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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
Horse Master: The Game of Horse Mastery
Master a horse. Become a Horse Master.
Tom McHenry
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(146 total ratings)
Play in browser
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
10mg: Cover Me In Leaves
$2
In bundle
A short kinetic novel — on bright minds, and the end of all things.
Elliot Herriman
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(137 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The House Abandon - Now part of 'Stories Untold'!
A nostalgic horror adventure game, inside another horror game, inside a tv show, inside a game.
jonNoCode
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(100 total ratings)
Adventure
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
Eczema Angel Orifice
$5
beautiful twine compilation
Porpentine
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(47 total ratings)
Adventure
Serum Run
A dogsled Oregon Trail-like originally made in 48 hours.
Avery Hiebert
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(146 total ratings)
Adventure
Play in browser
FARA
A browser roguelike with over 60 classes and endless adventure
BrianIsCreative
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(189 total ratings)
Role Playing
Play in browser
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
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
GIF
Type Knight
$3.99
Purge the graveyard from the forces of Evil by using your typing skills.
chaikadev
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(35 total ratings)
a Museum of Dubious Splendors.
A collection of small and peculier stories from Somwhere.
Studio Oleomingus
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(53 total ratings)
Adventure
Perfect Tides
$14.99
Perfect Tides is a point and click adventure game about the agony and anticipation of being a teen.
Meredith Gran
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(30 total ratings)
Adventure
Home Safety Hotline
$14.99
A horror game about working in a 90's call center.
Night Signal Entertainment
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(21 total ratings)
Puzzle
Fallacy Quiz
$5
Sharpen your critical thinking skills in this quiz game that challenges you to spot rhetorical fallacies.
Tim Krief
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(16 total ratings)
Educational
Paradise
$1
Paradise is an interactive fiction playground.
Rek & Devine
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(10 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Chatventures
$3
In bundle
text-adventure MMORPG
Sokpop Collective
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(21 total ratings)
Role Playing
Library of Babble
Deep within the computer, a library grows
Demi
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(75 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
COLD SCREAM
Survival Horror Text Adventure
1AM TRAIN
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(26 total ratings)
Survival
Sorry We're Open
$7.99
Welcome to the Corporate Ladder.
oates
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(52 total ratings)
Role Playing
GIF
Don't make love
Will you make love and risk death?
Maggese
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(25 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
GIF
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
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 4.3 out of 5 stars
(18 total ratings)
Adventure
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
American Election
A Nightmare | Narrative Game (1-2 Hours)
Greg Buchanan
Rated 3.6 out of 5 stars
(12 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Acolyte
$10.99
A narrative ARG/Detective game that gives you your own digital assistant.
SUPERSTRING
Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars
(14 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
GIF
Intimate Codex
Free form text exploration
AndyMakes
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
GIF
Indiepocalypse #44
$15
Issue #44 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.
PIZZAPRANKS
Rated 4.2 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
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