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Story Rich

Games with a heavy focus on storytelling and narrative.

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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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answer these 10 questions and i'll tell you what kind of lover you are
a choose-your-own-adventure heartbreak in the shape of a quiz
frannym
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(1,109 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
WASTE EATER
The world is saved. Now its heroes wait to die.
cain
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(148 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
The Painting
A grieving father relives memories of days long gone.
Tymedust Games
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(43 total ratings)
Visual Novel
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Pairidaeza
A historic gay romance set in Medieval Baghdad
mostopha
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(51 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Congee
A short story about food, belonging, and seeking home.
Becci
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(58 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Kiss the Ghoul
Date, kiss, exorcise demons!
chamomeow
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(78 total ratings)
Simulation
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Still Shining
Watch the stars with your best friend.
HusbandoGoddess
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(43 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
Evanescent Eclipse
A story about two individuals.
nikkefort
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(48 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Said the Stars
Said the Stars is a text choice romance in a post-society northern setting.
Ylvanaar
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(36 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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
WE ARE KINGS
Who knew there could be two kings to one castle?
Vaida
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(24 total ratings)
Adventure
Play in browser
On Mount Ségou
Mystical Horror Sound Novel
Rastagong
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(11 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
GIF
Sleepy Tales
Tell your sister stories until she falls asleep
classheikki
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Starsight
When a star dies, time collaspes.
graceinthemachine
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(10 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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
Goblins Demise
Goblins seeking Refuge
Lodugh
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(20 total ratings)
Adventure
Play in browser
Tarot
Pick a card.
Kryptic Kitty
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(18 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
rédiger
fermentum tempus
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Monster Inside
A film noir style audio-visual novella.
x70x
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(31 total ratings)
Play in browser
A Pirate's End
An adventure rogue-like where age is your enemy
edkay
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Adventure
Conversations
Discuss with an AI in the cloud about its experience
yo252yo
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
GIF
Out of Touch
It's your first date at the cinema. Will you hold hands?
Games For Crows
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Through the Woods Demo
Short demo in which you run some errands for your Gran. But there's something magical in the woods...
amrynth
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(10 total ratings)
Role Playing
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sphinx of black quartz judge my vow
a post-mortality puzzle-hex
shrunken studios
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
Puzzle
Play in browser
Reflections at Sunset - A meditative Twine experience
An ambient text-based experience inspired by meditation... Your thoughts are yours and yours alone...
Charles H. Huang
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Local signal
Interactive story as an emergency dispatcher
YerkoAndrei
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
The Nowhere
The Nowhere - Twine Game
Pedro Marques
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
Adventure
Play in browser
Fairy Tales of Innocent Children
Chase your shooting star. [Visual Novel, 5 mins]
Bruised Banana
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
Visual Novel
The Girl I Met At The End Of The World
How can you find a purpose, when the entire world has been destroyed?
PneumaVoid
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Getting to Know You
Get attached to a stranger in five minutes or less.
hadbeen
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Fall of Mezentople
Mezentople will fall, but your choices will shape the course.
vgel
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
Simulation
Play in browser
GIF
Speakeasy Honey
An interactive fiction game about the whirlwind romance of Charles and Dorothy in 1920s New York.
dostoevshe
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Choose your own end to the viking world
Choose Odin’s future. Choose the world’s.
dtaggart919
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Patient Zero
Interactive storytelling text-based game with multi-ending - Created for Community Game Jam
Big Three Games
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Little Antifa Novel
A playable leaflet about a Fascist march and our counter-demonstration
Mauro Vanetti
Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars
(40 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
The Mother of Pearls
A short visual novel about a mother reading her daughter a fairytale before bed.
Midge
Rated 4.2 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
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