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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
(1,284 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Chronicles of Tal’Dun: The Remainder
$19.99
A story of love, death and lies.
Nim
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(92 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Ascendance
A love story that surpasses death
Ascendance IF
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(160 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Known Unknowns
A bisexual high school ghost hunting romance
Brendan Patrick Hennessy
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(80 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Beau Ideals Chapter 1
Fantasy visual novel in development
Mouse & Ram
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(70 total ratings)
Visual Novel
The Gilded
A dark fantasy fiction game
Dry Cappuccino Games
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(62 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Danganronpa: Lapse
10 students find themselves trapped in a luxurious mansion...
Cynthia
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(117 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
(83 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Xianxia Simulator
Survive as an immortal cultivator in a text-based life-simulation RPG set in Chinese Cultivation Fantasy world.
Captain Wabbit
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(56 total ratings)
Role Playing
Play in browser
4x4 Archipelago
A procedurally generated, text-based fantasy RPG
agat
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(40 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
A Colour Like No Other
The world's less scary when you're a monster.
TheNamelessOne
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(39 total ratings)
Play in browser
GIF
Code 7 - Episodes 2 & 3 Available Now
$22.99
What would you do if you found yourself trapped on an eerie space station with nothing but a computer?
Goodwolf Studio
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(64 total ratings)
Adventure
One Thousand Acts of Decency
Trapped in a Dome with eight hours to catch a killer
domedev
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(19 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Beyond the Chiron Gate
$10
Text-based space exploration game
John Ayliff
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(39 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Warsim: The Realm of Aslona
$9.99
Huw2k8
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(38 total ratings)
Simulation
Pitch Black Serenade
- A non conventional romance game. -
97Circle
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(19 total ratings)
Visual Novel
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
(13 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Everbloom
Cozy fantasy game set on a floating island of Everbloom.
Dariel Ivalyen
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(14 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Don't Give Up On Me!
A confession goes wrong in multiple ways and days!
Stefannofornari Games
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(14 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Chimera Crusader: Defender of Dominicus
$0
-100%
ASCII Action! As minimal as an RPG can get
MansterSoft
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(10 total ratings)
Role Playing
MMM: Murder Most Misfortunate
A murder is committed in a secluded mansion, and it's up to you to solve it.
Foolish Mortals
Rated 4.1 out of 5 stars
(88 total ratings)
Visual Novel
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
Play in browser
The Away Team
$8
In this interactive sci-fi adventure novel, you are the AI pilot of Earth's last interstellar ship.
Underflow Studios
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(36 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
CLOSED HANDS
An unflinching work of interactive fiction.
PΔSSENGER
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(15 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
GIF
Cannery Vale
forget who you are
Hanon Ondricek
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(15 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Unhallowed
A spooky short story/adventure game for the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64 and Plus/4, Amstrad CPC, and modern web browsers
Blerkotron
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
Adventure
GIF
BTC King
Do you have what it takes to be the BTC King? Challenge yourself in this semi-text based game!
aklgupta
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(10 total ratings)
Play in browser
GIF
Event[0]
$19.99
Event[0] is a sci-fi narrative game where you build a relationship with a spaceship computer to get home to Earth.
Ocelot Society
Rated 4.2 out of 5 stars
(17 total ratings)
Adventure
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
Fragmentia
NamelessNoun
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Visual Novel
The Process of Elimination
small town parasocial crime drama
disfixdog
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Proper Detective 2000
1.50€
A couple has been brutally murdered in their house last night. Are you up to solve the mystery?
kernel_dc
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Puzzle
Play in browser
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
Play in browser
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 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
Play in browser
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
Play in browser
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