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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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The things you take with you, and those you leave behind.
Interactive Fiction
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Text version of hit puzzle game Quarries of Scred
Adventure
A save file hacking text adventure
Puzzle
An interactive fiction made during the TAG Jam in May 2014. About sacrifices and regrets.
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A small party never ends well! But it depends on you!!!
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An interactive holiday tale.
Interactive Fiction
A tiny story about four tiny ninjas and a tiny top hat.
Interactive Fiction
A tiny story about a tiny ninja and a not-so-tiny headache.
Interactive Fiction
An interactive snack.
Interactive Fiction
A heart-warming story of friendship.
Interactive Fiction
A frustrating tale about paperwork.
Interactive Fiction
A tiny friend to brighten your day.
Interactive Fiction
A bedtime story
Interactive Fiction
An interactive fairy tale.
Interactive Fiction
Nice gets you nowhere.
Role Playing
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Christmas short pick your path story
Interactive Fiction
Interactive story game based on a crash landing on a strange planet.
Interactive Fiction
fuck the masses // total control
Proto Raider is an arcade game where every level is a mini-quest
Platformer
A prequel for Nocturnal
Adventure
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Play as an operating system, trying your best to please your operator.
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You are the head writer for the third game in the wildly popular ShatterGate™ franchise.
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Story game based upon Teenlife in the 1980's Suburban USA
A story about dating, growing up, and our relationships to our past and future selves.
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A choose your own adventure game featuring a college kid who just wants to party
Adventure
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A maiden leads a unicorn hunt.
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You've heard of it. You've feared it. Now face the terror yourself!!
Adventure
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Text based MDOS Window Blackjack
Strategy
A cyberpunk adventure.
Adventure
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Interactive fiction about mechs, monsters, the end of the world.
Adventure
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A mini-romance.
Role Playing
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What kind of Duck are you?
Role Playing
Play it if you want, but ask yourself will it be worth it?
Adventure
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A boring game about a poetic wedding.
A short poetry game about ancestral memory.
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