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New & popular paidfrom 2020 tagged Text based (31 results)

Explore games from 2020 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 from 2020 on itch.io to have them show up here.

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A couple has been brutally murdered in their house last night. Are you up to solve the mystery?
Puzzle
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Type commands, roast marshmallows, throw logs onto a crackling fire. Enjoy
Simulation
Henry! It's me, it's Sheepy! It's so co-o-old!
Interactive Fiction
A text adventure game where you explore a "living" dungeon defeating otherworldly beasts, and avoiding deadly traps.
Adventure
A narrative game about tarot card readings for odd customers.
Visual Novel
Can you discover you?
Interactive Fiction
A short kinetic novel — on bright minds, and the end of all things.
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
A short horror story about werebeds... SO YOU MAY NEVER EVER AGAIN SLEEP!
Interactive Fiction
Issue #9 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.
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Once you glimpse behind the shadows, you’ll never be the same.
Interactive Fiction
Alone, but for the worms and mushrooms
Interactive Fiction
A mystery and terror text adventure about you, a detective, who must solve a case in a strange house.
Interactive Fiction
Stranded again! The adventure continues
Adventure
The Adventures Begin
Adventure
Choose between exploring jungle tropics or navigating deep into a bioluminescent sea.
Role Playing
W!LiB! is an interactive psychological thriller about suicides with a touch of black humor.
Interactive Fiction
text-adventure MMORPG
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Role Playing
Navigate intense job interviews with the help of a god who can stop time!
Visual Novel
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Dr. Diabolical is at it again! Can you escape his house of horrors?
Puzzle
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Mini-books within mini-books.
Puzzle
Play through 4 minigames to teach you about death
Text-based adventure sobre escolhas e consequências.
Interactive Fiction
Issue #1 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.
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A collection of horror games, each with their own distinct styles
Adventure
Text based game "Dungeon"
Strategy
Everything in this game is not what it seems to be.
Visual Novel
Reveal a hidden quote
Educational
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Easy to understand mini game using coordinates!
Role Playing
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