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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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Cave.EXE
Quirky text-based horror adventure.
Wild Jerboa
Adventure
Play in browser
Cry of the damned
simple rpg made in a single night, please enjoy
Keyboard Mage
Role Playing
Roots of Harmony
$4
Text-based 4X with a focus on turf war and resource management.
Guillaume Beaumel
Strategy
msngr v2
retro style choose your own story game - short and intimate with adaptive music
Tiboe
Interactive Fiction
How Am I Still Waiting For The Bus?
It might take a while....
The Grumpy GameDev
Survival
Play in browser
Words of nostalgia
Very short evocative game about nostalgia
jsmonzani
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Grim Notebook
The Grim Reaper lost his notebook
icecraig
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
But the Clock is Ticking
A short cutscene about a Hero's moment of calm crossing a volcano.
Kobato Games
Simulation
Play in browser
Ruby Dungeon (demo)
A roguelike dungeon crawler with authentic ASCII graphics
Bruoche
Role Playing
Space 1999 : INVASION
A GAC adventure set on Moon Base Alpha
ICreateworlds
Adventure
website simulator
Text based website simulator. Expand and dominate the online world!!!
Jim's Python Club
Simulation
Stand Elsewhere
Oregon Trail-themed interactive fiction based on Stand By Me
postgoodism
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Cloak and Danger
A multi-genre game about a girl who can transform into a rat
creative-penguin
Role Playing
Play in browser
The Protocol Directive
1.49€
In The Protocol Directive, a dark room and deadly choices await. Uncover secrets, solve dilemmas, and escape alive.
CryneX
Vermis - Fan Game
text based fan game based off the artist Plastiboo's art book.
Adam Duehring
Adventure
Play in browser
Others
A text based game about your inner dialogue
SicoSiber
Adventure
text game thing
a little text adventure test i did
ozlo_fox
The System Explorer
Explore the system, and uncover the tale of a companies misdeeds...
beneggy
Goldgräber
Die Suche nach Reichtum in einem irrwitzigen Textadventure
Vanterra Arts
Adventure
Gold Miner
The Quest for Riches in a Humorous Text Adventure
Vanterra Arts
Adventure
The Curious Four go to Black Devil Reef
A Gruescript adventure combining Lovecraft with The Famous Five.
cpdesign
Adventure
Play in browser
EVE project
You found an old EVE Tech computer, abandoned after the company couldn't control what it created. 7 minutes... or not?
Cow_a_banga
Puzzle
Play in browser
A Dragon and the Tower
A Tiny Text Adventure Game
Khaelenmore Thaal
Interactive Fiction
Kingdom of the Seven Stones
$1
R Raymond
Interactive Fiction
DracOS™
©1993 GâtSoft, inc. LON, UK
J. Isaac Gadient
Visual Novel
Play in browser
Mistworld
Weird fantasy text adventure RPG
GagaGievous
Interactive Fiction
At the Strike of 12 (by Raiden)
An Ecto-Noir game draft
One Boat Crew
Adventure
Play in browser
Juegos Spectrum de los 80
Juegos que hice de preadolescente
Javi Prieto @ GeeseBumps
White.Black.Blood.
Outside the pages of the book
Kalina
MemoryScape
A journey through memories
Rinko0515
Adventure
Stranded
Survive the unknown, make every choice count – stranded on a hostile alien world.
Forgotten
Survival
Play in browser
Lost World🌍
a game about sailing to new lands and restoring the world🌊
mcjdh
Role Playing
Welcome to the Universe
We're all just dots on a screen.
Colton Olds
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Astra Protocol 2
$6.99
A Cassette Futuristic Space Adventure
Slice Bar
Simulation
🔍Memory Abyss🌌
navigate the procedurally generated Abyss and collect memories📜
mcjdh
Role Playing
Noclip Echoes
a game about noclipping through walls and finding pages
mcjdh
Survival
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