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Latest featuredtagged Text based (32 results)

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Sharpen your critical thinking skills in this quiz game that challenges you to spot rhetorical fallacies.
Educational
Narrative roguelike with tokens
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
A horror game about working in a 90's call center.
Puzzle
Perfect Tides is a point and click adventure game about the agony and anticipation of being a teen.
Meredith GranVerified Account
Adventure
Issue #44 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.
PIZZAPRANKSVerified Account
A dogsled Oregon Trail-like originally made in 48 hours.
Adventure
Play in browser
A short story told through boating and lost letters
Adventure
Play in browser
Welcome to the Corporate Ladder.
Role Playing
Purge the graveyard from the forces of Evil by using your typing skills.
When the last thread becomes entangled, their song will be heard.
Interactive Fiction
Survival Horror Text Adventure
Survival
A browser roguelike with over 60 classes and endless adventure
Role Playing
Play in browser
What would you do if you found yourself trapped on an eerie space station with nothing but a computer?
Adventure
Acolyte
$10.99
A narrative ARG/Detective game that gives you your own digital assistant.
Interactive Fiction
Type commands, roast marshmallows, throw logs onto a crackling fire. Enjoy
Simulation
A short kinetic novel — on bright minds, and the end of all things.
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
text-adventure MMORPG
Sokpop CollectiveVerified Account
Role Playing
A Nightmare | Narrative Game (1-2 Hours)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
A free night ride across Tokyo, searching for our home with the help of some stranger.
Visual Novel
Paradise is an interactive fiction playground.
Interactive Fiction
A collection of small and peculier stories from Somwhere.
Adventure
In the distant future, you join a strange organization to find the secret behind The Object
Adventure
Will you make love and risk death?
Interactive Fiction
send messages, receive messages, play messages
Daniel LinssenVerified Account
Platformer
1bit adventure game of cosmic horror inspired by the work of Junji Ito
Role Playing
Event[0]
$19.99
Event[0] is a sci-fi narrative game where you build a relationship with a spaceship computer to get home to Earth.
Adventure
A nostalgic horror adventure game, inside another horror game, inside a tv show, inside a game.
Adventure
Replica
$2.99
Everything in the State, nothing against the State, nothing outside the State.
Adventure
Free form text exploration
Master a horse. Become a Horse Master.
Play in browser
beautiful twine compilation
Adventure
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