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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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Scary Stories
A text-based, choose-your-own-adventure style game which presents you with multiple spine-chilling stories.
TheDevlin
Visual Novel
The perfect surprise
Prepare the perfect birthday in this short visual novel!
Aurum Lingua Games
Visual Novel
Play in browser
Resilience Hero
Visual Novel inspired by the Boingboing Resilience Framework.
Resilience Hero
Visual Novel
Play in browser
Escape! Frog Prison
Quick, dark and witty text adventure
William Rous
Adventure
Play in browser
Escape from Norwood
$5.99
An illustrated text adventure set in a vivid open world where everyone has an agenda.
Singular Works
Adventure
Décafouilleur
Explorez le Château
studiointenebris
Interactive Fiction
GIF
OPERATION PAGS
C75Dev (Aka VR_Player)
Jack Rampage and the Disasters
A game where you meet some demons!
Frankie☆
Visual Novel
GIF
We Never Left: <Standalone>
On a dark and stormy night in 1983, the phone rings. “FINISH THE GAME”.
FYRE Games
Adventure
My Summer Adventure: Memories of Another Life
A strange incident turns the life of an ordinary young man upside down when he wakes up in a body of a Japanese student!
MySummerAdventure
Visual Novel
Le Héros dont vous êtes le livre
Vous surprenez une conversation suspecte… À vous d’écrire la suite.
Yakkafo
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Realm Fisher
Interdimensional adventure in search of new friends and fish
adelina rose gowans
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
Turrim
Um visual novel de investigação.
pedrowav
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
ReTruth Project (Alpha)
A personal project i've been working on (on semi-permanent hold)
NcsAsp
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Talk To Me personality test
TTM is a free mysterious horror game. You play yourself, and You answer questions that the program asks you,.
RedGames102
Interactive Fiction
Copycat / Подражатель
О близнецах, зеркале и проблеме идентичности
WanderingLighter
Visual Novel
Clash: Steel Barista
Take on a short job as Clash's temp assistant and solve the case of the murdered robotic barista.
Drone Garden Studios
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Escape from Kettuloch
Escape the dungeon before you fully transform into a fox!
SnepShark
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Mendéll
Text-Abenteuer im Retro-Stil
Yhoko
Adventure
Play in browser
Reflections (TALP)
Acquire the magical power that is your birthright
Grizel
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Witchy Kisses
Two lesbians on a date. Normal right?
BaphoWorks
Visual Novel
i HEART ü
Redefine Everything Around You: Using Letters
pahn
Puzzle
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
Outpost 0113
A SciFi Text Adventure Game
4A50
Adventure
Dungeon Of Shadows
Text based adventure game
Harrison
Adventure
Swapped
Old windows themed horror game.
Takeo Noname
Interactive Fiction
The Fire Party Penguins Mustn't Go Out
Eat breakfast. Then help start a bonfire so the penguin party can begin!
Coolcoder360
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Apocalypse (Legacy Edition)
Simple text-based game, where you must survive zombie apocalypse...
MasterStudioCZ
Visual Novel
Play in browser
Vile
"A world of fuck."
VileRebis
Puzzle
Play in browser
Nephelia: through the clouds // Нефелия: сквозь облака
Find your way through the clouds
Syjgin
Role Playing
CLUMSIER_VEIL
A government official works to decipher enemy messages.
Caveware Digital
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
One Day to Disappear
A visual novel about friendship and seduction.
onedaytodisappear
Visual Novel
1-Bit Puzzle Dungeon
Text-based puzzle adventure made with Inform 7!
Oakley
Adventure
Play in browser
Beyond Eternity: A prelude of Scripted Fates
A metaphysical Visual Novel in the realm of NonExistence.
Razeacc
Visual Novel
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