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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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say goodbye before you go
Interactive Fiction
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Dynamic text world | Alternate history intrigue
Interactive Fiction
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Modern ASCII roguelike - Can your mercenary beat the dungeon ?
Role Playing
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An interactive story about a girl who joins a beauty pageant to improve her college applications.
Interactive Fiction
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calamity occult-horror rpg
Role Playing
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A new version of classic Rogue, updated using Ultimate Roguelike Tileset
A historic gay romance set in Medieval Baghdad
Interactive Fiction
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a game about trauma, triggers, and self-compassion
Simulation
You awake alone, on a damaged and abandoned starship.
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Track down a wild beast on the moors of England in this remaster of the classic ZX Spectrum text-adventure.
Interactive Fiction
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A bisexual high school ghost hunting romance
Interactive Fiction
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This is a Klance Texting Game!
Interactive Fiction
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A game about unrequited love.
Interactive Fiction
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this is not a text editor
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Episode One - The Montebello Dance and Dump Ball
Visual Novel
a text based game. will likely take 5-10 minutes to play.
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The world's less scary when you're a monster.
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A visual novel typing game where you must sacrifice your keyboard letters​.
Visual Novel
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Is this not what you wanted?
Interactive Fiction
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20th anniversary of classic horror game Anchorhead. 84 authors. One ridiculous tribute.
Interactive Fiction
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A procedural sandbox text-adventure
Interactive Fiction
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A text-based platformer, made for Ludum Dare 41 | Combine 2 Incompatible Genres
Platformer
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- A non conventional romance game. -
Visual Novel
A summer camp bird fighting text adventure
Interactive Fiction
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A text-based adventure game that puts you in the boots of a lone cowpoke bent on revenge.
Interactive Fiction
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forget who you are
Interactive Fiction
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Finnish midsummer gender magic.
Interactive Fiction
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a narrative journey through remembering, witnessing, and trauma
Interactive Fiction
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When a star dies, time collaspes.
Interactive Fiction
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Yet another text-based roguelike game.
Adventure
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wake up. check the logs. talk to your computer. die. repeat. try to escape.
Interactive Fiction
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(2018)
Interactive Fiction
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A cyberpunk cake-baking game about an asexual couple... in the future!
Puzzle
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Loved one involved in a serious head injury? Call Lobotomy and You to get them up and running like new again!
Adventure
Will your devotion reach them? Does it matter?
Interactive Fiction
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