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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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weird

Something out of the ordinary, or peculiar. Often far beyond one's imagination.

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WORLD OF HORROR
$19.99
1bit adventure game of cosmic horror inspired by the work of Junji Ito
panstasz
Role Playing
GIF
WASTE EATER
The world is saved. Its heroes wait to die.
cain
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
Walkie Talkie
send messages, receive messages, play messages
Daniel LinssenVerified Account
Platformer
Dave Microwaves Games Trilogy I
$1.50
A collection of horror games, each with their own distinct styles
Dave Microwaves Games
Adventure
CLICK TO CONTINUE!
Run away.
Andrea Pignataro
GIF
Cannery Vale
forget who you are
Hanon Ondricek
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
Five Minutes a Day
Every day, for the rest of your life.
Andrea Pignataro
Adventure
Leximan - ORIGINAL CONCEPT PROTOTYPE
Throw together wild spells as you attempt to repair your broken spellbook!
MaxAmaden
Adventure
Play in browser
Get Out of Match Lake
A drop of blood makes the grass grow greener.
Grim Baccaris
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Devil's Collection - Beware the Festival of Fools
$1
Gerrark
Adventure
A Trans Man's Grindr DMs
A curation of favorites.
cain
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
What is a video game?
12 small 'games' about breaking the boundary of what a game is
Rosden Shadow
GUTLESS
hadopelagic false light
DOMINO CLUBVerified Account
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Food Poisoning: The Game
You need to find a toilet. How low are you willing to sink?
Woe Industries
Survival
Play in browser
Bottom Chef
Cooking game but your life is a mess
Nardo23
Puzzle
Play in browser
Repeat the Ending
Explore a "critical edition" of a 1996 Inform 5 game about loss, magic, and the second law of thermodynamics.
Drew Cook
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Worst Wing: An Oval Office Simulator
Can you avoid impeachment, assassination, and nuclear armaggedon long enough to win re-election?
CogsAndSpanners
Simulation
Play in browser
[EXTERNAL COMMUNICATION]
Use caution when opening attachments, clicking links, or responding.
DOMINO CLUBVerified Account
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Neotrogla
A Twine story of bugs and bodies.
Roxy S.
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Right Todd
Only one Todd has the key that other Todd needs to escape.
Shawn Bowers!
Puzzle
Play in browser
32
A somewhat interactive horror fiction about a dentist.
baychowski
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
This is a black parallelepipedon in a yellow field
The enigma of the fields. Unknow a shape.
laughingpineapple
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
[HTML] Random Boyfriend Generator
Generate the guy of your dreams! (Quick play)
LinXueLian
Play in browser
GIF
Lid Astray
A blink-detecting text adventure.
Avery Hiebert
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
FREE Personality Test
A "FREE Meyers-Briggs personality test" which will tell you more about yourself!
Devon WiersmaVerified Account
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Your Body a Temple, or the Postmodern Prometheus
a tale of self-determination
Charm Cochran
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
So I bought a little chainsaw
★★★★★ Works Good. Recommend it.
Akzidenz
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Welcome To The Dark Place
A cryptic exploration through a bizarre and unforgiving world.
Zeekerss
Adventure
Salomónico
Experimento interactivo sobre partir cosas como el Rey Salomón.
Jordi de Paco
Widemare
A voice and text driven horror experience.
Andrea Pignataro
Visual Novel
In All My Dreams I Choke On Invisible Smoke [BETA]
Surreal visual novel/point and click exploration. Unsettling.
Kanderwund
Visual Novel
Play in browser
GIF
The Mr. Dude 4-in-1 Poopy-Pak
$0
-100%
Four ASCII Games; One Poopy Pack!
MansterSoft
Cave.EXE
Quirky text-based horror adventure.
Wild Jerboa
Adventure
Play in browser
No !@#$s Left to Give
A short abstract visual novel about what you feel about having too many or too little !@#$s left to give
Knickknack PJ
Visual Novel
Play in browser
Swamp goblin spawner
Random bog witch pattern generator
Laurie Raye
Play in browser
Portrait with Wolf
a rendering
Drew Cook
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
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