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Latestin game jams tagged Text based (3,316 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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text adventure inspired by early roguelikes
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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Your inbox is a world of deceit. Can you find the truth within the junk?
Puzzle
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Every choice costs something. Even if you don’t take a bite.
Visual Novel
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A house full of echoes, a past that won’t let go.
Visual Novel
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How fast can you get off this planet?
Adventure
Visual Novel
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Be the advisor of the royal court - and the peasants. Keep balance in the Kingdom and keep the King save.
Simulation
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POV: Your Vampire BFF Asks You Some Questions
Visual Novel
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Run your own anime studio! Adapt hit manga, manage your staff, and produce the hit in this business simulation game.
Simulation
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Stranded on a desert island with nothing to read? I'm sure there's a way out of this.
Puzzle
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Sort documents into folders for a company that doesn't tell you why.
Simulation
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A short text narrative game about a most ponderous night.
Visual Novel
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Short and Simple Idle Game About Bloom
Strategy
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Shoot photos of elusive critters, by typing away the underbrush.
Action
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An incremental dark fantasy RPG
Survival
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Regular teen joins superhero group chat?
Interactive Fiction
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light-hearted dark fantasy narrative
Interactive Fiction
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Two kids and it will be worth it.
Visual Novel
Semi-autobiographical piece of interactive fiction made for those who are glad to have survived adolescence.
Interactive Fiction
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a flicker in the distance
Interactive Fiction
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Klick dich von Lacher zu Lacher - Zum Totlachen
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Embark on a grand multiplayer adventure!
Role Playing
You woke up in another era, tied by your hands and feet...
Adventure
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A Zork-like game where you play as Elias Reed, unraveling the dark secrets of a remote village bound by an ancient pact.
Adventure
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Невдалий день на роботі, ангел і забуті квіти
Visual Novel
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You should really start keeping a planner...
Interactive Fiction
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