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Project: Eden's Garden

16 talented participants enter the game. Only 2 will walk out alive.

Project: Eden's Garden

Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars

(291 total ratings)

Visual Novel

GIF

Buddy Simulator 1984 DEMO

Create your own virtual best buddy and play games together!

Not a Sailor Studios

Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars

(294 total ratings)

Simulation

Fool Me Once

Dark Fantasy + Romance Interactive Fiction

PDRRook

Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars

(155 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 4.7 out of 5 stars

(242 total ratings)

Visual Novel

Candied Carols

A wintry, magical holiday romance

VIOLET

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(143 total ratings)

Visual Novel

Gods of Savvarah | Part I

Gods of Savvarah is a visual novel with the philosophy of a classic fantasy RPG.

ST Sinovar

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(64 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

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

Rose garden sentiments

You talk to a pretty prince in a rose garden

teletuu

Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars

(71 total ratings)

Visual Novel

Something A Little Super

Raise a super powered kid.

Barbara Truelove

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(44 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(100 total ratings)

Adventure

Beau Ideals Chapter 1

Fantasy visual novel in development

Mouse & Ram

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(69 total ratings)

Visual Novel

GIF

emily is away

kyleseeley23

Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars

(840 total ratings)

12 Word Searches

Find all the words!

Playcebo

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(35 total ratings)

Puzzle

GIF

Walkie Talkie

send messages, receive messages, play messages

Daniel Linssen

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

(245 total ratings)

Platformer

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

woebegone.

when breathing has become a chore. when to exist is a trial.

louey

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(98 total ratings)

Simulation

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

(93 total ratings)

Visual Novel

Drown With Me Demo

Mermaids vs Pirates

Barbara Truelove

Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars

(32 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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

Don't Die Alone

Spam has never been so deadly.

StephenW313

Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars

(71 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

GIF

The Lancaster Leak - Entity Exam

Jeremy Fischer

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(27 total ratings)

Action

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

(48 total ratings)

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

Which Naruto Character Are You? A Funteractive Quizsperience DX Director's Cut Anniversary Edition

The age old question!

Tapesoft

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(29 total ratings)

Role Playing

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

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