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Top rated paidfrom 2023 tagged Text based (17 results)

Explore games from 2023 tagged Text based on itch.io. Focused on using its text, moreso than its visuals or audio, to tell the bulk of its story/plot. (Still can have great a · Sell your games from 2023 on itch.io to have them show up here.

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Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(40 total ratings)
Simulation
Perfect Tides is a point and click adventure game about the agony and anticipation of being a teen.
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Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(32 total ratings)
Adventure
Christmas has come to Wayhaven! And it's magical…quite literally.
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(44 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Text-Mode Social RPG
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(7 total ratings)
Role Playing
Text-based open world roguelike
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Issue #44 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.
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Rated 4.2 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
An online festival celebrating the 100th Sokpop game!
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Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Adventure
A classic tale of revenge, local politics, pseudoscience, questionable botany, love, and loss.
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
The video game adaptation of the infamous Dadaist anti-art sculpture
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
The dating sim where not everyone wants to date you.
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Visual Novel
A narrative strategy game in which your decisions in one corner of the galaxy can upend entire civilizations in another.
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Simulation
Interactive royalty novel, with romance. Text based
Rated 3.3 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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Microcrawl is a bite sized point and click 2D adventure text hybrid
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Adventure
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
A minimalist TV typewriter for creative notetaking
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Educational
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
An illustrated text adventure set in a vivid open world where everyone has an agenda.
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Adventure
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