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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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retro style choose your own story game - short and intimate with adaptive music
Interactive Fiction
Very short evocative game about nostalgia
Interactive Fiction
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It might take a while....
Survival
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The Grim Reaper lost his notebook
Interactive Fiction
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A short cutscene about a Hero's moment of calm crossing a volcano.
Simulation
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Text based website simulator. Expand and dominate the online world!!!
Simulation
A roguelike dungeon crawler with authentic ASCII graphics
Role Playing
A GAC adventure set on Moon Base Alpha
Adventure
A multi-genre game about a girl who can transform into a rat
Role Playing
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Oregon Trail-themed interactive fiction based on Stand By Me
Interactive Fiction
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A text based game about your inner dialogue
Adventure
a little text adventure test i did
text based fan game based off the artist Plastiboo's art book.
Adventure
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Explore the system, and uncover the tale of a companies misdeeds...
The Quest for Riches in a Humorous Text Adventure
Adventure
Die Suche nach Reichtum in einem irrwitzigen Textadventure
Adventure
A Gruescript adventure combining Lovecraft with The Famous Five.
Adventure
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You found an old EVE Tech computer, abandoned after the company couldn't control what it created. 7 minutes... or not?
Puzzle
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A Tiny Text Adventure Game
Interactive Fiction
Weird fantasy text adventure RPG
Interactive Fiction
©1993 GâtSoft, inc. LON, UK
Visual Novel
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An Ecto-Noir game draft
Adventure
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Juegos que hice de preadolescente
A journey through memories
Adventure
Outside the pages of the book
Survive the unknown, make every choice count – stranded on a hostile alien world.
Survival
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a game about sailing to new lands and restoring the world🌊
Role Playing
navigate the procedurally generated Abyss and collect memories📜
Role Playing
We're all just dots on a screen.
Interactive Fiction
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a game about noclipping through walls and finding pages
Survival
A game about building a civilization with a portal to another dimension
Simulation
A Short Text Adventure Game
Adventure
A text based rpg about gathering gear, slaying bosses, and creating the world.
Role Playing
Adventure
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The overcomplicated Text Roguelike
Role Playing
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