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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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A Witch's Word
You sold your firstborn to a witch. Now she helps you find a mate.
RainbowStarbird
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(727 total ratings)
Simulation
Play in browser
RECIPE FOR LOVE
Help a robot list all the ingredients for love
Shelly Alon
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(119 total ratings)
Play in browser
Seedship
An AI seedship must find a home for the last survivors of the human race
John Ayliff
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(224 total ratings)
Strategy
Play in browser
POM SIMULATOR 9000
weary, transformation, dog, burger, comfort
d Marie
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(83 total ratings)
Simulation
c ya laterrrr
a hypertext game based on a true story and some untrue stories
danhett
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(62 total ratings)
Play in browser
woebegone.
when breathing has become a chore. when to exist is a trial.
louey
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(111 total ratings)
Simulation
Wake Up
Live authoritarianism through a minimalist narrative experience.
Inverge Studios
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(96 total ratings)
Play in browser
GIF
Stink Bug Plague
​Fight against a stink bug invasion with science! And cyborgs! And bravery! Or cowardice - it's your choice, really.
angela he
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(133 total ratings)
Role Playing
Play in browser
Your Merman Boyfriend
Meet your merman boyfriend.
Ntagonistic
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(173 total ratings)
Simulation
Play in browser
Kiss the Ghoul
Date, kiss, exorcise demons!
chamomeow
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(78 total ratings)
Simulation
Play in browser
Nod If You Can Hear Me
Visit Your Grandmother
Emma Kidwell
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(16 total ratings)
Simulation
Play in browser
weird tape in the mail
lynchian piss adventure
angrygeometry
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(15 total ratings)
Adventure
Play in browser
GIF
Between Stations
(2017)
Sand Gardeners
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(57 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
an easy lay
Romance is complicated. Romance with an ovipositor is complicateder.
SpiderFlorist
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(24 total ratings)
Play in browser
Am I Part Of The Problem?
Did you hurt someone? Are you having trouble coming to terms with it? Are you unsure what to do next?
Elizabeth Sampat
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(13 total ratings)
Educational
Play in browser
Which Naruto Character Are You? A Funteractive Quizsperience DX Director's Cut Anniversary Edition
The age old question!
Tapesoft
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(29 total ratings)
Role Playing
a Museum of Dubious Splendors.
A collection of small and peculier stories from Somwhere.
Studio Oleomingus
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(54 total ratings)
Adventure
GIF
Petty Puny Planet
Why have a pet rock when you can have a pet planet? Micromanage this cosmic rock to places never thought possible!
Whales And Games
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(193 total ratings)
Simulation
Play in browser
Cashbags
(2017)
Sand Gardeners
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(25 total ratings)
Simulation
Play in browser
Apology Simulator
We’ve all suffered inadequate apologies, or wished for apologies that never came...
Matthew Seiji Burns
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(50 total ratings)
Play in browser
LESBIAN VAMPIRE DATING ONLINE
Helping your vampire bff create her online dating profile.
storytam
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(79 total ratings)
Simulation
Play in browser
FREE Personality Test
A "FREE Meyers-Briggs personality test" which will tell you more about yourself!
Devon WiersmaVerified Account
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(44 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Millika Village
Raius
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(17 total ratings)
Role Playing
Play in browser
Feathers
A short story about a harpy who has too many feathers. (LD40)
Crystal Game Works
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(21 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
A Halo, Flaring
a widow is contacted by an AI version of their partner
audo
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(14 total ratings)
Play in browser
he's not my
a multiple choice game about discerning friendship
xed
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(25 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Word Whip
challenging word puzzler
KR
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(14 total ratings)
Puzzle
Play in browser
Solo Records
A story for the lonely dreamers and the loved realists.
ArdenceVice
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Dialogue 3-D
Ramsey Nasser
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(50 total ratings)
Shooter
Play in browser
GIF
Don't make love
Will you make love and risk death?
Maggese
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(26 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
GIF
all you have to do is survive
Your government loves you very much! Make good choices! (A #ResistJam project.)
Lily
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(13 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
Into The Hoop Demo
A basketball themed visual novel and dating sim with stat management!
intothehoop
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(17 total ratings)
Visual Novel
GIF
The Ritual
a Princess & her Knight travel through the woods.
Megan
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(21 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The End of Warren's House
nbgstudio
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(13 total ratings)
Adventure
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
Roberta Williams Eats a Sandwich
Can pioneering game developer Roberta Williams eat a sandwich without dying?
bitterkarella
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
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