VibeGameDB lists 16 games in this group, 41% of the 39 games on the Text-Based page. Each one has a source for how it was made. 15 are free or free to play and 1 is paid; 1 can be played in a browser. The most recently added is Sunderbound (November 2026). Developers with more than one game here: Commodore 64 Mania (2), Argos Studios (2).
Ordered by editorial score, then player rating, then release date. Open a game for its sources.
A text-based xianxia life sim: cultivate, join a sect and climb toward immortality one year at a time.
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Play free — itch.io
Be born at random somewhere in Chinese history, then live that life one year at a time.
Plays instantly in the browser
Play free — official site
A Fighting Fantasy-style gamebook for the Commodore 64, coded by Claude under the developer's direction.
Download required
View on itch.io
Live a commoner's life in a medieval kingdom, from famine to a bid for the crown.
Plays instantly in the browser
Play free — itch.io
A gacha pull decides your birth year, prefecture and family; then you live through postwar Japan.
Plays instantly in the browser
Play free — itch.io
A text RPG about a rookie dungeon hunter, built in Twine with Claude Code.
Plays instantly in the browser
Play free — itch.io
A Korean life sim: be born into a random family and live a whole life, from starting school and the college entrance exam to retirement.
Plays instantly in the browser
Play free — itch.io
A short, unsettling text-based hacking game that the developer says Claude made from one prompt.
Plays instantly in the browser
Play free — itch.io
A cyberpunk text adventure with three endings, made with Claude.
Plays instantly in the browser
Play free — itch.io
A terminal-style roguelike RPG for Windows, made by a non-engineer with Claude Code.
Download required
View on itch.io
A horror gamebook for the Commodore 64: stranded at a cursed Maine manor in 1984, you have to survive until dawn.
Download required
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A short detective game played by reading a stranger's late-90s computer, two days before the year 2000.
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Play free — itch.io
A story game about crisis negotiation: talk a man down on live radio, then work two phone lines at once while one of them lies.
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Play free — itch.io
A five-minute satire of the AI-written workplace: as COO you decide which company texts to ship unread and which to fact-check before they go out. The developer says the code was written with Claude Code.
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Play free — itch.io
Romania, 1998: process ghost reports on a Windows 98-style workstation. The anomalies don't follow the rules.
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Play free — itch.io
A 15-minute choice-driven story: your startup's voice-cloning app launches in the morning, and you know its safety check can be fooled.
Plays instantly in the browser
Play free — itch.io