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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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Viatica
Your journey begins in sand and sound and silence.
Fir & Fireweed
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(434 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
God-Cursed: Demo
An interactive fiction fantasy game made with Twine. Create your character, break a curse, fall in love & make it home.
Lunan
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(429 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
A Dark Forest
Incremental Experimental Minimalistic Game
TinyTakinTeller
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(133 total ratings)
Play in browser
God of The Red Mountain
Chinese folklore-inspired interactive fiction.
Friendly Bowl of Soup
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(49 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Cantata
A low fantasy IF about song, strength, & finding your voice.
Fir & Fireweed
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(46 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Bar on the Abyss
This tale starts with your death. Manage a spectral bar in the Abyss and find love beyond the mortal coil.
Esh Cohen
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(24 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Archives of Halcyon
TAoH is a Interactive Fiction focused on romance, drama and investigation, with cyberpunk influences.
Venus
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(11 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Cave.EXE
Quirky text-based horror adventure.
Wild Jerboa
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Adventure
Play in browser
Wolfsbane
rainingdown
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
There Are No People Left
krsdvchk
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Enough Time
The game will eventually end. Feel free to pass the time.
blastmatt
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
nothing but me and you
A cosmic story about enduring love and true conclusions.
Nick Gelling
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
the last flower shop in town
on the edge of extinction, people still go to work. try to make it through the week
kira h.
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
ECHOES OF ATLANTIS
An epic forbidden-archeology graphic-adventure in Six Chapters, for the ZX Spectrum.
ICreateworlds
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Adventure
Reality Breaks
Welcome to "Reality Breaks". Uncover secrets. Survive the chaos.
[jett__plane]
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
Hengähtänet
Bilingual autofictive poetry.
Samuli Pietikäinen
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Brainfuck Challenge DEMO
LyricSeraph
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Puzzle
Play in browser
INDUSTRIAL DREAMS
The DEMO for INDUSTRIAL DREAMS
Calcifi
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Puzzle
Verlock Holmes: The Missing Donuts
A mystery visual novel fan project for Ver Vermillion
Villions Game Studio
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Visual Novel
RIFTBORN
Awake. Alone. Hunted.
Nat Branco
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
To Whom It May Concern
An Interactive Letterwriting Experience
ParadoxRogue
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
WHAT WE SAW UNDER EDEN LAKE
two boys & the strange game they weave together
key
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
Type Help
The Unsolvable Mystery
William Rous
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Puzzle
Play in browser
Riders Of Furtune
Text based game
ArielDelRisco
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Adventure
Musik Player
Simple tkinter music player.
TheChainsawBoy
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Rhythm
Walk
A machine and a ghost, in the wasteland.
Kate Beckett
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
GIF
you have a cold.
Somehow you've gotten a cold on the first day of your week long vacation.
Sagemintiart
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Cronela's Mansion GBC - Demo
A point n' click, adventure-like, homage to LucasArts Maniac Mansion
Elvies
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Adventure
Play in browser
Dernoball
Text and momentum based football game!
Hojonny
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Sports
MUCHO TEXTO
¡COLABORA con tu diálogo interior y escapad JUNTOS de esta terrible oficina!
Fufer
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Platformer
Play in browser
Cryptids
Illustrated text-based adventure
Scotify
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Adventure
Play in browser
Made in Abyss
137vsh
Rated 3.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Witch Hat Heist
Witch Hat Heist Game
Ji-Li
Rated 0.0 out of 5 stars
(0 total ratings)
Simulation
Play in browser
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