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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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Marked by complete magical immunity, Wayfarers wander the world, fighting magic. Where will your fate lead you?
Interactive Fiction
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Dark Fantasy + Romance Interactive Fiction
Interactive Fiction
10 students find themselves trapped in a luxurious mansion...
Visual Novel
a choose-your-own-adventure heartbreak in the shape of a quiz
Interactive Fiction
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Play as King Arthur Pendragon's spouse and forge Camelot's history.
Interactive Fiction
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A dystopian urban fantasy interactive fiction game
Interactive Fiction
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A dark fantasy novel.
Visual Novel
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Play as the knight responsible for protecting the crown of the tiny kingdom of Tabalos.
Interactive Fiction
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The world is ending, and you are still paying rent. A future history.
Interactive Fiction
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Survive as an immortal cultivator in a text-based life-simulation RPG set in Chinese Cultivation Fantasy world.
Role Playing
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Learn the truth and unleash your potential.
Interactive Fiction
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Solve a case with your time-travelling kid self
Interactive Fiction
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Those we love are never truly gone.
Visual Novel
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Spam has never been so deadly.
Visual Novel
A short story told through boating and lost letters
Adventure
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Could you fall for a sinner?
Interactive Fiction
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Gather craft survive #49/1922 LDJam50
Survival
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An open world deckbuilder adventure game for ZZT.
Card Game
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Navigate your past, present and future while figuring out relationships, and dealing with some spirits.
Interactive Fiction
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Story-driven simulator of the Dark Lord/Lady. Use your armies, cunning and magic to conquer Free Peoples.
Strategy
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Understand your past. Decide your future. -- An urban fantasy narrative about life after death, in more ways than one.
Interactive Fiction
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The envelope is just the beginning. Burn it. Destroy it. Don't play his game. When you see him, it鈥檚 already too late.
Survival
A narrative adventure game.
Adventure
A point-&-click text adventure for Game Boy, typeset with my typewriter.
Interactive Fiction
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A confession goes wrong in multiple ways and days!
Visual Novel
a retrospective chatbot
Interactive Fiction
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A Game Boy port of the journalling TTRPG
Role Playing
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Social anxiety simulator/dating sim
Interactive Fiction
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Interactive Fiction
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A game about being a teen in the early 2010s.
Interactive Fiction
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Arctic horror adventure, now in full 3D.
Adventure
A pit-fighting game for the famous 5th edition fantasy tabletop RPG.
Role Playing
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A Danganronpa Fangame: A game of reflection, our guests facing the truth of themselves.
Visual Novel
saving the world cost the briarheart their life - it was supposed to also claim your own. but you failed. why?
Interactive Fiction
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What does your gender look like?
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A WIP interactive fiction. Succeed your mission, find romance or die trying
Interactive Fiction
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