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Text based

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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Deepdwn
$14.99
Markdown editor and organizer
billiam
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(68 total ratings)
GIF
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TEXTREME
An extremely meaty text editor
Ash K
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(102 total ratings)
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Left
The text editor.
Rek & Devine
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(97 total ratings)
GIF
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Textreme 2
$3
a text editor that looks and feels like a game
Ash K
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(118 total ratings)
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FFXIV Dialogue Maker
Add FFXIV text boxes to your images!
Sebastian Scaini
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(12 total ratings)
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ManyNames
$5
[Full Release] Generate many names, and other things
Aldercone Studio
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(12 total ratings)
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Relic and Artifact Generator
Generate some relics for your fictional worlds!
superobot1
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(12 total ratings)
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WriteRush
This Writing App Makes Writing Fun!
levihanlen
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(13 total ratings)
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ASCII Mapper
Map editor for tile-based games using ASCII characters
No Time To Play
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(13 total ratings)
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Opuscule
A fragmented text editor.
lectronice
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(7 total ratings)
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BrainF*ck Designer
BF Designer is a powerful IDE to create BrainFuck Programs.
Antfs10
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
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connected
dialog editor
Rat King
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
GIF
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Weave 4
A utility for modding ZZT games.
Mean Girls Games
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
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Herobook simple version
Tiny text game engine
Hellper
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
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Font To Bitmap Converter Standalone
Convert font (ttf, woff etc.) into a bitmap font image.
ꜱᴛᴍɴ
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
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Falling Writer
Write and rain letter blocks
RevonZev
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
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Ansizalizer
An image-to-text art terminal ui
Zebbeni
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
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KITTY
A text based 8bit fantasy computer!!
smal
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
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Rebuilder Tuesday JS
Tuesday JS HTML convert to source JSON
Doctor Chantal
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
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Squeaker Dialogue Editor
$5
Squeaker is a non-linear multi-language dialogue tree editor with many extra features.
Mischief Aaron
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
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Prata: Dialogs in seconds
$13.99
Berserk Pixel Game Studio
Rated 3.0 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
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Story Emulator
Analogue Twine and Ren'py
Drako_Black
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
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StoryFlow Editor
$29.99
Create branching stories/dialogues through visual logic flows with minimal coding knowledge.
Soulstices
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
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Brine.
a sweet & salty phrase generator
Megabyte Games
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
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SIGNpad
Simple fun programming language + editor
kollumos
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
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Eorzean Headline Maker
Make FFXIV themed news headlines!
Sebastian Scaini
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
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Tee-Wee Editor
Lightweight CYOA tool
No Time To Play
Rated 3.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
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Fantasy Land Locales Name Gen
A Fantasy Town Name Generator
diVISION+
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
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Dungeon Delver Deluxe
Explore Perilous Dungeons in a Procedural Crawler App for Solo DnD
diVISION+
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
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TRBot
Powerful software that allows playing games through text.
Kimimaru
Rated 0.0 out of 5 stars
(0 total ratings)
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FlyingText - a Text Editor
theflyingwurst
Rated 2.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
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OutNoted
An outline note-taking editor
No Time To Play
Rated 2.3 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
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Text Generator Refiled
Font editing software
CyberNat2000PL
Rated 2.3 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
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Scrunch Edit
Two-pane outliner for Markdown and org files
No Time To Play
Rated 2.3 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
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HECC-IT!
The hypertext game authoring tool for indecisive people
11BelowStudio
Rated 1.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
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