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Deliverance
You are a messenger. Deliver the most important message yet. Restore balance to the world, else it succumbs to chaos.
Caevacior
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(53 total ratings)
Canvas Colors: In The Moving City
Travel along with Maggie and Vale inside a moving city in Canvas Colors!
UnfinishedCircl
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(40 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Made With Love and Sparkles: Purple-Moon.com
For the Forgotten Games Essay Jam, an excavation of one corner of the '90s Girl Games boom.
aeta
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(12 total ratings)
Play in browser
ASHES OF L'MANBERG - a Dream SMP text game
can you prevent L'Manberg's demise?
Fonetic Machine
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(15 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
A Twisted Place
Depressing Cosmic Horror
Volition Newlove
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(26 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
A Miner Problem
A gamebook-style fantasy adventure for the 5th edition of the world's most popular tabletop RPG.
Sayeth
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(14 total ratings)
Role Playing
Play in browser
Food Poisoning: The Game
You need to find a toilet. How low are you willing to sink?
Woe Industries
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(16 total ratings)
Survival
Play in browser
GIF
Gravitas Shortfall
A tragedy in high orbit
Juniper-C
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(10 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
I doesn't exist
$12.99
An ode to text-adventures.
DreadXP
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(35 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
A Limber Love
Self-determination in the face of supernatural horror.
Copper Spines
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(21 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
A Sky of Stars: Scarlet Dusk
hannahlovberg
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(59 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GIF
Vast Trivia Of The Void
What would an omniscient creature do with all that knowledge? Well, host a trivia game, of course!
Whales And Games 馃惓
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(50 total ratings)
Puzzle
Play in browser
Awakening of the gods
AOFG
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(18 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
HARBINGER.html
How to reshape a ruined world.
Grim Baccaris
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(10 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
VOC脢 脡 UM DEFUNTO MEC脗NICO
$1
As suas escolhas n茫o importam.
Virgula Leal
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(10 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
13 Laurel Road
A game about places and the memories they hold.
Crosshollow
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(35 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
I Am A Game.
This is a game. There's not much more to this. This is a game.
Codebolt
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(28 total ratings)
Play in browser
NieR:Cogito
You are a Machine. Make choices about Machines.
Silver Stitch
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(21 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Chinese social credit test
best social credit china test - Approved by John Xima
Ximer
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(49 total ratings)
Educational
Play in browser
COLD SCREAM
Survival Horror Text Adventure
1AM TRAIN
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(27 total ratings)
Survival
Silent Earth
Silent Earth is a short sci-fi text adventure about finding one鈥檚 place despite an uncertain future
Fring Frang
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(15 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Miss Spring Pomegranate 2019
A short text adventure about a story that's way more trouble than it's worth
olivebranche
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(11 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
GuessMe!
Guess about your favorite food or Pokemons!
Zetoman77
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(25 total ratings)
Educational
Play in browser
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
GIF
One More Time鉂勶笍
beats to relax/meet up to
PRINCESS INTERNET CAF茅
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(10 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
GIF
Indiepocalypse #22
$15
Issue #22 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.
PIZZAPRANKSVerified Account
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
a siren's promise
kellythekraken
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(12 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
GIF
Postal Secret
Postal secret no longer counts! Short atmospheric puzzle solving for a relaxing evening.
Ymar Games
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(15 total ratings)
Puzzle
Conversations
Discuss with an AI in the cloud about its experience
yo252yo
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(10 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Play in browser
Cyborg Arena
In a dystopian future, cyborgs gladiators must fight for their owners' entertainment
John Ayliff
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(19 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
La Faille
Un visual novel fantastique sur un groupe de lyc茅ens dont la vie est sur le point de basculer...
Chester
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(19 total ratings)
Visual Novel
Son of Dionysus
A Homoerotic Text-Based Sandbox
Akida
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(26 total ratings)
Role Playing
CLOSED HANDS
An unflinching work of interactive fiction.
P螖SSENGER
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(19 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
"My dear Handel": A "Great Expectations" Simulator
A game about being a gay character in a 19th century British novel
Anamika
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(19 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Bard Simulator 2K21
Write poems, get paid, try to avoid comitting high treason.
Chapel
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(12 total ratings)
Adventure
Play in browser
Elsinore: After Hamlet
An Asian-American university student struggles with their Hamlet essay during the Spring 2021 semester That Never Was.
Lapin Lunaire Games
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(12 total ratings)
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
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