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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 4.8 out of 5 stars
(95 total ratings)
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Deity's Gift
Deity's Gift
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(107 total ratings)
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vanitas
conversations about being online
sweetfish
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(93 total ratings)
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EXPAND THE POSSIBILITY SPACE
asking your parents "why?" until they get mad
IAN MARTIN
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(47 total ratings)
gift game
a piece of hypertext about files and circulation
Everest Pipkin
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(37 total ratings)
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ALIENS DON'T SPEAK ENGLISH
I want better constructed language-learning games, and I want them now.
GC
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(20 total ratings)
GIF
anonymous animal
An iframe-elegy browser poem that runs every hour, on the hour.
Everest Pipkin
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(34 total ratings)
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haunt me, then
in defense of the insane
dino
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(19 total ratings)
girlfriend generator
lesbian hyperspecificity
sweetfish
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(68 total ratings)
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Flowers for the Void Cow
A eulogy in honour of growing skies and shrinking possibility
Juniper Harper Lark
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(15 total ratings)
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in other wordles
speculative wordle fiction
sweetfish
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(18 total ratings)
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Sisyphean
Everything sucks, but i still got bills to pay, and balls to roll
SummerOrigins
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
(40 total ratings)
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The Eurojank Manifesto
Queered-future festival manifesto for Speculation Jam
spiders
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(14 total ratings)
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how 2 not fucking die
a low-effort manifesto for depressed fucks
Velvet
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(11 total ratings)
TRASHZINE Volume 1
a love letter (zine) to unconventional game developers
TRASHZINE
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(16 total ratings)
Cursed List of Jungle Tilesets as Narrated by Werner Herzog
How colonialism, art and videogame tilesets are linked
spiders
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(12 total ratings)
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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)
Three Anti-Capitalist Zines
Three zines with some alternatives to a few money-based things
TheFrugalGamer
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
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Memory Improving Techniques
$1
Brain
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(11 total ratings)
The Narrated City
A procedural urban narrative
JUMP OVER THE AGE
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
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Do Bad Art
Yet another low-effort manifesto written by a depressed fuck at 2 am
Velvet
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
Monstres mous
Un essai bitsy francophone sur les monstres mous dans les jeux vidéo
Velvet
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(7 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 4.3 out of 5 stars
(10 total ratings)
Desert Roses and Starlight
A chance meeting.
Magic Magpie Games
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
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I Don't Have Anything Important to Say
Do you?
GC
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
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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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
(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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OMG, A Gen Z Nonbinary Gӕrl Single-Handedly Shifts Game Studies!!!
i literally just wrote this text right now & i am putting it immediately onto itch.io!!!
luka
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
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)
#aesthetic Generator
Generate names of aesthetics imaginary or real
soupDilemma
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
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GIF
Or: How I Learnt To Stop Living And Become The Sword
a very short question-centred deck
wiz
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
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Godot Cheatsheets: Shaders
Handmade cheatsheets about Shaders in Godot Engine
Christophe
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Godot Cheatsheets: GDScript
Handmade cheatsheets about gdscript and code in Godot Engine
Christophe
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Godot Cheatsheets: BBCode
Handmade cheatsheets about BBCode in Godot Engine
Christophe
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
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