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Latest Standouts
Recent releases that landed well, newest first, filtered to games with enough reviews to trust the score.
POTENTIAL MAN - POTENTIAL MAN is a role-playing experience where you must navigate the whims and woes of a humble seed. This wacky story features fully hand-drawn visuals, zany characters, and a classic JRPG-styled soundtrack to boot. Are you ready to achieve your true potential?
Aug 31, 2026
铜刀银剑 - During the Xining era of the Northern Song, a corrupt chancellor plunged the court into chaos, waged reckless wars, favored commoners over scholar-officials, and sought to redirect the Yellow River. Fearing ruin, the martial world chose four champions to slay him: Wang Anshi.
Aug 26, 2026
lovebyte.exe - A chat dating sim game inspired by Mystic Messenger, VTuber communities, and internet spam
Aug 24, 2026
Social Democracy: An Alternate History - You are the Social Democratic Party of Germany in 1928. Can you stop the Nazis from taking power?
Aug 21, 2026
The World Well: Blood of Caro - The World Well: Blood of Caro is a cinematic dark fantasy visual novel where every choice reveals another piece of the truth. Join 4 and Noma as they journey through a vampire-ruled world filled with unforgettable characters, hidden secrets, and difficult decisions.
Aug 17, 2026
Blue Sign - In the fictional port city of Rissebra, you work as a marine insurance underwriter. Review the documents brought to your desk by shipowners, and uncover the risks hidden in their vessels, routes, and cargo. The decision to approve or reject each insurance contract rests entirely on your judgment.
Aug 14, 2026
Hacker's Journey - Hacker’s Journey is a realistic hacking simulation game built around scenarios written by cybersecurity experts. No Hollywood hacking. Learn the tools, techniques, and tradecraft used in the wild.
Jul 21, 2026
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Insurmountable - Confront various terrains as a lonely mountaineer and endure the countless dangers of climbing! Many tough decisions await you in a risky environment. Make your way up and down the mountain, overcoming insurmountable heights!
Apr 29, 2021
Lacuna – A Sci-Fi Noir Adventure - A murder. A hack. A bombing. All it takes to plunge the solar system into war – unless you do something about it. Help CDI agent Neil Conrad make a string of increasingly difficult decisions in this modern dialog-driven adventure set in a gorgeous 2D sci-fi noir universe.
May 20, 2021
The Textorcist: The Story of Ray Bibbia - Dodge bullets while typing exorcisms at the very same time: Get ready for an electrifying mix between bullet hell and typing game! Turn on both sides of your brain and jump into the adventure of private exorcist Ray Bibbia!
Feb 14, 2019
Stories Untold - Stories Untold is a compilation tape of four experimental adventures, including a remaster of the original hit episode “The House Abandon”.
Feb 27, 2017
Age of Gladiators - "Age of Gladiators" is a single-player strategy/management sim set at the height of the bloody gladiatorial games in ancient Rome. As your fighters increase in level, it will be up to you to decide how to forge their attributes and abilities.
Feb 25, 2016
Vampire: The Masquerade - Coteries of New York - Vampire: The Masquerade - Coteries of New York is a narrative experience set in the rich universe of Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition. It presents the struggle for power between two vampiric factions - the Camarilla and the Anarchs - bathed in the night lights of the Big Apple.
Dec 11, 2019
King of Dragon Pass - Create your own epic saga of survival, mythology and diplomacy! Rule your clan, make strategic decisions that affect the game world, win battles and expand your influence in this unique mix of RPG, strategy and story-telling.
Jul 28, 2015
Digimon Survive - Digimon Survive presents a hybrid visual novel and tactical RPG set in a mysterious world filled with dangerous monsters and deadly battles that will test your ability to survive.
Jul 28, 2022
Type:Rider - In this platform game you embody ":" ready to travel through the History of typography, from it's origin to today! Overcome obstacles, escape your enemies and collect asterisks, but beware not to fall down! Will you come out of this journey unscathed?
Nov 6, 2013
The Bible - A digital recreation of The Bible in Kinetic Novel form! Read through and save passages in any order with an original soundtrack, or listen through the greatest story ever told in audiobook form. Featuring an extensive Trivia section to find out how well you really know the stories of Old and New.
Nov 14, 2022
Agatha Christie - Murder on the Orient Express - Step on board the legendary Orient Express and immerse yourself in the most famous detective suit in a race against the clock to unmask the murderer.
Oct 19, 2023
START AGAIN: a prologue - timeloop depression station ✦ In Stars and Time's prototype-thingy-thing
Aug 18, 2021
Top Rated
Defining examples of the genre, all rated 85%+ across 1,000+ reviews.
MAHOUTEQ! - A story about an unemployed girl named Luna, who wanted to buy her favorite figure so much that she had to get a job.
Sep 12, 2025
Monster Prom 4: Monster Con - Can you find love at the nerdiest convention ever? "Monster Con" goes back to the multiplayer dating sim formula: go through absurd and funny situations as you find love among six sexy monsters! Who will you romance? The mimic who cosplays? The idol clown? Or the eldritch cutie? (There's also Liam)
Apr 24, 2025
A Date with Death - Fight against & romance the one hunting for your soul in A Date with Death, a romance chat simulator where you date(?) the Grim Reaper himself. Create your own character, decorate your apartment, and chat away with the charming yet dangerous Grim Reaper through text and video calls.
Dec 7, 2023
Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It - USSR, 1986. A girl goes missing in the closed city of Vorkuta-5, yet not a soul seems to be concerned. Uncover the mystery behind her disappearance and transmit your signal to the universe.
Nov 10, 2025
Aliya: Timelink - The player connects to a girl in distress in space thousands of years later? How will they resolve the crisis and discover the truth? Through the mechanism of real-time synchronization, the game breaks through the dimensional wall and creates an immersive dialogue across time and space.
Apr 25, 2024
Katawa Shoujo - Katawa Shoujo is a romantic visual novel set in the fictional Japanese Yamaku High School for disabled children. Hisao's congenital heart defect forces him to move to a new school. Despite his difficulties, Hisao is able to find friends—and perhaps love, if he plays his cards right.
Aug 15, 2024
Homicipher: Demo - 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.
May 31, 2023
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog - Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Mar 31, 2023
Milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk - A sequel to Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk. Dive into demented and bizarre world once again and help the girl become a little happier.
Dec 16, 2021
Homicipher - Homicipher is a 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.
Nov 1, 2024
Ace Attorney Investigations Collection - Miles Edgeworth's dramatic turnabouts take center stage! Experience both Ace Attorney Investigations games in one gorgeous collection! Investigate crime scenes and solve tough, intriguing cases through logic and deduction. When Edgeworth's past and present collide, his future begins!
Sep 5, 2024
Insomnia: Theater in the Head - Hickory dickory dock. The city's deep in sleep. The clock's ticking. The sheep's bouncing. Hickory dickory dock. The girl tosses again, only with more things swarming into her head... In this Point & Click puzzle game "Insomnia", the show in the head is rolling on again. Alas, any sleep tonight...
Dec 15, 2022
