Top free games from 2016 tagged Text based

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Walkie Talkie

send messages, receive messages, play messages

Daniel Linssen

Platformer

Pyramid Builder

Grow a civilization, Build a Pyramid

standardcombo

Simulation

MMM: Murder Most Misfortunate

A murder is committed in a secluded mansion, and it's up to you to solve it.

Foolish Mortals

Visual Novel

An Afternoon Rippling

Take a road trip through a valley.

marslizard

GIF

Please Tell Me I Love You

A short conversation about a relationship

A G Moody

Visual Novel

Play in browser

Well This is Awkward

Buying condoms is awkward. This games reminds you of that.

Emma Kidwell

Role Playing

Play in browser

Worldsmith

An intergalactic Interactive Fable

Interactive Fables

Adventure

The House Abandon - Now part of 'Stories Untold'!

A nostalgic horror adventure game, inside another horror game, inside a tv show, inside a game.

jonNoCode

Adventure

Three Minutes to Midnight

A moody textual stategy game about political tensions.

Thibaut Mereu

Strategy

Play in browser

All Hail The Spider God

All Hail The Spider God is an eerie interactive fiction adventure about You, and all the Yous you've left behind.

Strange Scaffold

Interactive Fiction

Play in browser

Epitaph

alien civilization extinction simulator

Max Kreminski

Play in browser

Clockwork Apple

A BL Visual-novel featuring kidnapping and characters of doubtful morality. (English and Italian)

Synapsed

Visual Novel

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Five Minutes a Day

Every day, for the rest of your life.

Andrea Pignataro

Adventure

404 Missing Page Detective Agency

Webpages can run, but they cannot hide from... THE DETECTIVE!

Snozbot

Adventure

Play in browser

Are You Ok?

A short Twine game about understanding.

jlevstein

Play in browser

GIF

Terminal Town

Mysterious command line tools

AndyMakes

Puzzle

The Phantom of the Hospital

A short and light-hearted VN + art assets

Hidden Masquerade

Visual Novel

Dispatch

A short interactive story in which you are a 911 dispatcher. Lives depend on your choices.

Ellen Cunningham

Simulation

Play in browser

Isles Of Umbra

Lovecraftian first person point and click adventure

riffst

Adventure

GIF

Intimate Codex

Free form text exploration

AndyMakes

Midnight's Café

A dark visual-novel about friendship + art assets

Hidden Masquerade

Visual Novel

❤ DEMON DATE ❤

You've tried the rest, now try the worst - DEMON DATE

polymer despair

It wasn't me.

What do you think happened? A short telescopic text mystery, playing with out-of-the-box storytelling mechanics.

Rosa Carbo-Mascarell

Role Playing

Ask Her

A short parser-like game inspired by some of Sam Barlow's games. Made for the LD37.

bloomingbuds

Visual Novel

Play in browser

The Unexpected Dating Sim

You've entered a bar and you're looking for love. What will you find?

lemondaurora

Play in browser

All The Places You'll Go (Women As Place)

A point-and-click world tour through postcard representations of women.

Angela Washko

Play in browser

Paper Brexit

A Dream | Narrative Game (20 Minutes)

Greg Buchanan

Interactive Fiction

Play in browser

Keep Calm: An Interactive Short Story

No matter what you do, keep calm...

Adam Carriere (Pyjama Bottom Studios)

Interactive Fiction

Play in browser

^. BATWORLD .^

Enter a world very much like our own, in the sense that there are bats in it.

polymer despair

The horse is dead.

Short, twine-like (custom), experimental interactive poetry.

Nico May

Play in browser

GIF

ASCII Dungeon

Text-based dungeon crawler in the vein of Ultima or Wizardry

Jack Morgan

Role Playing

Hymn

A Twine game of reassurance and reminders for those lost in themselves

june wilde

Play in browser

KINSALE HORROR

Hitchhike. See what I saw.

Rarykos

Interactive Fiction

Play in browser

Widemare

A voice and text driven horror experience.

Andrea Pignataro

Visual Novel

Worth Waiting

You could have sworn someone else was here.

TheNamelessOne

Play in browser

GIF

Nightowl

Old friends reunite over a chat room. (LD37)

Crystal Game Works

Visual Novel

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