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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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Absence of Law
A text adventure with a twist.
mathbrush
Adventure
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Space Quest
thomas wolfing
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My Secret Life
A tiny adventure inside an old cryptic computer. Explore a virtual world filled with secrets ready to be uncovered.
Lucky Pixel
Adventure
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Survivalist
DOS-inspired Island Survival
Rasmus Rasmussen
Role Playing
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Cloak of Darkness
A simple demonstration of Interactive Fiction.
Oreolek
Adventure
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The Detail
Earn the trust of a team of marines on a far-off planet
Lakupo
Adventure
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Bulls & Cows
4-digits puzzle game
fliar
Puzzle
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Lost in the Jungle
Silly little adventure game for the ZX Spectrum
No Time To Play
Adventure
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LAND/LORD
Trivial strategy game for the ZX Spectrum
No Time To Play
Strategy
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No Minor Task: Party of a Lifetime
Can you invite 200 classmates and host the party of a lifetime? #LD38
Xavier EkkelVerified Account
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Haunting in New Shinjuku
A cyberpunk ghost story that uses an old-school text-parser.
Timotheus T.K.
Adventure
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SixSixSixFlags
Escape the dark carnival in this story-driven text-based adventure!
bencodrington
Adventure
In The Trees
A text-based speculative horror game
Caspian Depression Games
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Egress
Finally, you are perfect...
Aleks Samoylov
Puzzle
Play in browser
Love, Thy Neighbor
Text adventure about growing up queer in small town America
Klew
Adventure
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Dialogue 3-D
Ramsey Nasser
Shooter
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The Gate
Many have tried. As many have failed. You must discover the secrets of THE GATE, and destroy it.
ThirtyThree
Play in browser
GIF
ASCII Pong
a classic PONG game in your command prompt!
boldpeddler
Sports
Protocol 7
Connection Established...
Questionable Quality
Puzzle
Getting Things Done, or The Labyrinth of Doctor Bernstein
A Premier Hypertext Adventure Experience!
Aleks Samoylov
Adventure
Journey To The Otherside
You set out on a journey to find something but, oh no, there's some obstacles on the path.
single_image
Visual Novel
GIF
ASCII Dungeon
Text-based dungeon crawler in the vein of Ultima or Wizardry
Jack Morgan
Role Playing
Escapism
A silly and short text based puzzle game
Nanoco1000
Puzzle
Main Course - Director's Cut
This time, *you're* the Alien! Play as a captured SoMorph, trying to get home...
Quantum Sheep
Adventure
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1 Billion Floors
Arduino skycraper clicker
wampapup
Simulation
The Terror Of Matthew
VictorBurgos
Adventure
Pyramid Builder
Grow a civilization, Build a Pyramid
standardcombo
Simulation
The House Abandon - Now part of 'Stories Untold'!
A nostalgic horror adventure game, inside another horror game, inside a tv show, inside a game.
jonNoCode
Adventure
Five Days
Text-based console village building game!
DUDSS
Strategy
Ancient Archives 2116
LD36 Game Jam
gpu
Play in browser
X Robots
Robots close in and all you have is a screwdriver!
TedD
Strategy
Mastering Tedium
a laundry simulator
Juno AM
Simulation
confess
feel bad about something? confess and be punished
Dámhín (Daw-Veen)
Play in browser
Unkindness (Asylum Jam 2015)
A Horror in Shades of Red
Studio Turtledove / Andrea Reventon
Adventure
THE PATH - A SHORT INTERACTIVE EXPERIENCE -
A short text based adventure with procedural elements
Leonard Menchiari
Adventure
Goblin Harvest - The Mighty Quest
A Strategy RPG set in a fantasy kingdom
Subjunctive Software
Role Playing
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