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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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You Are a Skeleton & That Is a Problem (for Game Boy)
A point-&-click text adventure for Game Boy, typeset with my typewriter.
Nicky Flowers
Interactive Fiction
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Threshold
A ghost game about being trans
FaerieFire
Visual Novel
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please tell me you love me
can you admit your feelings at the end of the world?
ellis dex
Interactive Fiction
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Family Dinner
It only takes one night to change everything.
pansandpots
Interactive Fiction
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GIF
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Demonology 101
A detective game about discovering the true names of demons.
Ludipe
Puzzle
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GIF
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SPACE FROG!
a story of a frog in space.
npckc
Adventure
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Little Antifa Novel
A playable leaflet about a Fascist march and our counter-demonstration
Mauro Vanetti
Visual Novel
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GIF
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WASTE EATER
The world is saved. Now its heroes wait to die.
cain
Interactive Fiction
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Pyramid Builder
Grow a civilization, Build a Pyramid
standardcombo
Simulation
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The Nightland
A board & video game for Commodore
Alessio Scanderebech
Adventure
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nightbloom
exobotanical horror
aerialshading
Visual Novel
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Warp Cinema
You wake at the cinema. The movie is over. Your friend is missing. Déjà vu grips you tight. It's all happened before.
CosmicVoid
Adventure
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Femme
a text based, trans* femme dress-up party!
mayaxlove
Interactive Fiction
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Canvas Colors: In The Moving City
Travel along with Maggie and Vale inside a moving city in Canvas Colors!
UnfinishedCircl
Visual Novel
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Fantasy Tea Generator
Generate a name for your fantasy tea.
npckc
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Welcome Back
A text-based game about the space between endings and beginnings.
Nessa Cannon
Interactive Fiction
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Don't Die Alone
Spam has never been so deadly.
StephenW313
Visual Novel
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The Monster Inside
A film noir style audio-visual novella.
x70x
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Escape from Kettuloch
Escape the dungeon before you fully transform into a fox!
SnepShark
Interactive Fiction
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ZOZ
An open world deckbuilder adventure game for ZZT.
WiL
Card Game
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Galactic Foodtruck Simulator 2999 (GFS2999)
The galaxy hungers. You own a foodtruck. Feed everyone.
WiL
Simulation
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Santa Carcossa Nights
A cosmic horror text game about a quiet beachside community
bitterkarella
Interactive Fiction
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THE RUIN OF 0CEANUS PR1ME
«There's nothing here, Carter. Vital signs zero-zero. It's a fucking cemetery.»
Marco Innocenti
Interactive Fiction
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Deliverance
You are a messenger. Deliver the most important message yet. Restore balance to the world, else it succumbs to chaos.
Caevacior
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Epitaph
alien civilization extinction simulator
Max Kreminski
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The Good Weapon
Will you nuke the world to save it?
ninecoffees
Interactive Fiction
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When I'm Gone
Survival game without your survival.
Please wait
Survival
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Lunarrota
Climb the Mountain. Kill the Goddess.
Luis S.
Role Playing
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Blood On The Snow
A narrative adventure game.
Maricu
Adventure
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alt_tarot
an unnaturally augmented tarot deck in twine
blake stone / fenced forest
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The Archivist and the Revolution
The world is ending, and you are still paying rent. A future history.
Autumn Chen
Interactive Fiction
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the dark is a soft, warm pressure.
isitjustmeinhere?
MARED JURPHY
Adventure
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Assessment
Bee Braun
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Gender Dysphoria
negative experiences after coming out as transgender
exodrifter
Interactive Fiction
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The Secret Life of Probes Prologue
Story in the far reaches of space and time.
Elyon
Interactive Fiction
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RE:BURN
A short and creepy story told through emails and instant messages
Jane Titor
Visual Novel
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