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Explore games from 2020 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 · Upload your games from 2020 to itch.io to have them show up here.

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Superstition S2

Journey deeper into the unknown.

Interactive Fiction

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Blackout: The Darkest Night

Once you glimpse behind the shadows, you’ll never be the same.

Interactive Fiction

Mini-books within mini-books.

Studio CloudScape

Puzzle

$1

Choose between exploring jungle tropics or navigating deep into a bioluminescent sea.

Role Playing

Pixel Fireplace

$4.99

Type commands, roast marshmallows, throw logs onto a crackling fire. Enjoy

Simulation

An Infocom-style adventure for retro computers

Interactive Fiction

text-adventure MMORPG

Sokpop Collective

Role Playing

Dave Microwaves Games Trilogy I

$1.50

A collection of horror games, each with their own distinct styles

Dave Microwaves Games

Adventure

Immerse yourself in an AI-driven literary universe where anything can happen.

Interactive Fiction

Scout: An Apocalypse Story

A text choice romance in an apocalyptic setting.

Interactive Fiction

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a story of a frog in space.

Adventure

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And yet it hurt

An adventure game in Notepad about a kid who seeks revenge.

Adventure

The Saint's Tomb

A gamebook-style fantasy adventure for the 5th edition of the world's most popular tabletop RPG.

Role Playing

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The Devil's Collection - Beware the Festival of Fools

$5

Adventure

£1

Henry! It's me, it's Sheepy! It's so co-o-old!

Interactive Fiction

There's A Bear Outside

Isn't it nice that there is a perfectly normal bear at the window?

The Very Worst Thing

Interactive Fiction

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Indiepocalypse #1

Issue #1 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.

10mg: Cover Me In Leaves

A short kinetic novel — on bright minds, and the end of all things.

Elliot Herriman

Interactive Fiction

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exobotanical horror

Visual Novel

A surreal visual novel built on old bones and entropy

Alpha Chrome Yayo

Interactive Fiction

It only takes one night to change everything.

Interactive Fiction

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a text based, trans* femme dress-up party!

Interactive Fiction

$2.99

Can you discover you?

Lawrence Marable

Interactive Fiction

the blood that warms these veins of ours

Something isn't right in Ashwood Grove.

Interactive Fiction

A narrative dungeon-crawler

Puzzle

Long Journey Home

$1

Alone, but for the worms and mushrooms

Interactive Fiction

Go through 50 hand made levels and make your own in this DOS inspired game

Platformer

a short narrative game about old friends saying goodbye over the phone.

Interactive Fiction

Indiepocalypse #9

Issue #9 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.

Proper Detective 2000

1.50€

A couple has been brutally murdered in their house last night. Are you up to solve the mystery?

Puzzle

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At the Margins of Clouds

A Twine written on a plane.

Interactive Fiction

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Hepburn: Takaishitai

A reimagining of classic 90s cult horror games.

Explore space in this retro inspired survival game

Survival

Gender Dysphoria

negative experiences after coming out as transgender

Interactive Fiction

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Interactive Fiction

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a friendly horror game in your neighborhood

Interactive Fiction

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