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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
HBreaker Hub
Time to scroll, scroll, & scroll some more.
Kezthier
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
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
TextArena
Fantasy Text Adventure RPG
grobbie
Role Playing
Imago
Rogue-Like Monologue Experiment
Shinø's Brainworks
Interactive Fiction
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
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
Aura [DEMO]
BearyGames
Visual Novel
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
The Floppy Disk of Forbidden Creatures
What will you summon? And what consequences will it bring?
Cole Cecil
Interactive Fiction
GIF
summoned at 2
That time I summoned a demon lord to avoid my 2pm meeting
Fabi
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
bash-pac
About bash-pac is an "clone of pacman" that is writen in bash
stuff by max
Action
Brain Tester : Mind trick quiz
This game is about riddles and mind trick quiz .You will need all your brain power to clear.
Plataklom
Puzzle
World Runner Gamebook
Gamebook inspired by book World Runner. Can you make right choices?
YTMikosek
Adventure
Play in browser
Train game
Rowan0001
Visual Novel
The Web of Shadows
A chivalric romance in text
homo-carbonis
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Hangman Game (Commandline)
The classic Hangman game implemented in the commandline. Made with Xcode. Currently supports macOS.
mrmagic2020
Puzzle
Market Trader
Lost Legacy Games
Play in browser
Quest to the Center of a Tootsie Pop
ioicaleb
Adventure
Dragon Dares
A parser adventure game where one needs to solve the riddles of a sarcastic dragon.
peterhoppe
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Boned
Desperately trying to spin a tale to gets out from being attacked by skeleton pirates.
peterhoppe
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Social Democracy: An Alternate History
You are the Social Democratic Party of Germany in 1928. Can you stop the Nazis from taking power?
Autumn Chen
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Provizora Parko
Just passing through...
lavieenmeow
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GrimFront
This Interactive Novel allows you to play as a fantasy character in a world that is trapped within a maze.
LNC Studios
Adventure
Leech
A branching narrative game where you play as a healer in the Middle Ages.
cephalopodical
Visual Novel
Play in browser
guess the number
a simple batch format game
Karwacynovich
Puzzle
Crown and Dagger (Demo)
Story driven, text-based RPG
GeorgesKaplan
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Incantations
Adventure through the liminal wasteland of the null
abby blenk
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Khuriya Muriya Islands, Oman; as described by Paul Scheerbart in The Gray Cloth in 1914
Scheerbart-inspired environments for fulldome, experiments
luka
Simulation
2023 In Revue
A Twine Game celebrating the best games from 2023.
Citrusity
Play in browser
Domination: Take the States
a text based strategy game where you have one goal - Conquer. Will YOU take the states?
Mr. President
Strategy
GIF
The 8th Hour
A time-looping text adventure.
4RT1F1C1AL
Adventure
Play in browser
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