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Top$15 or less tagged Text based (65 results)

Explore physical 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 · Sell your physical games on itch.io to have them show up here.

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tell the story of how you kiss kiss and fall in love <3
Solo Journaling RPG in a setting of scientific exploration and unnatural observations
a character creation game that makes you clean your room
A storytelling game about breaking free of a time loop that has ensnared your Home.
You swore an Oath. And it's magically binding.
A one-page RPG about a party of adventurers being guided by an Oracle that may not exactly be what it seems.
A Storytelling Card Game About Refusing (or Accepting) Your Destiny
and the Accounts of the Changeling Child whom was brought crosst the Veil
A solo game about haunting a bed and breakfast around Halloween.
How can you just sit there and eat pizza!?
A new revised rules set for solo journal RPGs, based on the Epistolary solo journal RPG system.
A Horror Solo Journaling TTRPG about Paranormal Investigation
a journaling game of solitary journeys on post-apocalyptic highways
A solo game about loving a malicious monarch.
A one-page RPG about Witches resolving a Disturbance through flashy Magic
A solo RPG and journaling game set in a labyrinthine mall.
An epistolary game of love and letters.
Multi-User Discord Server Lore-Universe Role Play!
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A GMless, one player game about a mad scientist that aims to build the greatest creation anyone's ever seen
a single-move, single-sheet, setting-agnostic PbtA microgame
You're a fan of mechs and their pilots: spectate their glory.
Whimsy MachineVerified Account
Is your revolution worth pursuing?
An expansion pack for Heroes of Lite featuring the new Gauntlet weapon type, new Skills, and new Combat Arts!
A solo journaling game using the Carta SRD about exploring an abandoned mansion.
a decidedly un-heroic pen-and-paper dungeon crawl
Yes, who’s this? A LARP about re-getting to know a life long lover or friend.
a universal, percentile based, tabletop roleplaying game
reveal your true names
a potent spell, a game that countless others have performed, LARPy/artsy
A storytelling game about the world's pettiest café and its quest for payback.
An extraterrestrial being has made contact and invaded... your group chat in this text-based guessing game using emojis.
An expansion pack for The Masks We Wear with a playable combat-navigator hybrid arcana and new Reaper build
A micro-world re-architecting game/ art game
More money, more problems?
An expansion pack for The Masks We Wear with new enemy-recruitment mechanics for a playable Fool Arcana
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