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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
GIF
We Never Left: <Standalone>
On a dark and stormy night in 1983, the phone rings. “FINISH THE GAME”.
FYRE Games
Adventure
Danganronpa: Lapse
10 students find themselves trapped in a luxurious mansion...
Cynthia
Visual Novel
Uroboros
The struggle between mortals and divinity that may end an age of divine rule.
Mistyrious
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
Trigaea
Alter genes, survive. Sci-fi RPG. 270k+
RynGM
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Snowbound Blood
A Vast Error Story
DECONRECONSTRUCTION
Visual Novel
FARA
A browser roguelike with over 60 classes and endless adventure
BrianIsCreative
Role Playing
Play in browser
Horse Master: The Game of Horse Mastery
Master a horse. Become a Horse Master.
Tom McHenry
Play in browser
GIF
SPACE FROG!
a story of a frog in space.
npckc
Adventure
Play in browser
GIF
emily is away
Sign In again.
kyleseeley23
Untrusted - Web of Cybercrime
The Social Deduction Multiplayer Hacking Game
PlayUntrusted
Role Playing
Play in browser
Library of Babble
Deep within the computer, a library grows
Demi
Interactive Fiction
Bird Of Passage
A free night ride across Tokyo, searching for our home with the help of some stranger.
SpaceBackyard
Visual Novel
Beau Ideals Chapter 1
Fantasy visual novel in development
Mouse & Ram
Visual Novel
Waybinder
A city bound by ritual to prosper — or so it was hoped...
Gemma Thomson
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Dungeon Mercenary
Modern ASCII roguelike - Can your mercenary beat the dungeon ?
smelc3
Role Playing
Play in browser
GIF
Don't make love
Will you make love and risk death?
Maggese
Interactive Fiction
Hybrid
These people aren't like you.
HeartForge
Role Playing
Play in browser
Gender Dysphoria
negative experiences after coming out as transgender
exodrifter
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
a Museum of Dubious Splendors.
A collection of small and peculier stories from Somwhere.
Studio Oleomingus
Adventure
GuessMe!
Guess about your favorite food or Pokemons!
Zetoman77
Educational
Play in browser
GIF
Buddy Simulator 1984 DEMO
Create your own virtual best buddy and play games together!
Not a Sailor Studios
Simulation
Anamnesis, of Renascents and Monsters
A text-based lovecraftian life simulation RPG.
Vaccean
Simulation
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
reunion
find your ex at the end of the world
caeth
Play in browser
Aesthetic
🌺 a short story for coming out day 🌺
Olive
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Canvas Colors: In The Moving City
Travel along with Maggie and Vale inside a moving city in Canvas Colors!
UnfinishedCircl
Visual Novel
A Red Boat
A short story told through boating and lost letters
PirxOS
Adventure
Play in browser
Superlunary Episode 1.0
A slow, queer, post-war space opera
communistsister
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Classic Rogue - Oryx Design Lab Tiles
A new version of classic Rogue, updated using Ultimate Roguelike Tileset
oryxdesignlab
Just Cosplay
A game about being a teen in the early 2010s.
Deadnettle Games
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
MMM: Murder Most Misfortunate
A murder is committed in a secluded mansion, and it's up to you to solve it.
Foolish Mortals
Visual Novel
Love & Friendship
A Regency Rom-Com
Salty Stories
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
The Painting
A grieving father relives memories of days long gone.
Tymedust Games
Visual Novel
Play in browser
Sepia Tears
A romance visual novel about memories best left forgotten.
Scarlet String Studios
Visual Novel
GIF
Galactic Foodtruck Simulator 2999 (GFS2999)
The galaxy hungers. You own a foodtruck. Feed everyone.
WiL
Simulation
Play in browser
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