Browse GamesGame JamsUpload GameDeveloper LogsCommunity
Indie game storeFree gamesFun gamesHorror games
Game developmentAssetsComics
SalesBundles
Jobs
Tags

Filter Results

(Clear)
Tags

Text based

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!)

Suggest updated description

Top free
on hold tagged Text based (82 results)

82 results

Explore games on hold 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 on hold to itch.io to have them show up here.

New itch.io is now on YouTube!

Subscribe for game recommendations, clips, and more

View Channel
Add to collection
Scout: An Apocalypse Story
A text choice romance in an apocalyptic setting.
Anya
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Add to collection
REDSUGARSOCIETY
Fake date. Fall in love. Murder. Party. Rinse and repeat.
riotdevs
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
Add to collection
Petty Puny Planet
Why have a pet rock when you can have a pet planet? Micromanage this cosmic rock to places never thought possible!
Whales And Games
Simulation
Play in browser
Add to collection
Snakeroot.
[ INACTIVE ] A fantasy horror IF WIP.
cerberus
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Add to collection
Your Hogwarts Story
A Choose your own Adventure Text Game about going to Hogwarts
DigiTale
Role Playing
Play in browser
Add to collection
Isles Of Umbra
Lovecraftian first person point and click adventure
riffst
Adventure
Add to collection
hollowsheart
[ INACTIVE ] proof of concept of a text-based horror game.
cerberus
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
Add to collection
Kobold Dungeon Tester
A multiple-choice-adventure-roguelike about testing a dungeon.
st33d
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Add to collection
The Dragon's Curse {Hiatus}
Fantasy interactive fiction based on asian mythology and other cultures
XNueX
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Add to collection
Seltani
Hypertext MMO
zarf
Role Playing
Play in browser
Add to collection
My Bully-Boyfriend <3
Matthew starts dating his high-school bully in college.
IntStories
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Add to collection
CVIE (Open Beta)
Welcome to C.V.I.E This is THE most unstable AI in the works. Aggressive, speciest, and somehow lovable.
AMBU5H
Adventure
Add to collection
Warding: Demo
Text based horror game, where you play as Cecilia, a blind woman, on the night that someone breaks into her house.
risraelwriter
Adventure
Play in browser
Add to collection
THE HOUSESITTER - DEMO
A short demo for an ASCII, horror, text-based adventure.
RUMBLEBOX_
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Add to collection
Baleen
Please enter your username.
koimarina
Interactive Fiction
Add to collection
Unwanted Hero, part 1
a twisted, tangled fairy tale
No Time To Play
Role Playing
Play in browser
Add to collection
Space Goats: Tales from Bah'nana IV.
A Text Adventure based on Tim Ruswick's "Space Goats 2"
Star Banner Games
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Add to collection
Faster Than Time
Mark Mandriota
Simulation
Add to collection
Mouth of the Devil
You’d better watch that mouth o’ yours, partner.
hatchling
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
Add to collection
ＳＰＥＣＴＲＵＭ ＧＩＲＬＳ
It's about lesbians on motorcycles. The end.
TUB
Visual Novel
Add to collection
grim home
help the grim reaper decorate their apartment
scareoset
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Add to collection
Daily Quests (FloppyJam)
Hyperagon
Role Playing
Play in browser
Add to collection
Ophelia's Secret (WIP)
A cyberpunk interactive fiction about talking your way into places where you don't belong.
Leo Andrade
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Add to collection
Oneiron
text-based multiple choice adventure
Insania404
Adventure
Add to collection
noigeL reiN
An unofficial fangame in the Drakengard/Nier Lore entirely textual
Corentin
Visual Novel
Add to collection
Failure with Silver (unfinished)
A plague takes over...Can you find out why?
numijulie
Role Playing
Add to collection
Thirsty - The Thirst For Adventure (Demo)
A short demo for an up and coming interactive story
jonathan_schon
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Add to collection
Metaphorical Wizard
Retro Text-Based RPG
Hyperpotato
Adventure
Add to collection
JASON'S QUIRKY QUICKFIRE QUIZ!
This quiz does not live up to it's name at all...
🥞🥞🥞🥞🥞🥞🥞🥞
Play in browser
Add to collection
Sim-You-Later
The Game Where You Simulate Yourself - WizardJam 7 Entry
Koholos
Simulation
Add to collection
Untitled Gardening Game
there's a maze, a garden, and a giant magpie (he's a dick)
Aislinn Evans
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Add to collection
C0untd0wn: The Dem0
Kimba Rose
Adventure
Play in browser
Add to collection
FLDOS
Procedurally Generated Sandbox Text Adventure RPG
RGreen
Role Playing
Play in browser
Add to collection
White Mask
A text-based horror adventure game
BAD PXL
Adventure
Play in browser
Add to collection
The Web of Shadows
A chivalric romance in text
homo-carbonis
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Add to collection
Cards Royale
Making a game work with the most basic java coding
Netradeepak
Adventure
Loading more games...
Next page
itch.io now on YouTube!
AboutFAQBlogContact us
Copyright © 2024 itch corp · Directory · Terms · Privacy · Cookies