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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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Trigaea
Alter genes, survive. Sci-fi RPG. 270k+
RynGM
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(469 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Mr. Rainer's Solve-It Service (Demo)
One day, HEINO's partner dies. He gets a new one.
etherane
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(73 total ratings)
Adventure
Play in browser
Bird Of Passage
A free night ride across Tokyo, searching for our home with the help of some stranger.
SpaceBackyard
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(272 total ratings)
Visual Novel
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
Sleepover Rules
Your friend invites you to his house for a sleepover with a certain set of rules
SjoerdHekking
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(50 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Eczema Angel Orifice
$5
beautiful twine compilation
Porpentine
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(47 total ratings)
Adventure
GIF
Latebus
You can't remember your name.
kapitha
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(41 total ratings)
Adventure
Play in browser
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
The Good Weapon
Will you nuke the world to save it?
ninecoffees
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(36 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
GIF
Blackout: The Darkest Night
$5.99
Once you glimpse behind the shadows, you’ll never be the same.
MiniChimera
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Tales from the Road
A SFW interactive fiction game
Iforgotmybrain
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(14 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Waybinder
A city bound by ritual to prosper — or so it was hoped...
Gemma Thomson
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(15 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Bard Simulator 2K21
Write poems, get paid, try to avoid comitting high treason.
Chapel
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(12 total ratings)
Adventure
Play in browser
GIF
The Ritual
a Princess & her Knight travel through the woods.
Megan
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(21 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Dungeon Mercenary
Modern ASCII roguelike - Can your mercenary beat the dungeon ?
smelc3
Rated 4.2 out of 5 stars
(37 total ratings)
Role Playing
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
🥚⌛🍳 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
0808-1718
text-based mystery about seas, sins, and gods
Button Cupcake
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(7 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Swapped
Old windows themed horror game.
Takeo Noname
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(6 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
RogueType
Yet another text-based roguelike game.
Pecon
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
Adventure
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
The Lake
A short, eerie Japanese folktale
hosomeowa
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
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
Sepia Tears: Reprise Edition
$7
A romance visual novel about memories best left forgotten.
Scarlet String Studios
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Dragon's Oven
An RPG text adventure to play in a terminal.
tronster
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Role Playing
El Monte de las Ánimas
La ficción interactiva sobre el relato original de Bécquer
cKolmos
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
Malcookie
Malcookie is a 4th wall breaking game, you are tasked with finding bugs in games, and one day a virus comes across.
KevinWho
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Post War
$7.99
An indie 2.5D post-apocalyptic adventure designed in pixel art
PostEastern
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Adventure
SECRETMART: Cryptspace Constraint!
A wordsy GameJamDOR 7 entry written in I7
serendiff
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
$player disconnected
Florent "Makorj" Vain
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
Suspicion
A Found Phone Detective Game
Akshay Goel
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Hikikomori's Journey
Young Wave Studio
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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
The Gilded Mansion
AI powered "Whodunit" murder mystery game
AX Logic Games
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Role Playing
Play in browser
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