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Gorby's Weird Adventure

Graphical community text adventure.

CMW-Games

Adventure

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Nobody Cares About Charley

One of the many benefits of your position is full access to the Employee Breakroom!

PetricakeGames-IF

Interactive Fiction

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PARANOIA

Charm Cochran

Interactive Fiction

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Willow

A short text-based adventure about existence and metempsychosis

UroborosDev

Interactive Fiction

Mors Omnibus

Death To All

cloverjoyed

Interactive Fiction

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A Weed in the Garden

Let go.

Bruhstin

Interactive Fiction

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The Devil's Folly

Explore a forest mutated by mythology.

Jacob Moore

Adventure

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Golden Scales

Old school Text Adventure Dungeon Crawler

Meister der Magie

Adventure

UROBOROS SPIRAL

enter the spiral

mozaundo

Visual Novel

KEEP SACRIFICING OR THE WORLD IS GOING TO END!

The gods are extremely angry! Can you, the king of a vaguely Sumerian/Akkadian city state, appease them?

Stark Raving Sane Games

Strategy

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Who Wants To Be The Next Voltaire?

Are you a good debater?

Girkov Arpa

Educational

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Day Out (TALP)

Text adventure

zeno pillan

Adventure

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TextArena

Fantasy Text Adventure RPG

grobbie

Role Playing

Off the Podium — One Last Lap

Text-based game about being an average racing driver.

Kaiser Vox

Interactive Fiction

Spaceraptor

Be a sapient robot on a space station

ArmoredDragon

Interactive Fiction

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Progress Knight: Multiplayer

Multiplayer PvP incremental game

Gawaak

Role Playing

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Speaking through dreams

a short story about fantasies

Kiyrian

Interactive Fiction

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Adventure Time

A game i made for my college class.

L1L_R3D

Adventure

Astra Protocol 2

$6.99

A Cassette Futuristic Space Adventure

Slice Bar

Simulation

SECRETMART: Cryptspace Constraint!

A wordsy GameJamDOR 7 entry written in I7

serendiff

Interactive Fiction

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Fallacy Quiz

Sharpen your critical thinking skills in this quiz game that challenges you to spot rhetorical fallacies.

Tim Krief

Educational

Der Turm des Hexenmeisters

Ein browserbasiertes Textadventure

cpfr

Interactive Fiction

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Quest to the Center of a Tootsie Pop

ioicaleb

Adventure

Social Democracy: An Alternate History

You are the Social Democratic Party of Germany in 1928. Can you stop the Nazis from taking power?

Autumn Chen

Interactive Fiction

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Provizora Parko

Purgatory as (semi) abandoned bird park

lavieenmeow

Interactive Fiction

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Under My Skin

Step into the light.

pipejakob

Visual Novel

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Khuriya Muriya Islands, Oman; as described by Paul Scheerbart in The Gray Cloth in 1914

Scheerbart-inspired environments for fulldome, experiments

luka

Simulation

2023 In Revue

A Twine Game celebrating the best games from 2023.

Citrusity

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Sparks Over Ashes [RUS]

Hour of Winter Calm

JustPhrase

Interactive Fiction

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GIF

BLESS (Blood+Flesh+Soul)

A game about nobody in this harsh, cruel, antagonistic world.

Maha Deoh

Interactive Fiction

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The Babysitter

You've been left to babysit little Anna, but she's gone missing. Can you find her before her parents arrive home?

DrDooriddle

Interactive Fiction

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Escape from the Troll's Cave

You mistakenly entered the Troll's Cave at the carnival because the admission was free. Now you need money to get out.

DrDooriddle

Interactive Fiction

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Journey of the Sorcerer

Invoke demonic forces for fun and profit!

Abao Aqu

Role Playing

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Pick & Poke

Narrative roguelike with tokens

Christophe Coyard

Interactive Fiction

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Uncommon Encounters: Echoes of the Past

Last year's nightmare is repeating itself.

Katherina Maveti

Interactive Fiction

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Larme à gauche

Retournez dans votre famille. Enterrez votre grand-père. Restez. Où partez.

fuegosuave

Interactive Fiction

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