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Your journey begins in sand and sound and silence.
Interactive Fiction
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You are the Social Democratic Party of Germany in 1928. Can you stop the Nazis from taking power?
Interactive Fiction
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An interactive fiction fantasy game made with Twine. Create your character, break a curse, fall in love & make it home.
Interactive Fiction
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send messages, receive messages, play messages
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Grow a civilization, Build a Pyramid
Simulation
The world is ending, and you are still paying rent. A future history.
Interactive Fiction
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a story of a frog in space.
Adventure
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A dark fantasy novel.
Visual Novel
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The world is saved. Its heroes wait to die.
Interactive Fiction
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Those we love are never truly gone.
Visual Novel
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You have 20 seconds to determine your fate.
Interactive Fiction
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negative experiences after coming out as transgender
Interactive Fiction
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Escape the dungeon before you fully transform into a fox!
Interactive Fiction
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Defy your father and take on a God(flower)
Role Playing
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It only takes one night to change everything.
Interactive Fiction
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Help Spudz the dog find his precious bone in this short, silly game!
Interactive Fiction
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Venture into an abandoned orphanage, solve a mystery, and fall in love.
Visual Novel
A short conversation about a relationship
Visual Novel
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(you're not alone)
Puzzle
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A narrative adventure game.
Adventure
You talk to a pretty prince in a rose garden
Visual Novel
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A short slumber party text adventure ♡
Interactive Fiction
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An entry for the Adventuron Cavejam
Interactive Fiction
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Will you nuke the world to save it?
Interactive Fiction
The galaxy hungers. You own a foodtruck. Feed everyone.
Simulation
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Spam has never been so deadly.
Visual Novel
An interactive story about a girl who joins a beauty pageant to improve her college applications.
Interactive Fiction
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A chill clicker game about recalling a lost world
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A point-&-click text adventure for Game Boy, typeset with my typewriter.
Interactive Fiction
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Why have a pet rock when you can have a pet planet? Micromanage this cosmic rock to places never thought possible!
Simulation
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a text based, trans* femme dress-up party!
Interactive Fiction
A nostalgic horror adventure game, inside another horror game, inside a tv show, inside a 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
Travel along with Maggie and Vale inside a moving city in Canvas Colors!
Visual Novel
A self-obsessed writer searches for inspiration.
Visual Novel
A detective game about discovering the true names of demons.
Puzzle
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