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Text based

Focused on using its text, moreso than its visuals or audio, to tell the bulk of its story/plot. (Still can have great audio and visuals, though!)

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Top rated freefrom 2016 tagged Text based Page 2 (170 results)

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A narrative text-based game with interactive colors
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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A moody textual stategy game about political tensions.​
Rated 3.8 out of 5 stars
(33 total ratings)
Strategy
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A short and light-hearted VN + art assets
Rated 3.8 out of 5 stars
(17 total ratings)
Visual Novel
You've entered a bar and you're looking for love. What will you find?
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
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A point-and-click world tour through postcard representations of women.
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
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You arrive at Úrquel’s castle to rescue a princess. Things are almost, but not quite, what they seem.
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Adventure
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Lovecraftian first person point and click adventure
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Adventure
Find your missing brain in a text adventure platform game
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Platformer
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A girl mourns his father while figuring out how to survive the snowy apocalypse.
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Adventure
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What do you think happened? A short telescopic text mystery, playing with out-of-the-box storytelling mechanics.
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(7 total ratings)
Role Playing
A dark visual-novel about friendship + art assets
Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars
(13 total ratings)
Visual Novel
you are divine, holy, and AWAKE
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Role Playing
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Old friends reunite over a chat room. (LD37)
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Free form text exploration
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Help a scientist understand the stranger parts of human culture.
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Simulation
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You've tried the rest, now try the worst - DEMON DATE
Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars
(13 total ratings)
And the captain said: "Antonio, tell us your favorite story!" And Antonio began:
Rated 4.2 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Vampires trapped in a Spaceship! Guards with flamethrowers! Eat them or get burned! #BerlinMiniJam
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Strategy
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Have you ever felt like someone was watching you?
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
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Text-based dungeon crawler in the vein of Ultima or Wizardry
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Role Playing
A text-based cooperative cooking game
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Action
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Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Role Playing
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A Dream | Narrative Game (20 Minutes)
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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Türkçe
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Mysterious command line tools
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Puzzle
Can you navigate the train and its interpersonal web of deceit to figure out whodunnit?
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Adventure
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Rest awhile...
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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A game about not being Martha Stewart.
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Play in browser
A visual novel about a NEET and their freeloading roommates.
Rated 3.7 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Say 'HELLO' to the Corporation.
Rated 3.8 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Simulation
Oh boy, I sure love Sandwiches!
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Adventure
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This time, *you're* the Alien! Play as a captured SoMorph, trying to get home...
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Adventure
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a tiny utopia about packing
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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~ procedural poetry ~ THE DYING PILLOW NEAR THE SKY
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
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Explore a fantasy city in this text adventure walking simulator.
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Adventure
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