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Featuring aesthetics, gameplay, or themes reminiscent of classic video games. Often characterized by pixel art, chiptune music, or mechanics popularized in earlier gaming eras.

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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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ECHOES OF ATLANTIS
An epic forbidden-archeology graphic-adventure in Six Chapters, for the ZX Spectrum.
ICreateworlds
Adventure
Mistworld
Weird fantasy text adventure RPG
GagaGievous
Interactive Fiction
Tristam Island
An Infocom-style adventure for retro computers
Hugo Labrande
Interactive Fiction
GIF
Buddy Simulator 1984 DEMO
Create your own virtual best buddy and play games together!
Not a Sailor Studios
Simulation
FARA
A browser roguelike with over 60 classes and endless adventure
BrianIsCreative
Role Playing
Play in browser
Pyramid Builder
Grow a civilization, Build a Pyramid
standardcombo
Simulation
L'île Tristam
Une aventure textuelle pour ordinateurs rétro
Hugo Labrande
Interactive Fiction
The Nightland
A board & video game for Commodore
Alessio Scanderebech
Adventure
Warp Cinema
You wake at the cinema. The movie is over. Your friend is missing. Déjà vu grips you tight. It's all happened before.
Cosmic Void
Adventure
Classic Rogue - Oryx Design Lab Tiles
A new version of classic Rogue, updated using Ultimate Roguelike Tileset
oryxdesignlab
GIF
We Never Left: <Standalone>
On a dark and stormy night in 1983, the phone rings. “FINISH THE GAME”.
FYRE Games
Adventure
You Are a Skeleton & That Is a Problem (for Game Boy)
A point-&-click text adventure for Game Boy, typeset with my typewriter.
Nicky Flowers
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
ZOZ
An open world deckbuilder adventure game for ZZT.
WiL
Card Game
Play in browser
The Queen's Footsteps
A text adventure set in a steampunk Italy in 1904
Davide Bucci
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Getting Things Done, or The Labyrinth of Doctor Bernstein
A Premier Hypertext Adventure Experience!
Aleks Samoylov
Adventure
Astra Protocol
Explore space in this retro inspired survival game
Slice Bar
Survival
Blood On The Snow
A narrative adventure game.
Maricu
Adventure
Hepburn: Takaishitai
A reimagining of classic 90s cult horror games.
emmahallows
Lunarrota
Climb the Mountain. Kill the Goddess.
Luis S.
Role Playing
Unkindness (Asylum Jam 2015)
A Horror in Shades of Red
Studio Turtledove / Andrea Reventon
Adventure
Swapped
Old windows themed horror game.
Takeo Noname
Interactive Fiction
Apollo
A super-hard classic style text-based sci-fi game!
Pip
Survival
GIF
The Secret Life of Probes Prologue
Story in the far reaches of space and time.
Elyon
Interactive Fiction
Children of the Flower
Defy your father and take on a God(flower)
wombok
Role Playing
Play in browser
Assessment
Bee BraunVerified Account
All Hallows' Eve 1881
An original text adventure for the 48k ZX Spectrum
Mancave Software
Interactive Fiction
Heartstring: BETA STORY
A multiversal RPG story that plays with your heartstrings.
pokeizel
Role Playing
Tubers of Fate
An Apple II implementation of the Potato one-page TTRPG
Ti R²
Adventure
Courage Collector
text-based roguelite adventure
james downey
Strategy
AWAKE Prototype
You awake alone, on a damaged and abandoned starship.
Hamish Smithers
Play in browser
Bob's Other Story
Just when you thought he said it all
Carl The Cube Games
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Castle Quest (Commodore 64)
Old school text adventure game
rickyderocher
Adventure
Monte de las Ánimas (2023)
Dareint
Adventure
TTYL
Keep up with the group chat or get kicked out in this nostalgic typing game!
302 Slices
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Trawel
An old school open world text-adventure rpg where you fight to gain better equipment in a fantasy setting.
realDragon
Role Playing
Goldgräber
Die Suche nach Reichtum in einem irrwitzigen Textadventure
Vanterra Arts
Adventure
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