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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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Danganronpa: Lapse
10 students find themselves trapped in a luxurious mansion...
Cynthia
Visual Novel
GIF
SPACE FROG!
a story of a frog in space.
npckc
Adventure
Play in browser
Horse Master: The Game of Horse Mastery
Master a horse. Become a Horse Master.
Tom McHenry
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
MMM: Murder Most Misfortunate
A murder is committed in a secluded mansion, and it's up to you to solve it.
Foolish Mortals
Visual Novel
GuessMe!
Guess about your favorite food or Pokemons!
Zetoman77
Educational
Play in browser
Don't Die Alone
Spam has never been so deadly.
StephenW313
Visual Novel
Misplaced
An escape room as a text adventure!
Charu Tak
Puzzle
Play in browser
Aesthetic
🌺 a short story for coming out day 🌺
Olive
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
sacrament iv.
calamity occult-horror rpg
melessthanthree
Role Playing
Play in browser
The Master of the Land
Dynamic text world | Alternate history intrigue
Pseudavid
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
CLICK TO CONTINUE!
Run away.
Andrea Pignataro
GIF
The Painting
A grieving father relives memories of days long gone.
Tymedust Games
Visual Novel
Play in browser
Leximan - ORIGINAL CONCEPT PROTOTYPE
Throw together wild spells as you attempt to repair your broken spellbook!
MaxAmaden
Adventure
Play in browser
Wake Up
Live authoritarianism through a minimalist narrative experience.
Inverge Studios
Play in browser
Pairidaeza
A historic gay romance set in Medieval Baghdad
mostopha
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
Five Minutes a Day
Every day, for the rest of your life.
Andrea Pignataro
Adventure
Ano What? Why Bakit??
A Really Short and Simple FREE Otome Game
z-ish.p
Visual Novel
Clockwork Apple
A BL Visual-novel featuring kidnapping and characters of doubtful morality. (English and Italian)
Synapsed
Visual Novel
Welcome to the Dragon Palace
A queer illustrated text adventure game
yllogique
Adventure
Play in browser
Trans Pyre
Finnish midsummer gender magic.
Xurxe Toivo García
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
In Auctorem Credimus
"And they lived happily ever after" might be the biggest cliffhanger of all
Franzinyte
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
The Hacker's Cave
A short twine adventure
Gabriel Cornish
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
It wasn't me.
What do you think happened? A short telescopic text mystery, playing with out-of-the-box storytelling mechanics.
Rosa Carbo-Mascarell
Role Playing
venial sin
when a burden becomes too much
nadia nova
Visual Novel
Play in browser
The Message
A short horror game of a getting a message from an unknown person.
vengeancev
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
AL - A Choose Your Own Adventure
Gabriel Cornish
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Backspaces
295 words about faulty keyboards and absent mouse pads.
Vaida
Play in browser
Remember When
Journey through the life of Sarah and Noah in this interactive narrative experience.
Arrow Games
Visual Novel
Dispatch
A short interactive story in which you are a 911 dispatcher. Lives depend on your choices.
Ellen Cunningham
Simulation
Play in browser
In the Snowy Winter's Wake
An in-development first person/text adventure hybrid set in a fantasy world.
Cheeseness
Adventure
Capybara Capriole
Dodge obstacles atop your trusty Capybara. When that gets boring build your own level.
MansterSoft
Dear Sophie
A game about the weirdness of balancing online love and real life.
Zerogue
Visual Novel
Play in browser
GIF
Hot Soup
A Cozy Micro Twine for Rainy Days
Gabriel Cornish
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
The Mouth Of The Woods
Twenty-seven-year-old Casper Antilles was last seen on ███████ street Wednesday night around 9:00 PM.
DOMINO CLUB
Visual Novel
Play in browser
lost in myself: an interactive visual novel
You are the enemy of yourself, or maybe the friend? It's always the fight with you that's hard to win.
Luna Studios
Visual Novel
Play in browser
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