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Featuring aesthetics, gameplay, or themes reminiscent of classic video games. Often characterized by pixel art, chiptune music, or mechanics popularized in earlier gaming eras.

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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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Alien in Vision
A short interactive story about an Alien Encounter
Mikay
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The House That Whispers
A parser interactive fiction, finding out why you are in the house
ronynn
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Error - A Text-Based Puzzling Adventure
All that's left is a computer but answers won't come that easy.
DinosourKisses
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Murph's
A Severance inspired roguelike where you must learn how to escape the mysterious company you work for.
eef
Puzzle
Play in browser
Extraction
Command a crew of explorers across an alien world
Matt Ravenhall
Strategy
Play in browser
Never Second in Rome
Never Second in Rome is a turn-based historical game with RPG and management elements.
NuclearShrimpi
Simulation
Split The Party.
Love horror? Hate parties? Welcome...
alexnobodyfamous
Adventure
Play in browser
Battleborn (WEX Project Unfinished)
WEX - Battleborn
JWNextGen
Strategy
BaristaCLI
A command-line-interface coffee brewing experience
Artmole
Simulation
//Project-WINTER
a web based simulation game about an ancient ai buried under the ice
mcjdh
Simulation
Play in browser
Male manipulator enjoyer
javier superstar
Visual Novel
Airline Boss 2 (BBC Micro/Acorn Electron)
Text based business strategy game
electron.greg
Strategy
Fortaleza
The Fortaleza: Inside The Beast' guts
YeGA
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Pharaos Grab C64 (german)
An old C64 text adventure revived
Kakisha
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Sentient Combat Mechanic
Play as a sentient combat mechanic.
L✦liFE
Strategy
Play in browser
Rouletta
Would you like to play some Russian Roulette?
MissingWilliam
Strategy
ECHOES OF ATLANTIS
An epic forbidden-archeology graphic-adventure in Six Chapters, for the ZX Spectrum.
ICreateworlds
Adventure
Brainfuck Challenge DEMO
LyricSeraph
Puzzle
Play in browser
Cave.EXE
Quirky text-based horror adventure.
Wild Jerboa
Adventure
Play in browser
Cry of the damned
simple rpg made in a single night, please enjoy
Keyboard Mage
Role Playing
msngr v2
retro style choose your own story game - short and intimate with adaptive music
Tiboe
Interactive Fiction
How Am I Still Waiting For The Bus?
It might take a while....
The Grumpy GameDev
Survival
Play in browser
Words of nostalgia
Very short evocative game about nostalgia
jsmonzani
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Grim Notebook
The Grim Reaper lost his notebook
icecraig
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
But the Clock is Ticking
A short cutscene about a Hero's moment of calm crossing a volcano.
Kobato Games
Simulation
Play in browser
Ruby Dungeon (demo)
A roguelike dungeon crawler with authentic ASCII graphics
Bruoche
Role Playing
Space 1999 : INVASION
A GAC adventure set on Moon Base Alpha
ICreateworlds
Adventure
Stand Elsewhere
Oregon Trail-themed interactive fiction based on Stand By Me
postgoodism
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Cloak and Danger
A multi-genre game about a girl who can transform into a rat
creative-penguin
Role Playing
Play in browser
Vermis - Fan Game
text based fan game based off the artist Plastiboo's art book.
Adam Duehring
Adventure
Play in browser
The System Explorer
Explore the system, and uncover the tale of a companies misdeeds...
beneggy
text game thing
a little text adventure test i did
ozlo_fox
Goldgräber
Die Suche nach Reichtum in einem irrwitzigen Textadventure
Vanterra Arts
Adventure
Gold Miner
The Quest for Riches in a Humorous Text Adventure
Vanterra Arts
Adventure
The Curious Four go to Black Devil Reef
A Gruescript adventure combining Lovecraft with The Famous Five.
cpdesign
Adventure
Play in browser
New New Brunswick Fire & Life Insurance Investigations
A retro-text adventure set in a noir(ish) setting.
yeetcrab
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
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