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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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Whetlands
A post apocalyptic, survival strategy text based game
coe
Your Merman Boyfriend
Meet your merman boyfriend.
Ntagonistic
Simulation
Play in browser
It's About Ethics In Journalism
Save journalism from the scourge of fake news!
KillToLive
Simulation
Play in browser
Road Trip Algonquin 2018
Experience a Life-Changing Roadtrip to Algonquin
adjectiveobject
Heroes of Martinburg
#textadventure #consolegame
junacik99
Adventure
The Desert Breathes.
no one returns from the desert. but it's your best chance.
costlyblood // piratescarfy
Play in browser
POM SIMULATOR 9000
weary, transformation, dog, burger, comfort
d Marie
Simulation
Le Bus vers nulle part
Courte scène interactive textuelle et politique
JesseAidyn
Play in browser
Ariadne in Aeaea
Play as the young priestess Ariadne and uncover a spy plot in ancient Greece.
Victor Ojuel
Adventure
Snake: In Fake Text Mode
The classic snake game done in a fake text mode.
Uhfgood
Action
Play in browser
A Halo, Flaring
a widow is contacted by an AI version of their partner
audo
Play in browser
GIF
Petty Puny Planet
Why have a pet rock when you can have a pet planet? Micromanage this cosmic rock to places never thought possible!
Whales And Games 🐳
Simulation
Play in browser
The Storks Are Crying
Unknown Developer
Role Playing
The World is (A) flat [Ludum Dare 38]
Textadventure – The World continents as rooms.
Jordgubben
Adventure
Play in browser
Ano What? Why Bakit??
A Really Short and Simple FREE Otome Game
zish.p
Visual Novel
No Minor Task: Party of a Lifetime
Can you invite 200 classmates and host the party of a lifetime? #LD38
Xavier EkkelVerified Account
Play in browser
Cashbags
(2017)
Sand Gardeners
Simulation
Play in browser
Broken
See how a group of young adults in a time of despair learn to survive in a world of disease.
Cyprus Developer
Adventure
Super Arena RPG
RPG
CaptainDJ
Role Playing
Let's talk about 'binaural beats'!
an interactive edu-tainment game
Simon Hutchinson
Educational
Find Burdock
A Magic Realism Quest
valin
Adventure
Play in browser
Keep Breathing
Anxiety on a spaceship
hmillerbakewell
Puzzle
Play in browser
Total War
Russia, Canada, USA Pick a side. Use Nukes, Airstrikes, Missiles or Surrender.
Cyprus Developer
Action
50ft by 50ft (or How I Died In Space)
RockhopperGames
Play in browser
Burgloiree
A text adventure created solo from scratch in 72 hours for Ludum Dare 38.
PressureSpike
Adventure
Haunting in New Shinjuku
A cyberpunk ghost story that uses an old-school text-parser.
Timotheus T.K.
Adventure
Play in browser
Space Pow Collins
THE CREED
Adventure
Dark Days
Benjamin Lockwood
Survival
The Story of Your Life
Write the story of you life through an interactive book
kimsey0
Adventure
Control
An exploration of negative space
NDcisive Games
Puzzle
SixSixSixFlags
Escape the dark carnival in this story-driven text-based adventure!
bencodrington
Adventure
A Life Fully Lived
What would you do if you could start it all over?
Nenekiri
Visual Novel
Gone Home Demake (VOS)
Text Adventure demake of Gone Home
Jason Alan Dewey
In The Trees
A text-based speculative horror game
Caspian Depression Games
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Myota
Make your own Text Adventure
Keiga
Role Playing
Block Breaker (a copy of breakout)
the first game I made
Luke_L316 Games
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