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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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Cannery Vale
forget who you are
Hanon Ondricek
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(17 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Dream Team
A Millennial Dream Simulator
PRINCESS INTERNET CAFé
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Anamnesis, of Renascents and Monsters
A text-based lovecraftian life simulation RPG.
Vaccean
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(14 total ratings)
Simulation
Keep Calm: An Interactive Short Story
No matter what you do, keep calm...
Adam Carriere
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(24 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
AWAKE Prototype
You awake alone, on a damaged and abandoned starship.
Hamish Smithers
Rated 4.2 out of 5 stars
(66 total ratings)
Play in browser
The Monster Inside
A film noir style audio-visual novella.
x70x
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(32 total ratings)
Play in browser
Emm1.r
A strange chatroom veils a very dark mystery...
Ayane Faeldori
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
Visual Novel
GIF
We listen, under the rain
You help some ghosts
Ruminio
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
No !@#$s Left to Give
A short abstract visual novel about what you feel about having too many or too little !@#$s left to give
Knickknack PJ
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(11 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
GenRealms | Powered by AI
Nation simulator powered by GPT-4o.
lem
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(26 total ratings)
Simulation
GIF
Type 'n Jump
A text-based platformer, made for Ludum Dare 41 | Combine 2 Incompatible Genres
The Jucas
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(16 total ratings)
Platformer
Play in browser
In All My Dreams I Choke On Invisible Smoke [BETA]
Surreal visual novel/point and click exploration. Unsettling.
Kanderwund
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(12 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
Assessment
Bee BraunVerified Account
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(13 total ratings)
A Moment of Reflection
Help a stranger in a moment of reflection
Brii-Nanas
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(10 total ratings)
Visual Novel
This is a black parallelepipedon in a yellow field
The enigma of the fields. Unknow a shape.
laughingpineapple
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(15 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Dungeon Mercenary
Modern ASCII roguelike - Can your mercenary beat the dungeon ?
smelc3
Rated 4.2 out of 5 stars
(42 total ratings)
Role Playing
Play in browser
Hifuu OS
Gensokyo Cyber Outlaw.
Hefan
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Adventure
A Pirate's End
An adventure rogue-like where age is your enemy
edkay
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Adventure
häx_processer
Process häxes using our state-of-the-art häx processing terminal
Tomi
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(11 total ratings)
Puzzle
GIF
Left on Read
It’s March of 2020, you were just sent home from university because of the coronavirus, you have some small regrets.
Weston Bell-Geddes
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(27 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Dear Sophie
A game about the weirdness of balancing online love and real life.
Zerogue
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(28 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
night houses
squatters folklore. build a house in a single night
foresthexes
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
I wish I was
A narrative dungeon-crawler
lulatschia
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(12 total ratings)
Puzzle
Tuuli
An interactive ritual
rubereaglenest
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(13 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Wastes
Procedural Wasteland Rpg!
Huw2k8
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(14 total ratings)
Role Playing
Escape from Kettuloch
Escape the dungeon before you fully transform into a fox!
SnepShark
Rated 4.2 out of 5 stars
(39 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
Your Darkest Thoughts
It's bad to keep your negative thoughts for yourself.
Tyu
Rated 4.2 out of 5 stars
(29 total ratings)
Play in browser
Helmouth Halls
A narrative-driven teen slasher
Yarn Spinner
Rated 4.2 out of 5 stars
(33 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Bury me, my Love
Bury me my Love tells the story of Syrian refugee Nour and her husband Majd, as Nour undertakes a journey to safety.
Dear Villagers
Rated 4.1 out of 5 stars
(50 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
GIF
An Exact Map of the Empire
What the Emperor demands is impossible. Or is it?
Avery Hiebert
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(10 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Nova: Synthesis Creaturum
A free fantasy visual novel about magic, monsters, and more--download now!
Nova: Synthesis Creaturum
Rated 4.2 out of 5 stars
(27 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Where the Sun Always Shines
A self-obsessed writer searches for inspiration.
ebi-hime
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Femme
a text based, trans* femme dress-up party!
mayaxlove
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Remember To Forget
What if the things that go bump in the night are just pieces of our past?
josieking
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Cozy Simulation 2999
Cozy horror game.
Kanderwund
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Little Red Riding Hood
Once upon a time, there was a dear little girl who was loved by everyone who looked at her...
cleaperie
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(12 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
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