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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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watching paint dry: for 1 hour
paint ain't gonna watch itself
Ohtmiel
Interactive Fiction
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GIF
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summoned at 2
That time I summoned a demon lord to avoid my 2pm meeting
Fabi
Interactive Fiction
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Estrategos (Prototype 1)
A small strategy game running entirely in your terminal
SergioEduP
Strategy
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The Floppy Disk of Forbidden Creatures
What will you summon? And what consequences will it bring?
Cole Cecil
Interactive Fiction
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bash-pac
About bash-pac is an "clone of pacman" that is writen in bash
stuff by max
Action
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SECRETMART: Cryptspace Constraint!
A wordsy GameJamDOR 7 entry written in I7
serendiff
Interactive Fiction
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Brain Tester : Mind trick quiz
This game is about riddles and mind trick quiz .You will need all your brain power to clear.
Plataklom
Puzzle
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The Web of Shadows
A chivalric romance in text
homo-carbonis
Interactive Fiction
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World Runner Gamebook
Gamebook inspired by book World Runner. Can you make right choices?
YTMikosek
Adventure
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Train game
Rowan0001
Visual Novel
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The Hangman Game (Commandline)
The classic Hangman game implemented in the commandline. Made with Xcode. Currently supports macOS.
mrmagic2020
Puzzle
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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
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Market Trader
Lost Legacy Games
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Dragon Dares
A parser adventure game where one needs to solve the riddles of a sarcastic dragon.
peterhoppe
Interactive Fiction
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Under My Skin
Step into the light.
pipejakob
Visual Novel
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Boned
Desperately trying to spin a tale to gets out from being attacked by skeleton pirates.
peterhoppe
Interactive Fiction
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Provizora Parko
Just passing through...
lavieenmeow
Interactive Fiction
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Quest to the Center of a Tootsie Pop
ioicaleb
Adventure
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GrimFront
This Interactive Novel allows you to play as a fantasy character in a world that is trapped within a maze.
LNC Studios
Adventure
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Leech
A branching narrative game where you play as a healer in the Middle Ages.
cephalopodical
Visual Novel
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Incantations
Adventure through the liminal wasteland of the null
abby blenk
Interactive Fiction
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Crown and Dagger (Demo)
Story driven, text-based RPG
GeorgesKaplan
Interactive Fiction
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Khuriya Muriya Islands, Oman; as described by Paul Scheerbart in The Gray Cloth in 1914
Scheerbart-inspired environments for fulldome, experiments
luka
Simulation
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2023 In Revue
A Twine Game celebrating the best games from 2023.
Citrusity
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guess the number
a simple batch format game
Karwacynovich
Puzzle
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Heavy is the Hand
See the past, present, and future... decide the outcome.
Ed
Puzzle
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Domination: Take the States
a text based strategy game where you have one goal - Conquer. Will YOU take the states?
Mr. President
Strategy
GIF
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The 8th Hour
A time-looping text adventure.
4RT1F1C1AL
Adventure
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GIF
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BLESS (Blood+Flesh+Soul)
A game about nobody in this harsh, cruel, antagonistic world.
Maha Deoh
Interactive Fiction
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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
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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
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Hangman's Gulch
You're a gold prospector down on his luck. Scavenge the abandoned town to find treasures to fund your trip back home.
DrDooriddle
Interactive Fiction
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Neapolitan
Three Connected Stories
Rylie Eric
Interactive Fiction
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The Secret of Madame Legerdemain
A D&D inspired interactive novel. Will you retrieve the mysterious jade box? And why are you desperate enough to try?
JoeCamberwell
Interactive Fiction
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Text RPG Crafter
The story continues.. probably until you close the game.
Siopaoboy
Interactive Fiction
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Journey of the Sorcerer
Invoke demonic forces for fun and profit!
Abao Aqu
Role Playing
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