual Novel
Visual Novel
A cozy mystery adventure game set in early 1900s Ontario, Canada!
Adventure
Subtext
$6.99
A mystery told through real SMS messages, phone calls, and emails.
Interactive Fiction
Sharpen your critical thinking skills in this quiz game that challenges you to spot rhetorical fallacies.
Educational
Once you glimpse behind the shadows, you’ll never be the same.
Interactive Fiction
Replica
$2.99
Everything in the State, nothing against the State, nothing outside the State.
Adventure
beautiful twine compilation
Adventure
Issue #17 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.
PIZZAPRANKSVerified Account
An ode to text-adventures.
Interactive Fiction
A horror fantasy kidnapping sim.
Interactive Fiction
Text-Mode Social RPG
Role Playing
Issue #51 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.
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A fantasy and love story influenced by the Guanche culture.
Interactive Fiction
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A novel-length "bat-romance" Twine.
A visual novel about a death game which erupts aboard a train
Visual Novel
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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
A romance visual novel about memories best left forgotten.
Visual Novel
In the distant future, you join a strange organization to find the secret behind The Object
Adventure
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