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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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Try to survive and perhaps eventually even tame an unknown planet in this incremental semi-idle game.
Survival
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Interactive Fiction
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Trapped inside a computer, survival means multitasking like your life depends on it.
Survival
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Role Playing
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A haunted filesystem and a snarky terminal
Puzzle
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A story about a time loop, squad mates and grilled cheese. Based off the SCP Foundation mythos.
Puzzle
From peasant to emperor. Forge your dynasty through the generations.
Simulation
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A text-based game made using python.
Role Playing
Adventure
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A political-fantasy IF set in a Swahili-inspired world of myth, trade, and intrigue at every step.
Interactive Fiction
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Henrietta bites off more than she can chew at the mummy unwrapping party.
Visual Novel
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A town stuck in endless darkness has gone mad. At the center of it all: a nun taking confessions during the end of days.
Visual Novel
Visual Novel
Visual Novel
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A wolf, a voice, and a mild traumatic brain injury.
Adventure
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A choose-your-own-adventure interactive thriller!!
Interactive Fiction
Enter a world where circus and fairs are apart of the culture as the secrets of those you hold dear are peeled back.
Interactive Fiction
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A text based battle simulator game made in python
Simulation
Descend into the depths of the unknown in search of a higher being..
Role Playing
Text-based deduction game powered by AI
Puzzle
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Japanese Kana & Kanji reading training
Educational
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A short demo for a bigger concept. An escape room game with a limited amount of actions.
Puzzle
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Idle Incremental Human Behavioral Measurement
Simulation
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You awake to find yourself lost in a labyrinth of dark tunnels...
Survival
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Textbased Cow Kingdom Builder
Simulation
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"In the end, was it worth it?"
Interactive Fiction
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Mobile Text-based RPG
Adventure
An interactive fiction fantasy game made with Twine. Create your character, break a curse, fall in love, & make it home.
Interactive Fiction
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Adventure
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This project is a Text Adventure about finding a book called Iris book.
Interactive Fiction
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The Witching Hour is about your life too, in some way.
Puzzle
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A deep RPG set in procedurally generated dark fantasy worlds
Role Playing
a game about exploring space, building stations, bases, and unlocking parts.
Strategy
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