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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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Pick & Poke
Narrative roguelike with tokens
Christophe Coyard
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
Walkie Talkie
send messages, receive messages, play messages
Daniel Linssen
Platformer
God-Cursed: Demo
An interactive fiction fantasy game made with Twine. Create your character, break a curse, fall in love & make it home.
Lunan
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
SPACE FROG!
a story of a frog in space.
npckc
Adventure
Play in browser
WORLD OF HORROR
$19.99
1bit adventure game of cosmic horror inspired by the work of Junji Ito
panstasz
Role Playing
Pyramid Builder
Grow a civilization, Build a Pyramid
standardcombo
Simulation
Chronicles of Tal’Dun: The Longing
A dark fantasy novel.
Nim
Visual Novel
Play in browser
Rose garden sentiments
You talk to a pretty prince in a rose garden
teletuu
Visual Novel
Beyond the Chiron Gate
$10
Text-based space exploration game
John Ayliff
Interactive Fiction
The Good Weapon
Will you nuke the world to save it?
ninecoffees
Interactive Fiction
Your Phone Dies in 20 Seconds
You have 20 seconds to determine your fate.
Crimson Arcade
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
Vast Trivia Of The Void
What would an omniscient creature do with all that knowledge? Well, host a trivia game, of course!
Whales And Games
Puzzle
Play in browser
GIF
Who Stole My Bone?
Help Spudz the dog find his precious bone in this short, silly game!
Kryptic Kitty
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
10mg: Cover Me In Leaves
$2
In bundle
A short kinetic novel — on bright minds, and the end of all things.
Elliot Herriman
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
WASTE EATER
The world is saved. Now its heroes wait to die.
cain
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Family Dinner
It only takes one night to change everything.
pansandpots
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Gender Dysphoria
negative experiences after coming out as transgender
exodrifter
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
WAS/WERE
$4
Murdering a person that hurt you is hot, right?
RodFireProductions
Interactive Fiction
Mushroom Hunt
An entry for the Adventuron Cavejam
Polyducks
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Delphine's Discovery
Venture into an abandoned orphanage, solve a mystery, and fall in love.
LegendEx Games
Visual Novel
GIF
Type Knight
$3.99
Purge the graveyard from the forces of Evil by using your typing skills.
chaikadev
GIF
Petty Puny Planet
Why have a pet rock when you can have a pet planet? Micromanage this cosmic rock to places never thought possible!
Whales And Games
Simulation
Play in browser
Pageant
An interactive story about a girl who joins a beauty pageant to improve her college applications.
Autumn Chen
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
reunion
find your ex at the end of the world
caeth
Play in browser
Deliverance
You are a messenger. Deliver the most important message yet. Restore balance to the world, else it succumbs to chaos.
Caevacior
Villain Rehabilitation
A support group for villains having trouble with villaining.
Kryptic Kitty
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Canvas Colors: In The Moving City
Travel along with Maggie and Vale inside a moving city in Canvas Colors!
UnfinishedCircl
Visual Novel
Signal Garden (Demo)
A chill clicker game about recalling a lost world
Sam Keeper
Play in browser
What Girls Do in the Dark
A short slumber party text adventure ♡
olivebranche
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The House Abandon - Now part of 'Stories Untold'!
A nostalgic horror adventure game, inside another horror game, inside a tv show, inside a game.
jonNoCode
Adventure
domvs
a gothic mystery
litrouke
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Femme
a text based, trans* femme dress-up party!
mayaxlove
Interactive Fiction
GIF
The Painting
A grieving father relives memories of days long gone.
Tymedust Games
Visual Novel
Play in browser
GIF
Please Tell Me I Love You
A short conversation about a relationship
A G Moody
Visual Novel
Play in browser
GIF
Demonology 101
A detective game about discovering the true names of demons.
Ludipe
Puzzle
Play in browser
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
Play in browser
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