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Who Kidnapped Mother Goose? (TALP)
Mother Goose has been kidnapped and it's up to you to rescue her.
Garry Francis
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Day Out (TALP)
Text adventure
zeno pillan
Adventure
Play in browser
Off the Podium — One Last Lap
Text-based game about being an average racing driver.
Kaiser Vox
Visual Novel
Termitaire
Text-based klondike solitaire that is run in the terminal
RodakDev
Card Game
Stuck with you
A late night conversation between two best friends
teletuu
Visual Novel
bash-pac
About bash-pac is an "clone of pacman" that is writen in bash
stuff by max
Action
World Runner Gamebook
Gamebook inspired by book World Runner. Can you make right choices?
YTMikosek
Adventure
Play in browser
Under My Skin
Step into the light.
pipejakob
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
Khuriya Muriya Islands, Oman; as described by Paul Scheerbart in The Gray Cloth in 1914
Scheerbart-inspired environments for fulldome, experiments
luka
Simulation
GIF
The 8th Hour
A time-looping text adventure.
4RT1F1C1AL
Adventure
Play in browser
Escape from the Troll's Cave
You mistakenly entered the Troll's Cave at the carnival because the admission was free. Now you need money to get out.
DrDooriddle
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Babysitter
You've been left to babysit little Anna, but she's gone missing. Can you find her before her parents arrive home?
DrDooriddle
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
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
Text RPG Crafter
The story continues.. probably until you close the game.
Siopaoboy
Interactive Fiction
Cyber Purge
Post-cyberpunk shooting action for ZZT
The Green Herring
Action
Play in browser
[7drl - 2024] - A Snake on a Plane
A thrilling game about a Snake and a Plane.
ceccopierangiolieugenio
Survival
Play in browser
Blind Guardian
Defend an ancient structure with hearing alone. Made for the Games for Blind Gamers Jam 3.
popcar2
Fighting
Play in browser
CLIMON
Pokémon, but CLI.
TiagoSinH
Strategy
The place where everything converges
A short story about the people around us
juampy
Visual Novel
Play in browser
paparazzi murder party
Blizzard stormz
Visual Novel
Please B Funny
ABPaladin
Puzzle
Play in browser
GIF
Fergling Laboratory
Discover secrets and escape an underground complex
Skelemagus
Adventure
terminalOS
stuff by max
Simulation
One Thousand Acts of Decency
Trapped in a Dome with eight hours to catch a killer
domedev
Visual Novel
GIF
Mobius Mesa
Explore a box canyon and uncover the mysteries of the mysterious desert cliffs
Skelemagus
Interactive Fiction
GIF
Messages From the Universe Graveyard
Experimental social game. Leave messages for other players in a dead world.
Kanderwund
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Void
Strages
Adventure
The Clay Files
A murder mystery puzzle game
Kaius
Puzzle
Play in browser
Dear Murder Diary
A murder-mystery game
marcgenesis
Puzzle
Play in browser
Cargo Breach
While serving aboard a steam ship during The Great War, something goes wrong and it's up to you to work out what.
Garry Francis
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
SurFire Pt.1 : The Village Destruction (PUBLIC RELEASE)
Prevent the Destruction of your home village by fighting enemies! ​
Omega Net Games
Role Playing
Tricks of light in the forest
Climate change interactive fiction
Pseudavid
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
Financial Life
It's all about money
Strotyrunglar
Survival
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