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Text-based space exploration game
Interactive Fiction
a story of a frog in space.
Adventure
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1bit adventure game of cosmic horror inspired by the work of Junji Ito
Role Playing
Grow a civilization, Build a Pyramid
Simulation
send messages, receive messages, play messages
Platformer
What would an omniscient creature do with all that knowledge? Well, host a trivia game, of course!
Puzzle
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A short kinetic novel — on bright minds, and the end of all things.
Interactive Fiction
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A dark fantasy novel.
Visual Novel
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Generate a name for your fantasy tea.
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Help Spudz the dog find his precious bone in this short, silly game!
Interactive Fiction
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Sharpen your critical thinking skills in this quiz game that challenges you to spot rhetorical fallacies.
Educational
The world is saved. Now its heroes wait to die.
Interactive Fiction
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Murdering a person that hurt you is hot, right?
Interactive Fiction
Spam has never been so deadly.
Visual Novel
The world is ending, and you are still paying rent. A future history.
Interactive Fiction
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can you admit your feelings at the end of the world?
Interactive Fiction
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Narrative roguelike with tokens
Interactive Fiction
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A short slumber party text adventure ♡
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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A short conversation about a relationship
Visual Novel
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A grieving father relives memories of days long gone.
Visual Novel
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You have 20 seconds to determine your fate.
Interactive Fiction
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An entry for the Adventuron Cavejam
Interactive Fiction
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find your ex at the end of the world
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A support group for villains having trouble with villaining.
Interactive Fiction
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Social anxiety simulator/dating sim
Interactive Fiction
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alien civilization extinction simulator
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Travel along with Maggie and Vale inside a moving city in Canvas Colors!
Visual Novel
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 nostalgic horror adventure game, inside another horror game, inside a tv show, inside a game.
Adventure
A chill clicker game about recalling a lost world
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A game about being a teen in the early 2010s.
Interactive Fiction
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Purge the graveyard from the forces of Evil by using your typing skills.
Venture into an abandoned orphanage, solve a mystery, and fall in love.
Visual Novel
You are a messenger. Deliver the most important message yet. Restore balance to the world, else it succumbs to chaos.
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