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Latestin game jams tagged Text based (3,343 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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Find hope in the darkness
Interactive Fiction
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A Walk Between Life and Death
Interactive Fiction
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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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"In the end, was it worth it?"
Interactive Fiction
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A game about AI and its subtle ways it can be dangerous
Interactive Fiction
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text adventure inspired by early roguelikes
Interactive Fiction
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Helo controla as pessoas com a fala
Interactive Fiction
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An interactive fiction fantasy game made with Twine. Create your character, break a curse, fall in love, & make it home.
Interactive Fiction
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Sci-Fi Quantum text adventure
Visual Novel
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A text based adventure game with AI NPCs.
Interactive Fiction
A small survival-strategy game built for the original Game Boy.
Strategy
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Every voyage sinks or sails on a single roll. Will you risk it for the biscuit?
Action
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Interactive Fiction
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Bleak strategy-survival. Send couriers through a plague town with medicine, food, and messages before doom falls.
Strategy
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survive the alaskan wilderness to get some biscuits!
Visual Novel
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