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In bundle

an IF anthology about five heroes who die

ub4q

Interactive Fiction

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GIF

Trigaea

Alter genes, survive. Sci-fi RPG. 270k+

RynGM

Interactive Fiction

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The Good Weapon

Will you nuke the world to save it?

ninecoffees

Interactive Fiction

Fallacy Quiz

Sharpen your critical thinking skills in this quiz game that challenges you to spot rhetorical fallacies.

Tim Krief

Educational

GIF

Vast Trivia Of The Void

What would an omniscient creature do with all that knowledge? Well, host a trivia game, of course!

Whales And Games

Puzzle

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A Witch's Word

You sold your firstborn to a witch. Now she helps you find a mate.

RainbowStarbird

Simulation

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Gender Dysphoria

negative experiences after coming out as transgender

exodrifter

Interactive Fiction

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WAS/WERE

Murdering a person that hurt you is hot, right?

RodFireProductions

Interactive Fiction

Dungeon Mercenary

Modern ASCII roguelike - Can your mercenary beat the dungeon ?

smelc3

Role Playing

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Pageant

An interactive story about a girl who joins a beauty pageant to improve her college applications.

Autumn Chen

Interactive Fiction

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a Museum of Dubious Splendors.

A collection of small and peculier stories from Somwhere.

Studio Oleomingus

Adventure

Escape from Kettuloch

Escape the dungeon before you fully transform into a fox!

SnepShark

Interactive Fiction

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H U N T E D

Gather craft survive #49/1922 LDJam50

Survival

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The good people

Explore the weird, until the sunken things come for you

Pseudavid

Interactive Fiction

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New Year's Eve, 2019

Social anxiety simulator/dating sim

Autumn Chen

Interactive Fiction

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Eczema Angel Orifice

beautiful twine compilation

Porpentine

Adventure

The Archivist and the Revolution

The world is ending, and you are still paying rent. A future history.

Autumn Chen

Interactive Fiction

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GIF

Blackout: The Darkest Night

$5.99

Once you glimpse behind the shadows, you’ll never be the same.

MiniChimera

Interactive Fiction

Mr. Rainer's Solve-It Service (Demo)

One day, HEINO's partner dies. He gets a new one.

etherane

Adventure

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idleCMD

Text-based idle/clicker game

Finn Steffen

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Sepia Tears: Reprise Edition

A romance visual novel about memories best left forgotten.

Scarlet String Studios

Visual Novel

Bard Simulator 2K21

Write poems, get paid, try to avoid comitting high treason.

Chapel

Adventure

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GIF

The Secret Life of Probes Prologue

Story in the far reaches of space and time.

Elyon

Interactive Fiction

Post War

$7.99

An indie 2.5D post-apocalyptic adventure designed in pixel art

PostEastern

Adventure

accelerated hotkeys

Try and survive working as a corporate drone.

InvalidSpacebar

Action

The Spicy Meatball Saves The Day

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

Cheeseness

Adventure

23 Skidoo

A single-room survival horror game in real in-game time.

designergaze

Survival

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Acht

A text-based home-crawler

Hexenwerk

Interactive Fiction

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Off the Podium — One Last Lap

Text-based game about being an average racing driver.

Kaiser Vox

Visual Novel

Telvoikai

Choose between exploring jungle tropics or navigating deep into a bioluminescent sea.

Corvaena

Role Playing

Dear Murder Diary

A murder-mystery game

marcgenesis

Puzzle

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[SIBERIA]

£1

A small text-adventure survival game.

MSSNG

Adventure

Homeward in the Roil

Connections in unexpected places

Nic June

Interactive Fiction

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Dragon's Oven

An RPG text adventure to play in a terminal.

tronster

Role Playing

Personality Quiz

Have you taken a personality quiz before?

monicaseldow

häx_processer

Process häxes using our state-of-the-art häx processing terminal

Tomi

Puzzle

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