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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
(601 total ratings)
Role Playing
GIF
Buddy Simulator 1984 DEMO
Create your own virtual best buddy and play games together!
Not a Sailor Studios
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(296 total ratings)
Simulation
The House Abandon - Now part of 'Stories Untold'!
A nostalgic horror adventure game, inside another horror game, inside a tv show, inside a game.
jonNoCode
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(101 total ratings)
Adventure
GIF
We Never Left: <Standalone>
On a dark and stormy night in 1983, the phone rings. “FINISH THE GAME”.
FYRE Games
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(51 total ratings)
Adventure
FARA
A browser roguelike with over 60 classes and endless adventure
BrianIsCreative
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(200 total ratings)
Role Playing
Play in browser
System Processing
Ov, a digital caretaker, spends their last day of work with Laðə, a curious alien.
albie
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(30 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
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
There's just something about u
A literal text adventure about a conversation between u and i
GooseStranger
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(33 total ratings)
Platformer
Play in browser
please tell me you love me
can you admit your feelings at the end of the world?
ellis dex
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(71 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Tristam Island
An Infocom-style adventure for retro computers
Hugo Labrande
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(17 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
GIF
The Secret Life of Probes Prologue
Story in the far reaches of space and time.
Elyon
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(15 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Blood On The Snow
A narrative adventure game.
Maricu
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(30 total ratings)
Adventure
Vermis - Fan Game
text based fan game based off the artist Plastiboo's art book.
Adam Duehring
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(20 total ratings)
Adventure
Play in browser
Children of the Flower
Defy your father and take on a God(flower)
wombok
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(14 total ratings)
Role Playing
Play in browser
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
(33 total ratings)
Adventure
GIF
ZOZ
An open world deckbuilder adventure game for ZZT.
WiL
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(18 total ratings)
Card Game
Play in browser
TYPE:CAST
Cast demons back to hell with the power of speed typing.
Not Jam
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(22 total ratings)
Action
Play in browser
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
Pyramid Builder
Grow a civilization, Build a Pyramid
standardcombo
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(83 total ratings)
Simulation
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
The Last Sanctuary
Will you guide humanity into a new era, or doom it forever?
SjoerdHekking
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(12 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
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
TTYL
Keep up with the group chat or get kicked out in this nostalgic typing game!
302 Slices
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(57 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
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
I Am A Game.
This is a game. There's not much more to this. This is a game.
Codebolt
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(28 total ratings)
Play in browser
You Are a Skeleton & That Is a Problem (for Game Boy)
A point-&-click text adventure for Game Boy, typeset with my typewriter.
Nicky Flowers
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(18 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
COLD SCREAM
Survival Horror Text Adventure
1AM TRAIN
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(26 total ratings)
Survival
Wumpus Wump You
Proof of concept randomized text-driven undirected graph simulator
gate
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(16 total ratings)
Puzzle
Play in browser
Leximan - ORIGINAL CONCEPT PROTOTYPE
Throw together wild spells as you attempt to repair your broken spellbook!
MaxAmaden
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(19 total ratings)
Adventure
Play in browser
A Very Bold Character
A cute textmode platformer
Adel Faure
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(12 total ratings)
Adventure
Play in browser
Alone Among The Stars (Game Boy port)
A Game Boy port of the journalling TTRPG
donotrunwithpixels
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(12 total ratings)
Role Playing
Play in browser
Warp Cinema
You wake at the cinema. The movie is over. Your friend is missing. Déjà vu grips you tight. It's all happened before.
Cosmic Void
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(19 total ratings)
Adventure
GIF
Ace Baker
A cyberpunk cake-baking game about an asexual couple... in the future!
*AAmici
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(27 total ratings)
Puzzle
Play in browser
Dialogue 3-D
Ramsey Nasser
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(50 total ratings)
Shooter
Play in browser
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