Top rated free games from 2017 tagged Text based

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A Witch's Word

You sold your firstborn to a witch. Now she helps you find a mate.

RainbowStarbird

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

(730 total ratings)

Simulation

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RECIPE FOR LOVE

Help a robot list all the ingredients for love

Shelly Alon

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(119 total ratings)

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Seedship

An AI seedship must find a home for the last survivors of the human race

John Ayliff

Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars

(226 total ratings)

Strategy

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POM SIMULATOR 9000

weary, transformation, dog, burger, comfort

d Marie

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(83 total ratings)

Simulation

c ya laterrrr

a hypertext game based on a true story and some untrue stories

danhett

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(62 total ratings)

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woebegone.

when breathing has become a chore. when to exist is a trial.

louey

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(111 total ratings)

Simulation

Wake Up

Live authoritarianism through a minimalist narrative experience.

Inverge Studios

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(96 total ratings)

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GIF

Stink Bug Plague

Fight against a stink bug invasion with science! And cyborgs! And bravery! Or cowardice - it's your choice, really.

angela he

Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars

(133 total ratings)

Role Playing

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Your Merman Boyfriend

Meet your merman boyfriend.

Ntagonistic

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

(173 total ratings)

Simulation

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Kiss the Ghoul

Date, kiss, exorcise demons!

chamomeow

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(78 total ratings)

Simulation

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Nod If You Can Hear Me

Visit Your Grandmother

Emma Kidwell

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(16 total ratings)

Simulation

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weird tape in the mail

lynchian piss adventure

angrygeometry

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(15 total ratings)

Adventure

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GIF

Between Stations

(2017)

Sand Gardeners

Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars

(57 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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an easy lay

Romance is complicated. Romance with an ovipositor is complicateder.

SpiderFlorist

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(24 total ratings)

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Am I Part Of The Problem?

Did you hurt someone? Are you having trouble coming to terms with it? Are you unsure what to do next?

Elizabeth Sampat

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(13 total ratings)

Educational

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Which Naruto Character Are You? A Funteractive Quizsperience DX Director's Cut Anniversary Edition

The age old question!

Tapesoft

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(29 total ratings)

Role Playing

a Museum of Dubious Splendors.

A collection of small and peculier stories from Somwhere.

Studio Oleomingus

Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars

(54 total ratings)

Adventure

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

(195 total ratings)

Simulation

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Cashbags

(2017)

Sand Gardeners

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(25 total ratings)

Simulation

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Apology Simulator

We’ve all suffered inadequate apologies, or wished for apologies that never came...

Matthew Seiji Burns

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

(50 total ratings)

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LESBIAN VAMPIRE DATING ONLINE

Helping your vampire bff create her online dating profile.

storytam

Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars

(80 total ratings)

Simulation

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FREE Personality Test

A "FREE Meyers-Briggs personality test" which will tell you more about yourself!

Devon Wiersma

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

(44 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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Millika Village

Raius

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(17 total ratings)

Role Playing

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Feathers

A short story about a harpy who has too many feathers. (LD40)

Crystal Game Works

Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars

(21 total ratings)

Visual Novel

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A Halo, Flaring

a widow is contacted by an AI version of their partner

audo

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(14 total ratings)

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he's not my

a multiple choice game about discerning friendship

xed

Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars

(25 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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Word Whip

challenging word puzzler

Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars

(14 total ratings)

Puzzle

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Solo Records

A story for the lonely dreamers and the loved realists.

ArdenceVice

Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars

(9 total ratings)

Visual Novel

Dialogue 3-D

Ramsey Nasser

Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars

(50 total ratings)

Shooter

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GIF

Don't make love

Will you make love and risk death?

Maggese

Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars

(26 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

GIF

all you have to do is survive

Your government loves you very much! Make good choices! (A #ResistJam project.)

Lily

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

(13 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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GIF

Into The Hoop Demo

A basketball themed visual novel and dating sim with stat management!

intothehoop

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

(17 total ratings)

Visual Novel

GIF

The Ritual

a Princess & her Knight travel through the woods.

Megan

Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars

(21 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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The End of Warren's House

nbgstudio

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

(13 total ratings)

Adventure

A Pirate's End

An adventure rogue-like where age is your enemy

edkay

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(9 total ratings)

Adventure

Roberta Williams Eats a Sandwich

Can pioneering game developer Roberta Williams eat a sandwich without dying?

bitterkarella

Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars

(8 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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