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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
Holiday Magic: A Wayhaven Christmas Story
$6.49
Christmas has come to Wayhaven! And it's magical…quite literally.
Seraphinite Games
Interactive Fiction
Home Safety Hotline
$14.99
A horror game about working in a 90's call center.
Night Signal Entertainment
Puzzle
Warsim: The Realm of Aslona
$9.99
Huw2k8
Simulation
Upheaval
$4.99
-50%
Text-based open world roguelike
Alex Leone
Interactive Fiction
Swords of Freeport
$15
Text-Mode Social RPG
Elissa Black
Role Playing
Daydream Engine
$3
An AI-Driven Interactive Fiction Engine
FlameFoxGames
Interactive Fiction
Escape from Norwood
$5.99
An illustrated text adventure set in a vivid open world where everyone has an agenda.
Singular Works
Adventure
Mr. Rainer's Solve-It Service
$5
When the last thread becomes entangled, their song will be heard.
etherane
Interactive Fiction
Life Eater
$14.99
A horror fantasy kidnapping sim.
Strange Scaffold
Interactive Fiction
One Thousand Acts of Decency
Trapped in a Dome with eight hours to catch a killer
domedev
Visual Novel
Dave Microwaves Games Trilogy I
$1.50
A collection of horror games, each with their own distinct styles
Dave Microwaves Games
Adventure
La Estrella de la Mañana - Remake (2023)
$2
Dareint
Interactive Fiction
Project Tezerat (Early Access)
A Sword-and-Sorcery Adventure
Turnus
Role Playing
GIF
Indiepocalypse #51
$15
Issue #51 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.
PIZZAPRANKS
Eczema Angel Orifice
$5
beautiful twine compilation
Porpentine
Adventure
GIF
emily is away
Sign In again.
kyleseeley23
GIF
Replica
$2.99
Everything in the State, nothing against the State, nothing outside the State.
Somi
Adventure
Subtext
$6.99
A mystery told through real SMS messages, phone calls, and emails.
William O'Connell
Interactive Fiction
GIF
Pixel Fireplace
$4.99
Type commands, roast marshmallows, throw logs onto a crackling fire. Enjoy
Ted Martens
Simulation
Snowbound Blood
Snowbound Blood: A Vast Error Story
Deconreconstruction
Visual Novel
Joestar ☆ Struck
Get Joestar Struck
TeamScallywag
Visual Novel
Chronicles of Tal’Dun: The Remainder
$19.99
A story of love, death and lies.
Nim
Visual Novel
IN THE ARMS OF THE NIGHT
£2.40
A novel-length "bat-romance" Twine.
polymer despair
Library of Babble
Deep within the computer, a library grows
Demi
Interactive Fiction
Tristam Island
An Infocom-style adventure for retro computers
Hugo Labrande
Interactive Fiction
Bird Of Passage
A free night ride across Tokyo, searching for our home with the help of some stranger.
SpaceBackyard
Visual Novel
Perfect Tides
$14.99
Perfect Tides is a point and click adventure game about the agony and anticipation of being a teen.
Meredith Gran
Adventure
Paradise
$1
Paradise is an interactive fiction playground.
Rek & Devine
Interactive Fiction
Chatventures
$3
In bundle
text-adventure MMORPG
Sokpop Collective
Role Playing
Sorry We're Open
$7.99
Welcome to the Corporate Ladder.
oates
Role Playing
GIF
Buddy Simulator 1984 DEMO
Create your own virtual best buddy and play games together!
Not a Sailor Studios
Simulation
Acolyte
$10.99
A narrative ARG/Detective game that gives you your own digital assistant.
SUPERSTRING
Interactive Fiction
GIF
_transfer
$10
a story about computers, memory, and the end of the world
Abyssal Uncreations
Adventure
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
GodAI
Immerse yourself in an AI-driven literary universe where anything can happen.
AWK
Interactive Fiction
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