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answer these 10 questions and i'll tell you what kind of lover you are
a choose-your-own-adventure heartbreak in the shape of a quiz
frannym
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
We Never Left: <Standalone>
On a dark and stormy night in 1983, the phone rings. “FINISH THE GAME”.
FYRE Games
Adventure
Please Answer Carefully
a horror survey game
litrouke
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Our Frozen Hearts.
survival ntr
Trriggered Bakery
Visual Novel
stay with me
(you're not alone)
steff
Puzzle
Play in browser
PROXIMATE
$5.99
Undersea horror where your only form of navigation is an unreliable AI.
cain
Adventure
GIF
SPACE FROG!
-30%
a story of a frog in space.
npckc
Adventure
Play in browser
Your Phone Dies in 20 Seconds
You have 20 seconds to determine your fate.
Crimson Arcade
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
WASTE EATER
The world is saved. Its heroes wait to die.
cain
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
Who Stole My Bone?
Help Spudz the dog find his precious bone in this short, silly game!
Kryptic Kitty
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Holiday Magic: A Wayhaven Christmas Story
$6.49
Christmas has come to Wayhaven! And it's magical…quite literally.
Seraphinite Games
Interactive Fiction
Don't Die Alone
Spam has never been so deadly.
StephenW313
Visual Novel
Family Dinner
It only takes one night to change everything.
pansandpots
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Subtext
$3.49
-50%
A mystery told through real SMS messages, phone calls, and emails.
William O'Connell
Interactive Fiction
A Dark Forest
Incremental Experimental Minimalistic Game
TinyTakinTeller
Play in browser
The good people
Explore the weird, until the sunken things come for you
Pseudavid
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
The Painting
Those we love are never truly gone.
Tymedust Games
Visual Novel
Play in browser
INEVITABLE
A game about toxic love.
Jon Oldblood
Interactive Fiction
Rose garden sentiments
You talk to a pretty prince in a rose garden
teletuu
Visual Novel
Play in browser
a man outside
a friendly horror game in your neighborhood
litrouke
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Just Cosplay
A game about being a teen in the early 2010s.
Deadnettle Games
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
woebegone.
when breathing has become a chore. when to exist is a trial.
louey
Simulation
Serenity at Dusk
Here is where a heavy heart asks for rest.
klaiis
Visual Novel
Play in browser
Gender Lab Escape Simulator 2030
can you escape . the Gender Lab,,,,? if you dare....
Natalie Terezi Rei Watts
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
灰舟
献给好奇者。
克勒卡尔
Visual Novel
Honey Twigs
A warm and fluffy adventure.
Charu Tak
Visual Novel
Play in browser
One-Screen Game
pluf
Puzzle
Play in browser
Fallacy Quiz
$8
Sharpen your critical thinking skills in this quiz game that challenges you to spot rhetorical fallacies.
Tim Krief
Educational
GIF
Please Tell Me I Love You
A short conversation about a relationship
A G Moody
Visual Novel
Play in browser
reunion
find your ex at the end of the world
caeth
Play in browser
Mr. Rainer's Solve-It Service (Demo)
One day, HEINO's partner dies. He gets a new one.
etherane
Adventure
Play in browser
Canvas Colors: In The Moving City
Travel along with Maggie and Vale inside a moving city in Canvas Colors!
UnfinishedCircl
Visual Novel
Eleutheria
Trust. Rebirth. Life after death.
Grim Baccaris
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
TTYL
Keep up with the group chat or get kicked out in this nostalgic typing game!
302 Slices
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Messages
An odd game about texting.
Jusiv
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
Demonology 101
A detective game about discovering the true names of demons.
Ludipe
Puzzle
Play in browser
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