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WORLD OF HORROR
$19.99
1bit adventure game of cosmic horror inspired by the work of Junji Ito
panstasz
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(582 total ratings)
Role Playing
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
Chronicles of Tal’Dun: The Remainder
$19.99
A story of love, death and lies.
Nim
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(91 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
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
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
Sign In again.
kyleseeley23
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(840 total ratings)
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
WAS/WERE
$4
Murdering a person that hurt you is hot, right?
RodFireProductions
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(47 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Danganronpa: Lapse
10 students find themselves trapped in a luxurious mansion...
Cynthia
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(115 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Eczema Angel Orifice
$5
beautiful twine compilation
Porpentine
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(47 total ratings)
Adventure
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
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
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(64 total ratings)
Adventure
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
Pixel Fireplace
$4.99
Type commands, roast marshmallows, throw logs onto a crackling fire. Enjoy
Ted Martens
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(152 total ratings)
Simulation
Mr. Rainer's Solve-It Service
$5
When the last thread becomes entangled, their song will be heard.
etherane
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(44 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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
Warsim: The Realm of Aslona
$9.99
Huw2k8
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(38 total ratings)
Simulation
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
Beyond the Chiron Gate
$10
Text-based space exploration game
John Ayliff
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(37 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
(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
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