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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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Console puzzle resolving game
Pulstarter
Puzzle
Play in browser
Last Stand: The Key
A fresh take on the classic text adventure game - reimagined and fiendishly puzzling.
waldorfhammer
Adventure
SLUDGE FICTION
A playable absurdist story about a job interview.
Cadence
Interactive Fiction
Fantasary NG
Fantasary is a prototype textual virtual world using Spritely Goblins, Hoot & Libp2p
tsyesika
guile-dotris
A Guile Scheme clone of a clone of Tetris using braille and ncurses
trev_irc
Puzzle
Nihil Obstat
A battle against a colossal enemy across the cosmos. It is not possible to win and yet, you will try.
Kaiser Vox
Interactive Fiction
Dream Planet : Loan Away
Get a job with alien lenders floating on a broken planet Earth!
weenayoung
Interactive Fiction
Don't Rust
When you're made of iron, it's the humidity that gets you.
skataklysm
Adventure
broken world 4: plague-keeper epilogue
surprisingly comforting bad end for a game that doesn't exist
Ennis Rook Bashe
Visual Novel
Play in browser
Elysium
Immortal hero, here is where you lie.
Ethersic
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Nobody Cares About Charley
One of the many benefits of your position is full access to the Employee Breakroom!
PetricakeGames-IF
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Blossom, NY
A virtual tour
alyshkalia
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Ghost Hunt
Search for a ghost in a locked room full of clues and bric-a-brac.
solipsistgames
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
PARANOIA
Charm Cochran
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Swallowed By The Sea
Click the Arrow
Brain Shlop
Visual Novel
Play in browser
Code: Roses
Help Rose to prove her girlfriend's innocence when discovering a deadly incident.
Koro
Visual Novel
Yes my lord
eliatib
Why? or also known as Untitled
the worst interactive ficiton to exist
Rylie Eric
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Outback
gatocalvojogos
Survival
Play in browser
In All My Dreams I Choke On Invisible Smoke
Exploratory visual novel. Unsettling. Somewhat Yume Nikki inspired.
Kanderwund
Visual Novel
Play in browser
you need to buy a phone charger
online shopping in a late capitalist hellscape
zorkie
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
UROBOROS SPIRAL
enter the spiral
mozaundo
Visual Novel
Hard Rain
Survive the coming storm
Not Jam
Survival
Play in browser
Stairs (REALLY BAD IF Jam)
An interactive fiction about Stairs.
Hochimo
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
World of Monsters (TALP)
Learn how to play text adventure games with a yokai story set in rural Japan
g0blin
Interactive Fiction
Motorcycle Doctors
An Oregon Trail inspired game where you play as a gang of motorcycle-riding doctors.
seaweeddol
Adventure
Play in browser
Lysidice and the Minotaur (TALP)
Will you escape the maze?
manonamora
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Marooned
Deserted Island Dialogue
DigNZ
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Who Stole My Sausages?
Interview your housemates, challenge their lies, and catch the resident sausage thief.
estif
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Him (and Us)
a conversation
alyshkalia
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Who Kidnapped Mother Goose? (TALP)
Mother Goose has been kidnapped and it's up to you to rescue her.
Garry Francis
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Springtime Madness
Night. Spring. Two lovers. What could go wrong?
ActiveDayDreamer
Visual Novel
Day Out (TALP)
Text adventure
zeno pillan
Adventure
Play in browser
The Wolf (TALP)
A Fairytale Text Adventure
lweinreb
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Disappearance of Kevin from Finance
"not to sound rude 'cause a guy is Missing but also,,, who the hell is kevin?"
yveseas
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
project movie maker
pmm
j4ckzz_
Interactive Fiction
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