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Fool Me Once
Dark Fantasy + Romance Interactive Fiction
PDRRook
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(156 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Project: Perfectly Normal
A free action-comedy BL game about a retired killer-for-hire who has to navigate life as a normal high school student.
peaceful-pastel
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(245 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Candied Carols
A wintry, magical holiday romance
VIOLET
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(143 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Snowbound Blood
Snowbound Blood: A Vast Error Story
Deconreconstruction
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(79 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Rose garden sentiments
You talk to a pretty prince in a rose garden
teletuu
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(72 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Bird Of Passage
A free night ride across Tokyo, searching for our home with the help of some stranger.
SpaceBackyard
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(272 total ratings)
Visual Novel
GIF
emily is away
Sign In again.
kyleseeley23
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(841 total ratings)
When Rivers Were Trails
A game about the impact of allotment acts on Indigenous communities in the 1890's.
indianlandtenure
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(47 total ratings)
Educational
POM SIMULATOR 9000
weary, transformation, dog, burger, comfort
d Marie
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(80 total ratings)
Simulation
Danganronpa: Lapse
10 students find themselves trapped in a luxurious mansion...
Cynthia
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(115 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Joestar ☆ Struck
Get Joestar Struck
TeamScallywag
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(116 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Delphine's Discovery
Venture into an abandoned orphanage, solve a mystery, and fall in love.
LegendEx Games
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(94 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Tristam Island
An Infocom-style adventure for retro computers
Hugo Labrande
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(15 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
One Thousand Acts of Decency
Trapped in a Dome with eight hours to catch a killer
domedev
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(18 total ratings)
Visual Novel
GIF
The Secret Life of Probes Prologue
Story in the far reaches of space and time.
Elyon
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(14 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Deliverance
You are a messenger. Deliver the most important message yet. Restore balance to the world, else it succumbs to chaos.
Caevacior
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(49 total ratings)
GIF
The Lancaster Leak - Entity Exam
Jeremy Fischer
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(27 total ratings)
Action
Pitch Black Serenade
- A non conventional romance game. -
97Circle
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(19 total ratings)
Visual Novel
GIF
Our Winding Road
Former heroes try to save their relationship.
Nim
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(34 total ratings)
Visual Novel
灰舟
献给好奇者。
克勒卡尔
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(21 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Blood On The Snow
A narrative adventure game.
Maricu
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(31 total ratings)
Adventure
a Museum of Dubious Splendors.
A collection of small and peculier stories from Somwhere.
Studio Oleomingus
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(53 total ratings)
Adventure
Canvas Colors: In The Moving City
Travel along with Maggie and Vale inside a moving city in Canvas Colors!
UnfinishedCircl
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(38 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Bewitching!
A girl's love game about cute witches!
sensh_ii
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(13 total ratings)
Visual Novel
The Good Weapon
Will you nuke the world to save it?
ninecoffees
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(38 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
An Afternoon Rippling
Take a road trip through a valley.
marslizard
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(46 total ratings)
Swan Hill
A minimalist choose-your-own adventure story about two brothers who have grown apart.
Laura Michet
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(11 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Pyramid Builder
Grow a civilization, Build a Pyramid
standardcombo
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(77 total ratings)
Simulation
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
Don't Give Up On Me!
A confession goes wrong in multiple ways and days!
Stefannofornari Games
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(14 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Library of Babble
Deep within the computer, a library grows
Demi
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(75 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
In the Pause Between the Ringing.
An unbublished tale of telephone mining in India.
Studio Oleomingus
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(21 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
INEVITABLE
A game about toxic love.
Jon Oldblood
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(24 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
GIF
Postal Secret
Postal secret no longer counts! Short atmospheric puzzle solving for a relaxing evening.
Ymar Games
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(15 total ratings)
Puzzle
La Faille
Un visual novel fantastique sur un groupe de lycéens dont la vie est sur le point de basculer...
Chester
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(19 total ratings)
Visual Novel
GIF
Into The Hoop Demo
A basketball themed visual novel and dating sim with stat management!
intothehoop
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(17 total ratings)
Visual Novel
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