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A short atmospheric sci-fi story told through text and ink-wash images, as New Zealand faces strange events beyond explanation.
The top results based on the latest update are Your Future Self [Score: 0.9], Thorns: Adlia [Score: 0.9] and Interactive Empathy [Score: 0.9] The top rated games you can find here are Some Goodbyes We Made [SteamPeek Rating: 5.0] ranked #15, Guilt Free [SteamPeek Rating: 4.9] ranked #8 and All You Can Eat [SteamPeek Rating: 4.5] ranked #11 Also don't forget to check the newest releases Road to Karatl [Release date: 2025-10-06] ranked #36, Invisible Wall [Release date: 2025-06-19] ranked #17 and Peaches Interplanetary [Release date: 2025-05-30] ranked #30 While it is tempting to play with the newest and the best, there might be some other gems in the results, like Some Goodbyes We Made [SteamPeek Rating: 5.0] ranked #15,.
A short atmospheric sci-fi story told through text and ink-wash images, as New Zealand faces strange events beyond explanation.
Your Future Self is a 1-2 hour long story-driven experimental text adventure with unique conversational mechanics, time loop based gameplay, and an emotionally gripping time travel mystery set against the backdrop of a darkly realistic vision of our world ravaged by climate change.
Thorns: Adlia is a kinetic visual novel about the fictional city of Ocean 17 and the mysterious artificial intelligence Adlia.
Two small experimental games made as part of a one-week game workshop in Zagreb, Croatia, as part of a project called "Interactive Empathy - Citizenship & Storytelling in Video Games". Inside is also a documentary video about the workshop, as well as a booklet about the whole project.
Thorns. Police never sleeps is a kinetic visual novel about an alternative future. After global warming, cities were separated by a giant ocean. Our story begins in one of these cities.
A short and linear Crossover staring Alice Lorange, Alt.Lorange, Alex, Denis, Nuri, Taralise and Chiko! With “crashes” and QTEs!
“A Lozenge” is a short interactive story about a mother-daughter road trip and motion sickness, dedicated to children of divorce.
Enter a dystopian typing contest where speed, accuracy, and obedience are measured. Type carefully. Continue when instructed. Pay attention. GLORY TO THE HAND THAT NEVER SHAKES.
Guilt Free is a visual novel crossed with a point and click made to offer perspective on mental health and eating disorders. Navigate a couple's rocky relationship and encounter "flaws" or "quirks" that may actually be symptomatic behaviors.
In Your Books is a short adventure game where you play the granddaughter of a bookseller. After her disappearance you'll have to take the place of your grandmother. Recommend books, learn to know the locals, solve secret mechanisms and discover where she left.
TOMORROW DON'T COME is a contextual puzzle game about depression and how it feels to be stuck.
Meet a modern hero of our times, a man so lazy he decided to quit his job and just spend his life inside an All-you-can-eat diner. As years go by, his freeloading nature becomes legend, but then a tragedy occurs - the diner is about to close down! Will he settle down and get a regular job? Never!!!
When you found a wacky program on your PC called “ChatAid”, you ended up in a chatroom. Someone needs your help.
The Tenth Minute is a short narrative game told through chat and novel-style reading. Revisit a school-day memory shaped by unspoken feelings, misaligned memories, and belated understanding between three people. A youthful story with light psychological mystery, complete in around 2 hours.
Your brain remains your own. The body does not. After a full-body transplant, your own scent begins to feel wrong. As you try to understand why, that feeling starts to become something else. A short near-future sci-fi narrative adventure about the new questions that begin after technology saves you.
I have some memories of saying goodbye that I don't want to forget, so I turned them into 11 minigames and backed them up in this collection.
Drive inside a dream, explore one of Saturn's moons, and discover the afterlife. John's Tombstone is a walking simulator; a story split in three chapters, each chapter very different from the other. It's a sci-fi story with some emotional overtones.
An interactive horror story based on a reality everyone eventually faces. Make choices to confront someone trying to enter your home - and uncover who they are.
The Appraiser is a short, first person narrative game. As an art appraiser you will sell the art collection of a dying man. Each painting is by 4 famed artist. They have a story to tell you, but only if you choose to listen.
Alex, a mid-level manager from the big city, is forced to return to his home village following a family tragedy. A temporary visit soon becomes a deeply emotional trial. He will have to confront a mystical lake, put his friendships to the test, and find true love.
Dark Lovers is a short pixel art teenage romantic mistery visual novel game about a highschool prom night in 1979 which contains multiple endings and secrets.
A new girl in town, Ashley, tries to befriend her lonely classmates. But can an unlikely group of friends of such different personalities be formed and survive? Meanwhile, the new headmaster investigates the mysteries of the school.
In this interactive narrative, you (a goblin custodian) fix up the neighborhood, help solve eccentric neighbors' problems, and uncover a dark and dangerous mystery, all while untangling the occasional drag & drop image puzzle!
Is it okay to kill 6 billion people to avenge the deaths of 2 billion? In this epic sci-fi visual novel, make tough choices to solve "impossible" problems, unlock branching paths and achieve multiple endings.
What if you could create your own constellations? A love story about Asian American identity, mental health, and stargazing.
Take an atmospheric journey in a fresh, critically acclaimed format of a hand-drawn point-and-click comic-book. When a freeloading owner of a blue Mustang drives through without paying for the ticket, Harry Hunter, freelance parking attendant, ventures inside The Lot to Make. Him. Pay. (tm).
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Held is a short interactive novel about a father witnessing his child’s birth and growth. Carry your child in your arms, hold their tiny hand, and support their first steps through the fleeting moments of parenthood.
Sequel of Old Watch
A narrative puzzle game about two people trying to find their way back together in a city on fire.
Peaches Interplanetary is a short relaxing game about growing peaches on a spaceship. Explore the ship, talk to trees, drink some tea or coffee, and help Margot prepare for her first day spreading the power of peaches throughout the stars.
Talewarden is a weird west adventure visual novel. Restore time on a planet where the sun never sets as you explore locations, talk, romance, and bond with your companions. Find the source of the voice in your head and discover why you all fell here from different worlds.
Awake from your slumber and venture out to the mighty CITADEL.
In a secret bar for aliens, every story you hear can change lives.
Scent of Clouds is a hand-drawn illustrated, text-based adventure game. As a perfumer's assistant, you create fragrances and journey through unknown lands in search of ingredients for the legendary "Scent of Clouds." With a keen nose, you'll unravel the timeless mystery of this world.
In cities sculpted from the slag of dead worlds, love, crime and fields of farmed meat await in this digital collection of mystery and horror; a window onto a post-apocalyptic world like no other, one thousand years beyond the fall of Earth...
On the road to the sacred shrine of Karatl, lost souls entrust you with their stories. In this contemplative Visual Novel, listen to their truths and perhaps, at the journey's end, you will discover your own.
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