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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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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
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The Unsolvable Mystery
William Rous
Puzzle
Play in browser
Danganronpa: Lapse
10 students find themselves trapped in a luxurious mansion...
Cynthia
Visual Novel
One Thousand Acts of Decency
Trapped in a Dome with eight hours to catch a killer
domedev
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
WORLD OF HORROR
$19.99
1bit adventure game of cosmic horror inspired by the work of Junji Ito
panstasz
Role Playing
Love Exalt 8372
$9.99
A visual novel about a death game which erupts aboard a train
Veki
Visual Novel
Play in browser
Snowbound Blood
A Vast Error Story
DECONRECONSTRUCTION
Visual Novel
The Fall of House Black
Rise from the grave and start anew.
ethersic
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Grown-Up Detective Agency
Solve a case with your time-travelling kid self
Brendan Patrick Hennessy
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Delphine's Discovery
Venture into an abandoned orphanage, solve a mystery, and fall in love.
LegendEx Games
Visual Novel
Waybinder
A city bound by ritual to prosper — or so it was hoped...
Gemma Thomson
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
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
Divide
I will not be just a sacrifice.
TrulyDrew
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
Demonology 101
A detective game about discovering the true names of demons.
Ludipe
Puzzle
Play in browser
Your Future Self
$2.99
A time-loop based experimental text adventure.
Contortionist Games
Adventure
What Girls Do in the Dark
A short slumber party text adventure ♡
olivebranche
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
BBirthday
$9.99
In bundle
BBirthday - Visual Novel
Yun Seven
Visual Novel
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
Subtext
$6.99
A mystery told through real SMS messages, phone calls, and emails.
William O'Connell
Interactive Fiction
GIF
Blackout: The Darkest Night
$5.99
Once you glimpse behind the shadows, you’ll never be the same.
MiniChimera
Interactive Fiction
The Crimson Diamond FULL GAME
$14.99
A cozy mystery adventure game set in early 1900s Ontario, Canada!
JuliaMinamata
Adventure
Out of the Yinshan
Out of the Yinshan, the shadows disperse.
wizim
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
SHINRAI - Broken Beyond Despair
$14.99
In bundle
A Murder Mystery Visual Novel.
GosatsuVNs
Visual Novel
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
Ascendance
A love story that surpasses death
Ascendance IF
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GENBA no Kizuna
$24.99
In bundle
A Murder Mystery Visual Novel.
GosatsuVNs
Visual Novel
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
Welcome to the Dragon Palace
A queer illustrated text adventure game
yllogique
Adventure
Play in browser
Detectiveland
$5
Detective noir clickable text adventure
Robin Johnson
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Wolfsbane
rainingdown
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
SoraKagi (ソラカギ) - Eden Escape 1.1.7
A beautiful illusion hides a grisly truth. It’s time to uncover it!
Fujitsuki
GIF
Five Minutes a Day
Every day, for the rest of your life.
Andrea Pignataro
Adventure
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
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