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for Linux with Keyboard support that last a few seconds tagged Text based (32 results)

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Explore games for Linux with Keyboard support that last a few seconds 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 for Linux with Keyboard support that last a few seconds to itch.io to have them show up here.

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Procedurally generated zero-player idle RPG.

Role Playing

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U.F.O Text Quest

A classic text adventure in the style of interactive fiction from computers from the 80s

Interactive Fiction

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$4.50

Explore a miniature world as an emotionally driven robot and discover unique experiences with each new emotion.

Interactive Fiction

Food From a Stranger

A creepy stranger offers a girl candy.

Visual Novel

To be enthralled by love is murder on the soul in this paranormal, point-and-click, otome visual novel.

Visual Novel

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The Excuse Machine

Your #1 solution for creating lies!

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A guy finds a novel that can see the past and the future.

Visual Novel

Dark Blue Dungeon

Dark Blue Dungeon is an adventure game inspired by D&D-style role-playing games.

Role Playing

Jack Johnson: The Spy

Open fire?

Role Playing

Terminal Escape

A text based escape room game with a twist!

Puzzle

As much action as we could pack in one line of a terminal

Action

The Game of Choice

na-und-goethe-2017

Pokémon, but CLI.

Strategy

La Nourriture d'un Étranger

Un étranger effrayant offre des bonbons à une fille.

Visual Novel

See how a group of young adults in a time of despair learn to survive in a world of disease.

Cyprus Developer

Adventure

Swords and Spells

A text based RPG, but with buttons

Role Playing

$1

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

Platformer

Nothing... Yet Everything

A game where you are controled by two constants, Nothing and Everything

Simulation

Russia, Canada, USA Pick a side. Use Nukes, Airstrikes, Missiles or Surrender.

Cyprus Developer

Action

You find a programm on your PC you didn't download.

Visual Novel

Gaming Quote Master!

Test your knowledge of 200+ video game quotes! Are you a Gaming Quote Master!?

TrampolineTales

Puzzle

Missile Defuser

It's 2182 and you must use your computer console to defuse the missile!

Puzzle

Help a lost bit escape a sea of bytes, using bitwise operations to advance and get the correct values through the exits

Puzzle

Wotek's office Demo1

A joke jpg (jrpg)

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A mad libs inspired text based game with 10+ stories/poems that are randomly selected.

Interactive Fiction

Northern Quarter

A short choose your own adventure story where you play a nameless figure who journeys to the Northern Realms...

Interactive Fiction

A Great Arcade-style Text-based Game!

Survival

d o n ' t s t a r t y o u r p c

Cyprus Developer

Simulation

type words to flap, flap to survive

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Adlib, an adlib game by Blaze Games

Remake of a very old DOS game to learn English-Russian words

Educational

A simple command line Roshambo game

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