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Explore games not in game jams 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 not in game jams to itch.io to have them show up here.

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A cozy, endlessly replay-able roguelike word puzzle game where you form words.
Puzzle
Postman in Qolun script
Interactive Fiction
iml
Simulation
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Text-based Fantasy Adventure RPG
Interactive Fiction
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A text based python RPG game with a UI
Adventure
A short simple text based game, based on the Oregon Trail.
Adventure
What if ninjago was... deep.
Play Dune Wars, a free online strategy MMO game and dominate the galaxy in this epic multiplayer strategy game.
Strategy
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His memory is gone. His work remains. The final judgment is yours.
Interactive Fiction
Incremental Minimalistic Idle Game
Adventure
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Game about everything and nothing and other stupid things
Visual Novel
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Una aventura conversacional para ZX Spectrum 128K
Adventure
Use cunning strategies and psychological tactics to process and reincarnate souls, generating loosh for the system.
entities2 is a small silly turn based combat CLI game.
Strategy
人から脱却した者たちの物語。 A story of those who have left their humanity behind.
Visual Novel
the year is 2067. you gain sentience in an empty room.
Interactive Fiction
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A hack/translation of the 1988 Italian ZX Spectrum game by DJS
Adventure
Survival
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Solve the Murder Mystery of Hotel Palindrome in this short text-based game where there is more going on than you think!
Puzzle
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A choice based zombie apocalypse game
Survival
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This narrator hates you.
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Text fight more like school project
Strategy
musi sitelen kepeken toki pona
Interactive Fiction
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Step into the shoes of a rescue team member, investigating a passenger plane that vanished months ago.
Adventure
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Become Bartend
Simulation
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Whisper to the sun in verse, and buy her one more breath. (Created for the Thatgamecompany × CoreBlazer Jam 2025)
A bootsector game written in x86-16 assembly
Puzzle
Build your Fuel Empire with Paul Maximus Gaming
Simulation
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"You don’t play the prophecy. You break it."
Interactive Fiction
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