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Mind Games: Trepidation
Horror, Sci-fi, Queer-friendly, and Romance... what more could you ask for?
Bottlecap Rabbit Games
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(60 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
Left on Read
It’s March of 2020, you were just sent home from university because of the coronavirus, you have some small regrets.
Weston Bell-Geddes
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(24 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Emm1.r
A strange chatroom veils a very dark mystery...
Ayane Faeldori
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Enclosure 3-D
Arctic horror adventure, now in full 3D.
mausimus
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(7 total ratings)
Adventure
In The Trees
A text-based speculative horror game
Caspian Depression Games
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
C.R.U.D.D.Y.
wake up. check the logs. talk to your computer. die. repeat. try to escape.
windbreak
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Draculaland
Comic horror clickable text adventure
Robin Johnson
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Upon A Darkening Flood
A horror tale of the Revolution on culture, heritage, and the anxieties elicited by a strange library.
Rastagong
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Cheap Room 값싼 방 (Sound Novel)_en/kr
Old-fashioned sound novel. Asian horror story.
QamarART
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Adventure
Play in browser
Carpathian Vampire (TALP)
A vampire has been killing children in a village in the Carpathian Mountains. The villagers have hired you to kill it.
Garry Francis
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Storm
A short existentialist horror game
Stéphane F.
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Ovine Replica
What do you desire? However odd or however wonderful, it can always come true.
Amorous Ursidae
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Visual Novel
An Asylum Tale - Shellshock
Follow in this text adventure the horror of a war Veteran inside a Mental Asylum.
Fleischshake Games
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Adventure
GIF
Left on Read (DEMO)
It’s March of 2020, you were just sent home from university because of the coronavirus, you have some small regrets.
Weston Bell-Geddes
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Purpose
Choose Your Own Adventure inspired by Telltale's The Walking Dead
Christopher
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Tránsito
Una Ficción Interactiva Liminar
n2n
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Beneath
A twine ghost story for Scream Jam 2022+1.
iot-games
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
Angel In The Dark
An Audio & Text based horror game, set in total darkness. Will you survive?
Philip Aldous
Rated 3.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Occult Master (OPEN WORLD)
Open world supernatural game. Take your revenge on the demons in New Celeste.
deoheaven@gmail.com
Rated 3.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Adventure
Play in browser
The Numerus Corporation Virtual Orientation
Complete this assessment before applying to join the Numerus Corporation!
Israel Ownbey
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Simulation
Two Words
Take the first step...
Skruffye
Rated 3.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Adventure
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