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Latest freein game jams tagged Text based (3,307 results)

Explore games 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 in game jams to itch.io to have them show up here.

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A Walk Between Life and Death
Interactive Fiction
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A Solarpunk coming of age story.
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Interactive Fiction
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An interactive fiction made for inkjam 2025 made by G.A.L.A.N. team
Interactive Fiction
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You struck a deal. Make the best of it.
Simulation
Can you help the AI Chatbot D.I.M. achieve true sentience?
Adventure
Simulation
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Interactive Fiction
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A type commands-based adventure about a traveler and a murky village
Visual Novel
Python text adventure
Adventure
Find hope in the darkness
Interactive Fiction
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One day, two people, and an infinite number of chances. A short time-loop puzzle.
Interactive Fiction
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A haunted filesystem and a snarky terminal
Puzzle
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Words are your keys, and conversations are the dungeon.
Puzzle
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You are what’s written.
Interactive Fiction
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Henrietta bites off more than she can chew at the mummy unwrapping party.
Visual Novel
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Visual Novel
Visual Novel
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Looks like those stories carry more weight than they thought…
Visual Novel
For the HG-GJ -- A short narrative adventure with basic customization and related branching dialogue options.
Interactive Fiction
Hey? You there? Text me back.
Simulation
Your submarine expedition was going well. That is, until the creature!
Survival
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pico-8 1k byte
Adventure
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A text-based dungeon crawler for Robot Party Jam 2025
Interactive Fiction
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Scallywag Adventure is a pirate text based story game with several choices that lead to different endings!
Visual Novel
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Letters carry more than words across a restless sea.
Visual Novel
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Help or hinder Morgan in drafting a personal essay.
Interactive Fiction
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RIP Typepad
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Role Playing
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The Mousenaries biggest quest yet
Interactive Fiction
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The apocalypse begins. Can you save the kingdom?
Survival
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Made for the UCA Twine Launch Week Game Jam
Adventure
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You awake to find yourself lost in a labyrinth of dark tunnels...
Survival
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Adventure
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The Witching Hour is about your life too, in some way.
Puzzle
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sometimes you just want a quiet commute
Interactive Fiction
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