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Who Stole My Bone?
Help Spudz the dog find his precious bone in this short, silly game!
Kryptic Kitty
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
In the Pause Between the Ringing.
An unbublished tale of telephone mining in India.
Studio Oleomingus
Interactive Fiction
Dungeon Mercenary
Modern ASCII roguelike - Can your mercenary beat the dungeon ?
smelc3
Role Playing
Play in browser
GIF
Walkie Talkie
send messages, receive messages, play messages
Daniel LinssenVerified Account
Platformer
GIF
The Painting
Those we love are never truly gone.
Tymedust Games
Visual Novel
Play in browser
GIF
Type Knight
$2.99
-40%
Purge the graveyard from the forces of Evil by using your typing skills.
chaikadev
GIF
ZOZ
An open world deckbuilder adventure game for ZZT.
WiL (stale-meme)
Card Game
Play in browser
I wish I was
A narrative dungeon-crawler
lulatschia
Puzzle
Mushroom Hunt
An entry for the Adventuron Cavejam
Polyducks
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Please Answer Carefully
a horror survey game
litrouke
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Divide
I will not be just a sacrifice.
TrulyDrew
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Away Team
In this interactive sci-fi adventure novel, you are the AI pilot of Earth's last interstellar ship.
Underflow Studios
Interactive Fiction
POM SIMULATOR 9000
weary, transformation, dog, burger, comfort
d Marie
Simulation
GIF
Code 7 - Episodes 2 & 3 Available Now
$22.99
What would you do if you found yourself trapped on an eerie space station with nothing but a computer?
Goodwolf Studio
Adventure
The Salt Keep
$4.99
A traveling salesman's struggle to survive a night of horror
Small Gray Games
Adventure
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
Swan Song
A short interactive story loosely based on Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake.
swansong-if
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Deliverance
You are a messenger. Deliver the most important message yet. Restore balance to the world, else it succumbs to chaos.
Caevacior
10mg: Cover Me In Leaves
$2
In bundle
A short kinetic novel — on bright minds, and the end of all things.
Elliot Herriman
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Congee
A short story about food, belonging, and seeking home.
Starless
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Sinners
Could you fall for a sinner?
veswrites
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Eirington on the Moor
A Gothic Victorian Werewolf Romance. Alpha Leoric waits for you. Will you tame the beast, or become the prey?
Silk Fox
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Subtext
$3.49
-50%
A mystery told through real SMS messages, phone calls, and emails.
William O'Connell
Interactive Fiction
Reincarnated as a Dark Lord Before Taking Over the World with Power 999999999
Multiple endings idle game
Cuddle Code
Adventure
Play in browser
REDSUGARSOCIETY
Fake date. Fall in love. Murder. Party. Rinse and repeat.
riotdevs
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Coffee Machine
Dr. Bright + SCP-294 fanfiction based on the SCP Stories.
Master Pose
Simulation
Play in browser
All Hail The Spider God
All Hail The Spider God is an eerie interactive fiction adventure about You, and all the Yous you've left behind.
Strange Scaffold
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Untrusted - Web of Cybercrime
The Social Deduction Multiplayer Hacking Game
PlayUntrusted
Role Playing
Play in browser
The Last Court: A Dragon Age Adaptation
You are the ruler of Serault, an eccentric fiefdom at the farthest ends of Orlais.
DATLC
Role Playing
Play in browser
AWAKE Prototype
You awake alone, on a damaged and abandoned starship.
Hamish Smithers
Play in browser
What happened to the crew?
A terminal-based sci-fi mystery
bushmonkey
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Dave Microwaves Games Trilogy I
$1
-33%
A collection of horror games, each with their own distinct styles
Dave Microwaves Games
Adventure
Sorry We're Open
$7.99
Welcome to the Corporate Ladder.
oates
Role Playing
The House Abandon - Now part of 'Stories Untold'!
A nostalgic horror adventure game, inside another horror game, inside a tv show, inside a game.
jonNoCode
Adventure
Chronicles of Tal’Dun: The Longing
A dark fantasy novel.
Nim
Visual Novel
Play in browser
Remnants Of The Past - Act 2
Second act of the semi-linear dark fantasy and romance interactive story.
Domakir
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
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