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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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Chimera Crusader: Defender of Dominicus
$0
-100%
ASCII Action! As minimal as an RPG can get
MansterSoft
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(14 total ratings)
Role Playing
AWAKE Prototype
You awake alone, on a damaged and abandoned starship.
Hamish Smithers
Rated 4.2 out of 5 stars
(66 total ratings)
Play in browser
You are SpamZapper 3.1
A spam filter and their fellow plugins get horribly entangled in the affairs of their human's friends
Leon
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
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)
GIF
Type 'n Jump
A text-based platformer, made for Ludum Dare 41 | Combine 2 Incompatible Genres
The Jucas
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(16 total ratings)
Platformer
Play in browser
Assessment
Bee BraunVerified Account
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(13 total ratings)
Hamurabi
A port of the classic 1968 resource management game
Adventuron
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(10 total ratings)
Strategy
Play in browser
Hifuu OS
Gensokyo Cyber Outlaw.
Hefan
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Adventure
häx_processer
Process häxes using our state-of-the-art häx processing terminal
Tomi
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(11 total ratings)
Puzzle
Little Red Riding Hood
Once upon a time, there was a dear little girl who was loved by everyone who looked at her...
cleaperie
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(12 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
Oatboy vs. Slime Mold
$0
-100%
You're an ASCII Oat; Dodge the ASCII Slime Mold!
MansterSoft
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(15 total ratings)
Action
Swords of Freeport
$15
Text-Mode Social RPG
Elissa Black
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(7 total ratings)
Role Playing
Terminal Sickness
Post-pandemic story driven text adventure.
Turnaround Games
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(10 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Lunarrota
Climb the Mountain. Kill the Goddess.
Luis S.
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(11 total ratings)
Role Playing
Classic Rogue - Oryx Design Lab Tiles
A new version of classic Rogue, updated using Ultimate Roguelike Tileset
oryxdesignlab
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
Enclosure 3-D
Arctic horror adventure, now in full 3D.
mausimus
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(7 total ratings)
Adventure
In The Trees
A text-based speculative horror game
Caspian Depression Games
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Simorgh
A text-based adventure for the Playdate
Yellow Limehouse
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
Adventure
OSTRO - A System Investigation
A system-based investigative adventure. Ludum Dare 50.
Totteri
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(7 total ratings)
Puzzle
Play in browser
Swapped
Old windows themed horror game.
Takeo Noname
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
L'île Tristam
Une aventure textuelle pour ordinateurs rétro
Hugo Labrande
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Kingdom: La historia de una dinastía promedio
Basado en hechos reales
Culo
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Cave.EXE
Quirky text-based horror adventure.
Wild Jerboa
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
Adventure
Play in browser
GIF
The Mr. Dude 4-in-1 Poopy-Pak
$0
-100%
Four ASCII Games; One Poopy Pack!
MansterSoft
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(10 total ratings)
confess
feel bad about something? confess and be punished
Dámhín (Daw-Veen)
Rated 3.9 out of 5 stars
(14 total ratings)
Play in browser
Halloween Hypertales
Stories to chill your bones!
Quantum Sheep
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Welcome to the Universe
We're all just dots on a screen.
Colton Olds
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Seek A Way Out
A Capitalist Dystopian Escape Room
PRINCESS INTERNET CAFé
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Stand Elsewhere
Oregon Trail-themed interactive fiction based on Stand By Me
postgoodism
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Don't Be A Stranger
A nostalgic self reflection exercise disguised as a Gameboy game.
Harry Tortus
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Simulation
Play in browser
Mind OS
A Tool for Health Now, A Concept for the Future.
KiraFarron
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Simulation
Play in browser
Профессия следователь
casper_nn
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Infestity Assessment
An analog horror experience
pan-te
Rated 4.1 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
U.F.O Text Quest
A classic text adventure in the style of interactive fiction from computers from the 80s
Tuesday Street
Rated 3.7 out of 5 stars
(20 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
樺ヶ原脱出 - Escape from Kabagahara
You see a path to Kabagahara, will you take it?
Edouard Moinard
Rated 3.7 out of 5 stars
(17 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
GIF
Indiepocalypse #49
$15
Issue #49 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.
PIZZAPRANKSVerified Account
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
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