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Featuring aesthetics, gameplay, or themes reminiscent of classic video games. Often characterized by pixel art, chiptune music, or mechanics popularized in earlier gaming eras.

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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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WORLD OF HORROR
$19.99
1bit adventure game of cosmic horror inspired by the work of Junji Ito
panstasz
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(600 total ratings)
Role Playing
GIF
Pixel Fireplace
$4.99
Type commands, roast marshmallows, throw logs onto a crackling fire. Enjoy
Ted Martens
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(155 total ratings)
Simulation
GIF
Code 7 - Episodes 2 & 3 Available Now
$22.99
What would you do if you found yourself trapped on an eerie space station with nothing but a computer?
Goodwolf Studio
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(66 total ratings)
Adventure
Perfect Tides
$14.99
Perfect Tides is a point and click adventure game about the agony and anticipation of being a teen.
Meredith GranVerified Account
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(32 total ratings)
Adventure
GIF
I doesn't exist
$12.99
An ode to text-adventures.
DreadXP
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(34 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
The Crimson Diamond FULL GAME
$14.99
A cozy mystery adventure game set in early 1900s Ontario, Canada!
JuliaMinamata
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(12 total ratings)
Adventure
Home Safety Hotline
$14.99
A horror game about working in a 90's call center.
Night Signal Entertainment
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(32 total ratings)
Puzzle
Dave Microwaves Games Trilogy I
$1.50
A collection of horror games, each with their own distinct styles
Dave Microwaves Games
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(15 total ratings)
Adventure
Your Future Self
$2.99
A time-loop based experimental text adventure.
Contortionist Games
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(147 total ratings)
Adventure
GIF
Indiepocalypse #17
$15
Issue #17 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.
PIZZAPRANKSVerified Account
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
Chimera Crusader: Defender of Dominicus
$0
-100%
ASCII Action! As minimal as an RPG can get
MansterSoft
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(13 total ratings)
Role Playing
Swords of Freeport
$15
Text-Mode Social RPG
Elissa Black
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(7 total ratings)
Role Playing
Oatboy vs. Slime Mold
$0
-100%
You're an ASCII Oat; Dodge the ASCII Slime Mold!
MansterSoft
Rated 4.2 out of 5 stars
(14 total ratings)
Action
GIF
The Mr. Dude 4-in-1 Poopy-Pak
$0
-100%
Four ASCII Games; One Poopy Pack!
MansterSoft
Rated 3.9 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Proper Detective 2000
1.50€
A couple has been brutally murdered in their house last night. Are you up to solve the mystery?
kernel_dc
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Puzzle
Play in browser
Open Sorcery: Sea++
$14.99
You wake up at the bottom of the ocean, surrounded by broken memories. Reclaim your magic or drown in a sea of dreams.
OpenSorceryGames
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
The Zen of Kayaking
$7.50
50% more
An 80KB interactive-fiction text adventure.
pixel_turkey
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Adventure
[SIBERIA]
£1
A small text-adventure survival game.
MSSNG
Rated 3.3 out of 5 stars
(38 total ratings)
Adventure
Dream Warrior
$4.99
Not everyone can be the hero. You, for example, are the town drunk.
Robert from High Tower Games
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Role Playing
The Morning Star (2023)
$2.20
-45%
Dareint
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Heroes & Cowards – The Pentagram of Power (C64)
$5.99
A classic adventure for Commodore C64
Protovision
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Adventure
GIF
Carousel
$10
-50%
A minimalist TV typewriter for creative notetaking
Party Time! Hexcellent!
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Educational
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
Hamlet - The text adventure
$5
Shakespearean text adventure
Robin Johnson
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Transmissions
$1.49
These are the log entries of a grumpy space traveler.
rembrandx
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
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