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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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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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Alien Science
icefallgames
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Adventure
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
WishBone 1.5.1
A quest to find the wishing star.
GamerKM
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Adventure
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
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
Light of the Dungeon
Text-Based RPG/Roguelike game
buterbrod
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Role Playing
Unkindness (Asylum Jam 2015)
A Horror in Shades of Red
Studio Turtledove / Andrea Reventon
Rated 3.8 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Adventure
I am Yours open beta
A short story about letting go.
Eigotaku
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
GIF
Cloak of Darkness [C64]
a native implementation of the classic IF demo game
Marco Giorgini
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Adventure
Brainfuck Challenge DEMO
LyricSeraph
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Puzzle
Play in browser
GIF
Five Nights at Freddy's - REPROGRAMMED
FNAF_REPROGRAMMED
Arno Capostagno
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Visual Novel
>AFFIXION
Immersive horror text adventure.
Electric
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
A Tune at the End of the World
An interactive fiction game.
Katy133
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Adventure
The strange case of Walter Donovan
No one is capable of defeating your own demons, not even you.
Girl in Red Games
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Egress
Finally, you are perfect...
Aleks Samoylov
Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Puzzle
Play in browser
Nautilus
A short Twine game about descending deep into the ocean.
SolarPink
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Castle Quest (Commodore VIC 20 16K)
An old school text adventure game.
rickyderocher
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Adventure
Somber: Card Game
Somber: Rogue is a card game where you battle your way through a dungeon maze seeking the exit.
Eduardo Francio
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Card Game
Play in browser
Text Dungeon
Small procedurally generated text based dungeon game made using DragonRuby.
jasemagee
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Adventure
Play in browser
Castle Quest (Commodore 64)
Old school text adventure game
rickyderocher
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Adventure
Stranded
Survive the unknown, make every choice count – stranded on a hostile alien world.
Forgotten
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Survival
Play in browser
Alchemist's Gold
It's rumoured that an alchemist in the forest has been turning base metals into gold. You set out to steal some of it.
Garry Francis
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Visit
Take a walk in the abandoned house
Peanut Panda
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
Bulletin Board Poetry
A group of strangers form a bond through poetry, BBSes, and the quest for eternity.
ghostsnwitches
Rated 3.7 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Play in browser
The Sun Gem
A game about stealing a gem in order to save the world
ch0ccyra1n
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Adventure
Scourge of Scavengers
Fly high!
fanimator
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Role Playing
Anagram Hacker
Shahmuradov Games
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Puzzle
Play in browser
Snowspirit
icefallgames
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Adventure
Text Tower Defense
It's sort of text based
EarthenSky
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Strategy
Play in browser
Global Thermonuclear War
A Replica of WarGames (1983)'s WOPR Simulator
alhinator
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Simulation
Play in browser
ASCIIVenture
-All the visuals are just text. Unfinished. The old Pokemon games served as inspiration.
FMProductions
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Adventure
Play in browser
Despot
Expand your kingdom and make it prosper, or just enjoy a luxurious lifestyle while your peasants starve to death.
Undestroyed
Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Strategy
Play in browser
Do you remember?
Caught in the static, you have forgotten. Find your way back.
lumin
Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Labyrinth of the Sorcerer King
A short Twine text adventure in the style of 1980s dungeon crawlers.
Brandon Vout
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Spooky Mansion (TALP)
Find your lost dog in this mansion haunted by ghosts, monsters, and skeletons!
Quizlock
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
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