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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!)

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from 2018 tagged Text based (724 results)

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goodbye
say goodbye before you go
barrels
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Pageant
An interactive story about a girl who joins a beauty pageant to improve her college applications.
Autumn Chen
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Dungeon Mercenary
Modern ASCII roguelike - Can your mercenary beat the dungeon ?
smelc3
Role Playing
Play in browser
BIRDLAND
summer camp crushes & alien bird dreams
Brendan Patrick Hennessy
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
A Klance Texting Game
This is a Klance Texting Game!
Queerklancing
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Master of the Land
Dynamic text world | Alternate history intrigue
Pseudavid
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Classic Rogue - Oryx Design Lab Tiles
A new version of classic Rogue, updated using Ultimate Roguelike Tileset
oryxdesignlab
GIF
Unmaking, Unmade
Is this not what you wanted?
Grim Baccaris
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
sacrament iv.
calamity occult-horror rpg
melessthanthree
Role Playing
Play in browser
Known Unknowns
Bisexual teen ghost hunting romance
Brendan Patrick Hennessy
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Beast of Torrack Moor - 30th Anniversary Edition
Track down a wild beast on the moors of England in this remaster of the classic ZX Spectrum text-adventure.
Adventuron
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
AWAKE Prototype
You awake alone, on a damaged and abandoned starship.
Hamish Smithers
Play in browser
GIF
Type 'n Jump
A text-based platformer, made for Ludum Dare 41 | Combine 2 Incompatible Genres
The Jucas
Platformer
Play in browser
Typeless
A visual novel typing game where you must sacrifice your keyboard letters​.
Naihto
Visual Novel
Play in browser
nectar thief
a text based game. will likely take 5-10 minutes to play.
loren schmidt
Play in browser
The Serial Adventures of Dick Jack BB!
Episode One - The Montebello Dance and Dump Ball
angelboydiscoman
Visual Novel
RogueType
Yet another text-based roguelike game.
Pecon
Adventure
Play in browser
Pairidaeza
A historic gay romance set in Medieval Baghdad
mostopha
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
this is not WORD
this is not a text editor
Ludipe
Play in browser
c i r c u i t s
a narrative journey through remembering, witnessing, and trauma
eileen mary
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
Cannery Vale
forget who you are
Hanon Ondricek
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Six Shots
A text-based adventure game that puts you in the boots of a lone cowpoke bent on revenge.
BanzaiBonsai
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
C.R.U.D.D.Y.
wake up. check the logs. talk to your computer. die. repeat. try to escape.
windbreak
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
A Colour Like No Other
The world's less scary when you're a monster.
TheNamelessOne
Play in browser
Trans Pyre
Finnish midsummer gender magic.
Xurxe Toivo García
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Cragne Manor
20th anniversary of classic horror game Anchorhead. 84 authors. One ridiculous tribute.
bavarianrobotdiner
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Confessions of an NPC
Interview NPCs from a world not unlike our own...
Charles H. Huang
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
Pokemon ASCII Version CMD Battle Game!
Relive the sights, sounds and action of all 151 Pokémon in this classic text-based cmd Battle Game!
BellBlitzKing
Action
DEVOTIONALIA
Will your devotion reach them? Does it matter?
Grim Baccaris
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Escort Yourself Out
a game about trauma, triggers, and self-compassion
bignastytruck (violet)
Simulation
CLICK TO CONTINUE!
Run away.
Andrea Pignataro
Dreamer of Electric Sheep
A procedural sandbox text-adventure
ByttenStudio
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Animalia
Four animals pilot a human child replica with wacky results
ian michael waddell
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Get That Girl!
A game about unrequited love.
Asterranaut
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Lobotomy & You
Loved one involved in a serious head injury? Call Lobotomy and You to get them up and running like new again!
point bleep
Adventure
GIF
Kobold Dungeon Tester
A multiple-choice-adventure-roguelike about testing a dungeon.
st33d
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
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