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Snowbound Blood
A Vast Error Story
DECONRECONSTRUCTION
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(84 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Social Democracy: An Alternate History
You are the Social Democratic Party of Germany in 1928. Can you stop the Nazis from taking power?
Autumn Chen
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(57 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Skynet Simulator
You are Skynet
edisgreat
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(82 total ratings)
Puzzle
Play in browser
Danganronpa: Lapse
10 students find themselves trapped in a luxurious mansion...
Cynthia
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(118 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Pageant
An interactive story about a girl who joins a beauty pageant to improve her college applications.
Autumn Chen
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(67 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Archivist and the Revolution
The world is ending, and you are still paying rent. A future history.
Autumn Chen
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(45 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
New Year's Eve, 2019
Social anxiety simulator/dating sim
Autumn Chen
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(42 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
Galactic Foodtruck Simulator 2999 (GFS2999)
The galaxy hungers. You own a foodtruck. Feed everyone.
WiL
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(22 total ratings)
Simulation
Play in browser
Canvas Colors: In The Moving City
Travel along with Maggie and Vale inside a moving city in Canvas Colors!
UnfinishedCircl
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(38 total ratings)
Visual Novel
GIF
And yet it hurt
An adventure game in Notepad about a kid who seeks revenge.
Sheepolution
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(25 total ratings)
Adventure
GIF
Sleepy Tales
Tell your sister stories until she falls asleep
classheikki
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Masks
On a campus under siege by riot police you count down to the end...
samplereality
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(52 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Goblins Demise
Goblins seeking Refuge
Lodugh
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(20 total ratings)
Adventure
Play in browser
GIF
Ace Baker
A cyberpunk cake-baking game about an asexual couple... in the future!
*AAmici
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(26 total ratings)
Puzzle
Play in browser
Flawed Crystals
A Steven Universe fangame
A Friendly Irin
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Role Playing
Play in browser
Another RPG Engine
Engine for creating RPGs in Twine 2 and SugarCube.
Another RPG Enthusiast
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
Role Playing
Play in browser
Ano What? Why Bakit??
A Really Short and Simple FREE Otome Game
z-ish.p
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
Visual Novel
The Mansion
You wake up and you have two problems: you don't remember anything and you're a skeleton.
Manuel Sagra
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(7 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
In All My Dreams I Choke On Invisible Smoke
Surreal visual novel/point and click exploration. Unsettling.
Kanderwund
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
Food From a Stranger
A creepy stranger offers a girl candy.
IntStories
Rated 3.9 out of 5 stars
(14 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Non é o que parece
Juegito experimental
Rafael Alcalde Azpiazu
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Visual Novel
A Serviço de Ganga Zumba
Uma aventura de texto no Brasil colonial.
Janos Biro
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
RNG Quest
Procedurally generated zero-player idle RPG.
Viktor
Rated 3.7 out of 5 stars
(24 total ratings)
Role Playing
Play in browser
Little Red
​An text game based on Little Red Riding Hood.
illuminesce
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
Messages From the Universe Graveyard
Experimental social game. Leave messages for other players in a dead world.
Kanderwund
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Asciipocalypse
3d first person shooter drawn using nothing but ascii characters!
wonrzrzeczny
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
Shooter
A Dark Forest
Incremental minimalistic game with a dark story ...
TinyTakinTeller
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Play in browser
Patient Zero
Interactive storytelling text-based game with multi-ending - Created for Community Game Jam
Big Three Games
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
the sound of rain.
A short exploration on the meaning of death.
Niini
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
Kim's One Room
Narrative browser game, micro management in my Korean mother-in-law one room, Seoul, mars 2020.
Robin Moretti
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Choose your own end to the viking world
Choose Odin’s future. Choose the world’s.
dtaggart919
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Mother of Pearls
A short visual novel about a mother reading her daughter a fairytale before bed.
Midge
Rated 4.2 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
Gulam
A visual novel about a girl, a pig and a book (Nanoreno 2017)
arkicade
Rated 3.7 out of 5 stars
(7 total ratings)
Visual Novel
ClassicZoo
ZZT/Super ZZT world player and editor
asie
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Formidolosa Nocte
A short, minimalist text-based horror experience.
D. Zenith
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Astoria
A text game about life in space.
Alex James Kane
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
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