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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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Rastros
A veces, limpiar el jardín de alimañas puede ser peligroso
Incanus
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
A VR Game About Magic, and Ducks in Cosplay
Draw sigils and cast spells in VR to help some cosplaying ducks have a summer festival!
request
Adventure
Obreno: Chapter 1
A sci-fi interactive visual novel
Out Of Time
Visual Novel
GIF
Left on Read
It’s March of 2020, you were just sent home from university because of the coronavirus, you have some small regrets.
Weston Bell-Geddes
Interactive Fiction
Copérnico 86
Una aventura conversacional sci-fi
Xavier Carrascosa
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Food Crisis
An original story set in a post-apocalyptic world of isolation, disease, and decay.
Stormy
Adventure
GIF
Left on Read (DEMO)
It’s March of 2020, you were just sent home from university because of the coronavirus, you have some small regrets.
Weston Bell-Geddes
Interactive Fiction
Alvion's Imperator
Multiple choice textual-narrative game in a medieval fantasy world.
LightFromVoid
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Hackatron
Sato
Adventure
Igor's Quest
Help Igor find the body parts for Frankenstein's monster.
Garry Francis
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Psychic Youth
A fantasy visual novel with Action RPG battles
MechScapeZH
Visual Novel
MANKIND
Sam, une jeune biologiste...
swiart
Interactive Fiction
Afterlife
An oldschool point and click adventure; made in PowerPoint!
Logham
Adventure
The Xylophoniad
Greek mythology text adventure
Robin Johnson
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Portcullis
Zork-like retro text adventure
Robin Johnson
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Zeppelin Adventure
Sci-fi puzzly clickable text adventure
Robin Johnson
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Draculaland
Comic horror clickable text adventure
Robin Johnson
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Aunts and Butlers
Wodehouse-esque text adventure
Robin Johnson
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Superlunary Episode 1.0
A slow, queer, post-war space opera
communistsister
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
ineffable escape
when in a place of infinite Darkness, do not drift apart
smolalienbee
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
aufDerEisi
german text game about gentrification, collective projects/commons and young urban lifestyles
liebe
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Hiragana Now
Learn hiragana and katakana fast with this dynamic-difficulty minigame.
Cheesey Bob
Educational
Ovine Replica (2019 Demo Ver.)
The humble beginnings of a grand saga.
Amorous Ursidae
Visual Novel
Ailihphilia
A wordplay text adventure written in Inform 7. You may guess its focus.
Andrew Schultz
Adventure
Play in browser
Hybrid
These people aren't like you.
HeartForge
Role Playing
Play in browser
ESCAPE
You're locked in a deserted amusement park, but the walls trapping you and your friends inside aren't just physical....
Cass Aleatory
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
nox caelo
A short text adventure/visual novel style game created by Evangeline Papanicola. Can you save Luna?
EVANGELINE PAPANICOLA
Visual Novel
Play in browser
Seaside
A free, surreal text adventure.
jynell
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Games Without Frontiers 2(Original Japanese Edition)
Gutterfly Farm
Role Playing
Silent Witch: The Rod of Withering
Scott Dutton
Adventure
Play in browser
Retorno: De cara al recuerdo
(ES)Regresas a tu hogar solo con una fotografía de extraños en tu bolsillo ¿Cuanto cuesta recuperar el pasado?
Borza
Interactive Fiction
Sekishu no Koe (Text-Only Prototype)
What is the sound of one hand clapping?
SamHunny
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Daedalus' Obelisk ZZT
Action / adventure / platformer / yay!
emmzee
Adventure
Play in browser
Feign Well
What's worse than falling down a well?
storielgames
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Path of Adventure
A text-based roguelike, for mobile
Alinea Games
Role Playing
Play in browser
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smolalienbee
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
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