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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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The Good Weapon
Will you nuke the world to save it?
ninecoffees
Interactive Fiction
BLACKPHILLY: The Text Data Game
"LEVEL UP!"
blackphilly
Educational
Play in browser
Eczema Angel Orifice
$5
beautiful twine compilation
Porpentine
Adventure
Bird Of Passage
A free night ride across Tokyo, searching for our home with the help of some stranger.
SpaceBackyard
Visual Novel
Sepia Tears: Reprise Edition
$7
A romance visual novel about memories best left forgotten.
Scarlet String Studios
Visual Novel
GIF
Blackout: The Darkest Night
$5.99
Once you glimpse behind the shadows, you’ll never be the same.
MiniChimera
Interactive Fiction
Dungeon Mercenary
Modern ASCII roguelike - Can your mercenary beat the dungeon ?
smelc3
Role Playing
Play in browser
You're Going To Be Fine (Branches)
$1
Escape your fairy tale nightmare in this short text game.
Megan
Interactive Fiction
Swapped
Old windows themed horror game.
Takeo Noname
Interactive Fiction
the dark is a soft, warm pressure.
isitjustmeinhere?
MARED JURPHY
Adventure
Gender Dysphoria
negative experiences after coming out as transgender
exodrifter
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Post War
$7.99
An indie 2.5D post-apocalyptic adventure designed in pixel art
PostEastern
Adventure
Astra Protocol 2
$6.99
A Cassette Futuristic Space Adventure
Slice Bar
Simulation
Text Wormhole
$6.99
Text Wormhole is a dodge game of bullet hell generated by the roguelike way dynamically based on the theme of letters
elknightstudio
Action
Star Story: The Horizon Escape
$11.99
Join a funky space archaeologist who crashed on an unknown planet. Explore, fight, make decisions to find a way out!
EvilCoGames
Visual Novel
Dragon's Oven
An RPG text adventure to play in a terminal.
tronster
Role Playing
Crime Syndicate
Build your criminal empire and enter a world of money, crime and corruption
TeamCS1
Role Playing
Play in browser
GIF
Console Hack Typer
Hacker simulator
Geniusy
Simulation
Heartstring: BETA STORY
A multiversal RPG story that plays with your heartstrings.
pokeizel
Role Playing
The Lurking Shadow
$1.99
A mystery and terror text adventure about you, a detective, who must solve a case in a strange house.
LegosDeveloper
Interactive Fiction
Blood Bath & Beyond
A humorous fantasy text adventure into the dark heart of retail.
Neil Floyd
Adventure
Play in browser
Six Six
$5
A text-mode adventure for your Rainbow 100 (and other inferior platforms)!
PrintStar
Adventure
Witches and Bandits and Swords (Oh My)
$0
-100%
A playful, interactive graphic novel adventure by Krunchy Fried Games. Ages 13+.
Krunchy Fried Games
Visual Novel
Play in browser
GIF
The Ritual
a Princess & her Knight travel through the woods.
Megan
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Lake
A short, eerie Japanese folktale
hosomeowa
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Waybinder
A city bound by ritual to prosper — or so it was hoped...
Gemma Thomson
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIFTS
$1
A text-based fairy tale.
Megan
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Emporium of the Pointless
Simulator of a shop that sells useless items
Odd Socks
Simulation
Cyllinder v1.2
A story-driven eerie platformer game.
al3cs71
Platformer
Selfie Kings
Risk it all for the selfies of your lifetime!
mikhaildutikov
Visual Novel
Play in browser
Bangor The Game! Operation Opiate Opposition
Old School RPG based on Bangor, Maine USA!
Kevin Loring
Strategy
The Red Church
Discover some ruins. Face your destiny.
Luis S.
Role Playing
Beyond Eternity: A prelude of Scripted Fates
A metaphysical Visual Novel in the realm of NonExistence.
Razeacc
Visual Novel
You Are Petting a Cat
$1
You are petting... a cat
wbalmer
Role Playing
Play in browser
Excuses Galore!
Your friends have got shedloads of plans you're just itching to get out of. How many excuses have you got?
Eldridge Misnomer
Interactive Fiction
🥚⌛🍳 TIME OMELETTE 🍳⌛🥚
A cooking mystery game about time. Except it's not a cooking game.
adriel
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
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