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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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Top sellingtagged Retro and Text based (125 results)

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A time-loop based experimental text adventure.
Adventure
A cozy mystery adventure game set in early 1900s Ontario, Canada!
Adventure
An epic forbidden-archeology graphic-adventure in Six Chapters, for the ZX Spectrum.
Adventure
What would you do if you found yourself trapped on an eerie space station with nothing but a computer?
Adventure
Weird fantasy text adventure RPG
Interactive Fiction
1bit adventure game of cosmic horror inspired by the work of Junji Ito
Role Playing
These are the log entries of a grumpy space traveler.
Interactive Fiction
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A horror game about working in a 90's call center.
Puzzle
An Infocom-style adventure for retro computers
Interactive Fiction
Perfect Tides is a point and click adventure game about the agony and anticipation of being a teen.
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Adventure
Create your own virtual best buddy and play games together!
Simulation
A collection of horror games, each with their own distinct styles
Adventure
Text-Mode Social RPG
Role Playing
A browser roguelike with over 60 classes and endless adventure
Role Playing
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A classic adventure for Commodore C64
Adventure
More Rooms - More Riddles - and even more Tea!
Adventure
An 80KB interactive-fiction text adventure.
Adventure
Grow a civilization, Build a Pyramid
Simulation
A minimalist TV typewriter for creative notetaking
Educational
Une aventure textuelle pour ordinateurs rétro
Interactive Fiction
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.
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A board & video game for Commodore
Adventure
You wake at the cinema. The movie is over. Your friend is missing. Déjà vu grips you tight. It's all happened before.
Adventure
A new version of classic Rogue, updated using Ultimate Roguelike Tileset
On a dark and stormy night in 1983, the phone rings. “FINISH THE GAME”.
Adventure
A point-&-click text adventure for Game Boy, typeset with my typewriter.
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
An open world deckbuilder adventure game for ZZT.
Card Game
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