Top ratedthat last a few hours tagged Text based (82 results)
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Marked by complete magical immunity, Wayfarers wander the world, fighting magic. Where will your fate lead you?
Interactive Fiction
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16 talented participants enter the game. Only 2 will walk out alive.
Visual Novel
Craft the story of a villain's amnesiac henchperson on a quest to mage restoration.
Interactive Fiction
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Play as an alchemist! Manage your shop, help (and romance!) people, and even try to brew a potion in a small mini-game!
Interactive Fiction
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A thief on the run finds refuge on an abandoned spaceship. A lonely AI finds unexpected company.
Interactive Fiction
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What would you do if you found yourself trapped on an eerie space station with nothing but a computer?
Adventure
text based fan game based off the artist Plastiboo's art book.
Adventure
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Survive as an immortal cultivator in a text-based life-simulation RPG set in Chinese Cultivation Fantasy world.
Role Playing
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A murder is committed in a secluded mansion, and it's up to you to solve it.
Visual Novel
An abandoned ship is found adrift. Look for clues and uncover the secrets of The Kuolema...
Interactive Fiction
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ASCII Action! As minimal as an RPG can get
Role Playing
A spam filter and their fellow plugins get horribly entangled in the affairs of their human's friends
Interactive Fiction
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In this interactive sci-fi adventure novel, you are the AI pilot of Earth's last interstellar ship.
Interactive Fiction
A spooky short story/adventure game for the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64 and Plus/4, Amstrad CPC, and modern web browsers
Adventure
Event[0] is a sci-fi narrative game where you build a relationship with a spaceship computer to get home to Earth.
Adventure
Do you have what it takes to be the BTC King? Challenge yourself in this semi-text based game!
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Vee and Aiden live together in ‘The Den’, but tonight, a chance discovery is about to change their lives forever…
Interactive Fiction
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