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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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Cure The Cursed.
An Interactive Fiction.
MagicalWritesBabe.
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(88 total ratings)
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Deity's Gift
Deity's Gift
Cass.
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(96 total ratings)
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vanitas
conversations about being online
sweetfish
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(73 total ratings)
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gift game
a piece of hypertext about files and circulation
Everest Pipkin
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(35 total ratings)
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GIF
anonymous animal
An iframe-elegy browser poem that runs every hour, on the hour.
Everest Pipkin
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(29 total ratings)
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girlfriend generator
lesbian hyperspecificity
sweetfish
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(66 total ratings)
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Flowers for the Void Cow
A eulogy in honour of growing skies and shrinking possibility
Juniper-C
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(13 total ratings)
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The Eurojank Manifesto
Queered-future festival manifesto for Speculation Jam
spiders
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(12 total ratings)
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Beyond The Waves
allthatwrites
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(38 total ratings)
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in other wordles
speculative wordle fiction
sweetfish
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(14 total ratings)
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TRASHZINE Volume 1
a love letter (zine) to unconventional game developers
TRASHZINE
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(16 total ratings)
The Genius Lamp II: Carve Your Sigils Deep
a collaborative poetry experiment
blake stone / fenced forest
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Remembering Route Zero
A Kentucky Route Zero Fanzine drenched in bittersweet nostalgia
Juniper-C
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
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Memory Improving Techniques
$1
Brain
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(11 total ratings)
Three Anti-Capitalist Zines
Three zines with some alternatives to a few money-based things
TheFrugalGamer
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(7 total ratings)
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Desert Roses and Starlight
A chance meeting.
Magic Magpie Games
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
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If You Think This Is Trash, Fuck Off <3 or: Unlearn Aesthetics, “Professionality” Is An Ableist Construct
a manifesto/rant about ableism and aesthetics
luka
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
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What If Nobody Pets The Dog?
They're all good dogs, except when they're not
Florence Smith Nicholls
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
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The Narrated City
A procedural urban narrative
JUMP OVER THE AGE
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
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inflorescence.city
the textual detrius of a generated city
Everest Pipkin
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
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Gossip - GMS2 Dialogue Engine
$9.99
A comprehensive dialogue engine for Gamemaker Studio 2.
joe_aqq
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
i lost my game . com
seek help in locating a game you played when you were young.
neopeasant
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
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Cursed List of Jungle Tilesets as Narrated by Werner Herzog
How colonialism, art and videogame tilesets are linked
spiders
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
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Cheeky Ways to Stop Bullying
Cheeky 0.5 ways to stop yourself and others from being bullied!
Carl Williams
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
#aesthetic Generator
Generate names of aesthetics imaginary or real
suno lili So
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
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Sapphic Monster Dating Profile Generator
Find Local Sapphic Monsters
Ash
Rated 4.2 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
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> help: a how-to intro to text adventures
a zine about how to play text adventures
Chelsea Stearns
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
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is this a game?
concept collecting
sweetfish
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
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The Ten Million Invocations of Esnesnon 22/02/2022
Ten million invocations to a fictional god, recited by a robot.
Damon L. Wakes
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
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Monstres mous
Un essai bitsy francophone sur les monstres mous dans les jeux vidéo
Velvet
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
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"The Room Behind the Shower" Manifesto
a public domain manifesto about "real" & "unreal" places
illud
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
always late
adhd sucks and i'm bad at time management (minicomic/twine game combo)
ryan rose aceae
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Is it roguelike?
A quiz where you decide whether a game is a roguelike
Zeno Rogue
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
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Magenta Wiki
(a fake) game wiki
communistsister
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
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TH_READ
Two condensed novels telling parallel stories of language and remembrance
JUMP OVER THE AGE
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Bugpack
A mini-Zine about bugs
heptagonentertainment
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
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