New & popular games from 2016 tagged Text based

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One man, one house, one city

Experimental text adventure (originally designed for LD37)

David Frank

Adventure

GIF

The Road to Electric Picnic

Experimental flatgame for Flatgame 2016 game jam.

Ellen Cunningham

Play in browser

Morgue Street

Stubby and simple choice-based text-based immersive sim

Ergo

Role Playing

GIF

The Excuse Machine

Your #1 solution for creating lies!

ManofPixels

Play in browser

a barren wasteland

you are in a barren wasteland. you do not remember how you got here.

firestream

Role Playing

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Journey To The Otherside

You set out on a journey to find something but, oh no, there's some obstacles on the path.

single_image

Visual Novel

A GHOST STORY FOR CHRISTMAS

A cyberpunk text-based game inspired by the 70s BBC short films.

Charlie Dart

Adventure

Play in browser

GIF

ASCII Dungeon

Text-based dungeon crawler in the vein of Ultima or Wizardry

Jack Morgan

Role Playing

^. BATWORLD .^

Enter a world very much like our own, in the sense that there are bats in it.

polymer despair

Making a Mug of Hot Chocolate

A tiny interactive fiction game about making hot chocolate!

DrMelon

Adventure

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❤ DEMON DATE ❤

You've tried the rest, now try the worst - DEMON DATE

polymer despair

Dispatch

A short interactive story in which you are a 911 dispatcher. Lives depend on your choices.

Ellen Cunningham

Simulation

Play in browser

GIF

Walkie Talkie

send messages, receive messages, play messages

Daniel Linssen

Platformer

= PRINZE REGENT =

EXPERIENCE the life of a weird-fantasy consort...

polymer despair

A Knight's Reunion

Two knights reminisce about their past.

SeshohoCian

Adventure

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Holiday Hell

A Twine adventure about family baggage and queer identity

OrbWitch

Interactive Fiction

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Three Minutes to Midnight

A moody textual stategy game about political tensions.

Thibaut Mereu

Strategy

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Fashion Ask

Education Game - Only in Portuguese

Caipora Games

Educational

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Black Box

an interactive story experience set in a grungy 80s sci-fi setting.

bumblebree

Role Playing

Kiss My Kale

Fads. Fads never change.

Allie A

Adventure

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QUIMER-B

The most advance AI to date takes over the facilities where it was born. But, you know, more complicated.

David T. Marchand

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Eioioio

A girl mourns his father while figuring out how to survive the snowy apocalypse.

David T. Marchand

Adventure

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Ask Her

A short parser-like game inspired by some of Sam Barlow's games. Made for the LD37.

bloomingbuds

Visual Novel

Play in browser

radnet

Ludum Dare #37 - IRC Warez Room Simulator

Team RADMARS

Simulation

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a game about waiting

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Old friends reunite over a chat room. (LD37)

Crystal Game Works

Visual Novel

This One Room

A short visual novel that is not a run-of-the-mill room escape game.

Visual Novel

Trevor vs Himself

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Girl and Daddy trying to find the milu in the woods, yet it opens some talk between them. Two separate stories included.

ayame9joe

Visual Novel

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Sisters of Claro Largo

Two sisters find themselves on opposite sides of a dispute over the fate of their town

David T. Marchand

Five Knocks

I wonder what hides in the dark...

AterStudios

Adventure

Play in browser

GIF

Blank Room

Ludum Dare 37 Game Thing

Gabe

Puzzle

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Climb

A game about climbing.

Sav Wolfe

Role Playing

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Guesthouse

a text adventure game built through a unity tutorial

Liyi

Adventure

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An Afternoon Rippling

Take a road trip through a valley.

marslizard

DRMS-01

First part in a series about dreams

thatguynm

Interactive Fiction

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