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Wayfarer
Marked by complete magical immunity, Wayfarers wander the world, fighting magic. Where will your fate lead you?
Idrelle Games
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(1,271 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Chronicles of Tal’Dun: The Remainder
$19.99
A story of love, death and lies.
Nim
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(92 total ratings)
Visual Novel
The Gilded
A dark fantasy fiction game
Dry Cappuccino Games
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(61 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Beau Ideals Chapter 1
Fantasy visual novel in development
Mouse & Ram
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(69 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Danganronpa: Lapse
10 students find themselves trapped in a luxurious mansion...
Cynthia
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(116 total ratings)
Visual Novel
4x4 Archipelago
A procedurally generated, text-based fantasy RPG
agat
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(40 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
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
A Long Way to the Nearest Star
A thief on the run finds refuge on an abandoned spaceship. A lonely AI finds unexpected company.
SV Linwood
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(13 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Don't Give Up On Me!
A confession goes wrong in multiple ways and days!
Stefannofornari Games
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(14 total ratings)
Visual Novel
MMM: Murder Most Misfortunate
A murder is committed in a secluded mansion, and it's up to you to solve it.
Foolish Mortals
Rated 4.1 out of 5 stars
(88 total ratings)
Visual Novel
You are SpamZapper 3.1
A spam filter and their fellow plugins get horribly entangled in the affairs of their human's friends
Leon
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Away Team
$8
In this interactive sci-fi adventure novel, you are the AI pilot of Earth's last interstellar ship.
Underflow Studios
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(36 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
GIF
Cannery Vale
forget who you are
Hanon Ondricek
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(15 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
CLOSED HANDS
An unflinching work of interactive fiction.
PΔSSENGER
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(15 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
GIF
BTC King
Do you have what it takes to be the BTC King? Challenge yourself in this semi-text based game!
aklgupta
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(10 total ratings)
Play in browser
GIF
Event[0]
$19.99
Event[0] is a sci-fi narrative game where you build a relationship with a spaceship computer to get home to Earth.
Ocelot Society
Rated 4.2 out of 5 stars
(17 total ratings)
Adventure
Ano What? Why Bakit??
A Really Short and Simple FREE Otome Game
z-ish.p
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
Visual Novel
The Process of Elimination
small town parasocial crime drama
disfixdog
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Proper Detective 2000
1.50€
A couple has been brutally murdered in their house last night. Are you up to solve the mystery?
kernel_dc
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Puzzle
Play in browser
Light in Night
Mystery episodic text adventure with retrowave atmosphere.
Drear Games
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Tell Me A Bedtime Story (Full Version)
Your daughter wants to hear a bedtime story
Greasy Paint
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Puzzle
Play in browser
Jikoronpa: Laments of Isolation (Up to CH2 Trial)
A Danganronpa Fangame: A game of reflection, our guests facing the truth of themselves.
Laments
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Night in the Unpleasant House
$5
A classic tale of revenge, local politics, pseudoscience, questionable botany, love, and loss.
Porch Weather Games
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
CAFE 0 ~The Sleeping Beast~
$16.99
What kind of fate will the heroine face after she relives the last seven days before her death?
roseverte
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Chuk and the Arena
Fight in the Grand Galactic Tournament to get back your planet's stolen moon!
agat
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Warrior Tycoon
WarriorTycoon is Tycoon game where you train warriors and send them on missions to earn gold.
Stusse Games
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Simulation
GIF
REDemption ZONE
An interactive console-based text adventure.
Elseth
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
GIF
Ill-Equipped to Lead Men
An Our Flag Means Death text-based adventure game.
glitterpig
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Paint By The Numbers
A game where time is of the essence and your future painting career hangs in the balance!
Nenekiri
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
CANNA-BUS: 420
Follow 4 protagonists and celebrate 420 - where local dealers adapt to legalization, and good times keep on rolling
Imitate Fire
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Silly Feathers
Birdysit Luna, my mynah bird for a few hours.
Ariigames
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Carrier Trail
$4.99
Deliver a package to the royal family in this Oregon Trail inspired game!
CrackedGhostGames
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Adventure
Don't Take It Personally, I Just Don't Like You
$19.99
The dating sim where not everyone wants to date you.
DeCoster
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Visual Novel
GodAI
Immerse yourself in an AI-driven literary universe where anything can happen.
AWK
Rated 2.8 out of 5 stars
(28 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Memoria
Náufrago en un mundo extraño ¿Basta con sólo sobrevivir?
Incanus
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Morse
Help a man tell his harrowing tale.
OliverKnight
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Simulation
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