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text-based video game

electronic game that uses text as visualisation
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text-based video game

Summary

text-based video game is a video game genre[1]. It draws 1,937 Wikipedia views per month (video_game_genre category, ranking #64 of 139).[2]

Key Facts

  • text-based video game's instance of is recorded as video game genre[3].
  • text-based video game is a type of video game[4].
  • text-based video game is a type of text game[5].
  • text-based video game's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Video games with textual graphics[6].
  • text-based video game's uses is recorded as text-based user interface[7].

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Definition and Type

text-based video game's instance of is recorded as video game genre[3]. Recorded subclass of include video game[4] and text game[5].

Why It Matters

text-based video game draws 1,937 Wikipedia views per month (video_game_genre category, ranking #64 of 139).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 13 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[8] It is known by 27 alternative names across languages and contexts.[9]

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [8] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [9] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 4w ago · Jean-Frédéric · 2026-09-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Allgame style id (archived) → —
    Instance of → video game genre
    Subclass of → video game, text game
    Subclass of → —
    + 5 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ [[Property:P12810]]: 225, Moving to [[Q126393551]]"
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