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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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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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Top rated$15 or less tagged Retro and Text based (22 results)

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Type commands, roast marshmallows, throw logs onto a crackling fire. Enjoy
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(155 total ratings)
Simulation
Perfect Tides is a point and click adventure game about the agony and anticipation of being a teen.
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Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(33 total ratings)
Adventure
An ode to text-adventures.
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(34 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
A cozy mystery adventure game set in early 1900s Ontario, Canada!
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(12 total ratings)
Adventure
A horror game about working in a 90's call center.
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(32 total ratings)
Puzzle
A collection of horror games, each with their own distinct styles
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(15 total ratings)
Adventure
A time-loop based experimental text adventure.
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(147 total ratings)
Adventure
ASCII Action! As minimal as an RPG can get
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(14 total ratings)
Role Playing
Issue #17 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.
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Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
You're an ASCII Oat; Dodge the ASCII Slime Mold!
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(15 total ratings)
Action
Text-Mode Social RPG
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(7 total ratings)
Role Playing
Four ASCII Games; One Poopy Pack!
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(10 total ratings)
A couple has been brutally murdered in their house last night. Are you up to solve the mystery?
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Puzzle
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You wake up at the bottom of the ocean, surrounded by broken memories. Reclaim your magic or drown in a sea of dreams.
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
An 80KB interactive-fiction text adventure.
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Adventure
A small text-adventure survival game.
Rated 3.3 out of 5 stars
(38 total ratings)
Adventure
Not everyone can be the hero. You, for example, are the town drunk.
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Role Playing
Microcrawl is a bite sized point and click 2D adventure text hybrid
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Adventure
A classic adventure for Commodore C64
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Adventure
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Shakespearean text adventure
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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These are the log entries of a grumpy space traveler.
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
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