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Top ratedin game jams tagged Text based Page 5 (1,376 results)

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A gay road trip romance
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(15 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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A dark fantasy novel.
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(27 total ratings)
Visual Novel
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Interview your housemates, challenge their lies, and catch the resident sausage thief.
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(13 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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nostalgia, jumping around in time, and clearing out your childhood room
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(11 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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When a star dies, time collaspes.
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(11 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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(2018)
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(11 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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Short, twine-like (custom), experimental interactive poetry.
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(11 total ratings)
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Your second driving lesson.
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(11 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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The Text Parser Adventure where you CAN'T STOP MOVING.
PowerhoofVerified Account
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(16 total ratings)
Adventure
One god. One message. One faith. Right?
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(16 total ratings)
Simulation
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On a campus under siege by riot police you count down to the end...
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(52 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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You wake at the cinema. The movie is over. Your friend is missing. Déjà vu grips you tight. It's all happened before.
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(19 total ratings)
Adventure
​A first person dungeon-delving adventure where text and context are everything.
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(17 total ratings)
Adventure
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Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(12 total ratings)
Visual Novel
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A workplace horror game, playable in 5 minutes.
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(12 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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A generic post-isekai story
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(10 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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How to reshape a ruined world.
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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Abandoned spaces in the bowels of a wandering fortress.
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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A narrative game about duck platforming and holding hands
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Platformer
A late night conversation between two best friends
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Visual Novel
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A wholesome haunt
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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You never asked to be made.
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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A cyberpunk cake-baking game about an asexual couple... in the future!
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(27 total ratings)
Puzzle
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Goblins seeking Refuge
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(20 total ratings)
Adventure
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An atmospheric incremental game.
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(34 total ratings)
Simulation
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Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(50 total ratings)
Shooter
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A game about being a gay character in a 19th century British novel
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(19 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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Write poems, get paid, try to avoid comitting high treason.
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(12 total ratings)
Adventure
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Pick a card.
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(20 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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A queer and spooky twine game. You're a bi bookshop worker trying to find your girlfriend - where is she?
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(13 total ratings)
Adventure
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Your government loves you very much! Make good choices! (A #ResistJam project.)
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(13 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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For some people it can be hard to identify their emotions
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(13 total ratings)
Educational
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there's a monster in your closet.
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(13 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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Stone thoughts in a rock desert. Unsustainable peace.
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(10 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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you can't sleep
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(10 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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A short abstract visual novel about what you feel about having too many or too little !@#$s left to give
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(10 total ratings)
Visual Novel
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