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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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Scout: An Apocalypse Story
A text choice romance in an apocalyptic setting.
Anya
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Superstition S2
Journey deeper into the unknown.
13Leagues
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Joestar ☆ Struck
Get Joestar Struck
TeamScallywag
Visual Novel
GIF
Trigaea
Alter genes, survive. Sci-fi RPG. 270k+
RynGM
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Fool Me Once
Dark Fantasy + Romance Interactive Fiction
PDRRook
Interactive Fiction
A Witch's Word
You sold your firstborn to a witch. Now she helps you find a mate.
RainbowStarbird
Simulation
Play in browser
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
Pyramid Builder
Grow a civilization, Build a Pyramid
standardcombo
Simulation
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
The Archivist and the Revolution
The world is ending, and you are still paying rent. A future history.
Autumn Chen
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Superstition S3
Learn the truth and unleash your potential.
13Leagues
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The good people
Explore the weird, until the sunken things come for you
Pseudavid
Interactive Fiction
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
Tristam Island
An Infocom-style adventure for retro computers
Hugo Labrande
Interactive Fiction
GIF
WASTE EATER
The world is saved. Now its heroes wait to die.
cain
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Anamnesis, of Renascents and Monsters
A text-based lovecraftian life simulation RPG.
Vaccean
Simulation
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
Beau Ideals Chapter 1
Fantasy visual novel in development
Mouse & Ram
Visual Novel
Rose garden sentiments
You talk to a pretty prince in a rose garden
teletuu
Visual Novel
Chronicles of Tal’Dun: The Longing
A dark fantasy novel.
Nim
Visual Novel
Play in browser
New Year's Eve, 2019
Social anxiety simulator/dating sim
Autumn Chen
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Good Weapon
Will you nuke the world to save it?
ninecoffees
Interactive Fiction
Gender Dysphoria
negative experiences after coming out as transgender
exodrifter
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
MMM: Murder Most Misfortunate
A murder is committed in a secluded mansion, and it's up to you to solve it.
Foolish Mortals
Visual Novel
Delphine's Discovery
Venture into an abandoned orphanage, solve a mystery, and fall in love.
LegendEx Games
Visual Novel
a Museum of Dubious Splendors.
A collection of small and peculier stories from Somwhere.
Studio Oleomingus
Adventure
Dungeon Mercenary
Modern ASCII roguelike - Can your mercenary beat the dungeon ?
smelc3
Role Playing
Play in browser
Messages
An odd game about texting.
Jusiv
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Goblins Demise
Goblins seeking Refuge
Lodugh
Adventure
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
Serum Run
A dogsled Oregon Trail-like originally made in 48 hours.
Avery Hiebert
Adventure
Play in browser
Blood On The Snow
A narrative adventure game.
Maricu
Adventure
POM SIMULATOR 9000
weary, transformation, dog, burger, comfort
d Marie
Simulation
GIF
Galactic Foodtruck Simulator 2999 (GFS2999)
The galaxy hungers. You own a foodtruck. Feed everyone.
WiL
Simulation
Play in browser
Nova: Synthesis Creaturum
A free fantasy visual novel about magic, monsters, and more--download now!
Nova: Synthesis Creaturum
Visual Novel
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