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Scout: An Apocalypse Story

A text choice romance in an apocalyptic setting.

Anya

Interactive Fiction

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REDSUGARSOCIETY

Fake date. Fall in love. Murder. Party. Rinse and repeat.

riotdevs

Interactive Fiction

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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

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Snakeroot.

[ INACTIVE ] A fantasy horror IF WIP.

cerberus

Interactive Fiction

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Your Hogwarts Story

A Choose your own Adventure Text Game about going to Hogwarts

DigiTale

Role Playing

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Isles Of Umbra

Lovecraftian first person point and click adventure

riffst

Adventure

The Dragon's Curse {Hiatus}

Fantasy interactive fiction based on asian mythology and other cultures

XNueX

Interactive Fiction

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GIF

Kobold Dungeon Tester

A multiple-choice-adventure-roguelike about testing a dungeon.

st33d

Interactive Fiction

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hollowsheart

[ INACTIVE ] proof of concept of a text-based horror game.

cerberus

Interactive Fiction

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CVIE (Open Beta)

Welcome to C.V.I.E This is THE most unstable AI in the works. Aggressive, speciest, and somehow lovable.

AMBU5H

Adventure

Failure with Silver (unfinished)

A plague takes over...Can you find out why?

numijulie

Role Playing

Daily Quests (FloppyJam)

Hyperagon

Role Playing

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Unwanted Hero, part 1

a twisted, tangled fairy tale

No Time To Play

Role Playing

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Seltani

Hypertext MMO

zarf

Role Playing

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Let Her Go, Player!

Can love bloom in the stealth murder simulator?

ScreenSavorStudios

Adventure

Warding: Demo

Text based horror game, where you play as Cecilia, a blind woman, on the night that someone breaks into her house.

risraelwriter

Adventure

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The Path to Power (demo)

16284 lines of code that are meant to be played

Role Playing

enter the spiral

Visual Novel

Please enter your username.

koimarina

Interactive Fiction

Space Goats: Tales from Bah'nana IV.

A Text Adventure based on Tim Ruswick's "Space Goats 2"

Star Banner Games

Interactive Fiction

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Mouth of the Devil

You’d better watch that mouth o’ yours, partner.

hatchling

Interactive Fiction

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Humble Beginnings

an unfinished game where you play the life of a peasant in a light fantasy world!

idea_graveyard

Interactive Fiction

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Simulation

It's about lesbians on motorcycles. The end.

TUB

Visual Novel

grim home

help the grim reaper decorate their apartment

scareoset

Interactive Fiction

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Ophelia's Secret (WIP)

A cyberpunk interactive fiction about talking your way into places where you don't belong.

Leo Andrade

Interactive Fiction

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THE HOUSESITTER - DEMO

A short demo for an ASCII, horror, text-based adventure.

RUMBLEBOX_

Interactive Fiction

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Oneiron

text-based multiple choice adventure

Insania404

Adventure

Thirsty - The Thirst For Adventure (Demo)

A short demo for an up and coming interactive story

jonathan_schon

Interactive Fiction

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noigeL reiN

An unofficial fangame in the Drakengard/Nier Lore entirely textual

Corentin

Visual Novel

Metaphorical Wizard

Retro Text-Based RPG

Hyperpotato

Adventure

JASON'S QUIRKY QUICKFIRE QUIZ!

This quiz does not live up to it's name at all...

🥞🥞🥞🥞🥞🥞🥞🥞

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Untitled Gardening Game

there's a maze, a garden, and a giant magpie (he's a dick)

Aislinn Evans

Interactive Fiction

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C0untd0wn: The Dem0

Kimba Rose

Adventure

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Sim-You-Later

The Game Where You Simulate Yourself - WizardJam 7 Entry

Koholos

Simulation

Cards Royale

Making a game work with the most basic java coding

Netradeepak

Adventure

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