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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
Home Safety Hotline
$14.99
A horror game about working in a 90's call center.
Night Signal Entertainment
Puzzle
GIF
Pixel Fireplace
$4.99
Type commands, roast marshmallows, throw logs onto a crackling fire. Enjoy
Ted Martens
Simulation
WORLD OF HORROR
$19.99
1bit adventure game of cosmic horror inspired by the work of Junji Ito
panstasz
Role Playing
Pyramid Builder
Grow a civilization, Build a Pyramid
standardcombo
Simulation
Tristam Island
An Infocom-style adventure for retro computers
Hugo Labrande
Interactive Fiction
Your Future Self
$2.99
A time-loop based experimental text adventure.
Contortionist Games
Adventure
GIF
Buddy Simulator 1984 DEMO
Create your own virtual best buddy and play games together!
Not a Sailor Studios
Simulation
Classic Rogue - Oryx Design Lab Tiles
A new version of classic Rogue, updated using Ultimate Roguelike Tileset
oryxdesignlab
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
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
The Simorgh
A text-based adventure for the Playdate
Yellow Limehouse
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
Dave Microwaves Games Trilogy I
$1.50
A collection of horror games, each with their own distinct styles
Dave Microwaves Games
Adventure
Blood On The Snow
A narrative adventure game.
Maricu
Adventure
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
I doesn't exist
$12.99
An ode to text-adventures.
DreadXP
Interactive Fiction
AWAKE Prototype
You awake alone, on a damaged and abandoned starship.
Hamish Smithers
Play in browser
GIF
Type 'n Jump
A text-based platformer, made for Ludum Dare 41 | Combine 2 Incompatible Genres
The Jucas
Platformer
Play in browser
GIF
ZOZ
An open world deckbuilder adventure game for ZZT.
WiL
Card Game
Play in browser
Swords of Freeport
$15
Text-Mode Social RPG
Elissa Black
Role Playing
Children of the Flower
Defy your father and take on a God(flower)
wombok
Role Playing
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
COLD SCREAM
Survival Horror Text Adventure
1AM TRAIN
Survival
GIF
Indiepocalypse #17
$15
Issue #17 of a monthly indie game anthology collecting games from 10 developers.
PIZZAPRANKS
confess
feel bad about something? confess and be punished
Dámhín (Daw-Veen)
Play in browser
Hard Rain
Survive the coming storm
Not Jam
Survival
Play in browser
Leximan - ORIGINAL CONCEPT PROTOTYPE
Throw together wild spells as you attempt to repair your broken spellbook!
MaxAmaden
Adventure
Play in browser
Alone Among The Stars (Game Boy port)
A Game Boy port of the journalling TTRPG
donotrunwithpixels
Role Playing
Play in browser
Lunarrota
Climb the Mountain. Kill the Goddess.
Luis S.
Role Playing
please tell me you love me
can you admit your feelings at the end of the world?
ellis dex
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
TYPE:CAST
Cast demons back to hell with the power of speed typing.
Not Jam
Action
Play in browser
Hifuu OS
Gensokyo Cyber Outlaw.
Hefan
Adventure
The Queen's Footsteps
A modern text adventure for vintage computers
Davide Bucci
Interactive Fiction
Play in browser
樺ヶ原脱出 - Escape from Kabagahara
You see a path to Kabagahara, will you take it?
Edouard Moinard
Interactive Fiction
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