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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 2018 tagged Text based (313 results)

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goodbye
say goodbye before you go
barrels
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(293 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
BIRDLAND
A summer camp bird fighting text adventure
Brendan Patrick Hennessy
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(74 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Known Unknowns
A bisexual high school ghost hunting romance
Brendan Patrick Hennessy
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(79 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Pairidaeza
A historic gay romance set in Medieval Baghdad
mostopha
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(51 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Pageant
An interactive story about a girl who joins a beauty pageant to improve her college applications.
Autumn Chen
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(64 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
A Colour Like No Other
The world's less scary when you're a monster.
TheNamelessOne
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(39 total ratings)
Play in browser
Trans Pyre
Finnish midsummer gender magic.
Xurxe Toivo García
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(23 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Pitch Black Serenade
- A non conventional romance game. -
97Circle
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(19 total ratings)
Visual Novel
JOBHUNT
hunt for job
Sean
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(26 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
DEVOTIONALIA
Will your devotion reach them? Does it matter?
Grim Baccaris
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(28 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
if not us
$7
an IF anthology about five heroes who die
ub4q
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(81 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
A Klance Texting Game
This is a Klance Texting Game!
Queerklancing
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(61 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
nectar thief
a text based game. will likely take 5-10 minutes to play.
loren schmidt
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(23 total ratings)
Play in browser
Six Shots
A text-based adventure game that puts you in the boots of a lone cowpoke bent on revenge.
BanzaiBonsai
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(16 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
AL - A Choose Your Own Adventure
Gabriel Cornish
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(18 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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Escort Yourself Out
a game about trauma, triggers, and self-compassion
bignastytruck (violet)
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(42 total ratings)
Simulation
Kindness
A narrative text game exploring a long dead civilisation.
AthenaParadigm
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(11 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Confessions of an NPC
Interview NPCs from a world not unlike our own...
Charles H. Huang
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(13 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
Kobold Dungeon Tester
A multiple-choice-adventure-roguelike about testing a dungeon.
st33d
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(13 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Exhaustlands
(2018)
Sand Gardeners
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(21 total ratings)
Adventure
Play in browser
Paradise
$1
Paradise is an interactive fiction playground.
Rek & Devine
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(10 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Get That Girl!
A game about unrequited love.
Asterranaut
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(47 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Master of the Land
Dynamic text world | Alternate history intrigue
Pseudavid
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(21 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
ONLY THIS
And nothing more.
Grim Baccaris
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(12 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
predicated text
you are a predictive text keyboard
ub4q
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(25 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Philip Marlowe Doesn't Understand the Mystery
(2018)
Sand Gardeners
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(11 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
sacrament iv.
calamity occult-horror rpg
melessthanthree
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(50 total ratings)
Role Playing
Play in browser
Starsight
When a star dies, time collaspes.
graceinthemachine
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(10 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Serial Adventures of Dick Jack BB!
Episode One - The Montebello Dance and Dump Ball
angelboydiscoman
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Visual Novel
GIF
Ace Baker
A cyberpunk cake-baking game about an asexual couple... in the future!
*AAmici
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(26 total ratings)
Puzzle
Play in browser
GIF
Type 'n Jump
A text-based platformer, made for Ludum Dare 41 | Combine 2 Incompatible Genres
The Jucas
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(16 total ratings)
Platformer
Play in browser
Can You Come In?
$2
Your boss has called to ask if you can come into work on your day off - and you don't have much choice but to go.
spacetwinks
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(17 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
The Away Team
$8
In this interactive sci-fi adventure novel, you are the AI pilot of Earth's last interstellar ship.
Underflow Studios
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(36 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Diviner
Divine the omens. Save your village.
CogsAndSpanners
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(14 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
Learning a foreign language is no easy task, for sure
Have a talk with this foreign language simulator
Martian's Parlor Entertainment
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(10 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
Cannery Vale
forget who you are
Hanon Ondricek
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(15 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
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