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Try to survive and perhaps eventually even tame an unknown planet in this incremental semi-idle game.
Survival
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1bit adventure game of cosmic horror inspired by the work of Junji Ito
Role Playing
A story of love, death and lies. 一个充满爱,死亡,与谎言的故事。
Visual Novel
I’d better start working on the game. I’ve run out of cigarettes again.
Simulation
1940. Europe is fractured. The war room awaits.
Strategy
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A PSX Detective Mystery Game
Interactive Fiction
A little dungeon crawler played right in the windows file explorer.
Role Playing
an IF anthology about five heroes who die
Interactive Fiction
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Text-based space exploration game
Interactive Fiction
Dark Fantasy + Romance Interactive Fiction
Interactive Fiction
Welcome to the Corporate Ladder.
Role Playing
BBirthday - Visual Novel
Visual Novel
Undersea horror where your only form of navigation is an unreliable AI.
Adventure
Purge the graveyard from the forces of Evil by using your typing skills.
Christmas has come to Wayhaven! And it's magical…quite literally.
Interactive Fiction
A traveling salesman's struggle to survive a night of horror
Adventure
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A short kinetic novel — on bright minds, and the end of all things.
Interactive Fiction
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A cozy mystery adventure game set in early 1900s Ontario, Canada!
Adventure
What would you do if you found yourself trapped on an eerie space station with nothing but a computer?
Adventure
A horror game about working in a 90's call center.
Puzzle
Break the curse and uncover your fire.
Interactive Fiction
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Issue #22 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.
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Sharpen your critical thinking skills in this quiz game that challenges you to spot rhetorical fallacies.
Educational
A collection of horror games, each with their own distinct styles
Adventure
Text-based open world roguelike
Interactive Fiction
A time-loop based experimental text adventure.
Adventure
Build your nation. Grow your economy. Command your military. Conquer the world.
Strategy
Paradise is an interactive fiction playground.
Interactive Fiction
Replica
$2.99
Everything in the State, nothing against the State, nothing outside the State.
Adventure
Perfect Tides is a point and click adventure game about the agony and anticipation of being a teen.
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Adventure
Event[0]
$19.99
Event[0] is a sci-fi narrative game where you build a relationship with a spaceship computer to get home to Earth.
Adventure
text-adventure MMORPG
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Role Playing
Nour's specific route for the larger project of Thorne of Ashes
Interactive Fiction
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