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Interactive Fiction

Blending narrative storytelling with player choice, often text-based experiences where readers shape the story through their decisions. These works can range from simple branching narratives to complex simulations, offering immersive worlds and character-driven plots that unfold based on user input.

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GIF
there's this girl
fall in love amongst stars ･ﾟ*｡💫
angela he
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(1,062 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
GAVRIL
There's an intruder in your house.
Part
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(734 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
Purrfect Apawcalypse
A dog dating, dog your own dog-venture game, cartoon horror game!
90% Studios
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(476 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Unraveled
Scour dark realms for answers and escape The Entity's grasp before it's too late...
Xiibii
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(277 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Invite Me In [DEMO]
Yandere Horror Visual Novel
squidcolas
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(701 total ratings)
Visual Novel
GIF
IF - Dusttale
COMPLETED Can you give this story a happy ending?
Darkpetal16
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(201 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
Darling Duality
We all have multiple sides. Pick your poison! Will you choose sweet or sinister? Let yandere shenanigans begin!
Melancholy Marionette
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(555 total ratings)
Visual Novel
It Paints Me
An artist struggles to paint his final work.
ENDYSIS
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(333 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
I’m the Echo when You call
Dark fantasy + romance (between a lost soul and an almost-god)
PDRRook
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(211 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Fool Me Once
Dark Fantasy + Romance Interactive Fiction
PDRRook
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(188 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Greenwarden: Book One Demo
LOCATE. HUNT. DESTROY.
Fiddles IFs
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(189 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Swallow the Dark
interactive fiction
ForgottenNames
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(208 total ratings)
Role Playing
Play in browser
Death Trips
Extremely short horror game.​
Forameuss
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(644 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
i won't finish this game
sorry about that.
Naarel
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(96 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Be Honest
Horror Personality Quiz
Ezra Szanton
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(1,034 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Save the Last Dance
Dance to live? Or dance to die?
Carrot
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(111 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
GIF
WASTE EATER
The world is saved. Its heroes wait to die.
cain
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(171 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Chronicles of Taldun: The Remainder Demo
A tale of mystery, love and lies.
Nim
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(173 total ratings)
Visual Novel
GIF
IF - Horrortale
Play as a customizable MC who has fallen into a kingdom of starved and half-mad monsters.
Darkpetal16
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(147 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Slice of Scythe
play as the cousin of death and terrorize suburbia for a hat
cnnmon
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(537 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
UNDYING: REJECT
A short visual novel in which a vampire offers his help
maneki_mushi
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(111 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
a call for help
are you still there?
C2PHOS
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(147 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
GIF
In the pines, in the pines, where the sun never shines
A two-bit murder ballad.
Laura Hunt
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(171 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Soulbond (DEMO)
(DEMO) A dark visual novel settled in Hell.
float-p
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(41 total ratings)
Visual Novel
GIF
The Life We've Chosen
Your quiet conversations with the aging demon have become alarmingly normal. Is it time to finally tell someone..?
Cryoslight
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(117 total ratings)
Visual Novel
9pm
Survive! ...or don't!
Fulmen
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(189 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Tears of Tianchao
Trust none. Follow None
ERAgames
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(81 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
When the Darkness comes
A tale about meaning, depression and anxiety.
Sirhaian
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(106 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
BUBO: Prologue
Dumb ways to die as a Mad Scientist .
Part
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(54 total ratings)
Visual Novel
The Gilded
A dark fantasy fiction game
Dry Cappuccino Games
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(71 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
BLANK
a horror/romance VN about giving shape to a strange, blank world
maneki_mushi
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(97 total ratings)
Visual Novel
GIF
Monochrome Pixels
Can you bring back the colors into your life?
HusbandoGoddess
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(45 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Burdock
The mists are full of secrets and the woods are full of fae–so do not go a-wandering, and do not go astray!
Butterfly Rocket Studios
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(42 total ratings)
Visual Novel
GIF
protoViolence - Definitive Edition
Can a scientist save a test subject from her life’s work?
Mado
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(29 total ratings)
Visual Novel
#influenced
#hustle for #lyfe
pilot_star
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(161 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Romancing Flesh
Forms Nature Dreams Of
Vimi
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(84 total ratings)
Visual Novel
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