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Astra Protocol 2

$6.99

A Cassette Futuristic Space Adventure

Slice Bar

Simulation

Fallacy Quiz

Sharpen your critical thinking skills in this quiz game that challenges you to spot rhetorical fallacies.

Tim Krief

Educational

Blood to Bone

Interactive royalty novel, with romance. Text based

euio

Interactive Fiction

Play in browser

MYSTERY FILES: House Of Horrors

$1.99

A Choose Your Own Adventure Style text-based horror game

Trihexa Studio

Interactive Fiction

1984: Thoughtcrime Awakening

Interactive fiction, solo roleplaying, and literary discussion based in the dystopian nightmare of Orwell's "1984"

FoxSynergy

Interactive Fiction

Escape from Norwood

$5.99

An illustrated text adventure set in a vivid open world where everyone has an agenda.

Singular Works

Adventure

DateQuest

AI Dating Mystery

Mythical City Games

Interactive Fiction

Play in browser

Six Six

A text-mode adventure for your Rainbow 100 (and other inferior platforms)!

PrintStar

Adventure

Microcrawl

$2.99

Microcrawl is a bite sized point and click 2D adventure text hybrid

ZPJ Interactive

Adventure

Sea of Survival

Turn based roguelike with resource management on a ship

Housebird Games

Strategy

WAS/WERE

Murdering a person that hurt you is hot, right?

RodFireProductions

Interactive Fiction

D E A D S P E A K

$10

a game about ghosts, Fate, and a very worried younger brother

a.c.d

Interactive Fiction

Play in browser

Stuck In Time Episode : 1

$1.99

A Sci-fi interactive adventure

Omni Time Studios

Interactive Fiction

Whispers in the Moss

$4.99

A full-scale retro JRPG with ambitious textmode graphics [coming in June 2024]

Uncultured Games

Role Playing

ALL @ ONCE

$2.99

Can you discover you?

Lawrence Marable

Interactive Fiction

GIF

Blackout: The Darkest Night

$5.99

Once you glimpse behind the shadows, you’ll never be the same.

MiniChimera

Interactive Fiction

Long Journey Home

Alone, but for the worms and mushrooms

skiddyhale

Interactive Fiction

The Lurking Shadow

$1.99

A mystery and terror text adventure about you, a detective, who must solve a case in a strange house.

LegosDeveloper

Interactive Fiction

Telvoikai

Choose between exploring jungle tropics or navigating deep into a bioluminescent sea.

Corvaena

Role Playing

[SIBERIA]

£1

A small text-adventure survival game.

MSSNG

Adventure

Sepia Tears: Reprise Edition

A romance visual novel about memories best left forgotten.

Scarlet String Studios

Visual Novel

You Are Petting a Cat

You are petting... a cat

wbalmer

Role Playing

Play in browser

Спасти принцессу 2

$2.99

Много выборов, 5 концовок

wolfgames

Interactive Fiction

Saving the Princess 2

$2.99

A young doctor enters the dream world to rescue the woman he loves

wolfgames

Interactive Fiction

Post War

$7.99

An indie 2.5D post-apocalyptic adventure designed in pixel art

PostEastern

Adventure

Subtext

$6.99

A mystery told through real SMS messages, phone calls, and emails.

William O'Connell

Interactive Fiction

The Adventures of a Hero

Explore the world around you, attack the enemys attacking you, find your memorys.

Dark Plasma Entertainment

Role Playing

GIFTS

A text-based fairy tale.

Megan

Interactive Fiction

Play in browser

if not us

an IF anthology about five heroes who die

ub4q

Interactive Fiction

Play in browser

Witches and Bandits and Swords (Oh My)

-100%

A playful, interactive graphic novel adventure by Krunchy Fried Games. Ages 13+.

Krunchy Fried Games

Visual Novel

Play in browser

Star Story: The Horizon Escape

$11.99

Join a funky space archaeologist who crashed on an unknown planet. Explore, fight, make decisions to find a way out!

EvilCoGames

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

You're Going To Be Fine (Branches)

Escape your fairy tale nightmare in this short text game.

Megan

Interactive Fiction

oooh.ga

£1.99

Gather round... it's time to die.

BlueDeadpool

Adventure

GIF

The Mr. Dude 4-in-1 Poopy-Pak

-100%

Four ASCII Games; One Poopy Pack!

MansterSoft

The Love Bot

$0.99

Send Randomized SMS messages of love!

Kevin Loring

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