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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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Low-Tech-O-Rama
A discussion on low-tech with a Commodore 64's modified AI.
Miramar
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Play in browser
GIF
ASCII Dungeon
Text-based dungeon crawler in the vein of Ultima or Wizardry
Jack Morgan
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Role Playing
LAKE Adventure
by Eddie Hughes, Copywrong 1993 | Revisited by Ed Hughes, March 2020.
bjbest60
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Stand Elsewhere
Oregon Trail-themed interactive fiction based on Stand By Me
postgoodism
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Welcome to the Universe
We're all just dots on a screen.
Colton Olds
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
And Then You Come to a House Not Unlike the Previous One
An iterative fiction.
bjbest60
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Cursèd Pickle of Shireton
Evil, sealed away for Aeons, has been Released.
Hanon Ondricek
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Le miroir d'Ozivior
Relevez le défi imposé par votre ami Ozivior de l'académie de magie dans cette fiction interactive.
samuel_v2
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Hard Rain
Survive the coming storm
Not Jam
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Survival
Play in browser
Nutca
Descarga Nutca, una aventura conversacional para Spectrum y Windows
Diego Pardal
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Adventure
Cave.EXE
Quirky text-based horror adventure.
Wild Jerboa
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Adventure
Play in browser
Lars
A graphic psychological horror text adventure
hankworx
Rated 3.8 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
Cyber Purge
Post-cyberpunk shooting action for ZZT
The Green Herring
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Action
Play in browser
Color the Truth
A conversational murder mystery in text adventure form.
mathbrush
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Adventure
Play in browser
RetroBASIC
Classic BASIC Online Interpreter
Retronomicon Games Quality
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Educational
Play in browser
Frantic Fanfic
A creative writing party game!
FranticFanfic
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
Trybe
Text mode hyperminimalist 4x game.
WiL
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Simulation
Play in browser
NetRipper
Hacker, you've been recruited. Do you have what it takes to infiltrate a corporation's network?
BazzaGibbs
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Puzzle
Play in browser
Je fais pousser des ronces
Un poème pour GameBoy
Velvet
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Tristam Island - FREE DEMO
An Infocom-style adventure for retro computers
Hugo Labrande
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Carpathian Vampire (TALP)
A vampire has been killing children in a village in the Carpathian Mountains. The villagers have hired you to kill it.
Garry Francis
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
MUME: Multi-Users in Middle-earth
Lord of the Rings multiplayer text-based online game
jahara
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Role Playing
Play in browser
Main Course - Director's Cut
This time, *you're* the Alien! Play as a captured SoMorph, trying to get home...
Quantum Sheep
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Adventure
Play in browser
HAMURABI
Lua port of the ancient computer game
Random Unit
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Strategy
GIF
ARES - Automated Relay System
Awaiting command...
ChXris
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Puzzle
Play in browser
TWO
A Puzzle Heavy Text Adventure Game Using Two Words
Adventuron
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Lost Mountain
A text-based Planescape: Torment tribute
okushimo
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
RIG Veteran
Cyberpunk mech combat. Plays like Rock-Paper-Scissors.
Sk1tzFr3n1k
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Strategy
Play in browser
Absence of Law
A text adventure with a twist.
mathbrush
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Adventure
Play in browser
pureblue
Cyborg repossession. Temporal compression. All the fun of waiting for an .exe to finish running.
Ruffian Rabbit
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Puzzle
Play in browser
Whether
Whether it is the beginning or the end
Harlequin Diver
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Super Star Trek (VIC-20)
Stand-alone version of the classic terminal game
electron.greg
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Simulation
A Dragon and the Tower
A Tiny Text Adventure Game
Khaelenmore Thaal
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Hamurabi
A port of the classic text-based strategy video game of land and resource management
Strani Anelli
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Strategy
Play in browser
Into Vast Yonder
A fun and short text-based game
QuasarBean Games
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Play in browser
Alien Science
icefallgames
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Adventure
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