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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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KEEP SACRIFICING OR THE WORLD IS GOING TO END!
The gods are extremely angry! Can you, the king of a vaguely Sumerian/Akkadian city state, appease them?
Stark Raving Sane Games
Strategy
Play in browser
Who Wants To Be The Next Voltaire?
Are you a good debater?
Girkov Arpa
Educational
Play in browser
TextArena
Fantasy Text Adventure RPG
grobbie
Role Playing
Progress Knight: Multiplayer
Multiplayer PvP incremental game
Gawaak
Role Playing
Play in browser
Spaceraptor
Be a sapient robot on a space station
ArmoredDragon
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Adventure Time
A game i made for my college class.
L1L_R3D
Adventure
Fallacy Quiz
$5
Sharpen your critical thinking skills in this quiz game that challenges you to spot rhetorical fallacies.
Tim Krief
Educational
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
Der Turm des Hexenmeisters
Ein browserbasiertes Textadventure
cpfr
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Provizora Parko
Purgatory as (semi) abandoned bird park
lavieenmeow
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Quest to the Center of a Tootsie Pop
ioicaleb
Adventure
Khuriya Muriya Islands, Oman; as described by Paul Scheerbart in The Gray Cloth in 1914
Scheerbart-inspired environments for fulldome, experiments
luka
Simulation
2023 In Revue
A Twine Game celebrating the best games from 2023.
Citrusity
Play in browser
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
Escape from the Troll's Cave
You mistakenly entered the Troll's Cave at the carnival because the admission was free. Now you need money to get out.
DrDooriddle
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Babysitter
You've been left to babysit little Anna, but she's gone missing. Can you find her before her parents arrive home?
DrDooriddle
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Journey of the Sorcerer
Invoke demonic forces for fun and profit!
Abao Aqu
Role Playing
Play in browser
Uncommon Encounters: Echoes of the Past
Last year's nightmare is repeating itself.
Katherina Maveti
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Martingale
Une histoire interactive avec des boucles temporelles
Sachone
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
IED0
What is this PC doing here?. Does it still work?
Merigle
Interactive Fiction
La disparition
Menez l'enquête dans un petit port pirate...
Open Adventure
Interactive Fiction
Uncommon Encounters
You are lost. Is there a way to go back home, or will you perish in the forest?
Katherina Maveti
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
The Queen's Footsteps (StoryTllr version)
StoryTllr port of the first part of Davide Bucci's masterpiece
Marco Giorgini
Interactive Fiction
Scary Stories
A text-based, choose-your-own-adventure style game which presents you with multiple spine-chilling stories.
TheDevlin
Visual Novel
Illusive Destiny: Reality
Hello Investigator, we want you to figure out who killed Jessica Miller.
Dualunity
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Beyond the Crescent: Text-based Adventure
An interactive fiction story taking place on the Moon.
Katherina Maveti
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Lunaria City Stories
MG Studio
Astoria
A text game about life in space.
Alex James Kane
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
YOU ARE GAWAIN
about virtue, chivalry, choice(lessness), men made of greenery, &kissing them.
catherine
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
the archivist
uncover the secrets of Facanimer Archival Institute.
necrotoons
Interactive Fiction
Pyramid 2000
arxbob99
Adventure
bread kingdom
kingdom of bread,
uugr
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Codename: EMPTY
Free, Open-Source, Janky
A Donut with Sprinklez
Interactive Fiction
GIF
OmniCorp Planet Revival
The Company welcomes you!
Dullish99
Simulation
Play in browser
Imagine Being Trapped
Text-based Survival
Birchstag Studios
Survival
Play in browser
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