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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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Explore games tagged Retro and text-adventure on itch.io. Featuring aesthetics, gameplay, or themes reminiscent of classic video games. Often characterized by pixel art, chiptune · Upload your games to itch.io to have them show up here.

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Climb the Mountain. Kill the Goddess.
Role Playing
A short traditional text adventure
Interactive Fiction
Zork-like retro text adventure
Interactive Fiction
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A new interactive fiction game for the Amstrad CPC and Plus range (2024)
Interactive Fiction
An old school open world text-adventure rpg where you fight to gain better equipment in a fantasy setting.
Role Playing
A text-based speculative horror game
Interactive Fiction
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An original text adventure for the 48k ZX Spectrum
Interactive Fiction
A Puzzle Heavy Text Adventure Game Using Two Words
Interactive Fiction
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A vampire has been killing children in a village in the Carpathian Mountains. The villagers have hired you to kill it.
Interactive Fiction
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Your school was bequeathed by a rich philanthropist, but the whereabouts of the rest of his fortune is a mystery.
Interactive Fiction
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While serving aboard a steam ship during The Great War, something goes wrong and it's up to you to work out what.
Interactive Fiction
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Mother Goose has been kidnapped and it's up to you to rescue her.
Interactive Fiction
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Versão restaurada do jogo que originou a famosa franquia de RPG Fire of Rebellion
Visual Novel
It's rumoured that an alchemist in the forest has been turning base metals into gold. You set out to steal some of it.
Interactive Fiction
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You're a gold prospector down on his luck. Scavenge the abandoned town to find treasures to fund your trip back home.
Interactive Fiction
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Captain Cutter once had three of his crew hide a treasure nearby. Now, he wants it back.
Interactive Fiction
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There's rumoured to be a treasure in The Cave of Magic. You must go there to find out if it's true.
Interactive Fiction
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Your name is Kerry Kyle, so you can't be the worst person to destroy the Very Vile Fairy File.
Interactive Fiction
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a laundry simulator
Simulation
The Ark of the Covenant has been hidden in the local forest. You must find it and return it to your church.
Interactive Fiction
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Some idiot zookeeper has put you in the gorilla enclosure. You must find your way home to the chimpanzee enclosure.
Interactive Fiction
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The faster "story version" of 2017 text adventure "In the Trees" with simplified puzzles
Interactive Fiction
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An interactive fiction game for the BBC Micro / Acorn Electron (2024)
Interactive Fiction
You are serving aboard a top-secret submarine, when a saboteur gasses the crew. Can you survive and save the sub?
Interactive Fiction
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Cosmic Horrors From Outer Space Terrorize The Circus Cemetery!
Interactive Fiction
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After two years of study, you are ready to start your witch's apprenticeship.
Interactive Fiction
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You stopped on a dark country road to have a sleep. When you wake, it's raining heavily and you've got a flat battery.
Interactive Fiction
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You need to find a girlfriend, but all the girls think you're a dork. Try to overcome your dorkiness to pick up a girl.
Interactive Fiction
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Discover some ruins. Face your destiny.
Role Playing
The king is throwing a ball to support local businesses, but you're not invited. Can you find a way to sneak in?
Interactive Fiction
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It's Kenny Koala's turn to be the bushfire warden. Help Kenny to complete all the tasks on his checklist.
Interactive Fiction
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You've been left to babysit little Anna, but she's gone missing. Can you find her before her parents arrive home?
Interactive Fiction
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You mistakenly entered the Troll's Cave at the carnival because the admission was free. Now you need money to get out.
Interactive Fiction
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A text adventure about a Goblin, a Kobold, and legends
Role Playing
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Open source text RPG for MS-DOS. Written and developed 100% on the old Qbasic!
Role Playing
Help Igor find the body parts for Frankenstein's monster.
Interactive Fiction
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