Top rated games with code under MIT License tagged Text based

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Snowbound Blood

A Vast Error Story

DECONRECONSTRUCTION

Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars

(90 total ratings)

Visual Novel

Social Democracy: An Alternate History

You are the Social Democratic Party of Germany in 1928. Can you stop the Nazis from taking power?

Autumn Chen

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(106 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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The Archivist and the Revolution

The world is ending, and you are still paying rent. A future history.

Autumn Chen

Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars

(56 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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Danganronpa: Lapse

10 students find themselves trapped in a luxurious mansion...

Cynthia

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(136 total ratings)

Visual Novel

A Dark Forest

Incremental Experimental Minimalistic Game

TinyTakinTeller

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(91 total ratings)

Play in browser

Pageant

An interactive story about a girl who joins a beauty pageant to improve her college applications.

Autumn Chen

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(80 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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New Year's Eve, 2019

Social anxiety simulator/dating sim

Autumn Chen

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(46 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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Skynet Simulator

You are Skynet

edisgreat

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(96 total ratings)

Puzzle

Play in browser

GIF

Galactic Foodtruck Simulator 2999 (GFS2999)

The galaxy hungers. You own a foodtruck. Feed everyone.

WiL

Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars

(32 total ratings)

Simulation

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Canvas Colors: In The Moving City

Travel along with Maggie and Vale inside a moving city in Canvas Colors!

UnfinishedCircl

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(40 total ratings)

Visual Novel

GIF

And yet it hurt

An adventure game in Notepad about a kid who seeks revenge.

Sheepolution

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(26 total ratings)

Adventure

GIF

Sleepy Tales

Tell your sister stories until she falls asleep

classheikki

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(9 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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Masks

On a campus under siege by riot police you count down to the end...

samplereality

Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars

(52 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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GIF

Messages From the Universe Graveyard

Experimental social game. Leave messages for other players in a dead world.

Kanderwund

Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars

(9 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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GIF

Ace Baker

A cyberpunk cake-baking game about an asexual couple... in the future!

*AAmici

Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars

(27 total ratings)

Puzzle

Play in browser

Goblins Demise

Goblins seeking Refuge

Lodugh

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

(20 total ratings)

Adventure

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In All My Dreams I Choke On Invisible Smoke [BETA]

Surreal visual novel/point and click exploration. Unsettling.

Kanderwund

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

(12 total ratings)

Visual Novel

Play in browser

Flawed Crystals

A Steven Universe fangame

A Friendly Irin

Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars

(9 total ratings)

Role Playing

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RNG Quest

Procedurally generated zero-player idle RPG.

Viktor

Rated 3.9 out of 5 stars

(30 total ratings)

Role Playing

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Non é o que parece

Juegito experimental

Rafael Alcalde Azpiazu

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(6 total ratings)

Visual Novel

Another RPG Engine

Engine for creating RPGs in Twine 2 and SugarCube.

Another RPG Enthusiast

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(6 total ratings)

Role Playing

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Ano What? Why Bakit??

A Really Short and Simple FREE Otome Game

zish.p

Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars

(8 total ratings)

Visual Novel

The Mansion

You wake up and you have two problems: you don't remember anything and you're a skeleton.

Manuel Sagra

Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars

(7 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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Food From a Stranger

A creepy stranger offers a girl candy.

OctiWriter

Rated 3.9 out of 5 stars

(14 total ratings)

Visual Novel

A Serviço de Ganga Zumba

Uma aventura de texto no Brasil colonial

Janos Biro

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(5 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

Play in browser

Patient Zero

Interactive storytelling text-based game with multi-ending - Created for Community Game Jam

Big Three Games

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(5 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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Little Red

An text game based on Little Red Riding Hood.

illuminesce

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(5 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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Formidolosa Nocte

A short, minimalist text-based horror experience.

D. Zenith

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(5 total ratings)

Visual Novel

Asciipocalypse

3d first person shooter drawn using nothing but ascii characters!

wonrzrzeczny

Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars

(6 total ratings)

Shooter

Choose your own end to the viking world

Choose Odin’s future. Choose the world’s.

dtaggart919

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(4 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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Kim's One Room

Narrative browser game, micro management in my Korean mother-in-law one room, Seoul, mars 2020.

Robin Moretti

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(4 total ratings)

The Mother of Pearls

A short visual novel about a mother reading her daughter a fairytale before bed.

Midge

Rated 4.2 out of 5 stars

(6 total ratings)

Visual Novel

Play in browser

Gulam

A visual novel about a girl, a pig and a book (Nanoreno 2017)

arkicade

Rated 3.7 out of 5 stars

(7 total ratings)

Visual Novel

Seltani

Hypertext MMO

zarf

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(3 total ratings)

Role Playing

Play in browser

You're My Poison

Sometimes poison is the only way to treat a virus.

StephenW313

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(3 total ratings)

Visual Novel

Astoria

A text game about life in space.

Alex James Kane

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(3 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

Play in browser

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