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Games with a heavy focus on storytelling and narrative.

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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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Wayfarer
Marked by complete magical immunity, Wayfarers wander the world, fighting magic. Where will your fate lead you?
Idrelle Games
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(1,524 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Scout: An Apocalypse Story
A text choice romance in an apocalyptic setting.
Anya
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(1,522 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Speaker
What do you See?
speakergame
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(1,108 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
answer these 10 questions and i'll tell you what kind of lover you are
a choose-your-own-adventure heartbreak in the shape of a quiz
frannym
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(1,473 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Project: Eden's Garden
16 talented participants enter the game. Only 2 will walk out alive.
Project: Eden's Garden
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(481 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Viatica
Your journey begins in sand and sound and silence.
Fir & Fireweed
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(447 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
God-Cursed: Demo
An interactive fiction fantasy game made with Twine. Create your character, break a curse, fall in love & make it home.
Lunan
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(436 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
Trigaea
Alter genes, survive. Sci-fi RPG. 270k+
RynGM
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(611 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Uroboros
The struggle between mortals and divinity that may end an age of divine rule.
Mistyrious
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(569 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The King's Hound
Play as King Arthur Pendragon's spouse and forge Camelot's history.
Kal Down
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(698 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Dominion of Darkness
Story-driven simulator of the Dark Lord/Lady. Use your armies, cunning and magic to conquer Free Peoples.
Adeptus7
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(253 total ratings)
Strategy
Play in browser
Eye of the Moon
Eye of the Moon is an adventure and romance story inspired by Filipino mythology.
atemaarte
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(260 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Fool Me Once
Dark Fantasy + Romance Interactive Fiction
PDRRook
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(188 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Tales of Wocdes: The Silver Protector
A fantasy twine game set is a world full of magic and mysteries.
Tales Of Wocdes
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(134 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Exiled from Court
You were exiled from Court. Now, you need to find your way back.
Beeanca Writing
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(190 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Whisper in the Dark
Whisper Game
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(242 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Project: Perfectly Normal
A free action-comedy BL game about a retired killer-for-hire who has to navigate life as a normal high school student.
peaceful-pastel
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(273 total ratings)
Visual Novel
The Gray Ascendancy
Craft the story of a villain's amnesiac henchperson on a quest to mage restoration.
grayascendancy
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(253 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
WASTE EATER
The world is saved. Its heroes wait to die.
cain
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(171 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Dead Weight
Whisper Game
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(182 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Writer Will Do Something
You are the head writer for the third game in the wildly popular ShatterGate™ franchise.
Matthew Seiji Burns
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(417 total ratings)
Play in browser
Mind Games: Trepidation
Horror, Sci-fi, Queer-friendly, and Romance... what more could you ask for?
Bottlecap Rabbit Games
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(78 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Love & Friendship
A Regency Rom-Com
Salty Stories
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(165 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Snowbound Blood
A Vast Error Story
DECONRECONSTRUCTION
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(90 total ratings)
Visual Novel
BIRDLAND
summer camp crushes & alien bird dreams
Brendan Patrick Hennessy
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(79 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Hybrid
These people aren't like you.
HeartForge
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(223 total ratings)
Role Playing
Play in browser
Bird Of Passage
A free night ride across Tokyo, searching for our home with the help of some stranger.
SpaceBackyard
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(281 total ratings)
Visual Novel
As the Ocean Lures
You are a Merfolk and was told all humans are bad. But are they?
aurelim
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(122 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
BOAT PROM
Can a gay disaster find love on the high seas?
Brendan Patrick Hennessy
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(146 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Overtaken
“Sometimes, I become the ghost.”
Dao
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(90 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Known Unknowns
Bisexual teen ghost hunting romance
Brendan Patrick Hennessy
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(83 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Just Cosplay
A game about being a teen in the early 2010s.
Deadnettle Games
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(56 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Archivist and the Revolution
The world is ending, and you are still paying rent. A future history.
Autumn Chen
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(61 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
The Painting
Those we love are never truly gone.
Tymedust Games
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(54 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
GIF
Latebus
You can't remember your name.
kapitha
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(40 total ratings)
Adventure
Play in browser
Disharmony
An investigative IF journey into the unknown.
Pink Soda Studios
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(49 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
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