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Games that defy the traditional approach to game design and offer unique, interesting and often strange experiences.

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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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I Told You This Was A Bad Idea
Jessica Padkin
Interactive Fiction
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The Verb
A short game about creation
Janos Biro
Interactive Fiction
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TWO
A Puzzle Heavy Text Adventure Game Using Two Words
Adventuron
Interactive Fiction
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T'EDEN ORAY: Dangers of the Lost Valley
Survive through this mysterious land
Djinn Alexio
Interactive Fiction
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T'EDEN ORAY: The Tale
T'EDEN ORAY: The full text adventure experience
Djinn Alexio
Interactive Fiction
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You found nothing.
Press the search button to find things.
mastorna
Interactive Fiction
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WM 2000 Terminal Hacker
The Hacking Game
PacLega
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Stumbling upon meaning in an old town abandoned to its fate
An exploration of meanings
mut
Interactive Fiction
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Oh, It's Nothing
A short exercise in wor(l)d-building.
Ein
Interactive Fiction
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A few years ago
A boy walks to his grandparents' house after school.
tobydo
Interactive Fiction
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nothing but everything
a little story from my childhood I want to share
dv49
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Hidden Angel
You are a fallen angel lost in purgatory.
St3althPatchin
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Una Conversación
Eres tu y una maquina, ¿que podrá pasar?
AlvaroV
Visual Novel
Philosophical 1
It is the text base casual Game/Art.
Yashpal
Educational
Play in browser
Numble Jumber
Get your numbers across the board in order!
petenotpete
Puzzle
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Going to School
what my commute to school is like in the winter
savn
Visual Novel
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What is a video game?
12 small 'games' about breaking the boundary of what a game is
Rosden Shadow
what do you want?
a one-second rpg character backstory & motive generator
blake stone / fenced forest
Role Playing
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rédiger
fermentum tempus
Interactive Fiction
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Swords
A journey of courage, wisdom, and strength. A quest to solve the mystery of your own identity.
Sleepless Inc.
Role Playing
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the #*DREAMulator
(set:$dream to "any")
blake stone / fenced forest
Play in browser
Black White
A puzzle game where you push tiles to create paths
Sl1ngShot
Puzzle
Adaptive Slime
Fight creatures in turn based combat, explore their strengths and weaknesses then take their strength for your own.
Mabrima
Role Playing
No Signal.
Click this link to play the game, no download needed: https://forms.gle/3djGrw8CDtPXJfvY6
Rebecca
Visual Novel
☐​☐☐☐ : an experimental narrative
Ludum Dare 44 : Life is currency
Sarahgermn
Interactive Fiction
Slacks Attacks Mother Nature
An interactive story about jeans.
Slacks
Interactive Fiction
Write'n'Slash
Nervous text-based hack'n slash about a doll who dreams to write like humans...
valentin serri
Lies & Cigars
An interactive apocalyptic Astorian mystery.
katherine
Interactive Fiction
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In the Pause Between the Ringing.
An unbublished tale of telephone mining in India.
Studio Oleomingus
Interactive Fiction
a conversation with a dictionary
kian.c.peters
Interactive Fiction
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Salubrium
A game about conversational navigation.
Adrion T. Kelley
Interactive Fiction
I/N TRAN//SIT
"An angst-ridden 22 year old rides the bus."
asuwang
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Harm Other (Demo)
Make uninformed choices with unpredictable outcomes in a galaxy-hopping narrative comedy
Dennis Farrell
Adventure
Ghost Insight: Abandonment (5/9;1/5)
Follow a young girl and the ghosts that haunt her.
Spilled Games
Interactive Fiction
I WAS BORN BURNING
aliengeometries
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Read to Get to Bed
A short story about returning home from work
Jason
Interactive Fiction
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