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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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Amaze-84
A set of simple fun games for the Ti-84 Plus
JPed
Puzzle
Escape from the Troll's Cave
You mistakenly entered the Troll's Cave at the carnival because the admission was free. Now you need money to get out.
DrDooriddle
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Creechymon
Collect, Fight and Learn to Love Weird Monsters Called Creechy's
Jacob
Adventure
Extremely Online
A game about the Internet. Made for MiniJam #47.
ZapJackson
Strategy
Play in browser
Super Star Trek (C16 & Plus/4)
Stand-alone version of the classic terminal game
electron.greg
Simulation
Sets
Fast, frantic card game for the 16K ZX81.
Jonathan Cauldwell
Card Game
Jack
A short game of horror and humor.
Arlan Wetherminster
Interactive Fiction
EverDark - A Vile Affliction
A little text-based game where roleplay is king.
chimps-ahoy
Role Playing
IP Please
Game submission for the LÖVE Jam 2023
Maiori44
Puzzle
TOTALLY AUTHENTIC HACKER APP
Simple joke app that displays an animated console screen.
Kasper Hviid
Dema - A TØP Fan Game
Twenty One Pilots fan game
Sime Gaming Studios
Adventure
Typing fever
A game designed to provide an entertaining form of typing practice
DevRvn
Action
Navigator
Uncover the Digital Conspiracy: A Futuristic Adventure with a Text-Based Twist!
106462910
Platformer
Save Me
Save the king
SoftDev
Puzzle
The John Assessment
A high-tech interactive life simulator. Which John will you become?
Urbanyeti
Simulation
Manhattan's Fallout - PAUSED
A text-based reimagining of the original Fallout game.
Kanah Belflower
Interactive Fiction
Cubmarine
A short text-adventure about a submarine written in C (pun intended).
cigarettesandcode
Interactive Fiction
GIF
A Goblin's Pilgrimage
A text adventure about a Goblin, a Kobold, and legends
wych(witch)
Role Playing
Play in browser
SMILE
Survive The Smile
Ratman Systems
Survival
Your Buddy
A game about a guy and his dog.
etchings
Interactive Fiction
A Convict's Appointment
GuyInGrey
Visual Novel
Torcorvion I: Alikaster
A fast-paced, text-based, dungeon crawler RPG with story.
World of Torcorvion
Role Playing
Z3r0
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DevLanket
COMMAND
A short filesystem dystopia puzzle game.
Matt Higgins
Puzzle
Play in browser
RPG Quest IV
The New Modernized Text Game!
Paddle Team
CMDChat
CarsynPeters
White.Black.Blood.
Outside the pages of the book
Kalina
Alien Hunter
Use your scanner to hunt the fugitive aliens!
exzyle
Puzzle
Customer's Nightmare
Send an complaint while closing popups
RexTheCapt
Play in browser
Missile Defuser
It's 2182 and you must use your computer console to defuse the missile!
exzyle
Puzzle
Igor's Quest
Help Igor find the body parts for Frankenstein's monster.
Garry Francis
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
golf.exe
A suspicious golf game
Tidge
Sports
Realms of the Maestro
Explore a surreal multiverse in your quest to destroy its evil ruler!
SILKOTCH
Adventure
Santa's Trainee Elf
You are a trainee elf. Today is your first day on the job and Santa has some chores for you to do.
Garry Francis
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Code: Roses
Help Rose to prove her girlfriend's innocence when discovering a deadly incident.
Koro
Visual Novel
PIKR-033
An ancient computer with a puzzle game (picross, nonogram) in it
chainsawriot
Puzzle
Play in browser
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