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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 novel-length "bat-romance" Twine.
a story about computers, memory, and the end of the world
Adventure
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
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A playable leaflet about a Fascist march and our counter-demonstration
Visual Novel
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In the distant future, you join a strange organization to find the secret behind The Object
Adventure
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
What kind of fate will the heroine face after she relives the last seven days before her death?
Visual Novel
A Premier Hypertext Adventure Experience!
Adventure
Did you hurt someone? Are you having trouble coming to terms with it? Are you unsure what to do next?
Educational
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Escape your fairy tale nightmare in this short text game.
Interactive Fiction
Last year, I moved to Denmark. This is a game about the struggles of moving to a new country.
Play in browser
A nonfiction essay etched into the architecture of a virtual space.
Join a funky space archaeologist who crashed on an unknown planet. Explore, fight, make decisions to find a way out!
Visual Novel
Life is a journey.
Adventure
Chase your shooting star. [Visual Novel, 5 mins]
Visual Novel
Text Wormhole is a dodge game of bullet hell generated by the roguelike way dynamically based on the theme of letters
Action
Visit Your Grandmother
Simulation
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Romance is complicated. Romance with an ovipositor is complicateder.
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You are trapped in a maze of dreams, and must determine what is real
Adventure
An interactive ritual
Interactive Fiction
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A silly character creation toy.
Interactive Fiction
Spend the night at a state park with a sinister secret
Interactive Fiction
Prototype procedurally generated text adventure game without the typing.
Role Playing
An interactive short story about a woman returning to her family home in a seaside town after her father dies.
Play in browser
A game where you check passports and talk to people.
Simulation
a game about mars.
Interactive Fiction
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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