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Retro

Featuring aesthetics, gameplay, or themes reminiscent of classic video games. Often characterized by pixel art, chiptune music, or mechanics popularized in earlier gaming eras.

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Text based

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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Top$15 or less tagged Retro and Text based (45 results)

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A time-loop based experimental text adventure.
Adventure
A collection of horror games, each with their own distinct styles
Adventure
Perfect Tides is a point and click adventure game about the agony and anticipation of being a teen.
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Adventure
A horror game about working in a 90's call center.
Puzzle
An ode to text-adventures.
Interactive Fiction
A cozy mystery adventure game set in early 1900s Ontario, Canada!
Adventure
ASCII Action! As minimal as an RPG can get
Role Playing
You're an ASCII Oat; Dodge the ASCII Slime Mold!
Action
Text-Mode Social RPG
Role Playing
Issue #17 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.
PIZZAPRANKSVerified Account
Four ASCII Games; One Poopy Pack!
Issue #49 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.
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A small text-adventure survival game.
Adventure
These are the log entries of a grumpy space traveler.
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
You wake up at the bottom of the ocean, surrounded by broken memories. Reclaim your magic or drown in a sea of dreams.
Interactive Fiction
A couple has been brutally murdered in their house last night. Are you up to solve the mystery?
Puzzle
Play in browser
An 80KB interactive-fiction text adventure.
Adventure
Shakespearean text adventure
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
A classic adventure for Commodore C64
Adventure
Not everyone can be the hero. You, for example, are the town drunk.
Role Playing
In The Protocol Directive, a dark room and deadly choices await. Uncover secrets, solve dilemmas, and escape alive.
Microcrawl is a bite sized point and click 2D adventure text hybrid
Adventure
A Cassette Futuristic Space Adventure
Simulation
A Sci-fi interactive adventure
Interactive Fiction
Henry! It's me, it's Sheepy! It's so co-o-old!
Interactive Fiction
More Rooms - More Riddles - and even more Tea!
Adventure
Confront your fears. Embrace the glitch. Find yourself.
Interactive Fiction
A full-scale retro JRPG with ambitious textmode graphics [Now available!]
Role Playing
Stranded again! The adventure continues
Adventure
A retro text adventure!
Interactive Fiction
An RPG inside an RPG
Role Playing
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