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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
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Sepia Tears
A romance visual novel about memories best left forgotten.
Scarlet String Studios
Visual Novel
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The Good Weapon
Will you nuke the world to save it?
ninecoffees
Interactive Fiction
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Subtext
$6.99
A mystery told through real SMS messages, phone calls, and emails.
William O'Connell
Interactive Fiction
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WORLD OF HORROR
$19.99
1bit adventure game of cosmic horror inspired by the work of Junji Ito
panstasz
Role Playing
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Eczema Angel Orifice
$5
beautiful twine compilation
Porpentine
Adventure
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Bird Of Passage
A free night ride across Tokyo, searching for our home with the help of some stranger.
SpaceBackyard
Visual Novel
GIF
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Buddy Simulator 1984 DEMO
Create your own virtual best buddy and play games together!
Not a Sailor Studios
Simulation
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if not us
$7
an IF anthology about five heroes who die
ub4q
Interactive Fiction
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Horse Master: The Game of Horse Mastery
Master a horse. Become a Horse Master.
Tom McHenry
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a Museum of Dubious Splendors.
A collection of small and peculier stories from Somwhere.
Studio Oleomingus
Adventure
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WAS/WERE
$4
Murdering a person that hurt you is hot, right?
RodFireProductions
Interactive Fiction
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A Witch's Word
You sold your firstborn to a witch. Now she helps you find a mate.
RainbowStarbird
Simulation
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GIF
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And yet it hurt
An adventure game in Notepad about a kid who seeks revenge.
Sheepolution
Adventure
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The Saint's Tomb
A gamebook-style fantasy adventure for the 5th edition of the world's most popular tabletop RPG.
Sayeth
Role Playing
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Sepia Tears: Reprise Edition
$7
A romance visual novel about memories best left forgotten.
Scarlet String Studios
Visual Novel
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S.O.R.S
£6.99
A sci-fi doctor simulation game
RichSG
Simulation
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The Nightland
A board & video game for Commodore
Alessio Scanderebech
Adventure
GIF
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Blackout: The Darkest Night
$5.99
Once you glimpse behind the shadows, you’ll never be the same.
MiniChimera
Interactive Fiction
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Family Dinner
It only takes one night to change everything.
pansandpots
Interactive Fiction
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burning alexandria
an exceptional day in archfield is a day when nothing happens. a twine adventure.
javid hornet
Interactive Fiction
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ALL @ ONCE
$2.99
Can you discover you?
Lawrence Marable
Interactive Fiction
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Don't Die Alone
Spam has never been so deadly.
StephenW313
Visual Novel
GIF
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We Never Left: <Standalone>
On a dark and stormy night in 1983, the phone rings. “FINISH THE GAME”.
FYRE Games
Adventure
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Escape from Kettuloch
Escape the dungeon before you fully transform into a fox!
SnepShark
Interactive Fiction
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I wish I was
A narrative dungeon-crawler
lulatschia
Puzzle
GIF
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sacrament iv.
calamity occult-horror rpg
melessthanthree
Role Playing
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Dungeon Crawler on Demand!
Randomly generated dungeon filled with monsters and diablo inspired equipment looting system!
redpangilinan
Role Playing
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Long Journey Home
$1
Alone, but for the worms and mushrooms
skiddyhale
Interactive Fiction
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STEALTH
A story about getting everything you ever wanted and what comes next.
Jillian Maywhether
Interactive Fiction
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Dungeon Mercenary
Modern ASCII roguelike - Can your mercenary beat the dungeon ?
smelc3
Role Playing
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A Red Boat
A short story told through boating and lost letters
PirxOS
Adventure
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Escape from Norwood
$5.99
An illustrated text adventure set in a vivid open world where everyone has an agenda.
Singular Works
Adventure
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Epitaph
alien civilization extinction simulator
Max Kreminski
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Telvoikai
$1
Choose between exploring jungle tropics or navigating deep into a bioluminescent sea.
Corvaena
Role Playing
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Escort Yourself Out
a game about trauma, triggers, and self-compassion
bignastytruck (violet)
Simulation
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