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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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Fallacy Quiz
$5
Sharpen your critical thinking skills in this quiz game that challenges you to spot rhetorical fallacies.
Tim Krief
Educational
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Throne of Ashes
$2
Break the curse and uncover your fire.
13Leagues
Interactive Fiction
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Remnants Of The Past - Act 1
$6.99
A fantasy and love story influenced by the Guanche culture.
Domakir
Interactive Fiction
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Home Safety Hotline
$14.99
A horror game about working in a 90's call center.
Night Signal Entertainment
Puzzle
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Holiday Magic: A Wayhaven Christmas Story
$6.49
Christmas has come to Wayhaven! And it's magical…quite literally.
Seraphinite Games
Interactive Fiction
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Mr. Rainer's Solve-It Service
$5
When the last thread becomes entangled, their song will be heard.
etherane
Interactive Fiction
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Eczema Angel Orifice
$5
beautiful twine compilation
Porpentine
Adventure
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Chronicles of Tal’Dun: The Remainder
$9.99
-50%
A story of love, death and lies.
Nim
Visual Novel
GIF
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Indiepocalypse #51
$15
Issue #51 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.
PIZZAPRANKS
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Warsim: The Realm of Aslona
$9.99
Huw2k8
Simulation
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Your Future Self
$2.99
A time-loop based experimental text adventure.
Contortionist Games
Adventure
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Upheaval
$4.99
-50%
Text-based open world roguelike
Alex Leone
Interactive Fiction
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Transmissions
$1
These are the log entries of a grumpy space traveler.
rembrandx
Interactive Fiction
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Perfect Tides
$14.99
Perfect Tides is a point and click adventure game about the agony and anticipation of being a teen.
Meredith Gran
Adventure
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Sorry We're Open
$7.99
Welcome to the Corporate Ladder.
oates
Role Playing
GIF
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VT Harmony
$6.99
In bundle
VT Harmony - Visual Novel
Yun Seven
Visual Novel
GIF
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Indiepocalypse #1
$15
Issue #1 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.
PIZZAPRANKS
GIF
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Indiepocalypse #33
$15
Issue #33 of a curated monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.
PIZZAPRANKS
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The Salt Keep
$4.99
In bundle
A traveling salesman's struggle to survive a night of horror
Small Gray Games
Adventure
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Life Eater
$14.99
A horror fantasy kidnapping sim.
Strange Scaffold
Interactive Fiction
GIF
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Replica
$2.99
Everything in the State, nothing against the State, nothing outside the State.
Somi
Adventure
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Subtext
$6.99
A mystery told through real SMS messages, phone calls, and emails.
William O'Connell
Interactive Fiction
GIF
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Pixel Fireplace
$4.99
Type commands, roast marshmallows, throw logs onto a crackling fire. Enjoy
Ted Martens
Simulation
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IN THE ARMS OF THE NIGHT
£2.40
A novel-length "bat-romance" Twine.
polymer despair
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Paradise
$1
Paradise is an interactive fiction playground.
Rek & Devine
Interactive Fiction
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Chatventures
$3
In bundle
text-adventure MMORPG
Sokpop Collective
Role Playing
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Acolyte
$10.99
A narrative ARG/Detective game that gives you your own digital assistant.
SUPERSTRING
Interactive Fiction
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_transfer
$10
a story about computers, memory, and the end of the world
Abyssal Uncreations
Adventure
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Can You Come In?
$2
Your boss has called to ask if you can come into work on your day off - and you don't have much choice but to go.
spacetwinks
Interactive Fiction
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if not us
$7
In bundle
an IF anthology about five heroes who die
ub4q
Interactive Fiction
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Dave Microwaves Games Trilogy I
$1.50
A collection of horror games, each with their own distinct styles
Dave Microwaves Games
Adventure
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Strange Sickness
$9.99
A narrative game built from historical records
Common Profyt Games
Interactive Fiction
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The Away Team
$8
In this interactive sci-fi adventure novel, you are the AI pilot of Earth's last interstellar ship.
Underflow Studios
Interactive Fiction
GIF
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Code 7 - Episodes 2 & 3 Available Now
$22.99
What would you do if you found yourself trapped on an eerie space station with nothing but a computer?
Goodwolf Studio
Adventure
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Swords of Freeport
$15
Text-Mode Social RPG
Elissa Black
Role Playing
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Heroes & Cowards – The Pentagram of Power (C64)
$5.99
A classic adventure for Commodore C64
Protovision
Adventure
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