Oldest HTML5 games tagged Text based

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Detritus

The things you take with you, and those you leave behind.

newsmary

Interactive Fiction

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I wish I had not played this game

An interactive fiction made during the TAG Jam in May 2014. About sacrifices and regrets.

Elise

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Walkies Simulator

A short twine game about walking your dog.

Norapinephrine

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It Was You...

A small party never ends well! But it depends on you!!!

Eru_Desu

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Ziva's Conjury Mart

Nice gets you nowhere.

AteYourLembas

Role Playing

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Gender:AssignedMaleAtBirth

A closer look at living life when your gender is assigned.

FluffySama

Interactive Fiction

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Hypnagogue

Enter the Sleeping Architecture.

Mitch Alexander

Adventure

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Office

A prequel for Nocturnal

Heavy Knife Games

Adventure

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Operating Systems

Play as an operating system, trying your best to please your operator.

tanyaxshort

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Backspaces

295 words about faulty keyboards and absent mouse pads.

Vaida

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Create or die

Short text adventure

Crafting Legends

Adventure

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The Writer Will Do Something

You are the head writer for the third game in the wildly popular ShatterGate™ franchise.

Matthew S Burns

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The Arboretum

A story about dating, growing up, and our relationships to our past and future selves.

Matthew S Burns

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GIF

ech.OS

At ech.OS we preserve your legacy for years to come

dennispr

Simulation

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You're at a ____.

An exploration adventure in less than 300 words.

D. M. Moore

Adventure

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GOCARTYSTOPIA

A cyberpunk racing game written in TWINE

Rani Baker

Adventure

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RPG-ish

A micro-RPG made for Twiny Jam, where you needed to make a Twine game using 300 words or less.

Scared Square Games

Role Playing

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Bildungsroman

A stark, unsettling short story about childhood, in 300 words.

Strange Hoop

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Tumbling down a Great, Dark Staircase

You have tumbled down a great, dark staircase.

Heal Butcher

Adventure

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Thirsty Thursday

A choose your own adventure game featuring a college kid who just wants to party

hoyterrific

Adventure

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HUNTING UNICORN

A maiden leads a unicorn hunt.

CMG

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Jacuzzi Love Triangle!

Can love bloom in a hot tub?

tacopants

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the friend zone

You've heard of it. You've feared it. Now face the terror yourself!!

tacopants

Adventure

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Vernada

Entry for Twiny Jam '15.

Candy✩Giants

Interactive Fiction

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The World's Unluckiest Casino

Welcome to the World's Unluckiest Casino!

Willy Willy

Simulation

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BRITTLE

When I hit 300, I stopped writing. The game knew it was done.

ValorsMinion

Puzzle

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The Book

A short tale about discovery

curiousgregor

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Summoning

Short textadventure about dark rituals

felitastic

Adventure

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Arc

A cyberpunk adventure.

deecity

Adventure

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CandyShell Saga

Interactive fiction about mechs, monsters, the end of the world.

deecity

Adventure

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The Boy

A mini-romance.

deecity

Role Playing

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Is this even a game?

Play it if you want, but ask yourself will it be worth it?

Elizabeth Lovatt

Adventure

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Light/Sweet

Light/Sweet, a workplace simulator. Created and submitted for Twiny Jam.

Colliding Circles

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Elevator Later

A short Twine game about a secret agent on a mission

Efe Alaçamlı

Adventure

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A Soft Small Thing.

A tiny and small and minute and little and minuscule piece of interactive fiction.

WrightWilliams

Adventure

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Concision

"...when there is no longer anything to take away."

Future Proof Games

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