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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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PROXIMATE
$5.99
Undersea horror where your only form of navigation is an unreliable AI.
cain
Adventure
Social Democracy: An Alternate History
You are the Social Democratic Party of Germany in 1928. Can you stop the Nazis from taking power?
Autumn Chen
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
WASTE EATER
The world is saved. Its heroes wait to die.
cain
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Beyond the Chiron Gate
$10
Text-based space exploration game
Space Goblin Games
Interactive Fiction
WORLD OF HORROR
$19.99
1bit adventure game of cosmic horror inspired by the work of Junji Ito
panstasz
Role Playing
The Last Divine
The Gods want you back, but he won't let them take you. You walk a path you were never meant to survive...
Anonymous Soul
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Delphine's Discovery
Venture into an abandoned orphanage, solve a mystery, and fall in love.
LegendEx Games
Visual Novel
Chronicles of Tal’Dun: The Longing
A dark fantasy novel.
Nim
Visual Novel
Play in browser
Pyramid Builder
Grow a civilization, Build a Pyramid
standardcombo
Simulation
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
Social Democracy: Petrograd 1917
A revolutionary alternate history.
Autumn Chen
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Salt Keep
$4.99
A traveling salesman's struggle to survive a night of horror
Small Gray Games
Adventure
Play in browser
The Archivist and the Revolution
The world is ending, and you are still paying rent. A future history.
Autumn Chen
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 Crown of Velvet Thorns
Prince Leonidas wears devotion like a sin and bleeds like a saint. But not for his kingdom. He does it all for you.
Anonymous Soul
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Immortal's Pet
An immortal adopts a human as a pet.
Spider Lily
Visual Novel
Play in browser
if not us
$7
an IF anthology about five heroes who die
ub4q
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
The Painting
Those we love are never truly gone.
Tymedust Games
Visual Novel
Play in browser
Deliverance
You are a messenger. Deliver the most important message yet. Restore balance to the world, else it succumbs to chaos.
Caevacior
GIF
Petty Puny Planet
Why have a pet rock when you can have a pet planet? Micromanage this cosmic rock to places never thought possible!
Whales And Games 🐳
Simulation
Play in browser
10mg: Cover Me In Leaves
$2
In bundle
A short kinetic novel — on bright minds, and the end of all things.
Elliot Herriman
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
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
Connect the Dots
Our songs will all be silenced.
‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎
Visual Novel
The Crimson Diamond FULL GAME
$14.99
A cozy mystery adventure game set in early 1900s Ontario, Canada!
JuliaMinamata
Adventure
Canvas Colors: In The Moving City
Travel along with Maggie and Vale inside a moving city in Canvas Colors!
UnfinishedCircl
Visual Novel
Escape from Kettuloch
Escape the dungeon before you fully transform into a fox!
SnepShark
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Blood & Play: Consultation
POV: Your Vampire BFF Asks You Some Questions
tofurocks
Visual Novel
Play in browser
Blood On The Snow
A narrative adventure game.
Maricu
Adventure
Terminal City
The Text Parser Adventure where you CAN'T STOP MOVING.
PowerhoofVerified Account
Adventure
The Good Weapon
Will you nuke the world to save it?
ninecoffees
Interactive Fiction
GIF
connection established
late night chat with creep that invaded your pc
heartpunch!
Visual Novel
Play in browser
Revenge of the Antagonist
$1.99
In bundle
Enemies on camera, enemies off camera!
ChaniMK
Visual Novel
New Year's Eve, 2019
Social anxiety simulator/dating sim
Autumn Chen
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Femme
a text based, trans* femme dress-up party!
mayaxlove
Interactive Fiction
Locked Room on Rails
A trip back home turns into an impromptu murder mystery.
solarProtag
Visual Novel
The Song of Invermere
A town stuck in endless darkness has gone mad. At the center of it all: a nun taking confessions during the end of days.
9sen
Visual Novel
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