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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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Save The Last Dance
An IF Disc 1 Climax
Atma Weapon
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
The Hollow Mirror (teaser!)
a gothic horror text-based game
Christi Kerr
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)
How are you feeling?
Why do we have to do this dance
RaziRupert
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Simulation
Play in browser
"A Date Game"
A game about you and your date getting to know each other better while also having fun
GG Undroid Games
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
The Moon Wed Saturn
A short story about two girls living a simple, if peculiar, romance
Pseudavid
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Mirror
A short narrative experience about finding stories the stars have written for you.
Minh-Anh Hoàng
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Flashpoint
There's something out there in the woods, and it wants to come inside.
Sailing Shells Games
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Last Settlement
A colonization based text adventure!
TheProperGlitch
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Survival
Play in browser
Lena and Aster
No destination, no plan, and no looking back.
Emma Taylor Prang
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
Night Shift
Working overnights can be a drag...hopefully your intrusive thoughts can keep you entertained.
jakelaux
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
Childhood Memories
A tale about a civil war, and learning how to stop it.
Andrea Ma
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Doorway
The Doorway calls to you. Will you go to it?
Frankie Granero
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Narcisse
Can I NOT say goodbye to her?
A. Villarroel
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Visual Novel
It Will Spread
Typing commands to stop a virus
Gilational
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Strategy
Play in browser
You Forgot Your Mug of Tea
A coming-of-age adventure for new adults.
BeeScott
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Play in browser
Starlight
A text-based suspense/puzzle game.
lost-signal
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Adventure
Play in browser
Doors To Success
Short text adventure about unemployment
Styxcolor
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Legacy of the Paupers
Visual Novel
ChilliTech
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
DimenShift (Jam version)
tenghuan
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Puzzle
Memorial
A Twine game for my brother.
Travis Megill
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Ivy Puzzle
A short & surreal horror text game about an ivy-wrapped puzzle box that arrives on your doorstep.
Nik Theorin
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The 2D Platformer
The 2D platformer you loved as a kid.
Jayjayhawk
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Dogestory, a tale about Home
Dogestory is a short interactive tale written in Twine.
Alrunia
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Precipice
a forgotten tale
Requiem
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Lord of the Deep
Journey down into the depths to appease a cruel god.
Not Jam
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Adventure
Play in browser
Prison Escape
A short text-adventure game - Try to escape your prison!
petergambell
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Adventure
Play in browser
Shedding Velvet
It begins, as always, in darkness.
SirWitxh
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Visual Novel
PORTRAIT PAYSAGE /// Evelyne et Marie-Christine /// 1962 - 1968
"search and find" game inside french family pictures from the 60s
GIRXAVIER
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
Ashes
A short bitsy game
rebeccamwrites
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Adventure
Play in browser
Danger World (2019)
An interactive reading game. Let's adventure together!
Taormina
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
A Void for Zoea
Interactive text based adventure
theunfamiliarwolf
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
We'll happen, are happening, happened (FR)
Déclaration d'amour narrative (15 min, solo).
Michael_is_playing
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Labyrinth of the Sorcerer King
A short Twine text adventure in the style of 1980s dungeon crawlers.
Brandon Vout
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
In Memoriam
Navigating grief and acceptance
pen_ultimate
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Reunited
Pomz
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
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