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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 2017 tagged Text based (562 results)

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A Witch's Word
You sold your firstborn to a witch. Now she helps you find a mate.
RainbowStarbird
Simulation
Play in browser
Seedship
An AI seedship must find a home for the last survivors of the human race
John Ayliff
Strategy
Play in browser
woebegone.
when breathing has become a chore. when to exist is a trial.
louey
Simulation
GIF
Petty Puny Planet
Why have a pet rock when you can have a pet planet? Micromanage this cosmic rock to places never thought possible!
Whales And Games
Simulation
Play in browser
c ya laterrrr
a hypertext game based on a true story and some untrue stories
danhett
Play in browser
RECIPE FOR LOVE
Help a robot list all the ingredients for love
Shelly Alon
Play in browser
GIF
Don't make love
Will you make love and risk death?
Maggese
Interactive Fiction
GIF
Stink Bug Plague
​Fight against a stink bug invasion with science! And cyborgs! And bravery! Or cowardice - it's your choice, really.
angela he
Role Playing
Play in browser
GIF
Into The Hoop Demo
A basketball themed visual novel and dating sim with stat management!
intothehoop
Visual Novel
POM SIMULATOR 9000
weary, transformation, dog, burger, comfort
d Marie
Simulation
a Museum of Dubious Splendors.
A collection of small and peculier stories from Somwhere.
Studio Oleomingus
Adventure
Your Merman Boyfriend
Meet your merman boyfriend.
Ntagonistic
Simulation
Play in browser
GIF
Life: the game of chance
25 diferent life paths, choose carefully.
Tim Krief
Simulation
Play in browser
Kiss the Ghoul
Date, kiss, exorcise demons!
chamomeow
Simulation
Play in browser
Cook Your Own Adventure
A cooking/rich-aunt-impressing simulator
Lotophagia
Simulation
Play in browser
Ano What? Why Bakit??
A Really Short and Simple FREE Otome Game
z-ish.p
Visual Novel
LESBIAN VAMPIRE DATING ONLINE
Helping your vampire bff create her online dating profile.
storytam
Simulation
Play in browser
Welcome to the Dragon Palace
A queer illustrated text adventure game
yllogique
Adventure
Play in browser
an easy lay
Romance is complicated. Romance with an ovipositor is complicateder.
SpiderFlorist
Play in browser
Where the Sun Always Shines
A self-obsessed writer searches for inspiration.
ebi-hime
Visual Novel
🥚⌛🍳 TIME OMELETTE 🍳⌛🥚
A cooking mystery game about time. Except it's not a cooking game.
adriel
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Nod If You Can Hear Me
Visit Your Grandmother
Emma Kidwell
Simulation
Play in browser
Which Naruto Character Are You? A Funteractive Quizsperience DX Director's Cut Anniversary Edition
The age old question!
Tapesoft
Role Playing
Through the Woods Demo
Short demo in which you run some errands for your Gran. But there's something magical in the woods...
amrynth
Role Playing
Play in browser
Wayfarer
Gather your allies and defeat the evil lich wizard.
Cameron McHenry
Role Playing
Cashbags
(2017)
Sand Gardeners
Simulation
Play in browser
FREE Personality Test
A "FREE Meyers-Briggs personality test" which will tell you more about yourself!
Devon Wiersma
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Borders
A game where you check passports and talk to people.
Van Andrew
Simulation
Am I Part Of The Problem?
Did you hurt someone? Are you having trouble coming to terms with it? Are you unsure what to do next?
Elizabeth Sampat
Educational
Play in browser
Wake Up
Live authoritarianism through a minimalist narrative experience.
Inverge Studios
Play in browser
The End of Warren's House
nbgstudio
Adventure
Gulam
A visual novel about a girl, a pig and a book (Nanoreno 2017)
arkicade
Visual Novel
Dialogue 3-D
Ramsey Nasser
Shooter
Play in browser
Upon A Darkening Flood
A horror tale of the Revolution on culture, heritage, and the anxieties elicited by a strange library.
Rastagong
Visual Novel
GIF
all you have to do is survive
Your government loves you very much! Make good choices! (A #ResistJam project.)
Lily
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Apology Simulator
We’ve all suffered inadequate apologies, or wished for apologies that never came...
Matthew S Burns
Play in browser
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