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A Very Very VERY Scary House

a digital choose your own adventure book!

Anna Anthropy

Adventure

Detritus

The things you take with you, and those you leave behind.

newsmary

Interactive Fiction

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Dark Scavenger

$4.99

A bizarre point-and-click RPG adventure!

PsydraGames

Visual Novel

Drowned Cavern

Choose your own adventure interactive fiction.

bard

Choose your own CaveVenture

A choose your own adventure roguelike!

MadZab

Role Playing

Actual Sunlight

$4.99

A Short Interactive Story About Love, Depression and the Corporation

Visual Novel

Interactive Fiction

A Small game about the process of writing.

LimbClock

Interactive Fiction

The Act Of Writing

a semi-sequel to The Process

LimbClock

Interactive Fiction

The Lack Of Feedback

Part 3 of The Writer Trilogy.

LimbClock

Interactive Fiction

The Forest Bride

A Twine text game/puzzle/allegory/thing

cephalopodunk

Puzzle

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story

Interactive Fiction

A Short Story

Interactive Fiction

Bits of conversations about sexuality and gender. Made for the #genderjam

Vaida

Interactive Fiction

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Terminal

You are a hacker. Get the information.

Max Mallory

Interactive Fiction

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GIF

The Bender of Destiny

bullshit your way to victory, or doom us all

Kirb

Interactive Fiction

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Three Fourths Home: Extended Edition

$6.99

IGF-Nominated Visual Short Story

[bracket]games

Visual Novel

The Often-Ending Story

Interactive comedy story

TimeGentleman

Adventure

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The Dreamhold

Introductory interactive fiction

zarf

Adventure

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Shade

Interactive Fiction

zarf

Adventure

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Spider And Web

Interactive fiction

zarf

Adventure

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The Message

a short story about space and stuff

Ludonaut

Interactive Fiction

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GIF

Rex Hightower and the Unicorn's Kiss

turns out the power of love only gets you so far

Kirb

Adventure

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Reset

Always trust your Administratrix

Lydia Neon

Interactive Fiction

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Depression Quest

interactive fiction about living with depression

Unburnt Witch

Simulation

Kindness Coins

5 minute visual novel about visual novels!

Arden Ripley

Visual Novel

Human Needs

Buy your friends and fuck your couch.

Marek Kapolka

Interactive Fiction

Familiaris

writer

Greg Klein

Interactive Fiction

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glad libs

an uplifting, 5-minute text adventure

emdash

Adventure

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Blue Lacuna

An epic adventure: one of the top ten interactive fictions of all time.

Aaron A. Reed

Adventure

This Time Around

"The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent..." - Alden Nowlan

NLV

Visual Novel

Vivid

svblm

Interactive Fiction

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montgomery ridge apartments

five people and an apartment building

colin c.s.

Interactive Fiction

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Fixation

A puzzle platformer about people and their habits.

2DArray

Platformer

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You Find Yourself in a Room

YFYIAR is the drunken uncle of text-based adventures: Abusive, abrasive, and maybe a little funny.

2DArray

Puzzle

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servants of another object

have you chosen?

colin c.s.

Interactive Fiction

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