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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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WORLD OF HORROR
$19.99
1bit adventure game of cosmic horror inspired by the work of Junji Ito
panstasz
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(582 total ratings)
Role Playing
An Afternoon Rippling
Take a road trip through a valley.
marslizard
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(46 total ratings)
Pyramid Builder
Grow a civilization, Build a Pyramid
standardcombo
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(77 total ratings)
Simulation
MMM: Murder Most Misfortunate
A murder is committed in a secluded mansion, and it's up to you to solve it.
Foolish Mortals
Rated 4.1 out of 5 stars
(88 total ratings)
Visual Novel
SHINRAI - Broken Beyond Despair
$14.99
In bundle
A Murder Mystery Visual Novel.
GosatsuVNs
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Visual Novel
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
GIF
Replica
$2.99
Everything in the State, nothing against the State, nothing outside the State.
Somi
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(17 total ratings)
Adventure
GIF
Event[0]
$19.99
Event[0] is a sci-fi narrative game where you build a relationship with a spaceship computer to get home to Earth.
Ocelot Society
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(18 total ratings)
Adventure
The Phantom of the Hospital
A short and light-hearted VN + art assets
Hidden Masquerade
Rated 3.9 out of 5 stars
(15 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Worldsmith
An intergalactic Interactive Fable
Interactive Fables
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Adventure
Isles Of Umbra
Lovecraftian first person point and click adventure
riffst
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Adventure
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
Midnight's Café
A dark visual-novel about friendship + art assets
Hidden Masquerade
Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars
(13 total ratings)
Visual Novel
GIF
Nightowl
Old friends reunite over a chat room. (LD37)
Crystal Game Works
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Visual Novel
GIF
Intimate Codex
Free form text exploration
AndyMakes
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
GIF
The Brigand's Story
And the captain said: "Antonio, tell us your favorite story!" And Antonio began:
Laura Michet
Rated 4.2 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
CyBer//zDvAç
Türkçe
Nabi Hamdi Mortan
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
GIF
Terminal Town
Mysterious command line tools
AndyMakes
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Puzzle
Five Star Freeloaders: The Demo
A visual novel about a NEET and their freeloading roommates.
Candy✩Giants
Rated 3.7 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
Visual Novel
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
One man, one house, one city
Experimental text adventure (originally designed for LD37)
David Frank
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Adventure
GIF
The Excuse Machine
Your #1 solution for creating lies!
ManofPixels
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Play in browser
Six Months Demo
An interactive fantasy murder-mystery about family, power, and faking it until you make it
Laura Michet
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Like Steps in the Snow
A short visual novel about the last two robots on the Moon.
In Solitudine Pax
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Visual Novel
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
The Speaker
The words are from his mouth. But they are typed by my hand.
Naomi Norbez (call me Bez)
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Ever-Changing Mansion
Procedurally generated text adventure
watabou
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Adventure
Orc Prom
Escape the house, defy your broodlords, and go to prom. It is your birthright.
TheGreatFort
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Adventure
Compliments
A very brief critique on F2P games.
Gedig
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Play in browser
CyBer//zDvAc.
a cyberpunk bachelor/bachelorette game
Nabi Hamdi Mortan
Rated 3.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
GIF
Angel In The Dark
An Audio & Text based horror game, set in total darkness. Will you survive?
Philip Aldous
Rated 3.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Visual Novel
The Temporal Invasion (ARG)
$6.99
Do you want to feel like REAL Mystery Solver and Explorer?
Hybriona Labs
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Adventure
Mouth of Ashes
verity v. lee
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Adventure
Play in browser
GIF
The Road to Electric Picnic
Experimental flatgame for Flatgame 2016 game jam.
Ellen Cunningham
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Play in browser
The Mirror
The Mirror is a metaphorical role-playing game about self-image, reflections, and reality.
gamesto.love
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
they
chortletortle
Rated 3.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Puzzle
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