Skip to main content

Indie game storeFree gamesFun gamesHorror games
Game developmentAssetsComics
SalesBundles
Jobs
TagsGame Engines

Filter Results

(Clear)
Tags

Text based

Focused on using its text, moreso than its visuals or audio, to tell the bulk of its story/plot. (Still can have great audio and visuals, though!)

Suggest updated description

Top released$15 or less tagged Text based (239 results)

Explore released games 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 released games on itch.io to have them show up here.

New itch.io is now on YouTube!

Subscribe for game recommendations, clips, and more

Text-based space exploration game
Interactive Fiction
Murdering a person that hurt you is hot, right?
Interactive Fiction
In this interactive sci-fi adventure novel, you are the AI pilot of Earth's last interstellar ship.
Interactive Fiction
an IF anthology about five heroes who die
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
A novel-length "bat-romance" Twine.
Type commands, roast marshmallows, throw logs onto a crackling fire. Enjoy
Simulation
A fantasy and love story influenced by the Guanche culture.
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Paradise is an interactive fiction playground.
Interactive Fiction
Undersea horror where your only form of navigation is an unreliable AI.
Adventure
A traveling salesman's struggle to survive a night of horror
Adventure
Play in browser
When the last thread becomes entangled, their song will be heard.
Interactive Fiction
A collection of horror games, each with their own distinct styles
Adventure
A horror game about working in a 90's call center.
Puzzle
An ode to text-adventures.
Interactive Fiction
A time-loop based experimental text adventure.
Adventure
A short kinetic novel — on bright minds, and the end of all things.
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Christmas has come to Wayhaven! And it's magical…quite literally.
Interactive Fiction
beautiful twine compilation
Adventure
Subtext
$6.99
A mystery told through real SMS messages, phone calls, and emails.
Interactive Fiction
Perfect Tides is a point and click adventure game about the agony and anticipation of being a teen.
Meredith GranVerified Account
Adventure
text-adventure MMORPG
Sokpop CollectiveVerified Account
Role Playing
Welcome to the Corporate Ladder.
Role Playing
Purge the graveyard from the forces of Evil by using your typing skills.
A cozy mystery adventure game set in early 1900s Ontario, Canada!
Adventure
Replica
$2.99
Everything in the State, nothing against the State, nothing outside the State.
Adventure
A Murder Mystery Visual Novel.
Visual Novel
Once you glimpse behind the shadows, you’ll never be the same.
Interactive Fiction
A horror fantasy kidnapping sim.
Interactive Fiction
A playful, interactive graphic novel adventure by Krunchy Fried Games. Ages 13+.
Visual Novel
Play in browser
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
Acolyte
$10.99
A narrative ARG/Detective game that gives you your own digital assistant.
Interactive Fiction
Issue #17 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.
PIZZAPRANKSVerified Account
Date a soft dragon boy! There is absolutely no fiery dystopia!
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Enemies on camera, enemies off camera!
Visual Novel
Loading more games...
itch.io now on YouTube!