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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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Simulation
Text-based space exploration game
Interactive Fiction
A traveling salesman's struggle to survive a night of horror
Adventure
Play in browser
A fantasy and love story influenced by the Guanche culture.
Interactive Fiction
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A horror game about working in a 90's call center.
Puzzle
A short kinetic novel — on bright minds, and the end of all things.
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
an IF anthology about five heroes who die
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
When the last thread becomes entangled, their song will be heard.
Interactive Fiction
Christmas has come to Wayhaven! And it's magical…quite literally.
Interactive Fiction
Murdering a person that hurt you is hot, right?
Interactive Fiction
Purge the graveyard from the forces of Evil by using your typing skills.
A time-loop based experimental text adventure.
Adventure
Paradise is an interactive fiction playground.
Interactive Fiction
Perfect Tides is a point and click adventure game about the agony and anticipation of being a teen.
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Adventure
Welcome to the Corporate Ladder.
Role Playing
A collection of horror games, each with their own distinct styles
Adventure
text-adventure MMORPG
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Role Playing
Replica
$2.99
Everything in the State, nothing against the State, nothing outside the State.
Adventure
In this interactive sci-fi adventure novel, you are the AI pilot of Earth's last interstellar ship.
Interactive Fiction
Once you glimpse behind the shadows, you’ll never be the same.
Interactive Fiction
An ode to text-adventures.
Interactive Fiction
A cozy mystery adventure game set in early 1900s Ontario, Canada!
Adventure
A horror fantasy kidnapping sim.
Interactive Fiction
Subtext
$6.99
A mystery told through real SMS messages, phone calls, and emails.
Interactive Fiction
beautiful twine compilation
Adventure
A novel-length "bat-romance" Twine.
a story about computers, memory, and the end of the world
Adventure
A Murder Mystery Visual Novel.
Visual Novel
Issue #22 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.
PIZZAPRANKSVerified Account
Issue #17 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.
PIZZAPRANKSVerified Account
In the distant future, you join a strange organization to find the secret behind The Object
Adventure
Issue #1 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.
PIZZAPRANKSVerified Account
Acolyte
$10.99
A narrative ARG/Detective game that gives you your own digital assistant.
Interactive Fiction
Enemies on camera, enemies off camera!
Visual Novel
A romance visual novel about memories best left forgotten.
Visual Novel
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