Top rated free games from 2019 tagged Text based

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a horror survey game

litrouke

Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars

(2,269 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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GIF

Buddy Simulator 1984 DEMO

Create your own virtual best buddy and play games together!

Not a Sailor Studios

Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars

(296 total ratings)

Simulation

GIF

Who Stole My Bone?

Help Spudz the dog find his precious bone in this short, silly game!

Kryptic Kitty

Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars

(182 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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Project: Perfectly Normal

A free action-comedy BL game about a retired killer-for-hire who has to navigate life as a normal high school student.

peaceful-pastel

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(261 total ratings)

Visual Novel

Candied Carols

A wintry, magical holiday romance

VIOLET

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(147 total ratings)

Visual Novel

Hybrid

These people aren't like you.

HeartForge

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(211 total ratings)

Role Playing

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reunion

find your ex at the end of the world

caeth

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(100 total ratings)

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Mr. Rainer's Solve-It Service (Demo)

One day, HEINO's partner dies. He gets a new one.

etherane

Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars

(76 total ratings)

Adventure

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Bird Of Passage

A free night ride across Tokyo, searching for our home with the help of some stranger.

SpaceBackyard

Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars

(279 total ratings)

Visual Novel

GIF

Dear Toki

Write letters to reconnect with a friend

DDRKirby(ISQ)

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(71 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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When Rivers Were Trails

A game about the impact of allotment acts on Indigenous communities in the 1890's.

indianlandtenure

Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars

(49 total ratings)

Educational

Joestar ☆ Struck

Get Joestar Struck

TeamScallywag

Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars

(120 total ratings)

Visual Novel

Come to Jesus

An apocalyptic cult pick-your-path game! Neato!

Bone Octopus

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(55 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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Jagged Bone

Nessa Cannon

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(47 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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a bunch of you in a crowded room

it helps to talk to yourself

caeth

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(35 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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domvs

a gothic mystery

litrouke

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(60 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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Half

A short experience around cultural identity.

Emma Kidwell

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(37 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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alt_tarot

an unnaturally augmented tarot deck in twine

blake stone / fenced forest

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(32 total ratings)

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Aesthetic

🌺 a short story for coming out day 🌺

Olive

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(30 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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Mushroom Hunt

An entry for the Adventuron Cavejam

Polyducks

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(46 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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Superlunary Episode 1.0

A slow, queer, post-war space opera

communistsister

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(26 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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ineffable escape

when in a place of infinite Darkness, do not drift apart

smolalienbee

Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars

(16 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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You Will Travel No More

Stay a while. Stay forever. Won't you come outside?

BanzaiBonsai

Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars

(18 total ratings)

Puzzle

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GIF

Hot Soup

A Cozy Micro Twine for Rainy Days

Gabriel Cornish

Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars

(15 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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GIF

Marshmallow Nights

Goof off and eat marshmallows with your friend

Gabriel Cornish

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(25 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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The Thoughts Room

Relax and ease stress

Cyrogem

Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars

(16 total ratings)

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I Told You This Was A Bad Idea

Jessica Padkin

Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars

(43 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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Sepia Tears

A romance visual novel about memories best left forgotten.

Scarlet String Studios

Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars

(28 total ratings)

Visual Novel

CRYPTIdate

CRYPTIdate: helping cryptids find love for generations!

Jessica Padkin

Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars

(27 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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Industrial Accident

A robot violently goes wrong

John Ayliff

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(18 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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Unbecoming

A revisionist body horror denouement

-hexcavator-

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(23 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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This is probably going to make things awkward, but

This is going to make things awkward

Misspeak

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(17 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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What is a video game?

12 small 'games' about breaking the boundary of what a game is

Rosden Shadow

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(17 total ratings)

Stumbling upon meaning in an old town abandoned to its fate

An exploration of meanings

mut

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(15 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

Play in browser

In the Pause Between the Ringing.

An unbublished tale of telephone mining in India.

Studio Oleomingus

Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars

(21 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

Ending It

I used my hand to smear your name on a condemned warehouse. 1:38 pm on a Tuesday.

Karina Popp

Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars

(19 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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