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witchhat

am hat

LeahPeach

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(4 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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Turn Out the Lights

A short game about coming home again.

bijan

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(4 total ratings)

Adventure

Eioioio

A girl mourns his father while figuring out how to survive the snowy apocalypse.

David T. Marchand

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(4 total ratings)

Adventure

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TT is bored and should finish a game

A game about games, game design and a developer who stopped being lazy and just shipped a game.

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(4 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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Dark Communion

Two teenage girls. One abandoned church. ??? survivors.

alyshkalia

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(4 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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Seeing Stars

You finally have the chance to go out with your crush to see the meteor shower

404ErrorGameStudios

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(4 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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BAGELS

Ancestral Classic Game

Retronomicon Games Quality

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(4 total ratings)

Simulation

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No Substitutions

A word switch cooking game where the results are up to you.

aeta

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(4 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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Stand Elsewhere

Oregon Trail-themed interactive fiction based on Stand By Me

postgoodism

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(4 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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Directory Dungeon - a File Explorer Dungeon Crawler

A little dungeon crawler played right in the windows file explorer.

JuhrJuhr

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(4 total ratings)

Role Playing

The Taste of Humanity

What if a night out was a matter of life or death?

noodle

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(4 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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Take Yourself With You

A lyric game about feeling lonely on the internet

ebkgames

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(4 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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Final Fantasy XIV: Seven Minutes in Heaven

The warrior of light has a new mission, and it may involve a kiss!

darthsuki

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(4 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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Chronostasis

Your clock is broken. Right?

Natasha Luna

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(4 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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Small Talk Simulator

The social simulation you'll be playing for minutes!

dissentingsheep

Rated 3.9 out of 5 stars

(8 total ratings)

Simulation

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Serial Dater

A speed dating game from Hell!

ColeSlawski

Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars

(7 total ratings)

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Batch Town

A strategy / luck game about managing a town / village coded entirely in batch!

General Nut

Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars

(7 total ratings)

Strategy

Date Night

Keep the world outside, outside.

Drink To Destruction

Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars

(7 total ratings)

Simulation

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Consumed

Can you survive the room?

Peanut Panda

Rated 3.6 out of 5 stars

(12 total ratings)

Visual Novel

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Pretend You Love Each Other

Under orders to win the game, a pair of space mercs have to act married.

Olivia C Dunlap

Rated 4.2 out of 5 stars

(6 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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The Mother of Pearls

A short visual novel about a mother reading her daughter a fairytale before bed.

Midge

Rated 4.2 out of 5 stars

(6 total ratings)

Visual Novel

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The Mischievous Thievery Of Jessica The Cat

Jessica the cat has been stealing people's things! A GGJ2021 narrative-puzzle prototype that's now a full game!

Mandy J Watson

Rated 4.2 out of 5 stars

(6 total ratings)

Puzzle

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Political Discussion Simulator!

You're at a bar with friends, when the topic of politics comes up. Will you survive!?

semroolvink

Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars

(5 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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The Ceramic Uncertainty

A text-based "Choose-Your-Own-Adventure" about a mysterious plant.

falpal

Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars

(5 total ratings)

Adventure

ZEUS 111

We choose the moon.

DancingEngie

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(4 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

DIMENSION LOOP

Made for Ludum Dare 47.

Danial Jumagaliyev

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(4 total ratings)

Adventure

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Dungeon of Choices

As a knight, you're in the dungeon, will you get the grail?

alias_tof

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(4 total ratings)

Adventure

GIF

See You

A story about a woman and her indecisions.

st-chem-atelier

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(4 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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GIF

A Cat in the Rain

an interactive story about a stroll under the rain, and a potential new furry friend...

Raquel de Miranda

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(4 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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Dungeoneer's Backpack

Manage your adventurer's inventory!

whitehatcat

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(4 total ratings)

Puzzle

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La pequeña cerillera

Una ficción interactiva basada en el cuento de H. C. Andersen

J. Francisco Martín Lisaso

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(4 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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Doki Doki Ragnarok (GGJ18 Entry)

Game Jam Version of Doki Doki Ragnarok

BrutalHack

Rated 4.2 out of 5 stars

(5 total ratings)

Visual Novel

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A Visitor on Venus

A low-rez FMV visual novel about a vacation gone wrong.

SweetHeart Squad

Rated 4.2 out of 5 stars

(5 total ratings)

Visual Novel

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吟游诗人的重生

一个与现代汉语有关的文字解谜游戏

matrix67

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

(4 total ratings)

Puzzle

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Low-Tech-O-Rama

A discussion on low-tech with a Commodore 64's modified AI.

Miramar

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

(4 total ratings)

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PHENOMENA

Shifting stories about UFOs. An interactive poem.

lavieenmeow

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

(4 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

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