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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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The Golden Apple
Buddy really wants his apple, but there's no apples in the house! How will you help him?​​
rabidwinter
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Off the Podium — One Last Lap
Text-based game about being an average racing driver.
Kaiser Vox
Visual Novel
World Runner Gamebook
Gamebook inspired by book World Runner. Can you make right choices?
YTMikosek
Adventure
Play in browser
GrimFront
This Interactive Novel allows you to play as a fantasy character in a world that is trapped within a maze.
LNC Studios
Adventure
GIF
BLESS (Blood+Flesh+Soul)
A game about nobody in this harsh, cruel, antagonistic world.
deoheaven@gmail.com
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The place where everything converges
A short story about the people around us
juampy
Visual Novel
Play in browser
Guess The Number
Guess The Number Game
Andrii Brendak
Play in browser
The 2D Platformer
The 2D platformer you loved as a kid.
Jayjayhawk
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
Mobius Mesa
Explore a box canyon and uncover the mysteries of the mysterious desert cliffs
Skelemagus
Interactive Fiction
The perfect surprise
Prepare the perfect birthday in this short visual novel!
Aurum Lingua Games
Visual Novel
Play in browser
GIF
Night Shift
Working overnights can be a drag...hopefully your intrusive thoughts can keep you entertained.
CanvasGames
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
Emm1.r
A strange chatroom veils a very dark mystery...
Ayane Faeldori
Visual Novel
Your Body a Temple, or the Postmodern Prometheus
a tale of self-determination
Charm Cochran
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Page Reload Idle
An experimental idle game about reloading the web page.
Sebastian Scaini
Play in browser
æ
fading..
Nire
Visual Novel
Resilience Hero
Visual Novel inspired by the Boingboing Resilience Framework.
Resilience Hero
Visual Novel
Play in browser
Tangled Words
Letters in the word have tangled up, choose the right word from the four options
erytau
Puzzle
Play in browser
Flags Quiz - Play & Learn
Guess the country by its flag or landmarks
afzalzada
Educational
Rock Paper Scissors
Kangaroo Network
Puzzle
Painting: The Ascension
Experience a strange dark fantasy Painting in this short game story
hyperhop
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Robbery Reverie
A thief realizes at the last minute that their mark is a witch
Natasha Luna
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
Night Shift
Working overnights can be a drag...hopefully your intrusive thoughts can keep you entertained.
jakelaux
Visual Novel
Play in browser
Star Wars: Hoth
WEMSII
Adventure
Play in browser
Poofle Mutation Idle
Mutate to thrive as you explore The City and uncover it's dark underbelly!
BlushingKitsuneBasket
Adventure
Play in browser
Make a Sandwich
A short game about making a sandwich and meeting a sandwitch.
Metazoick
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
gtiyc
godot wild jam 57 participation
subvertissement
Play in browser
Causality Couriers
Tomorrow's deliveries, yesterday
David Yates
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Classic Kjell
How well do you know Kjell?
Rajdarn
Interactive Fiction
Neotrogla
A Twine story of bugs and bodies.
Roxy S.
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Voidstranded
A short text-based space game! Find your way off a stranded spaceship
voidklon
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Eirever Forest: Escape
A short interactive fiction project set in a mysterious forest
jgtomasi
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
venial sin
when a burden becomes too much
nadia nova
Visual Novel
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
L0VER
A Sci-Fi "Love" Story
Ahmet Kamil Keleş
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
Misericordetta
A short comedic adventure based on the visual novel "Misericorde."
Crushed
Adventure
Play in browser
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