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Please Answer Carefully
a horror survey game
litrouke
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
a man outside
a friendly horror game in your neighborhood
litrouke
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Home Safety Hotline
$13.49
-10%
A horror game about working in a 90's call center.
Night Signal Entertainment
Puzzle
The Night Abridged
there is a whisper in the shadows...
ZICO
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Salt Keep
$4.99
A traveling salesman's struggle to survive a night of horror
Small Gray Games
Adventure
Play in browser
WORLD OF HORROR
$19.99
1bit adventure game of cosmic horror inspired by the work of Junji Ito
panstasz
Role Playing
Your Phone Dies in 20 Seconds
You have 20 seconds to determine your fate.
Crimson Arcade
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Chronicles of Tal’Dun: The Remainder
$19.99
A story of love, death and lies.
Nim
Visual Novel
What Girls Do in the Dark
A short slumber party text adventure ♡
olivebranche
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Sorry We're Open
$3.99
-50%
Welcome to the Corporate Ladder.
oates
Role Playing
Your Future Self
$2.99
A time-loop based experimental text adventure.
Contortionist Games
Adventure
GIF
Buddy Simulator 1984 DEMO
Create your own virtual best buddy and play games together!
Not a Sailor Studios
Simulation
The good people
Explore the weird, until the sunken things come for you
Pseudavid
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Rabbit Starvation
A late night conversation in a diner with someone claiming to be your spouse.
vileidol
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
The Lancaster Leak - Entity Exam
Jeremy Fischer
Action
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
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
GIF
sacrament iv.
calamity occult-horror rpg
melessthanthree
Role Playing
Play in browser
Blood On The Snow
A narrative adventure game.
Maricu
Adventure
Dave Microwaves Games Trilogy I
$1.50
A collection of horror games, each with their own distinct styles
Dave Microwaves Games
Adventure
Snakeroot.
[ INACTIVE ] A fantasy horror IF WIP.
cerberus
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
domvs
a gothic mystery
litrouke
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The House Abandon - Now part of 'Stories Untold'!
A nostalgic horror adventure game, inside another horror game, inside a tv show, inside a game.
jonNoCode
Adventure
Don't Die Alone
Spam has never been so deadly.
StephenW313
Visual Novel
you need to buy a phone charger
online shopping in a late capitalist hellscape
zorkie
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
BBirthday
$9.99
In bundle
BBirthday - Visual Novel
Yun Seven
Visual Novel
All Hail The Spider God
All Hail The Spider God is an eerie interactive fiction adventure about You, and all the Yous you've left behind.
Strange Scaffold
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Typing...
A Chatroom Thriller
DancingEngie
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Mind Games: Trepidation
Horror, Sci-fi, Queer-friendly, and Romance... what more could you ask for?
Bottlecap Rabbit Games
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Eczema Angel Orifice
$5
beautiful twine compilation
Porpentine
Adventure
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
GIF
Unmaking, Unmade
Is this not what you wanted?
Grim Baccaris
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Dust Below
The horizon is a haze of polluted ash.
TrulyDrew
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
Left on Read
It’s March of 2020, you were just sent home from university because of the coronavirus, you have some small regrets.
Weston Bell-Geddes
Interactive Fiction
A Series of Interactive Stories Where No Matter What You Do You Are Immediately Killed by a Werewolf
Can you escape the werewolf? (No.)
Luke Burns
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
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