Top rated free games on hold tagged Text based

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Scout: An Apocalypse Story

A text choice romance in an apocalyptic setting.

Anya

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(1,512 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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REDSUGARSOCIETY

Fake date. Fall in love. Murder. Party. Rinse and repeat.

riotdevs

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(251 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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Snakeroot.

[ INACTIVE ] A fantasy horror IF WIP.

cerberus

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(184 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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hollowsheart

[ INACTIVE ] proof of concept of a text-based horror game.

cerberus

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(19 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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GIF

Petty Puny Planet

Why have a pet rock when you can have a pet planet? Micromanage this cosmic rock to places never thought possible!

Whales And Games 🐳

Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars

(196 total ratings)

Simulation

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Sleight of Hand

A fantasy interactive story with mild horror elements (16+)

Leo Schmidt

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(22 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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GIF

Kobold Dungeon Tester

A multiple-choice-adventure-roguelike about testing a dungeon.

st33d

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(13 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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Your Hogwarts Story

A Choose your own Adventure Text Game about going to Hogwarts

DigiTale

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

(30 total ratings)

Role Playing

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The Dragon's Curse {Hiatus}

Fantasy interactive fiction based on asian mythology and other cultures

XNueX

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(8 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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Isles Of Umbra

Lovecraftian first person point and click adventure

riffst

Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars

(5 total ratings)

Adventure

grim home

help the grim reaper decorate their apartment

scareoset

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(3 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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Seltani

Hypertext MMO

zarf

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(3 total ratings)

Role Playing

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Warding: Demo

Text based horror game, where you play as Cecilia, a blind woman, on the night that someone breaks into her house.

risraelwriter

Rated 3.8 out of 5 stars

(5 total ratings)

Adventure

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CVIE (Open Beta)

Welcome to C.V.I.E This is THE most unstable AI in the works. Aggressive, speciest, and somehow lovable.

AMBU5H

Rated 3.8 out of 5 stars

(4 total ratings)

Adventure

Space Goats: Tales from Bah'nana IV.

A Text Adventure based on Tim Ruswick's "Space Goats 2"

Star Banner Games

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(2 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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Unwanted Hero, part 1

a twisted, tangled fairy tale

No Time To Play

Rated 3.7 out of 5 stars

(3 total ratings)

Role Playing

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Buried Figure

You are on a submarine.

poky.cactus

Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars

(2 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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Thirsty - The Thirst For Adventure (Demo)

A short demo for an up and coming interactive story

jonathan_schon

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(1 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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You're Going to Breakfast

A text only horror game about getting to breakfast.

gacktical

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(1 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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Oneiron

text-based multiple choice adventure

Insania404

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(1 total ratings)

Adventure

THE HOUSESITTER - DEMO

A short demo for an ASCII, horror, text-based adventure.

RUMBLEBOX_

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(1 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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Mouth of the Devil

You’d better watch that mouth o’ yours, partner.

hatchling

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(1 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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Ophelia's Secret (WIP)

A cyberpunk interactive fiction about talking your way into places where you don't belong.

Leo Andrade

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(1 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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noigeL reiN

An unofficial fangame in the Drakengard/Nier Lore entirely textual

Corentin

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(1 total ratings)

Visual Novel

Faster Than Time

Mark Mandriota

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(1 total ratings)

Simulation

stupid dumb quiz thing that i hate and wish i never made

I'm gonna make a better quiz out of this at some point...

8Pancakes4Lunch

Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars

(1 total ratings)

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Failure with Silver (unfinished)

A plague takes over...Can you find out why?

numijulie

Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars

(1 total ratings)

Role Playing

GIF

ＳＰＥＣＴＲＵＭＧＩＲＬＳ

It's about lesbians on motorcycles. The end.

TUB

Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars

(1 total ratings)

Visual Novel

Daily Quests (FloppyJam)

Hyperagon

Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars

(1 total ratings)

Role Playing

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Metaphorical Wizard

Retro Text-Based RPG

Hyperpotato

Rated 3.0 out of 5 stars

(1 total ratings)

Adventure

Untitled Gardening Game

there's a maze, a garden, and a giant magpie (he's a dick)

Aislinn Evans

Rated 3.0 out of 5 stars

(1 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

Play in browser

Baleen

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Koimarina Games

Rated 0.0 out of 5 stars

(0 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

C0untd0wn: The Dem0

Kimba Rose

Rated 2.0 out of 5 stars

(1 total ratings)

Adventure

Play in browser

Number Guesser

Just Think of a Number

7jks

Rated 1.0 out of 5 stars

(1 total ratings)

Puzzle

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