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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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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
Realms of the Maestro
Explore a surreal multiverse in your quest to destroy its evil ruler!
SILKOTCH
Adventure
golf.exe
A suspicious golf game
Tidge
Sports
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
OofGates
A text-based adventure game
shadowfast12
Adventure
Virtual Dream
A french text-based game with choices impacting the story
Alc0l
Interactive Fiction
DRUG WARS for the Agon Light
A Game Based on the New York Drug Market
oldpatientsea
Strategy
Explorer - software version
A simple but unforgiving game of African exploration.
gamebookgenerator
Adventure
Play in browser
Kold War
NKStheDev
Simulation
THE PATH - A SHORT INTERACTIVE EXPERIENCE -
A short text based adventure with procedural elements
Leonard Menchiari
Adventure
The Ruins of Ale Shindere
A short text-based RPG with skill trees and character gearing
Anderas_Dev
Action
BrainWorks
Text-based management game, where you enter simple commands in a CMD prompt, in order to help a human survive.
MilanSpiridonov
Simulation
Play in browser
Tales of Neverburn
A text-based dungeon crawl
BaronBacon
Adventure
Protolares: The Great Closet Escape
A short puzzle game that uses a commandline for input, and videos for graphics.
Fuerdinger
Puzzle
Specter
A Console-Based Puzzle Game
CD-BASH
Puzzle
The Interactive Adventurer's Tutorial Adventure (TALP)
Cobwebbed Dragon
Adventure
Play in browser
Exit the Dungeon
TextBased, RPG.
pedro3po
Role Playing
The Insanity Game
Welcome to The Insanity Game! Will you be able to handle the hardships of life?
Zane's Wacky Games
TTOS
The overcomplicated Text Roguelike
Smokey
Role Playing
Puzzle91
Puzzle91 is inspired by the classic NUMBERS puzzle. It was designed for pupils who study English as a foreign language.
javier928
Educational
M.E.T.A (Moderately Enjoyable Text Adventure)
Small retro text adventure.
bondreal
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Carlos Simulator
A Journey of Carlos.
d3v?
Role Playing
Play in browser
SUPERTYPER
Typing game.
ric
N.S. Debugger
A console-command-based game made in Godot, for the GMTK game jam
N.S. Dawn
Role Playing
Play in browser
El Fin de la Historia
Una ficción interactiva interdimensional.
n2n
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
RetroArcade
ascii, terminal, ASCII, commandline, Windows, OSX, Linux
fastrgv
Action
Pula 3
Black Cake Studios
Action
Tower of Ravendale
MasterSolid
Role Playing
Play in browser
Void Bullet
Action Roguelike inspired by the graphics of classic dungeon crawlers
The Duck
Shooter
Escapism
A silly and short text based puzzle game
Nanoco1000
Puzzle
Truck Batch Simulator
A text-based truck driving game, made in Batch/CMD.
Futuresoft
Simulation
untitled retrowave game
Created in 3 days for ScoreSpace Jam #19 🕹️.
ivls
Rhythm
Haunting in New Shinjuku
A cyberpunk ghost story that uses an old-school text-parser.
Timotheus T.K.
Adventure
Play in browser
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