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A Dark Forest
Incremental Minimalistic Idle Game
TinyTakinTeller
Adventure
Play in browser
Please Answer Carefully
a horror survey game
litrouke
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
We Never Left: <Standalone>
On a dark and stormy night in 1983, the phone rings. “FINISH THE GAME”.
FYRE Games
Adventure
answer these 10 questions and i'll tell you what kind of lover you are
a choose-your-own-adventure heartbreak in the shape of a quiz
frannym
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
WASTE EATER
The world is saved. Its heroes wait to die.
cain
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
An Exact Map of the Empire
What the Emperor demands is impossible. Or is it?
Avery Hiebert
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
TTYL
Keep up with the group chat or get kicked out in this nostalgic typing game!
302 Slices
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
PROXIMATE
$5.99
Undersea horror where your only form of navigation is an unreliable AI.
cain
Adventure
GIF
Who Stole My Bone?
Help Spudz the dog find his precious bone in this short, silly game!
Kryptic Kitty
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Rose garden sentiments
You talk to a pretty prince in a rose garden
teletuu
Visual Novel
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GIF
SPACE FROG!
a story of a frog in space.
npckc
Adventure
Play in browser
Your Phone Dies in 20 Seconds
You have 20 seconds to determine your fate.
Crimson Arcade
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Family Dinner
It only takes one night to change everything.
pansandpots
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
a man outside
a friendly horror game in your neighborhood
litrouke
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Holiday Magic: A Wayhaven Christmas Story
$6.49
Christmas has come to Wayhaven! And it's magical…quite literally.
Seraphinite Games
Interactive Fiction
Don't Die Alone
Spam has never been so deadly.
StephenW313
Visual Novel
reunion
find your ex at the end of the world
caeth
Play in browser
Help! I Can't Find My Glasses!
Search the school, find secrets, find love
Lacey Green
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
A Series of Interactive Stories Where No Matter What You Do You Are Immediately Killed by a Werewolf
Can you escape the werewolf? (No.)
Luke Burns
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
The Painting
Those we love are never truly gone.
Tymedust Games
Visual Novel
Play in browser
Cypher
Decypher an alien language.
lemon juice
Interactive Fiction
GIF
Please Tell Me I Love You
A short conversation about a relationship
A G Moody
Visual Novel
Play in browser
The good people
Explore the weird, until the sunken things come for you
Pseudavid
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
Demonology 101
A detective game about discovering the true names of demons.
Ludipe
Puzzle
Play in browser
Canvas Colors: In The Moving City
Travel along with Maggie and Vale inside a moving city in Canvas Colors!
UnfinishedCircl
Visual Novel
Three Minutes to Midnight
A moody textual stategy game about political tensions.​
Thibaut Mereu
Strategy
Play in browser
Serenity at Dusk
Here is where a heavy heart asks for rest.
klaiis
Visual Novel
Play in browser
special girls
special girls special girls special girls
girl software
Play in browser
woebegone.
when breathing has become a chore. when to exist is a trial.
louey
Simulation
Little Red Riding Hood
Once upon a time, there was a dear little girl who was loved by everyone who looked at her...
cleaperie
Visual Novel
Play in browser
Where the Sun Always Shines
A self-obsessed writer searches for inspiration.
ebi-hime
Visual Novel
Gender Lab Escape Simulator 2030
can you escape . the Gender Lab,,,,? if you dare....
Natalie Terezi Rei Watts
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Just Cosplay
A game about being a teen in the early 2010s.
Deadnettle Games
Interactive Fiction
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INEVITABLE
A game about toxic love.
Jon Oldblood
Interactive Fiction
Messages
An odd game about texting.
Jusiv
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Eleutheria
Trust. Rebirth. Life after death.
Grim Baccaris
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
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