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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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Lunarrota
Climb the Mountain. Kill the Goddess.
Luis S.
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(11 total ratings)
Role Playing
The Weather Report
Trigger Warning! This game examines life in an abusive relationship
Syrrann
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(7 total ratings)
Role Playing
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
Widemare
A voice and text driven horror experience.
Andrea Pignataro
Rated 4.1 out of 5 stars
(16 total ratings)
Visual Novel
🥚⌛🍳 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 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
Worldsmith
An intergalactic Interactive Fable
Interactive Fables
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Adventure
Everything Ends In 0
The world ends in 1 hour. It can't be saved. Wanna chat?
findaeden
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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 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
Bad Connection
a chat before christmas
Josia Roncancio
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(7 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Upheaval
$4.99
-50%
Text-based open world roguelike
Alex Leone
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
GIF
The Mr. Dude 4-in-1 Poopy-Pak
$0
-100%
Four ASCII Games; One Poopy Pack!
MansterSoft
Rated 4.1 out of 5 stars
(7 total ratings)
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
Witches and Bandits and Swords (Oh My)
$0
-100%
A playful, interactive graphic novel adventure by Krunchy Fried Games. Ages 13+.
Krunchy Fried Games
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Visual Novel
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
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
GIF
Messages From the Universe Graveyard
Experimental social game. Leave messages for other players in a dead world.
Kanderwund
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
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)
Proper Detective 2000
1.50€
A couple has been brutally murdered in their house last night. Are you up to solve the mystery?
kernel_dc
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Puzzle
Play in browser
It wasn't me.
What do you think happened? A short telescopic text mystery, playing with out-of-the-box storytelling mechanics.
Rosa Carbo-Mascarell
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(7 total ratings)
Role Playing
You're Going To Be Fine (Branches)
$1
Escape your fairy tale nightmare in this short text game.
Megan
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(7 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Cypher
Decypher an alien language.
lemon juice
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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
ZEUS 111
We choose the moon.
DancingEngie
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Fear.exe
Two Suns Interactive
Rated 3.4 out of 5 stars
(28 total ratings)
Play in browser
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
CLICK TO CONTINUE!
Run away.
Andrea Pignataro
Rated 3.6 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
[SIBERIA]
£1
A small text-adventure survival game.
MSSNG
Rated 3.3 out of 5 stars
(38 total ratings)
Adventure
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
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
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
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