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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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Deficit
An Interactive Semi-Fictional Experiential ADHD Story
Gav Sarafian
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(23 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
A Red Boat
A short story told through boating and lost letters
PirxOS
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(158 total ratings)
Adventure
Play in browser
The Archives of Halcyon
TAoH is a Interactive Fiction focused on romance, drama and investigation, with cyberpunk influences.
Venus
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(18 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
The Lancaster Leak - Entity Exam
Jeremy Fischer
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(39 total ratings)
Action
Jinlai | Domineering CEO Simulator
NickyDicky
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(27 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Which Naruto Character Are You? A Funteractive Quizsperience DX Director's Cut Anniversary Edition
The age old question!
Tapesoft
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(29 total ratings)
Role Playing
i want to be a girl and i don't know why that's so hard
an interactive diary entry
mars_is_a_girl
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(12 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
ASHES OF L'MANBERG - a Dream SMP text game
can you prevent L'Manberg's demise?
Fonetic Machine
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(15 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
H U N T E D
Gather craft survive #49/1922 LDJam50
xk
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(52 total ratings)
Survival
Play in browser
The Thoughts Room
Relax and ease stress
Cyrogem
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(17 total ratings)
Play in browser
The Reaper Watches Me
itzaryn
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(64 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Well This is Awkward
Buying condoms is awkward. This games reminds you of that.
Emma Kidwell
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(118 total ratings)
Role Playing
Play in browser
a Museum of Dubious Splendors.
A collection of small and peculier stories from Somwhere.
Studio Oleomingus
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(54 total ratings)
Adventure
One-Screen Game
pluf
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(14 total ratings)
Puzzle
Play in browser
A Miner Problem
A gamebook-style fantasy adventure for the 5th edition of the world's most popular tabletop RPG.
Sayeth
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(14 total ratings)
Role Playing
Play in browser
The bird, the squirrel and the wolf
An Animated Poem
allalonegamez
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(11 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
Fallacy Quiz
$12
Sharpen your critical thinking skills in this quiz game that challenges you to spot rhetorical fallacies.
Tim Krief
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(23 total ratings)
Educational
hic est nihilum
nightingale-writes
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(25 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Hymn
A Twine game of reassurance and reminders for those lost in themselves
june wilde
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(16 total ratings)
Play in browser
Food Poisoning: The Game
You need to find a toilet. How low are you willing to sink?
Woe Industries
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(16 total ratings)
Survival
Play in browser
A Long Goodbye
a short narrative game about old friends saying goodbye over the phone.
fixgritt
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(13 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Zenith Skywave Transmission #2
A new transmission means a new adventure.
Zenith: The Last City
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(13 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Bewitching!
A girl's love game about cute witches!
sensh_ii
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(13 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Messenger
Open your heart.
Bonnie
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(10 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
Gravitas Shortfall
A tragedy in high orbit
Juniper-C
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(10 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Untold Atlas Demo: Otome Adventure
Expedition Theme Romance RPG / Visual Novel
Nochi Studios
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(10 total ratings)
Visual Novel
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
(10 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
hollowsheart
[ INACTIVE ] proof of concept of a text-based horror game.
cerberus
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(20 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Life Eater
$14.99
A horror fantasy kidnapping sim.
Strange Scaffold
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(20 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Said the Stars
Said the Stars is a text choice romance in a post-society northern setting.
Ylvanaar
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(42 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
I doesn't exist
$12.99
An ode to text-adventures.
DreadXP
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(35 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Confessions of an NPC
Interview NPCs from a world not unlike our own...
Charles H. Huang
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(15 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Six Shots
A text-based adventure game that puts you in the boots of a lone cowpoke bent on revenge.
BanzaiBonsai
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(17 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Holiday Magic: A Wayhaven Christmas Story
$6.49
Christmas has come to Wayhaven! And it's magical…quite literally.
Seraphinite Games
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(47 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
The Last Sanctuary
Will you guide humanity into a new era, or doom it forever?
SjoerdHekking
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(12 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
nectar thief
a text based game. will likely take 5-10 minutes to play.
loren schmidt
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(23 total ratings)
Play in browser
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