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Top selling$15 or less from 2021 tagged Text based (29 results)

Explore games from 2021 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 2021 on itch.io to have them show up here.

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Break the curse and uncover your fire.
Interactive Fiction
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Text-based space exploration game
Interactive Fiction
An ode to text-adventures.
Interactive Fiction
A narrative game built from historical records
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Interactive Fiction
Acolyte
$10.99
A narrative ARG/Detective game that gives you your own digital assistant.
Interactive Fiction
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Interactive Fiction
Issue #22 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.
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Issue #17 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.
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These are the log entries of a grumpy space traveler.
Interactive Fiction
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You wake up at the bottom of the ocean, surrounded by broken memories. Reclaim your magic or drown in a sea of dreams.
Interactive Fiction
A narrative-deduction game.
Adventure
The world is ending and nobody cares!
Role Playing
Funny Viking Dating Sim (SFW Ages 12+)
Visual Novel
Multiple endings, moral choices, and a quest for vengance.
Interactive Fiction
A kaleidoscopic vision of one woman seen through three rotating eyes.
Interactive Fiction
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Try and survive working as a corporate drone while typing your anger away, making money hand over fist.
Action
This game is based on the theme of love & light reasoning.
Visual Novel
Classic Old School Text Based Hacking Game
Simulation
Now witness the wrath of a true beast.
Visual Novel
VT Harmony - Visual Novel
Visual Novel
A full-scale retro JRPG with ambitious textmode graphics [Now available!]
Role Playing
The Classic Dice Rolling Game Now For ZZT v3.2!
Play in browser
A text based interactive story where you write the laws of The Magick!
Interactive Fiction
Save the realm. Or don't. The decision is yours.
Interactive Fiction
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Be an investor in a lawless country or die trying
Simulation
Distant Dials is a mush (multi-user shared hallucination), taking place in 2875...
GSM 2019 is a football manager game with 210 playable nations and over 4000 playable clubs.
Sports
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