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reunion
find your ex at the end of the world
caeth
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(101 total ratings)
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4x4 Archipelago
A procedurally generated, text-based fantasy RPG
agat
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(46 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Mushroom Hunt
An entry for the Adventuron Cavejam
Polyducks
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(47 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
A Red Boat
A short story told through boating and lost letters
PirxOS
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(158 total ratings)
Adventure
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A Twisted Place
Depressing Cosmic Horror
Volition Newlove
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(26 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
a Museum of Dubious Splendors.
A collection of small and peculier stories from Somwhere.
Studio Oleomingus
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(54 total ratings)
Adventure
Wumpus Wump You
Proof of concept randomized text-driven undirected graph simulator
gate
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(16 total ratings)
Puzzle
Play in browser
In the Pause Between the Ringing.
An unbublished tale of telephone mining in India.
Studio Oleomingus
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(21 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Habeas Corpus
Abandoned spaces in the bowels of a wandering fortress.
Grim Baccaris
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Wretch!
You never asked to be made.
CogsAndSpanners
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
Messages From the Universe Graveyard
Experimental social game. Leave messages for other players in a dead world.
Kanderwund
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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Sins of Solstice
Everything Has to End. And Everything Has to Begin.
rowan
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(27 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Goblins Demise
Goblins seeking Refuge
Lodugh
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(20 total ratings)
Adventure
Play in browser
(GMTK Jam) This sentence is a maze
There is all the beauty, richness, and complexity of the world in a single sentence.
Vidu
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(11 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
[System]
Test your correctness in this exercise that has nothing to do with grammar!
Ines Alcolea
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(18 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Kuolema
An abandoned ship is found adrift. Look for clues and uncover the secrets of The Kuolema...
radiosity
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(13 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
Cannery Vale
forget who you are
Hanon Ondricek
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(17 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Anamnesis, of Renascents and Monsters
A text-based lovecraftian life simulation RPG.
Vaccean
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(14 total ratings)
Simulation
Monoliths
a Shutter Stroll fiction
Jannik Boysen
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(19 total ratings)
Adventure
Play in browser
In All My Dreams I Choke On Invisible Smoke [BETA]
Surreal visual novel/point and click exploration. Unsettling.
Kanderwund
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(12 total ratings)
Visual Novel
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Diviner
Divine the omens. Save your village.
CogsAndSpanners
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(14 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Lunarrota
Climb the Mountain. Kill the Goddess.
Luis S.
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(11 total ratings)
Role Playing
KINSALE HORROR
Hitchhike. See what I saw.
Rarykos
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Everything Ends In 0
The world ends in 1 hour. It can't be saved. Wanna chat?
findaeden
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Absent-minded (english version)
Infinite Corridors
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Inside the Facility
Infiltrate and explore THE FACILITY.
Arthur DiBianca
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
Adventure
Play in browser
Letters To The Metro
In the middle of a lonely night, the man remembers home...
Arya B
Rated 3.9 out of 5 stars
(11 total ratings)
Adventure
Provizora Parko
Purgatory as (semi) abandoned bird park
lavieenmeow
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Dreamshores
a walk through the dreamlands
causacreations
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
樺ヶ原脱出 - Escape from Kabagahara
You see a path to Kabagahara, will you take it?
Edouard Moinard
Rated 3.7 out of 5 stars
(17 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Cold
An adventure in the ice.
WiL
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Adventure
Play in browser
Kim's One Room
Narrative browser game, micro management in my Korean mother-in-law one room, Seoul, mars 2020.
Robin Moretti
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
The Storm
A short existentialist horror game
Stéphane F.
Rated 4.2 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Jungle Journey
A jungle expedition abounds! What will you discover?
Queen Nebula
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Adventure
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L'Origine du monde
A pseudo-biographical text adventure about fucking up your sleep schedule!
Saori & Nitori
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
ASCII Dungeon
Text-based dungeon crawler in the vein of Ultima or Wizardry
Jack Morgan
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Role Playing
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