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Break the curse and uncover your fire.
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(474 total ratings)Interactive Fiction
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A story of love, death and lies.
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(97 total ratings)Visual Novel
beautiful twine compilation
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(48 total ratings)Adventure
A fantasy and love story influenced by the Guanche culture.
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(89 total ratings)Interactive Fiction
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When the last thread becomes entangled, their song will be heard.
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(50 total ratings)Interactive Fiction
Pixel Fireplace
$4.99
Type commands, roast marshmallows, throw logs onto a crackling fire. Enjoy
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(155 total ratings)Simulation
What would you do if you found yourself trapped on an eerie space station with nothing but a computer?
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(66 total ratings)Adventure
Sharpen your critical thinking skills in this quiz game that challenges you to spot rhetorical fallacies.
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(23 total ratings)Educational
Life Eater
$14.99
A horror fantasy kidnapping sim.
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(18 total ratings)Interactive Fiction
Perfect Tides
$14.99
Perfect Tides is a point and click adventure game about the agony and anticipation of being a teen.
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(32 total ratings)Adventure
I doesn't exist
$12.99
An ode to text-adventures.
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(34 total ratings)Interactive Fiction
A cozy mystery adventure game set in early 1900s Ontario, Canada!
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(12 total ratings)Adventure
Home Safety Hotline
$14.99
A horror game about working in a 90's call center.
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(32 total ratings)Puzzle
Christmas has come to Wayhaven! And it's magical…quite literally.
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(44 total ratings)Interactive Fiction
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$10
a story about computers, memory, and the end of the world
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(20 total ratings)Adventure
Detective noir clickable text adventure
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(13 total ratings)Interactive Fiction
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A collection of horror games, each with their own distinct styles
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(15 total ratings)Adventure
Paradise
$1
Paradise is an interactive fiction playground.
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(10 total ratings)Interactive Fiction
As suas escolhas não importam.
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(10 total ratings)Interactive Fiction
text-adventure MMORPG
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(22 total ratings)Role Playing
Your Future Self
$2.99
A time-loop based experimental text adventure.
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(147 total ratings)Adventure
A novel-length "bat-romance" Twine.
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(24 total ratings)Sorry We're Open
$7.99
Welcome to the Corporate Ladder.
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(54 total ratings)Role Playing
Issue #22 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)Once you glimpse behind the shadows, you’ll never be the same.
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)Interactive Fiction
Date a soft dragon boy! There is absolutely no fiery dystopia!
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(16 total ratings)Interactive Fiction
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BBirthday - Visual Novel
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(13 total ratings)Visual Novel
A Murder Mystery Visual Novel.
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)Visual Novel
Issue #17 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)Love Exalt 8372
$9.99
A visual novel about a death game which erupts aboard a train
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)Visual Novel
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In this interactive sci-fi adventure novel, you are the AI pilot of Earth's last interstellar ship.
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(37 total ratings)Interactive Fiction
Your boss has called to ask if you can come into work on your day off - and you don't have much choice but to go.
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(17 total ratings)Interactive Fiction
ASCII Action! As minimal as an RPG can get
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(13 total ratings)Role Playing
A kaleidoscopic vision of one woman seen through three rotating eyes.
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(18 total ratings)Interactive Fiction
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