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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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A Weed in the Garden
Let go.
Bruhstin
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
clock out [playtest demo - survey in desc]
a game about a job interview
devkity
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Hard Rain
Survive the coming storm
Not Jam
Survival
Play in browser
The Devil's Folly
Explore a forest mutated by mythology.
Jacob Moore
Adventure
Play in browser
UROBOROS SPIRAL
enter the spiral
mozaundo
Visual Novel
HBreaker Hub
Time to scroll, scroll, & scroll some more.
Kezthier
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Would you Rather?
This is a game with 500 options of would you rather, including life debates or just fun ideas
Xjento
Golden Scales
Old school Text Adventure Dungeon Crawler
Meister der Magie
Adventure
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
Castle Mistdark
Did you enjoy playing Zork in the late 70's / early 80's? Enjoy this text-based adventure much like Zork!
Seth Grimes
Adventure
Him (and Us)
a conversation
alyshkalia
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
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
The Golden Apple
Buddy really wants his apple, but there's no apples in the house! How will you help him?​​
rabidwinter
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Day Out (TALP)
Text adventure
zeno pillan
Adventure
Play in browser
project movie maker
pmm
j4ckzz_
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
TextArena
Fantasy Text Adventure RPG
grobbie
Role Playing
Imago
Rogue-Like Monologue Experiment
Shinø's Brainworks
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Off the Podium — One Last Lap
Text-based game about being an average racing driver.
Kaiser Vox
Interactive Fiction
Progress Knight: Multiplayer
Multiplayer PvP incremental game
Gawaak
Role Playing
Play in browser
Those Long Dead
A WIP medieval fantasy interactive fiction story, with angelic imagery and themes, and a focus on romance.
Aevum Games
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Termitaire
Text-based klondike solitaire that is run in the terminal
RodakDev
Card Game
Passing Through
You'll meet many people as you pass through.
Amanda
Visual Novel
Play in browser
Spaceraptor
Be a sapient robot on a space station
ArmoredDragon
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Mysteries of the Star Odyssey
This is a very short but completed IF for personal practice. All critiques are welcome! 5 achievements to unlock
Lainy Literati Games
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Speaking through dreams
a short story about fantasies
Kiyrian
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Stuck with you
A late night conversation between two best friends
teletuu
Visual Novel
Aura [DEMO]
BearyGames
Visual Novel
GIF
summoned at 2
That time I summoned a demon lord to avoid my 2pm meeting
Fabi
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
watching paint dry: for 1 hour
paint ain't gonna watch itself
Ohtmiel
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Tropic Stranded: A Text Adventure Survival Game
Delsus
Role Playing
Fallacy Quiz
$5
Sharpen your critical thinking skills in this quiz game that challenges you to spot rhetorical fallacies.
Tim Krief
Educational
Estrategos (Prototype 1)
A small strategy game running entirely in your terminal
SergioEduP
Strategy
The Floppy Disk of Forbidden Creatures
What will you summon? And what consequences will it bring?
Cole Cecil
Interactive Fiction
bash-pac
About bash-pac is an "clone of pacman" that is writen in bash
stuff by max
Action
Astra Protocol 2
$6.99
A Cassette Futuristic Space Adventure
Slice Bar
Simulation
SECRETMART: Cryptspace Constraint!
A wordsy GameJamDOR 7 entry written in I7
serendiff
Interactive Fiction
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