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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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$5 or less tagged Retro and Text based (35 results)

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Roots of Harmony
$3.20
-20%
Text-based 4X with a focus on turf war and resource management.
Guillaume Beaumel
Strategy
The Protocol Directive
0.74€
-50%
In The Protocol Directive, a dark room and deadly choices await. Uncover secrets, solve dilemmas, and escape alive.
CryneX
Kingdom of the Seven Stones
$1
R Raymond
Interactive Fiction
Room 310: The Awakening (2024)
$1.10
-45%
Dareint
Interactive Fiction
Erinia Enhanced (2024)
$2.20
-45%
Dareint
Interactive Fiction
The Zen of Kayaking
$4.50
-10%
An 80KB interactive-fiction text adventure.
pixel_turkey
Adventure
GIF
LOST in CODE
$1.50
find what was taken
haruto.fun
Adventure
Compu-Tron x3000
$1.99
-50%
The Ultimate Digital Assistant for 1982 - from C.Tech Industries
circynsoftware
Interactive Fiction
Dream Warrior
$3.94
-21%
Not everyone can be the hero. You, for example, are the town drunk.
Robert from High Tower Games
Role Playing
The Morning Star (2023)
$2.20
-45%
Dareint
Interactive Fiction
Greymarsh
$2.99
A old-style text-based RPG
Nimavoha Interactive
Interactive Fiction
Six Six
$5
A text-mode adventure for your Rainbow 100 (and other inferior platforms)!
PrintStar
Adventure
Essence Cypher: Rise of the Geomancer
$1
Do you have the makings of a true Geomancer? Decipher the secret essence of nature itself!
DorianBones
Divine
$1
A retro text adventure!
chicagocenteredgaming
Interactive Fiction
Microcrawl
$2.99
Microcrawl is a bite sized point and click 2D adventure text hybrid
ZPJ Interactive
Adventure
Stuck In Time Episode : 1
$1.99
A Sci-fi interactive adventure
Omni Time Studios
Interactive Fiction
Transmissions
$1.49
These are the log entries of a grumpy space traveler.
rembrandx
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Whispers in the Moss
$4.99
A full-scale retro JRPG with ambitious textmode graphics [Now available!]
Uncultured Games
Role Playing
Proper Detective 2000
1.50€
A couple has been brutally murdered in their house last night. Are you up to solve the mystery?
kernel_dc
Puzzle
Play in browser
The Seance
£1
Henry! It's me, it's Sheepy! It's so co-o-old!
Quantum Sheep
Interactive Fiction
Stranded 2 - DRM Free Version
$3.99
Stranded again! The adventure continues
jimjamsgames
Adventure
Dave Microwaves Games Trilogy I
$1.50
A collection of horror games, each with their own distinct styles
Dave Microwaves Games
Adventure
Hamlet - The text adventure
$5
Shakespearean text adventure
Robin Johnson
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
[SIBERIA]
£1
A small text-adventure survival game.
MSSNG
Adventure
Your Future Self
$2.99
A time-loop based experimental text adventure.
Contortionist Games
Adventure
Riddle Hack
$1
Riddles, riddles everywhere can you solve them? If not, beware!
Ice Peddler GamesVerified Account
Puzzle
GIF
The Mr. Dude 4-in-1 Poopy-Pak
$0
-100%
Four ASCII Games; One Poopy Pack!
MansterSoft
Leisure Suit Leo 2 - The Secret of Maniac Island (C64)
$3.99
Protovision
Adventure
The Camp - Caravan Edition (C64)
$2.99
More Rooms - More Riddles - and even more Tea!
Protovision
Adventure
¡EL COLGADO! 1.4
$0.99
Clásico juego de lápiz y papel en español.
C.C.G. Software
Oatboy vs. Slime Mold
$0
-100%
You're an ASCII Oat; Dodge the ASCII Slime Mold!
MansterSoft
Action
Chimera Crusader: Defender of Dominicus
$0
-100%
ASCII Action! As minimal as an RPG can get
MansterSoft
Role Playing
Paper Stone Scrissors Game
$0.50
Retro text game made by Kamil Piechura
Kamil Piechura
Puzzle
Super User
$0.10
An RPG inside an RPG
LukaHilchey
Role Playing
Proto Raider
$2.99
Proto Raider is an arcade game where every level is a mini-quest
Andrei Fomin
Platformer
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