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Top selling featuredtagged Text based (28 results)

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

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Master a horse. Become a Horse Master.
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Sharpen your critical thinking skills in this quiz game that challenges you to spot rhetorical fallacies.
Educational
1bit adventure game of cosmic horror inspired by the work of Junji Ito
Role Playing
When the last thread becomes entangled, their song will be heard.
Interactive Fiction
Perfect Tides is a point and click adventure game about the agony and anticipation of being a teen.
Meredith GranVerified Account
Adventure
beautiful twine compilation
Adventure
Replica
$2.99
Everything in the State, nothing against the State, nothing outside the State.
Adventure
Type commands, roast marshmallows, throw logs onto a crackling fire. Enjoy
Simulation
A horror game about working in a 90's call center.
Puzzle
A free night ride across Tokyo, searching for our home with the help of some stranger.
Visual Novel
Paradise is an interactive fiction playground.
Interactive Fiction
text-adventure MMORPG
Sokpop CollectiveVerified Account
Role Playing
Welcome to the Corporate Ladder.
Role Playing
Purge the graveyard from the forces of Evil by using your typing skills.
Acolyte
$10.99
A narrative ARG/Detective game that gives you your own digital assistant.
Interactive Fiction
A collection of small and peculier stories from Somwhere.
Adventure
What would you do if you found yourself trapped on an eerie space station with nothing but a computer?
Adventure
Will you make love and risk death?
Interactive Fiction
A browser roguelike with over 60 classes and endless adventure
Role Playing
Play in browser
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.
Adventure
In the distant future, you join a strange organization to find the secret behind The Object
Adventure
A short kinetic novel — on bright minds, and the end of all things.
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Text Parser Adventure where you CAN'T STOP MOVING.
PowerhoofVerified Account
Adventure
Issue #44 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.
PIZZAPRANKSVerified Account
A short story told through boating and lost letters
Adventure
Play in browser
Free form text exploration
A dogsled Oregon Trail-like originally made in 48 hours.
Adventure
Play in browser
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