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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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goodbye
say goodbye before you go
barrels
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Pageant
An interactive story about a girl who joins a beauty pageant to improve her college applications.
Autumn Chen
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
A Klance Texting Game
This is a Klance Texting Game!
Queerklancing
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Classic Rogue - Oryx Design Lab Tiles
A new version of classic Rogue, updated using Ultimate Roguelike Tileset
oryxdesignlab
GIF
sacrament iv.
calamity occult-horror rpg
melessthanthree
Role Playing
Play in browser
Dungeon Mercenary
Modern ASCII roguelike - Can your mercenary beat the dungeon ?
smelc3
Role Playing
Play in browser
The Master of the Land
Dynamic text world | Alternate history intrigue
Pseudavid
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Known Unknowns
A bisexual high school ghost hunting romance
Brendan Patrick Hennessy
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
Unmaking, Unmade
Is this not what you wanted?
Grim Baccaris
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
Type 'n Jump
A text-based platformer, made for Ludum Dare 41 | Combine 2 Incompatible Genres
The Jucas
Platformer
Play in browser
nectar thief
a text based game. will likely take 5-10 minutes to play.
loren schmidt
Play in browser
BIRDLAND
A summer camp bird fighting text adventure
Brendan Patrick Hennessy
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
AWAKE Prototype
You awake alone, on a damaged and abandoned starship.
Hamish Smithers
Play in browser
A Colour Like No Other
The world's less scary when you're a monster.
TheNamelessOne
Play in browser
In My Friend Carrie's Car
An autobiographical text-based game about memory and a car ride.
bignastytruck (violet)
The Beast of Torrack Moor - 30th Anniversary Edition
Track down a wild beast on the moors of England in this remaster of the classic ZX Spectrum text-adventure.
Adventuron
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Typeless
A visual novel typing game where you must sacrifice your keyboard letters​.
Naihto
Visual Novel
Play in browser
c i r c u i t s
a narrative journey through remembering, witnessing, and trauma
eileen mary
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Serial Adventures of Dick Jack BB!
Episode One - The Montebello Dance and Dump Ball
angelboydiscoman
Visual Novel
Escort Yourself Out
a game about trauma, triggers, and self-compassion
bignastytruck (violet)
Simulation
GIF
this is not WORD
this is not a text editor
Ludipe
Play in browser
Trans Pyre
Finnish midsummer gender magic.
Xurxe Toivo García
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Dreamer of Electric Sheep
A procedural sandbox text-adventure
ByttenStudio
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Six Shots
A text-based adventure game that puts you in the boots of a lone cowpoke bent on revenge.
BanzaiBonsai
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Cragne Manor
20th anniversary of classic horror game Anchorhead. 84 authors. One ridiculous tribute.
bavarianrobotdiner
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
RogueType
Yet another text-based roguelike game.
Pecon
Adventure
Play in browser
GIF
Cannery Vale
forget who you are
Hanon Ondricek
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
CLICK TO CONTINUE!
Run away.
Andrea Pignataro
Philip Marlowe Doesn't Understand the Mystery
(2018)
Sand Gardeners
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Diviner
Divine the omens. Save your village.
CogsAndSpanners
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Confessions of an NPC
Interview NPCs from a world not unlike our own...
Charles H. Huang
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
Ace Baker
A cyberpunk cake-baking game about an asexual couple... in the future!
*AAmici
Puzzle
Play in browser
JOBHUNT
hunt for job
Sean
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Get That Girl!
A game about unrequited love.
Asterranaut
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Pitch Black Serenade
- A non conventional romance game. -
97Circle
Visual Novel
Lobotomy & You
Loved one involved in a serious head injury? Call Lobotomy and You to get them up and running like new again!
point bleep
Adventure
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