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Mystery

Weaving intrigue and suspense, these experiences challenge players to uncover hidden truths, solve puzzles, and piece together clues in enigmatic narratives or atmospheric settings.

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Text based

Focused on using its text, moreso than its visuals or audio, to tell the bulk of its story/plot. (Still can have great audio and visuals, though!)

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Sunny Side Down Chapter.1 beta
Meet a strange entity with reality altering abilities, go on a date...
Moosky
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Visual Novel
GIF
Project Zagreus
A multilinear terror adventure.
LenzKleiser
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Door Game
Anything can be a game when you want to win hard enough.
TJ
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Rumpel Returns
Break into Rumpelstiltskin's house. Find the answers to his riddles. Save your horse.
estif
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
JOKE, PLEASE.
Do you have what it takes to sell cheap jokes?
Frogrammer
Rated 3.9 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
It wasn't me.
What do you think happened? A short telescopic text mystery, playing with out-of-the-box storytelling mechanics.
Rosa Carbo-Mascarell
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(7 total ratings)
Role Playing
The One We Lost
6 tapes are inside an evidence locker labeled "Case 03762: Homicide." Who's the victim? What does it have to do with me?
Airborne_Manatee
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Visual Novel
From Champagne To Murder
an experimental detective game, using a new form of dialog system
Vin Botthin
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Puzzle
Play in browser
Hangxious
What have you done?
ericakatemartin
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
What's Wrong With You?
An indie horror game. Please note: There is no sound, nor is there visuals. This is intentional.
dovelycallum
Rated 4.2 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
How to Die Like a Graceful Beast
An Interactive Super-Poem!
Aleks Samoylov
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Play in browser
Clash: Steel Barista
Take on a short job as Clash's temp assistant and solve the case of the murdered robotic barista.
Drone Garden Studios
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Forest of Candles (And The Man With A Lighter)
An interactive fiction game about fire season.
Nessa Cannon
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Party Line
Point-and-click text adventure
Robin Johnson
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
REDemption ZONE
An interactive console-based text adventure.
Elseth
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Sundown
Before you feed your dog, you have to find him.
Charm Cochran
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
According to Cain
Using a novel alchemy system, observation, and your wits, you must discover the untold truth about Cain and Abel.
Jim Nelson
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Apple-At-Cha: We Who Fight Monsters
Be careful that you don't become one
John Q Adams
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
RoboShower
You, in a shower, with a robot.
StudioSpaghetti
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Hide The Body If You Must
Tabitha Tobar
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Netherworld Arbiter
Be a hell judge, uncover the truths behind cases, and pass judgement on ghosts involved.
NetherworldArbiter
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
Murder on the Disorient Express
Can you navigate the train and its interpersonal web of deceit to figure out whodunnit?
shaynehayes
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Adventure
Play in browser
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smolalienbee
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Ghost Are Good Hosts
Your fancy dinner plans go terribly wrong, when the hosts turn out to be ghosts!
Leonid Pilchin
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Play in browser
Color the Truth
A conversational murder mystery in text adventure form.
mathbrush
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Adventure
Play in browser
This is the End
Break a cycle of death by preventing your own murder
Martin
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
HR: Human Resource
Welcome to the bureaucratic hellscape that is Parasol Corp.
groupeffort
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Insomnia
ipooprainbows
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
Suspicion
A Found Phone Detective Game
Akshay Goel
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Dear Elise
A narrative game
Evo
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Seul. (Alone) the day before
Funny, Sad, Creepy, Disturbing and completely absorbing, with a Shakespearean sense of tragedy.
Paranormal Games
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Type Help
The Unsolvable Mystery
William Rous
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Puzzle
Play in browser
Of Straw, Sticks, and Stones
A Moral Dilemma in One Act
thistlebluex
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
SoraKagi (ソラカギ) - Eden Escape 1.1.7
A beautiful illusion hides a grisly truth. It’s time to uncover it!
Fujitsuki
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
The Ridgemere care home
A text based horror, adventure story
Calv182
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Adventure
Play in browser
Beached! (Open Source)
Open-source concept demo for an interactive fiction engine on Visual Basic
Brian J. Lancaster
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
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