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Six Cats Under

You died. Your unfinished business? The fate of your many cats!

Team Bean Loop

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(5,678 total ratings)

Puzzle

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Time is Solid Here

A horror puzzle game about helping people move on.

AlgebraFalcon

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(883 total ratings)

Puzzle

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Silver Thread

A skeptical exorcist and an odd encounter.

Spicaze

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(700 total ratings)

Visual Novel

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P.E. Noire

Point and Click Softboiled Detective Story

Picogram

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(1,251 total ratings)

Puzzle

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Cafe in the Clouds

Two cooks turn dream eaters when troubled, sleepless townsfolk seek their unusual services.

Cafe Nemo

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(821 total ratings)

Visual Novel

GIF

FeedVid Live

You stumble upon a strange livestream.

Varun R.

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(1,090 total ratings)

Puzzle

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Admin

After the new year, no one remembers their passwords. You play the detective to unlock the computers at your new job!

jbodah

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(810 total ratings)

Puzzle

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INVITATIONEM

Short horror game. Oldschool 2D point n' click.

Julien Bartholini

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(494 total ratings)

Adventure

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The Annual Ghost Town Pumpkin Festival

carve a lil pumpkin and share it with the world

adamgryu

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(256 total ratings)

Simulation

To a Starling

A short but polished platformer.

Peteksi

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(286 total ratings)

Platformer

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Eloquent Countenance

A short RPG horror/story game about nosebleeds, guardian angels and a funeral

racheldrawsthis

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(432 total ratings)

Role Playing

Sandtrix

Retro Falling Sand Puzzle Game

mslivo

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(353 total ratings)

Puzzle

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GIF

Alternate Watch

Mandela Catalogue - Observation Duty Fangame

Tesseron

Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars

(417 total ratings)

Puzzle

Carbon Steel

Hazardous research. A steel vessel.

Mike Klubnika

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(229 total ratings)

Quadrilateral Cowboy

$19.99

Twentieth-century Cyberpunk

Blendo Games

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(301 total ratings)

Adventure

Bee Magic

Cast spells by moving

Ethan Clark (EPICPIKAGUY)

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(125 total ratings)

Puzzle

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Tiny Kingdom

Turn your humble farm into a majestic kingdom in this tranquil, enchanting card-based city-building adventure

neltile

Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars

(343 total ratings)

Strategy

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Foxhunt (Chapter 1)

Are you clever enough to find me?

anomalina

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(178 total ratings)

Puzzle

Cloud Gardens

$17.49

A chill game about using plants to overgrow abandoned wasteland dioramas

noio

Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars

(358 total ratings)

Simulation

tomorrow won't come for those without ██████

$1.50

That day, we told a lie.

etherane

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(143 total ratings)

Puzzle

No Rest for the Wicked

After 200 years of sleep, it's time to help your vampire master to conquer humanity.

Gugames.eu

Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars

(67 total ratings)

Adventure

A Good Snowman Is Hard To Build

$14.99

An adorable puzzle game about being a monster and making snowmen

Draknek & Friends

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(195 total ratings)

Puzzle

GIF

COLDLINE

nuclear armageddon is just a phone call away

papercookies

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(200 total ratings)

Action

Mini Metro

$9.99

How long can you keep the city moving?

Dinosaur Polo Club

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(143 total ratings)

Simulation

Smile For Me

$12.85

A Nod-N-Shake Adventure

Day Lane

Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars

(71 total ratings)

Puzzle

Stowaway

A sci-fi horror adventure game.

George Broussard

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(156 total ratings)

Adventure

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Mercury Abbey

Join Uncle Harrod and his nephew Willie in this bizarre and suspenseful mystery adventure.

Gamera Games

Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars

(62 total ratings)

Role Playing

Rain on Your Parade Prologue

Travel the world as a mischevious cloud and rain on everyone's parade! The ultimate schadenfreude simulator.

Unbound Creations

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(117 total ratings)

Adventure

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Give Up the Ghost: a puzzle checklist

50 transdimensional puzzles, no filler!

gate

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(109 total ratings)

Puzzle

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The Keeper

The light will lead you home

Comp-3 Interactive

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

(319 total ratings)

Puzzle

GIF

Nonsense at Nightfall

One night you can't sleep and decide to take a sleeping pill. What happens next is unexpected...

Siegfried Croes

Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars

(224 total ratings)

Adventure

GIF

FeedVid

Strange videos appear on your phone.

Varun R.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

(409 total ratings)

Puzzle

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INMOST

$14.99

Escape the depths of an otherworldly labyrinth in this cinematic puzzle platformer.

Chucklefish Games

Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars

(187 total ratings)

Adventure

GIF

Summoner Symbols

Sheepolution

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(94 total ratings)

Puzzle

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Patrick's Parabox

$20

In bundle

A mind-bending recursive puzzle game about boxes within boxes within boxes within boxes.

Patrick Traynor

Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars

(46 total ratings)

Puzzle

Mallory and the Marble Sanctum

Explore a mysterious desolate labyrinth in this pre-alpha Mallory demo

Ivan Khoroshev

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(89 total ratings)

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