#text games

Rebungered!! That Time I Got Reincarnated As A Bunger!

A real and actual text adventure from the Young Horses. It is not spoiler free, so if you have not completed the main game, be advised!

You can play it for free on itch right now.

gaming queer month 2026: Text based queer games (not choice of games based)

Bastard of Camelot: I am such a big arthurian fan and llamagirl (the creator) has been a staple of arthurian fandom. Their game is simply fantastic, currently at chapter 5 so in this list this is the most "incomplete" of games, but so worth it. You play as Mordred (any gender), meeting the father who abandoned you and deciding how to deal with the prophecy that says you will be his end. There are multiple romances, Galahad being my favorite because I love enemies to lovers, and I love games that let me romance a character while being anatagonistic to them;

Throne of Fire: Talking about enemies to lovers, Throne of Fire has currently two routes (Nour and Ruben romance, respectively non binary and male characters) complete with future routes planned. You play as a captured prince rescued by Ruben, a dragon prince from an enemy kingdom, or Nour, a prince who used to be your bethroted. The different routes are other romances/character rescuing you, which is why if you play the Ruben route you play the full story, just with Ruben only. The game allows you to romance characters with so many little differences in attitude (you can like him immediately, hate him, distrust him etc.), and also allow for your character (any gender) to react their imprisonment in varied ways (also the imprisonment is different in each route). TW for SA in Rouben's route, but that is optional and can be opted out. Demo is free;

Demonology: Incubus: Ongoing text game, but can also be played as a complete one as the current chapters end the main current plot lines a part from the protagonist's past mystery. The game is still being worked on, so hopefully we will have a new chapter soon! You play as a detective (any gender) investiganting the supernatural. Through one of your cases you end up working with Flea, an incubus who hides much more than his seductive persona. Really amazing, one of the best videogame romances I have played! TW for domestic violence and general violence.

The Second Sight: Dead Reckoning: If I am not wrong this is a completely free and full game! I am still at the beginning so i do not have much information for now. You play as someone who has supernatural abilities and usually works with their adoptive father to solve cases;

The Remainder: Chronicles of Tal'Dun: Another of my absolute favorite games! This has some visual novel elements mainly in the form of art that accompanies the text. You play as a powerful wizard (any gender) who wakes up in their tower, remembering nothing about what happened to him and much more. Your assistant (who is also the romance story of this game) reveals that you used a powerful spell and ended up separating your souls from your bodies. Of course, much more is going on, and you will need not investigate over and over again (you will die many times!) to truly uncover your past. The romance made me cry multiple times and the happy ending felt extremely well deserved and earned.

Sorcery!: If you are on my blog you know this game given it is one of my favorite rpgs ever. You play as the Analander (m or f), a man sent to recover a powerful magical Crown, stolen by an evil wizard. The game is divided in 4 chapters, each one set in a different area. The game has a lot of choice/consequences options, combat, dice games, and of course romance. There is only one romance option (male), an assassin you can spare in game 1. He will return in game 2 to help the player, and then the main romance content will be in the fourth and final game.

80 Days: An adaptation of the novel Around the World in Eighty Days. You play as Monsieur Phileas Fogg's manservant and you need to help him find the correct routes around the world to win his bet. There are two routes that can lead to a romance with two different male characters.

Hoping this finds you well: Victorian era inspired queer game where you play a romance between two male characters by reading/writing their correspondence.

Shepherds of Haven: Ongoing text fantasy videogame. The first 8 chapters can be purchased, and the free demo is also pretty long. In this game you play as a magic user in a world where magic is not legally allowed. You end up joining the Shepherds, a military group allowed to use magic to combat demon-like creatures. The game has quite a lot of mystery and different missions you can go with different combinations of your companions. The cast is quite big and most of the characters are queer and can be romanced.

Notable mentions (has some platform gaming elements):

New Spire City. A shining metropolis built on an isthmus between two continents. The last great symbol of hope. Where the dregs of the world coalesce into one great, big floating heap of s---. Whatever you call it, NSC is impossible to ignore.

...Even more so after the mayor's murder.

YOU are a PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR, struggling to make a living within a city that's almost at war with itself. When the assistant of the recently-slain mayor of your district walks into your office, one day, your life will change forever...

⇒ Customize your private investigator! Be gay, straight, or bisexual; aromantic or asexual.

⇒ Work to solve the gruesome murder of Mayor Adam Bergman in this thrilling noir mystery! Will you work to see justice served...or are you just in it for the money?

⇒ Interact with the corrupt cyperpunk landscape of New Spire City as a human, an android, a cyborg, or an artificial intelligence!

⇒ Romance the mayor's shy former assistant, a tenacious reporter, or a sultry lounge singer!

⇒ Use your investigator's skills and traits to solve problems and find unique solutions to obstacles...but be careful not to let your stress overwhelm you!

As you dig deeper into the dark secrets of New Spire City, you will meet many people from all walks of life. And some of them might be willing to make a deeper connection...

CALLISTA/CALVIN CLARKE | F/M | ROMANCEABLE: The slain mayor's timid assistant. Cal truly believed in Mr. Bergman, and was always there to support him from the sidelines. But the mayor might not have been the flawless paragon of morality that Cal thought...

Human. Timid, amber eyes. Light brown skin with short, dark, wavy hair. Small, button nose that supports a pair of high-prescription tortoiseshell glasses.

SHY | RESPONSIBLE | SINCERE

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NEL BARD | NB | ROMANCEABLE: The main reporter, photographer, and editor-in-chief for a newspaper that no one has ever heard of. Nel is willing to do anything to get the truth...including many things that get them in trouble.

Cyborg. Icy blue eyes with built-in camera. Bronze skin. Well-muscled. Boxy jaw. Notably strange hairstyle: their dark curls are done up in a fauxhawk.

ENERGETIC | WITTY | TRUTH-SEEKING

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VAL(ENTINA/ENTINO/ENTINE) | F/M/NB | ROMANCEABLE: This singer at the Fox Den jazz club is rumored to be the murdered mayor's lover. Val undeniably has a voice of gold, but they won't sing for just anybody.

Android. Tall and slender. Green eyes. Dark red hair.

JADED | INDEPENDENT | RELUCTANT TO GET CLOSE

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...And more!

FAQ

Mr. Specter, how long will this game be? It will be as long as it needs to be, but I would anticipate somewhere around 450,000 words.

I see that this is called "Book 1." Will this be part of a series? Yes! They might not be released back-to-back, but I plan on writing more adventures with the private investigator you will create in this game.

Wait... This title looks kind of familiar... If you truly thought this, then I would like to say "hello" to the one person that actually read the previous version of this project. I wrote something for the application Tales, which I believe has since shut down, with a similar premise. This one's for you, that one person who e-mailed me begging for a continuation!

What genre is this? Cyberpunk neo-noir? If that exists, then that's what it is.

I notice that you've uploaded it to itch.io in addition to CoGDemos. Why is that? I've seen that some people have an audience on there outside of the Choice of Games forum and I thought I would try expanding my horizons a bit.

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LINKS/INFO

Most recent update: June 15th, 2026

Current word count: ~105,000

CoGDEMOS LINK.

itch.io LINK.

Link to Choice of Games forum post.

Consider becoming a member of my Patreon for early access to updates, weekly development blogs, art, side stories, and more!

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Daffodils in the grass, leaves starting to come out on the apple tree, actual sunlight for the first time in a while... it's that time again!

All the titles from Choice of Games, Hosted Games, and Heart's Choice are on sale on Steam, including games from me and my wife...

Crème de la Crème (40% off): Climb to the very top of the class at your exclusive private school for socialites! Will you study hard, find a perfect match, or embrace scandal? A 440,000 word interactive novel.

Noblesse Oblige (40% off): Spark romance amid secrets in a crumbling mansion! What will you sacrifice for love? Can you trust your own heart? A 180,000 interactive gothic novella.

Royal Affairs (40% off): At your exclusive boarding school, will you rule the roost or be a royal disaster? Court publicity, sway the fate of nations, and find love! A 440,000 word interactive novel.

Honor Bound (40% off): Protect an exclusive boarding school and rebuild your life after scandal as a military bodyguard! How far will you go for ambition, duty, and your country? A 595,000 word interactive novel.

Blood Money (30% off): By the power of your blood, you and your ghosts will take over your crime family! A 290,000 word standalone dark fantasy interactive novel.

Heart of Battle (30% off): Battle for love as a gladiator in this epic romance of swords and sandals! Win glory, victory, a better life, your freedom - and spark a revolution! A 225,000 word interactive romance novel by Fay Ikin.

Asteroid Run: No Questions Asked (30% off): captain a freighter across the Solar System and keep your mystery cargo and your crew safe in the face of corruption, cultists, and revolutionaries! A 325,000 word interactive novel by Fay Ikin.

Elite Status: Platinum Concierge (40% off): find the unfindable and do the impossible? It’s all in a day’s work for you. As a concierge, how far will you go to make billionaires’ dreams come true? A 500,000 word interactive novel by Emily Short with additional writing by me.

A long question and answer below, on the subject of feeling inadequate in writing, yearning for more engagement, and being unsure whether to continue.

A brief note: if you are someone who enjoys playing IF, please consider rating/reviewing, sending a message to the author saying that you liked their project (and even better, what you liked about it!), reblogging, or clicking a like on the project. It has a far bigger positive effect than you may think!

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Loving Starless Skies

Click to Play LSS on Itch.io Click to Play LSS on Neocities

Written by an Indigenous Filipino, Loving Starless Skies is a romantic fantasy Interactive Fiction inspired by precolonial Igorot settings.

Release Date: July 1, 2025 Last Updated: August 2025 Demo Contains: Prologue and Chapter 1 Word Count: ~30,000 Socials: This game and my related spaces for it are 18+ Tumblr, Neocities, Discord Game Guides: Tumblr FAQ, Tumblr MC Design Guide Support the Game: Ko-Fi

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The Story

Every person takes charge of their own destinies—except for the ones who seal it by peering into their possible demise. This earns the ire of many deities who are untouched by death and beholden to eternity.

All humans are destined to die, but all are afforded the ability to change the journey that leads to that destination. Yet, you've done the unthinkable. Now you know you were destined for a most painful death and this knowledge sealed what was an otherwise malleable future. Moreover, defying this predicted death is only the first hurdle, as your continued existence would deliver a kind of disarray many deities are keen to eliminate.

To go against the divine and forge your own destiny, how will you survive both?

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⁠The Sentinel

As one of the newly appointed Sentinels to the recently established sanctuaries, your main tasks are to clean the sanctums and be an intercessor between the Overseers and your people. Sealing your fate before you can even uphold the title makes you race against time.

You don't want to become a self-fulfilling prophecy, so you fight to kill the one supposed to kill you. As you've feared, succeeding is only a small part of your story. There is more to overturning fate than simply escaping death. Many deities are angered and vacillating, as history has shown that altered fates have consequences that ripple throughout the realms.

The one who should help you is the one who troubled you in the first place—the Overseer of Chaos. But true to their nature, they are entertained by the havoc. If it were to be anyone else, then it must also be a deity.

You must find an Overseer and convince them to help you.

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The Young Deities

Abayéndayasen: The Overseer of Wrath, Quests, and Cacophonies A companion from beginning to end, they jump from one adventure to another, gladly helping mortals accomplish their goals while desperately trying to achieve their own. After a trail of fools' errands, they still continue looking, seeking, chasing. Enduringly optimistic, they are yet to understand why it is they were given the domain of wrath.

Asitikaíso: The Overseer of Life and the Lost The gentlest of hearts with the deepest of wounds, they try their damnedest to ensure life is worth living for every being. Every failure is a grasping for a new beginning even though they understand that success only means more for Death to harvest. Still, they turn away and persist, convincing themselves that they are doing the right thing.

Yegyegénsaád: The Overseer of Plants and Calamity Trapped in a job no one else wants to account for, they trudge along their responsibilities, and yet despite their grumbling, they leave no stone unturned. Persisting through with the help of others, they are grateful for every small assistance. Naturally wearing their heart on their sleeve, the moments they struggle to maintain composure are the moments their other power threatens to destroy everything they worked hard for.

Amináybālin: The Overseer of Sacrifices, Food, and Entertainment Living most of their existence in the mortal realm, they know all about the spectacles of human life, and they absolutely revel in it. Valuing the weight of promises, they even requested to be stripped of their titles should they fail to keep theirs. Exacting and intense, they expect the same dedication from others and thus, not one forsaking oath breaker was able to escape their clutches, not even a deity.

Sēēdnanìdaw: The Overseer of Ambition, Reflections, and the Undesired Perhaps the Overseer least interested in their own domains, they have no big aspirations, no deeper reflections, and no willingness to invite the already unwanted. Like a leaf floating on water, they move without purpose, starkly different from the previous, overambitious deity who came before. After witnessing what ambitions do to mortals and immortals alike, one could even say they fear to know what it's like to yearn.

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Character Customization

Established: The sentinel is 25 years old, and is a nonambiguous person of color.

Customizable: The player can determine the sentinel's name, gender, sexuality, pronouns, communication style, weapon, gift, and deity/deities worshipped. Below are other things about the Sentinel that's determined by the player. - Appearance: Eye color, hair type, hair color, hairstyle, facial hair, complexion, height, scars, tattoos, clothing, and adornments. You may use enchanted potions to temporarily change your appearance, even add extra limbs and maybe get wings. - Character Traits: Empathetic/Apathetic, Considerate/Ruthless, Withdrawn/Sociable, Flirtatious/Reserved, Perceptive/Intuitive - Skills: Magical ability, combat ability, and Diwa mastery - Faith: Faith in humanity and faith in deities - Reputation: Respect from humans and favor from the deities

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Notes

Status: This standalone interactive fiction is a work in progress. It will be released by chapter and is subject to change until the final version. The game is free and will remain free after it is finished.

Age Restriction: 18+ for themes like violence but there is no explicit sexual content.

CWs Include but are Not Limited to: Violence, sexually suggestive content, different types of abuse like physical abuse and psychological abuse, gore, and death. Specific content warnings can be viewed at the beginning of each chapter.

Fates Determined: Survival is determined not by the raised level of your skills, but by other choices you make. Of course, different capabilities at different levels will still affect the storytelling, but death will not come from a failed skill check.

Single Sentinel: You can see through the end without romancing anyone. You can even be in a romantic relationship and later break up, but the love interests will remain to have significant roles.

Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, entities, and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or are used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.

"LSS is my first game and my first attempt at writing an interactive fiction. Thank you for reading!" — Paragrasya

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Our Other Game:

Letters for the Letter Carrier

Click to Play LftLC on Itch.io

Click to Play LftLC on Neocities

Click to Read the Full LftLC Intro Post

Letters for the Letter Carrier is a short, interactive fiction for the Single Choice Jam (2025) hosted by Neo-Interactives. The jam ran from July 15, 2025 to August 16, 2025.

Written by an Indigenous Filipino, Letters for the Letter Carrier is a mundane, fantasy, interactive fiction inspired by Igorot settings. It's about community building, and being a stressed, bat-winged, letter carrier in an era of texts and emails.

Release Date: August 15, 2025 Status: Completed Word Count: ~6,000 Game Jam: This is an entry for the Single Choice Jam (2025) Mini-game: This is a standalone mini-game. Age Restriction: PG-13 CWs Include but are Not Limited to: Blood and mentions of discrimination based on wing structure and if someone has wings or not. Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, entities, and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or are used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.

"LftLC is my first mini-game and the Single Choice Jam (2025) is my first game jam! Thank you for reading!" - Paragrasya

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Credits on All Our Games:

Writer, Character Artist, Logo Maker, and Map Maker: @paragrasya Developer: @sofiart-puddinheaddraws Alpha Build Playtester: @perringwrites Assets: All assets used are credited in-game

GAME-LINK || Genre : Isekai, Fantasy, Adventure, Action || Around 120K Words

What if the pages of your life are bleached white into a new beginning?

One minute you're cramming for exams. The next, you're dead. And the minute after that? You're eighteen again, standing in a world where magic is as real as the green grass, and no one's around to tell you what to do with either.

This is the rewrite you're waiting for. No destiny. No chosen-one prophecy. Just you, your choices, and a world that won't hold your hand. Train in elemental magic that bends reality. Master weapons that legends are forged with. Or just throw hands… Literally… And become a brawler who laughs at sorcerers. The world doesn't care how you get strong. It only cares that you do.

Every person you meet has their own agenda. Befriend them. Betray them. Fall in love. Make enemies.

What happens next is up to you

What's Inside:

❇️ Play as male or female with full customization of combat style (mage, warrior, support, your call)

❇️ Explore a world where "medieval" gets weird (magic-tech hybrids, hidden factions, etc)

❇️ Shape the story through decisions that matters across chapters