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Dream Team
A Millennial Dream Simulator
PRINCESS INTERNET CAFé
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
Visual Novel
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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
(25 total ratings)
Visual Novel
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Lunarrota
Climb the Mountain. Kill the Goddess.
Luis S.
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(11 total ratings)
Role Playing
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Flawed Crystals
A Steven Universe fangame
A Friendly Irin
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Role Playing
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The Hundredth Floor
You and your sister get trapped in a VRMMO. Can you get out of it alive or will you die in it?
TechnoBen
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(7 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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Enclosure 3-D
Arctic horror adventure, now in full 3D.
mausimus
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(7 total ratings)
Adventure
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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
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In The Trees
A text-based speculative horror game
Caspian Depression Games
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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L'île Tristam
Une aventure textuelle pour ordinateurs rétro
Hugo Labrande
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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Ash Boat
For the curious.
克勒卡尔
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Visual Novel
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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
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Draculaland
Comic horror clickable text adventure
Robin Johnson
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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Alvion's Imperator
Multiple choice textual-narrative game in a medieval fantasy world.
LightFromVoid
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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Tricks of light in the forest
Climate change interactive fiction
Pseudavid
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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ClassicZoo
ZZT/Super ZZT world player and editor
asie
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
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chiaroscuro
An interactive novella about finding your muse.
Kim Berkley
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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Messages From the Universe Graveyard
Experimental social game. Leave messages for other players in a dead world.
Kanderwund
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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Vampire Ltd
A Corporate Espionage Adventure (With Vampires In It)
rabbit
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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Infectious
Spread laughter around the world
Thomas Jowsey
Rated 3.4 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
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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
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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
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Hypervisible
porree
Rated 3.6 out of 5 stars
(7 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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Sleep on, Dear Willie
A text-based adventure set in Vimy Ridge
Dumb Luck/Inelegant
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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Never A Matter Of Time
A wholesome visual novel about timestops and friendships!
Esbi
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Visual Novel
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smolalienbee
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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Cyber Purge
Post-cyberpunk shooting action for ZZT
The Green Herring
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Action
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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
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watching paint dry: for 1 hour
paint ain't gonna watch itself
Ohtmiel
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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What's Wrong With You?
An indie horror game. Please note: There is no sound, nor is there visuals. This is intentional.
dovelycallum
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Visual Novel
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Laid Off from the Synesthesia Factory
A story generator.
katherine
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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The Storm
A short existentialist horror game
Stéphane F.
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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Are You A Better General Than Agamemnon?
How well would you do if you were leading the Trojan War? A ten year text game in ten decisions (per year).
PyrrhaIphis
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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The Little Match Girl, by Hans Christian Andersen
A touching short story.
Ryan Veeder
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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Natural Pressure
A girl leaves her childhood home hoping to find something better, but she can't seem to escape her roots.
Olivia C Dunlap
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Visual Novel
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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
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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
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