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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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What is it to be holy? What is it to be human?
Interactive Fiction
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A spooky short story/adventure game for the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64 and Plus/4, Amstrad CPC, and modern web browsers
Adventure
Text based adventure game, based on the Journey to the West.
Visual Novel
Create your own branching narratives and play them too!
Visual Novel
It's hard to get passed writers block, especially when life keeps pulling you over.
Visual Novel
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Interactive Fiction
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An oldschool point and click adventure; made in PowerPoint!
Adventure
Travel to the underworld armed only with your wits and the determination to bring someone out alive.
Interactive Fiction
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Interactive Fiction
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Interactive Fiction
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A text-based adventure game about a wizard going on a small adventure.
Adventure
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Goblins seeking Refuge
Adventure
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A text-based adventure game about stealing chicken.
Role Playing
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Interactive Fiction
It's a message generator started all the way back in 2017
Short text game for the C64
Interactive Fiction
A text-based detective game set in a fantasy setting.
Interactive Fiction
A short adventure about a duck playing Dice & Ducks, D&D for short :P
Adventure
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A Christmas Text Adventure!
Interactive Fiction
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A top down bullet hell game made only with text!
Action
A dungeon text adventure that comes with instructions
Adventure
Bored dragons decide to leave their dungeon.
Adventure
A text only strategy / adventure game about a questionable King seeking to put his kingdom back in order.
Strategy
Computer brain
Strategy
It's a beautiful day in the office, and you are a horrible goose.
Interactive Fiction
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A short text adventure/visual novel following an interviewer and a CEO cowboy
Visual Novel
Made With Visual Studio 2006
Educational
a gothic mystery
Interactive Fiction
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Adventure
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On a campus under siege by riot police you count down to the end...
Interactive Fiction
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A simple text game made in Unity where you must hack into several locations.
Puzzle
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