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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!)

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from 2016 tagged Text based (369 results)

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WORLD OF HORROR
$19.99
1bit adventure game of cosmic horror inspired by the work of Junji Ito
panstasz
Role Playing
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Pyramid Builder
Grow a civilization, Build a Pyramid
standardcombo
Simulation
GIF
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Walkie Talkie
send messages, receive messages, play messages
Daniel Linssen
Platformer
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MMM: Murder Most Misfortunate
A murder is committed in a secluded mansion, and it's up to you to solve it.
Foolish Mortals
Visual Novel
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An Afternoon Rippling
Take a road trip through a valley.
marslizard
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Well This is Awkward
Buying condoms is awkward. This games reminds you of that.
Emma Kidwell
Role Playing
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GIF
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Please Tell Me I Love You
A short conversation about a relationship
A G Moody
Visual Novel
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The House Abandon - Now part of 'Stories Untold'!
A nostalgic horror adventure game, inside another horror game, inside a tv show, inside a game.
jonNoCode
Adventure
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Three Minutes to Midnight
A moody textual stategy game about political tensions.​
Thibaut Mereu
Strategy
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All Hail The Spider God
All Hail The Spider God is an eerie interactive fiction adventure about You, and all the Yous you've left behind.
Strange Scaffold
Interactive Fiction
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GIF
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Replica
$2.99
Everything in the State, nothing against the State, nothing outside the State.
Somi
Adventure
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Epitaph
alien civilization extinction simulator
Max Kreminski
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GIF
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Event[0]
$19.99
Event[0] is a sci-fi narrative game where you build a relationship with a spaceship computer to get home to Earth.
Ocelot Society
Adventure
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404 Missing Page Detective Agency
Webpages can run, but they cannot hide from... THE DETECTIVE!
Snozbot
Adventure
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Worldsmith
An intergalactic Interactive Fable
Interactive Fables
Adventure
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SHINRAI - Broken Beyond Despair
$14.99
In bundle
A Murder Mystery Visual Novel.
GosatsuVNs
Visual Novel
GIF
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Five Minutes a Day
Every day, for the rest of your life.
Andrea Pignataro
Adventure
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Clockwork Apple
A BL Visual-novel featuring kidnapping and characters of doubtful morality. (English and Italian)
Synapsed
Visual Novel
GIF
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The MansterSoft 3-in-1 Fun-Pak
$0
-100%
Laser Moles, Knife-Fighting Chimps, and an ASCII Snail
MansterSoft
Action
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The Phantom of the Hospital
A short and light-hearted VN + art assets
Hidden Masquerade
Visual Novel
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Chimera Crusader: Defender of Dominicus
$0
-100%
ASCII Action! As minimal as an RPG can get
MansterSoft
Role Playing
GIF
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Intimate Codex
Free form text exploration
AndyMakes
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Dispatch
A short interactive story in which you are a 911 dispatcher. Lives depend on your choices.
Ellen Cunningham
Simulation
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The Temporal Invasion (ARG)
$6.99
Do you want to feel like REAL Mystery Solver and Explorer?
Hybriona Labs
Adventure
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Ultra Type-R
$1.99
ansdor
Platformer
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Find Your Girlfriend
A queer and spooky twine game. You're a bi bookshop worker trying to find your girlfriend - where is she?
glitterflounce
Adventure
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Isles Of Umbra
Lovecraftian first person point and click adventure
riffst
Adventure
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Midnight's Café
A dark visual-novel about friendship + art assets
Hidden Masquerade
Visual Novel
GIF
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Terminal Town
Mysterious command line tools
AndyMakes
Puzzle
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Worth Waiting
You could have sworn someone else was here.
TheNamelessOne
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KINSALE HORROR
Hitchhike. See what I saw.
Rarykos
Interactive Fiction
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Oatboy vs. Slime Mold
$0
-100%
You're an ASCII Oat; Dodge the ASCII Slime Mold!
MansterSoft
Action
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All The Places You'll Go (Women As Place)
A point-and-click world tour through postcard representations of women.
Angela Washko
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GIF
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ASCII Dungeon
Text-based dungeon crawler in the vein of Ultima or Wizardry
Jack Morgan
Role Playing
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^. BATWORLD .^
Enter a world very much like our own, in the sense that there are bats in it.
polymer despair
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Are You Ok?
A short Twine game about understanding.
jlevstein
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