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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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Dave Microwaves Games Trilogy I
$1.50
A collection of horror games, each with their own distinct styles
Dave Microwaves Games
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(15 total ratings)
Adventure
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
Chimera Crusader: Defender of Dominicus
$0
-100%
ASCII Action! As minimal as an RPG can get
MansterSoft
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(14 total ratings)
Role Playing
Oatboy vs. Slime Mold
$0
-100%
You're an ASCII Oat; Dodge the ASCII Slime Mold!
MansterSoft
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(15 total ratings)
Action
GIF
The Mr. Dude 4-in-1 Poopy-Pak
$0
-100%
Four ASCII Games; One Poopy Pack!
MansterSoft
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(10 total ratings)
Proper Detective 2000
1.50€
A couple has been brutally murdered in their house last night. Are you up to solve the mystery?
kernel_dc
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Puzzle
Play in browser
The Zen of Kayaking
$5
An 80KB interactive-fiction text adventure.
pixel_turkey
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Adventure
[SIBERIA]
£1
A small text-adventure survival game.
MSSNG
Rated 3.3 out of 5 stars
(38 total ratings)
Adventure
Dream Warrior
$4.99
Not everyone can be the hero. You, for example, are the town drunk.
Robert from High Tower Games
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Role Playing
The Protocol Directive
1.49€
In The Protocol Directive, a dark room and deadly choices await. Uncover secrets, solve dilemmas, and escape alive.
CryneX
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Microcrawl
$2.99
Microcrawl is a bite sized point and click 2D adventure text hybrid
ZPJ Interactive
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Adventure
The Morning Star (2023)
$2.20
-45%
Dareint
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Kingdom of the Seven Stones
$1
R Raymond
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Hamlet - The text adventure
$5
Shakespearean text adventure
Robin Johnson
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Transmissions
$1.49
These are the log entries of a grumpy space traveler.
rembrandx
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
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