Top rated games from 2018 tagged Text based

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goodbye

say goodbye before you go

barrels

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(329 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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BIRDLAND

A summer camp bird fighting text adventure

Brendan Patrick Hennessy

Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars

(79 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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Known Unknowns

A bisexual high school ghost hunting romance

Brendan Patrick Hennessy

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(83 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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Pairidaeza

A historic gay romance set in Medieval Baghdad

mostopha

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(55 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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Pageant

An interactive story about a girl who joins a beauty pageant to improve her college applications.

Autumn Chen

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(80 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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A Colour Like No Other

The world's less scary when you're a monster.

TheNamelessOne

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(40 total ratings)

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Trans Pyre

Finnish midsummer gender magic.

Xurxe Toivo García

Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars

(26 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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Pitch Black Serenade

- A non conventional romance game. -

97Circle

Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars

(19 total ratings)

Visual Novel

JOBHUNT

hunt for job

Sean

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(26 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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DEVOTIONALIA

Will your devotion reach them? Does it matter?

Grim Baccaris

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(29 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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if not us

an IF anthology about five heroes who die

ub4q

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

(82 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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nectar thief

a text based game. will likely take 5-10 minutes to play.

loren schmidt

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(23 total ratings)

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Escort Yourself Out

a game about trauma, triggers, and self-compassion

bignastytruck (violet)

Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars

(43 total ratings)

Simulation

A Klance Texting Game

This is a Klance Texting Game!

Queerklancing

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

(65 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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Six Shots

A text-based adventure game that puts you in the boots of a lone cowpoke bent on revenge.

BanzaiBonsai

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(16 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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Kindness

A narrative text game exploring a long dead civilisation.

AthenaParadigm

Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars

(11 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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Confessions of an NPC

Interview NPCs from a world not unlike our own...

Charles H. Huang

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(13 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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GIF

Kobold Dungeon Tester

A multiple-choice-adventure-roguelike about testing a dungeon.

st33d

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(13 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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Exhaustlands

(2018)

Sand Gardeners

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(21 total ratings)

Adventure

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GIF

AL - A Choose Your Own Adventure

Gabriel Cornish

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(17 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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Paradise

Paradise is an interactive fiction playground.

Rek & Devine

Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars

(10 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

The Serial Adventures of Dick Jack BB!

Episode One - The Montebello Dance and Dump Ball

angelboydiscoman

Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars

(10 total ratings)

Visual Novel

The Master of the Land

Dynamic text world | Alternate history intrigue

Pseudavid

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(22 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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Get That Girl!

A game about unrequited love.

Asterranaut

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

(52 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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GIF

predicated text

you are a predictive text keyboard

ub4q

Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars

(26 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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ONLY THIS

And nothing more.

Grim Baccaris

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(12 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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GIF

sacrament iv.

calamity occult-horror rpg

melessthanthree

Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars

(55 total ratings)

Role Playing

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Philip Marlowe Doesn't Understand the Mystery

(2018)

Sand Gardeners

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(11 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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Starsight

When a star dies, time collaspes.

graceinthemachine

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(11 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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Wretch!

You never asked to be made.

CogsAndSpanners

Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars

(9 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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RCI

A short game about examining three colorful, floating cubes in your apartment.

Kyle

Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars

(9 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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GIF

Ace Baker

A cyberpunk cake-baking game about an asexual couple... in the future!

*AAmici

Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars

(27 total ratings)

Puzzle

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GIF

Cannery Vale

forget who you are

Hanon Ondricek

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

(17 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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The Away Team

In this interactive sci-fi adventure novel, you are the AI pilot of Earth's last interstellar ship.

Underflow Studios

Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars

(37 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

GIF

Type 'n Jump

A text-based platformer, made for Ludum Dare 41 | Combine 2 Incompatible Genres

The Jucas

Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars

(16 total ratings)

Platformer

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Can You Come In?

Your boss has called to ask if you can come into work on your day off - and you don't have much choice but to go.

spacetwinks

Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars

(17 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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