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Throne of Ashes
$2
Break the curse and uncover your fire.
13Leagues
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Holiday Magic: A Wayhaven Christmas Story
$6.49
Christmas has come to Wayhaven! And it's magical…quite literally.
Seraphinite Games
Interactive Fiction
Fallacy Quiz
$5
Sharpen your critical thinking skills in this quiz game that challenges you to spot rhetorical fallacies.
Tim Krief
Educational
Home Safety Hotline
$13.49
-10%
A horror game about working in a 90's call center.
Night Signal Entertainment
Puzzle
Upheaval
$4.99
-50%
Text-based open world roguelike
Alex Leone
Interactive Fiction
Snowdrop
$5
A winter themed otome game where you get to romance a jerky singer!
LegendEx Games
Visual Novel
Subtext
$3.98
-43%
A mystery told through real SMS messages, phone calls, and emails.
William O'Connell
Interactive Fiction
The Zen of Kayaking
$5
An 80KB interactive-fiction text adventure.
pixel_turkey
Adventure
Detectiveland
$5
Detective noir clickable text adventure
Robin Johnson
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Telvoikai
$1
Choose between exploring jungle tropics or navigating deep into a bioluminescent sea.
Corvaena
Role Playing
IN THE ARMS OF THE NIGHT
£2.40
A novel-length "bat-romance" Twine.
polymer despair
SCP - The Mystery Man (ARG)
$3.49
-50%
Solve SCP mysteries in this ARG with cryptic online clues, riddles, and puzzles.
Hybriona Labs
Adventure
Play in browser
GIF
Indiepocalypse #33
$10.50
-30%
Issue #33 of a curated monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.
PIZZAPRANKS
Daydream Engine
$3
An AI-Driven Interactive Fiction Engine
FlameFoxGames
Interactive Fiction
GIF
I doesn't exist
$12.99
An ode to text-adventures.
DreadXP
Interactive Fiction
accelerating hotkeys
$2.49
-50%
Try and survive working as a corporate drone while typing your anger away, making money hand over fist.
InvalidSpacebar
Action
Paradise
$1
Paradise is an interactive fiction playground.
Rek & Devine
Interactive Fiction
The Salt Keep
$4.99
A traveling salesman's struggle to survive a night of horror
Small Gray Games
Adventure
Play in browser
Eczema Angel Orifice
$5
beautiful twine compilation
Porpentine
Adventure
Life Eater
$14.99
A horror fantasy kidnapping sim.
Strange Scaffold
Interactive Fiction
Strange Sickness
$9.99
A narrative game built from historical records
Common Profyt Games
Interactive Fiction
GIF
Replica
$2.99
Everything in the State, nothing against the State, nothing outside the State.
Somi
Adventure
GIF
Pixel Fireplace
$4.99
Type commands, roast marshmallows, throw logs onto a crackling fire. Enjoy
Ted Martens
Simulation
Warsim: The Realm of Aslona
$9.99
Huw2k8
Simulation
Perfect Tides
$14.99
Perfect Tides is a point and click adventure game about the agony and anticipation of being a teen.
Meredith Gran
Adventure
Chatventures
$3
In bundle
text-adventure MMORPG
Sokpop Collective
Role Playing
Sorry We're Open
$3.99
-50%
Welcome to the Corporate Ladder.
oates
Role Playing
Acolyte
$2.74
-75%
A narrative ARG/Detective game that gives you your own digital assistant.
SUPERSTRING
Interactive Fiction
GIF
_transfer
$10
a story about computers, memory, and the end of the world
Abyssal Uncreations
Adventure
Mr. Rainer's Solve-It Service
$5
When the last thread becomes entangled, their song will be heard.
etherane
Interactive Fiction
Can You Come In?
$2
Your boss has called to ask if you can come into work on your day off - and you don't have much choice but to go.
spacetwinks
Interactive Fiction
if not us
$4.20
-40%
an IF anthology about five heroes who die
ub4q
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Dave Microwaves Games Trilogy I
$1.50
A collection of horror games, each with their own distinct styles
Dave Microwaves Games
Adventure
The Away Team
$8
In this interactive sci-fi adventure novel, you are the AI pilot of Earth's last interstellar ship.
Underflow Studios
Interactive Fiction
Swords of Freeport
$15
Text-Mode Social RPG
Elissa Black
Role Playing
Heroes & Cowards – The Pentagram of Power (C64)
$5.99
A classic adventure for Commodore C64
Protovision
Adventure
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