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Featuring aesthetics, gameplay, or themes reminiscent of classic video games. Often characterized by pixel art, chiptune music, or mechanics popularized in earlier gaming eras.

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GIF
Buddy Simulator 1984 DEMO
Create your own virtual best buddy and play games together!
Not a Sailor Studios
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(297 total ratings)
Simulation
The House Abandon - Now part of 'Stories Untold'!
A nostalgic horror adventure game, inside another horror game, inside a tv show, inside a game.
jonNoCode
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(101 total ratings)
Adventure
GIF
We Never Left: <Standalone>
On a dark and stormy night in 1983, the phone rings. “FINISH THE GAME”.
FYRE Games
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(53 total ratings)
Adventure
FARA
A browser roguelike with over 60 classes and endless adventure
BrianIsCreative
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(203 total ratings)
Role Playing
Play in browser
System Processing
Ov, a digital caretaker, spends their last day of work with Laðə, a curious alien.
albie
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(31 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
There's just something about u
A literal text adventure about a conversation between u and i
GooseStranger
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(35 total ratings)
Platformer
Play in browser
please tell me you love me
can you admit your feelings at the end of the world?
ellis dex
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(73 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Tristam Island
An Infocom-style adventure for retro computers
Hugo Labrande
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(17 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
GIF
The Secret Life of Probes Prologue
Story in the far reaches of space and time.
Elyon
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(15 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Vermis - Fan Game
text based fan game based off the artist Plastiboo's art book.
Adam Duehring
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(23 total ratings)
Adventure
Play in browser
Blood On The Snow
A narrative adventure game.
Maricu
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(30 total ratings)
Adventure
Children of the Flower
Defy your father and take on a God(flower)
wombok
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(14 total ratings)
Role Playing
Play in browser
GIF
ZOZ
An open world deckbuilder adventure game for ZZT.
WiL
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(18 total ratings)
Card Game
Play in browser
TYPE:CAST
Cast demons back to hell with the power of speed typing.
Not Jam
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(22 total ratings)
Action
Play in browser
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
Pyramid Builder
Grow a civilization, Build a Pyramid
standardcombo
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(84 total ratings)
Simulation
TTYL
Keep up with the group chat or get kicked out in this nostalgic typing game!
302 Slices
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(57 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
I Am A Game.
This is a game. There's not much more to this. This is a game.
Codebolt
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(28 total ratings)
Play in browser
COLD SCREAM
Survival Horror Text Adventure
1AM TRAIN
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(27 total ratings)
Survival
You Are a Skeleton & That Is a Problem (for Game Boy)
A point-&-click text adventure for Game Boy, typeset with my typewriter.
Nicky Flowers
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(18 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Wumpus Wump You
Proof of concept randomized text-driven undirected graph simulator
gate
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(16 total ratings)
Puzzle
Play in browser
Leximan - ORIGINAL CONCEPT PROTOTYPE
Throw together wild spells as you attempt to repair your broken spellbook!
MaxAmaden
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(19 total ratings)
Adventure
Play in browser
A Very Bold Character
A cute textmode platformer
Adel Faure
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(12 total ratings)
Adventure
Play in browser
Alone Among The Stars (Game Boy port)
A Game Boy port of the journalling TTRPG
donotrunwithpixels
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(12 total ratings)
Role Playing
Play in browser
Warp Cinema
You wake at the cinema. The movie is over. Your friend is missing. Déjà vu grips you tight. It's all happened before.
Cosmic Void
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(19 total ratings)
Adventure
GIF
Ace Baker
A cyberpunk cake-baking game about an asexual couple... in the future!
*AAmici
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(27 total ratings)
Puzzle
Play in browser
Dialogue 3-D
Ramsey Nasser
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(50 total ratings)
Shooter
Play in browser
You are SpamZapper 3.1
A spam filter and their fellow plugins get horribly entangled in the affairs of their human's friends
Leon
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
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
AWAKE Prototype
You awake alone, on a damaged and abandoned starship.
Hamish Smithers
Rated 4.1 out of 5 stars
(62 total ratings)
Play in browser
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
Assessment
Bee BraunVerified Account
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(12 total ratings)
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
Dream Team
A Millennial Dream Simulator
PRINCESS INTERNET CAFé
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Terminal Sickness
Post-pandemic story driven text adventure.
Turnaround Games
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(10 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Lunarrota
Climb the Mountain. Kill the Goddess.
Luis S.
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(11 total ratings)
Role Playing
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