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Mainland

A text adventure game about a 19th century explorer who finds himself stranded and alone.

★ METAHUMAN INC. ★ CARAVAN SANDWITCH ★ LAY A BEAUTY TO REST: THE DARKNESS PEACH BLOSSOM SPRING ★ ROADWARDEN ★ OVERBOARD! ★ THE MERMAID MASK ★ NO SLEEP FOR KANAME DATE - FROM AI: THE SOMNIUM FILES ★ EVIL SCHOOL ★ WHAT COMES AFTER ★ SOUTH OF THE CIRCLE ★ THE RED PEARLS OF BORNEO ★ PENTIMENT ★ WE ♥ IT 
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Lay a Beauty to Rest: The Darkness Peach Blossom Spring

95% 👍 OF 7.0K
About This Game

Love-suspense AVG with the theme of "The Peach Blossom Spring". The equinox flowers, bloom for one thousand years and wither for one thousand years. Eternal paradise. Do you choose to stay here, escape here, or bury everything here?

Player reviews say you can…

  • …sneak out past a deadly curfew and watch "mountain spirits" reveal themselves as villagers in grotesque forms tearing into each other.
  • …end up trapped in a loop where bad choices reincarnate you as a livestock goat over and over.
  • …meet a goddess who changes completely at night, where the rules of the day don't apply.
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Roadwarden

94% 👍 OF 5.2K
About This Game

Roadwarden is an illustrated text-based RPG that uses isometric pixel art and combines mechanics borrowed from RPGs, Visual Novels, adventure games and interactive fiction.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Reconnect Isolated Villages
  • …Trace a Missing Warden
  • …Manage Wilderness Survival
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The Mermaid Mask

99% 👍 OF 2.6K
About This Game

An impossible locked-room murder: Captain Mortuga lies dead beside an ancient cauldron aboard the world’s strangest submarine, crewed by sketchy suspects. A handcrafted point-and-click with sharp humour and tricky puzzles. Dive into the next mystery from the creators of Tangle Tower & Crow Country.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …show every piece of evidence to every suspect and trigger unique voiced reactions, turning one clue into a whole new round of leads.
  • …hear unique handling sounds for each clue you touch, down to different paper types having different paper noises.
  • …watch suspects reenact their alibis with wobbly 3D models as their memories play out, so their past actions become a scene.
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No Sleep For Kaname Date - From AI: THE SOMNIUM FILES

81% 👍 OF 947
About This Game

Iris has been abducted by aliens?! Finding herself on board a mysterious UFO and tasked with completing a bizarre escape game, Iris knows there's one person who she can always count on for help: Kaname Date, Psyncer!

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Solve UFO Escape Rooms
  • …Explore Suspects’ Dreams
  • …Investigate with Date’s Eye
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Evil School

93% 👍 OF 1.2K
About This Game

This game is an FMV about anti-bullying. A teenage girl mysteriously disappeared, and the truth was buried by power for eight years. Now, you return to this place of evil with a bloodstained list. The moment of slay & judgment has arrived...

Player reviews say you can…

  • …watch a surveillance clip show someone leaving safely, then unravel how they still vanished without a trace.
  • …eavesdrop for secrets, track down clues, and set up "flawless trials" that trap your targets and kill them.
  • …take a cold, manipulative route where you use people as tools, make them like you anyway, then catch the main villain and choose a slow death for him.
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What Comes After

90% 👍 OF 1.0K
About This Game

What Comes After is a side-scrolling adventure and a short heartwarming story about learning how to love yourself. Help Vivi in her journey on the train to the afterlife and back.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Ride the Afterlife Train
  • …Talk with Animal Spirits
  • …Meet Talking Plants
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South of the Circle

84% 👍 OF 1.8K
About This Game

South of the Circle is a deep narrative experience of the emerging relationship between Peter and Clara, Cambridge academics involved in a political conflict. The story focuses on promises made in between career and true love, where our choices burdened by our past seem to be illusory.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Search Antarctica For Help
  • …Choose Peter's Emotions
  • …Explore Cold War Cambridge
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The Red Pearls Of Borneo

96% 👍 OF 4.5K
About This Game

A detective noir puzzle deduction game. Explore a non-linear timeline as a clairvoyant investigator in 1941 Borneo. Jump between time and locations to uncover motives and discover what truly happened in the Goodwill tobacco plantation that fateful night on the eve of the WW2 Japanese invasion.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Place Guests by Hour
  • …Read Objects' Psychic Echoes
  • …Uncover Hidden Identities
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Pentiment

95% 👍 OF 9.8K
About This Game

Step into a living illustrated world in a time when Europe is at a crossroads of great religious and political change. Walk in the footsteps of Andreas Maler, a master artist who finds himself in the middle of murders, scandals, and intrigue in the Bavarian Alps.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …watch characters literally speak in different historically accurate fonts, including movable type for a printer and a totally different art style for an Ethiopian visitor.
  • …say one throwaway line in Act 1, then meet the consequences years later when toddlers have grown up, alliances have shifted, and some people are simply gone.
  • …investigate a murder on a clock, spending limited days and hours so following one lead can permanently block others until another playthrough.