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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 new version of classic Rogue, updated using Ultimate Roguelike Tileset
A pro wrestling management simulation game. In development.
Simulation
The world's less scary when you're a monster.
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A narrative text game exploring a long dead civilisation.
Interactive Fiction
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calamity occult-horror rpg
Role Playing
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Modern ASCII roguelike - Can your mercenary beat the dungeon ?
Role Playing
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A cosmic horror text game about a quiet beachside community
Interactive Fiction
a narrative journey through remembering, witnessing, and trauma
Interactive Fiction
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a game about trauma, triggers, and self-compassion
Simulation
A Dyslexic text Based Adventure that shows the frustration of Dyslexia.
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Educational
A rat colony simulator!
Strategy
Have you taken a personality quiz before?
Emergency plan.
Interactive Fiction
say goodbye before you go
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
A romance that ended yesterday, 150 years ago.
Interactive Fiction
A text based adventure game packed full of scifi wonder.
Adventure
Regency Era Country House Party Simulator with added Romance and Murder
Interactive Fiction
An interactive fiction adaptation of an H.P. Lovecraft story.
Interactive Fiction
Multiple Witnesses, One Criminal. Point out the contradiction and Expose the true culprit!
Visual Novel
Dynamic text world | Alternate history intrigue
Interactive Fiction
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Explore the dolphins artwork in the dungeon/coffee shop
Interactive Fiction
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Glory to Salevsk.
Simulation
forget who you are
Interactive Fiction
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You awake alone, on a damaged and abandoned starship.
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A door game for the modern century
Role Playing
A summer camp bird fighting text adventure
Interactive Fiction
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Interactive Fiction
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A Game of Pre-Cyberpunk Censorship
Interactive Fiction
Will your devotion reach them? Does it matter?
Interactive Fiction
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An interactive story about a girl who joins a beauty pageant to improve her college applications.
Interactive Fiction
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An old school open world text-adventure rpg where you fight to gain better equipment in a fantasy setting.
Role Playing
T.E.T.R.I.S. mod installation complete.
Puzzle
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a text based game. will likely take 5-10 minutes to play.
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near-future Sci-Fi roguelike and tactical squad game
Strategy
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Interview NPCs from a world not unlike our own...
Interactive Fiction
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