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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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A game about being a teen in the early 2010s.
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(52 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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You can't remember your name.
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(40 total ratings)
Adventure
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Trust none. Follow None
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(79 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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A short slumber party text adventure ♡
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(64 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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A game about the impact of allotment acts on Indigenous communities in the 1890's.
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(48 total ratings)
Educational
weary, transformation, dog, burger, comfort
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(82 total ratings)
Simulation
Sign In again.
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(872 total ratings)
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(211 total ratings)
Simulation
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send messages, receive messages, play messages
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(253 total ratings)
Platformer
a hypertext game based on a true story and some untrue stories
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(61 total ratings)
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An interactive story about a girl who joins a beauty pageant to improve her college applications.
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(72 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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An investigative IF journey into the unknown.
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(42 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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The world is ending, and you are still paying rent. A future history.
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(50 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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You are Skynet
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(88 total ratings)
Puzzle
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10 students find themselves trapped in a luxurious mansion...
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(131 total ratings)
Visual Novel
when breathing has become a chore. when to exist is a trial.
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(109 total ratings)
Simulation
Those we love are never truly gone.
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(46 total ratings)
Visual Novel
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Venture into an abandoned orphanage, solve a mystery, and fall in love.
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(102 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play as an alchemist! Manage your shop, help (and romance!) people, and even try to brew a potion in a small mini-game!
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(86 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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Your friend invites you to his house for a sleepover with a certain set of rules
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(50 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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countless possibilities, one terrible reality
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(146 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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Understand your past. Decide your future. -- An urban fantasy narrative about life after death, in more ways than one.
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(36 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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A text-based game about the space between endings and beginnings.
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(69 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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A short story about food, belonging, and seeking home.
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(62 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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A procedurally generated, text-based fantasy RPG
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(43 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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​Fight against a stink bug invasion with science! And cyborgs! And bravery! Or cowardice - it's your choice, really.
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(131 total ratings)
Role Playing
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On a dark and stormy night in 1983, the phone rings. “FINISH THE GAME”.
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(50 total ratings)
Adventure
Social anxiety simulator/dating sim
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(45 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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Get Joestar Struck
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(120 total ratings)
Visual Novel
An interactive fiction about perfume, memory and new meanings, with heavy use of procedural generation.
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(37 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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A gamebook-style fantasy adventure for the 5th edition of the world's most popular tabletop RPG.
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(28 total ratings)
Role Playing
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2023 Neo-Twiny jam entry
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(24 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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Narrative roguelike with tokens
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(121 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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alien civilization extinction simulator
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(89 total ratings)
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I will not be just a sacrifice.
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(45 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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Mermaids vs Pirates
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(34 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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