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please talk to me

and tell me that you love me

eastoned

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

(8 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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Backspaces

295 words about faulty keyboards and absent mouse pads.

Vaida

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

(8 total ratings)

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When acting as a wave

A person has to make a decision that will affect the lives of many.

David T. Marchand

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(7 total ratings)

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Group Presentation

It's like algebra, but more abstract

trkern

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(7 total ratings)

Puzzle

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Absent-minded (english version)

Infinite Corridors

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(6 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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Din in the Seventeenth Minute

It started with a muted cacophony in the outer banks.

3 Halves Games

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(6 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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The Elevator

A short psychological horror game about crushing loneliness.

velveteenguillotine

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(6 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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Hibari's fun night

Game based on the manga and anime series called Stop!!Hibari-Kun.

BleuOddine

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(6 total ratings)

Visual Novel

Play in browser

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Why I Haven't Had a Haircut in Eight Years

Based on a true haircut.

Ashley M.

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(6 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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Kel (2024, words on screen)

An interactive portrait

alyshkalia

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(6 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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Non é o que parece

Juegito experimental

Rafael Alcalde Azpiazu

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(6 total ratings)

Visual Novel

The Grub

Short MMO text game about an incredibly gross creature.

Laura Michet

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(6 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

Local signal

Interactive story as an emergency dispatcher

YerkoAndrei

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(6 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

Yaan Versus the Party

Get out on time—without pissing off your boss.

alyshkalia

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(6 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

Play in browser

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Ray Bibbia

Play as the toughest private exorcist around and fight evil by dodging bullets and typing your formula.

Morbidware

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(6 total ratings)

Action

Nasty/Good/Badass

A multiple choice personality test

xeneth.design

Rated 4.1 out of 5 stars

(12 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

Play in browser

The Fall of Mezentople

Mezentople will fall, but your choices will shape the course.

vgel

Rated 4.1 out of 5 stars

(10 total ratings)

Simulation

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Five Minutes a Day

Every day, for the rest of your life.

Andrea Pignataro

Rated 3.9 out of 5 stars

(36 total ratings)

Adventure

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Mind Space

Ed Curtis-Sivess

Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars

(14 total ratings)

Play in browser

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An Exact Map of the Empire

What the Emperor demands is impossible. Or is it?

Avery Hiebert

Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars

(8 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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Five Against The Sea-King!

Enid Blyton meets Cthulhu in this short game about packing eldritch totems for a seaside adventure with your friends.

Thomas Martin

Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars

(7 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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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

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The Leggy Blond

There's nothing quite like infatuation borne of boredom.

Ntagonistic

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(6 total ratings)

Simulation

Play in browser

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a pixie perfect fairytale

A pixies' favourite pastime

Fabi

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(6 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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Get Out of Match Lake

A drop of blood makes the grass grow greener.

Grim Baccaris

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(6 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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Blue - Pigments of our love

A narrative text-based game with interactive colors

Diane

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(6 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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in igni

a rose by any other name still burns

Lapin Lunaire Games

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(6 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

Play in browser

Fairy Tales of Innocent Children

Chase your shooting star. [Visual Novel, 5 mins]

Bruised Banana

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(6 total ratings)

Visual Novel

Three Minutes to Midnight

A moody textual stategy game about political tensions.

Thibaut Mereu

Rated 3.8 out of 5 stars

(32 total ratings)

Strategy

Play in browser

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Speakeasy Honey

An interactive fiction game about the whirlwind romance of Charles and Dorothy in 1920s New York.

dostoevshe

Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars

(8 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

Play in browser

Self-Creation Simulator

Find yourself within the egg.

merrybug

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(6 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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The Girl I Met At The End Of The World

How can you find a purpose, when the entire world has been destroyed?

PneumaVoid

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(6 total ratings)

Visual Novel

My Secret Hideout

An interactive text-generation treehouse toy

zarf

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(6 total ratings)

Play in browser

iron rabbit encounter

You find a metal rabbit in the snow.

caeth

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(5 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

Play in browser

The Beast of Torrack Moor - 30th Anniversary Edition

Track down a wild beast on the moors of England in this remaster of the classic ZX Spectrum text-adventure.

Adventuron

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(5 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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And don't forget to floss...

A short game about the small pressures we put on ourselves.

Copious

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(5 total ratings)

Visual Novel

Play in browser

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