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Family Dinner

It only takes one night to change everything.

pansandpots

Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars

(70 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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A Halo, Flaring

a widow is contacted by an AI version of their partner

audo

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(14 total ratings)

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GIF

sacrament iv.

calamity occult-horror rpg

melessthanthree

Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars

(56 total ratings)

Role Playing

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he's not my

a multiple choice game about discerning friendship

xed

Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars

(25 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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The good people

Explore the weird, until the sunken things come for you

Pseudavid

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(13 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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They Will Not Return

Lonely robots in the post-apocalypse

John Ayliff

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

(24 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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Your Hogwarts Story

A Choose your own Adventure Text Game about going to Hogwarts

DigiTale

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

(31 total ratings)

Role Playing

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Moving (On)

nostalgia, jumping around in time, and clearing out your childhood room

quackoquack

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(11 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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Heretic's Hope

What is it to be holy? What is it to be human?

Grim Baccaris

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(12 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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Let's Play Yophoop!

The historical children's game, now in intfic form!

June Flower

Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars

(9 total ratings)

Simulation

Tales from the Road

A SFW interactive fiction game

Iforgotmybrain

Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars

(14 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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Cyborg Arena

In a dystopian future, cyborgs gladiators must fight for their owners' entertainment

John Ayliff

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

(18 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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Waybinder

A city bound by ritual to prosper — or so it was hoped...

Gemma Thomson

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

(15 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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The Daily Murder

Daily murder mysteries. Talk to suspects, detect lies, and accuse the murderer and their motive.

phaddius

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

(15 total ratings)

Puzzle

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Bard Simulator 2K21

Write poems, get paid, try to avoid comitting high treason.

Chapel

Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars

(12 total ratings)

Adventure

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GIF

Truffle Wizard

Truffles. Herbs. Onions. Forbidden Magic?!

Tim Knauf

Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars

(21 total ratings)

Strategy

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Dungeon Crawler on Demand!

Randomly generated dungeon filled with monsters and diablo inspired equipment looting system!

redpangilinan

Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars

(48 total ratings)

Role Playing

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Kitchen Table

An interactive conversation about love, empathy and emotional management.

Gurpegui

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(9 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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Death's Gambit

A gamble with a unique guest for an intriguing price.

SjoerdHekking

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(9 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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Monoliths

a Shutter Stroll fiction

Jannik Boysen

Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars

(19 total ratings)

Adventure

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GIF

The Ritual

a Princess & her Knight travel through the woods.

Megan

Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars

(21 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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häx_processer

Process häxes using our state-of-the-art häx processing terminal

Tomi

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

(11 total ratings)

Puzzle

Dear Sophie

A game about the weirdness of balancing online love and real life.

Zerogue

Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars

(28 total ratings)

Visual Novel

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Dungeon Mercenary

Modern ASCII roguelike - Can your mercenary beat the dungeon ?

smelc3

Rated 4.2 out of 5 stars

(40 total ratings)

Role Playing

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I wish I was

A narrative dungeon-crawler

lulatschia

Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars

(12 total ratings)

Puzzle

This is a black parallelepipedon in a yellow field

The enigma of the fields. Unknow a shape.

laughingpineapple

Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars

(15 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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Escape from Kettuloch

Escape the dungeon before you fully transform into a fox!

SnepShark

Rated 4.1 out of 5 stars

(36 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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What Will You Have?

A SFW dating sim where there's always something simmering.

aeta

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(7 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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Nobody Cares About Charley

One of the many benefits of your position is full access to the Employee Breakroom!

PetricakeGames-IF

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(7 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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Terminal Sickness

Post-pandemic story driven text adventure.

Turnaround Games

Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars

(10 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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🥚⌛🍳 TIME OMELETTE 🍳⌛🥚

A cooking mystery game about time. Except it's not a cooking game.

adriel

Rated 4.2 out of 5 stars

(13 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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To Rei (Prototype)

Mother's Day Tribute to Rei Todoroki (My Hero Academia)

Leporidactic

Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars

(7 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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Witches and Bandits and Swords (Oh My)

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A playful, interactive graphic novel adventure by Krunchy Fried Games. Ages 13+.

Krunchy Fried Games

Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars

(9 total ratings)

Visual Novel

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Clockwork Apple

A BL Visual-novel featuring kidnapping and characters of doubtful morality. (English and Italian)

Synapsed

Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars

(9 total ratings)

Visual Novel

Telvoikai

Choose between exploring jungle tropics or navigating deep into a bioluminescent sea.

Corvaena

Rated 4.1 out of 5 stars

(15 total ratings)

Role Playing

VtM - Blood of the Dragon

A game about a vampire plastic surgeon

NightmareThrenody

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(7 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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