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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
We Never Left: <Standalone>
On a dark and stormy night in 1983, the phone rings. “FINISH THE GAME”.
FYRE Games
Adventure
The Good Weapon
Will you nuke the world to save it?
ninecoffees
Interactive Fiction
Chronicles of Tal’Dun: The Remainder
$19.99
A story of love, death and lies.
Nim
Visual Novel
Fallacy Quiz
$5
Sharpen your critical thinking skills in this quiz game that challenges you to spot rhetorical fallacies.
Tim Krief
Educational
WORLD OF HORROR
$19.99
1bit adventure game of cosmic horror inspired by the work of Junji Ito
panstasz
Role Playing
GIF
Pixel Fireplace
$4.99
Type commands, roast marshmallows, throw logs onto a crackling fire. Enjoy
Ted Martens
Simulation
GIF
emily is away
Sign In again.
kyleseeley23
Snowbound Blood
Snowbound Blood: A Vast Error Story
Deconreconstruction
Visual Novel
Beyond the Chiron Gate
$10
Text-based space exploration game
John Ayliff
Interactive Fiction
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
One Thousand Acts of Decency
Trapped in a Dome with eight hours to catch a killer
domedev
Visual Novel
Warsim: The Realm of Aslona
$9.99
Huw2k8
Simulation
Bird Of Passage
A free night ride across Tokyo, searching for our home with the help of some stranger.
SpaceBackyard
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
GIF
Don't make love
Will you make love and risk death?
Maggese
Interactive Fiction
Canvas Colors: In The Moving City
Travel along with Maggie and Vale inside a moving city in Canvas Colors!
UnfinishedCircl
Visual Novel
WAS/WERE
$4
Murdering a person that hurt you is hot, right?
RodFireProductions
Interactive Fiction
Anamnesis, of Renascents and Monsters
A text-based lovecraftian life simulation RPG.
Vaccean
Simulation
Tristam Island
An Infocom-style adventure for retro computers
Hugo Labrande
Interactive Fiction
Beau Ideals Chapter 1
Fantasy visual novel in development
Mouse & Ram
Visual Novel
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
GIF
Buddy Simulator 1984 DEMO
Create your own virtual best buddy and play games together!
Not a Sailor Studios
Simulation
Eczema Angel Orifice
$5
beautiful twine compilation
Porpentine
Adventure
a Museum of Dubious Splendors.
A collection of small and peculier stories from Somwhere.
Studio Oleomingus
Adventure
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
GIF
And yet it hurt
An adventure game in Notepad about a kid who seeks revenge.
Sheepolution
Adventure
GIF
Type Knight
$3.99
Purge the graveyard from the forces of Evil by using your typing skills.
chaikadev
Don't Die Alone
Spam has never been so deadly.
StephenW313
Visual Novel
Upheaval
$4.99
-50%
Text-based open world roguelike
Alex Leone
Interactive Fiction
Idyll
a cosy internet island
Demi
GIF
Replica
$2.99
Everything in the State, nothing against the State, nothing outside the State.
Somi
Adventure
GIF
I doesn't exist
$12.99
An ode to text-adventures.
DreadXP
Interactive Fiction
Joestar ☆ Struck
Get Joestar Struck
TeamScallywag
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
Swan Hill
A minimalist choose-your-own adventure story about two brothers who have grown apart.
Laura Michet
Interactive Fiction
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