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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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say goodbye before you go
Interactive Fiction
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an IF anthology about five heroes who die
Interactive Fiction
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An interactive story about a girl who joins a beauty pageant to improve her college applications.
Interactive Fiction
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A new version of classic Rogue, updated using Ultimate Roguelike Tileset
calamity occult-horror rpg
Role Playing
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Paradise is an interactive fiction playground.
Interactive Fiction
Modern ASCII roguelike - Can your mercenary beat the dungeon ?
Role Playing
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In this interactive sci-fi adventure novel, you are the AI pilot of Earth's last interstellar ship.
Interactive Fiction
this is not a text editor
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summer camp crushes & alien bird dreams
Interactive Fiction
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Dynamic text world | Alternate history intrigue
Interactive Fiction
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This is a Klance Texting Game!
Interactive Fiction
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a text based game. will likely take 5-10 minutes to play.
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Track down a wild beast on the moors of England in this remaster of the classic ZX Spectrum text-adventure.
Interactive Fiction
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A text-based platformer, made for Ludum Dare 41 | Combine 2 Incompatible Genres
Platformer
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Bisexual teen ghost hunting romance
Interactive Fiction
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A visual novel typing game where you must sacrifice your keyboard letters​.
Visual Novel
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Episode One - The Montebello Dance and Dump Ball
Visual Novel
Yet another text-based roguelike game.
Adventure
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Subtext
$6.99
A mystery told through real SMS messages, phone calls, and emails.
Interactive Fiction
A historic gay romance set in Medieval Baghdad
Interactive Fiction
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Is this not what you wanted?
Interactive Fiction
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Will your devotion reach them? Does it matter?
Interactive Fiction
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The world's less scary when you're a monster.
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forget who you are
Interactive Fiction
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Finnish midsummer gender magic.
Interactive Fiction
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20th anniversary of classic horror game Anchorhead. 84 authors. One ridiculous tribute.
Interactive Fiction
a game about trauma, triggers, and self-compassion
Simulation
A text-based adventure game that puts you in the boots of a lone cowpoke bent on revenge.
Interactive Fiction
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Post-pandemic story driven text adventure.
Interactive Fiction
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You awake alone, on a damaged and abandoned starship.
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A multiple-choice-adventure-roguelike about testing a dungeon.
Interactive Fiction
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Find your missing father and uncover an ancient conspiracy in this haunting text adventure!
Visual Novel
An autobiographical text-based game about memory and a car ride.
Your boss has called to ask if you can come into work on your day off - and you don't have much choice but to go.
Interactive Fiction
Interview NPCs from a world not unlike our own...
Interactive Fiction
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