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$6.99
A mystery told through real SMS messages, phone calls, and emails.
William O'Connell
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Has sobrevivido: Wyrm
A Lovecraftian horror short visual novel set in the Wild West. Spanish and English.
Gorgon Games
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Visual Novel
ZEUS 111
We choose the moon.
DancingEngie
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Get Back to Bed
Navigate a strange and surreal journey back home, and back to sleep.
BestiarySys
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Fear.exe
Two Suns Interactive
Rated 3.4 out of 5 stars
(28 total ratings)
Play in browser
CLICK TO CONTINUE!
Run away.
Andrea Pignataro
Rated 3.6 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
Occult Agenda
Something’s festering within quaint Pomeina. But great news—you've been appointed the new town Minutetaker!
Jae Stuart
Rated 4.5 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
Tell Me A Bedtime Story (Beta)
Your daughter wants to hear a bedtime story
Greasy Paint
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Puzzle
Play in browser
GIF
SALTWATER
Narrative game about the end of the world and a world that won't end.
SkyShard
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Peculiar Fables: The Werebed
$1
A short horror story about werebeds... SO YOU MAY NEVER EVER AGAIN SLEEP!
Whitewatt
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Sunny Side Down Chapter.1 beta
Meet a strange entity with reality altering abilities, go on a date...
Moosky
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Dark Communion
Two teenage girls. One abandoned church. ??? survivors.
alyshkalia
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
But Satisfaction Brought It Back
Curiosity Killed the Cat...
simplyqueerly
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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
GIF
Malcookie
Malcookie is a 4th wall breaking game, you are tasked with finding bugs in games, and one day a virus comes across.
KevinWho
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
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
my own paper walls
A "Le Grand Guignol" submission to Ectocomp 2018
fia glas
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Blind Gun
Blind but you got a gun, survive the apocalipse!
NotEmpty
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Action
Play in browser
Tangle Lake
Inside Samuel Daggue's classic book lies answers to the unknown
Maxime Monast
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Adventure
Play in browser
Musings
Interactive Short Stories
Ronny Productions
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
The Storm
A short existentialist horror game
Stéphane F.
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The T.H.I.N.K principle
Mandela Catalogue Text Adventure
DaviD4C
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
A Thousand Thousand Slimy Things
Alone, alone, all, all alone, alone on a wide Sea! And never a saint took pity on your soul in agony.
Charm Cochran
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Elf Who Came at Night
A sad love story about an elf and a human prince.
IntStories
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
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
Post War
$7.99
An indie 2.5D post-apocalyptic adventure designed in pixel art
PostEastern
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Adventure
Wake Up
An Ectocomp 2018 Game
Phillip J Rhoades
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
The Ridgemere care home
A text based horror, adventure story
Calv182
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Adventure
Play in browser
23 Skidoo
A single-room survival horror game in real in-game time.
designergaze
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Survival
Play in browser
The Writer: A Change Of Identity
$2.99
You have a unique opportunity to study the data regarding an identity change experiment.
GameAboutGames
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Adventure
Play in browser
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
Courting Cryptids
Interactive story made in Twine 2
nyxthos
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Death to Eerick (Prototype demo)
Horror visual novel
pahisananas
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
VAULT
In bundle
Discover what lies within the Vault
KevEatsCheese
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Adventure
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