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Retro

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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Dark Fates
a psychological mystery text adventure
RemEntertainment
Rated 3.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Adventure
Infer-No. 079 (Version 1.1)
Be careful what you seek for...
Colespy
Rated 3.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Adventure
Play in browser
School Time!
Someone arrives at your door, but you need to get your kids to school!
Nyzrfyrn
Rated 3.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Deck the Halls, Gieves
A text adventure in which you help Bartie Worster to navigate Christmas with aunts and schemers.
Verdant Tome
Rated 3.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
DracOS™
©1993 GâtSoft, inc. LON, UK
J. Isaac Gadient
Rated 3.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
The Gate
Many have tried. As many have failed. You must discover the secrets of THE GATE, and destroy it.
ThirtyThree
Rated 3.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Play in browser
Afterlife
An oldschool point and click adventure; made in PowerPoint!
Logham
Rated 3.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Adventure
LAND/LORD
Trivial strategy game for the ZX Spectrum
No Time To Play
Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Strategy
Play in browser
The Path to Power (demo)
16284 lines of code that are meant to be played
No one1
Rated 0.0 out of 5 stars
(0 total ratings)
Adventure
GIF
BLESS (Blood+Flesh+Soul)
A novel about nobody in this harsh, cruel, antagonistic world.
Maha Deoh
Rated 0.0 out of 5 stars
(0 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Space Quest
thomas wolfing
Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Play in browser
Trawel
An old school open world text-adventure rpg where you fight to gain better equipment in a fantasy setting.
realDragon
Rated 0.0 out of 5 stars
(0 total ratings)
Role Playing
Search for the Lost Ark
The Ark of the Covenant has been hidden in the local forest. You must find it and return it to your church.
Garry Francis
Rated 2.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Doom Demastered
Doom as it was meant to be played - a turn-based roguelike text adventure.
MugaSofer
Rated 1.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Action
Body, Make a Machine
A Collection of Unfinished Interactive Fiction
AfterglowGames
Rated 1.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Hypnosis
Mar
Rated 1.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Bulls & Cows
4-digits puzzle game
fliar
Rated 1.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Puzzle
Play in browser
Evo
Rpg, simulation, and text-based with realistic ballistic physics and injuries
Limb Damage Games
Rated 1.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Role Playing
pyOS's Test Program
'You're not the program.'
Daver The Dave
Rated 1.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Cult Manager Tycoon
Inspire, recruit & keep your cultists devoted in the satirical cult manager sim!
Cheapshot Games
Rated 2.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Simulation
Lost in the Jungle
Silly little adventure game for the ZX Spectrum
No Time To Play
Rated 2.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Adventure
Play in browser
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