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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 (346 results)

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GIF
Walkie Talkie
send messages, receive messages, play messages
Daniel Linssen
Platformer
Pyramid Builder
Grow a civilization, Build a Pyramid
standardcombo
Simulation
An Afternoon Rippling
Take a road trip through a valley.
marslizard
Well This is Awkward
Buying condoms is awkward. This games reminds you of that.
Emma Kidwell
Role Playing
Play in browser
MMM: Murder Most Misfortunate
A murder is committed in a secluded mansion, and it's up to you to solve it.
Foolish Mortals
Visual Novel
GIF
Please Tell Me I Love You
A short conversation about a relationship
A G Moody
Visual Novel
Play in browser
The House Abandon - Now part of 'Stories Untold'!
A nostalgic horror adventure game, inside another horror game, inside a tv show, inside a game.
jonNoCode
Adventure
Epitaph
alien civilization extinction simulator
Max Kreminski
Play in browser
Three Minutes to Midnight
A moody textual stategy game about political tensions.​
Thibaut Mereu
Strategy
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
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
404 Missing Page Detective Agency
Webpages can run, but they cannot hide from... THE DETECTIVE!
Snozbot
Adventure
Play in browser
Worldsmith
An intergalactic Interactive Fable
Interactive Fables
Adventure
GIF
Five Minutes a Day
Every day, for the rest of your life.
Andrea Pignataro
Adventure
Clockwork Apple
A BL Visual-novel featuring kidnapping and characters of doubtful morality. (English and Italian)
Synapsed
Visual Novel
GIF
Intimate Codex
Free form text exploration
AndyMakes
The Phantom of the Hospital
A short and light-hearted VN + art assets
Hidden Masquerade
Visual Novel
Are You Ok?
A short Twine game about understanding.
jlevstein
Play in browser
GIF
Terminal Town
Mysterious command line tools
AndyMakes
Puzzle
Isles Of Umbra
Lovecraftian first person point and click adventure
riffst
Adventure
Midnight's Café
A dark visual-novel about friendship + art assets
Hidden Masquerade
Visual Novel
Dispatch
A short interactive story in which you are a 911 dispatcher. Lives depend on your choices.
Ellen Cunningham
Simulation
Play in browser
The Unexpected Dating Sim
You've entered a bar and you're looking for love. What will you find?
lemondaurora
Play in browser
❤ DEMON DATE ❤
You've tried the rest, now try the worst - DEMON DATE
polymer despair
^. BATWORLD .^
Enter a world very much like our own, in the sense that there are bats in it.
polymer despair
One man, one house, one city
Experimental text adventure (originally designed for LD37)
David Frank
Adventure
CRYPTID HUNTER
Get lost in the pine barrens! Take pictures of trees! Hunt for the Jersey Devil!
ceejus
Adventure
Play in browser
Hymn
A Twine game of reassurance and reminders for those lost in themselves
june wilde
Play in browser
GIF
ASCII Dungeon
Text-based dungeon crawler in the vein of Ultima or Wizardry
Jack Morgan
Role Playing
All The Places You'll Go (Women As Place)
A point-and-click world tour through postcard representations of women.
Angela Washko
Play in browser
Keep Calm: An Interactive Short Story
No matter what you do, keep calm...
Adam Carriere (Pyjama Bottom Studios)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Widemare
A voice and text driven horror experience.
Andrea Pignataro
Visual Novel
Worth Waiting
You could have sworn someone else was here.
TheNamelessOne
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
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
Adventure
Play in browser
Paper Brexit
A Dream | Narrative Game (20 Minutes)
Greg Buchanan
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
inh-exh: a breathing game
a self-help tool, to help people who suffer anxiety attacks
celdavison
Play in browser
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