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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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Scout: An Apocalypse Story
A text choice romance in an apocalyptic setting.
Anya
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(1,383 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
Walkie Talkie
send messages, receive messages, play messages
Daniel Linssen
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(245 total ratings)
Platformer
Remnants Of The Past - Act 1
$6.99
A fantasy and love story influenced by the Guanche culture.
Domakir
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(77 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Joestar ☆ Struck
Get Joestar Struck
TeamScallywag
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(116 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Chatventures
$3
In bundle
text-adventure MMORPG
Sokpop Collective
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(21 total ratings)
Role Playing
GIF
A Short Eternity
1000 words. A boat at the end of the world. Will you survive?
Halfstar
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(10 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
Be the Indie Wrestler
Experience the thrill of wrestling in front of 12 people in an Elk's Lodge from the comfort of your own home
Chris Hutton
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(7 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Tuuli
An interactive ritual
rubereaglenest
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(11 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Classic Rogue - Oryx Design Lab Tiles
A new version of classic Rogue, updated using Ultimate Roguelike Tileset
oryxdesignlab
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(7 total ratings)
Poofle Mutation Idle
Mutate to thrive as you explore The City and uncover it's dark underbelly!
BlushingKitsuneBasket
Rated 4.1 out of 5 stars
(16 total ratings)
Adventure
Play in browser
X.E.H.A. Rogue NVL
$1
Crew stolen and forced to crash land on an alien planet, you must start fresh with nothing but a... talking cat?!
Corvaena
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
Role Playing
Swords of Freeport
$15
Text-Mode Social RPG
Elissa Black
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
Role Playing
Sagebrush
The love, life, and existential crisis of a soon-to-be college dropout
Rosewater Games
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Food From a Stranger
A creepy stranger offers a girl candy.
IntStories
Rated 3.9 out of 5 stars
(12 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Celestia - Guarded by the Mist
SixFry
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(7 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
U.F.O Text Quest
A classic text adventure in the style of interactive fiction from computers from the 80s
Tuesday Street
Rated 3.6 out of 5 stars
(17 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
RNG Quest
Procedurally generated zero-player idle RPG.
Viktor
Rated 3.6 out of 5 stars
(22 total ratings)
Role Playing
Play in browser
Wrong Number
An unknown number is calling you. Are you going to answer?
wym_lawson
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
It wasn't me.
What do you think happened? A short telescopic text mystery, playing with out-of-the-box storytelling mechanics.
Rosa Carbo-Mascarell
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(7 total ratings)
Role Playing
Has sobrevivido: Wyrm
A Lovecraftian horror short visual novel set in the Wild West. Spanish and English.
Gorgon Games
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Visual Novel
CLICK TO CONTINUE!
Run away.
Andrea Pignataro
Rated 3.6 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
Monster Girl Generator
mcphersonsound
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Electric Sleep
$4.50
Explore a miniature world as an emotionally driven robot and discover unique experiences with each new emotion.
Cryru
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
proetry~
~ procedural poetry ~ THE DYING PILLOW NEAR THE SKY
Pitoum (Brice Dubat)
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Play in browser
GIF
The Excuse Machine
Your #1 solution for creating lies!
ManofPixels
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Play in browser
VtM Tophet
Vampire the Masquerade text game made for the VtM Game Jam 2021
Azardev
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Role Playing
Thrall
To be enthralled by love is murder on the soul in this paranormal, point-and-click, otome visual novel.
Z. Knight
Rated 3.8 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
Time's Novel
A guy finds a novel that can see the past and the future.
IntStories
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Visual Novel
From Champagne To Murder
an experimental detective game, using a new form of dialog system
Vin Botthin
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Puzzle
Play in browser
Kenikari
SobreDunas
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Jack Johnson: The Spy
Open fire?
firet
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Role Playing
Terminal Escape
A text based escape room game with a twist!
sandycane
Rated 3.7 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Puzzle
GIF
The Eco of Tammy's Ghost
A short Visual Novel about a girl that went missing.
IntStories
Rated 3.3 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Haraal
Tulga
Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Adventure
Xonitix
As much action as we could pack in one line of a terminal
wildgaru
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Action
Asperger Knight Quest
ASCII text-only puzzle
Looping
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Puzzle
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