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Top$5 or less tagged Text based (224 results)

Explore 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 games 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 time-loop based experimental text adventure.
Adventure
Murdering a person that hurt you is hot, right?
Interactive Fiction
A traveling salesman's struggle to survive a night of horror
Adventure
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When the last thread becomes entangled, their song will be heard.
Interactive Fiction
Paradise is an interactive fiction playground.
Interactive Fiction
A short kinetic novel — on bright minds, and the end of all things.
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Purge the graveyard from the forces of Evil by using your typing skills.
A collection of horror games, each with their own distinct styles
Adventure
text-adventure MMORPG
Sokpop CollectiveVerified Account
Role Playing
Replica
$2.99
Everything in the State, nothing against the State, nothing outside the State.
Adventure
A novel-length "bat-romance" Twine.
beautiful twine compilation
Adventure
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
Enemies on camera, enemies off camera!
Visual Novel
ASCII Action! As minimal as an RPG can get
Role Playing
Detective noir clickable text adventure
Interactive Fiction
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Date a soft dragon boy! There is absolutely no fiery dystopia!
Interactive Fiction
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You're an ASCII Oat; Dodge the ASCII Slime Mold!
Action
A winter themed otome game where you get to romance a jerky singer!
Visual Novel
Choose between exploring jungle tropics or navigating deep into a bioluminescent sea.
Role Playing
Four ASCII Games; One Poopy Pack!
An online festival celebrating the 100th Sokpop game!
Sokpop CollectiveVerified Account
Adventure
Mini-books within mini-books.
Puzzle
Find your missing father and uncover an ancient conspiracy in this haunting text adventure!
Visual Novel
Pirate-themed clickable text adventure
Interactive Fiction
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Your boss has called to ask if you can come into work on your day off - and you don't have much choice but to go.
Interactive Fiction
ansdorVerified Account
Platformer
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Crew stolen and forced to crash land on an alien planet, you must start fresh with nothing but a... talking cat?!
Role Playing
Explore a miniature world as an emotionally driven robot and discover unique experiences with each new emotion.
Interactive Fiction
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Interactive Fiction
Explore a haunted theater with a gruesome past and go INSIDE several black-and-white films!
Visual Novel
An 80KB interactive-fiction text adventure.
Adventure
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