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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

Path of Adventure

A text-based roguelike, for mobile

Alinea Games

Rated 4.2 out of 5 stars

(33 total ratings)

Role Playing

Play in browser

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Replica

$2.99

Everything in the State, nothing against the State, nothing outside the State.

Somi

Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars

(17 total ratings)

Adventure

Dream Team

A Millennial Dream Simulator

PRINCESS INTERNET CAFé

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(8 total ratings)

Visual Novel

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

(26 total ratings)

Visual Novel

Lunarrota

Climb the Mountain. Kill the Goddess.

Luis S.

Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars

(11 total ratings)

Role Playing

Flawed Crystals

A Steven Universe fangame

A Friendly Irin

Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars

(9 total ratings)

Role Playing

Play in browser

Enclosure 3-D

Arctic horror adventure, now in full 3D.

mausimus

Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars

(7 total ratings)

Adventure

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

Play in browser

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

Trackless

$10

In the distant future, you join a strange organization to find the secret behind The Object

12East

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(6 total ratings)

Adventure

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

L'île Tristam

Une aventure textuelle pour ordinateurs rétro

Hugo Labrande

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(5 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

Ash Boat

For the curious.

克勒卡尔

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(5 total ratings)

Visual Novel

Upheaval

$4.99

-50%

Text-based open world roguelike

Alex Leone

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(5 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

(4 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

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

Play in browser

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The MansterSoft 3-in-1 Fun-Pak

-100%

Laser Moles, Knife-Fighting Chimps, and an ASCII Snail

MansterSoft

Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars

(6 total ratings)

Action

Tricks of light in the forest

Climate change interactive fiction

Pseudavid

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(3 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

Play in browser

chiaroscuro

An interactive novella about finding your muse.

Kim Berkley

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(3 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

Love Exalt 8372

$9.99

A visual novel about a death game which erupts aboard a train

Veki

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(3 total ratings)

Visual Novel

Play in browser

Vampire Ltd

A Corporate Espionage Adventure (With Vampires In It)

rabbit

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(3 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

Play in browser

ClassicZoo

ZZT/Super ZZT world player and editor

asie

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(3 total ratings)

Infectious

Spread laughter around the world

Thomas Jowsey

Rated 3.4 out of 5 stars

(9 total ratings)

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

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Hypervisible

porree

Rated 3.6 out of 5 stars

(7 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

Play in browser

Cyber Purge

Post-cyberpunk shooting action for ZZT

The Green Herring

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(3 total ratings)

Action

Play in browser

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

Play in browser

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

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

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

Play in browser

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