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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
Throne of Ashes
$2
Break the curse and uncover your fire.
13Leagues
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Superstition S2
Journey deeper into the unknown.
13Leagues
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Fool Me Once
Dark Fantasy + Romance Interactive Fiction
PDRRook
Interactive Fiction
FARA
A browser roguelike with over 60 classes and endless adventure
BrianIsCreative
Role Playing
Play in browser
Fallacy Quiz
$5
Sharpen your critical thinking skills in this quiz game that challenges you to spot rhetorical fallacies.
Tim Krief
Educational
Speaker
What do you See?
speakergame
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Nameless
A story based on fey and other myths in a drained world. Will you find out what happened before it comes for you?
Parker Lyn
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Superstition S3
Learn the truth and unleash your potential.
13Leagues
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The King's Hound
Play as King Arthur Pendragon's spouse and forge Camelot's history.
Kal Down
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
灰舟
献给好奇者。
克勒卡尔
Visual Novel
The Gray Ascendancy
Craft the story of a villain's amnesiac henchperson on a quest to mage restoration.
grayascendancy
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Night Abridged
there is a whisper in the shadows...
ZICO
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Night Market Book 2 (WIP)
The sequel to the Night Market
The Night Market
Role Playing
Play in browser
Social Democracy: An Alternate History
You are the Social Democratic Party of Germany in 1928. Can you stop the Nazis from taking power?
Autumn Chen
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Sinners
Could you fall for a sinner?
veswrites
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Swan Song
A short interactive story loosely based on Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake.
swansong-if
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Eye of the Moon
Eye of the Moon is an adventure and romance story inspired by Filipino mythology.
atemaarte
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Uroboros
The struggle between mortals and divinity that may end an age of divine rule.
Mistyrious
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Project: Eden's Garden
16 talented participants enter the game. Only 2 will walk out alive.
Project: Eden's Garden
Visual Novel
Warsim: The Realm of Aslona
$9.99
Huw2k8
Simulation
Mind Games: Trepidation
Horror, Sci-fi, Queer-friendly, and Romance... what more could you ask for?
Bottlecap Rabbit Games
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
One Thousand Acts of Decency
Trapped in a Dome with eight hours to catch a killer
domedev
Visual Novel
Ascendance
A love story that surpasses death
Ascendance IF
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Buried Love
A dating game with a twist.
kittidot
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Whisper in the Dark
Whisper Game
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
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
Bird Of Passage
A free night ride across Tokyo, searching for our home with the help of some stranger.
SpaceBackyard
Visual Novel
Anamnesis, of Renascents and Monsters
A text-based lovecraftian life simulation RPG.
Vaccean
Simulation
Hybrid
These people aren't like you.
HeartForge
Role Playing
Play in browser
Beau Ideals Chapter 1
Fantasy visual novel in development
Mouse & Ram
Visual Novel
Superlunary Episode 1.0
A slow, queer, post-war space opera
communistsister
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Sevens Deadly
EJA
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
BBirthday
$9.99
In bundle
BBirthday - Visual Novel
Yun Seven
Visual Novel
Well This is Awkward
Buying condoms is awkward. This games reminds you of that.
Emma Kidwell
Role Playing
Play in browser
Love & Friendship
A Regency Rom-Com
Salty Stories
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
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