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Retro

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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Text based

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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Virtual Dream
A french text-based game with choices impacting the story
Alc0l
Interactive Fiction
Only O-N-E
Escort the letters safely to the scoring row to earn your one and only point.
Froghemoth
Puzzle
Play in browser
MetaComp
n2n
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
DARK SOULS Spinoff
Text game
Saasu
Role Playing
Star Trek (1971) Text Game Remake
Remake of the 1971 BASIC Star Trek Text game in Javascript.
MakingGamesByYear
Action
Play in browser
Cosmic Cargo
A space trucking story generator! What will your tale be?
Seafarers Cafe
Role Playing
Play in browser
Text Dungeon
Small procedurally generated text based dungeon game made using DragonRuby.
jasemagee
Adventure
Play in browser
Consumed
Can you survive the room?
Peanut Panda
Visual Novel
Play in browser
Seeker of Magic
There's rumoured to be a treasure in The Cave of Magic. You must go there to find out if it's true.
Garry Francis
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
[SIBERIA]
£1
A small text-adventure survival game.
MSSNG
Adventure
The Visit
Take a walk in the abandoned house
Peanut Panda
Visual Novel
Play in browser
The Witch's Apprentice
After two years of study, you are ready to start your witch's apprenticeship.
Garry Francis
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
Buddy Simulator 1984 DEMO
Create your own virtual best buddy and play games together!
Not a Sailor Studios
Simulation
The Insanity Game
Welcome to The Insanity Game! Will you be able to handle the hardships of life?
Zane's Wacky Games
GIF
CHARly The Snake
ASCII Snake
FM
Action
TWO
A Puzzle Heavy Text Adventure Game Using Two Words
Adventuron
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Dungeon of Choices
As a knight, you're in the dungeon, will you get the grail?
alias_tof
Adventure
Portcullis
Zork-like retro text adventure
Robin Johnson
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Hamlet - The text adventure
$5
Shakespearean text adventure
Robin Johnson
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Hacker: 1995
A simple text game made in Unity where you must hack into several locations.
Neil London
Puzzle
Play in browser
Meatspace
CloneDeath
Adventure
Catboy Office (Commodore 64)
Short text game for the C64
sailingboys
Interactive Fiction
Afterlife
An oldschool point and click adventure; made in PowerPoint!
Logham
Adventure
Norduk's RRL (RandomRoguelike)
Simple ASCII Roguelike
Nokturth
Die Again
Leon
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
SocioMe
A game about how social life changes acception of the society
hyesmo
OofGates
A text-based adventure game
shadowfast12
Adventure
Dave Microwaves Games Trilogy I
$1.50
A collection of horror games, each with their own distinct styles
Dave Microwaves Games
Adventure
GIF
a bridge to
​a haunted ti-83 game about making a choice.
rye carapace
Leximan - ORIGINAL CONCEPT PROTOTYPE
Throw together wild spells as you attempt to repair your broken spellbook!
MaxAmaden
Adventure
Play in browser
Terminal Hacker
Experience the feeling of being an old-school hacker and hack into different types of computers to earn rewards.
NimbleCrocodile
Puzzle
Play in browser
Extremely Online
A game about the Internet. Made for MiniJam #47.
ZapJackson
Strategy
Play in browser
Igor's Quest
Help Igor find the body parts for Frankenstein's monster.
Garry Francis
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
RIG Veteran
Cyberpunk mech combat. Plays like Rock-Paper-Scissors.
Sk1tzFr3n1k
Strategy
Play in browser
memory
an old fashioned text-based rpg
amagicmuffin
Role Playing
Dopewars
Yet another dopewars clone
Unproductive Activities
Simulation
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