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Fallacy Quiz
$5
Sharpen your critical thinking skills in this quiz game that challenges you to spot rhetorical fallacies.
Tim Krief
Educational
Throne of Ashes
$2
Break the curse and uncover your fire.
13Leagues
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Upheaval
$4.99
-50%
Text-based open world roguelike
Alex Leone
Interactive Fiction
Love Mystery Club
$1
This game is based on the theme of love & light reasoning.
zedraxlo
Visual Novel
Paradise
$1
Paradise is an interactive fiction playground.
Rek & Devine
Interactive Fiction
IN THE ARMS OF THE NIGHT
£2.40
A novel-length "bat-romance" Twine.
polymer despair
Transmissions
$1
These are the log entries of a grumpy space traveler.
rembrandx
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Swords of Freeport
$15
Text-Mode Social RPG
Elissa Black
Role Playing
Your Future Self
$2.99
A time-loop based experimental text adventure.
Contortionist Games
Adventure
Eczema Angel Orifice
$5
beautiful twine compilation
Porpentine
Adventure
GIF
Pixel Fireplace
$4.99
Type commands, roast marshmallows, throw logs onto a crackling fire. Enjoy
Ted Martens
Simulation
Can You Come In?
$2
Your boss has called to ask if you can come into work on your day off - and you don't have much choice but to go.
spacetwinks
Interactive Fiction
if not us
$7
In bundle
an IF anthology about five heroes who die
ub4q
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
Interactive Fiction
The Temporal Invasion (ARG)
$6.99
Do you want to feel like REAL Mystery Solver and Explorer?
Hybriona Labs
Adventure
3am
$1
Enjoy a relaxing cup of tea.
madameberry
Trackless
$10
In the distant future, you join a strange organization to find the secret behind The Object
12East
Adventure
VOCÊ É UM DEFUNTO MECÂNICO
$1
As suas escolhas não importam.
Virgula Leal
Interactive Fiction
GIF
Indiepocalypse #22
$15
Issue #22 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.
PIZZAPRANKS
GIF
Indiepocalypse #17
$15
Issue #17 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.
PIZZAPRANKS
Sepia Tears: Reprise Edition
$7
A romance visual novel about memories best left forgotten.
Scarlet String Studios
Visual Novel
SHINRAI - Broken Beyond Despair
$14.99
In bundle
A Murder Mystery Visual Novel.
GosatsuVNs
Visual Novel
GIF
Indiepocalypse #1
$15
Issue #1 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.
PIZZAPRANKS
GIF
Blackout: The Darkest Night
$5.99
Once you glimpse behind the shadows, you’ll never be the same.
MiniChimera
Interactive Fiction
Pathway
$3
Mini-books within mini-books.
Studio CloudScape
Puzzle
GIF
Hotwriting
$10
A book of playable poems by Todd Anderson
Todd Anderson
GIF
I doesn't exist
$12.99
An ode to text-adventures.
DreadXP
Interactive Fiction
Open Sorcery: Sea++
$14.99
You wake up at the bottom of the ocean, surrounded by broken memories. Reclaim your magic or drown in a sea of dreams.
OpenSorceryGames
Interactive Fiction
GIF
Undone
$1
Be gay, travel through time.
Davis G. See
Interactive Fiction
Love Exalt 8372
$9.99
A visual novel about a death game which erupts aboard a train
Veki
Visual Novel
Play in browser
Snowdrop
$5
A winter themed otome game where you get to romance a jerky singer!
LegendEx Games
Visual Novel
Certified Doomster
$2
The world is ending and nobody cares!
GAMC
Role Playing
Root_Directory
$1
Go through 50 hand made levels and make your own in this DOS inspired game
Asra31
Platformer
Telvoikai
$1
Choose between exploring jungle tropics or navigating deep into a bioluminescent sea.
Corvaena
Role Playing
GIF
Indiepocalypse #9
$15
Issue #9 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.
PIZZAPRANKS
Pirateship
$5
Pirate-themed clickable text adventure
Robin Johnson
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
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