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Top donatedtagged Text based (799 results)

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

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The world is saved. Its heroes wait to die.
Interactive Fiction
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Master a horse. Become a Horse Master.
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A wuxia-inspired text adventure game
Role Playing
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A game about you!
Adventure
Spam has never been so deadly.
Visual Novel
Journey deeper into the unknown.
Interactive Fiction
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A Vast Error Story
Visual Novel
Die Suche nach Reichtum in einem irrwitzigen Textadventure
Adventure
You're eight years old and alone in the house tonight. But something is lurking outside...
Interactive Fiction
Get Joestar Struck
Visual Novel
An Infocom-style adventure for retro computers
Interactive Fiction
A free night ride across Tokyo, searching for our home with the help of some stranger.
Visual Novel
Create your own virtual best buddy and play games together!
Simulation
Immerse yourself in an AI-driven literary universe where anything can happen.
Interactive Fiction
A text choice romance in an apocalyptic setting.
Interactive Fiction
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A collection of small and peculier stories from Somwhere.
Adventure
Will you make love and risk death?
Interactive Fiction
An unflinching work of interactive fiction.
Interactive Fiction
A browser roguelike with over 60 classes and endless adventure
Role Playing
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You are the head writer for the third game in the wildly popular ShatterGate™ franchise.
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An intergalactic Interactive Fable
Adventure
a story of a frog in space.
Adventure
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You sold your firstborn to a witch. Now she helps you find a mate.
Simulation
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An interactive fiction game about fire season.
Interactive Fiction
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A playable leaflet about a Fascist march and our counter-demonstration
Visual Novel
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Take a road trip through a valley.
A murder is committed in a secluded mansion, and it's up to you to solve it.
Visual Novel
An adventure game in Notepad about a kid who seeks revenge.
Adventure
A gamebook-style fantasy adventure for the 5th edition of the world's most popular tabletop RPG.
Role Playing
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An AI seedship must find a home for the last survivors of the human race
Strategy
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weary, transformation, dog, burger, comfort
Simulation
Raise a super powered kid.
Interactive Fiction
Teach slime to do science in this machine-learning based puzzle game!
Puzzle
A short game about coming home again.
Adventure
a cosy internet island
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