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Text-Based Games Made with Codex

VibeGameDB lists 5 games in this group, 4% of the 141 games on the Codex page. Each one has a source for how it was made. 4 are free or free to play and 1 is paid; 2 can be played in a browser. The most recently added is On The Edge | Civil Deputy Simulator (November 2026).

Games
5
Free / paid
4 / 1
Most used engine
Unity
Last updated
Nov 6, 2026
Engines (top 5, where disclosed)
  • Unity1
Platforms (top 5)
  • Browser2
  • Steam2
  • itch.io1

All 5 games

Ordered by editorial score, then player rating, then release date. Open a game for its sources.

IdleWorlds preview image
Free to play

An old-school text-based MMORPG in the browser where your character keeps progressing while you're offline.

CodexBrowserEnglish
No ratings yetmatduke

Plays instantly in the browser

Play free — official site
The Carcass store artwork
$9.99

The Carcass

Strategy · RPG · Horror

A keyboard-only ASCII colony sim inside a dead god's corpse, coded mainly by Claude Code and Codex.

Claude CodeSteamEnglish
23%SteamPiqFocus Interactive

Download required

View on Steam
On The Edge | Civil Deputy Simulator start screen
Free

A political management sim with a twist, in which an ordinary person would inevitably make the wrong choices: answer events against the clock and watch your stats.

Codexitch.ioEnglish
No ratings yet4rtemon

Plays instantly in the browser

Play free — itch.io
Soul store artwork
Free

Soul

Adventure

A free visual novel set in Lyr, a city where souls are sold as a product, about an inventor whose device makes people kind.

CodexSteamEnglish
No ratings yetStavros Aeneas Kokkineas

Download required

View on Steam
封校 60 秒 start screen
Free

封校 60 秒

Simulation · Adventure

A Chinese text survival game set on a sealed university campus on the day of a zombie outbreak: you control only yourself, and the other students decide for themselves. Built by Codex from a published prompt.

CodexBrowserChinese (Simplified) only
No ratings yetzzdz

Plays instantly in the browser

Play free — official site

FAQ

How many text-based games were built with Codex?
VibeGameDB lists 5 text-based games whose developers say they were built with Codex, each with a source for that claim.
What engine do most text-based games built with Codex use?
Unity: 1 game (20%). Games whose engine is not disclosed are not counted.
How many are free?
4 of the 5 are free or free to play; 1 is paid. Prices are recorded per store.
Which game was added most recently?
On The Edge | Civil Deputy Simulator, added in November 2026.