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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
GIF
WASTE EATER
The world is saved. Now its heroes wait to die.
cain
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(148 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Rose garden sentiments
You talk to a pretty prince in a rose garden
teletuu
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(71 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
Gender Dysphoria
negative experiences after coming out as transgender
exodrifter
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(120 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
Demonology 101
A detective game about discovering the true names of demons.
Ludipe
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(95 total ratings)
Puzzle
Play in browser
GIF
Walkie Talkie
send messages, receive messages, play messages
Daniel Linssen
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(245 total ratings)
Platformer
WAS/WERE
$4
Murdering a person that hurt you is hot, right?
RodFireProductions
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(47 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
GIF
The Painting
A grieving father relives memories of days long gone.
Tymedust Games
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(43 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
Pageant
An interactive story about a girl who joins a beauty pageant to improve her college applications.
Autumn Chen
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(64 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Delphine's Discovery
Venture into an abandoned orphanage, solve a mystery, and fall in love.
LegendEx Games
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(93 total ratings)
Visual Novel
The Archivist and the Revolution
The world is ending, and you are still paying rent. A future history.
Autumn Chen
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(41 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
New Year's Eve, 2019
Social anxiety simulator/dating sim
Autumn Chen
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(40 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Still Shining
Watch the stars with your best friend.
HusbandoGoddess
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(43 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
Don't Die Alone
Spam has never been so deadly.
StephenW313
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(71 total ratings)
Visual Novel
GIF
The Secret Life of Probes Prologue
Story in the far reaches of space and time.
Elyon
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(14 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
GIF
Galactic Foodtruck Simulator 2999 (GFS2999)
The galaxy hungers. You own a foodtruck. Feed everyone.
WiL
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(22 total ratings)
Simulation
Play in browser
Beyond the Chiron Gate
$10
Text-based space exploration game
John Ayliff
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(37 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Deliverance
You are a messenger. Deliver the most important message yet. Restore balance to the world, else it succumbs to chaos.
Caevacior
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(48 total ratings)
GIF
Our Winding Road
Former heroes try to save their relationship.
Nim
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(34 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Blood On The Snow
A narrative adventure game.
Maricu
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(31 total ratings)
Adventure
stay with me
(you're not alone)
steff
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(31 total ratings)
Puzzle
Play in browser
GIF
Between Stations
(2017)
Sand Gardeners
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(54 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
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 Twisted Place
Depressing Cosmic Horror
Volition Newlove
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(25 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Canvas Colors: In The Moving City
Travel along with Maggie and Vale inside a moving city in Canvas Colors!
UnfinishedCircl
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(38 total ratings)
Visual Novel
GIF
Petty Puny Planet
Why have a pet rock when you can have a pet planet? Micromanage this cosmic rock to places never thought possible!
Whales And Games
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(182 total ratings)
Simulation
Play in browser
The Sun Goes Out
A micro game about what happens when there is no sun.
Sun Labyrinth
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(12 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
The Good Weapon
Will you nuke the world to save it?
ninecoffees
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(37 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
GIF
ZOZ
An open world deckbuilder adventure game for ZZT.
WiL
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(16 total ratings)
Card Game
Play in browser
venial sin
when a burden becomes too much
nadia nova
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(16 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
Neotrogla
A Twine story of bugs and bodies.
Roxy S.
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(20 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Family Dinner
It only takes one night to change everything.
pansandpots
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(64 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Cashbags
(2017)
Sand Gardeners
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(25 total ratings)
Simulation
Play in browser
GIF
Vast Trivia Of The Void
What would an omniscient creature do with all that knowledge? Well, host a trivia game, of course!
Whales And Games
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(47 total ratings)
Puzzle
Play in browser
Exhaustlands
(2018)
Sand Gardeners
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(21 total ratings)
Adventure
Play in browser
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