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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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Locked Room on Rails
A trip back home turns into an impromptu murder mystery.
solarProtag
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(13 total ratings)
Visual Novel
In the Pause Between the Ringing.
An unbublished tale of telephone mining in India.
Studio Oleomingus
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(21 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
The good people
Explore the weird, until the sunken things come for you
Pseudavid
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(14 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Alone Among The Stars (Game Boy port)
A Game Boy port of the journalling TTRPG
donotrunwithpixels
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(14 total ratings)
Role Playing
Play in browser
SHINRAI - Broken Beyond Despair
$14.99
In bundle
A Murder Mystery Visual Novel.
GosatsuVNs
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(10 total ratings)
Visual Novel
GIF
sacrament iv.
calamity occult-horror rpg
melessthanthree
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(56 total ratings)
Role Playing
Play in browser
INEVITABLE
A game about toxic love.
Jon Oldblood
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(25 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
angel of chains
doomed downfall of a bodyless soul
br0kenleg
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
Indiepocalypse #22
$15
Issue #22 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.
PIZZAPRANKSVerified Account
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
How Dare You
Your partner says ey's leaving you. You say otherwise.
alyshkalia
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Don't Give Up On Me!
A confession goes wrong in multiple ways and days!
Stefannofornari Games
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(18 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Upheaval
$4.99
-50%
Text-based open world roguelike
Alex Leone
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(13 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Honey Twigs
A warm and fluffy adventure.
Charu Tak
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(11 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
Philip Marlowe Doesn't Understand the Mystery
(2018)
Sand Gardeners
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(11 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Bard Simulator 2K21
Write poems, get paid, try to avoid comitting high treason.
Chapel
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(14 total ratings)
Adventure
Play in browser
Messages
An odd game about texting.
Jusiv
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(17 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Misplaced
An escape room as a text adventure!
Charu Tak
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(42 total ratings)
Puzzle
Play in browser
CLOSED HANDS
An unflinching work of interactive fiction.
PΔSSENGER
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(21 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
GIF
Postal Secret
Postal secret no longer counts! Short atmospheric puzzle solving for a relaxing evening.
Ymar Games
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(15 total ratings)
Puzzle
Soldier Of Love
It's time to show this poor bastard what the meaning of love REALLY is.
TurboRenegade
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(10 total ratings)
Visual Novel
La Faille
Un visual novel fantastique sur un groupe de lycéens dont la vie est sur le point de basculer...
Chester
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(19 total ratings)
Visual Novel
10 Things You Can Be
short VN about 10 things one could be; also, your friends might benefit from these!
br0kenleg
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
Enclosure 3-D
Arctic horror adventure, now in full 3D.
mausimus
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Adventure
In All My Dreams I Choke On Invisible Smoke [BETA]
Surreal visual novel/point and click exploration. Unsettling.
Kanderwund
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(14 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
GIF
Cannery Vale
forget who you are
Hanon Ondricek
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(18 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Dialogue 3-D
Ramsey Nasser
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(50 total ratings)
Shooter
Play in browser
Keep Calm: An Interactive Short Story
No matter what you do, keep calm...
Adam Carriere
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(23 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Femme
a text based, trans* femme dress-up party!
mayaxlove
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(12 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
MMM: Murder Most Misfortunate
A murder is committed in a secluded mansion, and it's up to you to solve it.
Foolish Mortals
Rated 4.2 out of 5 stars
(92 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Dream Team
A Millennial Dream Simulator
PRINCESS INTERNET CAFé
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Dear Murder Diary
A murder-mystery game
marcgenesis
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Puzzle
Play in browser
Anamnesis, of Renascents and Monsters
A text-based lovecraftian life simulation RPG.
Vaccean
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(14 total ratings)
Simulation
GIF
Indiepocalypse #17
$15
Issue #17 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.
PIZZAPRANKSVerified Account
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
love letter to a star ruler
piece of adoration to a seemingly uncaring, omniscient entity
br0kenleg
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
Visual Novel
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
(8 total ratings)
Role Playing
The Monster Inside
A film noir style audio-visual novella.
x70x
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(33 total ratings)
Play in browser
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