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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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Uroboros
The struggle between mortals and divinity that may end an age of divine rule.
Mistyrious
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(438 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The King's Hound
Play as King Arthur Pendragon's spouse and forge Camelot's history.
Kal Down
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(557 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Love & Friendship
A Regency Rom-Com
Salty Stories
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(155 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Mind Games: Trepidation
Horror, Sci-fi, Queer-friendly, and Romance... what more could you ask for?
Bottlecap Rabbit Games
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(60 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
BIRDLAND
A summer camp bird fighting text adventure
Brendan Patrick Hennessy
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(74 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Hybrid
These people aren't like you.
HeartForge
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(196 total ratings)
Role Playing
Play in browser
FARA
A browser roguelike with over 60 classes and endless adventure
BrianIsCreative
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(188 total ratings)
Role Playing
Play in browser
The Grown-Up Detective Agency
A pre-and-post-teen mystery
Brendan Patrick Hennessy
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(36 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Trouble Brewing: A Romantic Comedy About Beer, Rebellion, & Skipping Out On Your Responsibilities
A Rarely Accurate Medieval Romp Full of Romance and Hijinks
John Q Adams
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(31 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
A Paradox Between Worlds: IFComp Edition
A tumblr simulator.
Autumn Chen
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(35 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
"Dominion of Darkness" - interactive fiction, story of the Dark Lord
Text-based Simulator of the Dark Lord/Lady. Use your armies, cunning and magic to conquer Free Peoples.
Adeptus7
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(35 total ratings)
Strategy
Play in browser
GIF
Drift Mine Satellite
A maintenance text adventure
Everest Pipkin
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(16 total ratings)
Play in browser
Superlunary Episode 1.0
A slow, queer, post-war space opera
communistsister
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(25 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
DEVOTIONALIA
Will your devotion reach them? Does it matter?
Grim Baccaris
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(28 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
ineffable escape
when in a place of infinite Darkness, do not drift apart
smolalienbee
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(14 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
A Hundred Years of Sleep
You awake lost and alone. Everywhere you look, life has gone on without you.
MeroIF
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(37 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
LUNIUM
An escape room mystery. Can you escape your chains before the killer strikes again?
radiosity
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(19 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
A Miner Problem
A gamebook-style fantasy adventure for the 5th edition of the world's most popular tabletop RPG.
Sayeth
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(12 total ratings)
Role Playing
Play in browser
In Auctorem Credimus
"And they lived happily ever after" might be the biggest cliffhanger of all
Franzinyte
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(34 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Detectiveland
$5
Detective noir clickable text adventure
Robin Johnson
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(13 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Survival Games
You don't know who you are, or where you are. How will you be remembered by your friends and enemies?
cooldevo
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(10 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Master of the Land
Dynamic text world | Alternate history intrigue
Pseudavid
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(20 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Elsinore: After Hamlet
An Asian-American university student struggles with their Hamlet essay during the Spring 2021 semester That Never Was.
Lapin Lunaire Games
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(10 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Chronicles of Tal’Dun: The Longing
A dark fantasy novel.
Nim
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(25 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
The Legend
Navigate your past, present and future while figuring out relationships, and dealing with some spirits.
Bunny in the stars
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(28 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Honey Twigs
A warm and fluffy adventure.
Charu Tak
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
Path of Adventure
A text-based roguelike, for mobile
Alinea Games
Rated 4.2 out of 5 stars
(33 total ratings)
Role Playing
Play in browser
Flawed Crystals
A Steven Universe fangame
A Friendly Irin
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Role Playing
Play in browser
The Hundredth Floor
You and your sister get trapped in a VRMMO. Can you get out of it alive or will you die in it?
TechnoBen
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(7 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
C.R.U.D.D.Y.
wake up. check the logs. talk to your computer. die. repeat. try to escape.
windbreak
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
In The Trees
A text-based speculative horror game
Caspian Depression Games
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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
Draculaland
Comic horror clickable text adventure
Robin Johnson
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Alvion's Imperator
Multiple choice textual-narrative game in a medieval fantasy world.
LightFromVoid
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Vampire Ltd
A Corporate Espionage Adventure (With Vampires In It)
rabbit
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Tricks of light in the forest
Climate change interactive fiction
Pseudavid
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
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