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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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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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FARA
A browser roguelike with over 60 classes and endless adventure
BrianIsCreative
Role Playing
Play in browser
Pyramid Builder
Grow a civilization, Build a Pyramid
standardcombo
Simulation
Vermis - Fan Game
text based fan game based off the artist Plastiboo's art book.
Adam Duehring
Adventure
Play in browser
GIF
Buddy Simulator 1984 DEMO
Create your own virtual best buddy and play games together!
Not a Sailor Studios
Simulation
GIF
We Never Left: <Standalone>
On a dark and stormy night in 1983, the phone rings. “FINISH THE GAME”.
FYRE Games
Adventure
Tristam Island
An Infocom-style adventure for retro computers
Hugo Labrande
Interactive Fiction
GIF
ZOZ
An open world deckbuilder adventure game for ZZT.
WiL
Card Game
Play in browser
The House Abandon - Now part of 'Stories Untold'!
A nostalgic horror adventure game, inside another horror game, inside a tv show, inside a game.
jonNoCode
Adventure
TTYL
Keep up with the group chat or get kicked out in this nostalgic typing game!
302 Slices
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Lunarrota
Climb the Mountain. Kill the Goddess.
Luis S.
Role Playing
Classic Rogue - Oryx Design Lab Tiles
A new version of classic Rogue, updated using Ultimate Roguelike Tileset
oryxdesignlab
GIF
Type 'n Jump
A text-based platformer, made for Ludum Dare 41 | Combine 2 Incompatible Genres
The Jucas
Platformer
Play in browser
Blood On The Snow
A narrative adventure game.
Maricu
Adventure
Alone Among The Stars (Game Boy port)
A Game Boy port of the journalling TTRPG
donotrunwithpixels
Role Playing
Play in browser
AWAKE Prototype
You awake alone, on a damaged and abandoned starship.
Hamish Smithers
Play in browser
Warp Cinema
You wake at the cinema. The movie is over. Your friend is missing. Déjà vu grips you tight. It's all happened before.
Cosmic Void
Adventure
Leximan - ORIGINAL CONCEPT PROTOTYPE
Throw together wild spells as you attempt to repair your broken spellbook!
MaxAmaden
Adventure
Play in browser
Children of the Flower
Defy your father and take on a God(flower)
wombok
Role Playing
Play in browser
COLD SCREAM
Survival Horror Text Adventure
1AM TRAIN
Survival
The Queen's Footsteps
A text adventure set in a steampunk Italy in 1904
Davide Bucci
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
OSTRO - A System Investigation
A system-based investigative adventure. Ludum Dare 50.
Totteri
Puzzle
Play in browser
TYPE:CAST
Cast demons back to hell with the power of speed typing.
Not Jam
Action
Play in browser
System Processing
Ov, a digital caretaker, spends their last day of work with Laðə, a curious alien.
albie
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Hamurabi
A port of the classic 1968 resource management game
Adventuron
Strategy
Play in browser
PerfectRed
Un viaje psicológico donde Rin enfrenta a su adicción a la VirtualBoy... ¿Podrá sanar?
ElCerezas
Visual Novel
Play in browser
confess
feel bad about something? confess and be punished
Dámhín (Daw-Veen)
Play in browser
There's just something about u
A literal text adventure about a conversation between u and i
GooseStranger
Platformer
Play in browser
Star Trek (1971) Text Game Remake
Remake of the 1971 BASIC Star Trek Text game in Javascript.
MakingGamesByYear
Action
Play in browser
Infestity Assessment
An analog horror experience
pan-te
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
please tell me you love me
can you admit your feelings at the end of the world?
ellis dex
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Little Red Riding Hood
Once upon a time, there was a dear little girl who was loved by everyone who looked at her...
cleaperie
Visual Novel
Play in browser
You Are a Skeleton & That Is a Problem (for Game Boy)
A point-&-click text adventure for Game Boy, typeset with my typewriter.
Nicky Flowers
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Wumpus Wump You
Proof of concept randomized text-driven undirected graph simulator
gate
Puzzle
Play in browser
GIF
The Secret Life of Probes Prologue
Story in the far reaches of space and time.
elyon
Interactive Fiction
Tristam Island - FREE DEMO
An Infocom-style adventure for retro computers
Hugo Labrande
Interactive Fiction
Dungeon of Choices
As a knight, you're in the dungeon, will you get the grail?
alias_tof
Adventure
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