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New & popular freeon hold tagged Text based (91 results)

Explore games on hold 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 路 Upload your games on hold to itch.io to have them show up here.

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RPG adventure in a dark fantasy world awaits you! Embark on turn-based combats and immerse into various adventures!
Adventure
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A text only horror game about getting to breakfast.
Interactive Fiction
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Visual Adventure
Adventure
Move the shield to deflect incoming asteroids
Action
Visual Novel
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A text based game about aliens stealing your pet
Strategy
enter the spiral
Visual Novel
A short text conversation between a girl and her father. Made in Twine.
Interactive Fiction
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A chivalric romance in text
Interactive Fiction
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There isn't mushroom to maneuver in here...
Adventure
An unofficial fangame in the Drakengard/Nier Lore entirely textual
Visual Novel
Get lost along the flower path
Visual Novel
Role Playing
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[ INACTIVE ] proof of concept of a text-based horror game.
Interactive Fiction
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A Choose your own Adventure Text Game about going to Hogwarts
Role Playing
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You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door. There is a small mailbox here.
Interactive Fiction
Procedurally Generated Sandbox Text Adventure RPG
Role Playing
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Fantasy interactive fiction based on asian mythology and other cultures
Interactive Fiction
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A personal project i've been working on (on semi-permanent hold)
Interactive Fiction
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Choose a class, choose a background and delve into Azoth's Cave.
Adventure
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Grind through quests and fight with bad guys!
Adventure
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A fantasy interactive story with mild horror elements (16+)
Interactive Fiction
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hanging out at a camp all night grinding XP with a bunch of randos
Simulation
I'm gonna make a better quiz out of this at some point...
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A text game with very little concrete plot
Interactive Fiction
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Adventure
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A text based choose-your-own-adventure about an assassin trying to slay a monarch.
Interactive Fiction
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Adventure
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A Blog Post of Fake Chinese Characters
A text based game based on the development of games in the 80鈥檚
Visual Novel
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