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Crimson Grasp: The Cause

Become a Messenger for the Cause. Uncover history that can alter the course of the city of Broksvod forever.

Matlas

Interactive Fiction

Play in browser

The Newsician

What happened in Sopersberg? Find out as the Newsician, a musical reporter looking for answers

Lorrigan

Play in browser

A Nonverbal Story

A project about nonverbal communication, meant to be educational/informative.

Black Fox Studios

Educational

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Escort Yourself Out

a game about trauma, triggers, and self-compassion

bignastytruck (violet)

Simulation

GIFTS

A text-based fairy tale.

Megan

Interactive Fiction

Play in browser

häx_processer

Process häxes using our state-of-the-art häx processing terminal

Tomi

Puzzle

GIF

A Goblin's Pilgrimage

A text adventure about a Goblin, a Kobold, and legends

wych(witch)

Role Playing

Play in browser

GIF

Pokemon ASCII Version CMD Battle Game!

Relive the sights, sounds and action of all 151 Pokémon in this classic text-based cmd Battle Game!

BellBlitzKing

Action

The Adventures of a Hero

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

Dark Plasma Entertainment

Role Playing

A Thing to Strive For

You're finally guaranteed a living. That does not mean it's a life.

LC3

Interactive Fiction

Play in browser

shAI-V

You are a college programmer tasked to work on a military tech company.

Runa Yauw

Visual Novel

Pageant

An interactive story about a girl who joins a beauty pageant to improve her college applications.

Autumn Chen

Interactive Fiction

Play in browser

Daily Quests (FloppyJam)

Hyperag⬡n

Role Playing

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the passing of persephone

wizardkieran

Interactive Fiction

Play in browser

Terminal Hacker

Infiltrate a hostile network by entering the right passwords!

Mpak

Puzzle

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Dear Sophie

A game about the weirdness of balancing online love and real life.

Zerogue

Visual Novel

Play in browser

Adventure with a yandere

TGGT-The Game Guys Thing

Visual Novel

TEMPLE

Story-rich ASCII game

ANAR GAMES

Puzzle

Subtext

$6.99

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

William O'Connell

Interactive Fiction

If a Tree Falls...

Skinny Tim is dead. Solve a crime with seemingly no clues and no witnesses. But not everything is as it seems...

cekent

Interactive Fiction

Play in browser

GIF

AL - A Choose Your Own Adventure

Gabriel Cornish

Interactive Fiction

Play in browser

My Brother Sam is Dead

A choose your own adventure game based on the book

Riley

Interactive Fiction

Play in browser

Bangor The Game! Operation Opiate Opposition

Old School RPG based on Bangor, Maine USA!

Kevin Loring

Strategy

Terminal Sickness

Post-pandemic story driven text adventure.

Turnaround Games

Interactive Fiction

Play in browser

Cozmoz: Planetry Control

Space

ChilliTech

Visual Novel

Personality Quiz

Have you taken a personality quiz before?

monicaseldow

The Internet v0.15

Get a new pc, but at the same time try not to get deep into... the internet.

harry4354

Puzzle

Play in browser

my own paper walls

A "Le Grand Guignol" submission to Ectocomp 2018

fia glas

Interactive Fiction

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Wake Up

An Ectocomp 2018 Game

Phillip J Rhoades

Truth Untold

You are a cult leader on the quest for nationwide domination.

a very creative username

Strategy

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Writing Desk

An Interactive Fiction game where you write all the fiction

SuperBiasedGary

Interactive Fiction

Mint and the Secret of the Bunnoys

A story about Mint, an alchemist who finds a hidden place by accident and might also find love.

Sthelen

Interactive Fiction

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Cyclic Adventure

A text based adventure in a dungeon that loop on itself

blazingkin

Adventure

El Monte de las Ánimas

La ficción interactiva sobre el relato original de Bécquer

cKolmos

Interactive Fiction

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Cup Quest

A little maze with monsters. In Twine.

MadZab

Adventure

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Dungeon Mercenary

Modern ASCII roguelike - Can your mercenary beat the dungeon ?

smelc3

Role Playing

Play in browser

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