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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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Compliments
A very brief critique on F2P games.
Gedig
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Play in browser
Inky Battles
Simple battle system designed using Ink
Nicholas Udell
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Role Playing
Play in browser
Princess D:Terrible Times in the Kingdom of Sugar
Divine, Decisive, Delightful, Delicious, Diva, D'princess
D_Unveiled_Creative
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Shakespeare for Hire
The early days of Shakespeare as an ad-man.
AshG
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Holiday Hell
A Twine adventure about family baggage and queer identity
OrbWitch
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Prison Escape
A short text-adventure game - Try to escape your prison!
petergambell
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Adventure
Play in browser
Snozbot Air
In Economy Class, no one can hear you scream.
Snozbot
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Simulation
Play in browser
The Speaker
The words are from his mouth. But they are typed by my hand.
Norbez Jones (call me Bez)
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
= PRINZE REGENT =
EXPERIENCE the life of a weird-fantasy consort...
polymer despair
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Life on Mars?
Fiction interactive psychologique sur Mars [FR/EN]
Hugo Labrande
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Adventure
Ever-Changing Mansion
Procedurally generated text adventure
watabou
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Adventure
By Myself
floot aboot
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Play in browser
The Saga of Anders Bluebeard
A game where you need to call for help
PNam19
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Platformer
The story about racoons
a text based absurd story
ThinkingMicrowave
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Adventure
CyBer//zDvAc.
a cyberpunk bachelor/bachelorette game
Nabi Hamdi Mortan
Rated 3.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
DRMS-01
First part in a series about dreams
thatguynm
Rated 3.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
Console Hack Typer
Hacker simulator
Geniusy
Rated 3.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Simulation
GIF
Le Grand Dîner
4 players Street Cred Fighter
Le Grand Dîner
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
GIF
Workers In Progress: Special Edition - Progress Harder
Be the Greek Working Class!
Konstantinos D.
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Adventure
Using The Loo
A short text adventure made in Twine. Give it a go.
FrDougal9000
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Adventure
Play in browser
Eventually One Button (One Hour Game Jam 69)
Interactive fiction about one button
DivineOmega
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Puzzle
Play in browser
The Inevitable
A Game About Fate, Endings, and the Ties the Bind Us
Wynter
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
The Mirror
The Mirror is a metaphorical role-playing game about self-image, reflections, and reality.
gamesto.love
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Outpost 9
Classic Text Adventure
coolbreeze
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Adventure
Play in browser
GIF
The Road to Electric Picnic
Experimental flatgame for Flatgame 2016 game jam.
Len Cunningham
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Play in browser
purpose
clicky thing
eli fessler
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
El Rito De Sacrificio
A story of a girl following tradition.
Bobby V. Klein
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Role Playing
Play in browser
Little Red Walk in the Woods
Have to take the bread to Grandmother's house!
glitterflounce
Rated 3.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Play in browser
Two Words
Take the first step...
Skruffye
Rated 3.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Adventure
Guesthouse
a text adventure game built through a unity tutorial
Liyi
Rated 3.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Adventure
Play in browser
The Ritual for the Mysterious Godforce that Unites Us All
You must upapa the ritual, or the banivafts will never allow you to return to the chumvel.
Plus Ultra
Rated 3.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Visual Novel
GIF
11
Polymath
banach-tarski
Rated 3.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Kiss My Kale
Fads. Fads never change.
Allie A
Rated 3.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Adventure
Play in browser
they
chortletortle
Rated 3.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Puzzle
Kulhwch
The interactive rhyming story of Kulhwch and Olwen
Nate Taylor
Rated 3.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Adventure
Play in browser
GIF
Mr. Button (Jam Version)
Uncover the mysteries of Mr. Button
MadeByJawns
Rated 3.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Play in browser
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