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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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Text-based 4X with a focus on turf war and resource management.
Strategy
A narrative strategy game in which your decisions in one corner of the galaxy can upend entire civilizations in another.
Simulation
A story-rich girl's love visual novel about phantom thieves.
Visual Novel
A new type of game in which you can clear many stages by controlling the robot with “WORDS"!
Strategy
In The Protocol Directive, a dark room and deadly choices await. Uncover secrets, solve dilemmas, and escape alive.
Undersea horror where your only form of navigation is an unreliable AI.
Adventure
A story of love, death and lies.
Visual Novel
Hey there, welcome to the Echo of Mobius! Here, you’ll step into a world shaped by everyone’s wildest dreams.
Role Playing
3-Hour Non-Visual Novel
Visual Novel
Working through the holidays can be hell, especially at Home Safety Hotline.
Puzzle
Play as Linh, sent 1,000 years into the past with 7 days to stop a disaster that wiped out an entire city and its people
Medieval fantasy open-world game
Adventure
A choose your own adventure game, featuring a fluffy boy
Interactive Fiction
A visual novel about a death game which erupts aboard a train
Visual Novel
Play in browser
A Murder Mystery Visual Novel.
Visual Novel
A cozy mystery adventure game set in early 1900s Ontario, Canada!
Adventure
-This is an actual project with love sweat and tears.
Simulation
Sharpen your critical thinking skills in this quiz game that challenges you to spot rhetorical fallacies.
Educational
This is a bad rpg. Play if you want to support me or try the worst game
Life's easier when it isn't your fault.
Interactive Fiction
Issue #55 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.
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A text role-playing game about the fate of a mercenary. Investigate appearance of “ghosts” and help residents.
Adventure
Prove Your Innocence, Find Your Destiny, Relish the Journey!
Interactive Fiction
Aventura de texto de rol. Eres el mejor guerrero de tu tribu luchando por cumplir una misión en contra de tu voluntad.
Role Playing
Solve SCP mysteries in this ARG with cryptic online clues, riddles, and puzzles.
Adventure
Play in browser
An 80KB interactive-fiction text adventure.
Adventure
Do anything. You choose the journey.
Visual Novel
A young girl has been kidnapped, you have two hours to find and free her.
Visual Novel
Embark on a thrilling, tongue-in-cheek train heist in the style of classic dice-rolling RPGs.
Role Playing
Issue #52 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.
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