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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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A low-rez FMV visual novel about a vacation gone wrong.
Rated 4.2 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Visual Novel
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Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Visual Novel
A visual novel about a girl, a pig and a book (Nanoreno 2017)
Rated 3.7 out of 5 stars
(7 total ratings)
Visual Novel
A pseudo-biographical text adventure about fucking up your sleep schedule!
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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a game about mars.
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Hypertext MMO
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Role Playing
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An interactive short story about a woman returning to her family home in a seaside town after her father dies.
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
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You just want to shoot that watermelon and @SvenAhlgrimm just wants to be innovative
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Shooter
Keep the world outside, outside.
Rated 3.8 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
Simulation
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A graphic psychological horror text adventure
Rated 3.8 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
Visual Novel
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Old-fashioned sound novel. Asian horror story.
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Adventure
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What kind of fate will the heroine face after she relives the last seven days before her death?
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Gather your allies and defeat the evil lich wizard.
Rated 3.6 out of 5 stars
(7 total ratings)
Role Playing
A never-ending game about the mental effects of chronic illness.
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Play in browser
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Adventure
Help Ishmael the Snail get to the Snail Party in this ASCII adventure
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Adventure
A conversational murder mystery in text adventure form.
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Adventure
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Monster girls + social anxiety at a party
Rated 3.7 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
Role Playing
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A not-so-scary story.
Rated 3.4 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
a sweet story
Rated 3.8 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Text based horror game, where you play as Cecilia, a blind woman, on the night that someone breaks into her house.
Rated 3.8 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Adventure
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Welcome to the bureaucratic hellscape that is Parasol Corp.
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Visual Novel
A texture adventure where the words are the objects!
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Adventure
Play in browser
With no options left you decide to play the stranger's twisted game.
Rated 3.3 out of 5 stars
(7 total ratings)
Adventure
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DOOM, now in convenient text form.
Rated 3.8 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Adventure
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An aquatic hyper-textual adventure for awkward sea turtles.
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
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Are you prepared to let go?
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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A text game about a positive spider, made with Twine.
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
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A short game about being an Australian white ibis.
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Adventure
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A game where time is of the essence and your future painting career hangs in the balance!
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Visual Novel
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a trauma/recovery twine
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Role Playing
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Chassez les démons d'un kébab hanté
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Adventure
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Find your way out of this Island full of mysteries.
Rated 3.8 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Role Playing
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Dodge obstacles atop your trusty Capybara. When that gets boring build your own level.
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Welcome to C.V.I.E This is THE most unstable AI in the works. Aggressive, speciest, and somehow lovable.
Rated 3.8 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Adventure
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