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Wayfarer
Marked by complete magical immunity, Wayfarers wander the world, fighting magic. Where will your fate lead you?
Idrelle Games
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Scout: An Apocalypse Story
A text choice romance in an apocalyptic setting.
Anya
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Speaker
What do you See?
speakergame
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Superstition S2
Journey deeper into the unknown.
13Leagues
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
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
Please Answer Carefully
a horror survey game
litrouke
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Danganronpa: Lapse
10 students find themselves trapped in a luxurious mansion...
Cynthia
Visual Novel
FARA
A browser roguelike with over 60 classes and endless adventure
BrianIsCreative
Role Playing
Play in browser
Uroboros
The struggle between mortals and divinity that may end an age of divine rule.
Mistyrious
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Fool Me Once
Dark Fantasy + Romance Interactive Fiction
PDRRook
Interactive Fiction
Snowbound Blood
A Vast Error Story
DECONRECONSTRUCTION
Visual Novel
a man outside
a friendly horror game in your neighborhood
litrouke
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
A Witch's Word
You sold your firstborn to a witch. Now she helps you find a mate.
RainbowStarbird
Simulation
Play in browser
answer these 10 questions and i'll tell you what kind of lover you are
a choose-your-own-adventure heartbreak in the shape of a quiz
frannym
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
GIF
Trigaea
Alter genes, survive. Sci-fi RPG. 270k+
RynGM
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Night Abridged
there is a whisper in the shadows...
ZICO
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
12 Word Searches
Find all the words!
Playcebo
Puzzle
goodbye
say goodbye before you go
barrels
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Seedship
An AI seedship must find a home for the last survivors of the human race
John Ayliff
Strategy
Play in browser
The King's Hound
Play as King Arthur Pendragon's spouse and forge Camelot's history.
Kal Down
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Superstition S3
Learn the truth and unleash your potential.
13Leagues
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Eye of the Moon
Eye of the Moon is an adventure and romance story inspired by Filipino mythology.
atemaarte
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
emily is away
Sign In again.
kyleseeley23
Horse Master: The Game of Horse Mastery
Master a horse. Become a Horse Master.
Tom McHenry
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
Salomónico
Experimento interactivo sobre partir cosas como el Rey Salomón.
Jordi de Paco
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
The Nameless
A story based on fey and other myths in a drained world. Will you find out what happened before it comes for you?
Parker Lyn
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
When Rivers Were Trails
A game about the impact of allotment acts on Indigenous communities in the 1890's.
indianlandtenure
Educational
Whisper in the Dark
Whisper Game
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The good people
Explore the weird, until the sunken things come for you
Pseudavid
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Love & Friendship
A Regency Rom-Com
Salty Stories
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Bird Of Passage
A free night ride across Tokyo, searching for our home with the help of some stranger.
SpaceBackyard
Visual Novel
Progress Knight
ihtasham_42
Simulation
Play in browser
REDSUGARSOCIETY
Fake date. Fall in love. Murder. Party. Rinse and repeat.
riotdevs
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
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