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Explore games 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 to itch.io to have them show up here.

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Try to survive and perhaps eventually even tame an unknown planet in this incremental semi-idle game.
Survival
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Break the curse and uncover your fire.
Interactive Fiction
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A Text Adventure (Interactive Story) on Commodore 64 based on the novel The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
Adventure
Nour's specific route for the larger project of Thorne of Ashes
Interactive Fiction
Is killing ever justified?
Adventure
Text-based space exploration game
Interactive Fiction
Dark Fantasy + Romance Interactive Fiction
Interactive Fiction
Christmas has come to Wayhaven! And it's magical…quite literally.
Interactive Fiction
A silly little roguelike
Role Playing
Perfect Tides is a point and click adventure game about the agony and anticipation of being a teen.
Meredith GranVerified Account
Adventure
The hunger. The hunger...
Interactive Fiction
Sharpen your critical thinking skills in this quiz game that challenges you to spot rhetorical fallacies.
Educational
Paradise is an interactive fiction playground.
Interactive Fiction
An educational game inspired by spelling bee competitions!
Educational
A romance visual novel about memories best left forgotten.
Visual Novel
Undersea horror where your only form of navigation is an unreliable AI.
Adventure
A deep RPG set in procedurally generated dark fantasy worlds
Role Playing
Love, power, revenge. What will you fight for?
Interactive Fiction
Our songs will all be silenced.
Visual Novel
A horror game about working in a 90's call center.
Puzzle
Support development, get Steam Beta access right away and own the full Steam release.
Simulation
AI-powered interactive book generator that turns any text into a choose-your-own-adventure game via CLI.
Adventure
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A cozy mystery adventure game set in early 1900s Ontario, Canada!
Adventure
Welcome to the Corporate Ladder.
Role Playing
Text-based 4X with a focus on turf war and resource management.
Strategy
Trapped in a Dome with eight hours to catch a killer
Visual Novel
1bit adventure game of cosmic horror inspired by the work of Junji Ito
Role Playing
Replica
$2.99
Everything in the State, nothing against the State, nothing outside the State.
Adventure
Subtext
$6.99
A mystery told through real SMS messages, phone calls, and emails.
Interactive Fiction
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