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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
The Night Abridged
there is a whisper in the shadows...
ZICO
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
What Girls Do in the Dark
A short slumber party text adventure ♡
olivebranche
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Your Phone Dies in 20 Seconds
You have 20 seconds to determine your fate.
Crimson Arcade
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The good people
Explore the weird, until the sunken things come for you
Pseudavid
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
Buddy Simulator 1984 DEMO
Create your own virtual best buddy and play games together!
Not a Sailor Studios
Simulation
Don't Die Alone
Spam has never been so deadly.
StephenW313
Visual Novel
GIF
sacrament iv.
calamity occult-horror rpg
melessthanthree
Role Playing
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
Blood On The Snow
A narrative adventure game.
Maricu
Adventure
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
Snakeroot.
[ INACTIVE ] A fantasy horror IF WIP.
cerberus
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Sleepover Rules
Your friend invites you to his house for a sleepover with a certain set of rules
SjoerdHekking
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Ouroborous Incident
Uncover the dark dealings of the Turing Corporation and their mysterious RAVENOUS project.
DOMINO CLUB
Play in browser
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
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
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
Mind Games: Trepidation
Horror, Sci-fi, Queer-friendly, and Romance... what more could you ask for?
Bottlecap Rabbit Games
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Helmouth Halls
A narrative-driven teen slasher
Yarn Spinner
Interactive Fiction
There's A Bear Outside
Isn't it nice that there is a perfectly normal bear at the window?
The Very Worst Thing
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
The Lancaster Leak - Entity Exam
Jeremy Fischer
Action
COLD SCREAM
Survival Horror Text Adventure
1AM TRAIN
Survival
Miss Spring Pomegranate 2019
A short text adventure about a story that's way more trouble than it's worth
olivebranche
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Inner Demons
A supernatural horror story set in modern-day Seattle. Will you save the world or succumb to the darkness?
a.w. morgan
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Disharmony
An investigative IF journey into the unknown.
Pink Soda Studios
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
Jagged Bone
Nessa Cannon
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
Five Minutes a Day
Every day, for the rest of your life.
Andrea Pignataro
Adventure
A Twisted Place
Depressing Cosmic Horror
Volition Newlove
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
MIND Psychometry
An employability assessment from a dystopian HR department
Juniper-C
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Mr. Rainer's Solve-It Service (Demo)
One day, HEINO's partner dies. He gets a new one.
etherane
Adventure
Play in browser
PROXIMATE
Undersea horror where your only form of navigation is an unreliable AI.
cain
Adventure
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