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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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SPACE FROG!
-30%
a story of a frog in space.
npckc
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(610 total ratings)
Adventure
Play in browser
Chronicles of Tal’Dun: The Remainder
$9.99
-50%
A story of love, death and lies.
Nim
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(92 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Fantasy Tea Generator
-30%
Generate a name for your fantasy tea.
npckc
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(88 total ratings)
Play in browser
Beyond the Chiron Gate
$5
-50%
Text-based space exploration game
John Ayliff
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(39 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
GIF
Type Knight
$2.99
-25%
Purge the graveyard from the forces of Evil by using your typing skills.
chaikadev
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(35 total ratings)
Home Safety Hotline
$13.49
-10%
A horror game about working in a 90's call center.
Night Signal Entertainment
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(23 total ratings)
Puzzle
if not us
$4.20
-40%
an IF anthology about five heroes who die
ub4q
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(80 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Sorry We're Open
$3.99
-50%
Welcome to the Corporate Ladder.
oates
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(54 total ratings)
Role Playing
GIF
Indiepocalypse #22
$10.50
-30%
Issue #22 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.
PIZZAPRANKS
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
GIF
Blackout: The Darkest Night
$3.89
-35%
Once you glimpse behind the shadows, you’ll never be the same.
MiniChimera
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
SHINRAI - Broken Beyond Despair
$7.49
-50%
A Murder Mystery Visual Novel.
GosatsuVNs
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Visual Novel
GIF
Indiepocalypse #17
$10.50
-30%
Issue #17 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.
PIZZAPRANKS
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
GIF
Indiepocalypse #9
$10.50
-30%
Issue #9 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.
PIZZAPRANKS
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
GIF
Indiepocalypse #33
$10.50
-30%
Issue #33 of a curated monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.
PIZZAPRANKS
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
GIF
Indiepocalypse #51
$10.50
-30%
Issue #51 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.
PIZZAPRANKS
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
GIF
Indiepocalypse #1
$10.50
-30%
Issue #1 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.
PIZZAPRANKS
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
Acolyte
$2.74
-75%
A narrative ARG/Detective game that gives you your own digital assistant.
SUPERSTRING
Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars
(14 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Subtext
$3.98
-43%
A mystery told through real SMS messages, phone calls, and emails.
William O'Connell
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Witches and Bandits and Swords (Oh My)
$0
-100%
A playful, interactive graphic novel adventure by Krunchy Fried Games. Ages 13+.
Krunchy Fried Games
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
GIF
Indiepocalypse #44
$10.50
-30%
Issue #44 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.
PIZZAPRANKS
Rated 4.2 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Pathway
$0.30
-90%
Mini-books within mini-books.
Studio CloudScape
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Puzzle
Revenge of the Antagonist
$1.39
In bundle
Enemies on camera, enemies off camera!
ChaniMK
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Peculiar Fables: The Werebed
$0.50
-50%
A short horror story about werebeds... SO YOU MAY NEVER EVER AGAIN SLEEP!
Whitewatt
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
CAFE 0 ~The Sleeping Beast~
$7.64
-55%
What kind of fate will the heroine face after she relives the last seven days before her death?
roseverte
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Visual Novel
The Rat Pack (Full version)
$2.19
-80%
A rat colony simulator!
CaptainD
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Strategy
Desert of Vice
$1.49
-50%
A narrative based horror text adventure game with choice dependent multiple endings.
karolisd
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Adventure
Microcrawl
$0.59
-80%
Microcrawl is a bite sized point and click 2D adventure text hybrid
ZPJ Interactive
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Adventure
Escape from Norwood
$3.59
-40%
An illustrated text adventure set in a vivid open world where everyone has an agenda.
Singular Works
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Adventure
The Temporal Invasion (ARG)
$3.49
-50%
Do you want to feel like REAL Mystery Solver and Explorer?
Hybriona Labs
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Adventure
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