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Focused on using its text, moreso than its visuals or audio, to tell the bulk of its story/plot. (Still can have great audio and visuals, though!)

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Walkie Talkie
send messages, receive messages, play messages
Daniel Linssen
Platformer
GIF
SPACE FROG!
a story of a frog in space.
npckc
Adventure
Play in browser
GIF
Vast Trivia Of The Void
What would an omniscient creature do with all that knowledge? Well, host a trivia game, of course!
Whales And Games
Puzzle
Play in browser
Pyramid Builder
Grow a civilization, Build a Pyramid
standardcombo
Simulation
Pick & Poke
Narrative roguelike with tokens
Christophe Coyard
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Family Dinner
It only takes one night to change everything.
pansandpots
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Your Phone Dies in 20 Seconds
You have 20 seconds to determine your fate.
Crimson Arcade
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Chronicles of Tal’Dun: The Longing
A dark fantasy novel.
Nim
Visual Novel
Play in browser
God-Cursed: Demo
An interactive fiction fantasy game made with Twine. Create your character, break a curse, fall in love & make it home.
Lunan
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
What Girls Do in the Dark
A short slumber party text adventure ♡
olivebranche
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Deliverance
You are a messenger. Deliver the most important message yet. Restore balance to the world, else it succumbs to chaos.
Caevacior
The Archivist and the Revolution
The world is ending, and you are still paying rent. A future history.
Autumn Chen
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Don't Die Alone
Spam has never been so deadly.
StephenW313
Visual Novel
GIF
Who Stole My Bone?
Help Spudz the dog find his precious bone in this short, silly game!
Kryptic Kitty
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Gender Dysphoria
negative experiences after coming out as transgender
exodrifter
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
Our Winding Road
Former heroes try to save their relationship.
Nim
Visual Novel
GIF
WASTE EATER
The world is saved. Now its heroes wait to die.
cain
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
Petty Puny Planet
Why have a pet rock when you can have a pet planet? Micromanage this cosmic rock to places never thought possible!
Whales And Games
Simulation
Play in browser
Delphine's Discovery
Venture into an abandoned orphanage, solve a mystery, and fall in love.
LegendEx Games
Visual Novel
New Year's Eve, 2019
Social anxiety simulator/dating sim
Autumn Chen
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
reunion
find your ex at the end of the world
caeth
Play in browser
Villain Rehabilitation
A support group for villains having trouble with villaining.
Kryptic Kitty
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Mushroom Hunt
An entry for the Adventuron Cavejam
Polyducks
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Blood On The Snow
A narrative adventure game.
Maricu
Adventure
Just Cosplay
A game about being a teen in the early 2010s.
Deadnettle Games
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The House Abandon - Now part of 'Stories Untold'!
A nostalgic horror adventure game, inside another horror game, inside a tv show, inside a game.
jonNoCode
Adventure
Warp Cinema
You wake at the cinema. The movie is over. Your friend is missing. Déjà vu grips you tight. It's all happened before.
CosmicVoid
Adventure
Canvas Colors: In The Moving City
Travel along with Maggie and Vale inside a moving city in Canvas Colors!
UnfinishedCircl
Visual Novel
GIF
The Painting
A grieving father relives memories of days long gone.
Tymedust Games
Visual Novel
Play in browser
Escape from Kettuloch
Escape the dungeon before you fully transform into a fox!
SnepShark
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Pageant
An interactive story about a girl who joins a beauty pageant to improve her college applications.
Autumn Chen
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
RPG-ish
A micro-RPG made for Twiny Jam, where you needed to make a Twine game using 300 words or less.
Scared Square Games
Role Playing
Play in browser
Goblins Demise
Goblins seeking Refuge
Lodugh
Adventure
Play in browser
GIF
Galactic Foodtruck Simulator 2999 (GFS2999)
The galaxy hungers. You own a foodtruck. Feed everyone.
WiL
Simulation
Play in browser
Epitaph
alien civilization extinction simulator
Max Kreminski
Play in browser
When I'm Gone
Survival game without your survival.
Please wait
Survival
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