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Scout: An Apocalypse Story

A text choice romance in an apocalyptic setting.

Anya

Interactive Fiction

Play in browser

Superstition S2

Journey deeper into the unknown.

13Leagues

Interactive Fiction

Play in browser

Danganronpa: Lapse

10 students find themselves trapped in a luxurious mansion...

Cynthia

Visual Novel

Social Democracy: An Alternate History

You are the Social Democratic Party of Germany in 1928. Can you stop the Nazis from taking power?

Autumn Chen

Interactive Fiction

Play in browser

FARA

A browser roguelike with over 60 classes and endless adventure

BrianIsCreative

Role Playing

Play in browser

Fool Me Once

Dark Fantasy + Romance Interactive Fiction

PDRRook

Interactive Fiction

GIF

Walkie Talkie

send messages, receive messages, play messages

Daniel Linssen

Platformer

A Witch's Word

You sold your firstborn to a witch. Now she helps you find a mate.

RainbowStarbird

Simulation

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

GIF

Trigaea

Alter genes, survive. Sci-fi RPG. 270k+

RynGM

Interactive Fiction

Play in browser

Snowbound Blood

A Vast Error Story

DECONRECONSTRUCTION

Visual Novel

Pick & Poke

Narrative roguelike with tokens

Christophe Coyard

Interactive Fiction

Play in browser

Pyramid Builder

Grow a civilization, Build a Pyramid

standardcombo

Simulation

GIF

Demonology 101

A detective game about discovering the true names of demons.

Ludipe

Puzzle

Play in browser

Learn the truth and unleash your potential.

13Leagues

Interactive Fiction

Play in browser

Project: Eden's Garden

16 talented participants enter the game. Only 2 will walk out alive.

Project: Eden's Garden

Visual Novel

The Archivist and the Revolution

The world is ending, and you are still paying rent. A future history.

Autumn Chen

Interactive Fiction

Play in browser

Seedship

An AI seedship must find a home for the last survivors of the human race

John Ayliff

Strategy

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灰舟

献给好奇者。

克勒卡尔

Visual Novel

Project: Perfectly Normal

A free action-comedy BL game about a retired killer-for-hire who has to navigate life as a normal high school student.

peaceful-pastel

Visual Novel

GIF

Vast Trivia Of The Void

What would an omniscient creature do with all that knowledge? Well, host a trivia game, of course!

Whales And Games

Puzzle

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Typing...

A Chatroom Thriller

DancingEngie

Interactive Fiction

Play in browser

Pageant

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

Autumn Chen

Interactive Fiction

Play in browser

Joestar ☆ Struck

Get Joestar Struck

TeamScallywag

Visual Novel

The good people

Explore the weird, until the sunken things come for you

Pseudavid

Interactive Fiction

Play in browser

GIF

The Lancaster Leak - Entity Exam

Jeremy Fischer

Action

What is a video game?

12 small 'games' about breaking the boundary of what a game is

Rosden Shadow

Gender Dysphoria

negative experiences after coming out as transgender

exodrifter

Interactive Fiction

Play in browser

GIF

WASTE EATER

The world is saved. Now its heroes wait to die.

cain

Interactive Fiction

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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

Family Dinner

It only takes one night to change everything.

pansandpots

Interactive Fiction

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Beau Ideals Chapter 1

Fantasy visual novel in development

Visual Novel

For the curious.

Visual Novel

Social anxiety simulator/dating sim

Autumn Chen

Interactive Fiction

Play in browser

Chronicles of Tal’Dun: The Longing

A dark fantasy novel.

Nim

Visual Novel

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