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The Good Weapon

Will you nuke the world to save it?

Interactive Fiction

send messages, receive messages, play messages

Platformer

Pyramid Builder

Grow a civilization, Build a Pyramid

Simulation

Canvas Colors: In The Moving City

Travel along with Maggie and Vale inside a moving city in Canvas Colors!

UnfinishedCircl

Visual Novel

You are a messenger. Deliver the most important message yet. Restore balance to the world, else it succumbs to chaos.

Delphine's Discovery

Venture into an abandoned orphanage, solve a mystery, and fall in love.

Visual Novel

The House Abandon - Now part of 'Stories Untold'!

A nostalgic horror adventure game, inside another horror game, inside a tv show, inside a game.

Adventure

Don't Die Alone

Spam has never been so deadly.

Visual Novel

Blood On The Snow

A narrative adventure game.

Adventure

You wake at the cinema. The movie is over. Your friend is missing. Déjà vu grips you tight. It's all happened before.

Adventure

a text based, trans* femme dress-up party!

Interactive Fiction

Our Winding Road

Former heroes try to save their relationship.

Visual Novel

Survival game without your survival.

Survival

Where the Sun Always Shines

A self-obsessed writer searches for inspiration.

Visual Novel

The love, life, and existential crisis of a soon-to-be college dropout

Rosewater Games

Visual Novel

Clockwork Apple

A BL Visual-novel featuring kidnapping and characters of doubtful morality. (English and Italian)

Visual Novel

The Phantom of the Hospital

A short and light-hearted VN + art assets

Hidden Masquerade

Visual Novel

(2020)

Upon A Darkening Flood

A horror tale of the Revolution on culture, heritage, and the anxieties elicited by a strange library.

Visual Novel

Gather your allies and defeat the evil lich wizard.

Cameron McHenry

Role Playing

Climb the Mountain. Kill the Goddess.

Role Playing

Rose garden sentiments

You talk to a pretty prince in a rose garden

Visual Novel

:my lgbt story for gay western jam.

Visual Novel

The Secret Life of Probes Prologue

Story in the far reaches of space and time.

Interactive Fiction

Gensokyo Cyber Outlaw.

Adventure

A visual novel about a girl, a pig and a book (Nanoreno 2017)

Visual Novel

Loved one involved in a serious head injury? Call Lobotomy and You to get them up and running like new again!

Adventure

Become a radio operator to translate and decipher codes in this 4 part visual novel.

cathode radiator

Visual Novel

Food From a Stranger

A creepy stranger offers a girl candy.

Visual Novel

A short question-based about your days in charge of a fantastic island.

Interactive Fiction

Capybara Capriole

Dodge obstacles atop your trusty Capybara. When that gets boring build your own level.

Fairy Tales of Innocent Children

Chase your shooting star. [Visual Novel, 5 mins]

Visual Novel

Reach beyond the grave. Find the answers you seek.

Visual Novel

exobotanical horror

Visual Novel

accelerated hotkeys

Try and survive working as a corporate drone.

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Action

The Spicy Meatball Saves The Day

A short, lightly comedic text adventure with first person controls.

Adventure

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