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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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1bit adventure game of cosmic horror inspired by the work of Junji Ito
Role Playing
Grow a civilization, Build a Pyramid
Simulation
send messages, receive messages, play messages
Daniel LinssenVerified Account
Platformer
A murder is committed in a secluded mansion, and it's up to you to solve it.
Visual Novel
Buying condoms is awkward. This games reminds you of that.
Role Playing
Play in browser
A nostalgic horror adventure game, inside another horror game, inside a tv show, inside a game.
Adventure
A short conversation about a relationship
Visual Novel
Play in browser
Take a road trip through a valley.
A Murder Mystery Visual Novel.
Visual Novel
An intergalactic Interactive Fable
Adventure
Replica
$2.99
Everything in the State, nothing against the State, nothing outside the State.
Adventure
Event[0]
$19.99
Event[0] is a sci-fi narrative game where you build a relationship with a spaceship computer to get home to Earth.
Adventure
A moody textual stategy game about political tensions.​
Strategy
Play in browser
alien civilization extinction simulator
Play in browser
All Hail The Spider God is an eerie interactive fiction adventure about You, and all the Yous you've left behind.
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Every day, for the rest of your life.
Adventure
A BL Visual-novel featuring kidnapping and characters of doubtful morality. (English and Italian)
Visual Novel
A short and light-hearted VN + art assets
Visual Novel
Webpages can run, but they cannot hide from... THE DETECTIVE!
Adventure
Play in browser
Mysterious command line tools
Puzzle
A short interactive story in which you are a 911 dispatcher. Lives depend on your choices.
Simulation
Play in browser
What do you think happened? A short telescopic text mystery, playing with out-of-the-box storytelling mechanics.
Role Playing
A short Twine game about understanding.
Play in browser
Do you want to feel like REAL Mystery Solver and Explorer?
Adventure
Laser Moles, Knife-Fighting Chimps, and an ASCII Snail
Action
Free form text exploration
A dark visual-novel about friendship + art assets
Visual Novel
Lovecraftian first person point and click adventure
Adventure
You could have sworn someone else was here.
Play in browser
ASCII Action! As minimal as an RPG can get
Role Playing
ansdorVerified Account
Platformer
Play in browser
Procedurally generated text adventure
Adventure
You're an ASCII Oat; Dodge the ASCII Slime Mold!
Action
A Dream | Narrative Game (20 Minutes)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
No matter what you do, keep calm...
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Enter a world very much like our own, in the sense that there are bats in it.
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