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Beyond the Chiron Gate
$10
Text-based space exploration game
John Ayliff
Interactive Fiction
WORLD OF HORROR
$19.99
1bit adventure game of cosmic horror inspired by the work of Junji Ito
panstasz
Role Playing
Upheaval
$4.99
-50%
Text-based open world roguelike
Alex Leone
Interactive Fiction
Mushroom Hunt
An entry for the Adventuron Cavejam
Polyducks
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
reunion
find your ex at the end of the world
caeth
Play in browser
A Red Boat
A short story told through boating and lost letters
PirxOS
Adventure
Play in browser
a Museum of Dubious Splendors.
A collection of small and peculier stories from Somwhere.
Studio Oleomingus
Adventure
In the Pause Between the Ringing.
An unbublished tale of telephone mining in India.
Studio Oleomingus
Interactive Fiction
4x4 Archipelago
A procedurally generated, text-based fantasy RPG
agat
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Crablike
Traditional roguelike where you're a crab
Quinn2win
Role Playing
Goblins Demise
Goblins seeking Refuge
Lodugh
Adventure
Play in browser
A Twisted Place
Depressing Cosmic Horror
Volition Newlove
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
Indiepocalypse #49
$15
Issue #49 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.
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GodAI
Immerse yourself in an AI-driven literary universe where anything can happen.
AWK
Interactive Fiction
Letters To The Metro
In the middle of a lonely night, the man remembers home...
Arya B
Adventure
GIF
Cannery Vale
forget who you are
Hanon Ondricek
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Lunarrota
Climb the Mountain. Kill the Goddess.
Luis S.
Role Playing
[System]
Test your correctness in this exercise that has nothing to do with grammar!
Ines Alcolea
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Kuolema
An abandoned ship is found adrift. Look for clues and uncover the secrets of The Kuolema...
radiosity
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Absent-minded (english version)
Infinite Corridors
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
ASCII Dungeon
Text-based dungeon crawler in the vein of Ultima or Wizardry
Jack Morgan
Role Playing
Everything Ends In 0
The world ends in 1 hour. It can't be saved. Wanna chat?
findaeden
Interactive Fiction
Akashica
Your journey began with a single word.
Skruffye
Interactive Fiction
Sins of Solstice
Everything Has to End. And Everything Has to Begin.
rowan
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
樺ヶ原脱出 - Escape from Kabagahara
You see a path to Kabagahara, will you take it?
Edouard Moinard
Interactive Fiction
Wumpus Wump You
Proof of concept randomized text-driven undirected graph simulator
gate
Puzzle
Play in browser
Welcome To The Dark Place
A cryptic exploration through a bizarre and unforgiving world.
Zeekerss
Adventure
Yandere.Id
Nekoreichan22
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Seltani
Hypertext MMO
zarf
Role Playing
Play in browser
(GMTK Jam) This sentence is a maze
There is all the beauty, richness, and complexity of the world in a single sentence.
Vidu
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
In All My Dreams I Choke On Invisible Smoke [BETA]
Surreal visual novel/point and click exploration. Unsettling.
Kanderwund
Visual Novel
Play in browser
The Case of Kimmirut Chasm
The Case of Kimmirut Chasm - A text-based adventure, inspired by the fiction of H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos.
MaxAmaden
Adventure
Play in browser
Kim's One Room
Narrative browser game, micro management in my Korean mother-in-law one room, Seoul, mars 2020.
Robin Moretti
Diviner
Divine the omens. Save your village.
CogsAndSpanners
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Wretch!
You never asked to be made.
CogsAndSpanners
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Habeas Corpus
Abandoned spaces in the bowels of a wandering fortress.
Grim Baccaris
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
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