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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
Beyond the Chiron Gate
$10
Text-based space exploration game
John Ayliff
Interactive Fiction
Chronicles of Tal’Dun: The Remainder
$19.99
A story of love, death and lies.
Nim
Visual Novel
Warsim: The Realm of Aslona
$9.99
Huw2k8
Simulation
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
GIF
Code 7 - Episodes 2 & 3 Available Now
$22.99
What would you do if you found yourself trapped on an eerie space station with nothing but a computer?
Goodwolf Studio
Adventure
The Away Team
$8
In this interactive sci-fi adventure novel, you are the AI pilot of Earth's last interstellar ship.
Underflow Studios
Interactive Fiction
Beau Ideals Chapter 1
Fantasy visual novel in development
Mouse & Ram
Visual Novel
One Thousand Acts of Decency
Trapped in a Dome with eight hours to catch a killer
domedev
Visual Novel
GIF
Event[0]
$19.99
Event[0] is a sci-fi narrative game where you build a relationship with a spaceship computer to get home to Earth.
Ocelot Society
Adventure
Unhallowed
A spooky short story/adventure game for the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64 and Plus/4, Amstrad CPC, and modern web browsers
Blerkotron
Adventure
Ano What? Why Bakit??
A Really Short and Simple FREE Otome Game
z-ish.p
Visual Novel
Don't Give Up On Me!
A confession goes wrong in multiple ways and days!
Stefannofornari Games
Visual Novel
CLOSED HANDS
An unflinching work of interactive fiction.
PΔSSENGER
Interactive Fiction
GodAI
Immerse yourself in an AI-driven literary universe where anything can happen.
AWK
Interactive Fiction
Chimera Crusader: Defender of Dominicus
$0
-100%
ASCII Action! As minimal as an RPG can get
MansterSoft
Role Playing
CAFE 0 ~The Sleeping Beast~
$16.99
What kind of fate will the heroine face after she relives the last seven days before her death?
roseverte
Visual Novel
Don't Take It Personally, I Just Don't Like You
$19.99
The dating sim where not everyone wants to date you.
DeCoster
Visual Novel
Pitch Black Serenade
- A non conventional romance game. -
97Circle
Visual Novel
Jikoronpa: Laments of Isolation (Up to CH2 Trial)
A Danganronpa Fangame: A game of reflection, our guests facing the truth of themselves.
Laments
Visual Novel
Fragmentia
NamelessNoun
Visual Novel
A·L·I·E·N: The Adventure
All is in silence... Too much silence...
Alpha Aventuras
Adventure
Frequency
Join Eliza. Decide Together.
Ice Studios
Adventure
Carrier Trail
$4.99
Deliver a package to the royal family in this Oregon Trail inspired game!
CrackedGhostGames
Adventure
GIF
REDemption ZONE
An interactive console-based text adventure.
Elseth
Interactive Fiction
GIF
[LEAVE OPEN]
A barebones competitive idle game.
Sebastian Scaini
Night in the Unpleasant House
$5
A classic tale of revenge, local politics, pseudoscience, questionable botany, love, and loss.
Porch Weather Games
Interactive Fiction
The Delusion Dilemna
You are trapped in a maze of dreams, and must determine what is real
Nathaniel
Adventure
CANNA-BUS: 420
Follow 4 protagonists and celebrate 420 - where local dealers adapt to legalization, and good times keep on rolling
Imitate Fire
Visual Novel
Warrior Tycoon
WarriorTycoon is Tycoon game where you train warriors and send them on missions to earn gold.
Stusse Games
Simulation
Crystal Orb Adventures
Prototype procedurally generated text adventure game without the typing.
Marasmusine
Role Playing
Framework
Use your ears!
zreimbach
Adventure
1958: Dancing with Fear
A parser-based interactive fiction about romance and Cold War intrigue in the Caribbean.
Victor Ojuel
Adventure
Morse
Help a man tell his harrowing tale.
OliverKnight
Simulation
The Hole in Blueblack Lake
a text-based fishing game
EsoteriSoft
Interactive Fiction
Silly Feathers
Birdysit Luna, my mynah bird for a few hours.
Ariigames
Visual Novel
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