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Social Democracy: An Alternate History
You are the Social Democratic Party of Germany in 1928. Can you stop the Nazis from taking power?
Autumn Chen
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
Trigaea
Alter genes, survive. Sci-fi RPG. 270k+
RynGM
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Scout: An Apocalypse Story
A text choice romance in an apocalyptic setting.
Anya
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
FARA
A browser roguelike with over 60 classes and endless adventure
BrianIsCreative
Role Playing
Play in browser
Throne of Ashes
$2
Break the curse and uncover your fire.
13Leagues
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
One Thousand Acts of Decency
Trapped in a Dome with eight hours to catch a killer
domedev
Visual Novel
A MANSION on the HILL
$4.99
Is killing ever justified?
DirigoGames
Adventure
Immortal's Pet
An immortal adopts a human as a pet.
Spider Lily
Visual Novel
Play in browser
Chameleonic Accord
Did you know magical girls have rights?
LillianaErato
Visual Novel
Play in browser
Skaian Survey
Discover your CLASS and ASPECT today!
Thank Shrew
Play in browser
GIF
emily is away
Sign In again.
kyleseeley23
Fool Me Once
$5
Dark Fantasy + Romance Interactive Fiction
PDRRook
Interactive Fiction
Chronicles of Tal’Dun: The Longing
A dark fantasy novel.
Nim
Visual Novel
Play in browser
The Archivist and the Revolution
The world is ending, and you are still paying rent. A future history.
Autumn Chen
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
The Painting
Those we love are never truly gone.
Tymedust Games
Visual Novel
Play in browser
Social Democracy: Petrograd 1917
A revolutionary alternate history.
Autumn Chen
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
PROXIMATE
$5.99
Undersea horror where your only form of navigation is an unreliable AI.
cain
Adventure
Upheaval
$4.99
-50%
Text-based open world roguelike
Alex Leone
Interactive Fiction
Beau Ideals Chapter 1
Fantasy visual novel in development
Mouse & Ram
Visual Novel
Beyond the Chiron Gate
$10
Text-based space exploration game
Space Goblin Games
Interactive Fiction
GIF
Galactic Foodtruck Simulator 2999 (GFS2999)
The galaxy hungers. You own a foodtruck. Feed everyone.
WiL (stale-meme)
Simulation
Play in browser
Swords of Freeport
Text-Mode Social RPG
Funtime Electrics
Role Playing
Forever Gold
A dark fantasy RPG.
Dan & LS
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Pageant
An interactive story about a girl who joins a beauty pageant to improve her college applications.
Autumn Chen
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
if not us
$7
an IF anthology about five heroes who die
ub4q
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Joestar ☆ Struck
Get Joestar Struck
TeamScallywag
Visual Novel
GIF
Vast Trivia Of The Void
What would an omniscient creature do with all that knowledge? Well, host a trivia game, of course!
Whales And Games 🐳
Puzzle
Play in browser
a Museum of Dubious Splendors.
A collection of small and peculier stories from Somwhere.
Studio Oleomingus
Adventure
Rose garden sentiments
You talk to a pretty prince in a rose garden
teletuu
Visual Novel
Play in browser
HUNGERWINTER
The hunger. The hunger...
Das Kunstkollektiv
Interactive Fiction
Dungeon Mercenary
Modern ASCII roguelike - Can your mercenary beat the dungeon ?
smelc3
Role Playing
Play in browser
GIF
WASTE EATER
The world is saved. Its heroes wait to die.
cain
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Good Weapon
Will you nuke the world to save it?
ninecoffees
Interactive Fiction
Pyramid Builder
Grow a civilization, Build a Pyramid
standardcombo
Simulation
GIF
An Exact Map of the Empire
What the Emperor demands is impossible. Or is it?
Avery Hiebert
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Paradise
$2
Paradise is an interactive fiction playground.
Rek & Devine
Interactive Fiction
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