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Story Rich

Games with a heavy focus on storytelling and narrative.

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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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Eczema Angel Orifice
$5
beautiful twine compilation
xrafstar
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(50 total ratings)
Adventure
Remnants Of The Past - Act 1
$6.99
A fantasy and love story influenced by the Guanche culture.
Domakir
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(96 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
if not us
$7
an IF anthology about five heroes who die
ub4q
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(82 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
_transfer
$10
a story about computers, memory, and the end of the world
Abyssal Uncreations
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(20 total ratings)
Adventure
Home Safety Hotline
$11.99
-20%
A horror game about working in a 90's call center.
Night Signal Entertainment
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(37 total ratings)
Puzzle
Your Future Self
$2.99
A time-loop based experimental text adventure.
Contortionist Games
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(147 total ratings)
Adventure
The Salt Keep
$4.99
A traveling salesman's struggle to survive a night of horror
Small Gray Games
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(20 total ratings)
Adventure
Play in browser
Love Exalt 8372
$9.99
A visual novel about a death game which erupts aboard a train
Veki
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
Date The Lizard!
$1
Date a soft dragon boy! There is absolutely no fiery dystopia!
RoAnna Sylver
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(17 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Away Team
$8
In this interactive sci-fi adventure novel, you are the AI pilot of Earth's last interstellar ship.
Underflow Studios
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(37 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Upheaval
$4.99
-50%
Text-based open world roguelike
Alex Leone
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
GIF
Indiepocalypse #51
$15
Issue #51 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.
PIZZAPRANKSVerified Account
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(7 total ratings)
Telvoikai
$1
Choose between exploring jungle tropics or navigating deep into a bioluminescent sea.
Corvaena
Rated 4.1 out of 5 stars
(15 total ratings)
Role Playing
Revenge of the Antagonist
$1.99
Enemies on camera, enemies off camera!
ChaniMK
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(7 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Long Journey Home
$1
Alone, but for the worms and mushrooms
skiddyhale
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(7 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
Role Playing
Passage: A Job Interview Simulator!
$3.49
In bundle
Navigate intense job interviews with the help of a god who can stop time!
Em
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
Open Sorcery: Sea++
$14.99
You wake up at the bottom of the ocean, surrounded by broken memories. Reclaim your magic or drown in a sea of dreams.
OpenSorceryGames
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
The Devil's Collection - Beware the Festival of Fools
$5
Gerrark
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Adventure
Snowdrop
$5
A winter themed otome game where you get to romance a jerky singer!
LegendEx Games
Rated 4.2 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Fruit Salad Theory
$5.99
A night to remember...in more ways than one..
Pixels and Pins
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Subtext
$6.99
A mystery told through real SMS messages, phone calls, and emails.
William O'Connell
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Sepia Tears: Reprise Edition
$7
A romance visual novel about memories best left forgotten.
Scarlet String Studios
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Aventuriere Interimaire le Jeu
$4.99
Aventuriers Intérimaires
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Moral Conflict
$2
Multiple endings, moral choices, and a quest for vengance.
Brainfont
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Home Safety Hotline: Seasonal Worker
$6.39
-20%
Working through the holidays can be hell, especially at Home Safety Hotline.
Night Signal Entertainment
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Puzzle
Electric Sleep
$4.50
Explore a miniature world as an emotionally driven robot and discover unique experiences with each new emotion.
Cryru
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Saving the Princess 2
$2.99
A young doctor enters the dream world to rescue the woman he loves
wolfgames
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
The Filmmaker
$2.99
Explore a haunted theater with a gruesome past and go INSIDE several black-and-white films!
Unimatrix Productions
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Спасти принцессу 2
$2.99
Много выборов, 5 концовок
wolfgames
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
GIF
Indiepocalypse #52
$15
Issue #52 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.
PIZZAPRANKSVerified Account
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Lifestream
$2.99
Find your missing father and uncover an ancient conspiracy in this haunting text adventure!
Unimatrix Productions
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Visual Novel
The Writer: A Change Of Identity
$2.99
You have a unique opportunity to study the data regarding an identity change experiment.
GameAboutGames
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Adventure
Play in browser
Sky Caravan
$9.99
A Text-Based RPG where you make tough decisions as captain of a commercial airship
Studio Bravarda
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Role Playing
Wait! Life is Beautiful!
$9.99
W!LiB! is an interactive psychological thriller about suicides with a touch of black humor.
GameNet
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Blood to Bone
$3
Interactive royalty novel, with romance. Text based
euio
Rated 3.3 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
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