Indie game storeFree gamesFun gamesHorror games
Game developmentAssetsComics
SalesBundles
Jobs
Tags

Filter Results

(Clear)
Tags

Text based

Focused on using its text, moreso than its visuals or audio, to tell the bulk of its story/plot. (Still can have great audio and visuals, though!)

Suggest updated description

Top prototypetagged Text based (918 results)

Explore prototype games 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 prototype games to itch.io to have them show up here.

New itch.io is now on YouTube!

Subscribe for game recommendations, clips, and more

A short story told through boating and lost letters
Adventure
Play in browser
A nostalgic horror adventure game, inside another horror game, inside a tv show, inside a game.
Adventure
You are a messenger. Deliver the most important message yet. Restore balance to the world, else it succumbs to chaos.
A dogsled Oregon Trail-like originally made in 48 hours.
Adventure
Play in browser
On an oversee trip twelve teenagers find themselves stranded on a remote island...
Simulation
Play in browser
A chill clicker game about recalling a lost world
Play in browser
A pandemic, an uncertain relationship, a single choice.
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Live authoritarianism through a minimalist narrative experience.
Play in browser
25 diferent life paths, choose carefully.
Simulation
Play in browser
A visual novel typing game where you must sacrifice your keyboard letters​.
Visual Novel
Play in browser
You awake alone, on a damaged and abandoned starship.
Play in browser
A game about navigating the depressing and absurd world of customer service in the year 2312.
Simulation
Write poems, get paid, try to avoid comitting high treason.
Adventure
Play in browser
An interactive story about your therapist who is also a robot of your dead husband.
Visual Novel
Loved one involved in a serious head injury? Call Lobotomy and You to get them up and running like new again!
Adventure
Daily murder mysteries. Talk to suspects, detect lies, and accuse the murderer and their motive.
Puzzle
Play in browser
The prototype of a simple text-based combat system.
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
A game where you meet some demons!
Visual Novel
A story for the lonely dreamers and the loved realists.
Visual Novel
[Prototype] A game that evolves as you do
Simulation
Play in browser
This game sheds light on one persons experience with anxiety.
Simulation
Play in browser
A text based adventure / RPG game with a compact source code that fits on a business card.
Adventure
Play in browser
A maze game prototype that became something more.
Visual Novel
Play in browser
Prologue
Visual Novel
Play in browser
Text-resa baserad på andra världskriget i Östeuropa. English.
Adventure
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Atmospheric investigative lovecraft text-adventure. Murder mystery, greed, and eldritch horror.
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Enjoy a pompous lifestyle in the 19th century.
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
" Can you be a good role model for your daughter in your new life? "
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Who Is Lying To You?
Adventure
Play in browser
A man, a drink, a city.
Visual Novel
An experiential typing game where you aren't sure what you're typing.
Play in browser
Loading more games...
itch.io now on YouTube!