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Pageant

An interactive story about a girl who joins a beauty pageant to improve her college applications.

Autumn Chen

Interactive Fiction

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Mr. Rainer's Solve-It Service (Demo)

One day, HEINO's partner dies. He gets a new one.

etherane

Adventure

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Epitaph

alien civilization extinction simulator

Max Kreminski

Play in browser

The Good Weapon

Will you nuke the world to save it?

ninecoffees

Interactive Fiction

Inner Demons

A supernatural horror story set in modern-day Seattle. Will you save the world or succumb to the darkness?

a.w. morgan

Interactive Fiction

Play in browser

Tales from the Road

A SFW interactive fiction game

Iforgotmybrain

Interactive Fiction

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COLD SCREAM

Survival Horror Text Adventure

1AM TRAIN

Survival

GIF

Blackout: The Darkest Night

$5.99

Once you glimpse behind the shadows, you’ll never be the same.

MiniChimera

Interactive Fiction

FMG game (Mary story)

megakub32

Simulation

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Just Cosplay

A game about being a teen in the early 2010s.

Deadnettle Games

Interactive Fiction

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Your Hogwarts Story

A Choose your own Adventure Text Game about going to Hogwarts

DigiTale

Role Playing

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🥚⌛🍳 TIME OMELETTE 🍳⌛🥚

A cooking mystery game about time. Except it's not a cooking game.

adriel

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

idleCMD

Text-based idle/clicker game

Finn Steffen

Play in browser

Escort Yourself Out

a game about trauma, triggers, and self-compassion

bignastytruck (violet)

Simulation

an unreal city

what lies below esurio?

labyrinthines

Interactive Fiction

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I Told You This Was A Bad Idea

Jessica Padkin

Interactive Fiction

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Nephelia: through the clouds // Нефелия: сквозь облака

Find your way through the clouds

Syjgin

Role Playing

I wish I was

A narrative dungeon-crawler

lulatschia

Puzzle

Clockwork Apple

A BL Visual-novel featuring kidnapping and characters of doubtful morality. (English and Italian)

Synapsed

Visual Novel

Aesthetic

🌺 a short story for coming out day 🌺

Olive

Interactive Fiction

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Hello Goodbyes

A writing experience with yourself.

Velvet

Play in browser

GIF

Latebus

You can't remember your name.

kapitha

Adventure

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Snow Day

A short innocent gender bender game

Aaaac

Interactive Fiction

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Such, Such Were the Joys

A text-based queer historical dating sim

Anamika

Interactive Fiction

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RogueType

Yet another text-based roguelike game.

Pecon

Adventure

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13 Laurel Road

A game about places and the memories they hold.

Crosshollow

Interactive Fiction

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Silent Earth

Silent Earth is a short sci-fi text adventure about finding one’s place despite an uncertain future

Fring Frang

Interactive Fiction

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Disharmony

An investigative IF journey into the unknown.

Pink Soda Studios

Interactive Fiction

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Cyborg Arena

In a dystopian future, cyborgs gladiators must fight for their owners' entertainment

John Ayliff

Interactive Fiction

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GIF

The Ritual

a Princess & her Knight travel through the woods.

Megan

Interactive Fiction

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Sepia Tears: Reprise Edition

A romance visual novel about memories best left forgotten.

Scarlet String Studios

Visual Novel

H U N T E D

Gather craft survive #49/1922 LDJam50

Survival

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The Daily Murder

Daily murder mysteries. Talk to suspects, detect lies, and accuse the murderer and their motive.

phaddius

Puzzle

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accelerated hotkeys

Try and survive working as a corporate drone.

InvalidSpacebar

Action

how do i love you?

remembering how things happened, mostly.

sophiades

Interactive Fiction

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