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Story Rich

Games with a heavy focus on storytelling and narrative.

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Text based

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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An adventure rogue-like where age is your enemy
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Adventure
It's your first date at the cinema. Will you hold hands?
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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A game about the weirdness of balancing online love and real life.
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(28 total ratings)
Visual Novel
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Text-based open world roguelike
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
A text-based roguelike, for mobile
Rated 4.2 out of 5 stars
(32 total ratings)
Role Playing
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a narrative journey through remembering, witnessing, and trauma
Rated 4.1 out of 5 stars
(42 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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The Nowhere - Twine Game
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(10 total ratings)
Adventure
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Short demo in which you run some errands for your Gran. But there's something magical in the woods...
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(10 total ratings)
Role Playing
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A narrative-driven teen slasher
Rated 4.1 out of 5 stars
(34 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Second act of the fantasy and love story influenced by the Guanche culture.
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(11 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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A self-obsessed writer searches for inspiration.
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Visual Novel
a post-mortality puzzle-hex
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
Puzzle
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Trigger Warning! This game examines life in an abusive relationship
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
Role Playing
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Get attached to a stranger in five minutes or less.
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(7 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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What, so like, we're just going to sit here for an hour?
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(7 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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Issue #51 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.
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Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(7 total ratings)
A free fantasy visual novel about magic, monsters, and more--download now!
Rated 4.2 out of 5 stars
(26 total ratings)
Visual Novel
A cooking mystery game about time. Except it's not a cooking game.
Rated 4.2 out of 5 stars
(13 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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A Steven Universe fangame
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Role Playing
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Narrative Horror game for the DreadXP Extraterrestrial Terror Jam 2024
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Gensokyo Cyber Outlaw.
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
Adventure
a short story about passing time and losing patience.
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(7 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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a one-second rpg character backstory & motive generator
Rated 4.2 out of 5 stars
(12 total ratings)
Role Playing
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An ambient text-based experience inspired by meditation... Your thoughts are yours and yours alone...
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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A short parser-like game inspired by some of Sam Barlow's games. Made for the LD37.
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
Visual Novel
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Choose between exploring jungle tropics or navigating deep into a bioluminescent sea.
Rated 4.1 out of 5 stars
(15 total ratings)
Role Playing
Enemies on camera, enemies off camera!
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(7 total ratings)
Visual Novel
a to-do list where you plan your tasks and seize the day!
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(7 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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Alone, but for the worms and mushrooms
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(7 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
A game about a vampire plastic surgeon
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(7 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Kevin wants to show what his life would be and why. 他用没人懂的语言写了一本书。
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
Adventure
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Old windows themed horror game.
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
A cyberpunk text-based game inspired by the 70s BBC short films.
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
Adventure
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Interactive story as an emergency dispatcher
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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