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Sharpen your critical thinking skills in this quiz game that challenges you to spot rhetorical fallacies.
Educational
Embark on a thrilling, tongue-in-cheek train heist in the style of classic dice-rolling RPGs.
Role Playing
A deep RPG set in procedurally generated dark fantasy worlds
Role Playing
I’d better start working on the game. I’ve run out of cigarettes again.
Simulation
A young girl has been kidnapped, you have two hours to find and free her.
Adventure
When a coach is murdered, Iron Heights High’s secrets, grudges, and rivalries boil over. Who’s hiding the truth?
Puzzle
The software is free. The patch will cost you your ego.
Role Playing
Play in browser
Issue #67 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.
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A text adventure horror game
Interactive Fiction
An AI-generated mini-game based on Elder Magic Squad
Action
Play in browser
Text-based open world roguelike
Interactive Fiction
You play as Nikolaychik with your dog Raptor
Survival
Play in browser
A visual novel about a death game which erupts aboard a train
Visual Novel
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Slam poem anthology.
Interactive Fiction
History is in your hands. Don't break it
Strategy
A simple, 2 Player text-based PC game!!!
Simulation
Use cunning strategies and psychological tactics to process and reincarnate souls, generating loosh for the system.
An endless dungeon crawler with random floors, foes, and loot.
Role Playing
Play in browser
DDOS SIMULATOR is a hacker attack simulator with moral choice and interactive plot.
Simulation
A text based RPG where every choice shapes your story
Role Playing
A text-based escape room horror with multiple endings.
Puzzle
A game where you manage a radio station. Oh, and it runs entirely within Microsoft Excel.
Simulation
a presentation card sized game about deep thoughts
Supernatural tech horror
Survival
Play in browser
Text adventure about intelligent alien germs and an eyeball planet.
Interactive Fiction
Debe
$10
The Ultimate Kenyan Political Campaign Simulator
Strategy
A short story about time, death, regret, and growing up
Interactive Fiction
GOLEMS
$1.50
You are a golem with no emotions or purpose. Find your path.
Adventure
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