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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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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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WORLD OF HORROR
$19.99
1bit adventure game of cosmic horror inspired by the work of Junji Ito
panstasz
Role Playing
GIF
Code 7 - Episodes 2 & 3 Available Now
$22.99
What would you do if you found yourself trapped on an eerie space station with nothing but a computer?
Goodwolf Studio
Adventure
Dave Microwaves Games Trilogy I
$1.50
A collection of horror games, each with their own distinct styles
Dave Microwaves Games
Adventure
Home Safety Hotline
$11.99
-20%
A horror game about working in a 90's call center.
Night Signal Entertainment
Puzzle
Your Future Self
$2.99
A time-loop based experimental text adventure.
Contortionist Games
Adventure
Perfect Tides
$14.99
Perfect Tides is a point and click adventure game about the agony and anticipation of being a teen.
Meredith GranVerified Account
Adventure
The Crimson Diamond FULL GAME
$14.99
A cozy mystery adventure game set in early 1900s Ontario, Canada!
JuliaMinamata
Adventure
GIF
I doesn't exist
$12.99
An ode to text-adventures.
DreadXP
Interactive Fiction
Swords of Freeport
$15
Text-Mode Social RPG
Elissa Black
Role Playing
GIF
Indiepocalypse #17
$15
Issue #17 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.
PIZZAPRANKSVerified Account
Chimera Crusader: Defender of Dominicus
$0
-100%
ASCII Action! As minimal as an RPG can get
MansterSoft
Role Playing
GIF
Indiepocalypse #49
$15
Issue #49 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.
PIZZAPRANKSVerified Account
Open Sorcery: Sea++
$14.99
You wake up at the bottom of the ocean, surrounded by broken memories. Reclaim your magic or drown in a sea of dreams.
OpenSorceryGames
Interactive Fiction
[SIBERIA]
£1
A small text-adventure survival game.
MSSNG
Adventure
Oatboy vs. Slime Mold
$0
-100%
You're an ASCII Oat; Dodge the ASCII Slime Mold!
MansterSoft
Action
The Zen of Kayaking
$5
An 80KB interactive-fiction text adventure.
pixel_turkey
Adventure
Transmissions
$1.49
These are the log entries of a grumpy space traveler.
rembrandx
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
The Mr. Dude 4-in-1 Poopy-Pak
$0
-100%
Four ASCII Games; One Poopy Pack!
MansterSoft
Kingdom of the Seven Stones
$1
R Raymond
Interactive Fiction
Rogue Terminal
$5
Confront your fears. Embrace the glitch. Find yourself.
Quincey Miracle
Interactive Fiction
Heroes & Cowards – The Pentagram of Power (C64)
$5.99
A classic adventure for Commodore C64
Protovision
Adventure
Hamlet - The text adventure
$5
Shakespearean text adventure
Robin Johnson
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
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 Morning Star (2023) [Spanish]
$2.20
-45%
Dareint
Interactive Fiction
Erinia (2020, 2023, 2024) [Spanish]
$2.20
-45%
Dareint
Interactive Fiction
GIF
Carousel
$10
-50%
A minimalist TV typewriter for creative notetaking
Party Time! Hexcellent!
Educational
Dream Warrior
$4.99
Not everyone can be the hero. You, for example, are the town drunk.
Robert from High Tower Games
Role Playing
Leisure Suit Leo 2 - The Secret of Maniac Island (C64)
$3.99
Protovision
Adventure
The Protocol Directive
1.49€
In The Protocol Directive, a dark room and deadly choices await. Uncover secrets, solve dilemmas, and escape alive.
CryneX
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
Astra Protocol 2
$6.99
A Cassette Futuristic Space Adventure
Slice Bar
Simulation
Room 310: The Awakening (2024)
$1.10
-45%
Dareint
Interactive Fiction
The Seance
£1
Henry! It's me, it's Sheepy! It's so co-o-old!
Quantum Sheep
Interactive Fiction
The Camp - Caravan Edition (C64)
$2.99
More Rooms - More Riddles - and even more Tea!
Protovision
Adventure
Stranded 2 - DRM Free Version
$3.99
Stranded again! The adventure continues
jimjamsgames
Adventure
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