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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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Trans Pyre
Finnish midsummer gender magic.
Xurxe Toivo García
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(23 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
venial sin
when a burden becomes too much
nadia nova
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(16 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
Banquet
Enjoy a pompous lifestyle in the 19th century.
RaeJune
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(10 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
I Am A Game.
This is a game. There's not much more to this. This is a game.
Codebolt
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(28 total ratings)
Play in browser
Typing...
A Chatroom Thriller
DancingEngie
Rated 4.2 out of 5 stars
(186 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Wumpus Wump You
Proof of concept randomized text-driven undirected graph simulator
gate
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(12 total ratings)
Puzzle
Play in browser
ONLY THIS
And nothing more.
Grim Baccaris
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(12 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Salt Keep
$4.99
A traveling salesman's struggle to survive a night of horror
Small Gray Games
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(15 total ratings)
Adventure
Play in browser
All Hail The Spider God
All Hail The Spider God is an eerie interactive fiction adventure about You, and all the Yous you've left behind.
Strange Scaffold
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(42 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
VOCÊ É UM DEFUNTO MECÂNICO
$1
As suas escolhas não importam.
Virgula Leal
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
GIF
Ace Baker
A cyberpunk cake-baking game about an asexual couple... in the future!
*AAmici
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(26 total ratings)
Puzzle
Play in browser
GIF
Turing Trial
A Short, Replayable Text-Based RPG
Mary T.
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Puzzle
Play in browser
Ravaged Space
Your spaceship was hit by an asteroid. Can you repair it before your systems fail?
Steven Lambert
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(30 total ratings)
Survival
Play in browser
RCI
A short game about examining three colorful, floating cubes in your apartment.
Kyle
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
Play in browser
Oatboy vs. Slime Mold
$0
-100%
You're an ASCII Oat; Dodge the ASCII Slime Mold!
MansterSoft
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(12 total ratings)
Action
Meltdown - A Chernobyl Story
WhibbsGames
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(13 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Widemare
A voice and text driven horror experience.
Andrea Pignataro
Rated 4.1 out of 5 stars
(16 total ratings)
Visual Novel
The Elevator
A short psychological horror game about crushing loneliness.
velveteenguillotine
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
5e Arena
A pit-fighting game for the famous 5th edition fantasy tabletop RPG.
Sayeth
Rated 4.1 out of 5 stars
(11 total ratings)
Role Playing
Play in browser
GIF
Five Minutes a Day
Every day, for the rest of your life.
Andrea Pignataro
Rated 3.8 out of 5 stars
(35 total ratings)
Adventure
You and Not You
$1
sunny evans
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Bad Connection
a chat before christmas
Josia Roncancio
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(7 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
A Space Offered For The Lonely
A tiny, sentimental text-based game to offer you comforts.
Velcro Cyborg
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
No Substitutions
A word switch cooking game where the results are up to you.
aeta
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
i'm scared someone's mad at me
a short game about navigating the fear of other people's anger.
rednexttoblack
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
ZEUS 111
We choose the moon.
DancingEngie
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
A Visitor on Venus
A low-rez FMV visual novel about a vacation gone wrong.
SweetHeart Squad
Rated 4.2 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
Fear.exe
Two Suns Interactive
Rated 3.3 out of 5 stars
(27 total ratings)
Play in browser
panic attack
a short game about how to survive a panic attack.
rednexttoblack
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Batch Town
A strategy / luck game about managing a town / village coded entirely in batch!
General Nut
Rated 3.8 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
Strategy
Date Night
Keep the world outside, outside.
Drink To Destruction
Rated 3.8 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
Simulation
Play in browser
Cypher
Decypher an alien language.
lemon juice
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Comfort your Istmar GF
Your Istmar girlfriend needs some love, but she's a bit unstable. Can you help her?
grauwick
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The City Down Below
A trip through the cracks of the world
P. R. Saseta
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Days
A textual game about depression
Mr_Koroshiya
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
A Day in the Life of a Spider with a Positive Attitude
A text game about a positive spider, made with Twine.
TinyBookshelf
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Play in browser
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