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Text-based and browser games

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) operate on similar principles. Most of these games use text or a combination of text and still images to depict the game world. Games like ''

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'' play like traditional turn-based

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, with players given a new allotment of turns each day.

Graphical games

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Text-based and browser games

Graphical games

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