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Story Rich

Games with a heavy focus on storytelling and narrative.

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Text based

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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in game jams tagged Story Rich and Text based (37 results)

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The Good Weapon
Will you nuke the world to save it?
ninecoffees
Interactive Fiction
Little Antifa Novel
A playable leaflet about a Fascist march and our counter-demonstration
Mauro Vanetti
Visual Novel
Play in browser
GIF
WASTE EATER
The world is saved. Now its heroes wait to die.
cain
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Welcome Back
A text-based game about the space between endings and beginnings.
Nessa Cannon
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Monster Inside
A film noir style audio-visual novella.
x70x
Play in browser
GIF
Galactic Foodtruck Simulator 2999 (GFS2999)
The galaxy hungers. You own a foodtruck. Feed everyone.
WiL
Simulation
Play in browser
The Archivist and the Revolution
The world is ending, and you are still paying rent. A future history.
Autumn Chen
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
the dark is a soft, warm pressure.
isitjustmeinhere?
MARED JURPHY
Adventure
Children of the Flower
Defy your father and take on a God(flower)
wombok
Role Playing
Play in browser
Airwaves
Become a radio operator to translate and decipher codes in this 4 part visual novel.
cathode radiator
Visual Novel
'The Attendant'
Flight 155’s landing gear has jammed and it's stuck in limbo, burning fuel ahead of an emergency landing.
andrewmck
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Fairy Tales of Innocent Children
Chase your shooting star. [Visual Novel, 5 mins]
Bruised Banana
Visual Novel
Mushroom Hunt
An entry for the Adventuron Cavejam
Polyducks
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Fable Maker
Create your own branching narratives and play them too!
CDcruz
Visual Novel
GIF
The Third Kind
An unsettling Point'n'Click Adventure on a broken VCR.
Pizzamakesgames
Adventure
Reflections at Sunset - A meditative Twine experience
An ambient text-based experience inspired by meditation... Your thoughts are yours and yours alone...
Charles H. Huang
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Picking Up The Pieces
Help Sonny Boy navigate his way from his way back to the Tree of Tranquility
nickrey1
Adventure
Play in browser
Goblins Demise
Goblins seeking Refuge
Lodugh
Adventure
Play in browser
Blind Guardian
Defend an ancient structure with hearing alone. Made for the Games for Blind Gamers Jam 3.
popcar2
Fighting
Play in browser
Sunday at the Memories ~The Girl at the Fountain~
A short visual novel about two girls and the first day of the week.
DagitabSoft
Visual Novel
Evscaperoom
Get the pies ... and maybe some dark secrets at the same time
Griatch
Puzzle
Play in browser
The story about racoons
a text based absurd story
ThinkingMicrowave
Adventure
A Conscious Decision
kaelynmauve
Interactive Fiction
Snowset
The world is dying. Savor what little is left.
BoN
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Cashbags
(2017)
Sand Gardeners
Simulation
Play in browser
Exhaustlands
(2018)
Sand Gardeners
Adventure
Play in browser
Keeping Up with the Buzzards
Assassin eavesdropping on two executives by using math
wolfgames
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Remains of the Day
The sun has died. You have been seduced to Edinburgh below the Stair. But at what price?
James StAnthony
Role Playing
Play in browser
Moonsilver Fates
A mystic game about choosing your fate, one night at a time.
EM_Grossman
Visual Novel
Beyond Happily Ever After
A short visual novel about how true love really grows.
DagitabSoft
Visual Novel
A Tuft of Heather
A short text-based psychological horror experience created for Lost Relic Games' Game Jam 2022!
gooby
Visual Novel
Play in browser
rédiger
fermentum tempus
Interactive Fiction
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Defy.
A prototype narrative experience. Balance defying an oppressive regime with staying alive.
Nedwards
Interactive Fiction
The Tome Of Time
ZeHasNoName
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Ticking Stars
A Literary Adventure Game - What do you see in the void?
ThunderLobster
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Just Cosplay
A game about being a teen in the early 2010s.
Deadnettle Games
Interactive Fiction
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