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Mystery

Weaving intrigue and suspense, these experiences challenge players to uncover hidden truths, solve puzzles, and piece together clues in enigmatic narratives or atmospheric settings.

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Text based

Focused on using its text, moreso than its visuals or audio, to tell the bulk of its story/plot. (Still can have great audio and visuals, though!)

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Project: Eden's Garden
16 talented participants enter the game. Only 2 will walk out alive.
Project: Eden's Garden
Visual Novel
GIF
Trigaea
Alter genes, survive. Sci-fi RPG. 270k+
RynGM
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Danganronpa: Lapse
10 students find themselves trapped in a luxurious mansion...
Cynthia
Visual Novel
The Gray Ascendancy
Craft the story of a villain's amnesiac henchperson on a quest to mage restoration.
grayascendancy
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Snowbound Blood
A Vast Error Story
DECONRECONSTRUCTION
Visual Novel
The Grown-Up Detective Agency
A pre-and-post-teen mystery
Brendan Patrick Hennessy
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Waybinder
A city bound by ritual to prosper — or so it was hoped...
Gemma Thomson
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
One Thousand Acts of Decency
Trapped in a Dome with eight hours to catch a killer
domedev
Visual Novel
Delphine's Discovery
Venture into an abandoned orphanage, solve a mystery, and fall in love.
LegendEx Games
Visual Novel
Divide
I will not be just a sacrifice.
TrulyDrew
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Night Market Book 2 (WIP)
The sequel to the Night Market
The Night Market
Role Playing
Play in browser
What Girls Do in the Dark
A short slumber party text adventure ♡
olivebranche
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Fall of House Black
Rise from the grave and start anew.
ethersic
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
Demonology 101
A detective game about discovering the true names of demons.
Ludipe
Puzzle
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
Known Unknowns
A bisexual high school ghost hunting romance
Brendan Patrick Hennessy
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Beast of Torrack Moor - 30th Anniversary Edition
Track down a wild beast on the moors of England in this remaster of the classic ZX Spectrum text-adventure.
Adventuron
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
LUNIUM
An escape room mystery. Can you escape your chains before the killer strikes again?
radiosity
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Ascendance
A love story that surpasses death
Ascendance IF
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
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.
Cosmic Void
Adventure
domvs
a gothic mystery
litrouke
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
La Faille
Un visual novel fantastique sur un groupe de lycéens dont la vie est sur le point de basculer...
Chester
Visual Novel
The Reaper Watches Me
itzaryn
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
404 Missing Page Detective Agency
Webpages can run, but they cannot hide from... THE DETECTIVE!
Snozbot
Adventure
Play in browser
Jikoronpa: Laments of Isolation (Up to CH3 Trial)
A Danganronpa Fangame: A game of reflection, our guests facing the truth of themselves.
Laments
Visual Novel
GIF
Five Minutes a Day
Every day, for the rest of your life.
Andrea Pignataro
Adventure
Briarheart
saving the world cost the briarheart their life - it was supposed to also claim your own. but you failed. why?
wilderlingdev
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
Cannery Vale
forget who you are
Hanon Ondricek
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Welcome to the Dragon Palace
A queer illustrated text adventure game
yllogique
Adventure
Play in browser
Food From a Stranger
A creepy stranger offers a girl candy.
OctiWriter
Visual Novel
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
Vestiges of the Hallowing
Buttercup Fiction
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
🥚⌛🍳 TIME OMELETTE 🍳⌛🥚
A cooking mystery game about time. Except it's not a cooking game.
adriel
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Everything Ends In 0
The world ends in 1 hour. It can't be saved. Wanna chat?
findaeden
Interactive Fiction
Pitch Black Serenade
- A non conventional romance game. -
97Circle
Visual Novel
It wasn't me.
What do you think happened? A short telescopic text mystery, playing with out-of-the-box storytelling mechanics.
Rosa Carbo-Mascarell
Role Playing
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