Top rated free games from 2024 tagged Text based

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Project: Eden's Garden

16 talented participants enter the game. Only 2 will walk out alive.

Project: Eden's Garden

Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars

(398 total ratings)

Visual Novel

God-Cursed: Demo

An interactive fiction fantasy game made with Twine. Create your character, break a curse, fall in love & make it home.

Lunan

Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars

(386 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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Viatica

Your journey begins in sand and sound and silence.

Fir & Fireweed

Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars

(328 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

Play in browser

The Exile

A dark-fantasy interactive-fiction epic.

Pheo

Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars

(168 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

Play in browser

Tales of Wocdes: The Silver Protector

A fantasy twine game set is a world full of magic and mysteries.

Tales Of Wocdes

Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars

(119 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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Whisper in the Dark

Whisper Game

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(240 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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The Gray Ascendancy

Craft the story of a villain's amnesiac henchperson on a quest to mage restoration.

grayascendancy

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(242 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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Snowbound Blood

A Vast Error Story

DECONRECONSTRUCTION

Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars

(90 total ratings)

Visual Novel

Social Democracy: An Alternate History

You are the Social Democratic Party of Germany in 1928. Can you stop the Nazis from taking power?

Autumn Chen

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(107 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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Love After Death

Echo_

Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars

(60 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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The Soulforge Order

Become a soulforge and uncover the secrets of Azish.

Salt

Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars

(65 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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Tears of Tianchao

Trust none. Follow None

ERAgames

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(80 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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One Thousand Acts of Decency

Trapped in a Dome with eight hours to catch a killer

domedev

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(33 total ratings)

Visual Novel

A Dark Forest

Incremental Experimental Minimalistic Game

TinyTakinTeller

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(91 total ratings)

Play in browser

The Fall of House Black

Rise from the grave and start anew.

ethersic

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(66 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

Play in browser

[EXTERNAL COMMUNICATION]

Use caution when opening attachments, clicking links, or responding.

DOMINO CLUB

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(29 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

Play in browser

GIF

IF - Dancetale

You don't know where you are. You don't know who you are. All you know is that you have to find [REDACTED].

Darkpetal16

Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars

(40 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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Pick & Poke

Narrative roguelike with tokens

Christophe Coyard

Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars

(129 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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Swapped

You never thought you could meet someone who looks identical to you...

aurelim

Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars

(31 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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Those Long Dead

A WIP medieval fantasy interactive fiction story, with angelic imagery and themes, and a focus on romance.

Aevum Games

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(66 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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Read This When You Turn 15

For a little someone who will grow up to be a beautiful person.

Kastel

Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars

(35 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

Play in browser

GIF

Galactic Foodtruck Simulator 2999 (GFS2999)

The galaxy hungers. You own a foodtruck. Feed everyone.

WiL

Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars

(32 total ratings)

Simulation

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The Scarlette Mage (Demo)

A dark fantasy visual novel, set in the same universe as The Violette Mage.

Citrus Koi

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(21 total ratings)

Visual Novel

night confessional

absolution in a phone booth

sweetfish

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(24 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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There's just something about u

A literal text adventure about a conversation between u and i

GooseStranger

Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars

(35 total ratings)

Platformer

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LAD EXTRAS

Echo_

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(22 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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Obsession

An unsubtle metaphor.

Rascal Devworks

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(18 total ratings)

Visual Novel

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everything i will be normal about

dino

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(18 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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Vestiges of the Hallowing

Buttercup Fiction

Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars

(26 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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To Be Human

An eldritch being finds a child.

KingOverlord

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(44 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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Untrusted - Web of Cybercrime

The Social Deduction Multiplayer Hacking Game

PlayUntrusted

Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars

(24 total ratings)

Role Playing

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Vermis - Fan Game

text based fan game based off the artist Plastiboo's art book.

Adam Duehring

Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars

(24 total ratings)

Adventure

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(K)night Under The Mountain

farewell; and, sweet dreams

vermis

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(13 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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Making dumplings

Two girls make dumplings on Chinese New Year's.

Autumn Chen

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(13 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

Play in browser

Bluebeard's Not-Wives

of course he has a blue beard and pronouns

alyshkalia

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(13 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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All I Am Is This

(I don't know what "this" is, actually.)

letifoxcat

Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars

(16 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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