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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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Estrategos (Prototype 1)
A small strategy game running entirely in your terminal
SergioEduP
Strategy
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Codename: EMPTY
Free, Open-Source, Janky
A Donut with Sprinklez
Interactive Fiction
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A Very Real Journal
A way to help generate event prompts for solo-RPGs
A Donut with Sprinklez
Interactive Fiction
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LUNIUM
An escape room mystery. Can you escape your chains before the killer strikes again?
radiosity
Interactive Fiction
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Radiant Embers
Journey to defeat the Darkness
Sparkwolf_1916
Role Playing
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Steam Sky
Text-based roguelike in a sky with steampunk theme
thindil
Role Playing
GIF
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Re: Re: Absurd Chain
Play the exquisite corpse with text messages
Perita
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Upstart Dungeon
YOU are the game master! Shepherd the CPU player through an adventure of your own design.
Cmdr3nder
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Advent 101
"Colossal Cave" for lazy people!
JJFlash
Adventure
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The Room of the Locked Door
A small, WIP game for CMD
supermightygriffin
Adventure
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A Journey Through the Unknown
A text adventure entirely generated by AI
Aurélien
Adventure
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dotroot
Global Game Jam 2023
CAdventures Entertainment
Puzzle
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TicTacToe Online
Online version of famous paper-and-pencil game.
TheNeverMan
Card Game
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netbattleship
a network battleship game for window or terminal
Handle with Care
Strategy
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ReTruth Project (Alpha)
A personal project i've been working on (on semi-permanent hold)
NcsAsp
Interactive Fiction
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THE SAT GAME
iq_game
Kangaroo Network
Educational
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Qonquest
Simple strategy game in the terminal
TheZipCreator
Strategy
GIF
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GameJam Tycoon
How long can you last in your game jam career?
ronynn
Interactive Fiction
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5e Arena
A pit-fighting game for the famous 5th edition fantasy tabletop RPG.
Sayeth
Role Playing
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Sunder
You are your tribe’s last hope. Find the cure to the disease before you run out of time.
MaeDay
Interactive Fiction
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A Bit Lost
Help a lost bit escape a sea of bytes, using bitwise operations to advance and get the correct values through the exits
RhythmZenigata
Puzzle
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TerminalCraft
A text based survival sandbox.
TurboWafflz
Survival
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Trash Typing
dfxf
Simulation
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What's the word ?
click all the buttons to reach security !
Vrixyz
Rhythm
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The Hacker's Heist
An interactive fiction caper
TheAaronSegal
Interactive Fiction
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Iron Blood
Cross hills and valleys to catch up to your failed executioners and do what they couldn't.
ArchMason
Adventure
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Endure The Unknown
Explore a strange labyrinth and keep your astronaut alive!
Edvcel
Strategy
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Thread Stories
Text-only Journaling RPG
ma8u
Role Playing
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Bordertale
A short text-based Fantasy RPG
tejmen
Role Playing
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Blizna
Opowiadanie o pozornie spokojnym popołudniu, zaadaptowane jako przygoda tekstowa.
rogal
Interactive Fiction
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Hello
CrowdedTundra47
Interactive Fiction
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Low Oxygen
A quick IF game about the exploration of a dying ship and yourself.
Otterboros
Interactive Fiction
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Prosinecki Life Simulator
Aventura de texto donde tienes que conseguir que Prosinecki tenga una carrera con el menor número de percances posible.
Backside Games
Interactive Fiction
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RetroBASIC
Classic BASIC Online Interpreter
Retronomicon Games Quality
Educational
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Look Closer
You've been hired to slay a dragon. But don't worry, it's only as hard as you make it....
Cass Aleatory
Interactive Fiction
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