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Horse Master: The Game of Horse Mastery
Master a horse. Become a Horse Master.
Tom McHenry
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IN THE ARMS OF THE NIGHT
£2.40
A novel-length "bat-romance" Twine.
polymer despair
GIF
Type Knight
$3.99
Purge the graveyard from the forces of Evil by using your typing skills.
chaikadev
GIF
emily is away
Sign In again.
kyleseeley23
The Writer Will Do Something
You are the head writer for the third game in the wildly popular ShatterGate™ franchise.
Matthew Seiji Burns
Play in browser
I EAT MANTRAS FOR BREAKFAST
$7.77
SCREAMFEAST
Maria Mison
Idyll
a cosy internet island
Demi
GIF
Indiepocalypse #1
$15
Issue #1 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.
PIZZAPRANKSVerified Account
c ya laterrrr
a hypertext game based on a true story and some untrue stories
danhett
Play in browser
Fantasy Tea Generator
Generate a name for your fantasy tea.
npckc
Play in browser
GIF
Hotwriting
$10
A book of playable poems by Todd Anderson
Todd Anderson
A Colour Like No Other
The world's less scary when you're a monster.
TheNamelessOne
Play in browser
The Monster Inside
A film noir style audio-visual novella.
x70x
Play in browser
GIF
Indiepocalypse #9
$15
Issue #9 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.
PIZZAPRANKSVerified Account
CLICK TO CONTINUE!
Run away.
Andrea Pignataro
Hygge
Last year, I moved to Denmark. This is a game about the struggles of moving to a new country.
gains
Play in browser
GIF
Your Darkest Thoughts
It's bad to keep your negative thoughts for yourself.
Tyu
Play in browser
Hepburn: Takaishitai
A reimagining of classic 90s cult horror games.
emmahallows
ClassicZoo
ZZT/Super ZZT world player and editor
asie
Personality Quiz
Have you taken a personality quiz before?
monicaseldow
alt_tarot
an unnaturally augmented tarot deck in twine
blake stone / fenced forest
Play in browser
A Dark Forest
Incremental Experimental Minimalistic Game
TinyTakinTeller
Play in browser
Assessment
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The Thoughts Room
Relax and ease stress
Cyrogem
Play in browser
What is a video game?
12 small 'games' about breaking the boundary of what a game is
Rosden Shadow
Who Will...
A party game about dividing an inheritance.
BlauwPrint
Signal Garden (Demo)
A chill clicker game about recalling a lost world
Sam Keeper
Play in browser
idleCMD
Text-based idle/clicker game
Finn Steffen
Play in browser
GIF
Intimate Codex
Free form text exploration
AndyMakes
OURANOS, BESET BY FROGS
A Twine Game about a Vain, Alien Sky Deity getting Pissed at some Frogs
rexsc
Elected
When a newly-elected public official is faced with a city scandal, will it create a scandal of her own?
Deathbow
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an easy lay
Romance is complicated. Romance with an ovipositor is complicateder.
SpiderFlorist
Play in browser
AWAKE Prototype
You awake alone, on a damaged and abandoned starship.
Hamish Smithers
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Hybrid
NightBlade
Dear Wormwood
Move through your life, navigating your choices, and try to reconnect with yourself.
escaliburn
Fake News
$1
The game of outrageous falsehoods.
Rasmus
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