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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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Off the Podium — One Last Lap
Text-based game about being an average racing driver.
Kaiser Vox
Visual Novel
Sparks Over Ashes [RUS]
Hour of Winter Calm
JustPhrase
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
BLESS (Blood+Flesh+Soul)
A game about nobody in this harsh, cruel, antagonistic world.
deoheaven@gmail.com
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Larme à gauche
Retournez dans votre famille. Enterrez votre grand-père. Restez. Où partez.
fuegosuave
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The perfect surprise
Prepare the perfect birthday in this short visual novel!
Aurum Lingua Games
Visual Novel
Play in browser
Think the Button Might'a Skipped a Beat... - A Stanarrator Fangame
The Narrator introduces the player to the Skip button. Stanley has no movable mouth, yet is determined to scream.
paper75fire
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Resilience Hero
Visual Novel inspired by the Boingboing Resilience Framework.
Resilience Hero
Visual Novel
Play in browser
Camp Tales
Join us around the fire and participate by telling the tale!
S. Otha Scarlet
Visual Novel
Escape! Frog Prison
Quick, dark and witty text adventure
William Rous
Adventure
Play in browser
Corn Summer Camp
Визуальная новелла про соль и кукурузу
Honey Moon Company
Visual Novel
Мой призрачный друг
Небольшой текстовый квест про потомка экзорцистов и призрака.
LevianeAck
Play in browser
Neotrogla
A Twine story of bugs and bodies.
Roxy S.
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
The Mouth Of The Woods
Twenty-seven-year-old Casper Antilles was last seen on ███████ street Wednesday night around 9:00 PM.
DOMINO CLUB
Visual Novel
Play in browser
GIF
Misericordetta
A short comedic adventure based on the visual novel "Misericorde."
Crushed
Adventure
Play in browser
Kingdom Simulator
Build, Conquer, and Rule Your Medieval Empire
NJ
Simulation
zxcmertb
1000-7 go zxc?
danilatheshadow
Visual Novel
A Thousand Thousand Slimy Things
Alone, alone, all, all alone, alone on a wide Sea! And never a saint took pity on your soul in agony.
Charm Cochran
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
A Gruesome Fairytale
Turning Hansel and Gretel into a nightmarish survival horror experience
DameGev
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
Feminism Unpacked
A free, not-preachy guide to feminism with over 70 different sources.
FeminismUnpacked
Educational
Don't Die Alone
Spam has never been so deadly.
StephenW313
Visual Novel
ReTruth Project (Alpha)
A personal project i've been working on (on semi-permanent hold)
NcsAsp
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Worm Quest
a sprawling text adventure featuring worms
Wither Games
Interactive Fiction
What Will You Have?
A SFW dating sim where there's always something simmering.
aeta
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Copycat / Подражатель
О близнецах, зеркале и проблеме идентичности
WanderingLighter
Visual Novel
How it was then and how it is now
A puzzle-light interactive story of love and terrible geometry
Pseudavid
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Mermaids of Ganymede
A Fantastic Voyage beneath a Strange Ocean
Paxton
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Made With Love and Sparkles: Purple-Moon.com
For the Forgotten Games Essay Jam, an excavation of one corner of the '90s Girl Games boom.
aeta
Play in browser
DOGESTORY
A critically unacclaimed visual novel that is subjectively funny
OdieStar
Visual Novel
ONE
Navigating a world where romance is a pill that can kill you.
E3kHatena
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Iron Blood
Cross hills and valleys to catch up to your failed executioners and do what they couldn't.
ArchMason
Adventure
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
Manikin Demo
Murder. Mystery. Manikins.
Rose Dallas Behar
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Mendéll
Text-Abenteuer im Retro-Stil
Yhoko
Adventure
Play in browser
PROJECT HERO - Mutants Evolve (2020)
​You're not mutation, you are evolution. - Keith R. A. DeCandido
Kieran Ritchie
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Apocalypse (Legacy Edition)
Simple text-based game, where you must survive zombie apocalypse...
MasterStudioCZ
Visual Novel
Play in browser
Blood Bath & Beyond
A humorous fantasy text adventure into the dark heart of retail.
Neil Floyd
Adventure
Play in browser
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