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Zarya-1: Mystery on the Moon

Text based quest, mix of Sci-Fi and horror in the veins of Alien and Dead Space.

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★ STORIES UNTOLD ★ THE WATSON-SCOTT TEST ★ VOYAGER-19 ★ WELCOME TO THE DARK PLACE ★ THE MESSAGE FROM DEEP SPACE ★ DISCUSSION OVER DINNER ★ LETTERS OF BERNARD THORNE ★ THE GREAT ACE ATTORNEY CHRONICLES ★ PARANORMASIGHT: THE SEVEN MYSTERIES OF HONJO ★ HOMICIPHER: DEMO ★ KYLE IS FAMOUS: COMPLETE EDITION ★ KUGAYAMA SHIORI'S DEATH DIARY ★ WE ♥ IT 
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Stories Untold

87% 👍 OF 5.5K
About This Game

Stories Untold is a compilation tape of four experimental adventures, including a remaster of the original hit episode “The House Abandon”.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Type Text Commands
  • …Tune Radio Signals
  • …Decode Morse Transmissions
Horror Adventure Text-Based Indie Atmospheric
REL Feb 27, 2017 ★ $9.99 ON STEAM See This Game →
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The Watson-Scott Test

67% 👍 OF 816
About This Game

Take the Watson-Scott personality test and discover your deepest and darkest fears. 30 multiple-choice questions will tell you if you're more afraid of clowns, snakes, or something more sinister...

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Answer 30 Fear Questions
  • …Get a Personal Analysis
  • …Explore Test Secrets
Psychological Horror Indie Horror Text-Based Interactive Fiction
REL Oct 19, 2018 ★ $4.99 ON STEAM See This Game →
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Voyager-19

88% 👍 OF 857
About This Game

A short horror game where you control a decaying spacecraft exploring distant star systems.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Photograph Distant Planets
  • …Record Planetary Radio
  • …Navigate Star Systems
Horror Space Sci-fi Retro Singleplayer
REL May 19, 2024 ★ $3.99 ON STEAM See This Game →
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The Message from Deep Space

97% 👍 OF 1.6K
About This Game

Mission: Translate an interstellar message, using the universal languages of math & science.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …build your own alien dictionary from scratch, with your own definitions, notes, and aliases
  • …watch isolated call-and-response puzzles turn into full sentences you can read using only the vocabulary you assembled
  • …answer a meteorite's radio transmissions correctly to make the alien message continue evolving
Science Puzzle Aliens Sci-fi Retro
REL Jun 29, 2026 ★ $9.99 ON STEAM See This Game →
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The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles

94% 👍 OF 9.5K
About This Game

Immerse yourself in a dramatic yet charming and witty world of evidence-gathering, deduction and courtroom battles with this double-pack of the adventures of rookie lawyer Ryunosuke.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …fix a famous detective's deductions by swapping in the right observations until his logic holds together.
  • …turn a trial into a debate against six jurors, pitting their arguments against each other to break a guilty consensus.
  • …untangle overlapping testimony from multiple witnesses at once, chasing contradictions as their stories collide.
Visual Novel Adventure Detective Anime Mystery
REL Jul 26, 2021 ★ $39.99 ON STEAM See This Game →
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PARANORMASIGHT: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo

95% 👍 OF 2.0K
About This Game

How far would you go to bring someone back from the dead? Discover the depths that some will go to in this horror-adventure game.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …solve a puzzle by leaving the story interface and changing game options to make the plot continue.
  • …trigger your own killing curse at the exact right moment to beat an opponent in a curse showdown.
  • …jump between protagonists' chapters, leave one route, then return with new information that unlocks progress elsewhere.
Visual Novel Adventure Horror Anime Simulation
REL Mar 8, 2023 ★ $19.99 ON STEAM See This Game →
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Homicipher: Demo

98% 👍 OF 1.6K
About This Game

Homicipher is a female-targeted language deciphering and exploration ADV based on the concept of "romance with horror men." The protagonist, who has wandered into another world, interacts with non-human beings to decipher their language while striving to escape.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …translate monsters' speech word by word during conversations, then replay later to confirm your guesses as the language clicks.
  • …choose a direction based on a monster's warning you might not understand yet, turning navigation into a life-or-death translation test.
  • …realize a "word" you learned might actually be fused terms, then re-translate earlier scenes when it splits into new meanings.
Female Protagonist Dialogue Heavy Text-Based Otome Horror
REL May 31, 2023 FREE ON STEAM See This Game →
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Kyle is Famous: Complete Edition

91% 👍 OF 1.4K
About This Game

Kyle tries to prepare for his most important interview yet. Choose his path through over 100 endings and accept the consequences in this comedic adventure.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Prepare Kyle’s Interview
  • …Swallow a Refrigerator
  • …Travel Through Time
Adventure Choose Your Own Adventure Interactive Fiction Funny Multiple Endings
REL Nov 18, 2019 ★ $9.99 ON STEAM See This Game →
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Kugayama Shiori's Death Diary

95% 👍 OF 1.0K
About This Game

A mystery visual novel where horror meets occult comedy. Follow Kugayama Shiori, a ghost who casually dies over and over as she searches for her cause of death and the regrets that bind her to this world. Her investigation will eventually lead to a single incident—and the truth behind her demise.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Recreate Shiori's Deaths
  • …Investigate Urban Legends
  • …Question Fellow Ghosts
Adventure Casual Visual Novel Choose Your Own Adventure 2D Platformer
REL Apr 29, 2026 ★ $24.99 ON STEAM See This Game →
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