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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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The Giant Robot Blues
Escaping Giant Robot Suits and Mass Media
Alexandra Higgins
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Winter's Heart
A heartwarming story of the solstice and an exploration of what waits for us in the cold dark
13 Owls
Adventure
Play in browser
The Ritual
the_red_arty_soul
Role Playing
The Optimistic Wander
Viki
The Detail
Earn the trust of a team of marines on a far-off planet
Lakupo
Adventure
Play in browser
Snake: In Fake Text Mode
The classic snake game done in a fake text mode.
Uhfgood
Action
Play in browser
GIF
Vanguard
Save yourself from the carnage of battlefield
psiquedelicous
Adventure
Play in browser
Fake Text Mode : Hangman
The classic game of hangman done in glorious text mode!
Uhfgood
Play in browser
50ft by 50ft (or How I Died In Space)
RockhopperGames
Play in browser
Rituals
An exercise in control
SeruK
Play in browser
The Propagation of Bug
A game made for Kenney Jam 2017.
m3rcurial92
Adventure
YOUR ONLY VERB IS KILL
YOVK is an experimental satire game about inter-generational spite, grammar interpretation, and killing
DensetsuNoGomez
Play in browser
Doing it for her.
A story about a selfish adventurer.
Baileyfit
Role Playing
Play in browser
Skjóldr Bálkr
Text Based Adventure Viking style game
DispelGamesInc
Adventure
Play in browser
Pre
Pre is a text based rpg that puts you in the place of a 112 years old student
adriannovell
Play in browser
Viva la Revolution
SneakBug8
Role Playing
Play in browser
Language Barrier
An interactive text-based adventure about taking chances.
SpacialPumpkin Studios
Adventure
Play in browser
OFFICE
The Pamps Games
Adventure
Play in browser
Larry's Game
Come along on a Fun/Stupid Adventure
Kyle Gordon
Adventure
Nómadas
Diego Vélez llega a la colonia de Epicuren tras recibir una llamada de auxilio.
baltasarq
Adventure
Play in browser
The Experiment
A text adventure game made in twine 2.
P_Tipp
Role Playing
Play in browser
Cygnus Falling
A very brief text based adventure.
CurioCode
Play in browser
Up Past Bedtime (A Unity Development Adventure)
A text adventure about learning to develop Unity games, late into the night.
Bad Puns Productions
Adventure
Play in browser
GDS220 - The Tale of Kaje and Mass
A short TWINE story for GDS220 17T1
bort
Adventure
Play in browser
Babel
kipslife
Play in browser
T-Shirt Blanket
a game about old t-shirts and old memories
OffworldHometown
Role Playing
Play in browser
View From The Window
leave the city far behind
ja, bo ja
Play in browser
SUMMON
A Twine toy about a desperate last attempt
Tubatic
Role Playing
Play in browser
NOMIRACLE
Consult the Nomi Oracle!
Lorenzo Pilia
Play in browser
Nowhere, no One
A Philosophical journey to emancipate your mind
pszambon
Play in browser
Rose Blossom
Can you get the rose blossoms to grow again?
noellaovid
Play in browser
Waking Early for Christmas
A young child wakes early for Christmas
cramgames
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
PYOGON
Art Game/Game interface
ColettePgm
Mystiks
A day in the life of a Mystiks user where your choices greatly influence the story's outcome.
Synzer
Play in browser
The very last minute
Oh no...Where did I leave it?
S_lynch
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Death Cycle: The Monks of Outlook Abbey
A text adventure where death is not the end.
Heikerana
Adventure
Play in browser
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