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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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$6.99
A mystery told through real SMS messages, phone calls, and emails.
Interactive Fiction
A fantasy and love story influenced by the Guanche culture.
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Undersea horror where your only form of navigation is an unreliable AI.
Adventure
Text-based space exploration game
Interactive Fiction
A cozy mystery adventure game set in early 1900s Ontario, Canada!
Adventure
Murdering a person that hurt you is hot, right?
Interactive Fiction
Christmas has come to Wayhaven! And it's magical…quite literally.
Interactive Fiction
an IF anthology about five heroes who die
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
An ode to text-adventures.
Interactive Fiction
A narrative game built from historical records
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Interactive Fiction
Henry! It's me, it's Sheepy! It's so co-o-old!
Interactive Fiction
When the last thread becomes entangled, their song will be heard.
Interactive Fiction
Perfect Tides is a point and click adventure game about the agony and anticipation of being a teen.
Meredith GranVerified Account
Adventure
A text role-playing game about the fate of a mercenary. Investigate appearance of “ghosts” and help residents.
Adventure
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$2.99
Everything in the State, nothing against the State, nothing outside the State.
Adventure
beautiful twine compilation
Adventure
Type commands, roast marshmallows, throw logs onto a crackling fire. Enjoy
Simulation
A novel-length "bat-romance" Twine.
A horror game about working in a 90's call center.
Puzzle
Paradise is an interactive fiction playground.
Interactive Fiction
text-adventure MMORPG
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Role Playing
Welcome to the Corporate Ladder.
Role Playing
Purge the graveyard from the forces of Evil by using your typing skills.
Acolyte
$10.99
A narrative ARG/Detective game that gives you your own digital assistant.
Interactive Fiction
a story about computers, memory, and the end of the world
Adventure
Your boss has called to ask if you can come into work on your day off - and you don't have much choice but to go.
Interactive Fiction
A collection of horror games, each with their own distinct styles
Adventure
In this interactive sci-fi adventure novel, you are the AI pilot of Earth's last interstellar ship.
Interactive Fiction
A classic adventure for Commodore C64
Adventure
A time-loop based experimental text adventure.
Adventure
Do you want to feel like REAL Mystery Solver and Explorer?
Adventure
A traveling salesman's struggle to survive a night of horror
Adventure
Play in browser
More Rooms - More Riddles - and even more Tea!
Adventure
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