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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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Snowbound Blood
Snowbound Blood: A Vast Error Story
Deconreconstruction
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(79 total ratings)
Visual Novel
GIF
emily is away
Sign In again.
kyleseeley23
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(841 total ratings)
GIF
Pixel Fireplace
$4.99
Type commands, roast marshmallows, throw logs onto a crackling fire. Enjoy
Ted Martens
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(152 total ratings)
Simulation
Tristam Island
An Infocom-style adventure for retro computers
Hugo Labrande
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(15 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
GIF
Our Winding Road
Former heroes try to save their relationship.
Nim
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(34 total ratings)
Visual Novel
灰舟
献给好奇者。
克勒卡尔
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(21 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Canvas Colors: In The Moving City
Travel along with Maggie and Vale inside a moving city in Canvas Colors!
UnfinishedCircl
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(38 total ratings)
Visual Novel
GIF
I doesn't exist
$12.99
An ode to text-adventures.
DreadXP
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(33 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
GIF
Postal Secret
Postal secret no longer counts! Short atmospheric puzzle solving for a relaxing evening.
Ymar Games
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(15 total ratings)
Puzzle
GIF
Don't make love
Will you make love and risk death?
Maggese
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(25 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Emm1.r
A strange chatroom veils a very dark mystery...
Ayane Faeldori
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
Visual Novel
GIF
Left on Read
It’s March of 2020, you were just sent home from university because of the coronavirus, you have some small regrets.
Weston Bell-Geddes
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(24 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
GIF
Replica
$2.99
Everything in the State, nothing against the State, nothing outside the State.
Somi
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(17 total ratings)
Adventure
Dream Team
A Millennial Dream Simulator
PRINCESS INTERNET CAFé
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Nova: Synthesis Creaturum
A free fantasy visual novel about magic, monsters, and more--download now!
Nova: Synthesis Creaturum
Rated 4.2 out of 5 stars
(26 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Lunarrota
Climb the Mountain. Kill the Goddess.
Luis S.
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(11 total ratings)
Role Playing
Enclosure 3-D
Arctic horror adventure, now in full 3D.
mausimus
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(7 total ratings)
Adventure
Trackless
$10
In the distant future, you join a strange organization to find the secret behind The Object
12East
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
Adventure
L'île Tristam
Une aventure textuelle pour ordinateurs rétro
Hugo Labrande
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Ash Boat
For the curious.
克勒卡尔
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Visual Novel
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
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 MansterSoft 3-in-1 Fun-Pak
$0
-100%
Laser Moles, Knife-Fighting Chimps, and an ASCII Snail
MansterSoft
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
Action
ClassicZoo
ZZT/Super ZZT world player and editor
asie
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
chiaroscuro
An interactive novella about finding your muse.
Kim Berkley
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Upon A Darkening Flood
A horror tale of the Revolution on culture, heritage, and the anxieties elicited by a strange library.
Rastagong
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Never A Matter Of Time
A wholesome visual novel about timestops and friendships!
Esbi
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Sky Caravan
$9.99
A Text-Based RPG where you make tough decisions as captain of a commercial airship
Studio Bravarda
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Role Playing
Ovine Replica
What do you desire? However odd or however wonderful, it can always come true.
Amorous Ursidae
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Visual Novel
The Filmmaker
$2.99
Explore a haunted theater with a gruesome past and go INSIDE several black-and-white films!
Unimatrix Productions
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Lifestream
$2.99
Find your missing father and uncover an ancient conspiracy in this haunting text adventure!
Unimatrix Productions
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Visual Novel
An Asylum Tale - Shellshock
Follow in this text adventure the horror of a war Veteran inside a Mental Asylum.
Fleischshake Games
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Adventure
GIF
Left on Read (DEMO)
It’s March of 2020, you were just sent home from university because of the coronavirus, you have some small regrets.
Weston Bell-Geddes
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
The Sun Gem
A game about stealing a gem in order to save the world
ch0ccyra1n
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Adventure
A Bathroom Myth
a folktale made in Twine about a sentient public restroom and trans woman surviving in a magical city.
Anya Johanna DeNiro
Rated 3.3 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Wait! Life is Beautiful!
$9.99
W!LiB! is an interactive psychological thriller about suicides with a touch of black humor.
GameNet
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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