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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
(602 total ratings)
Role Playing
Throne of Ashes
$2
Break the curse and uncover your fire.
13Leagues
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(490 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Chronicles of Taldun: The Remainder
$20.99
-25%
A story of love, death and lies.
Nim
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(100 total ratings)
Visual Novel
10mg: Cover Me In Leaves
$2
In bundle
A short kinetic novel — on bright minds, and the end of all things.
Elliot Herriman
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(142 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
WAS/WERE
$1
-75%
Murdering a person that hurt you is hot, right?
RodFireProductions
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(52 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Eczema Angel Orifice
$5
beautiful twine compilation
xrafstar
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(50 total ratings)
Adventure
Remnants Of The Past - Act 1
$6.99
A fantasy and love story influenced by the Guanche culture.
Domakir
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(96 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
I EAT MANTRAS FOR BREAKFAST
$7.77
SCREAMFEAST
Maria Mison
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(47 total ratings)
Mr. Rainer's Solve-It Service
$2.50
-50%
When the last thread becomes entangled, their song will be heard.
etherane
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(50 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Beyond the Chiron Gate
$5
-50%
Text-based space exploration game
John Ayliff
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(49 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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
Warsim: The Realm of Aslona
$9.99
Huw2k8
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(41 total ratings)
Simulation
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
(34 total ratings)
Adventure
GIF
Type Knight
$3.99
Purge the graveyard from the forces of Evil by using your typing skills.
chaikadev
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(35 total ratings)
Fallacy Quiz
$8
Sharpen your critical thinking skills in this quiz game that challenges you to spot rhetorical fallacies.
Tim Krief
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(23 total ratings)
Educational
Life Eater
$14.99
A horror fantasy kidnapping sim.
Strange Scaffold
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(20 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
GIF
I doesn't exist
$12.99
An ode to text-adventures.
DreadXP
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(35 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
if not us
$7
an IF anthology about five heroes who die
ub4q
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(82 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Home Safety Hotline
$11.99
-20%
A horror game about working in a 90's call center.
Night Signal Entertainment
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(33 total ratings)
Puzzle
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
Detectiveland
$5
Detective noir clickable text adventure
Robin Johnson
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(14 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Holiday Magic: A Wayhaven Christmas Story
$6.49
Christmas has come to Wayhaven! And it's magical…quite literally.
Seraphinite Games
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(44 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
GIF
_transfer
$10
a story about computers, memory, and the end of the world
Abyssal Uncreations
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(20 total ratings)
Adventure
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
Paradise
$1
Paradise is an interactive fiction playground.
Rek & Devine
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(10 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
GIF
Blackout: The Darkest Night
$4.19
-30%
Once you glimpse behind the shadows, you’ll never be the same.
MiniChimera
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(10 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
VOCÊ É UM DEFUNTO MECÂNICO
$1
As suas escolhas não importam.
Virgula Leal
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(10 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Chatventures
$3
In bundle
text-adventure MMORPG
Sokpop CollectiveVerified Account
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(22 total ratings)
Role Playing
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
IN THE ARMS OF THE NIGHT
£2.40
A novel-length "bat-romance" Twine.
polymer despair
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(24 total ratings)
The Salt Keep
$4.99
A traveling salesman's struggle to survive a night of horror
Small Gray Games
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(20 total ratings)
Adventure
Play in browser
Sorry We're Open
$3.99
-50%
Welcome to the Corporate Ladder.
oates
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(55 total ratings)
Role Playing
SHINRAI - Broken Beyond Despair
$7.49
-50%
A Murder Mystery Visual Novel.
GosatsuVNs
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(10 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Love Exalt 8372
$4.99
-50%
A visual novel about a death game which erupts aboard a train
Veki
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
GIF
Indiepocalypse #22
$10.05
-33%
Issue #22 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.
PIZZAPRANKSVerified Account
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Date The Lizard!
$1
Date a soft dragon boy! There is absolutely no fiery dystopia!
RoAnna Sylver
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(17 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
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