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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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Dungeon Combat
a very simple text based RPG
RockFactGames
Role Playing
Hamurabi
A port of the classic text-based strategy video game of land and resource management
Strani Anelli
Strategy
Play in browser
Labyrinth of the Sorcerer King
A short Twine text adventure in the style of 1980s dungeon crawlers.
Brandon Vout
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Write'n'Slash
Nervous text-based hack'n slash about a doll who dreams to write like humans...
valentin serri
Porter Cave Adventure
text adventure about history and game design
rowan
Educational
Play in browser
GIF
This Way The Briggle Comes!
Can survive a hostile planet and make your way back home?
From The Chasm
Adventure
Play in browser
Hamurabi
A port of the classic 1968 resource management game
Adventuron
Strategy
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The Glass Pool of Berrandas
Can you reach the Pool and find what lies beneath its murky depths?
From The Chasm
Adventure
Play in browser
Apollo
A super-hard classic style text-based sci-fi game!
Pip
Survival
Circus School
Text adventure built in C++
DavidHarper
Adventure
Classic Rogue - Oryx Design Lab Tiles
A new version of classic Rogue, updated using Ultimate Roguelike Tileset
oryxdesignlab
Wizard of bOz
Small Text Adventure where you fight as a wizard through the different layers of earth to save humanity.
Peanut Studios
Adventure
Play in browser
Bufanda
A Tale of Three Ghosts
Super Walrus Games
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Terminal Sickness
Post-pandemic story driven text adventure.
Turnaround Games
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Escape the Keyboard
A text adventure, now with 100% less typing!
TPHRyan
Adventure
Play in browser
Somber: Card Game
Somber: Rogue is a card game where you battle your way through a dungeon maze seeking the exit.
Eduardo Francio
Card Game
Play in browser
RPG Quest IV
The New Modernized Text Game!
Paddle Team
ASCIIVenture
-All the visuals are just text. Unfinished. The old Pokemon games served as inspiration.
FMProductions
Adventure
Play in browser
GIF
A Goblin's Pilgrimage
A text adventure about a Goblin, a Kobold, and legends
wych(witch)
Role Playing
Play in browser
häx_processer
Process häxes using our state-of-the-art häx processing terminal
Tomi
Puzzle
Specter
A Console-Based Puzzle Game
CD-BASH
Puzzle
Trawel
An old school open world text-adventure rpg where you fight to gain better equipment in a fantasy setting.
realDragon
Role Playing
The Rat Pack (MAGS version)
Manage your own rat colony - admit it, it's what you've always wanted to do!
CaptainD
Strategy
Derpy & The Hunting of the super tasty Muffin (of Awesomeness)
A totally crazy and colorful graphic textadventure with retro music, sounds and a lot of derpiness.
Pony Dream Studios
Adventure
GIF
Type 'n Jump
A text-based platformer, made for Ludum Dare 41 | Combine 2 Incompatible Genres
The Jucas
Platformer
Play in browser
The Waiting Room
This game has more than 24 hours of gameplay. We mixed a text adventure with an idler. You just have to wait! ⏳
Matías Paredes
Text Tower Defense
It's sort of text based
EarthenSky
Strategy
Play in browser
Tip Of The Tongue (class project)
Remember where you were, and what you were doing.
nickonmir
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Campfire: Choose Your Own Adventure
Rucksack Club encourages all ourdoor activities. But be warned, it’s not safe to go out into the woods alone...
LostAstronaut
Escape from RosSpell
A text adventure platformer about an Alien trying to learn and get home
theagedmen
Platformer
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AWAKE Prototype
You awake alone, on a damaged and abandoned starship.
Hamish Smithers
Play in browser
GIF
Ace Baker
A cyberpunk cake-baking game about an asexual couple... in the future!
*AAmici
Puzzle
Play in browser
The Test of Virtue
Discover which of the Virtues of Ultima VI shall best guide thee upon the path of the Avatar
13 Owls
Play in browser
TOTALLY AUTHENTIC HACKER APP
Simple joke app that displays an animated console screen.
Kasper Hviid
Color the Truth
A conversational murder mystery in text adventure form.
mathbrush
Adventure
Play in browser
GIF
Liberty Day 2217
A minimalist text adventure inspired by the game HELLDIVERS.
kmazurek
Adventure
Play in browser
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