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Break the curse and uncover your fire.
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(478 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
A fantasy and love story influenced by the Guanche culture.
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(93 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
beautiful twine compilation
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(48 total ratings)
Adventure
When the last thread becomes entangled, their song will be heard.
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(50 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Type commands, roast marshmallows, throw logs onto a crackling fire. Enjoy
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(155 total ratings)
Simulation
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(40 total ratings)
Simulation
A horror fantasy kidnapping sim.
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(19 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Perfect Tides is a point and click adventure game about the agony and anticipation of being a teen.
Meredith GranVerified Account
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(33 total ratings)
Adventure
Sharpen your critical thinking skills in this quiz game that challenges you to spot rhetorical fallacies.
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(23 total ratings)
Educational
An ode to text-adventures.
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(34 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
A cozy mystery adventure game set in early 1900s Ontario, Canada!
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(12 total ratings)
Adventure
A horror game about working in a 90's call center.
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(32 total ratings)
Puzzle
Christmas has come to Wayhaven! And it's magical…quite literally.
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(44 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
a story about computers, memory, and the end of the world
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(20 total ratings)
Adventure
Detective noir clickable text adventure
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(13 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
A collection of horror games, each with their own distinct styles
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(15 total ratings)
Adventure
Paradise is an interactive fiction playground.
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(10 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Once you glimpse behind the shadows, you’ll never be the same.
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(10 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
As suas escolhas não importam.
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(10 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
text-adventure MMORPG
Sokpop CollectiveVerified Account
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(22 total ratings)
Role Playing
A time-loop based experimental text adventure.
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(147 total ratings)
Adventure
A novel-length "bat-romance" Twine.
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(24 total ratings)
Welcome to the Corporate Ladder.
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(55 total ratings)
Role Playing
A Murder Mystery Visual Novel.
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(10 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Issue #22 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.
PIZZAPRANKSVerified Account
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Date a soft dragon boy! There is absolutely no fiery dystopia!
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(17 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
BBirthday - Visual Novel
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(13 total ratings)
Visual Novel
ASCII Action! As minimal as an RPG can get
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(14 total ratings)
Role Playing
A visual novel about a death game which erupts aboard a train
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
Issue #17 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.
PIZZAPRANKSVerified Account
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
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.
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(17 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
A kaleidoscopic vision of one woman seen through three rotating eyes.
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(18 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Replica
$2.99
Everything in the State, nothing against the State, nothing outside the State.
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(17 total ratings)
Adventure
Issue #9 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.
PIZZAPRANKSVerified Account
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
VT Harmony - Visual Novel
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
Visual Novel
You're an ASCII Oat; Dodge the ASCII Slime Mold!
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(15 total ratings)
Action
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