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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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Are You Ok?
A short Twine game about understanding.
jlevstein
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(30 total ratings)
Play in browser
Hymn
A Twine game of reassurance and reminders for those lost in themselves
june wilde
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(15 total ratings)
Play in browser
inh-exh: a breathing game
a self-help tool, to help people who suffer anxiety attacks
celdavison
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(14 total ratings)
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
GIF
Turing Trial
A Short, Replayable Text-Based RPG
Mary T.
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Puzzle
Play in browser
Keep Calm: An Interactive Short Story
No matter what you do, keep calm...
Adam Carriere (Pyjama Bottom Studios)
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(24 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
rain
twine game/story about the experience of rain
eli fessler
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Play in browser
Oatboy vs. Slime Mold
$0
-100%
You're an ASCII Oat; Dodge the ASCII Slime Mold!
MansterSoft
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(12 total ratings)
Action
QUIMER-B
The most advance AI to date takes over the facilities where it was born. But, you know, more complicated.
David T. Marchand
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
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
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
When acting as a wave
A person has to make a decision that will affect the lives of many.
David T. Marchand
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(7 total ratings)
Play in browser
GIF
Ray Bibbia
Play as the toughest private exorcist around and fight evil by dodging bullets and typing your formula.
Morbidware
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
Action
Nasty/Good/Badass
A multiple choice personality test
Xeneth
Rated 4.1 out of 5 stars
(12 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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
Three Minutes to Midnight
A moody textual stategy game about political tensions.​
Thibaut Mereu
Rated 3.8 out of 5 stars
(31 total ratings)
Strategy
Play in browser
Blue - Pigments of our love
A narrative text-based game with interactive colors
Diane
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Eioioio
A girl mourns his father while figuring out how to survive the snowy apocalypse.
David T. Marchand
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Adventure
Play in browser
Too Many Chefs
A text-based cooperative cooking game
navi
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Action
Play in browser
GIF
ASCII Dungeon
Text-based dungeon crawler in the vein of Ultima or Wizardry
Jack Morgan
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Role Playing
Main Course - Director's Cut
This time, *you're* the Alien! Play as a captured SoMorph, trying to get home...
Quantum Sheep
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Adventure
Play in browser
Ultra Type-R
$1.99
ansdor
Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
Platformer
Play in browser
Uncoinventional
You have a weapon.
Josia Roncancio
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Adventure
Play in browser
OrbitFall: A Text Adventure
A WebGL text adventure made in Unity!
Arcangel Games
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Adventure
Play in browser
Ms. Lojka or: In Despair to Will to Be Oneself
A game of darkness & inner turmoil
Jordan Magnuson
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
i'd like to let you know
all the things i am grateful for.
Vaida
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Florida Road Trip
Take a trip on a Florida highway.
Mooeena
Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Simulation
Play in browser
paperplastic
secrets & grocery stores
eli fessler
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Play in browser
The Matter Realm
Short textual adventure, with sounds and images
Nomys_Tempar
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Play in browser
Driving Across
Two friends go on a road trip to confront their grief
Alex Bennetts
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Diary of an NPC
A short, humorous homage to NPCs in RPGs.
Leah
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Prison Escape
A short text-adventure game - Try to escape your prison!
petergambell
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Adventure
Play in browser
Using The Loo
A short text adventure made in Twine. Give it a go.
FrDougal9000
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Adventure
Play in browser
purpose
clicky thing
eli fessler
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Kulhwch
The interactive rhyming story of Kulhwch and Olwen
Nate Taylor
Rated 3.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Adventure
Play in browser
GIF
Mr. Button (Jam Version)
Uncover the mysteries of Mr. Button
MadeByJawns
Rated 3.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Play in browser
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