Top rated free games from 2017 tagged Text based - Page 2

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Through the Woods Demo

Short demo in which you run some errands for your Gran. But there's something magical in the woods...

amrynth

Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars

(10 total ratings)

Role Playing

Play in browser

Tuuli

An interactive ritual

rubereaglenest

Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars

(12 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

Play in browser

sphinx of black quartz judge my vow

a post-mortality puzzle-hex

shrunken studios

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(8 total ratings)

Puzzle

Play in browser

Welcome to the Dragon Palace

A queer illustrated text adventure game

yllogique

Rated 4.2 out of 5 stars

(17 total ratings)

Adventure

Play in browser

🥚⌛🍳 TIME OMELETTE 🍳⌛🥚

A cooking mystery game about time. Except it's not a cooking game.

adriel

Rated 4.2 out of 5 stars

(13 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

Play in browser

The Weather Report

Trigger Warning! This game examines life in an abusive relationship

Syrrann

Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars

(7 total ratings)

Role Playing

Play in browser

Role for Resistance

A small study of characters

Astrid Dalmady

Rated 4.1 out of 5 stars

(14 total ratings)

Play in browser

In The Trees

A text-based speculative horror game

Caspian Depression Games

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

(8 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

Play in browser

Where the Sun Always Shines

A self-obsessed writer searches for inspiration.

ebi-hime

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

(8 total ratings)

Visual Novel

Bound By Blood

Play through a day in the life of a homeless woman who gets her period on the day of a job interview.

Twig Gates

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(7 total ratings)

Play in browser

The Wolf's Shepherd

Cuddle with your vampire or werewolf partners!

Suryce

Rated 4.2 out of 5 stars

(9 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

Play in browser

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

Fairy Tales of Innocent Children

Chase your shooting star. [Visual Novel, 5 mins]

Bruised Banana

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(6 total ratings)

Visual Novel

The Leggy Blond

There's nothing quite like infatuation borne of boredom.

Ntagonistic

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(6 total ratings)

Simulation

Play in browser

My Secret Hideout

An interactive text-generation treehouse toy

zarf

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(6 total ratings)

Play in browser

GIF

Cherry: A High School Misadventure

A Twine game about high school and friends

Emma Dee

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(6 total ratings)

Puzzle

Play in browser

The Grub

Short MMO text game about an incredibly gross creature.

Laura Michet

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(5 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

Hygge

Last year, I moved to Denmark. This is a game about the struggles of moving to a new country.

gains

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(5 total ratings)

Play in browser

City Lights

A man, a drink, a city.

PlugHead

Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars

(7 total ratings)

Visual Novel

Cook Your Own Adventure

A cooking/rich-aunt-impressing simulator

Lotophagia

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

(6 total ratings)

Simulation

Play in browser

Meow

FFO: cats, words, magic (but mostly cats)

nyetodd

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(5 total ratings)

Adventure

Play in browser

YOUR PARTY IS DEAD

Unfortunately, death is not the end.

Naomi Norbez (call me Bez)

Rated 4.1 out of 5 stars

(7 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

Play in browser

TT is bored and should finish a game

A game about games, game design and a developer who stopped being lazy and just shipped a game.

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(4 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

Play in browser

Little Antifa Novel

A playable leaflet about a Fascist march and our counter-demonstration

Mauro Vanetti

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

(40 total ratings)

Visual Novel

Play in browser

Going Down

Journey to another world. Return if you can.

Hanon Ondricek

Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars

(7 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

Play in browser

The Roommate

A short story about corruptions and transformations. Or not!

@jbu3

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(4 total ratings)

Adventure

Play in browser

GIF

Life: the game of chance

25 diferent life paths, choose carefully.

Tim Krief

Rated 3.2 out of 5 stars

(378 total ratings)

Simulation

Play in browser

The Dark

power's out

Zelan

Rated 4.2 out of 5 stars

(5 total ratings)

Visual Novel

A Visitor on Venus

A low-rez FMV visual novel about a vacation gone wrong.

SweetHeart Squad

Rated 4.2 out of 5 stars

(5 total ratings)

Visual Novel

Play in browser

Appleblossom Academy

CommanderCookie

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

(4 total ratings)

Visual Novel

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

A Sea View, with Exit Wounds

An interactive short story about a woman returning to her family home in a seaside town after her father dies.

maxamillian

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(3 total ratings)

Play in browser

L'Origine du monde

A pseudo-biographical text adventure about fucking up your sleep schedule!

Saori & Nitori

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(3 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

Play in browser

Senseless

You just want to shoot that watermelon and @SvenAhlgrimm just wants to be innovative

Sven Ahlgrimm

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(3 total ratings)

Shooter

Seltani

Hypertext MMO

zarf

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(3 total ratings)

Role Playing

Play in browser

consciousness hologram

a game about mars.

slugzuki

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(3 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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