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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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1bit adventure game of cosmic horror inspired by the work of Junji Ito
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(596 total ratings)
Role Playing
A story of love, death and lies.
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(95 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Murdering a person that hurt you is hot, right?
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(48 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
beautiful twine compilation
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(47 total ratings)
Adventure
SCREAMFEAST
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(47 total ratings)
When the last thread becomes entangled, their song will be heard.
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(50 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Type commands, roast marshmallows, throw logs onto a crackling fire. Enjoy
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(154 total ratings)
Simulation
What would you do if you found yourself trapped on an eerie space station with nothing but a computer?
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(66 total ratings)
Adventure
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(40 total ratings)
Simulation
Text-based space exploration game
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(39 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
A horror game about working in a 90's call center.
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(29 total ratings)
Puzzle
Purge the graveyard from the forces of Evil by using your typing skills.
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(35 total ratings)
Sharpen your critical thinking skills in this quiz game that challenges you to spot rhetorical fallacies.
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(23 total ratings)
Educational
Perfect Tides is a point and click adventure game about the agony and anticipation of being a teen.
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(32 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
Christmas has come to Wayhaven! And it's magical…quite literally.
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(44 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
A horror fantasy kidnapping sim.
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(16 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
a story about computers, memory, and the end of the world
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(20 total ratings)
Adventure
A collection of horror games, each with their own distinct styles
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(15 total ratings)
Adventure
As suas escolhas não importam.
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(10 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Paradise is an interactive fiction playground.
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(10 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
text-adventure MMORPG
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(22 total ratings)
Role Playing
A time-loop based experimental text adventure.
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(146 total ratings)
Adventure
A novel-length "bat-romance" Twine.
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(24 total ratings)
Welcome to the Corporate Ladder.
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(53 total ratings)
Role Playing
Issue #22 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Once you glimpse behind the shadows, you’ll never be the same.
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
BBirthday - Visual Novel
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(13 total ratings)
Visual Novel
A Murder Mystery Visual Novel.
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Issue #17 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
In this interactive sci-fi adventure novel, you are the AI pilot of Earth's last interstellar ship.
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(37 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Your boss has called to ask if you can come into work on your day off - and you don't have much choice but to go.
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(17 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
ASCII Action! As minimal as an RPG can get
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(13 total ratings)
Role Playing
Replica
$2.99
Everything in the State, nothing against the State, nothing outside the State.
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(17 total ratings)
Adventure
Issue #9 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
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