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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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Exiled from Court
You were exiled from Court. Now, you need to find your way back.
Beeanca Writing
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(190 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - An Affair of the Heart
Customisable MC romance detective game! 馃枻
Doriana Gray
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(82 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Social Democracy: An Alternate History
You are the Social Democratic Party of Germany in 1928. Can you stop the Nazis from taking power?
Autumn Chen
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(133 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Love & Friendship
A Regency Rom-Com
Salty Stories
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(165 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Such, Such Were the Joys
A text-based queer historical dating sim
Anamika
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(19 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Gonzague
A historical court intrigue and swashbuckling interactive story.
Oscar Arcane
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(43 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Let's Play Yophoop!
The historical children's game, now in intfic form!
June Flower
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Simulation
night houses
squatters folklore. build a house in a single night
foresthexes
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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Old-fashioned way to die
A hand-drawn detective game
ana.merzlaya
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
Visual Novel
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The Fall of Mezentople
Mezentople will fall, but your choices will shape the course.
vgel
Rated 4.1 out of 5 stars
(10 total ratings)
Simulation
Play in browser
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Speakeasy Honey
An interactive fiction game about the whirlwind romance of Charles and Dorothy in 1920s New York.
dostoevshe
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
A Musician's Solace
A 2D dialogue-driven game exploring the life of the classical musician, Clara Schumann.
dalsdoodle
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Upon A Darkening Flood
A horror tale of the Revolution on culture, heritage, and the anxieties elicited by a strange library.
Rastagong
Rated 4.2 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Last Tsar
Two Suns Interactive
Rated 3.6 out of 5 stars
(7 total ratings)
Strategy
Play in browser
The Eastern Front - 1942
Text-resa baserad p氓 andra v盲rldskriget i 脰steuropa. English.
Sen C
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Adventure
A Case of Trouble
Five interlocking interactive fiction stories, about the echoes of decisions
starkholborn
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
goto( future , past ) ;
IBM Entretainmient
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Visual Novel
The Spectators
1560. There are no secrets in the Duke's marriage to a new, young bride.
Amanda Walker
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Hittite Prince
A short historical fiction game about a Hittite prince on a journey to Egypt to marry the Queen.
Emirhan Bayyurt
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Dawn of the Soviet Ladybirds
A Cold War-themed text adventure. With ladybirds.
ChristopherMerriner
Rated 3.7 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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Death and Taxes: Debt and the Tokugawa Samurai (Twine Edition)
Save your pride. Feed your family.
Haley Price
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Educational
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KEEP SACRIFICING OR THE WORLD IS GOING TO END!
The gods are extremely angry! Can you, the king of a vaguely Sumerian/Akkadian city state, appease them?
Stark Raving Sane Games
Rated 3.3 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Strategy
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On Board of SS Aeryn
Seo
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Adventure
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A Spy's Escape
Two spies must board the last train out of the USSR
Lesleigh
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Roma Project in Early Modern England
A look at a Roma (Gypsy) life in the 16th century.
the-wandering-scholar
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Christabel
Coleridge in hypertext
Antemaion
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Blossom, NY
A virtual tour
alyshkalia
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
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
Scions of Troy
A lightly interactive novel set 17 years after the Trojan War
PyrrhaIphis
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Provenance
Explore an archive to research the history of a mysterious painting.
klahom
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Guttersnipe: The Baleful Backwash
A puzzlingly humorous text game about a 1920s street urchin escaping a silly speakeasy
bitterkarella
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Latter-Day Pamphlets
A Victorian horror of decline and ruin
Robert from High Tower Games
Rated 3.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Song of the Mockingbird
There's trouble afoot at the Crossed Keys Ranch!
Serial Offender
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Abbess Otilia's Life and Death
Codex Angliae 37 - A hagiographical work from the 13th century
ABStories
Rated 3.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Plague Year, 1665
London in the grip of the plague, will you survive?
LUHistory
Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Convoy: Across the Pit
A Game by Jack Burnham, Inspired by the Battle of the Atlantic During the Second World War.
Juvenis Festival Showcase
Rated 2.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
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