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Beyond the Chiron Gate
$10
Text-based space exploration game
John Ayliff
Interactive Fiction
The Good Weapon
Will you nuke the world to save it?
ninecoffees
Interactive Fiction
WORLD OF HORROR
$19.99
1bit adventure game of cosmic horror inspired by the work of Junji Ito
panstasz
Role Playing
Pyramid Builder
Grow a civilization, Build a Pyramid
standardcombo
Simulation
GIF
Walkie Talkie
send messages, receive messages, play messages
Daniel Linssen
Platformer
Delphine's Discovery
Venture into an abandoned orphanage, solve a mystery, and fall in love.
LegendEx Games
Visual Novel
WAS/WERE
$4
Murdering a person that hurt you is hot, right?
RodFireProductions
Interactive Fiction
Don't Die Alone
Spam has never been so deadly.
StephenW313
Visual Novel
Deliverance
You are a messenger. Deliver the most important message yet. Restore balance to the world, else it succumbs to chaos.
Caevacior
GIF
Type Knight
$3.99
Purge the graveyard from the forces of Evil by using your typing skills.
chaikadev
The House Abandon - Now part of 'Stories Untold'!
A nostalgic horror adventure game, inside another horror game, inside a tv show, inside a game.
jonNoCode
Adventure
Blood On The Snow
A narrative adventure game.
Maricu
Adventure
Canvas Colors: In The Moving City
Travel along with Maggie and Vale inside a moving city in Canvas Colors!
UnfinishedCircl
Visual Novel
Warp Cinema
You wake at the cinema. The movie is over. Your friend is missing. Déjà vu grips you tight. It's all happened before.
CosmicVoid
Adventure
Rose garden sentiments
You talk to a pretty prince in a rose garden
teletuu
Visual Novel
UROBOROS SPIRAL
enter the spiral
mozaundo
Visual Novel
Revenge of the Antagonist
$1.99
Enemies on camera, enemies off camera!
ChaniMK
Visual Novel
When I'm Gone
Survival game without your survival.
Please wait
Survival
Femme
a text based, trans* femme dress-up party!
mayaxlove
Interactive Fiction
I EAT MANTRAS FOR BREAKFAST
$7.77
SCREAMFEAST
Maria Mison
Clockwork Apple
A BL Visual-novel featuring kidnapping and characters of doubtful morality. (English and Italian)
Synapsed
Visual Novel
Sagebrush
The love, life, and existential crisis of a soon-to-be college dropout
Rosewater Games
Visual Novel
Where the Sun Always Shines
A self-obsessed writer searches for inspiration.
ebi-hime
Visual Novel
The Phantom of the Hospital
A short and light-hearted VN + art assets
Hidden Masquerade
Visual Novel
Assessment
Bee Braun
Hifuu OS
Gensokyo Cyber Outlaw.
Hefan
Adventure
Dark Kitchen
(2020)
Sand Gardeners
GIF
Our Winding Road
Former heroes try to save their relationship.
Nim
Visual Novel
[TERMINAL]
Narrative Horror game for the DreadXP Extraterrestrial Terror Jam 2024
NotAlexRobins
Interactive Fiction
Wayfarer
Gather your allies and defeat the evil lich wizard.
Cameron McHenry
Role Playing
S.O.R.S
£6.99
A sci-fi doctor simulation game
RichSG
Simulation
Lunarrota
Climb the Mountain. Kill the Goddess.
Luis S.
Role Playing
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
Gulam
A visual novel about a girl, a pig and a book (Nanoreno 2017)
arkicade
Visual Novel
Asciipocalypse
3d first person shooter drawn using nothing but ascii characters!
wonrzrzeczny
Shooter
Lobotomy & You
Loved one involved in a serious head injury? Call Lobotomy and You to get them up and running like new again!
point bleep
Adventure
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