Top rated free games from 2017 tagged Text based - Page 3

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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)

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consciousness hologram

a game about mars.

slugzuki

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(3 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

Lars

A graphic psychological horror text adventure

hankworx

Rated 3.8 out of 5 stars

(6 total ratings)

Visual Novel

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Date Night

Keep the world outside, outside.

Drink To Destruction

Rated 3.8 out of 5 stars

(6 total ratings)

Simulation

Play in browser

Doom.txt

DOOM, now in convenient text form.

Nick Kornek

Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars

(5 total ratings)

Adventure

Play in browser

Cheap Room 값싼 방 (Sound Novel)_en/kr

Old-fashioned sound novel. Asian horror story.

QamarART

Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars

(4 total ratings)

Adventure

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Wayfarer

Gather your allies and defeat the evil lich wizard.

Cameron McHenry

Rated 3.6 out of 5 stars

(7 total ratings)

Role Playing

The Outpost Nine

benjybates

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(3 total ratings)

Adventure

Snail Party

Help Ishmael the Snail get to the Snail Party in this ASCII adventure

MansterSoft

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(3 total ratings)

Adventure

Brainfog

A never-ending game about the mental effects of chronic illness.

Erin Kyan

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(3 total ratings)

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Color the Truth

A conversational murder mystery in text adventure form.

mathbrush

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(3 total ratings)

Adventure

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Saturday Fright

Monster girls + social anxiety at a party

gensuta

Rated 3.7 out of 5 stars

(6 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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HR: Human Resource

Welcome to the bureaucratic hellscape that is Parasol Corp.

groupeffort

Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars

(4 total ratings)

The Devil's Game -Demo-

Storytold Comics

Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars

(3 total ratings)

Visual Novel

Words as Objects Text Adventure!

A texture adventure where the words are the objects!

LiterallyAKing

Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars

(3 total ratings)

Adventure

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21 Rooms

With no options left you decide to play the stranger's twisted game.

BrianPickens53

Rated 3.3 out of 5 stars

(7 total ratings)

Adventure

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Paint By The Numbers

A game where time is of the essence and your future painting career hangs in the balance!

Nenekiri

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(2 total ratings)

Visual Novel

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ibis, fly!

A short game about being an Australian white ibis.

newsmary

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(2 total ratings)

Adventure

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Absence of Law

A text adventure with a twist.

mathbrush

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(2 total ratings)

Adventure

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Will

Are you prepared to let go?

MiniChimera

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(2 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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Island

Find your way out of this Island full of mysteries.

Eclipse

Rated 3.8 out of 5 stars

(4 total ratings)

Role Playing

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Submerged

An aquatic hyper-textual adventure for awkward sea turtles.

Kate

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(2 total ratings)

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ALRAUNE

a trauma/recovery twine

BlakeLocked

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(2 total ratings)

Role Playing

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Capybara Capriole

Dodge obstacles atop your trusty Capybara. When that gets boring build your own level.

MansterSoft

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(2 total ratings)

A Day in the Life of a Spider with a Positive Attitude

A text game about a positive spider, made with Twine.

TinyBookshelf

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(2 total ratings)

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Natural Pressure

A girl leaves her childhood home hoping to find something better, but she can't seem to escape her roots.

Olivia C Dunlap

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(2 total ratings)

Visual Novel

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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

Le kébab hanté

Chassez les démons d'un kébab hanté

Hugo Labrande

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(2 total ratings)

Adventure

Play in browser

Véléda - Pour Josiane et ces chers Germains

VisualNoverHumor

TomBuston

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(2 total ratings)

Visual Novel

The Mouse

I shouldn't have come here. An abuse simulator.

Norbez Jones (call me Bez)

Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars

(3 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

Sphinx

Lion-bodied human eater simulator

Ashkastel

Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars

(3 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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little

a tiny yarn for ectocomp

CMG

Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars

(3 total ratings)

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By Myself, For Once

Your first visit to the bank

Maxime Monast

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

(2 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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Satan Is Knocking On My Door

A story about healing old wounds.

Anne Do

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

(2 total ratings)

Adventure

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Extrospect

A personal journey through the thoughts and feelings of anonymous writers

Zac's Games

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

(2 total ratings)

Adventure

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