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Altgame

A movement in alternative games

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Text based

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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i think about you all the time
listing all the time I think about you
Zhanko
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Every Word is a Drawing
one person writing roleplay
kirbs
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
LABYRINTH
The hybrid son of House of Leaves, Facebook and a MUD (Multi User Dungeon). Enter at your owk risk.
Maenon
Bottom Chef
Cooking game but your life is a mess
Nardo23
Puzzle
Play in browser
the dark is a soft, warm pressure.
isitjustmeinhere?
MARED JURPHY
Adventure
Tails Goes To The Liquor Store To Get A Cheeseburger
The lovable fox goes on an adventure for a cheeseburger
The Egg Muncher
Platformer
GIF
The Loyal Doom - A PowerPoint Game
A short-words mysterious narrative played on powerpoint
Dev Vand™
Visual Novel
Kill Monsters, Escape the Room
A text-based game with millions of options
Rafiki
Play in browser
jam18
nonlinear poetry
acgaudette
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Saint Simon's Saw
A tarot-like fortune telling deck.
Framelord
Card Game
A Tango Story
A short game about dancing tango
properlygames
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Zenosyne
Write your eulogy
Ezra Szanton
Play in browser
Augusta (Or Georgia)
A robot and a plant go on a dessert date
Charles H. Huang
Visual Novel
Play in browser
What is a video game?
12 small 'games' about breaking the boundary of what a game is
Rosden Shadow
Empty Halls//Don't Laugh
A hypertext essay about Persona 3 and some other things
After Icarus
Play in browser
c i r c u i t s
a narrative journey through remembering, witnessing, and trauma
eileen mary
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Confessions of an NPC
Interview NPCs from a world not unlike our own...
Charles H. Huang
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Quack Exchange
A text-based adventure based on the humor and perils of rubber duck debugging.
mircat
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
DRMS-01
First part in a series about dreams
thatguynm
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
purpose
clicky thing
eli fessler
GIF
Cybernetic Ghost Symphony
A game about contact for the 2015 Loading Screen Jam
Jillian Maywhether
Play A Hot Number
2015 // A Poem Generator
Lawra Suits Clark
Play in browser
Ten Good Dollars
Ten Good Dollars is a game about salary negotiation.
DensetsuNoGomez
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
paperplastic
secrets & grocery stores
eli fessler
Play in browser
rain
twine game/story about the experience of rain
eli fessler
Play in browser
The Living Room: A Friendship Tale
Interactive Fiction about my friend's fantasy to kick me out of our apartment.
tbeeman
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
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