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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 2017 tagged Text based (595 results)

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Explore games from 2017 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 from 2017 to itch.io to have them show up here.

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Seedship
An AI seedship must find a home for the last survivors of the human race
John Ayliff
Strategy
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Petty Puny Planet
Why have a pet rock when you can have a pet planet? Micromanage this cosmic rock to places never thought possible!
Whales And Games
Simulation
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POM SIMULATOR 9000
weary, transformation, dog, burger, comfort
d Marie
Simulation
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c ya laterrrr
a hypertext game based on a true story and some untrue stories
danhett
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RECIPE FOR LOVE
Help a robot list all the ingredients for love
Shelly Alon
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Don't make love
Will you make love and risk death?
Maggese
Interactive Fiction
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A Witch's Word
You sold your firstborn to a witch. Now she helps you find a mate.
RainbowStarbird
Simulation
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Stink Bug Plague
​Fight against a stink bug invasion with science! And cyborgs! And bravery! Or cowardice - it's your choice, really.
angela he
Role Playing
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a Museum of Dubious Splendors.
A collection of small and peculier stories from Somwhere.
Studio Oleomingus
Adventure
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Your Merman Boyfriend
Meet your merman boyfriend.
Ntagonistic
Simulation
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_transfer
$10
a story about computers, memory, and the end of the world
Abyssal Uncreations
Adventure
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IN THE ARMS OF THE NIGHT
£2.40
A novel-length "bat-romance" Twine.
polymer despair
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woebegone.
when breathing has become a chore. when to exist is a trial.
louey
Simulation
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Which Naruto Character Are You? A Funteractive Quizsperience DX Director's Cut Anniversary Edition
The age old question!
Tapesoft
Role Playing
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Kiss the Ghoul
Date, kiss, exorcise demons!
chamomeow
Simulation
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Where the Sun Always Shines
A self-obsessed writer searches for inspiration.
ebi-hime
Visual Novel
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Wake Up
Live authoritarianism through a minimalist narrative experience.
Inverge Studios
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Into The Hoop Demo
A basketball themed visual novel and dating sim with stat management!
intothehoop
Visual Novel
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Ano What? Why Bakit??
A Really Short and Simple FREE Otome Game
z-ish.p
Visual Novel
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🥚⌛🍳 TIME OMELETTE 🍳⌛🥚
A cooking mystery game about time. Except it's not a cooking game.
adriel
Interactive Fiction
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Life: the game of chance
25 diferent life paths, choose carefully.
Tim Krief
Simulation
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Welcome to the Dragon Palace
A queer illustrated text adventure game
yllogique
Adventure
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Through the Woods Demo
Short demo in which you run some errands for your Gran. But there's something magical in the woods...
amrynth
Role Playing
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CAFE 0 ~The Sleeping Beast~
$16.99
What kind of fate will the heroine face after she relives the last seven days before her death?
roseverte
Visual Novel
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FREE Personality Test
A "FREE Meyers-Briggs personality test" which will tell you more about yourself!
Devon Wiersma
Interactive Fiction
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Trackless
$10
In the distant future, you join a strange organization to find the secret behind The Object
12East
Adventure
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Wayfarer
Gather your allies and defeat the evil lich wizard.
Cameron McHenry
Role Playing
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Witches and Bandits and Swords (Oh My)
$0
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A playful, interactive graphic novel adventure by Krunchy Fried Games. Ages 13+.
Krunchy Fried Games
Visual Novel
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Am I Part Of The Problem?
Did you hurt someone? Are you having trouble coming to terms with it? Are you unsure what to do next?
Elizabeth Sampat
Educational
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Between Stations
(2017)
Sand Gardeners
Interactive Fiction
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Gulam
A visual novel about a girl, a pig and a book (Nanoreno 2017)
arkicade
Visual Novel
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The Spicy Meatball Saves The Day
A short, lightly comedic text adventure with first person controls.
Cheeseness
Adventure
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an easy lay
Romance is complicated. Romance with an ovipositor is complicateder.
SpiderFlorist
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Apology Simulator
We’ve all suffered inadequate apologies, or wished for apologies that never came...
Matthew S Burns
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Cashbags
(2017)
Sand Gardeners
Simulation
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The Devil's Game -Demo-
Storytold Comics
Visual Novel
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