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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
Chronicles of Tal’Dun: The Remainder
$19.99
A story of love, death and lies.
Nim
Visual Novel
Warsim: The Realm of Aslona
$9.99
Huw2k8
Simulation
Beyond the Chiron Gate
$10
Text-based space exploration game
John Ayliff
Interactive Fiction
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
One Thousand Acts of Decency
Trapped in a Dome with eight hours to catch a killer
domedev
Visual Novel
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
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
Beau Ideals Chapter 1
Fantasy visual novel in development
Mouse & Ram
Visual Novel
The Away Team
$8
In this interactive sci-fi adventure novel, you are the AI pilot of Earth's last interstellar ship.
Underflow Studios
Interactive Fiction
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
Chimera Crusader: Defender of Dominicus
$0
-100%
ASCII Action! As minimal as an RPG can get
MansterSoft
Role Playing
Ano What? Why Bakit??
A Really Short and Simple FREE Otome Game
z-ish.p
Visual Novel
The Gilded
A dark fantasy fiction game
Dry Cappuccino Games
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
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
Unhallowed
A spooky short story/adventure game for the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64 and Plus/4, Amstrad CPC, and modern web browsers
Blerkotron
Adventure
The Queen's Footsteps
A modern text adventure for vintage computers
Davide Bucci
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
A Colour Like No Other
The world's less scary when you're a monster.
TheNamelessOne
Play in browser
GodAI
Immerse yourself in an AI-driven literary universe where anything can happen.
AWK
Interactive Fiction
Don't Give Up On Me!
A confession goes wrong in multiple ways and days!
Stefannofornari Games
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
GIF
Cannery Vale
forget who you are
Hanon Ondricek
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
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
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
The Process of Elimination
small town parasocial crime drama
disfixdog
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Pitch Black Serenade
- A non conventional romance game. -
97Circle
Visual Novel
Fragmentia
NamelessNoun
Visual Novel
Frequency
Join Eliza. Decide Together.
Ice Studios
Adventure
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
Night in the Unpleasant House
$5
A classic tale of revenge, local politics, pseudoscience, questionable botany, love, and loss.
Porch Weather Games
Interactive Fiction
GIF
[LEAVE OPEN]
A barebones competitive idle game.
Sebastian Scaini
You are SpamZapper 3.1
A spam filter and their fellow plugins get horribly entangled in the affairs of their human's friends
Leon
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Warrior Tycoon
WarriorTycoon is Tycoon game where you train warriors and send them on missions to earn gold.
Stusse Games
Simulation
The Baker of Shireton
The bread you bake is delicious. Raiders are coming.
Hanon Ondricek
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
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