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her tears were my light

a love story between time and space

NomnomNami

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(1,216 total ratings)

Visual Novel

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Serre

A visual novel about a girl and an alien drinking tea and falling in love!

insertdisc5

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(404 total ratings)

Visual Novel

10mg: Cover Me In Leaves

In bundle

A short kinetic novel — on bright minds, and the end of all things.

Elliot Herriman

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(144 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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Pitstop in Purgatory

$4.99

Astrid wakes up in Purgatory and has to make peace with her death. Only problem is... she doesn't remember anything!

Tymedust Games

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(108 total ratings)

Visual Novel

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Fostering Apocalypse

$4.99

The world will end again.

Incisor Studios

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(144 total ratings)

Survival

Were|House

What if the monsters in the haunted house weren’t just wearing a costume...?

Sad Ghost Studios

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(72 total ratings)

Visual Novel

WAS/WERE

Murdering a person that hurt you is hot, right?

RodFireProductions

Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars

(53 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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casting hearts

$2.99

have a crystal ball date with your witch girlfriend.

npckc

Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars

(34 total ratings)

Visual Novel

Open Sorcery

$3.99

A game about magic, technology and becoming a person.

OpenSorceryGames

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(56 total ratings)

Adventure

Slowly

A Bitsy haiku

Syringa Vulgaris

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(19 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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Ezrebeth (A Holiday Mindfudge)

$4.99

An old, bitter recluse finds herself stuck in a time loop during the winter holidays. Out Q1 2025.

Tymedust Games

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(32 total ratings)

Visual Novel

The Ruby Court

$3.50

you are a vampire with a distaste for blood

fixgritt

Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars

(29 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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Superhuman Industrial and Immaterial, Incorporated

A short storygame about an average person's day in a city full of superheroes.

lin codega

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(18 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

Exile

of loneliness at the ocean floor

HEXRAE

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(32 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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Mellifluent

Bitsy secret santa gift for flowerditch!

Emma Conner

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(10 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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Five Years Old Memories

$2.99

Relive their memories of a five-year-old

Komitsu

Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars

(11 total ratings)

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The Traveler and The Whale

There shouldn't be anything out here, in the space between stars, but you found a ship.

Emma Conner

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(15 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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Sonic OC 7

$1.50

In bundle

adolescent role play kindness interactive

Aether Interactive

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

(60 total ratings)

Adventure

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A Dream of Wargs

On queers and monsters

Syringa Vulgaris

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(16 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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Death is a Guest

$4.99

What the hell happened to Mr. Host? Solve the mystery and maybe find love along the way.

Honey Bunny

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

(55 total ratings)

Visual Novel

Meta Form

Surrealist point-and-click adventure game with a touch of existential dread and a whole lot of escapism.

Boz of Aesth

Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars

(22 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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The Salt Keep

$4.99

A traveling salesman's struggle to survive a night of horror

Small Gray Games

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(20 total ratings)

Adventure

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Dual Chroma: Far Shore

$3.49

Find love with an adventurer at the edge of the world!

Galen Games

Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars

(23 total ratings)

Visual Novel

Blind Men

$3.50

A boys' love visual novel about a supervillain and the spies that try to stop him.

Man-Eater Games

Rated 4.2 out of 5 stars

(142 total ratings)

Visual Novel

Witch Was Lost (And Has Been Found)

What you find is worth more than what you lost

Drazillion

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(9 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

The Mermaid of Zennor

$4.99

A short, dark visual novel about a young girl's destructive obsession with her older brother.

ebi-hime

Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars

(9 total ratings)

Visual Novel

The Runaway and The Bear

Can I stay here? Can you teach me to be like you?

Emma Conner

Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars

(11 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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Charybdis Trench

The sea puts all of the things she doesn't want found in Charybdis Trench.

Emma Conner

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(8 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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Reminiscence in the Night

Everything stays but it still changes

Team SolEtude

Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars

(30 total ratings)

Visual Novel

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S T A Y H O M E vol 1

explore; take yr time; play for nothing

-hexcavator-

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

(12 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

The Wolf of Derevnya

$4.97

A werewolf survival horror story in Kievan Rus'

Nightwell Games

Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars

(12 total ratings)

Visual Novel

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ring ring

You found a strange phone on the beach. Who will you call?

h i l o q o

Rated 4.1 out of 5 stars

(35 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

A Date to Remember

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When Online Dating Takes A Weird Turn

JJBEATS

Rated 4.2 out of 5 stars

(11 total ratings)

Visual Novel

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Long Journey Home

Alone, but for the worms and mushrooms

skiddyhale

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(7 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

Clairvoyance Fishing Club

A bleak, bourbon-soaked computer game ghost story

jonah-srg

Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars

(8 total ratings)

Visual Novel

Donum|ZX Spectrum 128k

2.50€

Everything is happening in your mind

Bitfans

Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars

(7 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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