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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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The OR8CLE
$5
A one-page RPG about a party of adventurers being guided by an Oracle that may not exactly be what it seems.
nattwentea
Asphalt Among Ashes
$3
a journaling game of solitary journeys on post-apocalyptic highways
Andrea Duarte
Story Archive - A Solo Journal RPG System
$1
A new revised rules set for solo journal RPGs, based on the Epistolary solo journal RPG system.
sunflower_wizard
Welcome to The Mall of Infinity
$5
A solo RPG and journaling game set in a labyrinthine mall.
Surreal Town
Phantoms: solo journaling ttrpg
$1
A Horror Solo Journaling TTRPG about Paranormal Investigation
SmallTownCreepy
detritus
$0
-100%
a character creation game that makes you clean your room
blake stone / fenced forest
ScareBnB
$5
A solo game about haunting a bed and breakfast around Halloween.
Jacqueline Bryk
Heroes of Lite: Gauntlets
$5
An expansion pack for Heroes of Lite featuring the new Gauntlet weapon type, new Skills, and new Combat Arts!
nattwentea
Butterfly on the Wheel
$5
A solo game about loving a malicious monarch.
Jacqueline Bryk
Yes, who's this?
$1
Yes, who’s this? A LARP about re-getting to know a life long lover or friend.
Maria Mison
Dolls of Theseus
$5
A one-page RPG about humanity, purpose, and combat constructs
nattwentea
Laser Beams Like So Many Stars
$5
You're a fan of mechs and their pilots: spectate their glory.
Whimsy Machine
Personal Apocalyptica
$3.33
reveal your true names
Maria Mison
[ R E A C H ]
$0
-100%
a single-move, single-sheet, setting-agnostic PbtA microgame
blake stone / fenced forest
GAMES TO PLAY ON A ROADTRIP
$0
-100%
define 'play'
blake stone / fenced forest
The Masks We Wear - The Fool Arcana
$2
An expansion pack for The Masks We Wear with new enemy-recruitment mechanics for a playable Fool Arcana
nattwentea
Lo/oper
$5
A storytelling game about breaking free of a time loop that has ensnared your Home.
nattwentea
Parable of the Pit
$4.99
a decidedly un-heroic pen-and-paper dungeon crawl
Aleks Samoylov
YOUNG CAOIMHE; or, the Long Dark Night of the Bone-fires on the Heath
$0
-100%
and the Accounts of the Changeling Child whom was brought crosst the Veil
blake stone / fenced forest
>Dear Ghost_
$4
An epistolary game about a ghost and a medium for two players.
Jacqueline Bryk
Tornbridge
$4
An epistolary game of love and letters.
Jacqueline Bryk
To Draw a Heartfelt Blade
$3
Is your revolution worth pursuing?
ladylakira
Memento Mori
$5
A solo journaling game about death and discovery
Morlasair
The Blood: Dracula
$1.99
In bundle
Dracula in the world of The Blood
Falconian Productions
this is not your room
$2.22
A micro-world re-architecting game/ art game
Maria Mison
Black Tea & My Saccharine Sweet Revenge
$5
A storytelling game about the world's pettiest café and its quest for payback.
nattwentea
Skirmish of the Sorcière
$5
A one-page RPG about Witches resolving a Disturbance through flashy Magic
nattwentea
Glyph>
$5
An extraterrestrial being has made contact and invaded... your group chat in this text-based guessing game using emojis.
Andre Rivera Art
The Masks We Wear - The World Arcana
$2
An expansion pack for The Masks We Wear with a playable combat-navigator hybrid arcana and new Reaper build
nattwentea
Housewarming
$5
A TTRPG about Welcoming and Friendship
Whimsy Machine
The Good, The Bad, and The Uncanny
$3
and the twists and turns of how we seal our fates, as this way or -- another
Maria Mison
Drowned in the Dark
$5
A collection of 3 playbooks for use with Blades in the Dark TTRPG
Xalkyrie
Work in Progress
$5
A GMless, one player game about a mad scientist that aims to build the greatest creation anyone's ever seen
nattwentea
Beauty in the Grid
$2
A Picross-inspired Puzzle RPG
Whimsy Machine
Tournament Arc RPG
£3.50
A competitive arena-fighter Discord RPG
SystemxEmotion
Fight Item Run: Cheat Codes
$1
Cheats, hacks, and alt. play modes for Fight Item Run
Whimsy Machine
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