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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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Journey deeper into the unknown.
Interactive Fiction
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An Infocom-style adventure for retro computers
Interactive Fiction
Immerse yourself in an AI-driven literary universe where anything can happen.
Interactive Fiction
A text choice romance in an apocalyptic setting.
Interactive Fiction
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a story of a frog in space.
Adventure
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An adventure game in Notepad about a kid who seeks revenge.
Adventure
A gamebook-style fantasy adventure for the 5th edition of the world's most popular tabletop RPG.
Role Playing
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Isn't it nice that there is a perfectly normal bear at the window?
Interactive Fiction
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exobotanical horror
Visual Novel
A surreal visual novel built on old bones and entropy
Interactive Fiction
It only takes one night to change everything.
Interactive Fiction
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a text based, trans* femme dress-up party!
Interactive Fiction
Something isn't right in Ashwood Grove.
Interactive Fiction
A narrative dungeon-crawler
Puzzle
Go through 50 hand made levels and make your own in this DOS inspired game
Platformer
A modern text adventure for vintage computers
Interactive Fiction
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a short narrative game about old friends saying goodbye over the phone.
Interactive Fiction
Explore space in this retro inspired survival game
Survival
A reimagining of classic 90s cult horror games.
A Twine written on a plane.
Interactive Fiction
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Interactive Fiction
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Experience the thrill of wrestling in front of 12 people in an Elk's Lodge from the comfort of your own home
Interactive Fiction
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a friendly horror game in your neighborhood
Interactive Fiction
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It’s March of 2020, you were just sent home from university because of the coronavirus, you have some small regrets.
Interactive Fiction
Story in the far reaches of space and time.
Interactive Fiction
a lyric game about wrestling god
Role Playing
text-driven sci-fi interactive-fiction game
Adventure
A cute fox girl explores her small hometown on her way to a date with a friend.
Interactive Fiction
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Become a radio operator to translate and decipher codes in this 4 part visual novel.
Visual Novel
A chill clicker game about recalling a lost world
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An original text adventure for the 48k ZX Spectrum
Interactive Fiction
An experimental Twine game exploring a broken relationship.
Interactive Fiction
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A multiversal RPG story that plays with your heartstrings.
Role Playing
Text-based Horror RPG
Role Playing
An escape room as a text adventure!
Puzzle
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