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Focused on using its text, moreso than its visuals or audio, to tell the bulk of its story/plot. (Still can have great audio and visuals, though!)

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Top ratedfrom 2017 tagged Text based (261 results)

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You sold your firstborn to a witch. Now she helps you find a mate.
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(729 total ratings)
Simulation
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Help a robot list all the ingredients for love
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(119 total ratings)
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An AI seedship must find a home for the last survivors of the human race
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(225 total ratings)
Strategy
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weary, transformation, dog, burger, comfort
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(83 total ratings)
Simulation
a hypertext game based on a true story and some untrue stories
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(62 total ratings)
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when breathing has become a chore. when to exist is a trial.
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(111 total ratings)
Simulation
Live authoritarianism through a minimalist narrative experience.
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(96 total ratings)
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鈥婩ight against a stink bug invasion with science! And cyborgs! And bravery! Or cowardice - it's your choice, really.
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(133 total ratings)
Role Playing
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Meet your merman boyfriend.
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(173 total ratings)
Simulation
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Date, kiss, exorcise demons!
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(78 total ratings)
Simulation
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Visit Your Grandmother
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(16 total ratings)
Simulation
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lynchian piss adventure
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(15 total ratings)
Adventure
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(2017)
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(57 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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Romance is complicated. Romance with an ovipositor is complicateder.
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(24 total ratings)
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Did you hurt someone? Are you having trouble coming to terms with it? Are you unsure what to do next?
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(13 total ratings)
Educational
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The age old question!
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(29 total ratings)
Role Playing
A collection of small and peculier stories from Somwhere.
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(54 total ratings)
Adventure
Why have a pet rock when you can have a pet planet? Micromanage this cosmic rock to places never thought possible!
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(194 total ratings)
Simulation
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a story about computers, memory, and the end of the world
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(20 total ratings)
Adventure
(2017)
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(25 total ratings)
Simulation
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We鈥檝e all suffered inadequate apologies, or wished for apologies that never came...
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(50 total ratings)
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Helping your vampire bff create her online dating profile.
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(80 total ratings)
Simulation
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A "FREE Meyers-Briggs personality test" which will tell you more about yourself!
Devon WiersmaVerified Account
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(44 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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A novel-length "bat-romance" Twine.
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(24 total ratings)
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(17 total ratings)
Role Playing
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A short story about a harpy who has too many feathers. (LD40)
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(21 total ratings)
Visual Novel
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a widow is contacted by an AI version of their partner
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(14 total ratings)
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a multiple choice game about discerning friendship
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(25 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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challenging word puzzler
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(14 total ratings)
Puzzle
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A story for the lonely dreamers and the loved realists.
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(50 total ratings)
Shooter
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Will you make love and risk death?
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(26 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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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A basketball themed visual novel and dating sim with stat management!
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(17 total ratings)
Visual Novel
a Princess & her Knight travel through the woods.
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(21 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(13 total ratings)
Adventure
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