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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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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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Hamurabi
A port of the classic 1968 resource management game
Adventuron
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Strategy
Play in browser
Classic Rogue - Oryx Design Lab Tiles
A new version of classic Rogue, updated using Ultimate Roguelike Tileset
oryxdesignlab
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
Hifuu OS
Gensokyo Cyber Outlaw.
Hefan
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
Adventure
Enclosure 3-D
Arctic horror adventure, now in full 3D.
mausimus
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(7 total ratings)
Adventure
In The Trees
A text-based speculative horror game
Caspian Depression Games
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Simorgh
A text-based adventure for the Playdate
Yellow Limehouse
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
Adventure
OSTRO - A System Investigation
A system-based investigative adventure. Ludum Dare 50.
Totteri
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(7 total ratings)
Puzzle
Play in browser
Swapped
Old windows themed horror game.
Takeo Noname
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Kingdom: La historia de una dinastía promedio
Basado en hechos reales
Culo
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
L'île Tristam
Une aventure textuelle pour ordinateurs rétro
Hugo Labrande
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
confess
feel bad about something? confess and be punished
Dámhín (Daw-Veen)
Rated 3.9 out of 5 stars
(14 total ratings)
Play in browser
Don't Be A Stranger
A nostalgic self reflection exercise disguised as a Gameboy game.
Harry Tortus
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Simulation
Play in browser
Профессия следователь
casper_nn
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Mind OS
A Tool for Health Now, A Concept for the Future.
KiraFarron
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Simulation
Play in browser
Seek A Way Out
A Capitalist Dystopian Escape Room
PRINCESS INTERNET CAFé
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Halloween Hypertales
Stories to chill your bones!
Quantum Sheep
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Infestity Assessment
An analog horror experience
pan-te
Rated 4.1 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
U.F.O Text Quest
A classic text adventure in the style of interactive fiction from computers from the 80s
Tuesday Street
Rated 3.7 out of 5 stars
(20 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
樺ヶ原脱出 - Escape from Kabagahara
You see a path to Kabagahara, will you take it?
Edouard Moinard
Rated 3.7 out of 5 stars
(17 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
GIF
Meadows XP
The newest and most advanced OS in the globe as of today, March 22nd, 2005
Mario Lois
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Lift Me Up
Narrative experience about humans and AI working together
vxdcxw
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
Asciipocalypse
3d first person shooter drawn using nothing but ascii characters!
wonrzrzeczny
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
Shooter
Escape the Keyboard
A text adventure, now with 100% less typing!
TPHRyan
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
Adventure
Play in browser
Solarpunk Academy
A spiritual journey to where the sun sheds light on.
Nicky Du
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
Colosseum
Create your gladiator and battle all the way to Colosseum Champion!
drakeclausen
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Role Playing
Play in browser
Сиреневый рассвет
korj_morj
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
No Substitutions
A word switch cooking game where the results are up to you.
aeta
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Glass Rooms
An interactive short story about a world where pandemics reoccur every ten years.
Avior
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
BAGELS
Ancestral Classic Game
Retronomicon Games Quality
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Simulation
Play in browser
Star Trek (1971) Text Game Remake
Remake of the 1971 BASIC Star Trek Text game in Javascript.
MakingGamesByYear
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Action
Play in browser
GIF
Psychological Assessment Test V1.0
We are there to guide you, thank you for putting your trust in PAT.
Tanija
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Consumed
Can you survive the room?
Peanut Panda
Rated 3.6 out of 5 stars
(12 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
EMALGIA (Demo)
Who Is Lying To You?
lowkeydeveloper
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Adventure
Play in browser
The Queen's Footsteps
A modern text adventure for vintage computers
Davide Bucci
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Dungeon of Choices
As a knight, you're in the dungeon, will you get the grail?
alias_tof
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Adventure
Cargo Breach
While serving aboard a steam ship during The Great War, something goes wrong and it's up to you to work out what.
Garry Francis
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
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