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Retro

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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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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A little text-based game where roleplay is king.
Role Playing
A short text-based dungeon crawler with a tiered talent system
Role Playing
A Game Based on the New York Drug Market
Strategy
Final project for Computer Science
Simulation
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A game about stealing a gem in order to save the world
Adventure
The Ark of the Covenant has been hidden in the local forest. You must find it and return it to your church.
Interactive Fiction
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A text-based video game about the subtle horror of the monotony of the archetypal workplace
Interactive Fiction
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Explorez le Château
Interactive Fiction
You are at a beautiful Thai beach , looking for your lost book ...
Adventure
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A short text-based RPG with skill trees and character gearing
Action
Descarga Nutca, una aventura conversacional para Spectrum y Windows
Adventure
A puzzle game hiding behind potion brewing.
Puzzle
You wake at the cinema. The movie is over. Your friend is missing. Déjà vu grips you tight. It's all happened before.
Adventure
Adventure
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Stand-alone version of the classic terminal game
Simulation
Stand-alone version of the classic terminal game
Simulation
Stand-alone version of the classic terminal game
Simulation
Your school was bequeathed by a rich philanthropist, but the whereabouts of the rest of his fortune is a mystery.
Interactive Fiction
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Stand-alone version of the classic terminal game
Simulation
On a dark and stormy night in 1983, the phone rings. “FINISH THE GAME”.
Adventure
Discover what verbs the game's system can recognize. Proof of concept text-based game written in C language.
Adventure
Stand-alone version of the classic terminal game
Simulation
A command line-controlled top-down puzzle game
Puzzle
Role Playing
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Take the quiz. Your life depends on it.
Interactive Fiction
A Batch game where you will need to survive the wastelands.
Survival
One morning, when P. woke from peaceful dreams, he found himself in his bed – still his old self.
Interactive Fiction
Eine unruhige Nacht nach dem ersten Umzugstag mit Schlafstörungen und Querschüssen
Interactive Fiction
How well do you know Kjell?
Interactive Fiction
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Short Text Horror Game
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write dumb news together!
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