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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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a horror survey game
Interactive Fiction
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Find all the words!
Puzzle
Your journey begins in sand and sound and silence.
Interactive Fiction
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You are the Social Democratic Party of Germany in 1928. Can you stop the Nazis from taking power?
Interactive Fiction
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10 students find themselves trapped in a luxurious mansion...
Visual Novel
Alter genes, survive. Sci-fi RPG. 270k+
Interactive Fiction
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Master a horse. Become a Horse Master.
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a choose-your-own-adventure heartbreak in the shape of a quiz
Interactive Fiction
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a friendly horror game in your neighborhood
Interactive Fiction
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On a dark and stormy night in 1983, the phone rings. “FINISH THE GAME”.
Adventure
say goodbye before you go
Interactive Fiction
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Simulation
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Bury me my Love tells the story of Syrian refugee Nour and her husband Majd, as Nour undertakes a journey to safety.
Interactive Fiction
a modular poem; a memory
Interactive Fiction
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Grow a civilization, Build a Pyramid
Simulation
a story of a frog in space.
Adventure
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Text-based space exploration game
Interactive Fiction
Help Spudz the dog find his precious bone in this short, silly game!
Interactive Fiction
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An AI seedship must find a home for the last survivors of the human race
Strategy
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A story of love, death and lies.
Visual Novel
Get Joestar Struck
Visual Novel
A free action-comedy BL game about a retired killer-for-hire who has to navigate life as a normal high school student.
Visual Novel
negative experiences after coming out as transgender
Interactive Fiction
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Solve a case with your time-travelling kid self
Interactive Fiction
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beautiful twine compilation
Adventure
You are the head writer for the third game in the wildly popular ShatterGate™ franchise.
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What would an omniscient creature do with all that knowledge? Well, host a trivia game, of course!
Puzzle
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Christmas has come to Wayhaven! And it's magical…quite literally.
Interactive Fiction
A short kinetic novel — on bright minds, and the end of all things.
Interactive Fiction
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The world is ending, and you are still paying rent. A future history.
Interactive Fiction
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an IF anthology about five heroes who die
Interactive Fiction
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Randomly generated dungeon filled with monsters and diablo inspired equipment looting system!
Role Playing
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A Vast Error Story
Visual Novel
You have 20 seconds to determine your fate.
Interactive Fiction
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The world is saved. Its heroes wait to die.
Interactive Fiction
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