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SPACE FROG!
a story of a frog in space.
npckc
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(602 total ratings)
Adventure
Play in browser
Wake Up
Live authoritarianism through a minimalist narrative experience.
Inverge Studios
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(93 total ratings)
Play in browser
GIF
The Painting
A grieving father relives memories of days long gone.
Tymedust Games
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(43 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
Trans Pyre
Finnish midsummer gender magic.
Xurxe Toivo García
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(23 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
venial sin
when a burden becomes too much
nadia nova
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(16 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
Leximan - ORIGINAL CONCEPT PROTOTYPE
Throw together wild spells as you attempt to repair your broken spellbook!
MaxAmaden
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(18 total ratings)
Adventure
Play in browser
MMM: Murder Most Misfortunate
A murder is committed in a secluded mansion, and it's up to you to solve it.
Foolish Mortals
Rated 4.1 out of 5 stars
(88 total ratings)
Visual Novel
GIF
The Ritual
a Princess & her Knight travel through the woods.
Megan
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(21 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
lost in myself: an interactive visual novel
You are the enemy of yourself, or maybe the friend? It's always the fight with you that's hard to win.
Luna Studios
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(10 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
A Valent-ine's Tale
Short and Fun "Personality Quiz"
ACE Ed-Venture Studio
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(15 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Welcome to the Dragon Palace
A queer illustrated text adventure game
yllogique
Rated 4.2 out of 5 stars
(17 total ratings)
Adventure
Play in browser
Clockwork Apple
A BL Visual-novel featuring kidnapping and characters of doubtful morality. (English and Italian)
Synapsed
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Visual Novel
The Nowhere
The Nowhere - Twine Game
Pedro Marques
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
Adventure
Play in browser
GIF
Five Minutes a Day
Every day, for the rest of your life.
Andrea Pignataro
Rated 3.8 out of 5 stars
(35 total ratings)
Adventure
It wasn't me.
What do you think happened? A short telescopic text mystery, playing with out-of-the-box storytelling mechanics.
Rosa Carbo-Mascarell
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(7 total ratings)
Role Playing
Remember When
Journey through the life of Sarah and Noah in this interactive narrative experience.
Arrow Games
Rated 4.2 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Dungeon of Choices
As a knight, you're in the dungeon, will you get the grail?
alias_tof
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Adventure
CLICK TO CONTINUE!
Run away.
Andrea Pignataro
Rated 3.6 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
GIF
Silent Night
Forge the destiny of two sisters facing an endless night.
Elisa Corbeau
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Tea, Hide and Seek
The Belarusian police are after you. Where could you hide?
Florence Rivières
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Copycat / Подражатель
О близнецах, зеркале и проблеме идентичности
WanderingLighter
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Véléda - Pour Josiane et ces chers Germains
VisualNoverHumor
TomBuston
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Space Goats: Tales from Bah'nana IV.
A Text Adventure based on Tim Ruswick's "Space Goats 2"
Star Banner Games
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Escape the Romans part 3!
Continue your adventure!
firet
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Role Playing
Play in browser
CANNA-BUS: 420
Follow 4 protagonists and celebrate 420 - where local dealers adapt to legalization, and good times keep on rolling
Imitate Fire
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Interview
The game about job interviews
Hidden Raisin
Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Visual Novel
The perfect surprise
Prepare the perfect birthday in this short visual novel!
Aurum Lingua Games
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
How things have been / Cómo ha sido
Choose your own fascist life adventure
Polybiak
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
body change problems
(mobile friendly) - a story about gender and waiting until it ends
Dev Vand™
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
Beauty Behind the the Veil
A text-based descent into a detective's death and discovery of a great and horrible truth.
Flying Ghost Head
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
A night to remember
Experience a night as a Toreador participating in an art exhibition.
Anydel
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
Mobius Mesa
Explore a box canyon and uncover the mysteries of the mysterious desert cliffs
Skelemagus
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
PROJECT HERO - Mutants Evolve (2020)
​You're not mutation, you are evolution. - Keith R. A. DeCandido
Kieran Ritchie
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Cricket Simulator
An electronic interpretation of pencil cricket.
AntipodeanGames
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Sports
Play in browser
One Last Page
Simon Thomson
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Adventure
The Hole in Blueblack Lake
a text-based fishing game
EsoteriSoft
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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