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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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Toasty 56
$1
Choose your own Space Toast adventure
Weird Demon Games
Visual Novel
Play in browser
Emily_
$0.39
-90%
A game about AIs, secret codes and other mysteries
TETRABYTE
Puzzle
GIF
PETO Escapa
$1
Get Peto away from the box
AQUILES
Visual Novel
Play in browser
PROXIMATE
$5.99
Undersea horror where your only form of navigation is an unreliable AI.
cain
Adventure
Astra Protocol 2
$6.99
A Cassette Futuristic Space Adventure
Slice Bar
Simulation
The Crimson Diamond FULL GAME
$14.99
A cozy mystery adventure game set in early 1900s Ontario, Canada!
JuliaMinamata
Adventure
Rodeo Clown
$6.99
Life's easier when it isn't your fault.
Xavier Bell
Interactive Fiction
Revenge of the Antagonist
$1.99
Enemies on camera, enemies off camera!
ChaniMK
Visual Novel
The House Wins
$1
Whats life without risk?
Developer Dev
Dream Warrior
$4.99
Not everyone can be the hero. You, for example, are the town drunk.
Robert from High Tower Games
Role Playing
Gender Dysphoria
$5
negative experiences after coming out as transgender
exodrifter
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Night in the Unpleasant House
$5
A classic tale of revenge, local politics, pseudoscience, questionable botany, love, and loss.
Porch Weather Games
Interactive Fiction
GIF
Carousel
$10
-50%
A minimalist TV typewriter for creative notetaking
Party Time! Hexcellent!
Educational
Don't Take It Personally, I Just Don't Like You
$19.99
The dating sim where not everyone wants to date you.
DeCoster
Visual Novel
Mental Health Intake Survey
$4
Ladylike [she/her]
Interactive Fiction
Microcrawl
$0.39
-80%
Microcrawl is a bite sized point and click 2D adventure text hybrid
ZPJ Interactive
Adventure
Acolyte
$10.99
A narrative ARG/Detective game that gives you your own digital assistant.
SUPERSTRING
Interactive Fiction
Jester's Hat
$1
A random choice, and an entire life is changed.
Lacy Rose Creates
Sea of Survival
$1
Turn based roguelike with resource management on a ship
Housebird Games
Strategy
The Salt Keep
$4.99
A traveling salesman's struggle to survive a night of horror
Small Gray Games
Adventure
Play in browser
Clockwatch
$1
dysprositos
Rhythm
Play in browser
GIF
Type Knight
$4.99
Purge the graveyard from the forces of Evil by using your typing skills.
chaikadev
ONE HUNDRED ROOMS
$2
A single script, text-only roguelike set in the unknowable in-between of Australia
DIM CHAMBER
Role Playing
Travel Toil
$2.99
Look at you. You want to travel but do you have enough money? Lets find out...
Sporkadillo
Strategy
Fruit Salad Theory
$5.99
A night to remember...in more ways than one..
Pixels and Pins
Visual Novel
Evelyn's Farm
$2.99
Idle Paranormal Adventure
jsenter
Adventure
NOT ENOUGH SPOONS
$6
Ladylike [she/her]
Interactive Fiction
Beyond the Chiron Gate
$10
Text-based space exploration game
Space Goblin Games
Interactive Fiction
The Seance
£1
Henry! It's me, it's Sheepy! It's so co-o-old!
Quantum Sheep
Interactive Fiction
10mg: Cover Me In Leaves
$2
In bundle
A short kinetic novel — on bright minds, and the end of all things.
Elliot Herriman
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Peculiar Fables: The Werebed
$1
A short horror story about werebeds... SO YOU MAY NEVER EVER AGAIN SLEEP!
Whitewatt
Interactive Fiction
Long Journey Home
$1
Alone, but for the worms and mushrooms
skiddyhale
Interactive Fiction
Stranded 2 - DRM Free Version
$3.99
Stranded again! The adventure continues
jimjamsgames
Adventure
The Eye of Borrack
$2.99
The Adventures Begin
jimjamsgames
Adventure
Dr. Diabolical's House of Horrors
$5
Dr. Diabolical is at it again! Can you escape his house of horrors?
maxdcrow
Puzzle
Play in browser
The Adventures Of Pocket Battle Kitty!
$7.99
Text based game "Dungeon"
Sarainia
Strategy
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