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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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Experimental text adventure (originally designed for LD37)
Adventure
Experimental flatgame for Flatgame 2016 game jam.
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Stubby and simple choice-based text-based immersive sim
Role Playing
Your #1 solution for creating lies!
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you are in a barren wasteland. you do not remember how you got here.
Role Playing
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You set out on a journey to find something but, oh no, there's some obstacles on the path.
Visual Novel
A cyberpunk text-based game inspired by the 70s BBC short films.
Adventure
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Text-based dungeon crawler in the vein of Ultima or Wizardry
Role Playing
Enter a world very much like our own, in the sense that there are bats in it.
A tiny interactive fiction game about making hot chocolate!
Adventure
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You've tried the rest, now try the worst - DEMON DATE
A short interactive story in which you are a 911 dispatcher. Lives depend on your choices.
Simulation
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send messages, receive messages, play messages
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Platformer
EXPERIENCE the life of a weird-fantasy consort...
Two knights reminisce about their past.
Adventure
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A Twine adventure about family baggage and queer identity
Interactive Fiction
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A moody textual stategy game about political tensions.​
Strategy
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Education Game - Only in Portuguese
Educational
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an interactive story experience set in a grungy 80s sci-fi setting.
Role Playing
Fads. Fads never change.
Adventure
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The most advance AI to date takes over the facilities where it was born. But, you know, more complicated.
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A girl mourns his father while figuring out how to survive the snowy apocalypse.
Adventure
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A short parser-like game inspired by some of Sam Barlow's games. Made for the LD37.
Visual Novel
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Ludum Dare #37 - IRC Warez Room Simulator
Simulation
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a game about waiting
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Old friends reunite over a chat room. (LD37)
Visual Novel
A short visual novel that is not a run-of-the-mill room escape game.
Visual Novel
Two sisters find themselves on opposite sides of a dispute over the fate of their town
Trevor vs Himself
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Girl and Daddy trying to find the milu in the woods, yet it opens some talk between them. Two separate stories included.
Visual Novel
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I wonder what hides in the dark...
Adventure
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A game about climbing.
Role Playing
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Ludum Dare 37 Game Thing
Puzzle
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a text adventure game built through a unity tutorial
Adventure
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Take a road trip through a valley.
First part in a series about dreams
Interactive Fiction
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