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A Place for the Unwilling

You only have 21 days until this living city dies. The clock is ticking. You can’t be everywhere at once. Decide what to explore, who to meet and see every decision shape the curious stories and terrible secrets of this branching narrative game.

★ DEMONS' TIMELINE ★ LEGAL DUNGEON ★ TERRAFORMENTAL ★ ROADWARDEN ★ KEN FOLLETT'S THE PILLARS OF THE EARTH ★ THE WALKING DEAD ★ THE WALKING DEAD: A NEW FRONTIER ★ WILL: A WONDERFUL WORLD / WILL:美好世界 ★ HOUSE PARTY ★ BATMAN - THE TELLTALE SERIES ★ HEAVEN'S VAULT ★ 428: SHIBUYA SCRAMBLE ★ WE ♥ IT 
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Demons' Timeline

97% 👍 OF 667
About This Game

Cyber Detective L solves Paradoxes—bizarre incidents by supernatural Demons—via the social media giant Parrotter. The Cyber Detective Squad, L and his Demon partner Nyasuteria, wield elite hacking and psychic powers to take on the final Paradox investigation.

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Legal Dungeon

78% 👍 OF 591
About This Game

Legal Dungeon is a game about organizing Police Investigation Documents. The player must review and provide an Investigation Verdict on reports ranging from petty theft to murder, in eight different criminal cases. Weigh the value of people’s lives to unlock all the collectables.

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Terraformental

97% 👍 OF 335
About This Game

Waking up alone in a derelict terraforming facility on an unknown (and distinctly not terraformed) planet, it's up to you to find a way to survive, learn what happened to the people who lived here and why you were abandoned in this narrative-driven incremental game.

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Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth

92% 👍 OF 7.6K
About This Game

12th century, England: In a time of poverty and war, a small town begins the construction of a cathedral to claim wealth and safety for its people. In their struggle to survive, lives and destinies intertwine. Based on Ken Follett's world-bestseller ‘The Pillars of the Earth’.

In this game, you can…

  • …watch a boy grow up in the woods, become a stonemason apprentice, and end up a master builder years later.
  • …spend decades chasing the dream of building a cathedral, as different characters take over and the project reshapes their lives.
  • …make tiny choices early on, then have characters call them back years later when the story jumps forward.
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The Walking Dead

97% 👍 OF 79K
About This Game

A five-part adventure horror series set in the same universe as Robert Kirkman’s award-winning comic book series.

In this game, you can…

  • …make a choice in an early episode, then watch it come back much later to change relationships and who lives
  • …pick dialogue answers in seconds while danger is happening, like choosing who to save as people get overrun
  • …decide between awful options like shooting a child before it turns, stealing supplies, or lying to survive
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WILL: A Wonderful World / WILL:美好世界

92% 👍 OF 5.5K
About This Game

Become a god and help change the fate of people, even the world! In WILL: A Wonderful World, you will receive letters written by characters living in urban cities. By rearranging the order and combinations of sentences in these letters, you are going to alter the destiny of whomever that wrote them.

In this game, you can…

  • …rearrange sentences in a desperate letter to rewrite what happened.
  • …move one phrase so a light goes out in an alley, and it reroutes someone into a totally different encounter.
  • …change one person's outcome and accidentally rewrite someone else's life, unlocking new letters and forcing you back to alter earlier fates.
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428: Shibuya Scramble

95% 👍 OF 3.9K
About This Game

A kidnapping on the streets of Shibuya brings together a hot-blooded detective, hard-hitting journalist, former gang leader, the head researcher of a big pharma manufacturer and a part-timer stuck in cat costume for a series of events each more unexpected and outrageous than the last.

In this game, you can…

  • …make a choice for one character that instantly derails or rescues another elsewhere in Shibuya.
  • …hit a sudden lockout, jump to another character to find the missing trigger, then come back and reopen the blocked route.
  • …play through a live-action Shibuya thriller where still photos suddenly burst into full video when the situation escalates.