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watching paint dry: for 1 hour
paint ain't gonna watch itself
Ohtmiel
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Brain Tester : Mind trick quiz
This game is about riddles and mind trick quiz .You will need all your brain power to clear.
Plataklom
Puzzle
Provenance
Explore an archive to research the history of a mysterious painting.
klahom
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Love Exalt 8372
$9.99
A visual novel about a death game which erupts aboard a train
Veki
Visual Novel
Play in browser
GrimFront
This Interactive Novel allows you to play as a fantasy character in a world that is trapped within a maze.
LNC Studios
Adventure
Incantations
Adventure through the liminal wasteland of the null
abby blenk
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Domination: Take the States
a text based strategy game where you have one goal - Conquer. Will YOU take the states?
Mr. President
Strategy
Hangman's Gulch
You're a gold prospector down on his luck. Scavenge the abandoned town to find treasures to fund your trip back home.
DrDooriddle
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Cyber Purge
Post-cyberpunk shooting action for ZZT
The Green Herring
Action
Play in browser
MazeRPG REBORN
Tough-as-nails, text-based, dungeon-crawler
BetaWarmachine
Role Playing
Play in browser
The Lost Dungeon
"A FANTASY ROLE PLAYING GAME".
Loimu Studios
Adventure
GMS
Epic Guild Battler
DemonSabers
Strategy
Infectious
Spread laughter around the world
Thomas Jowsey
Play in browser
Occult Master (OPEN WORLD)
Open world supernatural game. Take your revenge on the demons in New Celeste.
deoheaven@gmail.com
Adventure
Play in browser
Gnosis
$2
A dark atmospheric test that asks you to see things in new ways, including the experience of playing itself.
So Ro
Interactive Fiction
GIF
Mobius Mesa
Explore a box canyon and uncover the mysteries of the mysterious desert cliffs
Skelemagus
Interactive Fiction
HackOS
Game about programming (not real =3)
He×o
Tricks of light in the forest
Climate change interactive fiction
Pseudavid
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Beat Witch
Save a world that fears you. Avoid music.
Robert Patten
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Emm1.r
A strange chatroom veils a very dark mystery...
Ayane Faeldori
Visual Novel
Roots of the Beguiler
Interactive Fiction Solo RPG Adventure
diVISION+
Interactive Fiction
GLITCHED: REBORN [DEMO]
You join forces with your tumblr crush to solve the mystery of the unfinished cyberpunk webseries GLITCHED.
toasterite
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
A Hundred Years of Sleep
You awake lost and alone. Everywhere you look, life has gone on without you.
MeroIF
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Upheaval
$4.99
-50%
Text-based open world roguelike
Alex Leone
Interactive Fiction
GIF
I doesn't exist
$12.99
An ode to text-adventures.
DreadXP
Interactive Fiction
LUNIUM
An escape room mystery. Can you escape your chains before the killer strikes again?
radiosity
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Howzit.
A Mysterious Flash Drive Arrived At Your Front Door
Fandrest
Puzzle
Timeless Misdeeds
A murder mystery. YOUR murder mystery. Can you uncover the circumstances that led to your death or will you lose it all?
kittywheels
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Ovine Replica
What do you desire? However odd or however wonderful, it can always come true.
Amorous Ursidae
Visual Novel
Ursine Science
$15
Now witness the wrath of a true beast.
Amorous Ursidae
Visual Novel
The Factory - Text Adventure
A classic text adventure of exploration and puzzle solving.
clubycoder
Adventure
Castle Moldvay Alpha 1.1
Interactive Fiction FRPG in the Rogue / Bard's Tale / Zork / Ultima tradition
Vectory Games
Role Playing
Play in browser
Destiny and Destruction
Navigate the world and slay monsters on your way to defeat the Destroyer!
Zacharyflopguy
Adventure
GIF
Drift Mine Satellite
A maintenance text adventure
Everest Pipkin
Play in browser
Gift From A Roi
$1.99
A trip to cash out coins yields more than you bargained for.
Start From Cero
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Anyboty
Chat with AI chatbots of Anyboty you want privately.
Anyboty
Simulation
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