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Horror

Featuring tense atmospheres, unsettling themes, and often supernatural elements designed to frighten or disturb players. Games in this category may include jump scares, psychological terror, or survival elements set in eerie environments.

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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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A brief personality quiz designed to assess your moral beliefs
Interactive Fiction
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Can you survive being its prey?
Survival
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A horror-romance visual novel game
Visual Novel
Welcome to Ministry. So... You think you can follow God (GOOD LUCK)
Interactive Fiction
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Interactive Fiction
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Coleridge in hypertext
Interactive Fiction
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A Visual Novel about the impact of people and the power of story in history.
Visual Novel
The Grim Reaper lost his notebook
Interactive Fiction
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Adventure
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a cosmic horror Twine game about wooing a stranger and, hopefully, killing a Cybertruck owner
Interactive Fiction
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There's something out there in the woods, and it wants to come inside.
Interactive Fiction
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A space derelict exploration terminal
Survival
Every choice brings you closer to the truth… or to the end.
Interactive Fiction
A short horror text-based Twine game
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Why do we have to do this dance
Simulation
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Role Playing
text based fan game based off the artist Plastiboo's art book.
Adventure
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Stay you
Adventure
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Mitchell Rowe goes to an insane asylum. I'm sure nothing bad will happen to him!
Role Playing
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Uncover the secrets hidden on an abandoned computer.
Interactive Fiction
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This is a spinoff of Get The Cheesy Puffs!
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if it begins to speak to you, remain calm.
Interactive Fiction
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You can be ok again
Visual Novel
Welcome to the wilderness! How did you get here again?
Simulation
interview a monster on the night before its execution
Interactive Fiction
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Не відчиняй
Visual Novel
The Circus doesn’t come in town often. Never, really. Only when it needs to be fed.
Interactive Fiction
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Interactive Fiction
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two hands - two hearts - two ends
Interactive Fiction
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©1993 GâtSoft, inc. LON, UK
Visual Novel
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It's pronounced "Jump-scar-ay."
Interactive Fiction
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Perform the ritual or suffer the curse.
Interactive Fiction
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Weird fantasy text adventure RPG
Interactive Fiction
Interactive Fiction
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Short story about alien parasites.
Interactive Fiction
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