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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 2024 tagged Text based (112 results)

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Role Playing
A story of love, death and lies.
Visual Novel
A horror fantasy kidnapping sim.
Interactive Fiction
Medieval fantasy open-world game
Adventure
A fantasy twine game set is a world full of magic and mysteries.
Interactive Fiction
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A horror game about working in a 90's call center.
Puzzle
The Text Parser Adventure where you CAN'T STOP MOVING.
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Adventure
A Vast Error Story
Visual Novel
A cozy mystery adventure game set in early 1900s Ontario, Canada!
Adventure
An 80KB interactive-fiction text adventure.
Adventure
Undersea horror where your only form of navigation is an unreliable AI.
Adventure
Issue #49 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.
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SAY ANYTHING in this dungeon adventure where words control everything.
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Adventure
Working through the holidays can be hell, especially at Home Safety Hotline.
Puzzle
Enemies on camera, enemies off camera!
Visual Novel
Embark on a thrilling, tongue-in-cheek train heist in the style of classic dice-rolling RPGs.
Role Playing
A winter themed otome game where you get to romance a jerky singer!
Visual Novel
A narrative strategy game in which your decisions in one corner of the galaxy can upend entire civilizations in another.
Simulation
Will you nuke the world to save it?
Interactive Fiction
The galaxy hungers. You own a foodtruck. Feed everyone.
Simulation
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Issue #51 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.
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Issue #52 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.
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A young girl has been kidnapped, you have two hours to find and free her.
Visual Novel
A brief, text-only tale of darkness and woe with six endings, only one of them good.
Interactive Fiction
An AI-Driven Interactive Fiction Engine
Interactive Fiction
A Cassette Futuristic Space Adventure
Simulation
Issue #55 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.
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Text-based roguelike in a sky with steampunk theme
Role Playing
Save the liberal order as the head of the world's lender of last resort!
Simulation
A Murder Mystery Visual Novel.
Visual Novel
Do anything. You choose the journey.
Visual Novel
Incremental / Idle RPG with a narrative story, enemies to defeat, and a town to save.
Role Playing
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A choose your own adventure game, featuring a fluffy boy
Interactive Fiction
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