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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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Canvas Colors: In The Moving City
Travel along with Maggie and Vale inside a moving city in Canvas Colors!
UnfinishedCircl
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(40 total ratings)
Visual Novel
灰舟
献给好奇者。
克勒卡尔
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(21 total ratings)
Visual Novel
On Mount Ségou
Mystical Horror Sound Novel
Rastagong
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(15 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
GIF
And yet it hurt
An adventure game in Notepad about a kid who seeks revenge.
Sheepolution
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(26 total ratings)
Adventure
GIF
Sleepy Tales
Tell your sister stories until she falls asleep
classheikki
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Ash Boat
For the curious.
克勒卡尔
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Bring Back A ██████ For Me
Retrieve your boyfriend’s lost memories of you.
ghostchibi
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Get Back to Bed
Navigate a strange and surreal journey back home, and back to sleep.
BestiarySys
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Gulam
A visual novel about a girl, a pig and a book (Nanoreno 2017)
arkicade
Rated 3.7 out of 5 stars
(7 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Summoners Gate
A lighthearted text based fantasy game about adventure, mystery and friendship.
Patchworked Rainbow
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Lost Mountain
A text-based Planescape: Torment tribute
okushimo
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
SECRETMART: Cryptspace Constraint!
A wordsy GameJamDOR 7 entry written in I7
serendiff
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
The Excuse Machine
Your #1 solution for creating lies!
ManofPixels
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Play in browser
A·L·I·E·N: The Adventure
All is in silence... Too much silence...
Alpha Aventuras
Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Adventure
The Wanderers
A simple text adventure about surviving the wasteland
goosey-games
Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Survival
Play in browser
Chromaticity
A short, narrative cyberpunk game with several beginnings and only one ending.
Olivia C Dunlap
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
six games
(:
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Cyberphobia
Small and Simple Text based Roguelite
Wolfstudioz
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Adventure
Play in browser
Anyboty
Chat with AI chatbots of Anyboty you want privately.
Anyboty
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Simulation
Kulhwch
The interactive rhyming story of Kulhwch and Olwen
Nate Taylor
Rated 3.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Adventure
Play in browser
I Hunger
The volcano demands sacrifice.
David Yates
Rated 3.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Integration Game
Integrate in Finland
OneGameDad
Rated 2.3 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Role Playing
Play in browser
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