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Featuring aesthetics, gameplay, or themes reminiscent of classic video games. Often characterized by pixel art, chiptune music, or mechanics popularized in earlier gaming eras.

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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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Proto Raider
$2.99
Proto Raider is an arcade game where every level is a mini-quest
Andrei Fomin
Platformer
Infinity Void: Oblitrix (0.14)
Text-Based
ThatOneBerzerk
Role Playing
Eighteen
Story game based upon Teenlife in the 1980's Suburban USA
Azurean88
A Tune at the End of the World
An interactive fiction game.
Katy133
Adventure
Super User
$0.10
An RPG inside an RPG
LukaHilchey
Role Playing
Gary Lunchbreak's Poser Meltdown
A comedy text adventure of great importance...
Mr_J
Adventure
DEMON'S FORGE
A rebuild of the classic Apple ][ adventure game.
Rani Baker
Adventure
Play in browser
GIF
Eravola
An Investigation of a Curse
Chronologist
Interactive Fiction
Goblin Harvest - The Mighty Quest
A Strategy RPG set in a fantasy kingdom
subjunctivesoftware@gmail.com
Role Playing
Paper Stone Scrissors Game
$0.50
Retro text game made by Kamil Piechura
Kamil Piechura
Puzzle
THE PATH - A SHORT INTERACTIVE EXPERIENCE -
A short text based adventure with procedural elements
Leonard Menchiari
Adventure
Unkindness (Asylum Jam 2015)
A Horror in Shades of Red
Studio Turtledove / Andrea Reventon
Adventure
Le Château du Dr Genius
La suite de la mythique saga Dr Genius
Bragou
Adventure
Heroes & Cowards – The Pentagram of Power (C64)
$5.99
A classic adventure for Commodore C64
Protovision
Adventure
confess
feel bad about something? confess and be punished
Dámhín (Daw-Veen)
Play in browser
Dark Fates
a psychological mystery text adventure
RemEntertainment
Adventure
Mastering Tedium
a laundry simulator
Juno AM
Simulation
HALBERDTE
Classic Text-Style RPG
Rani Baker
Adventure
Play in browser
X Robots
Robots close in and all you have is a screwdriver!
TedD
Strategy
Chimera Crusader: Defender of Dominicus
$0
-100%
ASCII Action! As minimal as an RPG can get
MansterSoft
Role Playing
Oatboy vs. Slime Mold
$0
-100%
You're an ASCII Oat; Dodge the ASCII Slime Mold!
MansterSoft
Action
¡EL COLGADO! 1.4
$0.99
Clásico juego de lápiz y papel en español.
C.C.G. Software
The Camp - Caravan Edition (C64)
$2.99
More Rooms - More Riddles - and even more Tea!
Protovision
Adventure
Ancient Archives 2116
LD36 Game Jam
gpu
Play in browser
Five Days
Text-based console village building game!
DUDSS
Strategy
The House Abandon - Now part of 'Stories Untold'!
A nostalgic horror adventure game, inside another horror game, inside a tv show, inside a game.
jonNoCode
Adventure
Pyramid Builder
Grow a civilization, Build a Pyramid
standardcombo
Simulation
Leisure Suit Leo 2 - The Secret of Maniac Island (C64)
$3.99
Protovision
Adventure
The Terror Of Matthew
VictorBurgos
Adventure
1 Billion Floors
Arduino skycraper clicker
wampapup
Simulation
Main Course - Director's Cut
This time, *you're* the Alien! Play as a captured SoMorph, trying to get home...
Quantum Sheep
Adventure
Play in browser
WORLD OF HORROR
$19.99
1bit adventure game of cosmic horror inspired by the work of Junji Ito
panstasz
Role Playing
Escapism
A silly and short text based puzzle game
Nanoco1000
Puzzle
GIF
ASCII Dungeon
Text-based dungeon crawler in the vein of Ultima or Wizardry
Jack Morgan
Role Playing
Journey To The Otherside
You set out on a journey to find something but, oh no, there's some obstacles on the path.
single_image
Visual Novel
Getting Things Done, or The Labyrinth of Doctor Bernstein
A Premier Hypertext Adventure Experience!
Aleks Samoylov
Adventure
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