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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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Who Kidnapped Mother Goose? (TALP)
Mother Goose has been kidnapped and it's up to you to rescue her.
Garry Francis
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Day Out (TALP)
Text adventure
zeno pillan
Adventure
Play in browser
Estrategos (Prototype 1)
A small strategy game running entirely in your terminal
SergioEduP
Strategy
GIF
Feed the Fish
Do anything you could possibly do to a fish.
Not-Only But-Also
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Songs of Rats
Darkness of past civilizations
TESSERACT GAMES
Role Playing
Play in browser
CLI Dungeon
"Port" of CLI JAM entry
high-impact
Adventure
Our Haunted Restaurant
Survival Horror game made in QB64. Takes place in China.
Neils4
Survival
Cold Case
a Nokia 3310 Jam game
Olaf Moriarty Solstrand
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
CᴬᴿᴼL n' AᴬᴿᴼN!
A puzzlingly self-referential tale.
cul de grace
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
hello adventure
CLI game jam entry
high-impact
Adventure
GIF
ARES - Automated Relay System
Awaiting command...
ChXris
Puzzle
Play in browser
Mirthville
Esfratch
Interactive Fiction
Dream Warrior
What if you dreamed of defeating ancient evil?
Robert from High Tower Games
Role Playing
Play in browser
Zamek na wrzosowisku [pl-PL]
Natalia Ryś
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
[el-GR] - Περιπέτεια στο Κάστρο
The Greek version of Avventura nel Castello, a web-based text adventure
MagicatL10n
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Cargo Breach
While serving aboard a steam ship during The Great War, something goes wrong and it's up to you to work out what.
Garry Francis
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
THE RUIN OF 0CEANUS PR1ME
«There's nothing here, Carter. Vital signs zero-zero. It's a fucking cemetery.»
Marco Innocenti
Interactive Fiction
The John Assessment
A high-tech interactive life simulator. Which John will you become?
Urbanyeti
Simulation
Voyager II Control
Control Voyager II before crashes (Terminal Based)
JackPrograms
Simulation
Play in browser
Don't Be A Stranger
A nostalgic self reflection exercise disguised as a Gameboy game.
Harry Tortus
Simulation
Play in browser
Monte de las Ánimas (2023)
Dareint
Adventure
End Of History
An interdimensional visitation narrative.
n2n
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
El Fin de la Historia
Una ficción interactiva interdimensional.
n2n
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Sun Gem
A game about stealing a gem in order to save the world
ch0ccyra1n
Adventure
//We don't have a story//
A text-base adventure game, where instead of creating story by actions, you create actual story prompts.
ultimatedecaf
Adventure
Search for the Lost Ark
The Ark of the Covenant has been hidden in the local forest. You must find it and return it to your church.
Garry Francis
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Office Space
A text-based video game about the subtle horror of the monotony of the archetypal workplace
TheMadameAmadeus
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Warp Cinema
You wake at the cinema. The movie is over. Your friend is missing. Déjà vu grips you tight. It's all happened before.
CosmicVoid
Adventure
Dragon'n Princess
ComSha
Adventure
Play in browser
The Mystery of Winchester High (TALP)
Your school was bequeathed by a rich philanthropist, but the whereabouts of the rest of his fortune is a mystery.
Garry Francis
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Interactive Adventurer's Tutorial Adventure (TALP)
Cobwebbed Dragon
Adventure
Play in browser
Rerbal Space Program
Design a roguish 2D rocket and try to get into space
Morph's Deathray
Simulation
Play in browser
The King's Ball
The king is throwing a ball to support local businesses, but you're not invited. Can you find a way to sneak in?
Garry Francis
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Submarine Sabotage
You are serving aboard a top-secret submarine, when a saboteur gasses the crew. Can you survive and save the sub?
Garry Francis
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
IP Please
Game submission for the LÖVE Jam 2023
Maiori44
Puzzle
No Substitutions
A word switch cooking game where the results are up to you.
aeta
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
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