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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 (114 results)

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A horror game about working in a 90's call center.
Puzzle
An AI-Driven Interactive Fiction Engine
Interactive Fiction
Working through the holidays can be hell, especially at Home Safety Hotline.
Puzzle
A cozy mystery adventure game set in early 1900s Ontario, Canada!
Adventure
*NEW UPDATE 0.5.0* Incremental / Idle RPG with a narrative story, enemies to defeat, and a town to save.
Role Playing
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The Text Parser Adventure where you CAN'T STOP MOVING.
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Adventure
A horror fantasy kidnapping sim.
Interactive Fiction
​Kevin writes a novel within a dictionary to seek what home is.
Adventure
A Vast Error Story
Visual Novel
A story of love, death and lies.
Visual Novel
Hey there, welcome to the Echo of Mobius! Here, you’ll step into a world shaped by everyone’s wildest dreams.
Role Playing
An 80KB interactive-fiction text adventure.
Adventure
Undersea horror where your only form of navigation is an unreliable AI.
Adventure
A visual novel about a death game which erupts aboard a train
Visual Novel
Play in browser
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
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
Issue #51 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.
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The galaxy hungers. You own a foodtruck. Feed everyone.
Simulation
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Issue #52 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.
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A brief, text-only tale of darkness and woe with six endings, only one of them good.
Interactive Fiction
Weird fantasy text adventure RPG
Interactive Fiction
Issue #55 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 Cassette Futuristic Space Adventure
Simulation
Text-based roguelike in a sky with steampunk theme
Role Playing
Trapped in a Dome with eight hours to catch a killer
Visual Novel
Save the liberal order as the head of the world's lender of last resort!
Simulation
Do anything. You choose the journey.
Visual Novel
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