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Home Safety Hotline
$14.99
A horror game about working in a 90's call center.
Night Signal Entertainment
Puzzle
GIF
I doesn't exist
$12.99
An ode to text-adventures.
DreadXP
Interactive Fiction
Subtext
$6.99
A mystery told through real SMS messages, phone calls, and emails.
William O'Connell
Interactive Fiction
SHINRAI - Broken Beyond Despair
$14.99
In bundle
A Murder Mystery Visual Novel.
GosatsuVNs
Visual Novel
GENBA no Kizuna
$24.99
In bundle
A Murder Mystery Visual Novel.
GosatsuVNs
Visual Novel
Detectiveland
$5
Detective noir clickable text adventure
Robin Johnson
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
Indiepocalypse #17
$15
Issue #17 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.
PIZZAPRANKSVerified Account
GIF
Indiepocalypse #51
$15
Issue #51 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.
PIZZAPRANKSVerified Account
GIF
Indiepocalypse #44
$15
Issue #44 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.
PIZZAPRANKSVerified Account
Pathway
$3
Mini-books within mini-books.
Studio CloudScape
Puzzle
Pirateship
$5
Pirate-themed clickable text adventure
Robin Johnson
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Home Safety Hotline: Seasonal Worker
$7.99
Working through the holidays can be hell, especially at Home Safety Hotline.
Night Signal Entertainment
Puzzle
GIF
Indiepocalypse #9
$15
Issue #9 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.
PIZZAPRANKSVerified Account
Proper Detective 2000
1.50€
A couple has been brutally murdered in their house last night. Are you up to solve the mystery?
kernel_dc
Puzzle
Play in browser
Ovis of Greed
$0
-100%
3-Hour Non-Visual Novel
Harpooned Cetus Studios
Visual Novel
Escape from Norwood
$5.99
An illustrated text adventure set in a vivid open world where everyone has an agenda.
Singular Works
Adventure
HELLSCAPE
$1.99
A "Based-Text" Adventure game, with an abusive amount of balls jokes.
Dawson Matthews
Adventure
Love Mystery Club
$1
This game is based on the theme of love & light reasoning.
zedraxlo
Visual Novel
SCP - The Mystery Man (ARG)
$8.99
Solve SCP mysteries in this ARG with cryptic online clues, riddles, and puzzles.
Hybriona Labs
Adventure
Play in browser
Stranded 2 - DRM Free Version
$3.99
Stranded again! The adventure continues
jimjamsgames
Adventure
Riddle Hack
$1
Riddles, riddles everywhere can you solve them? If not, beware!
Ice Peddler GamesVerified Account
Puzzle
Core Math Clicker
$49.99
Do math and battle mobs!
Sarainia
Fighting
Paper Stone Scrissors Game
$0.50
Retro text game made by Kamil Piechura
Kamil Piechura
Puzzle
The Eye of Borrack
$2.99
The Adventures Begin
jimjamsgames
Adventure
Dr. Diabolical's House of Horrors
$5
Dr. Diabolical is at it again! Can you escape his house of horrors?
maxdcrow
Puzzle
Play in browser
GIFTS
$1
A text-based fairy tale.
Megan
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Haunted Dream House
$4.99
Haunted Dream House is a 3-D text based horror mystery. You find yourself in an obscure house and must find your way.
mustimagine
Adventure
James Morrison's European History Adventures
$1.99
James Morrison is a lonely young man and has many hilarious adventures.
spec2jeti
Interactive Fiction
Revenge in 1815
2.99€
Messenger chatbot game : solve the enigmas and progress through the story
ortongames
Interactive Fiction
Essence Cypher: Rise of the Geomancer
$1
Do you have the makings of a true Geomancer? Decipher the secret essence of nature itself!
DorianBones
Travel Toil
$2.99
Look at you. You want to travel but do you have enough money? Lets find out...
Sporkadillo
Strategy
Last Minute Essay
$2
Turn in your homework on time.
Crivens6
Puzzle
Play in browser
Quiz Pro - Guess Pictures
$2.99
Train your brain and learn new words by solving guessing the pics.
Boogygames Studios
Educational
Prison Escape
$0.99
A Text-based simple AF, attempt at being humorous in a simple setting.
jarldredix
Puzzle
Cryptic Quotes
$39.99
Reveal a hidden quote
doxxasoft
Educational
Play in browser
Drowning in the Dome
$1
Interactive fiction about rescue and survival
axelfoley1971
Interactive Fiction
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