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Explore games in game jams 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 · Upload your games in game jams to itch.io to have them show up here.

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A dark fantasy interactive fiction RPG.
Interactive Fiction
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An interactive fiction fantasy game made with Twine. Create your character, break a curse, fall in love, & make it home.
Interactive Fiction
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You are the Social Democratic Party of Germany in 1928. Can you stop the Nazis from taking power?
Interactive Fiction
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Those we love are never truly gone.
Visual Novel
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POV: Your Vampire BFF Asks You Some Questions
Visual Novel
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Story-driven simulator of the Dark Lord/Lady. Use your armies, cunning and magic to conquer Free Peoples.
Interactive Fiction
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Text-based space exploration game
Interactive Fiction
1bit adventure game of cosmic horror inspired by the work of Junji Ito
Role Playing
The world is ending, and you are still paying rent. A future history.
Interactive Fiction
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a story of a frog in space.
Adventure
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An interactive story about a girl who joins a beauty pageant to improve her college applications.
Interactive Fiction
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A traveling salesman's struggle to survive a night of horror
Adventure
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The world is saved. Its heroes wait to die.
Interactive Fiction
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Venture into an abandoned orphanage, solve a mystery, and fall in love.
Visual Novel
Undersea horror where your only form of navigation is an unreliable AI.
Adventure
Search through the detritus. Find items you can use. Recycle. Fabricate. Survive.
Interactive Fiction
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It only takes one night to change everything.
Interactive Fiction
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Help Spudz the dog find his precious bone in this short, silly game!
Interactive Fiction
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A detective game about discovering the true names of demons.
Puzzle
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A short kinetic novel — on bright minds, and the end of all things.
Interactive Fiction
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What would an omniscient creature do with all that knowledge? Well, host a trivia game, of course!
Puzzle
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Social anxiety simulator/dating sim
Interactive Fiction
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Travel along with Maggie and Vale inside a moving city in Canvas Colors!
Visual Novel
an IF anthology about five heroes who die
Interactive Fiction
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send messages, receive messages, play messages
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Platformer
Grow a civilization, Build a Pyramid
Simulation
Spam has never been so deadly.
Visual Novel
Survival game without your survival.
Survival
The galaxy hungers. You own a foodtruck. Feed everyone.
Simulation
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Purge the graveyard from the forces of Evil by using your typing skills.
Our songs will all be silenced.
Visual Novel
A vampire and a grad student walk into a bar...
Interactive Fiction
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A cozy mystery adventure game set in early 1900s Ontario, Canada!
Adventure
A nostalgic horror adventure game, inside another horror game, inside a tv show, inside a game.
Adventure
Escape the dungeon before you fully transform into a fox!
Interactive Fiction
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In this interactive sci-fi adventure novel, you are the AI pilot of Earth's last interstellar ship.
Interactive Fiction
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