Top games from 2021 tagged Text based

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Throne of Ashes

Break the curse and uncover your fire.

13Leagues

Interactive Fiction

Play in browser

Speaker

What do you See?

speakergame

Interactive Fiction

Play in browser

GIF

Trigaea

Alter genes, survive. Sci-fi RPG. 270k+

RynGM

Interactive Fiction

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FARA

A browser roguelike with over 60 classes and endless adventure

BrianIsCreative

Role Playing

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The Nameless

A story based on fey and other myths in a drained world. Will you find out what happened before it comes for you?

Parker Lyn

Interactive Fiction

Play in browser

GIF

Vast Trivia Of The Void

What would an omniscient creature do with all that knowledge? Well, host a trivia game, of course!

Whales And Games

Puzzle

Play in browser

REDSUGARSOCIETY

Fake date. Fall in love. Murder. Party. Rinse and repeat.

riotdevs

Interactive Fiction

Play in browser

Beyond the Chiron Gate

$10

Text-based space exploration game

John Ayliff

Interactive Fiction

Swan Song

A short interactive story loosely based on Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake.

swansong-if

Interactive Fiction

Play in browser

Progress Knight

ihtasham_42

Simulation

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Eye of the Moon

Eye of the Moon is an adventure and romance story inspired by Filipino mythology.

atemaarte

Interactive Fiction

Play in browser

Deliverance

You are a messenger. Deliver the most important message yet. Restore balance to the world, else it succumbs to chaos.

Caevacior

Buried Love

A dating game with a twist.

kittidot

Interactive Fiction

Play in browser

What Girls Do in the Dark

A short slumber party text adventure ♡

olivebranche

Interactive Fiction

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Ascendance

A love story that surpasses death

Ascendance IF

Interactive Fiction

Play in browser

4x4 Archipelago

A procedurally generated, text-based fantasy RPG

agat

Interactive Fiction

Play in browser

Beau Ideals Chapter 1

Fantasy visual novel in development

Mouse & Ram

Visual Novel

GuessMe!

Guess about your favorite food or Pokemons!

Zetoman77

Educational

Play in browser

Delphine's Discovery

Venture into an abandoned orphanage, solve a mystery, and fall in love.

LegendEx Games

Visual Novel

GIF

Code 7 - Episodes 2 & 3 Available Now

$22.99

What would you do if you found yourself trapped on an eerie space station with nothing but a computer?

Goodwolf Studio

Adventure

GIF

I doesn't exist

$12.99

An ode to text-adventures.

DreadXP

Interactive Fiction

Canvas Colors: In The Moving City

Travel along with Maggie and Vale inside a moving city in Canvas Colors!

UnfinishedCircl

Visual Novel

Escape from Kettuloch

Escape the dungeon before you fully transform into a fox!

SnepShark

Interactive Fiction

Play in browser

Snakeroot.

[ INACTIVE ] A fantasy horror IF WIP.

cerberus

Interactive Fiction

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Serenity at Dusk

Here is where a heavy heart asks for rest.

klaiis

Visual Novel

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idleCMD

Text-based idle/clicker game

Finn Steffen

Play in browser

Things Unwanted

Conquer their hearts! Or break them.

illukimao

Interactive Fiction

Play in browser

Sevens Deadly

EJA

Interactive Fiction

Play in browser

CLOSED HANDS

An unflinching work of interactive fiction.

PΔSSENGER

Interactive Fiction

La Faille

Un visual novel fantastique sur un groupe de lycéens dont la vie est sur le point de basculer...

Chester

Visual Novel

A Sky of Stars: Scarlet Dusk

hannahlovberg

Interactive Fiction

Play in browser

GIF

Indiepocalypse #22

$15

Issue #22 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.

PIZZAPRANKS

Inner Demons

A supernatural horror story set in modern-day Seattle. Will you save the world or succumb to the darkness?

a.w. morgan

Interactive Fiction

Play in browser

GIF

Indiepocalypse #17

$15

Issue #17 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.

PIZZAPRANKS

A Paradox Between Worlds: IFComp Edition

A tumblr simulator.

Autumn Chen

Interactive Fiction

Play in browser

COLD SCREAM

Survival Horror Text Adventure

1AM TRAIN

Survival

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