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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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An adventure game in Notepad about a kid who seeks revenge.
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(26 total ratings)
Adventure
You don't know who you are, or where you are. How will you be remembered by your friends and enemies?
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(10 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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text-adventure MMORPG
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(22 total ratings)
Role Playing
a deep space coffee shop au
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(12 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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Trust. Rebirth. Life after death.
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(14 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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special girls special girls special girls
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(64 total ratings)
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It only takes one night to change everything.
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(69 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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Text-based horror-romance dating(?) sim
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(29 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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You have 20 seconds to determine your fate.
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(135 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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Throw together wild spells as you attempt to repair your broken spellbook!
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(19 total ratings)
Adventure
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A game about toxic love.
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(25 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
L'espoir renaît.
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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An adventure in a chocolate factory
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(59 total ratings)
Visual Novel
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nostalgia, jumping around in time, and clearing out your childhood room
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(11 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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A workplace horror game, playable in 5 minutes.
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(12 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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An escape room as a text adventure!
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(38 total ratings)
Puzzle
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a short conversation with an undeveloped character
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(15 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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On an oversee trip twelve teenagers find themselves stranded on a remote island...
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(72 total ratings)
Simulation
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Once you glimpse behind the shadows, you’ll never be the same.
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
A narrative game about duck platforming and holding hands
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Platformer
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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For some people it can be hard to identify their emotions
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(13 total ratings)
Educational
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be a butcher on a strange planet
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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A warm and fluffy adventure.
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Visual Novel
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A simple fool desires the "CURSED CHALICE"...
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Adventure
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a Shutter Stroll fiction
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(19 total ratings)
Adventure
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Pick a card.
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(19 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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stream of consciousness deep-sea twine
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
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Something isn't right in Ashwood Grove.
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Navigate obsessive compulsive disorder, try to get some sleep
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(11 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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You are the enemy of yourself, or maybe the friend? It's always the fight with you that's hard to win.
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(10 total ratings)
Visual Novel
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squatters folklore. build a house in a single night
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(12 total ratings)
A narrative dungeon-crawler
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(12 total ratings)
Puzzle
The horizon is a haze of polluted ash.
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(13 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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It’s March of 2020, you were just sent home from university because of the coronavirus, you have some small regrets.
Rated 4.2 out of 5 stars
(26 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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