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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 cooking/rich-aunt-impressing simulator
Simulation
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Chase your shooting star. [Visual Novel, 5 mins]
Visual Novel
A text-based speculative horror game
Interactive Fiction
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A visual novel about a girl, a pig and a book (Nanoreno 2017)
Visual Novel
Play through a day in the life of a homeless woman who gets her period on the day of a job interview.
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Live authoritarianism through a minimalist narrative experience.
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Cuddle with your vampire or werewolf partners!
Interactive Fiction
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Dodge obstacles atop your trusty Capybara. When that gets boring build your own level.
Shooter
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Trigger Warning! This game examines life in an abusive relationship
Role Playing
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(2017)
Interactive Fiction
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A short, lightly comedic text adventure with first person controls.
Adventure
Role Playing
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Visit Your Grandmother
Simulation
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Journey to another world. Return if you can.
Interactive Fiction
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An adventure rogue-like where age is your enemy
Adventure
DOOM, now in convenient text form.
Adventure
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(2017)
Simulation
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A story for the lonely dreamers and the loved realists.
Visual Novel
Be a War Commander. Construct a Base, Perform Research, Produce Units. Fight Epic Battles.
Strategy
A not-so-scary story.
Interactive Fiction
a post-mortality puzzle-hex
Puzzle
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A short story about a harpy who has too many feathers. (LD40)
Visual Novel
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Escape your fairy tale nightmare in this short text game.
Interactive Fiction
a multiple choice game about discerning friendship
Interactive Fiction
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Keep the world outside, outside.
Simulation
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The woods are waiting.
Role Playing
power's out
Visual Novel
A Twine game about high school and friends
Puzzle
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An interactive text-generation treehouse toy
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A man, a drink, a city.
Visual Novel
A Near Dawn began as a text-based adventure game!
Visual Novel
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Last year, I moved to Denmark. This is a game about the struggles of moving to a new country.
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