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Beyond the Chiron Gate

$10

Text-based space exploration game

John Ayliff

Interactive Fiction

WORLD OF HORROR

$19.99

1bit adventure game of cosmic horror inspired by the work of Junji Ito

panstasz

Role Playing

Break the Rule - AI&Games JAM 21

In pursuit of a vile Ruler, you investigate in a mountain Inn to see behind his lies generated by AI .

X&Immersion

Dream Planet : Loan Away

Get a job with alien lenders floating on a broken planet Earth!

weenayoung

Interactive Fiction

Dreams of Gold

A narrative adventure about gold, thoughts, and escaping the cycle.

Robert from High Tower Games

Visual Novel

GIF

Type Knight

$3.99

Purge the graveyard from the forces of Evil by using your typing skills.

chaikadev

I EAT MANTRAS FOR BREAKFAST

$7.77

SCREAMFEAST

Maria Mison

WAS/WERE

Murdering a person that hurt you is hot, right?

RodFireProductions

Interactive Fiction

GIF

SPACE FROG!

a story of a frog in space.

npckc

Adventure

Play in browser

Little Antifa Novel

A playable leaflet about a Fascist march and our counter-demonstration

Mauro Vanetti

Visual Novel

Play in browser

GIF

WASTE EATER

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

cain

Interactive Fiction

Play in browser

Pyramid Builder

Grow a civilization, Build a Pyramid

standardcombo

Simulation

The Seance

£1

Henry! It's me, it's Sheepy! It's so co-o-old!

Quantum Sheep

Interactive Fiction

S.O.R.S

£6.99

A sci-fi doctor simulation game

RichSG

Simulation

The Nightland

A board & video game for Commodore

Alessio Scanderebech

Adventure

10mg: Cover Me In Leaves

In bundle

A short kinetic novel — on bright minds, and the end of all things.

Elliot Herriman

Interactive Fiction

Play in browser

nightbloom

exobotanical horror

aerialshading

Visual Novel

Family Dinner

It only takes one night to change everything.

pansandpots

Interactive Fiction

Play in browser

Revenge of the Antagonist

$1.99

Enemies on camera, enemies off camera!

ChaniMK

Visual Novel

Warp Cinema

You wake at the cinema. The movie is over. Your friend is missing. Déjà vu grips you tight. It's all happened before.

CosmicVoid

Adventure

Canvas Colors: In The Moving City

Travel along with Maggie and Vale inside a moving city in Canvas Colors!

UnfinishedCircl

Visual Novel

Femme

a text based, trans* femme dress-up party!

mayaxlove

Interactive Fiction

Don't Take It Personally, I Just Don't Like You

$19.99

The dating sim where not everyone wants to date you.

DeCoster

Visual Novel

Fantasy Tea Generator

Generate a name for your fantasy tea.

npckc

Play in browser

You Are a Skeleton & That Is a Problem (for Game Boy)

A point-&-click text adventure for Game Boy, typeset with my typewriter.

Nicky Flowers

Interactive Fiction

Play in browser

Welcome Back

A text-based game about the space between endings and beginnings.

Nessa Cannon

Interactive Fiction

Play in browser

Don't Die Alone

Spam has never been so deadly.

StephenW313

Visual Novel

The Monster Inside

A film noir style audio-visual novella.

x70x

Play in browser

Escape from Kettuloch

Escape the dungeon before you fully transform into a fox!

SnepShark

Interactive Fiction

Play in browser

GIF

Galactic Foodtruck Simulator 2999 (GFS2999)

The galaxy hungers. You own a foodtruck. Feed everyone.

WiL

Simulation

Play in browser

void.Resign

Text Adventure Game inspired by Cask of Amontillado

avarisclari

Adventure

GIF

ZOZ

An open world deckbuilder adventure game for ZZT.

WiL

Card Game

Play in browser

Born

$3.33

today we are God and we create from our own image.

A game about navigating the depressing and absurd world of customer service in the year 2312.

TeamLazerBeam

Simulation

Long Journey Home

Alone, but for the worms and mushrooms

skiddyhale

Interactive Fiction

Deliverance

You are a messenger. Deliver the most important message yet. Restore balance to the world, else it succumbs to chaos.

Caevacior

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