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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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Unkindness (Asylum Jam 2015)
A Horror in Shades of Red
Studio Turtledove / Andrea Reventon
Adventure
GIF
ASCII Dungeon
Text-based dungeon crawler in the vein of Ultima or Wizardry
Jack Morgan
Role Playing
Hifuu OS
Gensokyo Cyber Outlaw.
Hefan
Adventure
Dialogue 3-D
Ramsey Nasser
Shooter
Play in browser
Cyber Purge
Post-cyberpunk shooting action for ZZT
The Green Herring
Action
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
樺ヶ原脱出 - Escape from Kabagahara
You see a path to Kabagahara, will you take it?
Edouard Moinard
Interactive Fiction
GIF
Cloak of Darkness [C64]
a native implementation of the classic IF demo game
Marco Giorgini
Adventure
I Am A Game.
This is a game. There's not much more to this. This is a game.
Codebolt
Play in browser
L'île Tristam
Une aventure textuelle pour ordinateurs rétro
Hugo Labrande
Interactive Fiction
Portcullis
Zork-like retro text adventure
Robin Johnson
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Courage Collector
text-based roguelite adventure
james downey
Strategy
Assessment
Bee BraunVerified Account
The Last Sanctuary
Will you guide humanity into a new era, or doom it forever?
SjoerdHekking
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Write'n'Slash
Nervous text-based hack'n slash about a doll who dreams to write like humans...
valentin serri
The Nightland
A board & video game for Commodore
Alessio Scanderebech
Adventure
OSTRO - A System Investigation
A system-based investigative adventure. Ludum Dare 50.
Totteri
Puzzle
Play in browser
Global Thermonuclear War
A Replica of WarGames (1983)'s WOPR Simulator
alhinator
Simulation
Play in browser
The Simorgh
A text-based adventure for the Playdate
Yellow Limehouse
Adventure
Enclosure 3-D
Arctic horror adventure, now in full 3D.
mausimus
Adventure
Frantic Fanfic
A creative writing party game!
FranticFanfic
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
häx_processer
Process häxes using our state-of-the-art häx processing terminal
Tomi
Puzzle
Swapped
Old windows themed horror game.
Takeo Noname
Interactive Fiction
GIF
Second Impact [DEMO]
A bunch of 90's teenagers have to save the world in one night in this pixel art adventure. Will they make it?
Mat
Adventure
Play in browser
The Cursèd Pickle of Shireton
Evil, sealed away for Aeons, has been Released.
Hanon Ondricek
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Cargo Breach
While serving aboard a steam ship during The Great War, something goes wrong and it's up to you to work out what.
Garry Francis
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Hamurabi
A port of the classic text-based strategy video game of land and resource management
Strani Anelli
Strategy
Play in browser
Astra Protocol
Explore space in this retro inspired survival game
Slice Bar
Survival
Galactic Pocket Dating - GSD GB
A revamped classic now for handheld devices!
Sir.Daniel
Visual Novel
Play in browser
Wumpus Wump You
Proof of concept randomized text-driven undirected graph simulator
gate
Puzzle
Play in browser
GIF
Trybe
Text mode hyperminimalist 4x game.
WiL
Simulation
Play in browser
A Very Bold Character
A cute textmode platformer
Adel Faure
Adventure
Play in browser
Solarpunk Academy
A spiritual journey to where the sun sheds light on.
Nicky Du
Visual Novel
Play in browser
Low-Tech-O-Rama
A discussion on low-tech with a Commodore 64's modified AI.
Miramar
Play in browser
Dream Team
A Millennial Dream Simulator
PRINCESS INTERNET CAFé
Visual Novel
>AFFIXION
Immersive horror text adventure.
Electric
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
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