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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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Uroboros
The struggle between mortals and divinity that may end an age of divine rule.
Mistyrious
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Snowbound Blood
A Vast Error Story
DECONRECONSTRUCTION
Visual Novel
FARA
A browser roguelike with over 60 classes and endless adventure
BrianIsCreative
Role Playing
Play in browser
GIF
emily is away
Sign In again.
kyleseeley23
The King's Hound
Play as King Arthur Pendragon's spouse and forge Camelot's history.
Kal Down
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Hybrid
These people aren't like you.
HeartForge
Role Playing
Play in browser
Tristam Island
An Infocom-style adventure for retro computers
Hugo Labrande
Interactive Fiction
The Grown-Up Detective Agency
A pre-and-post-teen mystery
Brendan Patrick Hennessy
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Chronicles of Tal’Dun: The Longing
A dark fantasy novel.
Nim
Visual Novel
Play in browser
GIF
Don't make love
Will you make love and risk death?
Maggese
Interactive Fiction
Trouble Brewing: A Romantic Comedy About Beer, Rebellion, & Skipping Out On Your Responsibilities
A Rarely Accurate Medieval Romp Full of Romance and Hijinks
John Q Adams
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Superlunary Episode 1.0
A slow, queer, post-war space opera
communistsister
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
LUNIUM
An escape room mystery. Can you escape your chains before the killer strikes again?
radiosity
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Love & Friendship
A Regency Rom-Com
Salty Stories
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Nova: Synthesis Creaturum
A free fantasy visual novel about magic, monsters, and more--download now!
Nova: Synthesis Creaturum
Visual Novel
Mind Games: Trepidation
Horror, Sci-fi, Queer-friendly, and Romance... what more could you ask for?
Bottlecap Rabbit Games
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Master of the Land
Dynamic text world | Alternate history intrigue
Pseudavid
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Ash Boat
For the curious.
克勒卡尔
Visual Novel
A Paradox Between Worlds: IFComp Edition
A tumblr simulator.
Autumn Chen
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
BIRDLAND
A summer camp bird fighting text adventure
Brendan Patrick Hennessy
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Path of Adventure
A text-based roguelike, for mobile
Alinea Games
Role Playing
Play in browser
灰舟
献给好奇者。
克勒卡尔
Visual Novel
The Hundredth Floor
You and your sister get trapped in a VRMMO. Can you get out of it alive or will you die in it?
TechnoBen
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Legend
Navigate your past, present and future while figuring out relationships, and dealing with some spirits.
Bunny in the stars
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
ClassicZoo
ZZT/Super ZZT world player and editor
asie
In Auctorem Credimus
"And they lived happily ever after" might be the biggest cliffhanger of all
Franzinyte
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
Left on Read
It’s March of 2020, you were just sent home from university because of the coronavirus, you have some small regrets.
Weston Bell-Geddes
Interactive Fiction
GIF
Our Winding Road
Former heroes try to save their relationship.
Nim
Visual Novel
L'île Tristam
Une aventure textuelle pour ordinateurs rétro
Hugo Labrande
Interactive Fiction
Elsinore: After Hamlet
An Asian-American university student struggles with their Hamlet essay during the Spring 2021 semester That Never Was.
Lapin Lunaire Games
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Anyboty
Chat with AI chatbots of Anyboty you want privately.
Anyboty
Simulation
DEVOTIONALIA
Will your devotion reach them? Does it matter?
Grim Baccaris
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
Hypervisible
porree
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
ineffable escape
when in a place of infinite Darkness, do not drift apart
smolalienbee
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Upon A Darkening Flood
A horror tale of the Revolution on culture, heritage, and the anxieties elicited by a strange library.
Rastagong
Visual Novel
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