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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 (113 results)

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Epitaph
alien civilization extinction simulator
Max Kreminski
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(84 total ratings)
Play in browser
GIF
Please Tell Me I Love You
A short conversation about a relationship
A G Moody
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(38 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
Worth Waiting
You could have sworn someone else was here.
TheNamelessOne
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(21 total ratings)
Play in browser
Are You Ok?
A short Twine game about understanding.
jlevstein
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(30 total ratings)
Play in browser
Hymn
A Twine game of reassurance and reminders for those lost in themselves
june wilde
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(15 total ratings)
Play in browser
Well This is Awkward
Buying condoms is awkward. This games reminds you of that.
Emma Kidwell
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(104 total ratings)
Role Playing
Play in browser
inh-exh: a breathing game
a self-help tool, to help people who suffer anxiety attacks
celdavison
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(14 total ratings)
Play in browser
404 Missing Page Detective Agency
Webpages can run, but they cannot hide from... THE DETECTIVE!
Snozbot
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(16 total ratings)
Adventure
Play in browser
CRYPTID HUNTER
Get lost in the pine barrens! Take pictures of trees! Hunt for the Jersey Devil!
ceejus
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(13 total ratings)
Adventure
Play in browser
The horse is dead.
Short, twine-like (custom), experimental interactive poetry.
Nico May
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(11 total ratings)
Play in browser
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
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(42 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Dispatch
A short interactive story in which you are a 911 dispatcher. Lives depend on your choices.
Ellen Cunningham
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(24 total ratings)
Simulation
Play in browser
Find Your Girlfriend
A queer and spooky twine game. You're a bi bookshop worker trying to find your girlfriend - where is she?
glitterflounce
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(13 total ratings)
Adventure
Play in browser
GIF
Turing Trial
A Short, Replayable Text-Based RPG
Mary T.
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Puzzle
Play in browser
Keep Calm: An Interactive Short Story
No matter what you do, keep calm...
Adam Carriere (Pyjama Bottom Studios)
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(24 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
rain
twine game/story about the experience of rain
eli fessler
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Play in browser
GIF
And All Is Well
Nonsense happens all the time and all is well.
Rémy 🍬 Devaux
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Play in browser
KINSALE HORROR
Hitchhike. See what I saw.
Rarykos
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
QUIMER-B
The most advance AI to date takes over the facilities where it was born. But, you know, more complicated.
David T. Marchand
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
Play in browser
Take
katherine
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Reflections at Sunset - A meditative Twine experience
An ambient text-based experience inspired by meditation... Your thoughts are yours and yours alone...
Charles H. Huang
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Ask Her
A short parser-like game inspired by some of Sam Barlow's games. Made for the LD37.
bloomingbuds
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
When acting as a wave
A person has to make a decision that will affect the lives of many.
David T. Marchand
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(7 total ratings)
Play in browser
A GHOST STORY FOR CHRISTMAS
A cyberpunk text-based game inspired by the 70s BBC short films.
Charlie Dart
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
Adventure
Play in browser
Nasty/Good/Badass
A multiple choice personality test
Xeneth
Rated 4.1 out of 5 stars
(12 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
input
A Spambot in Love
Jillian Maywhether
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(7 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
Three Minutes to Midnight
A moody textual stategy game about political tensions.​
Thibaut Mereu
Rated 3.8 out of 5 stars
(31 total ratings)
Strategy
Play in browser
Blue - Pigments of our love
A narrative text-based game with interactive colors
Diane
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Unexpected Dating Sim
You've entered a bar and you're looking for love. What will you find?
lemondaurora
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
Play in browser
All The Places You'll Go (Women As Place)
A point-and-click world tour through postcard representations of women.
Angela Washko
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Play in browser
Úrquel, the black dragon
You arrive at Úrquel’s castle to rescue a princess. Things are almost, but not quite, what they seem.
David T. Marchand
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Adventure
Play in browser
GIF
Snozbot's Text Adventure
Find your missing brain in a text adventure platform game
Snozbot
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Platformer
Play in browser
Eioioio
A girl mourns his father while figuring out how to survive the snowy apocalypse.
David T. Marchand
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Adventure
Play in browser
BURNING TEMPLES
you are divine, holy, and AWAKE
HEAVENDELUXE
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Role Playing
Play in browser
Cyber Vampire Assassins From Space
Vampires trapped in a Spaceship! Guards with flamethrowers! Eat them or get burned! #BerlinMiniJam
Joerg Reisig
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Strategy
Play in browser
Hollowed Weed (A Study in Human Traditions, Entry 1)
Help a scientist understand the stranger parts of human culture.
BeauPrime
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Simulation
Play in browser
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