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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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GIF
SPACE FROG!
a story of a frog in space.
npckc
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(603 total ratings)
Adventure
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
10mg: Cover Me In Leaves
$2
In bundle
A short kinetic novel — on bright minds, and the end of all things.
Elliot Herriman
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(137 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Soft Underbelly
Take a break. Talk to your cat about friendship, trust & care.
rosa✦dev
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(103 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
GIF
Dear Toki
Write letters to reconnect with a friend
DDRKirby(ISQ)
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(71 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Gender Dysphoria
negative experiences after coming out as transgender
exodrifter
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(120 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Right Todd
Only one Todd has the key that other Todd needs to escape.
Shawn Bowers!
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(55 total ratings)
Puzzle
Play in browser
Just Cosplay
A game about being a teen in the early 2010s.
Deadnettle Games
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(45 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
WAS/WERE
$4
Murdering a person that hurt you is hot, right?
RodFireProductions
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(47 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Wake Up
Live authoritarianism through a minimalist narrative experience.
Inverge Studios
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(93 total ratings)
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
Play in browser
One More Sleep🌙️
beats to relax/text to
PRINCESS INTERNET CAFé
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(54 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
Pageant
An interactive story about a girl who joins a beauty pageant to improve her college applications.
Autumn Chen
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(64 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Epitaph
alien civilization extinction simulator
Max Kreminski
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(84 total ratings)
Play in browser
i've been drinking again
a conversation between two lovers.
yuveim
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(22 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Archivist and the Revolution
The world is ending, and you are still paying rent. A future history.
Autumn Chen
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(41 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
New Year's Eve, 2019
Social anxiety simulator/dating sim
Autumn Chen
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(40 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
(almost eleven)
a prose poem about the end of a friendship
spacedfoxes
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(22 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
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
a bunch of you in a crowded room
it helps to talk to yourself
caeth
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(34 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
You Bird.
A day in the life of a bird.
Wandering Basil
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(17 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
please tell me you love me
can you admit your feelings at the end of the world?
ellis dex
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(63 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Villain Rehabilitation
A support group for villains having trouble with villaining.
Kryptic Kitty
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(47 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Don't Die Alone
Spam has never been so deadly.
StephenW313
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(71 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Fantasy Tea Generator
Generate a name for your fantasy tea.
npckc
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(86 total ratings)
Play in browser
Trans Pyre
Finnish midsummer gender magic.
Xurxe Toivo García
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(23 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
The Secret Life of Probes Prologue
Story in the far reaches of space and time.
Elyon
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(14 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
how do i love you?
remembering how things happened, mostly.
sophiades
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(26 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
stay with me
(you're not alone)
steff
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(31 total ratings)
Puzzle
Play in browser
GIF
Hot Soup
A Cozy Micro Twine for Rainy Days
Gabriel Cornish
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(15 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Made With Love and Sparkles: Purple-Moon.com
For the Forgotten Games Essay Jam, an excavation of one corner of the '90s Girl Games boom.
aeta
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(11 total ratings)
Play in browser
Canvas Colors: In The Moving City
Travel along with Maggie and Vale inside a moving city in Canvas Colors!
UnfinishedCircl
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(38 total ratings)
Visual Novel
The Good Weapon
Will you nuke the world to save it?
ninecoffees
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(38 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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
(182 total ratings)
Simulation
Play in browser
GIF
Lid Astray
A blink-detecting text adventure.
Avery Hiebert
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(12 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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
(35 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
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