Top rated games from 2016 tagged Text based - Page 2

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Ray Bibbia

Play as the toughest private exorcist around and fight evil by dodging bullets and typing your formula.

Morbidware

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(6 total ratings)

Action

A GHOST STORY FOR CHRISTMAS

A cyberpunk text-based game inspired by the 70s BBC short films.

Charlie Dart

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(6 total ratings)

Adventure

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Nasty/Good/Badass

A multiple choice personality test

Xeneth

Rated 4.1 out of 5 stars

(12 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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A Spambot in Love

Jillian Maywhether

Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars

(7 total ratings)

Visual Novel

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Five Minutes a Day

Every day, for the rest of your life.

Andrea Pignataro

Rated 3.8 out of 5 stars

(35 total ratings)

Adventure

Blue - Pigments of our love

A narrative text-based game with interactive colors

Diane

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(6 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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Three Minutes to Midnight

A moody textual stategy game about political tensions.

Thibaut Mereu

Rated 3.8 out of 5 stars

(33 total ratings)

Strategy

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The Phantom of the Hospital

A short and light-hearted VN + art assets

Hidden Masquerade

Rated 3.9 out of 5 stars

(15 total ratings)

Visual Novel

The Unexpected Dating Sim

You've entered a bar and you're looking for love. What will you find?

lemondaurora

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(6 total ratings)

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Worldsmith

An intergalactic Interactive Fable

Interactive Fables

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(5 total ratings)

Adventure

All The Places You'll Go (Women As Place)

A point-and-click world tour through postcard representations of women.

Angela Washko

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(5 total ratings)

Play in browser

Úrquel, the black dragon

You arrive at Úrquel’s castle to rescue a princess. Things are almost, but not quite, what they seem.

David T. Marchand

Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars

(5 total ratings)

Adventure

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Isles Of Umbra

Lovecraftian first person point and click adventure

riffst

Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars

(5 total ratings)

Adventure

Eioioio

A girl mourns his father while figuring out how to survive the snowy apocalypse.

David T. Marchand

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(4 total ratings)

Adventure

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Snozbot's Text Adventure

Find your missing brain in a text adventure platform game

Snozbot

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(4 total ratings)

Platformer

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It wasn't me.

What do you think happened? A short telescopic text mystery, playing with out-of-the-box storytelling mechanics.

Rosa Carbo-Mascarell

Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars

(7 total ratings)

Role Playing

Midnight's Café

A dark visual-novel about friendship + art assets

Hidden Masquerade

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

(13 total ratings)

Visual Novel

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Nightowl

Old friends reunite over a chat room. (LD37)

Crystal Game Works

Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars

(5 total ratings)

Visual Novel

BURNING TEMPLES

you are divine, holy, and AWAKE

HEAVENDELUXE

Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars

(5 total ratings)

Role Playing

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Intimate Codex

Free form text exploration

AndyMakes

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(4 total ratings)

❤ DEMON DATE ❤

You've tried the rest, now try the worst - DEMON DATE

polymer despair

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

(13 total ratings)

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The Brigand's Story

And the captain said: "Antonio, tell us your favorite story!" And Antonio began:

Laura Michet

Rated 4.2 out of 5 stars

(5 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

Cyber Vampire Assassins From Space

Vampires trapped in a Spaceship! Guards with flamethrowers! Eat them or get burned! #BerlinMiniJam

Joerg Reisig

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

(4 total ratings)

Strategy

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Too Many Chefs

A text-based cooperative cooking game

navi

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(3 total ratings)

Action

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Hollowed Weed (A Study in Human Traditions, Entry 1)

Help a scientist understand the stranger parts of human culture.

BeauPrime

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(3 total ratings)

Simulation

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CyBer//zDvAç

Türkçe

Nabi Hamdi Mortan

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(3 total ratings)

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ASCII Dungeon

Text-based dungeon crawler in the vein of Ultima or Wizardry

Jack Morgan

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(3 total ratings)

Role Playing

Paper Brexit

A Dream | Narrative Game (20 Minutes)

Greg Buchanan

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(3 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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Terminal Town

Mysterious command line tools

AndyMakes

Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars

(5 total ratings)

Puzzle

Murder on the Disorient Express

Can you navigate the train and its interpersonal web of deceit to figure out whodunnit?

shaynehayes

Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars

(4 total ratings)

Adventure

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The MansterSoft 3-in-1 Fun-Pak

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Laser Moles, Knife-Fighting Chimps, and an ASCII Snail

MansterSoft

Rated 3.6 out of 5 stars

(7 total ratings)

Action

Respite

Rest awhile...

Jillian Maywhether

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(3 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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Martha Stewart doesn't live here.

A game about not being Martha Stewart.

Allie A

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(3 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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Creation Cycle Project: Human

reinapepiada

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(3 total ratings)

Play in browser

Five Star Freeloaders: The Demo

A visual novel about a NEET and their freeloading roommates.

Candy✩Giants

Rated 3.7 out of 5 stars

(6 total ratings)

Visual Novel

Hello: A Talking Simulator

Say 'HELLO' to the Corporation.

benjo durbin

Rated 3.8 out of 5 stars

(5 total ratings)

Simulation

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