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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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Love Exalt 8372
$9.99
A visual novel about a death game which erupts aboard a train
Veki
Visual Novel
Play in browser
Void Bullet
Action Roguelike inspired by the graphics of classic dungeon crawlers
The Duck
Shooter
One Thousand Acts of Decency
Trapped in a Dome with eight hours to catch a killer
domedev
Visual Novel
BLACKPHILLY: The Text Data Game
"LEVEL UP!"
blackphilly
Educational
Play in browser
MYSTERY FILES: House Of Horrors
$1.99
A Choose Your Own Adventure Style text-based horror game
Trihexa Studio
Interactive Fiction
Ovine Replica
What do you desire? However odd or however wonderful, it can always come true.
Amorous Ursidae
Visual Novel
Ursine Science
$15
Now witness the wrath of a true beast.
Amorous Ursidae
Visual Novel
When my life begins
Thoughts about labour, retirement and the workplace
PRINCESS INTERNET CAFé
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Bloody Eclipse (English)
A captivating 8-bit game where investigation and strange phenomena mingle.
Chaos Studio
Platformer
Play in browser
Gender Dysphoria
negative experiences after coming out as transgender
exodrifter
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Anamnesis, of Renascents and Monsters
A text-based lovecraftian life simulation RPG.
Vaccean
Simulation
Caldera
​Explore a coastal settlement built around the rim of a flooded crater and discover the stories of its people.
UC Games
Adventure
Play in browser
L0VER
A Sci-Fi "Love" Story
Ahmet Kamil Keleş
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
the sound of rain.
A short exploration on the meaning of death.
Niini
Visual Novel
Play in browser
Glass Cave
Aidez Lumi à sortir de la caverne en guidant les autochtones belliqueux grâce à votre "lumière"
Sticmac
Puzzle
Play in browser
Don't Give Up On Me!
A confession goes wrong in multiple ways and days!
Stefannofornari Games
Visual Novel
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
ClassicZoo
ZZT/Super ZZT world player and editor
asie
Last Christmas Ever
Will this be your Last Christmas Ever? Lost in old codgers shed of videomancy.
chip-fork
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
accelerating hotkeys
$3.34
-33%
Try and survive working as a corporate drone while typing your anger away, making money hand over fist.
InvalidSpacebar
Action
COLD SCREAM
Survival Horror Text Adventure
1AM TRAIN
Survival
Doki Doki Ragnarok (Demo)
Funny Viking Dating Sim (SFW Ages 12+)
BrutalHack
Visual Novel
Play in browser
Doki Doki Ragnarok
$12.99
Funny Viking Dating Sim (SFW Ages 12+)
BrutalHack
Visual Novel
GIF
SPACE FROG!
a story of a frog in space.
npckc
Adventure
Play in browser
Heartstring: BETA STORY
A multiversal RPG story that plays with your heartstrings.
pokeizel
Role Playing
Pathway
$3
Mini-books within mini-books.
Studio CloudScape
Puzzle
Asciipocalypse
3d first person shooter drawn using nothing but ascii characters!
wonrzrzeczny
Shooter
SpaceTrader
Assume the role of a space merchant and trade goods across the solar system
Destroy All Pixels
Strategy
Bird Of Passage
A free night ride across Tokyo, searching for our home with the help of some stranger.
SpaceBackyard
Visual Novel
Carrier Trail
$4.99
Deliver a package to the royal family in this Oregon Trail inspired game!
CrackedGhostGames
Adventure
clicky clicks dungeon of hand drawn computer graphics
Explore the dolphins artwork in the dungeon/coffee shop
chip-fork
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Adventures in the Light & Dark
$1
A novel in VR.
Protoria Studios
Visual Novel
Text Wormhole
$6.99
Text Wormhole is a dodge game of bullet hell generated by the roguelike way dynamically based on the theme of letters
elknightstudio
Action
Contagious Pain
We never know someone...
LuckyTime
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