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Latest$15 or less in game jams tagged Text based (35 results)

Explore games in game jams 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 in game jams on itch.io to have them show up here.

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A Cassette Futuristic Space Adventure
Simulation
Enemies on camera, enemies off camera!
Visual Novel
Whats life without risk?
Text RPG
Role Playing
Not everyone can be the hero. You, for example, are the town drunk.
Role Playing
A classic tale of revenge, local politics, pseudoscience, questionable botany, love, and loss.
Interactive Fiction
Microcrawl is a bite sized point and click 2D adventure text hybrid
Adventure
Turn based roguelike with resource management on a ship
Strategy
A traveling salesman's struggle to survive a night of horror
Adventure
Play in browser
Murdering a person that hurt you is hot, right?
Interactive Fiction
Rhythm
Play in browser
Purge the graveyard from the forces of Evil by using your typing skills.
A single script, text-only roguelike set in the unknowable in-between of Australia
Role Playing
Look at you. You want to travel but do you have enough money? Lets find out...
Strategy
Idle Paranormal Adventure
Adventure
Text-based space exploration game
Interactive Fiction
Henry! It's me, it's Sheepy! It's so co-o-old!
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
Alone, but for the worms and mushrooms
Interactive Fiction
Dr. Diabolical is at it again! Can you escape his house of horrors?
Puzzle
Play in browser
Text based game "Dungeon"
Strategy
Easy to understand mini game using coordinates!
Role Playing
Born
$3.33
today we are God and we create from our own image.
In this interactive sci-fi adventure novel, you are the AI pilot of Earth's last interstellar ship.
Interactive Fiction
an IF anthology about five heroes who die
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
a sweet story
Interactive Fiction
A nonfiction essay etched into the architecture of a virtual space.
The Rpg
$0.50
Role Playing
A game about navigating the depressing and absurd world of customer service in the year 2312.
Simulation
S.O.R.S
£6.99
A sci-fi doctor simulation game
Simulation
Text Adventure Game inspired by Cask of Amontillado
Adventure
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