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FARA
A browser roguelike with over 60 classes and endless adventure
BrianIsCreative
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(189 total ratings)
Role Playing
Play in browser
The Coffee Machine
Dr. Bright + SCP-294 fanfiction based on the SCP Stories.
Master Pose
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(56 total ratings)
Simulation
Play in browser
GIF
We Never Left: <Standalone>
On a dark and stormy night in 1983, the phone rings. “FINISH THE GAME”.
FYRE Games
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(34 total ratings)
Adventure
GIF
And yet it hurt
An adventure game in Notepad about a kid who seeks revenge.
Sheepolution
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(25 total ratings)
Adventure
Jack Rampage and the Disasters
A game where you meet some demons!
Frankie☆
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(14 total ratings)
Visual Novel
I Am A Game.
This is a game. There's not much more to this. This is a game.
Codebolt
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(28 total ratings)
Play in browser
GIF
Sleepy Tales
Tell your sister stories until she falls asleep
classheikki
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Solo Records
A story for the lonely dreamers and the loved realists.
ArdenceVice
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Tales from the Road
A SFW interactive fiction game
Iforgotmybrain
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(14 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
Don't make love
Will you make love and risk death?
Maggese
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(25 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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
Anamnesis, of Renascents and Monsters
A text-based lovecraftian life simulation RPG.
Vaccean
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
Simulation
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
Dungeon Mercenary
Modern ASCII roguelike - Can your mercenary beat the dungeon ?
smelc3
Rated 4.2 out of 5 stars
(37 total ratings)
Role Playing
Play in browser
Nova: Synthesis Creaturum
A free fantasy visual novel about magic, monsters, and more--download now!
Nova: Synthesis Creaturum
Rated 4.2 out of 5 stars
(26 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Terminal Sickness
Post-pandemic story driven text adventure.
Turnaround Games
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(10 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Widemare
A voice and text driven horror experience.
Andrea Pignataro
Rated 4.1 out of 5 stars
(16 total ratings)
Visual Novel
🥚⌛🍳 TIME OMELETTE 🍳⌛🥚
A cooking mystery game about time. Except it's not a cooking game.
adriel
Rated 4.2 out of 5 stars
(12 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Swapped
Old windows themed horror game.
Takeo Noname
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
GIF
Ray Bibbia
Play as the toughest private exorcist around and fight evil by dodging bullets and typing your formula.
Morbidware
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
Action
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
The Beast of Torrack Moor - 30th Anniversary Edition
Track down a wild beast on the moors of England in this remaster of the classic ZX Spectrum text-adventure.
Adventuron
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Everything Ends In 0
The world ends in 1 hour. It can't be saved. Wanna chat?
findaeden
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Bad Connection
a chat before christmas
Josia Roncancio
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(7 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
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
Light in Night
Mystery episodic text adventure with retrowave atmosphere.
Drear Games
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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
Blood/Sweat/Tears
Play as a Paramedic trying to keep your physical and mental health in check.
dizmackay
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Batch Town
A strategy / luck game about managing a town / village coded entirely in batch!
General Nut
Rated 3.8 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
Strategy
Last Tsar
Two Suns Interactive
Rated 3.8 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
Strategy
Play in browser
Brainfog
A never-ending game about the mental effects of chronic illness.
Erin Kyan
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Play in browser
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