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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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Role Playing
A horror game about working in a 90's call center.
Puzzle
An AI-Driven Interactive Fiction Engine
Interactive Fiction
An 80KB interactive-fiction text adventure.
Adventure
SAY ANYTHING in this dungeon adventure where words control everything.
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Adventure
1970s Style Cave Game
Adventure
A visual novel about a death game which erupts aboard a train
Visual Novel
Play in browser
An Animated Poem
Visual Novel
Play in browser
A Vast Error Story
Visual Novel
Life's easier when it isn't your fault.
Interactive Fiction
Sharpen your critical thinking skills in this quiz game that challenges you to spot rhetorical fallacies.
Educational
A cozy mystery adventure game set in early 1900s Ontario, Canada!
Adventure
A horror fantasy kidnapping sim.
Interactive Fiction
The Text Parser Adventure where you CAN'T STOP MOVING.
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Adventure
Enemies on camera, enemies off camera!
Visual Novel
Working through the holidays can be hell, especially at Home Safety Hotline.
Puzzle
A winter themed otome game where you get to romance a jerky singer!
Visual Novel
Will you nuke the world to save it?
Interactive Fiction
The galaxy hungers. You own a foodtruck. Feed everyone.
Simulation
Play in browser
Issue #51 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.
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Embark on a thrilling, tongue-in-cheek train heist in the style of classic dice-rolling RPGs.
Role Playing
A brief, text-only tale of darkness and woe with six endings, only one of them good.
Interactive Fiction
Un voyage narratif immersif pour explorer la sagesse Toltèque.
Interactive Fiction
A Cassette Futuristic Space Adventure
Simulation
Text-based roguelike in a sky with steampunk theme
Role Playing
Do anything. You choose the journey.
Visual Novel
Save the liberal order as the head of the world's lender of last resort!
Simulation
Incremental Experimental Minimalistic Game
Play in browser
A Murder Mystery Visual Novel.
Visual Novel
Trapped in a Dome with eight hours to catch a killer
Visual Novel
A choose your own adventure game, featuring a fluffy boy
Interactive Fiction
Become a spy and try to unravel mysteries and save the world in this story driven puzzle and detective game
Puzzle
A dark atmospheric test that asks you to see things in new ways, including the experience of playing itself.
Interactive Fiction
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