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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 sellingfrom 2016 tagged Text based (81 results)

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Grow a civilization, Build a Pyramid
Simulation
1bit adventure game of cosmic horror inspired by the work of Junji Ito
Role Playing
Replica
$2.99
Everything in the State, nothing against the State, nothing outside the State.
Adventure
An intergalactic Interactive Fable
Adventure
Do you want to feel like REAL Mystery Solver and Explorer?
Adventure
Event[0]
$19.99
Event[0] is a sci-fi narrative game where you build a relationship with a spaceship computer to get home to Earth.
Adventure
More Rooms - More Riddles - and even more Tea!
Adventure
Take a road trip through a valley.
A murder is committed in a secluded mansion, and it's up to you to solve it.
Visual Novel
A Murder Mystery Visual Novel.
Visual Novel
an exceptional day in archfield is a day when nothing happens. a twine adventure.
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
You've tried the rest, now try the worst - DEMON DATE
A book of playable poems by Todd Anderson
ASCII Action! As minimal as an RPG can get
Role Playing
alien civilization extinction simulator
Play in browser
Buying condoms is awkward. This games reminds you of that.
Role Playing
Play in browser
You're an ASCII Oat; Dodge the ASCII Slime Mold!
Action
ansdorVerified Account
Platformer
Play in browser
Escape the house, defy your broodlords, and go to prom. It is your birthright.
Adventure
Your ten years on the station are up. The Company sent a pair of clones to replace you-- and they've got a secret.
Interactive Fiction
Your own adventure in a steampunk world! Find mysterious Alexander Cooper and unravel secrets in city of Staighrem.
Adventure
Every day, for the rest of your life.
Adventure
Mysterious command line tools
Puzzle
Free form text exploration
A Twine Game about a Vain, Alien Sky Deity getting Pissed at some Frogs
A voice and text driven horror experience.
Visual Novel
An Audio & Text based horror game, set in total darkness. Will you survive?
Visual Novel
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
You have a unique opportunity to study the data regarding an identity change experiment.
Adventure
Play in browser
Ĉu vi memoras vian unuan kongreson? Alicio neniam forgesos la sian.
Role Playing
Play in browser
Today marks the day fate is changed, your actions shape the world.
Adventure
A Transformation game based on trivial pursuit
Puzzle
Hacker simulator
Simulation
Take a moment to think of your past. Do you miss it, or are you ready to move on?
Adventure
~ procedural poetry ~ THE DYING PILLOW NEAR THE SKY
Play in browser
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