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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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One Thousand Acts of Decency
Trapped in a Dome with eight hours to catch a killer
domedev
Visual Novel
GIF
Terminal Town
Mysterious command line tools
AndyMakes
Puzzle
GIF
And yet it hurt
An adventure game in Notepad about a kid who seeks revenge.
Sheepolution
Adventure
Lab Assistant
Teach slime to do science in this machine-learning based puzzle game!
Izzy Fiacco
Puzzle
I wish I was
A narrative dungeon-crawler
lulatschia
Puzzle
Ghost Artifact Prototype
A game about chatting with your friends.
Taylor Gregory
Visual Novel
Hepburn: Takaishitai
A reimagining of classic 90s cult horror games.
emmahallows
Blood On The Snow
A narrative adventure game.
Maricu
Adventure
PEASANTS IN A DUNGEON
Lodomo
Interactive Fiction
Airwaves
Become a radio operator to translate and decipher codes in this 4 part visual novel.
cathode radiator
Visual Novel
GIF
Start With Nothing
Start with "nothing" and grasp "victory" by moving letters around.
rubyleehs
Puzzle
Play in browser
Locked Room on Rails
A trip back home turns into an impromptu murder mystery.
solarProtag
Visual Novel
Transformation pursuit
A Transformation game based on trivial pursuit
icarue
Puzzle
Heartstring: BETA STORY
A multiversal RPG story that plays with your heartstrings.
pokeizel
Role Playing
Misplaced
An escape room as a text adventure!
Charu Tak
Puzzle
Play in browser
Ginger
​Kevin writes a novel within a dictionary to seek what home is.
KevinDu
Adventure
Grave Walk
Text-based Horror RPG
deepHourSamurai
Role Playing
Projeto: ENIGMA
Become a spy and try to unravel mysteries and save the world in this story driven puzzle and detective game
StellarFox Studio
Puzzle
Hex Phase
Explosive hexagonal visual fx novel
Hexmin
Visual Novel
The Official Saturns_Comics Point And Click Text Adventure Puzzle Simulator 5000
Point and Click your way out of the hell world
Saturn Murray
Visual Novel
Spelly Cat
Cast Spells by unscrambling words
BrknFixie
Puzzle
Medieval Psycho
Use Ghost powers to save a kidnapped child.
VasantJ
Adventure
Divide
I will not be just a sacrifice.
TrulyDrew
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
C://TEXTRIS.EXE
T.E.T.R.I.S. mod installation complete.
TeamE
Puzzle
Play in browser
Egress
Finally, you are perfect...
Aleks Samoylov
Puzzle
Play in browser
Blind Bouncer: A Story
Decide the faith of the Blind Bouncer while you keep the bars you work at safe.
worthygame
Interactive Fiction
LUNIUM
An escape room mystery. Can you escape your chains before the killer strikes again?
radiosity
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Scant Assembly
Simple programming game
Daivuk
Puzzle
Obědárium
Family lunch troubles
Hromad_a
Puzzle
GIF
Nested Letters
prettysmart
Puzzle
CODEQUEST 0
A text-based quest to defeat the CODELORD!
Ussar Datamancy
Adventure
Threediopolis
Puzzly text adventure about wandering in the big city.
Andrew Schultz
Puzzle
[System]
Test your correctness in this exercise that has nothing to do with grammar!
Ines Alcolea
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Construct
A horror text adventure game with a deep & engaging story with original music.
Aaron Wise
Adventure
Chiaroscuro
A game about you!
Linker
Adventure
GIF
Turing Trial
A Short, Replayable Text-Based RPG
Mary T.
Puzzle
Play in browser
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