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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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A collection of small and peculier stories from Somwhere.
Adventure
Will you make love and risk death?
Interactive Fiction
You sold your firstborn to a witch. Now she helps you find a mate.
Simulation
Play in browser
A playable leaflet about a Fascist march and our counter-demonstration
Visual Novel
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An AI seedship must find a home for the last survivors of the human race
Strategy
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weary, transformation, dog, burger, comfort
Simulation
Teach slime to do science in this machine-learning based puzzle game!
Puzzle
a hypertext game based on a true story and some untrue stories
Play in browser
a folktale made in Twine about a sentient public restroom and trans woman surviving in a magical city.
Interactive Fiction
You're eight years old and alone in the house tonight. But something is lurking outside...
Interactive Fiction
Did you hurt someone? Are you having trouble coming to terms with it? Are you unsure what to do next?
Educational
Play in browser
A Premier Hypertext Adventure Experience!
Adventure
Last year, I moved to Denmark. This is a game about the struggles of moving to a new country.
Play in browser
Life is a journey.
Adventure
Chase your shooting star. [Visual Novel, 5 mins]
Visual Novel
You are trapped in a maze of dreams, and must determine what is real
Adventure
Visit Your Grandmother
Simulation
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Romance is complicated. Romance with an ovipositor is complicateder.
Play in browser
An interactive ritual
Interactive Fiction
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A game where you check passports and talk to people.
Simulation
A graphic psychological horror text adventure
Visual Novel
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Prototype procedurally generated text adventure game without the typing.
Role Playing
Finally, you are perfect...
Puzzle
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We’ve all suffered inadequate apologies, or wished for apologies that never came...
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a game about mars.
Interactive Fiction
Spend the night at a state park with a sinister secret
Interactive Fiction
An interactive short story about a woman returning to her family home in a seaside town after her father dies.
Play in browser
Simple programming game
Puzzle
Meet your merman boyfriend.
Simulation
Play in browser
​Fight against a stink bug invasion with science! And cyborgs! And bravery! Or cowardice - it's your choice, really.
Role Playing
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Journey to another world. Return if you can.
Interactive Fiction
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Please enter your username.
Interactive Fiction
Silly little adventure game for the ZX Spectrum
Adventure
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A girl leaves her childhood home hoping to find something better, but she can't seem to escape her roots.
Visual Novel
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Gather your allies and defeat the evil lich wizard.
Role Playing
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