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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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An AI seedship must find a home for the last survivors of the human race
Strategy
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a hypertext game based on a true story and some untrue stories
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Help a robot list all the ingredients for love
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Will you make love and risk death?
Interactive Fiction
Why have a pet rock when you can have a pet planet? Micromanage this cosmic rock to places never thought possible!
Simulation
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You sold your firstborn to a witch. Now she helps you find a mate.
Simulation
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A collection of small and peculier stories from Somwhere.
Adventure
weary, transformation, dog, burger, comfort
Simulation
25 diferent life paths, choose carefully.
Simulation
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鈥婩ight against a stink bug invasion with science! And cyborgs! And bravery! Or cowardice - it's your choice, really.
Role Playing
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A queer illustrated text adventure game
Adventure
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A basketball themed visual novel and dating sim with stat management!
Visual Novel
A self-obsessed writer searches for inspiration.
Visual Novel
A Really Short and Simple FREE Otome Game
Visual Novel
A novel-length "bat-romance" Twine.
Romance is complicated. Romance with an ovipositor is complicateder.
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Date, kiss, exorcise demons!
Simulation
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when breathing has become a chore. when to exist is a trial.
Simulation
Short demo in which you run some errands for your Gran. But there's something magical in the woods...
Role Playing
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a story about computers, memory, and the end of the world
Adventure
What kind of fate will the heroine face after she relives the last seven days before her death?
Visual Novel
Meet your merman boyfriend.
Simulation
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A horror tale of the Revolution on culture, heritage, and the anxieties elicited by a strange library.
Visual Novel
Helping your vampire bff create her online dating profile.
Simulation
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We鈥檝e all suffered inadequate apologies, or wished for apologies that never came...
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A cooking/rich-aunt-impressing simulator
Simulation
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A short story about a harpy who has too many feathers. (LD40)
Visual Novel
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Live authoritarianism through a minimalist narrative experience.
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Gather your allies and defeat the evil lich wizard.
Role Playing
Be a War Commander. Construct a Base, Perform Research, Produce Units. Fight Epic Battles.
Strategy
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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The woods are waiting.
Role Playing
A playful, interactive graphic novel adventure by Krunchy Fried Games. Ages 13+.
Visual Novel
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Cuddle with your vampire or werewolf partners!
Interactive Fiction
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A visual novel about a girl, a pig and a book (Nanoreno 2017)
Visual Novel
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