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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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A Dark Forest
Incremental Experimental Minimalistic Game
TinyTakinTeller
Play in browser
GIF
Walkie Talkie
send messages, receive messages, play messages
Daniel LinssenVerified Account
Platformer
GIF
Don't make love
Will you make love and risk death?
Maggese
Interactive Fiction
WAS/WERE
$4
Murdering a person that hurt you is hot, right?
RodFireProductions
Interactive Fiction
Subtext
$6.99
A mystery told through real SMS messages, phone calls, and emails.
William O'Connell
Interactive Fiction
An Afternoon Rippling
Take a road trip through a valley.
marslizard
The Master of the Land
Dynamic text world | Alternate history intrigue
Pseudavid
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
a Museum of Dubious Splendors.
A collection of small and peculier stories from Somwhere.
Studio Oleomingus
Adventure
Eleutheria
Trust. Rebirth. Life after death.
Grim Baccaris
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
CLOSED HANDS
An unflinching work of interactive fiction.
PΔSSENGER
Interactive Fiction
Accidental Character Generator
countless possibilities, one terrible reality
caeth
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
In the Pause Between the Ringing.
An unbublished tale of telephone mining in India.
Studio Oleomingus
Interactive Fiction
I EAT MANTRAS FOR BREAKFAST
$7.77
SCREAMFEAST
Maria Mison
404 Missing Page Detective Agency
Webpages can run, but they cannot hide from... THE DETECTIVE!
Snozbot
Adventure
Play in browser
GIF
Type 'n Jump
A text-based platformer, made for Ludum Dare 41 | Combine 2 Incompatible Genres
The Jucas
Platformer
Play in browser
13 Laurel Road
A game about places and the memories they hold.
Crosshollow
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
c i r c u i t s
a narrative journey through remembering, witnessing, and trauma
eileen mary
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Typing...
A Chatroom Thriller
DancingEngie
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
Messages From the Universe Graveyard
Experimental social game. Leave messages for other players in a dead world.
Kanderwund
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
confess
feel bad about something? confess and be punished
Dámhín (Daw-Veen)
Play in browser
Echo of Mobius
$1.88
Hey there, welcome to the Echo of Mobius! Here, you’ll step into a world shaped by everyone’s wildest dreams.
Echo_of_Mobius
Role Playing
U.F.O Text Quest
A classic text adventure in the style of interactive fiction from computers from the 80s
Tuesday Street
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
I am here.
feelin not so good
garden robot
Play in browser
Backspaces
295 words about faulty keyboards and absent mouse pads.
Vaida
Play in browser
Confessions of an NPC
Interview NPCs from a world not unlike our own...
Charles H. Huang
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
Between Stations
(2017)
Sand Gardeners
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
CLICK TO CONTINUE!
Run away.
Andrea Pignataro
Hello Goodbyes
A writing experience with yourself.
Velvet
Play in browser
Widemare
A voice and text driven horror experience.
Andrea Pignataro
Visual Novel
GIF
Indiepocalypse #52
$15
Issue #52 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.
PIZZAPRANKSVerified Account
Borders
A game where you check passports and talk to people.
Van Andrew
Simulation
Girls' Day
A brief memory.
Nice Gear Games
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
Slice of Lime
Penguins from 60 million years ago were 1.7 meters tall
arisaito
Visual Novel
Play in browser
Take
katherine
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
I Told You This Was A Bad Idea
Jessica Padkin
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
Ray Bibbia
Play as the toughest private exorcist around and fight evil by dodging bullets and typing your formula.
Morbidware
Action
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