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Home Safety Hotline
$14.99
A horror game about working in a 90's call center.
Night Signal Entertainment
Puzzle
Whispers in the Moss
$4.99
A full-scale retro JRPG with ambitious textmode graphics [Now available!]
Uncultured Games
Role Playing
Swords of Freeport
$15
Text-Mode Social RPG
Elissa Black
Role Playing
Compu-Tron x3000
$4.95
The Ultimate Digital Assistant for 1982 - from C.Tech Industries
circynsoftware
Interactive Fiction
Classic Rogue - Oryx Design Lab Tiles
A new version of classic Rogue, updated using Ultimate Roguelike Tileset
oryxdesignlab
WORLD OF HORROR
$19.99
1bit adventure game of cosmic horror inspired by the work of Junji Ito
panstasz
Role Playing
GIF
Pixel Fireplace
$4.99
Type commands, roast marshmallows, throw logs onto a crackling fire. Enjoy
Ted Martens
Simulation
Tristam Island
An Infocom-style adventure for retro computers
Hugo Labrande
Interactive Fiction
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
GIF
Buddy Simulator 1984 DEMO
Create your own virtual best buddy and play games together!
Not a Sailor Studios
Simulation
Dave Microwaves Games Trilogy I
$1.50
A collection of horror games, each with their own distinct styles
Dave Microwaves Games
Adventure
GIF
Code 7 - Episodes 2 & 3 Available Now
$22.99
What would you do if you found yourself trapped on an eerie space station with nothing but a computer?
Goodwolf Studio
Adventure
FARA
A browser roguelike with over 60 classes and endless adventure
BrianIsCreative
Role Playing
Play in browser
Heroes & Cowards – The Pentagram of Power (C64)
$5.99
A classic adventure for Commodore C64
Protovision
Adventure
Your Future Self
$2.99
A time-loop based experimental text adventure.
Contortionist Games
Adventure
The Camp - Caravan Edition (C64)
$2.99
More Rooms - More Riddles - and even more Tea!
Protovision
Adventure
Leisure Suit Leo 2 - The Secret of Maniac Island (C64)
$3.99
Protovision
Adventure
Pyramid Builder
Grow a civilization, Build a Pyramid
standardcombo
Simulation
L'île Tristam
Une aventure textuelle pour ordinateurs rétro
Hugo Labrande
Interactive Fiction
GIF
Carousel
$10
-50%
A minimalist TV typewriter for creative notetaking
Party Time! Hexcellent!
Educational
GIF
Indiepocalypse #17
$15
Issue #17 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.
PIZZAPRANKS
The Seance
£1
Henry! It's me, it's Sheepy! It's so co-o-old!
Quantum Sheep
Interactive Fiction
The Nightland
A board & video game for Commodore
Alessio Scanderebech
Adventure
Transmissions
$1
These are the log entries of a grumpy space traveler.
rembrandx
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
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
GIF
I doesn't exist
$12.99
An ode to text-adventures.
DreadXP
Interactive Fiction
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
GIF
We Never Left: <Standalone>
On a dark and stormy night in 1983, the phone rings. “FINISH THE GAME”.
FYRE Games
Adventure
La Estrella de la Mañana - Remake (2023)
$2
Dareint
Interactive Fiction
Open Sorcery: Sea++
$14.99
You wake up at the bottom of the ocean, surrounded by broken memories. Reclaim your magic or drown in a sea of dreams.
OpenSorceryGames
Interactive Fiction
GIF
ZOZ
An open world deckbuilder adventure game for ZZT.
WiL
Card Game
Play in browser
THE RUIN OF 0CEANUS PR1ME
«There's nothing here, Carter. Vital signs zero-zero. It's a fucking cemetery.»
Marco Innocenti
Interactive Fiction
Getting Things Done, or The Labyrinth of Doctor Bernstein
A Premier Hypertext Adventure Experience!
Aleks Samoylov
Adventure
Hamlet - The text adventure
$5
Shakespearean text adventure
Robin Johnson
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
Proper Detective 2000
1.50€
A couple has been brutally murdered in their house last night. Are you up to solve the mystery?
kernel_dc
Puzzle
Play in browser
Lunarrota
Climb the Mountain. Kill the Goddess.
Luis S.
Role Playing
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