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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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Marked by complete magical immunity, Wayfarers wander the world, fighting magic. Where will your fate lead you?
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(1,486 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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a choose-your-own-adventure heartbreak in the shape of a quiz
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(1,373 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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Learn the truth and unleash your potential.
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(392 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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Play as King Arthur Pendragon's spouse and forge Camelot's history.
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(670 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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Story-driven simulator of the Dark Lord/Lady. Use your armies, cunning and magic to conquer Free Peoples.
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(254 total ratings)
Strategy
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Dark Fantasy + Romance Interactive Fiction
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(183 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Could you fall for a sinner?
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(343 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(192 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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hadopelagic false light
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Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(99 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(181 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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Uncover the dark dealings of the Turing Corporation and their mysterious RAVENOUS project.
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Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(62 total ratings)
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A dystopian urban fantasy interactive fiction game
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(182 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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A game about being a teen in the early 2010s.
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(54 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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The world is ending, and you are still paying rent. A future history.
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(56 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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Those we love are never truly gone.
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(51 total ratings)
Visual Novel
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10 students find themselves trapped in a luxurious mansion...
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(136 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play as the knight responsible for protecting the crown of the tiny kingdom of Tabalos.
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(107 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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As its resident caretaker, go on an adventure to save a retirement home for robots
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(43 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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Understand your past. Decide your future. -- An urban fantasy narrative about life after death, in more ways than one.
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(39 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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Social anxiety simulator/dating sim
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(46 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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(you're not alone)
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(49 total ratings)
Puzzle
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Ov, a digital caretaker, spends their last day of work with La冒蓹, a curious alien.
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(31 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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A story about two individuals.
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(53 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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A pre-and-post-teen mystery
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(44 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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Spam has never been so deadly.
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(85 total ratings)
Visual Novel
a retrospective chatbot
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(41 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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can you admit your feelings at the end of the world?
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(73 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(69 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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A thief on the run finds refuge on an abandoned spaceship. A lonely AI finds unexpected company.
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(18 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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A story about work and spelling
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(26 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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a scientist juggles monster-building and having a social life
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(31 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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A WIP interactive fiction. Succeed your mission, find romance or die trying
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(65 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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A text-based queer historical dating sim
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(19 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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saving the world cost the briarheart their life - it was supposed to also claim your own. but you failed. why?
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(63 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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Watch the stars with your best friend.
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(47 total ratings)
Visual Novel
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Gather craft survive #49/1922 LDJam50
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(48 total ratings)
Survival
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