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We Never Left: <Standalone>
On a dark and stormy night in 1983, the phone rings. “FINISH THE GAME”.
FYRE Games
Adventure
FARA
A browser roguelike with over 60 classes and endless adventure
BrianIsCreative
Role Playing
Play in browser
Pyramid Builder
Grow a civilization, Build a Pyramid
standardcombo
Simulation
GIF
Buddy Simulator 1984 DEMO
Create your own virtual best buddy and play games together!
Not a Sailor Studios
Simulation
Tristam Island
An Infocom-style adventure for retro computers
Hugo Labrande
Interactive Fiction
Classic Rogue - Oryx Design Lab Tiles
A new version of classic Rogue, updated using Ultimate Roguelike Tileset
oryxdesignlab
Blood On The Snow
A narrative adventure game.
Maricu
Adventure
The House Abandon - Now part of 'Stories Untold'!
A nostalgic horror adventure game, inside another horror game, inside a tv show, inside a game.
jonNoCode
Adventure
Warp Cinema
You wake at the cinema. The movie is over. Your friend is missing. Déjà vu grips you tight. It's all happened before.
CosmicVoid
Adventure
AWAKE Prototype
You awake alone, on a damaged and abandoned starship.
Hamish Smithers
Play in browser
GIF
ZOZ
An open world deckbuilder adventure game for ZZT.
WiL
Card Game
Play in browser
Alone Among The Stars (Game Boy port)
A Game Boy port of the journalling TTRPG
donotrunwithpixels
Role Playing
Play in browser
You Are a Skeleton & That Is a Problem (for Game Boy)
A point-&-click text adventure for Game Boy, typeset with my typewriter.
Nicky Flowers
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Queen's Footsteps
A modern text adventure for vintage computers
Davide Bucci
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
The Simorgh
A text-based adventure for the Playdate
Yellow Limehouse
Adventure
COLD SCREAM
Survival Horror Text Adventure
1AM TRAIN
Survival
GIF
Type 'n Jump
A text-based platformer, made for Ludum Dare 41 | Combine 2 Incompatible Genres
The Jucas
Platformer
Play in browser
Assessment
Bee Braun
Leximan - ORIGINAL CONCEPT PROTOTYPE
Throw together wild spells as you attempt to repair your broken spellbook!
MaxAmaden
Adventure
Play in browser
Children of the Flower
Defy your father and take on a God(flower)
wombok
Role Playing
Play in browser
confess
feel bad about something? confess and be punished
Dámhín (Daw-Veen)
Play in browser
GIF
Cloak of Darkness [C64]
a native implementation of the classic IF demo game
Marco Giorgini
Adventure
please tell me you love me
can you admit your feelings at the end of the world?
ellis dex
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Lunarrota
Climb the Mountain. Kill the Goddess.
Luis S.
Role Playing
L'île Tristam
Une aventure textuelle pour ordinateurs rétro
Hugo Labrande
Interactive Fiction
Tristam Island - FREE DEMO
An Infocom-style adventure for retro computers
Hugo Labrande
Interactive Fiction
Hifuu OS
Gensokyo Cyber Outlaw.
Hefan
Adventure
Hamurabi
A port of the classic 1968 resource management game
Adventuron
Strategy
Play in browser
Star Trek (1971) Text Game Remake
Remake of the 1971 BASIC Star Trek Text game in Javascript.
MakingGamesByYear
Action
Play in browser
Dungeon of Choices
As a knight, you're in the dungeon, will you get the grail?
alias_tof
Adventure
TTYL
Keep up with the group chat or get kicked out in this nostalgic typing game!
302 Slices
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Unkindness (Asylum Jam 2015)
A Horror in Shades of Red
Studio Turtledove / Andrea Reventon
Adventure
Who Kidnapped Mother Goose? (TALP)
Mother Goose has been kidnapped and it's up to you to rescue her.
Garry Francis
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
System Processing
Ov, a digital caretaker, spends their last day of work with Laðə, a curious alien.
albie
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
TOM
It's my first type of game so don't be so strict on me. I will make better games in the future.
Nexo_kit
Dialogue 3-D
Ramsey Nasser
Shooter
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