Text-Based Games
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0LIMB.INC
LIMB.INC is a signal-like horror job simulator where you read the lives of lost souls and match their files to the objects that defined them. Interpret clues, make decisions, customize your desk, and survive the day in the worst job in the underworld.
0Riftborne
Riftborne is a classic terminal based, real time, grand strategy game. Data rich, spreadsheet like management. Construct space ships. Take part in factional warfare. Hire galactic hit-men on your rivals. Raid neighbors for rare resources. Become a spy and infiltrate enemy bases for key intel.
0Federica's Baking
Focus with Federica and help her do her part for her family too. Earn coins by focusing on your tasks and spend them to buy the ingredients Federica needs to bake and complete her orders, chat with her during breaks, but let her spend time with her brother too!
0Paradoxical双界诗 Paradoxical Twin Worlds Saga
Paradoxical Twin Worlds Saga is a narrative-driven galgame set across modern high school life and an ancient dynasty. As an ordinary student traveling between two worlds, you uncover intertwining fates, altered memories, and a single truth: your existence itself is a paradox.
0Talk About Something in the Nowhere
A short horror visual novel where you get to know your brand new self-aware in-game boyfriend and explore your relationship through Talking About Something in the Nowhere.
0Sweet Valentine Chocolatier
A cozy, heartwarming visual novel in which you take a familiar face (boy or girl) on a romantic spring festival date. Customize your player character (femme or masc) and play several low-stakes mini games!
0Reunions with you billions of times
This is a short, romance-focused visual novel where you play as a student. As you fall in love with your classmate Qiu, you become trapped in a time loop and die again and again. Together with Qiu, you must search for a way to break the loop, with your choices leading to different endings.
0A Spiritual Adventure
Welcome to A Spiritual Adventure! A free choice-driven text adventure where the experience revolves around what you want to do as opposed to a specific narrative, sort of. There are hundreds of choices to make, with many minigames and other cool bits to experience.
0ZeroPrompt
The internet is dead. You're a gatekeeper for Zero-Mesh. Filter out AI impostors from humanity's last clean network. Interrogate live LLM agents that think, lie, and bribe in real-time. Use investigation tools to detect deception. Every verdict shapes the Zero-Mesh.
0Crimson Reflection
The story begins the moment he kills his lover. Kazuma is driven into a corner by Asana’s obsessive love. Madness, jealousy, obsession, deception, and regret collide— plunging the case toward an unpredictable end. A yandere suspense novel of intense love and insanity: Crimson Reflection.
0Heritage
Animount has been seized by Drammul, the Lizard King, and his army. The only one capable of stopping them is Oro, the serpent. Trapped in a cycle of reincarnation, choose Scrolls, acquire skills and equipment, and join powerful Sects in this Idle Roguelike to defeat Drammul and save Animount.
0Street Takoyaki
Run your very own takoyaki stand in the streets of Japan. Manage your ingredients, pricing, upgrades, and pressure from the police and yakuza in a survival-focused tycoon inspired by some classics.
0Dawn Village
A Joseon-era survival strategy game where even goodwill becomes a resource. Manage companions and scarce supplies during a great famine. Every crucial decision is resolved by dice. There are no perfect choices—only surviving today and preparing for tomorrow.
0LANE-4
An open-ended programming game in which you optimise 4-core assembly code to maintain a 1990s alt-history dystopian megacity's infrastructure. Take jobs from middlemen with hidden agendas and uncover the chilling consequences of your "routine" fixes in this assembly language puzzle thriller.
0Letter to Neml
A story about the Noctarian, a race whose nightmares become reality. Small choices made by Neml, a girl staying home alone, shape the fate of the world. The player does only one thing: rewrite the letter sent to Neml. An AI interprets the letter, changing Neml’s actions and the story’s outcome.
0JACK: 1 % BATTERY - A Detective Thriller
Experience a race against time written by a former forensic investigation expert. As detective JACK, you are the last hope to rescue the US President's kidnapped daughter. With only 1% battery left on her phone, use authentic detective techniques to find her before the screen goes black.
Coastal Summit Sports: College Hockey 26
College Hockey 26 is a deep college hockey management simulator where you recruit top prospects, build your roster, and chase national championships.
The Big Number
The Big Number is a strategic incremental idle clicker where you breach 7 massive firewalls to reach infinity. Start from zero and build your way to unimaginable numbers through tactical resource management, automated systems, and strategic progression.
0Frostveil: The Last Winter
Winter 1920. As a village leader during the War of Independence, you must manage resources to survive the frost. At the breaking point, will you be a savior or a tyrant? Every choice writes a story in the snow. In pursuit of the story.
0The Carcass
A deep roguelike colony RPG inside a dead god's corpse. Procedurally generated events, branching narratives, species with unique traits, and meaningful choices that shape your colony's fate. Every playthrough tells a different story of survival and evolution.