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Retro

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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Text based

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 cozy mystery adventure game set in early 1900s Ontario, Canada!
Adventure
A horror game about working in a 90's call center.
Puzzle
Shakespearean text adventure
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
An 80KB interactive-fiction text adventure.
Adventure
1bit adventure game of cosmic horror inspired by the work of Junji Ito
Role Playing
Perfect Tides is a point and click adventure game about the agony and anticipation of being a teen.
Meredith GranVerified Account
Adventure
A collection of horror games, each with their own distinct styles
Adventure
What would you do if you found yourself trapped on an eerie space station with nothing but a computer?
Adventure
Text-Mode Social RPG
Role Playing
A classic adventure for Commodore C64
Adventure
A time-loop based experimental text adventure.
Adventure
More Rooms - More Riddles - and even more Tea!
Adventure
A minimalist TV typewriter for creative notetaking
Educational
Issue #17 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.
PIZZAPRANKSVerified Account
Henry! It's me, it's Sheepy! It's so co-o-old!
Interactive Fiction
Issue #49 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.
PIZZAPRANKSVerified Account
These are the log entries of a grumpy space traveler.
Interactive Fiction
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An ode to text-adventures.
Interactive Fiction
You wake up at the bottom of the ocean, surrounded by broken memories. Reclaim your magic or drown in a sea of dreams.
Interactive Fiction
A Cassette Futuristic Space Adventure
Simulation
ASCII Action! As minimal as an RPG can get
Role Playing
A couple has been brutally murdered in their house last night. Are you up to solve the mystery?
Puzzle
Play in browser
A small text-adventure survival game.
Adventure
You're an ASCII Oat; Dodge the ASCII Slime Mold!
Action
Stranded again! The adventure continues
Adventure
A retro text adventure!
Interactive Fiction
An RPG inside an RPG
Role Playing
A full-scale retro JRPG with ambitious textmode graphics [Now available!]
Role Playing
Riddles, riddles everywhere can you solve them? If not, beware!
Ice Peddler GamesVerified Account
Puzzle
A Sci-fi interactive adventure
Interactive Fiction
A text-mode adventure for your Rainbow 100 (and other inferior platforms)!
Adventure
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