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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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An eldritch being finds a child.
Interactive Fiction
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You are a messenger. Deliver the most important message yet. Restore balance to the world, else it succumbs to chaos.
A nostalgic horror adventure game, inside another horror game, inside a tv show, inside a game.
Adventure
A short story told through boating and lost letters
Adventure
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A chill clicker game about recalling a lost world
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25 diferent life paths, choose carefully.
Simulation
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A dogsled Oregon Trail-like originally made in 48 hours.
Adventure
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On an oversee trip twelve teenagers find themselves stranded on a remote island...
Simulation
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A visual novel typing game where you must sacrifice your keyboard letters​.
Visual Novel
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You awake alone, on a damaged and abandoned starship.
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Play as an Inquisitor tasked with stopping heretics from summoning a demon named IN-SI-LA.
Visual Novel
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Loved one involved in a serious head injury? Call Lobotomy and You to get them up and running like new again!
Adventure
A pandemic, an uncertain relationship, a single choice.
Interactive Fiction
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A wuxia-inspired text adventure game
Role Playing
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A game where you meet some demons!
Visual Novel
Daily murder mysteries. Talk to suspects, detect lies, and accuse the murderer and their motive.
Puzzle
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Live authoritarianism through a minimalist narrative experience.
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Prologue
Visual Novel
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A party game about dividing an inheritance.
Mother's Day Tribute to Rei Todoroki (My Hero Academia)
Interactive Fiction
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A game about navigating the depressing and absurd world of customer service in the year 2312.
Simulation
Awaiting command...
Puzzle
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Two girls make dumplings on Chinese New Year's.
Interactive Fiction
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A story for the lonely dreamers and the loved realists.
Visual Novel
[Prototype] A game that evolves as you do
Simulation
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A blink-detecting text adventure.
Interactive Fiction
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A text based adventure / RPG game with a compact source code that fits on a business card.
Adventure
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An experiential typing game where you aren't sure what you're typing.
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A maze game prototype that became something more.
Visual Novel
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Write poems, get paid, try to avoid comitting high treason.
Adventure
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Enjoy a pompous lifestyle in the 19th century.
Interactive Fiction
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A cute textmode platformer
Adventure
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A D&D inspired interactive novel. Will you retrieve the mysterious jade box? And why are you desperate enough to try?
Interactive Fiction
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