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Top freewith code under MIT License tagged Text based (156 results)

Explore games with code under MIT License 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 · Upload your games with code under MIT License to itch.io to have them show up here.

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Incremental Minimalistic Idle Game
Adventure
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You are the Social Democratic Party of Germany in 1928. Can you stop the Nazis from taking power?
Interactive Fiction
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10 students find themselves trapped in a luxurious mansion...
Visual Novel
A Vast Error Story
Visual Novel
The world is ending, and you are still paying rent. A future history.
Interactive Fiction
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The galaxy hungers. You own a foodtruck. Feed everyone.
Simulation
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Social anxiety simulator/dating sim
Interactive Fiction
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A Really Short and Simple FREE Otome Game
Visual Novel
Procedurally generated zero-player idle RPG.
Role Playing
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An interactive story about a girl who joins a beauty pageant to improve her college applications.
Interactive Fiction
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Travel along with Maggie and Vale inside a moving city in Canvas Colors!
Visual Novel
Goblins seeking Refuge
Adventure
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Engine for creating RPGs in Twine 2 and SugarCube.
Role Playing
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An adventure game in Notepad about a kid who seeks revenge.
Adventure
You wake up and you have two problems: you don't remember anything and you're a skeleton.
Interactive Fiction
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On a campus under siege by riot police you count down to the end...
Interactive Fiction
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Experimental social game. Leave messages for other players in a dead world.
Interactive Fiction
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ZZT/Super ZZT world player and editor
A visual novel about a girl, a pig and a book (Nanoreno 2017)
Visual Novel
A creepy stranger offers a girl candy.
Visual Novel
A cyberpunk cake-baking game about an asexual couple... in the future!
Puzzle
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Tell your sister stories until she falls asleep
Interactive Fiction
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​An text game based on Little Red Riding Hood.
Interactive Fiction
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Old-school post-cyberpunk shooting action for ZZT
Action
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Hypertext MMO
Role Playing
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Surreal visual novel/point and click exploration. Unsettling.
Visual Novel
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A short, minimalist text-based horror experience.
Visual Novel
A text game about life in space.
Interactive Fiction
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Narrative browser game, micro management in my Korean mother-in-law one room, Seoul, mars 2020.
Sometimes poison is the only way to treat a virus.
Visual Novel
3d first person shooter drawn using nothing but ascii characters!
Shooter
Juegito experimental
Visual Novel
Choose Odin’s future. Choose the world’s.
Interactive Fiction
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A short visual novel about a mother reading her daughter a fairytale before bed.
Visual Novel
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An empathy game about conversations and taking care of others. Entry for Extra Credits Game Jam #6
Visual Novel
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Test your short-term memory against mind-blowing game
Puzzle
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