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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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Type Knight
$3.99
Purge the graveyard from the forces of Evil by using your typing skills.
chaikadev
Acolyte
$10.99
A narrative ARG/Detective game that gives you your own digital assistant.
SUPERSTRING
Interactive Fiction
Nocked! True Tales of Robin Hood
$19.99
You are Robin Hood! An epic story-driven strategy-RPG blending narrative choice, resource management, and base building.
ManOfNottingham
Role Playing
The Salt Keep
$4.99
A traveling salesman's struggle to survive a night of horror
Small Gray Games
Adventure
Play in browser
GIF
SPACE FROG!
a story of a frog in space.
npckc
Adventure
Play in browser
Little Antifa Novel
A playable leaflet about a Fascist march and our counter-demonstration
Mauro Vanetti
Visual Novel
Play in browser
3am
$1
Enjoy a relaxing cup of tea.
madameberry
GIF
WASTE EATER
The world is saved. Its heroes wait to die.
cain
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
VOCÊ É UM DEFUNTO MECÂNICO
$1
As suas escolhas não importam.
Virgula Leal
Interactive Fiction
Seedship
An AI seedship must find a home for the last survivors of the human race
John Ayliff
Strategy
Play in browser
Idyll
a cosy internet island
Demi
Turn Out the Lights
A short game about coming home again.
bijan
Adventure
10mg: Cover Me In Leaves
$2
In bundle
A short kinetic novel — on bright minds, and the end of all things.
Elliot Herriman
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Siren for Hire
How a superheroine earns a living wage
Maddy Myers
Visual Novel
Play in browser
Pathway
$3
Mini-books within mini-books.
Studio CloudScape
Puzzle
GIF
Hotwriting
$10
A book of playable poems by Todd Anderson
Todd Anderson
GIF
Accuse [C64]
a native implementation of the classic IF little game
Marco Giorgini
Adventure
Open Wrestling
A pro wrestling management simulation game. In development.
OpenWrestling
Simulation
Sands of Time: A Quest Through the West
Text-based RPG
jackthompson2002
Adventure
The Ceramic Uncertainty
A text-based "Choose-Your-Own-Adventure" about a mysterious plant.
falpal
Adventure
Please Answer Carefully
a horror survey game
litrouke
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
void.Resign
$3
Text Adventure Game inspired by Cask of Amontillado
avarisclari
Adventure
The Monster Inside
A film noir style audio-visual novella.
x70x
Play in browser
GIF
ZOZ
An open world deckbuilder adventure game for ZZT.
WiL
Card Game
Play in browser
You Are Likely To Be Eaten
A brief, text-only tale of darkness and woe with six endings, only one of them good.
Our Flag Means Fun
Interactive Fiction
You and Not You
$1
sunny evans
Interactive Fiction
Nesterin Trail [C64]
fantasy graphic text adventure for C64
Marco Giorgini
Interactive Fiction
Doki Doki Ragnarok
$12.99
Funny Viking Dating Sim (SFW Ages 12+)
BrutalHack
Visual Novel
The Tree That Touched The Moon
agat
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Cyberphobia
Small and Simple Text based Roguelite
Wolfstudioz
Adventure
Play in browser
a man outside
a friendly horror game in your neighborhood
litrouke
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
goodbye
say goodbye before you go
barrels
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Ultra Type-R
$1.99
ansdorVerified Account
Platformer
Play in browser
Date The Lizard!
$0
-100%
Date a soft dragon boy! There is absolutely no fiery dystopia!
RoAnna Sylver
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Oatboy vs. Slime Mold
$0
-100%
You're an ASCII Oat; Dodge the ASCII Slime Mold!
MansterSoft
Action
Assessment
Bee BraunVerified Account
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