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Wayfarer

Marked by complete magical immunity, Wayfarers wander the world, fighting magic. Where will your fate lead you?

Idrelle Games

Interactive Fiction

Play in browser

Danganronpa: Lapse

10 students find themselves trapped in a luxurious mansion...

Cynthia

Visual Novel

Beyond the Chiron Gate

$10

Text-based space exploration game

John Ayliff

Interactive Fiction

Chronicles of Tal’Dun: The Remainder

$19.99

A story of love, death and lies.

Nim

Visual Novel

GIF

Code 7 - Episodes 2 & 3 Available Now

$22.99

What would you do if you found yourself trapped on an eerie space station with nothing but a computer?

Goodwolf Studio

Adventure

The Away Team

In this interactive sci-fi adventure novel, you are the AI pilot of Earth's last interstellar ship.

Underflow Studios

Interactive Fiction

Xianxia Simulator

Survive as an immortal cultivator in a text-based life-simulation RPG set in Chinese Cultivation Fantasy world.

Captain Wabbit

Role Playing

Play in browser

Beau Ideals Chapter 1

Fantasy visual novel in development

Mouse & Ram

Visual Novel

Ascendance

A love story that surpasses death

Ascendance IF

Interactive Fiction

Play in browser

Warsim: The Realm of Aslona

$9.99

Huw2k8

Simulation

MMM: Murder Most Misfortunate

A murder is committed in a secluded mansion, and it's up to you to solve it.

Foolish Mortals

Visual Novel

The Queen's Footsteps

A modern text adventure for vintage computers

Davide Bucci

Interactive Fiction

Play in browser

4x4 Archipelago

A procedurally generated, text-based fantasy RPG

agat

Interactive Fiction

Play in browser

A Colour Like No Other

The world's less scary when you're a monster.

TheNamelessOne

Play in browser

GIF

Event[0]

$19.99

Event[0] is a sci-fi narrative game where you build a relationship with a spaceship computer to get home to Earth.

Ocelot Society

Adventure

Known Unknowns

A bisexual high school ghost hunting romance

Brendan Patrick Hennessy

Interactive Fiction

Play in browser

CLOSED HANDS

An unflinching work of interactive fiction.

PΔSSENGER

Interactive Fiction

GIF

BTC King

Do you have what it takes to be the BTC King? Challenge yourself in this semi-text based game!

aklgupta

Play in browser

The Gilded

A dark fantasy fiction game

Dry Cappuccino Games

Interactive Fiction

Play in browser

Ano What? Why Bakit??

A Really Short and Simple FREE Otome Game

z-ish.p

Visual Novel

One Thousand Acts of Decency

Trapped in a Dome with eight hours to catch a killer

domedev

Visual Novel

Unhallowed

A spooky short story/adventure game for the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64 and Plus/4, Amstrad CPC, and modern web browsers

Adventure

forget who you are

Interactive Fiction

Play in browser

GodAI

Immerse yourself in an AI-driven literary universe where anything can happen.

AWK

Interactive Fiction

Chimera Crusader: Defender of Dominicus

-100%

ASCII Action! As minimal as an RPG can get

MansterSoft

Role Playing

CAFE 0 ~The Sleeping Beast~

$16.99

What kind of fate will the heroine face after she relives the last seven days before her death?

roseverte

Visual Novel

Don't Give Up On Me!

A confession goes wrong in multiple ways and days!

Stefannofornari Games

Visual Novel

Pitch Black Serenade

- A non conventional romance game. -

97Circle

Visual Novel

Don't Take It Personally, I Just Don't Like You

$19.99

The dating sim where not everyone wants to date you.

DeCoster

Visual Novel

Jikoronpa: Laments of Isolation (Up to CH2 Trial)

A Danganronpa Fangame: A game of reflection, our guests facing the truth of themselves.

Laments

Visual Novel

Frequency

Join Eliza. Decide Together.

Ice Studios

Adventure

Fragmentia

NamelessNoun

Visual Novel

A·L·I·E·N: The Adventure

All is in silence... Too much silence...

Alpha Aventuras

Adventure

The Baker of Shireton

The bread you bake is delicious. Raiders are coming.

Hanon Ondricek

Interactive Fiction

Play in browser

Scions of Troy

A lightly interactive novel set 17 years after the Trojan War

PyrrhaIphis

Interactive Fiction

Play in browser

Proper Detective 2000

1.50€

A couple has been brutally murdered in their house last night. Are you up to solve the mystery?

kernel_dc

Puzzle

Play in browser

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