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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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Stalking Simulator
Make him yours.
Feycry
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
SLUDGE FICTION
An absurdist story about a job interview.
Cadence
Interactive Fiction
Elysium
Immortal hero, here is where you lie.
Ethersic
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Blossom, NY
A virtual tour
alyshkalia
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Quem com Quem
Hilarious stories created in a multiplayer text game
Quem com Quem
Interactive Fiction
Why? or also known as Untitled
the worst interactive ficiton to exist
Rylie Eric
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Outback
gatocalvojogos
Survival
Play in browser
hakoniwa - Miniature Garden
Know that you are safe here.
Kimi
Visual Novel
Play in browser
Hard Rain
Survive the coming storm
Not Jam
Survival
Play in browser
Lluita per la supervivència - Toni Fortuny
Pera Sanchez
Adventure
HBreaker Hub
Time to scroll, scroll, & scroll some more.
Kezthier
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Castle Mistdark
Did you enjoy playing Zork in the late 70's / early 80's? Enjoy this text-based adventure much like Zork!
Seth Grimes
Adventure
Him (and Us)
a conversation
alyshkalia
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Golden Apple
Buddy really wants his apple, but there's no apples in the house! How will you help him?​​
rabidwinter
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Short Text-Based War Thing
Just a short text-based game I made
katorina_gaming
Visual Novel
Play in browser
project movie maker
pmm
j4ckzz_
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Fallout: Canada Demo
text based choose-your-adventure type canada based fallout rpg game
skylight games
Role Playing
Play in browser
I don't want to talk about it.
What, so like, we're just going to sit here for an hour?
Nick Gelling
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Imago
Rogue-Like Monologue Experiment
Shinø's Brainworks
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Passing Through
You'll meet many people as you pass through.
Amanda
Visual Novel
Play in browser
Termitaire
Text-based klondike solitaire that is run in the terminal
RodakDev
Card Game
Mysteries of the Star Odyssey
This is a very short but completed IF for personal practice. All critiques are welcome! 5 achievements to unlock
Lainy Literati Games
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Stuck with you
A late night conversation between two best friends
teletuu
Visual Novel
GIF
lost in code
$1
find what was taken
haruto
Adventure
Aura [DEMO]
BearyGames
Visual Novel
What's in a Name?
Equipped with a strange database, you must find what happened to a missing girl.
KingBun
Play in browser
The Summoning of IN-SI-LA
Play as an Inquisitor tasked with stopping heretics from summoning a demon named IN-SI-LA.
Memento Holodosi
Play in browser
GIF
summoned at 2
That time I summoned a demon lord to avoid my 2pm meeting
Fabi
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Floppy Disk of Forbidden Creatures
What will you summon? And what consequences will it bring?
Cole Cecil
Interactive Fiction
bash-pac
About bash-pac is an "clone of pacman" that is writen in bash
stuff by max
Action
Hammy
A desktop fantasy HAM radio
Foothold Games
Simulation
The Web of Shadows
A chivalric romance in text
homo-carbonis
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
World Runner Gamebook
Gamebook inspired by book World Runner. Can you make right choices?
YTMikosek
Adventure
Play in browser
The Hangman Game (Commandline)
The classic Hangman game implemented in the commandline. Made with Xcode. Currently supports macOS.
mrmagic2020
Puzzle
Dragon Dares
A parser adventure game where one needs to solve the riddles of a sarcastic dragon.
peterhoppe
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Boned
Desperately trying to spin a tale to gets out from being attacked by skeleton pirates.
peterhoppe
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
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