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Home Safety Hotline
$14.99
A horror game about working in a 90's call center.
Night Signal Entertainment
Puzzle
WORLD OF HORROR
$19.99
1bit adventure game of cosmic horror inspired by the work of Junji Ito
panstasz
Role Playing
La Estrella de la Mañana - Remake (2023)
$2
Dareint
Interactive Fiction
Eczema Angel Orifice
$5
beautiful twine compilation
Porpentine
Adventure
Dave Microwaves Games Trilogy I
$1.50
A collection of horror games, each with their own distinct styles
Dave Microwaves Games
Adventure
Life Eater
$14.99
A horror fantasy kidnapping sim.
Strange Scaffold
Interactive Fiction
Chronicles of Tal’Dun: The Remainder
$19.99
A story of love, death and lies.
Nim
Visual Novel
Subtext
$6.99
A mystery told through real SMS messages, phone calls, and emails.
William O'Connell
Interactive Fiction
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
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
GIF
Code 7 - Episodes 2 & 3 Available Now
$22.99
What would you do if you found yourself trapped on an eerie space station with nothing but a computer?
Goodwolf Studio
Adventure
Your Future Self
$2.99
A time-loop based experimental text adventure.
Contortionist Games
Adventure
The Forest of Candles (And The Man With A Lighter)
An interactive fiction game about fire season.
Nessa Cannon
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Salt Keep
$4.99
In bundle
A traveling salesman's struggle to survive a night of horror
Small Gray Games
Adventure
Play in browser
The Devil's Collection - Beware the Festival of Fools
$5
Gerrark
Adventure
There's A Bear Outside
Isn't it nice that there is a perfectly normal bear at the window?
The Very Worst Thing
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
10mg: Cover Me In Leaves
$2
In bundle
A short kinetic novel — on bright minds, and the end of all things.
Elliot Herriman
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
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
nightbloom
exobotanical horror
aerialshading
Visual Novel
A Skull
A surreal visual novel built on old bones and entropy
Alpha Chrome Yayo
Interactive Fiction
Suffer The Night(Demo)
The envelope is just the beginning. Burn it. Destroy it. Don't play his game. When you see him, it’s already too late.
TaintedPact Games
Survival
Night House
You're eight years old and alone in the house tonight. But something is lurking outside...
bitterkarella
Interactive Fiction
Don't Die Alone
Spam has never been so deadly.
StephenW313
Visual Novel
the blood that warms these veins of ours
Something isn't right in Ashwood Grove.
Kill2Birds
Interactive Fiction
The Dark Veil (El velo oscuro)
An interactive survival horror adventure for your ZX Spectrum 48k
Furillo Productions
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
We Never Left: <Standalone>
On a dark and stormy night in 1983, the phone rings. “FINISH THE GAME”.
FYRE Games
Adventure
The Ceramic Uncertainty
A text-based "Choose-Your-Own-Adventure" about a mysterious plant.
falpal
Adventure
Desert of Vice
$2.99
A narrative based horror text adventure game with choice dependent multiple endings.
karolisd
Adventure
GIF
sacrament iv.
calamity occult-horror rpg
melessthanthree
Role Playing
Play in browser
The Morning Star (2023)
$2
Dareint
Adventure
Please Answer Carefully
a horror survey game
litrouke
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Santa Carcossa Nights
A cosmic horror text game about a quiet beachside community
bitterkarella
Interactive Fiction
THE RUIN OF 0CEANUS PR1ME
«There's nothing here, Carter. Vital signs zero-zero. It's a fucking cemetery.»
Marco Innocenti
Interactive Fiction
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