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Fallacy Quiz

Sharpen your critical thinking skills in this quiz game that challenges you to spot rhetorical fallacies.

Tim Krief

Educational

Throne of Ashes

Break the curse and uncover your fire.

13Leagues

Interactive Fiction

Play in browser

GIF

Pixel Fireplace

$4.99

Type commands, roast marshmallows, throw logs onto a crackling fire. Enjoy

Simulation

Text-based open world roguelike

Alex Leone

Interactive Fiction

The Salt Keep

$4.99

A traveling salesman's struggle to survive a night of horror

Small Gray Games

Adventure

Play in browser

Home Safety Hotline

$14.99

A horror game about working in a 90's call center.

Night Signal Entertainment

Puzzle

Mr. Rainer's Solve-It Service

When the last thread becomes entangled, their song will be heard.

etherane

Interactive Fiction

Holiday Magic: A Wayhaven Christmas Story

$6.49

Christmas has come to Wayhaven! And it's magical…quite literally.

Seraphinite Games

Interactive Fiction

The Away Team

In this interactive sci-fi adventure novel, you are the AI pilot of Earth's last interstellar ship.

Underflow Studios

Interactive Fiction

if not us

an IF anthology about five heroes who die

ub4q

Interactive Fiction

Play in browser

Dave Microwaves Games Trilogy I

$1.50

A collection of horror games, each with their own distinct styles

Dave Microwaves Games

Adventure

Paradise

Paradise is an interactive fiction playground.

Rek & Devine

Interactive Fiction

Remnants Of The Past - Act 1

$6.99

A fantasy and love story influenced by the Guanche culture.

Domakir

Interactive Fiction

Play in browser

Perfect Tides

$14.99

Perfect Tides is a point and click adventure game about the agony and anticipation of being a teen.

Meredith Gran

Adventure

Warsim: The Realm of Aslona

$9.99

Huw2k8

Simulation

Chatventures

In bundle

text-adventure MMORPG

Sokpop Collective

Role Playing

Your Future Self

$2.99

A time-loop based experimental text adventure.

Contortionist Games

Adventure

Sorry We're Open

$7.99

Welcome to the Corporate Ladder.

oates

Role Playing

GIF

Replica

$2.99

Everything in the State, nothing against the State, nothing outside the State.

Somi

Adventure

GIF

I doesn't exist

$12.99

An ode to text-adventures.

DreadXP

Interactive Fiction

Eczema Angel Orifice

beautiful twine compilation

Porpentine

Adventure

GIF

_transfer

$10

a story about computers, memory, and the end of the world

Adventure

BBirthday - Visual Novel

Yun Seven

Visual Novel

IN THE ARMS OF THE NIGHT

£2.40

A novel-length "bat-romance" Twine.

polymer despair

Subtext

$6.99

A mystery told through real SMS messages, phone calls, and emails.

William O'Connell

Interactive Fiction

GIF

Blackout: The Darkest Night

$5.99

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

MiniChimera

Interactive Fiction

GIF

Indiepocalypse #22

$15

Issue #22 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.

PIZZAPRANKS

Swords of Freeport

$15

Text-Mode Social RPG

Elissa Black

Role Playing

GIF

The MansterSoft 3-in-1 Fun-Pak

-100%

Laser Moles, Knife-Fighting Chimps, and an ASCII Snail

MansterSoft

Action

SHINRAI - Broken Beyond Despair

$14.99

In bundle

A Murder Mystery Visual Novel.

GosatsuVNs

Visual Novel

GIF

Indiepocalypse #17

$15

Issue #17 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.

PIZZAPRANKS

Chimera Crusader: Defender of Dominicus

-100%

ASCII Action! As minimal as an RPG can get

MansterSoft

Role Playing

Acolyte

$10.99

A narrative ARG/Detective game that gives you your own digital assistant.

SUPERSTRING

Interactive Fiction

Detectiveland

Detective noir clickable text adventure

Robin Johnson

Interactive Fiction

Play in browser

Life Eater

$14.99

A horror fantasy kidnapping sim.

Strange Scaffold

Interactive Fiction

GIF

Indiepocalypse #51

$15

Issue #51 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.

PIZZAPRANKS

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