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Top rated$5 or less that last about an hour tagged Story Rich (73 results)

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Would you risk living together with a stranger in an isolated cabin to avoid the freezing cold?
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(1,173 total ratings)
Visual Novel
A Dark Mystery is Unfolding...
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(258 total ratings)
Adventure
"Release Yourself From Flame"
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(56 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Astrid wakes up in Purgatory and has to make peace with her death. Only problem is... she doesn't remember anything!
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(108 total ratings)
Visual Novel
A fairy tale about political marriages and gay alternatives
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(133 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Welcome to Fernwood Creek.
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(44 total ratings)
Adventure
you are a vampire with a distaste for blood
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(28 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Guide your way through psychological twists and turns as you begin to realize that not everything is as it seems.
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(42 total ratings)
Survive the experiment.
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(15 total ratings)
Action
Decrypt
$1.99
First-person sci-fi survival-horror adventure
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(71 total ratings)
Adventure
A game about experiences, memories and how they shape who you are as a person.
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(11 total ratings)
Adventure
A haunting, dying world foreshadowing rebirth.
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(53 total ratings)
Adventure
An Old School 32-bit Horror Story
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(31 total ratings)
Adventure
Surrealist point-and-click adventure game with a touch of existential dread and a whole lot of escapism.
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(22 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Anxiety is your curse. A heroic journey will be your treatment.
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(29 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Its Clara's last day on the island where she grew up.
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(13 total ratings)
Adventure
Queer Celestial Witches Navigate Scary Woods And Each Other
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(25 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Very scary and stinky horror experience...
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(43 total ratings)
Puzzle
New Life, New City, Same Demons.
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(15 total ratings)
Adventure
A fantasy otome game.
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(16 total ratings)
Visual Novel
nonlinear mystery horror VN
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(16 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
A werewolf survival horror story in Kievan Rus'
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(11 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Bonbon
$2.99
A short horror story, about your childhood.
Rated 4.1 out of 5 stars
(131 total ratings)
Adventure
SHUT IN
$4.99
Fight yourself. Die trying. The psychological horror/dark comedy game that hates you as much as you hate yourself.
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(32 total ratings)
Adventure
An essay game about navigating systems of power beyond your control
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(22 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Horror game in the genre of "Walking Simulator", "Drama" and "Psychological Horror".
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(13 total ratings)
Story-driven, 2D horror game passing within 5 days in 2 apartments and with only 1 haunting...
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(7 total ratings)
Adventure
a lil' gameboy game about feeling small and finding comfort in our animal pals.
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(7 total ratings)
Adventure
Unearth a long-buried history to bring peace to both the living and the dead.
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Classic story-driven, 2D horror game with satanic books and anthropomorphic demons!
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
Adventure
Japanese Psychological Horror
AzaGameStudioVerified Account
Rated 4.2 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Navigate intense job interviews with the help of a god who can stop time!
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
Explore the city of Arles and enter the world-famous tournament. Uncover corruption, conspiracy, and a load of bull.
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(7 total ratings)
Adventure
When your past disappears, what happens to your future?
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(7 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Home is a murder mystery with a twist—because you decide what ultimately happens.
Rated 3.7 out of 5 stars
(36 total ratings)
Adventure
A short interactive love story set during an epidemic in a 1920s style fantasy world.
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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