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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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Gender Dysphoria
negative experiences after coming out as transgender
exodrifter
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(120 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
Latebus
You can't remember your name.
kapitha
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(41 total ratings)
Adventure
Play in browser
The Saint's Tomb
A gamebook-style fantasy adventure for the 5th edition of the world's most popular tabletop RPG.
Sayeth
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(26 total ratings)
Role Playing
Play in browser
GIF
We Never Left: <Standalone>
On a dark and stormy night in 1983, the phone rings. “FINISH THE GAME”.
FYRE Games
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(34 total ratings)
Adventure
Untrusted - Web of Cybercrime
The Social Deduction Multiplayer Hacking Game
evolvedlabs
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(22 total ratings)
Role Playing
Play in browser
COLD SCREAM
Survival Horror Text Adventure
1AM TRAIN
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(26 total ratings)
Survival
GIF
sacrament iv.
calamity occult-horror rpg
melessthanthree
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(50 total ratings)
Role Playing
Play in browser
Monoliths
a Shutter Stroll fiction
Jannik Boysen
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(17 total ratings)
Adventure
Play in browser
Terminal Sickness
Post-pandemic story driven text adventure.
Turnaround Games
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(10 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Escape from Kettuloch
Escape the dungeon before you fully transform into a fox!
SnepShark
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(29 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
🥚⌛🍳 TIME OMELETTE 🍳⌛🥚
A cooking mystery game about time. Except it's not a cooking game.
adriel
Rated 4.2 out of 5 stars
(12 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Roads not Taken
Make your choice, but choose it well...
manonamora
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Broken Kingdom
Which will you choose: your beloved home country or the country you've been ordered to spy and destroy?
Starlight Games
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
the sound of rain.
A short exploration on the meaning of death.
Niini
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
Kim's One Room
Narrative browser game, micro management in my Korean mother-in-law one room, Seoul, mars 2020.
Robin Moretti
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Sapphire Lung
A game of Industrial Injuries, Unions, and the Three Laws of Transmutation
Pleroma
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Astoria
A text game about life in space.
Alex James Kane
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
RetroBASIC
Classic BASIC Online Interpreter
Retronomicon Games Quality
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Educational
Play in browser
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
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Infini-Crawl
A goofy little infinite, text rogue dungeon crawl with idle game elements.
malachi1616
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Adventure
Play in browser
ALRAUNE
a trauma/recovery twine
BlakeLocked
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Role Playing
Play in browser
One man, one house, one city
Experimental text adventure (originally designed for LD37)
David Frank
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Adventure
A Nonverbal Story
A project about nonverbal communication, meant to be educational/informative.
Black Fox Studios
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Educational
Play in browser
Personality Quiz
Have you taken a personality quiz before?
monicaseldow
Rated 3.1 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
Tong
Pong interpreted as a text adventure
skodone
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Role Playing
Play in browser
Mouth of the Devil
You’d better watch that mouth o’ yours, partner.
hatchling
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Next Door
This is an entry for Green Stories's Interactive Fiction competition.
aeta
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Courage Collector
text-based roguelite adventure
james downey
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Strategy
Talk To Me personality test
TTM is a free mysterious horror game. You play yourself, and You answer questions that the program asks you,.
RedGames102
Rated 3.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
burning alexandria
an exceptional day in archfield is a day when nothing happens. a twine adventure.
javid hornet
Rated 3.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Hands Behind Fallout
Credits from the Fallout franchise.
Kanah Belflower
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Educational
Play in browser
Vile
"A world of fuck."
VileRebis
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Puzzle
Play in browser
Larme à gauche
Retournez dans votre famille. Enterrez votre grand-père. Restez. Où partez.
fuegosuave
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GAP - A Game Accessibility Project
An educational project to introduce people to game accessibility.
Black Fox Studios
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Educational
Play in browser
The Weak Flame
OMGJam 6 Text Survival
Krassenstein
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Survival
1-Bit Puzzle Dungeon
Text-based puzzle adventure made with Inform 7!
Oakley
Rated 3.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Adventure
Play in browser
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