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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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Grow a civilization, Build a Pyramid
Simulation
Take a road trip through a valley.
Buying condoms is awkward. This games reminds you of that.
Role Playing
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send messages, receive messages, play messages
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Platformer
A murder is committed in a secluded mansion, and it's up to you to solve it.
Visual Novel
A short conversation about a relationship
Visual Novel
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A nostalgic horror adventure game, inside another horror game, inside a tv show, inside a game.
Adventure
All Hail The Spider God is an eerie interactive fiction adventure about You, and all the Yous you've left behind.
Interactive Fiction
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An intergalactic Interactive Fable
Adventure
A moody textual stategy game about political tensions.​
Strategy
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Webpages can run, but they cannot hide from... THE DETECTIVE!
Adventure
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Every day, for the rest of your life.
Adventure
alien civilization extinction simulator
Play in browser
Mysterious command line tools
Puzzle
A BL Visual-novel featuring kidnapping and characters of doubtful morality. (English and Italian)
Visual Novel
A short and light-hearted VN + art assets
Visual Novel
A short Twine game about understanding.
Play in browser
Free form text exploration
A dark visual-novel about friendship + art assets
Visual Novel
A short interactive story in which you are a 911 dispatcher. Lives depend on your choices.
Simulation
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Lovecraftian first person point and click adventure
Adventure
You could have sworn someone else was here.
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You've tried the rest, now try the worst - DEMON DATE
A queer and spooky twine game. You're a bi bookshop worker trying to find your girlfriend - where is she?
Adventure
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Enter a world very much like our own, in the sense that there are bats in it.
A Twine game of reassurance and reminders for those lost in themselves
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Nonsense happens all the time and all is well.
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a self-help tool, to help people who suffer anxiety attacks
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A point-and-click world tour through postcard representations of women.
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You've entered a bar and you're looking for love. What will you find?
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What do you think happened? A short telescopic text mystery, playing with out-of-the-box storytelling mechanics.
Role Playing
A Short, Replayable Text-Based RPG
Puzzle
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Hitchhike. See what I saw.
Interactive Fiction
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Interactive Fiction
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A voice and text driven horror experience.
Visual Novel
No matter what you do, keep calm...
Interactive Fiction
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