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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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A text choice romance in an apocalyptic setting.
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(1,491 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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Fake date. Fall in love. Murder. Party. Rinse and repeat.
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(250 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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[ INACTIVE ] A fantasy horror IF WIP.
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(181 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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Why have a pet rock when you can have a pet planet? Micromanage this cosmic rock to places never thought possible!
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(194 total ratings)
Simulation
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A fantasy interactive story with mild horror elements (16+)
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(22 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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[ INACTIVE ] proof of concept of a text-based horror game.
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(18 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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A multiple-choice-adventure-roguelike about testing a dungeon.
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(13 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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A Choose your own Adventure Text Game about going to Hogwarts
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(30 total ratings)
Role Playing
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Fantasy interactive fiction based on asian mythology and other cultures
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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Lovecraftian first person point and click adventure
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Adventure
help the grim reaper decorate their apartment
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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Hypertext MMO
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Role Playing
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Text based horror game, where you play as Cecilia, a blind woman, on the night that someone breaks into her house.
Rated 3.8 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Adventure
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enter the spiral
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Welcome to C.V.I.E This is THE most unstable AI in the works. Aggressive, speciest, and somehow lovable.
Rated 3.8 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Adventure
A Text Adventure based on Tim Ruswick's "Space Goats 2"
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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a twisted, tangled fairy tale
Rated 3.7 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Role Playing
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You are on a submarine.
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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A cyberpunk interactive fiction about talking your way into places where you don't belong.
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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You’d better watch that mouth o’ yours, partner.
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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A short demo for an up and coming interactive story
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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An unofficial fangame in the Drakengard/Nier Lore entirely textual
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Visual Novel
A short demo for an ASCII, horror, text-based adventure.
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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text-based multiple choice adventure
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Adventure
A text only horror game about getting to breakfast.
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Simulation
I'm gonna make a better quiz out of this at some point...
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
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It's about lesbians on motorcycles. The end.
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Role Playing
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A plague takes over...Can you find out why?
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Role Playing
Retro Text-Based RPG
Rated 3.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Adventure
there's a maze, a garden, and a giant magpie (he's a dick)
Rated 3.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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Rated 0.0 out of 5 stars
(0 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Rated 2.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Adventure
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Just Think of a Number
Rated 1.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Puzzle
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