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Home Safety Hotline: Seasonal Worker
$7.99
Working through the holidays can be hell, especially at Home Safety Hotline.
Night Signal Entertainment
Puzzle
GIF
LOST in CODE
$1.50
find what was taken
haruto
Adventure
Life Eater
$14.99
A horror fantasy kidnapping sim.
Strange Scaffold
Interactive Fiction
Home Safety Hotline
$14.99
A horror game about working in a 90's call center.
Night Signal Entertainment
Puzzle
MYSTERY FILES: House Of Horrors
$1.99
A Choose Your Own Adventure Style text-based horror game
Trihexa Studio
Interactive Fiction
The Morning Star (2023)
$2
Dareint
Adventure
La Estrella de la Mañana - Remake (2023)
$2
Dareint
Interactive Fiction
Creature Collection
$1
Danielle's Games
Play in browser
La Estrella de la Mañana (2017)
$1
Dareint
Adventure
Microcrawl
$2.99
Microcrawl is a bite sized point and click 2D adventure text hybrid
ZPJ Interactive
Adventure
Time Wars: Mansion of the Damned
$1
Will you be able to retain your very humanity in the Mansion of the Damned?
Jamsheed Studios
Interactive Fiction
Nox Dies
$2
A story of running away and sacrifice.
Ylvanaar
Visual Novel
The Salt Keep
$4.99
A traveling salesman's struggle to survive a night of horror
Small Gray Games
Adventure
Play in browser
Sorry We're Open
$7.99
Welcome to the Corporate Ladder.
oates
Role Playing
Chronicles of Tal’Dun: The Remainder
$19.99
A story of love, death and lies.
Nim
Visual Novel
GIF
BBirthday
$9.99
In bundle
BBirthday - Visual Novel
Yun Seven
Visual Novel
Evelyn's Farm
$2.99
Idle Paranormal Adventure
jsenter
Adventure
Moral Conflict
$2
Multiple endings, moral choices, and a quest for vengance.
Brainfont
Interactive Fiction
GIF
Code 7 - Episodes 2 & 3 Available Now
$22.99
What would you do if you found yourself trapped on an eerie space station with nothing but a computer?
Goodwolf Studio
Adventure
10mg: Cover Me In Leaves
$2
In bundle
A short kinetic novel — on bright minds, and the end of all things.
Elliot Herriman
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Peculiar Fables: The Werebed
$1
A short horror story about werebeds... SO YOU MAY NEVER EVER AGAIN SLEEP!
Whitewatt
Interactive Fiction
The Devil's Collection - Beware the Festival of Fools
$5
Gerrark
Adventure
The Lurking Shadow
$1.99
A mystery and terror text adventure about you, a detective, who must solve a case in a strange house.
LegosDeveloper
Interactive Fiction
GIF
Indiepocalypse #1
$15
Issue #1 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.
PIZZAPRANKS
Dave Microwaves Games Trilogy I
$1.50
A collection of horror games, each with their own distinct styles
Dave Microwaves Games
Adventure
The Scarlet Gallery
$2
Ghoul Shadows - Tales of the Twisted.
Interactive Fiction
Your Future Self
$2.99
A time-loop based experimental text adventure.
Contortionist Games
Adventure
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
Desert of Vice
$2.99
A narrative based horror text adventure game with choice dependent multiple endings.
karolisd
Adventure
Can You Come In?
$2
Your boss has called to ask if you can come into work on your day off - and you don't have much choice but to go.
spacetwinks
Interactive Fiction
Subtext
$6.99
A mystery told through real SMS messages, phone calls, and emails.
William O'Connell
Interactive Fiction
Adventures in the Light & Dark
$1
A novel in VR.
Protoria Studios
Visual Novel
Let Her Leave (Roots)
$1
A dark fantasy
Megan
Interactive Fiction
This is Your House
$1.04
A short horror game, in twine.
jestershark
Adventure
Play in browser
GIF
_transfer
$10
a story about computers, memory, and the end of the world
Abyssal Uncreations
Adventure
You're Going To Be Fine (Branches)
$1
Escape your fairy tale nightmare in this short text game.
Megan
Interactive Fiction
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