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WORLD OF HORROR

$19.99

1bit adventure game of cosmic horror inspired by the work of Junji Ito

panstasz

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(602 total ratings)

Role Playing

10mg: Cover Me In Leaves

In bundle

A short kinetic novel — on bright minds, and the end of all things.

Elliot Herriman

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(142 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

Play in browser

WAS/WERE

-75%

Murdering a person that hurt you is hot, right?

RodFireProductions

Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars

(52 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

I EAT MANTRAS FOR BREAKFAST

$7.77

SCREAMFEAST

Maria Mison

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(47 total ratings)

Beyond the Chiron Gate

-50%

Text-based space exploration game

John Ayliff

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(49 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

GIF

Type Knight

$3.99

Purge the graveyard from the forces of Evil by using your typing skills.

chaikadev

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(35 total ratings)

if not us

an IF anthology about five heroes who die

ub4q

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

(82 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

Play in browser

The Salt Keep

$4.99

A traveling salesman's struggle to survive a night of horror

Small Gray Games

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(20 total ratings)

Adventure

Play in browser

The Away Team

In this interactive sci-fi adventure novel, you are the AI pilot of Earth's last interstellar ship.

Underflow Studios

Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars

(37 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

Long Journey Home

Alone, but for the worms and mushrooms

skiddyhale

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(7 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

Revenge of the Antagonist

$1.99

Enemies on camera, enemies off camera!

ChaniMK

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(7 total ratings)

Visual Novel

Born

$3.33

today we are God and we create from our own image.

Maria Mison

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(5 total ratings)

S.O.R.S

£6.99

A sci-fi doctor simulation game

RichSG

Rated 4.2 out of 5 stars

(5 total ratings)

Simulation

Night in the Unpleasant House

A classic tale of revenge, local politics, pseudoscience, questionable botany, love, and loss.

Porch Weather Games

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(3 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

Peculiar Fables: The Werebed

A short horror story about werebeds... SO YOU MAY NEVER EVER AGAIN SLEEP!

Whitewatt

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(3 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

Dream Warrior

$3.94

-21%

Not everyone can be the hero. You, for example, are the town drunk.

Robert from High Tower Games

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(3 total ratings)

Role Playing

Don't Take It Personally, I Just Don't Like You

$14.99

-25%

The dating sim where not everyone wants to date you.

DeCoster

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(3 total ratings)

Visual Novel

Baking with Lizzie

a sweet story

Adri

Rated 3.8 out of 5 stars

(5 total ratings)

Interactive Fiction

void.Resign

Text Adventure Game inspired by Cask of Amontillado

avarisclari

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(2 total ratings)

Adventure

Utopia, an Essay

A nonfiction essay etched into the architecture of a virtual space.

Bruno Dias

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

(2 total ratings)

Evelyn's Farm

$2.99

Idle Paranormal Adventure

jsenter

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(1 total ratings)

Adventure

Adventure mini-game!

£2.50

Easy to understand mini game using coordinates!

jackshotgamer

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(1 total ratings)

Role Playing

ONE HUNDRED ROOMS

A single script, text-only roguelike set in the unknowable in-between of Australia

DIM CHAMBER

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(1 total ratings)

Role Playing

The Adventures Of Pocket Battle Kitty!

$7.99

Text based game "Dungeon"

Sarainia

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(1 total ratings)

Strategy

Bionic Bliss

$0.90

-10%

A game about navigating the depressing and absurd world of customer service in the year 2312.

TeamLazerBeam

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(1 total ratings)

Simulation

Microcrawl

$0.59

-80%

Microcrawl is a bite sized point and click 2D adventure text hybrid

ZPJ Interactive

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(1 total ratings)

Adventure

Clockwatch

dysprositos

Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars

(1 total ratings)

Rhythm

Play in browser

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