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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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Wayfarer
Marked by complete magical immunity, Wayfarers wander the world, fighting magic. Where will your fate lead you?
Idrelle Games
Interactive Fiction
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Danganronpa: Lapse
10 students find themselves trapped in a luxurious mansion...
Cynthia
Visual Novel
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Beau Ideals Chapter 1
Fantasy visual novel in development
Mouse & Ram
Visual Novel
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4x4 Archipelago
A procedurally generated, text-based fantasy RPG
agat
Interactive Fiction
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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
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Xianxia Simulator
Survive as an immortal cultivator in a text-based life-simulation RPG set in Chinese Cultivation Fantasy world.
Captain Wabbit
Role Playing
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CLOSED HANDS
An unflinching work of interactive fiction.
PΔSSENGER
Interactive Fiction
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Known Unknowns
A bisexual high school ghost hunting romance
Brendan Patrick Hennessy
Interactive Fiction
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Ano What? Why Bakit??
A Really Short and Simple FREE Otome Game
z-ish.p
Visual Novel
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BTC King
Do you have what it takes to be the BTC King? Challenge yourself in this semi-text based game!
aklgupta
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Unhallowed
A spooky short story/adventure game for the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64 and Plus/4, Amstrad CPC, and modern web browsers
Blerkotron
Adventure
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The Queen's Footsteps
A modern text adventure for vintage computers
Davide Bucci
Interactive Fiction
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Ascendance
A love story that surpasses death
Ascendance IF
Interactive Fiction
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A Colour Like No Other
The world's less scary when you're a monster.
TheNamelessOne
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GodAI
Immerse yourself in an AI-driven literary universe where anything can happen.
AWK
Interactive Fiction
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Don't Give Up On Me!
A confession goes wrong in multiple ways and days!
Stefannofornari Games
Visual Novel
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The Gilded
A dark fantasy fiction game
Dry Cappuccino Games
Interactive Fiction
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Cannery Vale
forget who you are
Hanon Ondricek
Interactive Fiction
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One Thousand Acts of Decency
Trapped in a Dome with eight hours to catch a killer
domedev
Visual Novel
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Pitch Black Serenade
- A non conventional romance game. -
97Circle
Visual Novel
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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
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You are SpamZapper 3.1
A spam filter and their fellow plugins get horribly entangled in the affairs of their human's friends
Leon
Interactive Fiction
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Fragmentia
NamelessNoun
Visual Novel
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Frequency
Join Eliza. Decide Together.
Ice Studios
Adventure
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A·L·I·E·N: The Adventure
All is in silence... Too much silence...
Alpha Aventuras
Adventure
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An apocalypse story
Sumit2
Survival
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The Delusion Dilemna
You are trapped in a maze of dreams, and must determine what is real
Nathaniel
Adventure
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[LEAVE OPEN]
A barebones competitive idle game.
Sebastian Scaini
GIF
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REDemption ZONE
An interactive console-based text adventure.
Elseth
Interactive Fiction
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Tell Me A Bedtime Story (Full Version)
Your daughter wants to hear a bedtime story
Greasy Paint
Puzzle
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The Process of Elimination
small town parasocial crime drama
disfixdog
Interactive Fiction
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Crystal Orb Adventures
Prototype procedurally generated text adventure game without the typing.
Marasmusine
Role Playing
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Chuk and the Arena
Fight in the Grand Galactic Tournament to get back your planet's stolen moon!
agat
Interactive Fiction
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The Baker of Shireton
The bread you bake is delicious. Raiders are coming.
Hanon Ondricek
Interactive Fiction
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Silly Feathers
Birdysit Luna, my mynah bird for a few hours.
Ariigames
Visual Novel
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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
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