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Experimental

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

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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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Daniel LinssenVerified Account
Platformer
Murdering a person that hurt you is hot, right?
Interactive Fiction
Take a road trip through a valley.
A collection of small and peculier stories from Somwhere.
Adventure
Will you make love and risk death?
Interactive Fiction
Subtext
$6.99
A mystery told through real SMS messages, phone calls, and emails.
Interactive Fiction
An unflinching work of interactive fiction.
Interactive Fiction
An unbublished tale of telephone mining in India.
Interactive Fiction
countless possibilities, one terrible reality
Interactive Fiction
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Dynamic text world | Alternate history intrigue
Interactive Fiction
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Trust. Rebirth. Life after death.
Interactive Fiction
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A Chatroom Thriller
Interactive Fiction
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A classic text adventure in the style of interactive fiction from computers from the 80s
Interactive Fiction
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A text-based platformer, made for Ludum Dare 41 | Combine 2 Incompatible Genres
Platformer
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Webpages can run, but they cannot hide from... THE DETECTIVE!
Adventure
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12 small 'games' about breaking the boundary of what a game is
Write your eulogy
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A blink-detecting text adventure.
Interactive Fiction
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feel bad about something? confess and be punished
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A TEXT-BASED HORROR GAME ABOUT YOU.
Interactive Fiction
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295 words about faulty keyboards and absent mouse pads.
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A "FREE Meyers-Briggs personality test" which will tell you more about yourself!
Devon WiersmaVerified Account
Interactive Fiction
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Interactive Fiction
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A brief memory.
Interactive Fiction
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Have you taken a personality quiz before?
a narrative journey through remembering, witnessing, and trauma
Interactive Fiction
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Nervous text-based hack'n slash about a doll who dreams to write like humans...
Hey there, welcome to the Echo of Mobius! Here, you’ll step into a world shaped by everyone’s wildest dreams.
Role Playing
A voice and text driven horror experience.
Visual Novel
You see a path to Kabagahara, will you take it?
Interactive Fiction
A game where you check passports and talk to people.
Simulation
Issue #52 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.
PIZZAPRANKSVerified Account
Kevin wants to show what his life would be and why. 他用没人懂的语言写了一本书。
Adventure
An autobiographical text-based game about memory and a car ride.
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