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Thrive
Short text adventure in the postapocalypse
bassguitarbill
Adventure
Rouletta
Would you like to play some Russian Roulette?
MissingWilliam
Strategy
MUCHO TEXTO
¡COLABORA con tu diálogo interior y escapad JUNTOS de esta terrible oficina!
Fufer
Platformer
Play in browser
Popping the Fermi Paradox
Event-based strategy sci-fi game
private101st
Strategy
Play in browser
The Bumbling Priestess
A short text based game about a priestess who is very bad at her job
MKellyGames
Visual Novel
Play in browser
Verlock Holmes: The Missing Donuts
A mystery visual novel fan project for Ver Vermillion
Villions Game Studio
Visual Novel
HEARSAY
Small narrative game for the GGJ 2025!
Boop
Visual Novel
Play in browser
Truth
Work for the media of an oppressive government, spreading lies, or truth
Will Andrew
Puzzle
a very little game about depression
Wolfarewolf
Educational
Play in browser
THE WANDERER
An interactive digital narrative. No download needed!
sophiestories
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
nothing but me and you
A cosmic story about enduring love and true conclusions.
Nick Gelling
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Dernoball
Text and momentum based football game!
Hojonny
Sports
A Foxy Game of Chance
Pig Master
Adventure
Play in browser
Fun: Facility
Explore a facility in this text based short game.
Broken Heart
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
Portugal Wars VII
Make Spycrabs. Defeat the British.
The Dark Bean
Aba Talks: 6 primary expressions in face, in body
What the 6 primary expressions're made of? Let Abandir tell ya!
Abandir
Educational
Play in browser
The Cool Coast of Canadia
A text adventure with simple visuals
GreyBeard42
Adventure
Play in browser
The Lindqvist Chronichles Story One: The Icelandic Sheep Farm
Markus Lindqvist: putting the normal in paranormal and the natural in supernatural
Bjorn Lindsey
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Jump: a phone call
flumphu
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
To Whom It May Concern
An Interactive Letterwriting Experience
ParadoxRogue
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GPMEscpae
A horror game navigated through text parser playing in our beloved university the HNU.
Sepulana
Survival
Play in browser
A Dark Forest
Incremental Experimental Minimalistic Game
TinyTakinTeller
Play in browser
The House of Echoes
Text-Based Horror Adventure
Liobeh
Interactive Fiction
Runefeld: Shadows Past
Fidjetbox
Adventure
Play in browser
Piece of Junk
Stranded on the backroads of space.
CaterpillarClock Studios
Survival
Play in browser
LIZARD
"Only the simplicity of death shines upon me like the moon"
MagFri
Visual Novel
SFPL
oh my safe place.
tvstar1999
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
WHAT WE SAW UNDER EDEN LAKE
two boys & the strange game they weave together
key
Visual Novel
Play in browser
GIF
the last flower shop in town
on the edge of extinction, people still go to work. try to make it through the week
kira h.
Visual Novel
Play in browser
Cry of the damned
simple rpg made in a single night, please enjoy
Keyboard Mage
Role Playing
Feel yourself being quietly drawn
vespa_rotta
Puzzle
Play in browser
Key From The Stars
A short text-based puzzle-adventure game
TomeOught
Puzzle
Play in browser
there's a ghost sitting between us
miscommunication.
f.lorui
Play in browser
Touch GRASS
Just Touch [GRASS]!
0xmkindly
Play in browser
Girls' Day (Updated)
A brief memory. Remade in Unity
Nice Gear Games
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Are You a Good Person?
A brief personality quiz designed to assess your moral beliefs
CheesePenguin
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
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