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Wayfarer

Marked by complete magical immunity, Wayfarers wander the world, fighting magic. Where will your fate lead you?

Idrelle Games

Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars

(1,486 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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Viatica

Your journey begins in sand and sound and silence.

Fir & Fireweed

Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars

(302 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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Ascendance

A love story that surpasses death

Ascendance IF

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(168 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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Known Unknowns

A bisexual high school ghost hunting romance

Brendan Patrick Hennessy

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(83 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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Beau Ideals Chapter 1

Fantasy visual novel in development

Mouse & Ram

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(73 total ratings)

Visual Novel

The Gilded

A dark fantasy fiction game

Dry Cappuccino Games

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(70 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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Danganronpa: Lapse

10 students find themselves trapped in a luxurious mansion...

Cynthia

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(136 total ratings)

Visual Novel

One Thousand Acts of Decency

Trapped in a Dome with eight hours to catch a killer

domedev

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(33 total ratings)

Visual Novel

The Alchemist

Play as an alchemist! Manage your shop, help (and romance!) people, and even try to brew a potion in a small mini-game!

Dariel Ivalyen

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(87 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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4x4 Archipelago

A procedurally generated, text-based fantasy RPG

agat

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(45 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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A Colour Like No Other

The world's less scary when you're a monster.

TheNamelessOne

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(40 total ratings)

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A Long Way to the Nearest Star

A thief on the run finds refuge on an abandoned spaceship. A lonely AI finds unexpected company.

SV Linwood

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(18 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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Vermis - Fan Game

text based fan game based off the artist Plastiboo's art book.

Adam Duehring

Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars

(23 total ratings)

Adventure

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Pitch Black Serenade

- A non conventional romance game. -

97Circle

Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars

(19 total ratings)

Visual Novel

Xianxia Simulator

Survive as an immortal cultivator in a text-based life-simulation RPG set in Chinese Cultivation Fantasy world.

Captain Wabbit

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

(68 total ratings)

Role Playing

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Everbloom

Cozy fantasy game set on a floating island of Everbloom.

Dariel Ivalyen

Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars

(35 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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Don't Give Up On Me!

A confession goes wrong in multiple ways and days!

Stefannofornari Games

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(15 total ratings)

Visual Novel

CLOSED HANDS

An unflinching work of interactive fiction.

PΔSSENGER

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

(19 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

MMM: Murder Most Misfortunate

A murder is committed in a secluded mansion, and it's up to you to solve it.

Foolish Mortals

Rated 4.2 out of 5 stars

(89 total ratings)

Visual Novel

GIF

Cannery Vale

forget who you are

Hanon Ondricek

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

(17 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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The Kuolema

An abandoned ship is found adrift. Look for clues and uncover the secrets of The Kuolema...

radiosity

Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars

(10 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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You are SpamZapper 3.1

A spam filter and their fellow plugins get horribly entangled in the affairs of their human's friends

Leon

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(8 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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Unhallowed

A spooky short story/adventure game for the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64 and Plus/4, Amstrad CPC, and modern web browsers

Blerkotron

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(9 total ratings)

Adventure

Fragmentia

NamelessNoun

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(6 total ratings)

Visual Novel

GIF

BTC King

Do you have what it takes to be the BTC King? Challenge yourself in this semi-text based game!

aklgupta

Rated 4.1 out of 5 stars

(12 total ratings)

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Ano What? Why Bakit??

A Really Short and Simple FREE Otome Game

zish.p

Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars

(8 total ratings)

Visual Novel

Jikoronpa: Laments of Isolation (Up to CH3 Trial)

A Danganronpa Fangame: A game of reflection, our guests facing the truth of themselves.

Laments

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(5 total ratings)

Visual Novel

GIF

SALTWATER

Narrative game about the end of the world and a world that won't end.

SkyShard

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(5 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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The Den

Vee and Aiden live together in ‘The Den’, but tonight, a chance discovery is about to change their lives forever…

radiosity

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(5 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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The Process of Elimination

small town parasocial crime drama

disfixdog

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(4 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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Light in Night

Mystery episodic text adventure with retrowave atmosphere.

Drear Games

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(4 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

The Queen's Footsteps

A modern text adventure for vintage computers

Davide Bucci

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(4 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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Tell Me A Bedtime Story (Full Version)

Your daughter wants to hear a bedtime story

Greasy Paint

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

(4 total ratings)

Puzzle

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The Baker of Shireton

The bread you bake is delicious. Raiders are coming.

Hanon Ondricek

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

(4 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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GIF

REDemption ZONE

An interactive console-based text adventure.

Elseth

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(3 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

MUME: Multi-Users in Middle-earth

Lord of the Rings multiplayer text-based online game

jahara

Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars

(4 total ratings)

Role Playing

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