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A detective noir, choose-your-own-adventure game with hand-drawn art, over 250k words, and an immersive soundtrack.
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-15%$2.54And who is the maiden?
3 days ago · Cipi Games
Both: Choose Your Own Adventure · Visual Novel · Choices Matter
A young man disappeared in a Slavic village. You show up with three companions and a few days to find out what really happened, before the water decides to answer for itself. Based on Adam Wołoszczuk's award-winning scenario "A kto dziewczyna?", with 11 different ways it can end.
Choose Your Own AdventureVisual NovelStory RichChoices MatterShortMultiple EndingsMysteryInvestigationAdventureInteractive Fiction
-10%$8.99Black Lotus
8 days ago · VNhub
Both: Visual Novel · Psychological
Transported into a dark fantasy novel, Lin Tangtang must navigate dangerous missions, tangled relationships, and fate-changing choices. Win the trust of the enigmatic Shen Run, uncover hidden secrets, and shape your own ending in this choice-driven visual novel.
AdventureVisual NovelOtomeRomanceFemale ProtagonistDark FantasyPsychologicalSingleplayerAnimeDating Sim
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$3.77La mansión de Campanillas
4 days ago · Lacinia Estudio
Both: Visual Novel · Mystery
Campanillas, 1963. A stranger leaves you a ruined house and a district hiding its disappearances. You don't solve a crime: you learn to read a place. Weigh every account —Trust, Doubt, Dismiss. Andalusian rural horror.
AdventureVisual NovelExplorationText-BasedInvestigationMysteryIndieEarly AccessThrillerSingleplayer
$9.99Dark Dice: Cthulhu Investigation Log
13 days ago · Selig Interactive
Both: Mystery · Choose Your Own Adventure
A dice-driven Cthulhu Mythos investigation log where every roll can cost you your sanity, your team, or your life — and there is no undo.
Early AccessPsychological HorrorMysteryInteractive FictionChoose Your Own AdventureInvestigationAdventureDarkSupernaturalExploration
-15%$12.74Eternity Lost: Mystery of Aurum Collector's Edition
3 days ago · Cateia Games
Both: Mystery · Visual Novel
Follow a mysterious girl into a hidden underground city built centuries ago by a secret order of Alchemists. Reveal a dangerous conspiracy, search for clues and items, solve puzzles and mini-games, and uncover the secrets of a forgotten world. Will you bring truth to the light?
AdventureMysteryPoint & ClickPuzzleHidden ObjectConspiracyInvestigationSteampunkVisual NovelExploration
-10%$10.79Witch Please!
4 days ago · Steamy Buns Games
Both: Visual Novel · Choose Your Own Adventure
Help Petra navigate her new life as Head Witch of Fenloft Academy! Juggle classes, train skills, make friends, and solve mysteries in this charming choose-your-own-adventure-style visual novel.
Early AccessStrategyAdventureVisual NovelChoose Your Own AdventureCuteFunnyFantasyFemale ProtagonistRPG
Free天衍
3 days ago · TYstudio
Both: Choose Your Own Adventure · Lore-Rich
Tianyan is a Chinese xianxia sandbox action RPG. As a cultivator, you enter immortal realms, slay demons across stages. With classic story, fluid combat & deep cultivation, forge your own immortality legend.
Choose Your Own AdventureJRPGRomanceRPGAdventureDating SimLore-RichStory RichXianxiaWuxia
-20%$9.59lily's world XD
4 days ago · SonderingEmily
Both: Mystery · Choices Matter
Lily was an ordinary teenager in 2004, and you just found her laptop. Read her diary, message her friends, and piece together what happened to her before it’s too late. But you're not the only one with access to her computer… A fourth wall-breaking psychological horror experience featuring LilyPichu
Psychological HorrorInvestigationRetroPuzzleMysterySimulationChoices MatterStory RichCultLogic👍 524
-20%$0.79Console Kingdom
5 days ago · Piece Of Voxel, Gamesforfarm
Both: Visual Novel · Choose Your Own Adventure
Console Kingdom is a game in which you solve state problems on behalf of the king.
CasualRPGVisual NovelStrategy RPGChoose Your Own AdventureIncrementalExplorationCRPGTurn-Based TacticsTactical RPG
-10%$5.39RLG:Origins
4 days ago · Stardust Factory Studio
Both: Visual Novel
Act in your own words to uncover the truth behind a broken oath. In this challenging high-fantasy Role Living Game, AI plays the GM and every character while fixed rules determine success and failure. Choose one companion, then investigate, negotiate, and fight your way to the story's end.
CRPGRPGExplorationArtificial IntelligenceImmersive SimInteractive FictionVisual NovelText-BasedMultiple EndingsEarly Access
$24.99Fatal Claw
Aug 26 · NDEV GAMES
Both: Hand-drawn
Dive into Fatal Claw, a Metroidvania game in vibrant 2D artwork. Explore the arcane underworld your way with Kisha. Your ultimate goal is to find the key to the surface world alongside other survivors, while vanquishing infected enemies and absorbing their power. Start your clawsome adventure now!
MetroidvaniaExploration2D PlatformerAction-AdventureHand-drawnNonlinearPlatformerAtmosphericStory RichMultiple Endings👍 444
$19.99Burrows of Cairntir
7 days ago · Cairntir Games
Both: Lore-Rich
A first-person, turn-based dark fantasy dungeon crawler inspired by six ancient mythologies. Create your character, master spells, craft and enchant equipment, recruit followers, and battle gods, monsters, and the undead across 60 handcrafted dungeons.
RPGActionAdventureStrategyFirst-PersonAction-AdventureStory RichLore-RichCharacter CustomizationDark Fantasy
-10%$22.49BLACKWOOD
5 days ago · AttritoM7 Productions
By day, you run a DVD store in 2012 New York. By night, you’re a ruthless assassin. BLACKWOOD is a cinematic third-person shooter with grounded melee combat, brutal takedowns, responsive gunplay, and a double life to manage.
Action3D FighterAction-AdventureBeat 'em upInteractive FictionShooterCollectathonExplorationShoot 'Em UpThird-Person Shooter👍 974
$9.99Friendly Steps
Sep 3 · KORO.GAMES
Both: Choices Matter
A HARDCORE physics-based 1-4 player co-op RAGE GAME about getting home after a wild night out. It was a fun night! Now grab your buddies and walk home. IF YOU REMEMBER HOW.
MultiplayerPhysicsWalking SimulatorOnline Co-OpChoices MatterAdventureDifficultComedyPlatformerCo-op👍 233
-10%$8.99Sharehouse
3 days ago · Team Nyxian
Both: Visual Novel · Mystery · Horror
An otome horror visual novel set in a mysterious sharehouse filled with strange rules. Forge bonds with your fellow housemates as you unravel the secrets hidden within the house, where breaking the rules may mean losing more than your life.
Visual NovelDating SimMysteryRomanceRPGHorrorCasualSupernaturalOtomeSimulation
-20%$3.99Animaly Bar: NO HUMANITY!
8 days ago · Domnaier
Both: Horror · Choices Matter · Mystery
Run your bar as a gorilla and hunt down the humans in animal costumes hiding among your customers. Observe them closely, spot the clues that give their disguises away, test their slogans, and blow the imposters away with your shotgun. Choose your targets wisely... or become the hunted.
SimulationHorrorShop KeeperPsychological HorrorInvestigationChoices MatterSurvival HorrorConspiracyMysteryRetro👍 122
$1.99Sicarios
7 days ago · Bonuman Game Studio
Enter a ruthless criminal underworld in this gritty point-and-click adventure. Solve intricate puzzles, carry out dangerous hit jobs, and survive a brutal gang war where trust is scarce and one wrong move could be your last.
AdventurePoint & ClickPuzzle2DCrimeThrillerLinearViolentStory RichIndie
-20%$7.99Chief Cenab : Şahmaran
3 days ago · Umut KAYA, Volkan USUĞLU
Both: Visual Novel
Follow Chief Cenab on the trail of the Şahmaran legend. Told in a black-and-white comic book style with color accents unique to each part, this point-and-click adventure draws you into a deep atmosphere and mysterious events.
CasualPuzzlePoint & ClickHidden ObjectStory RichIncrementalAction-AdventureVisual NovelWord GameComic Book
-33%$2.00Petrichor: Reverie Edition
3 days ago · 6six6
Both: Mystery · Psychological
Petrichor is an escape room type puzzle game that follows a fateful incident in a man's life. After an accident in the wilderness... What fate awaits him as rain falls down onto the forest below? Can you escape it?
PuzzleEscape RoomLGBTQ+AtmosphericMysterySurrealAdventureStory RichSurvivalPsychological
$29.99Active Matter
6 days ago · Matter Team
Both: Horror
Join dangerous raids for loot or intense PvP battles in this new realistic military shooter set in a fractured multiverse. Fight in the quantum unstable zones over control of the active matter – the substance that bends time and space.
FPSHorrorExtraction ShooterPvEPvPAtmosphericCo-opOnline Co-OpMultiplayerAction👍 802
$9.99ZENONIA 1
Aug 31 · Com2us Holdings, CFK Co., Ltd.
Remember the RPG that defined a generation? ZENONIA is back—faithfully restored and now on Steam. Relive the adventure that kept you playing for hours, or experience it for the first time.
RPGAction RPGIndieAdventure2DAction-AdventureCuteCartoonyPixel GraphicsFantasy👍 440
$0.99Farewell
Aug 28 · wvkmind
Both: Choices Matter · Psychological
A hand-painted deckbuilding roguelike. At sea, play cards against waves and reefs, read the fog or burn your lantern to clear it, and cook below deck. Two crew, five endings. Plus an online mining town: drill ore with cards, beam crates onto your truck, sell at the dock, team up with others.
2D PlatformerCasualCard GameCookingDeckbuildingChoices MatterRPGMassively MultiplayerAbstractPsychological
-15%$5.94Northanger Abbey
3 days ago · Spiral Atlas Games
Both: Visual Novel · Choices Matter
Play Jane Austen's classic satirical romance as a visual novel. You're young, new to Bath, and ready for adventure. Choose your gender, choose your path, and discover the secrets of Northanger Abbey.
Visual NovelDating SimHistoricalLGBTQ+OtomeCasualRomanceInteractive FictionChoices MatterDialogue Heavy
New-15%$5.09The Confined: Basement
Yesterday · Forcell Games
Both: Horror · Mystery · Psychological
You are trapped in a dark basement. To find a way out, you must piece together your forgotten past. Survive deadly creatures, collect mysterious notes, and discover who you are before it is too late.
HorrorAdventureThrillerSimulationMysteryPsychological HorrorPuzzleSingleplayerPsychologicalDark
-40%$14.99CONVRGENCE
4 days ago · Monkey-With-a-Bomb
Both: Horror
CONVRGENCE is an atmospheric VR extraction shooter set in the procedurally generated, ever-changing Chernokamensk Anomaly Zone. Scavenge loot, fight bandits and hunt for mystical artifacts — all with your loyal dog companion by your side. But extract before nightfall, or face what lurks in the dark.
VRAtmosphericPost-apocalypticShooterExtraction ShooterLooter ShooterLootSurvival HorrorSurvivalHorror👍 1,588
$9.99Fell & Sell
Aug 26 · Art Games Studio S.A.
Slay. Loot. Sell. Survive! Dive into a first-person blend of hack'n'slash roguelike and shop management. Plunder deadly dungeons for loot, escape with your life, craft, and stock your shelves. Then risk it all once more for profit!
SimulationShop KeeperManagementEconomyFantasySingleplayerRPGDungeon CrawlerAction RoguelikeAction RPG👍 1,453
-15%$11.89YesterSol
4 days ago · Neat Games
Both: Lore-Rich
Unleash your magical spear! Explore a vast inter-connected world, battling enemies sent by Culex, the dark mosquito deity. Throw, recall, and use your spear as a platform through this minimalistic metroidvania made by one developer!
MetroidvaniaAtmosphericExplorationLore-RichIndieNatureColorfulCuteAction-AdventureAction
$29.99Valheim
12 days ago · Iron Gate AB
A collaborative exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally generated afterlife inspired by Viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
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-50%$4.99Asgard's Fall — Viking Survivors
12 days ago · Soulpotion
Embark on an epic saga in Asgard's Fall, a norse Survivors-like Roguelite. Fight your way through hordes of creatures and let the gods feel your relentless wrath. How will your saga unfold?
Action RoguelikeBullet HellRogueliteCasualPixel GraphicsIndie2DRoguelikeHack and SlashStrategy👍 1,305
$4.99Embermaze: Descent
Aug 26 · Graeme Scott
Both: Horror
Three shots. Fading light. Nowhere to run. Survive dark mazes, evade ghosts, and descend deeper into horror in this dark‑fantasy survival maze game with procedural labyrinths and limited magical resources.
ExplorationActionDungeon CrawlerAction-Adventure3DAdventureFirst-PersonHorrorProcedural GenerationDark Fantasy
-20%$5.59United Heist: Facility Zero
4 days ago · No more Sleep
Both: Mystery
A co-op puzzle heist for two. One of you breaks into a secret bunker. The other sits in the observation office, watching the bunker. A walkie-talkie is your only link. Talk to each other and find out how good your teamwork really is.
Co-opCo-op CampaignEscape RoomPuzzleAdventureCasualMysteryMultiple EndingsAbstractStylized
-15%$4.24Welcome To Mars 9
5 days ago · Sonomio Games
Both: Choices Matter
You wake up in a luxurious space station orbiting Mars with no memory of your past. Explore, solve puzzles, and make ethical choices in this narrative adventure with multiple endings.
IndieAdventure2DPixel GraphicsSingleplayerPuzzlePoint & ClickCyberpunkDialogue HeavyChoices Matter
-30%$6.29奇点
6 days ago · xzx
Both: Lore-Rich
SINGULARITY is a collection of 61 distinct games — from particle dreamscapes and detective puzzles to tactical combat and survival farming. Collect Embers in every level to grow and unlock more. The Particle Eggs keep expanding over time, so the journey never ends.
CasualRelaxingAtmosphericCozyExplorationLore-RichGod GameStory Rich2DTactical RPG
-20%$15.99Secrets of Thoth
3 days ago · Fortunate Games
Uncover ancient truths in the mystical, intriguing and often dangerous alpine heights. Solve puzzles, explore ancient, beautiful and forgotten locations while you awaken the secrets of the Emerald Tablets.
AdventurePuzzleExploration3DFirst-PersonSingleplayerAtmosphericDark FantasyStory Rich
$29.99RuneScape: Dragonwilds
6 days ago · Jagex Ltd
On RuneScape's forgotten continent of Ashenfall, dragons have awoken. Gather, build, skill and craft in this co-operative survival adventure. Only by mastering survival and uncovering ancient secrets can you hope to face the ferocious Dragon Queen.
Open WorldSurvivalMultiplayerOpen World Survival CraftCo-opOnline Co-OpEarly AccessCraftingBuildingBase Building👍 28,410
-15%$7.64Political Life
4 days ago · Terminalabs
Both: Choices Matter
A political life simulation: enter in middle age, assemble bills, run elections, take the money, bury the trail. There is no win condition — only how you are remembered when you die.
Political SimLife SimChoices MatterText-BasedStory RichMultiple EndingsSimulationStrategy2DPixel Graphics
$9.99THE WELL IS NOT EMPTY
Sep 7 · tweakEra
Both: Horror
The well has gone dry. It's up to you to find out why. Traverse through abandoned tunnels. Discover remnants of a ritual never meant to be seen. Power dying machinery to bring light into darkness. Dig into broken earth and crawl your way out. Down here you’re not exploring... you're trespassing.
AdventurePsychological HorrorHorrorStylizedStory RichGoreRetroAtmosphericActionStealth👍 148
-20%$3.19We Are Sisters
3 days ago · BobaGames
Both: Horror
We Are Sisters is a psychological horror experience that takes you deep beneath the forests of Eastbane. Solve puzzles and uncover dark secrets as you venture further underground, drawing ever closer to discovering what happened to your childhood friend, Aleks
Psychological HorrorAdventurePuzzleFirst-PersonHorrorLinearStory RichStealthIndieSingleplayer
-20%$11.99Hunter: The Reckoning — Day For Night
4 days ago · Choice of Games
Both: Choose Your Own Adventure
These monsters aren’t just in the movies! Will you hunt the vampires, werewolves and others stalking Hollywood, or will you become a monster instead? An interactive, text-based game set in the World of Darkness shared story universe.
ActionCasualRPGInteractive FictionChoose Your Own AdventureText-BasedAtmosphericDarkDemonsGothic
$39.99Another Eden Begins
5 days ago · WRIGHT FLYER STUDIOS
Embark on a time-traveling RPG adventure featuring command battles presented by Masato Kato, creator of numerous RPG classics. With New Game+, embark on a new adventure with your upgraded characters and discover more than 10 different endings.
Time TravelMultiple EndingsJRPGSingleplayer1990'sEmotionalTurn-Based TacticsParty-Based RPGRPGController
-15%$8.49Cube Crusaders
3 days ago · Frentwick Indie
Adoros is dying. A catastrophic Void Anomaly has torn open the planet’s surface, warping reality and unleashing forces no one fully understands. You are a Cube Crusader sent to crush the Anomaly, at any cost.
ExplorationSide ScrollerPvEShooterPlatformerAction-AdventureCharacter Customization2.5DLinear3D
$4.99Fatal Logic
4 days ago · ItWorkedOnMyMachine
Both: Mystery
Fatal Logic is a deductive logic puzzle game where you investigate crime scenes, cross-reference clues, and use the process of elimination to identify the killer across hours of challenging mysteries and community-created workshop levels.
StrategyPuzzleLogicDetectiveInvestigationMysterySingleplayer2DRelaxingIndie
-15%$6.79Between Adventures IDLE
13 days ago · Loop Forge
A visual Idle RPG where you hunt creatures for rare loot, enchant your equipment, and build your hero. Master 11 skills, trade with merchants, and progress even offline. No Microtransactions, No P2W, just pure idle fun.
Early AccessStrategyIdlerRPGLootInventory ManagementStrategy RPGMedievalMagicFantasy👍 331
-20%$3.99Died in the Tower Again
3 days ago · BANANAK
Climb a tower that never lets you leave. Move — your spells fire themselves. Combine 8 elements into automatic synergies, awaken them twice, and gamble on relics that break the rules. Die, bank your gold, climb again. 100 floors, 35 relics, 14 artifacts, and a leaderboard that remembers.
Bullet HeavenAction RoguelikeRoguelikeRogueliteBullet HellPixel GraphicsSingleplayer2DTop-DownAction
-15%$12.74Backlot: Hollywood Studio Tycoon
4 days ago · Goodpunk Studios
Both: Choose Your Own Adventure
A deep Hollywood studio simulation, 1930 to the streaming age. A back lot, a million dollars and no pictures. Commission scripts, sign stars to seven-year contracts, book dates against rival studios, and survive television, home video and everything else that came for the movies.
Choose Your Own AdventureTime ManagementStrategyReal Time TacticsSandboxSimulationEconomyCapitalismManagementCrafting
-10%$4.49Second Nature: Night Authority
4 days ago · ThunderRQN Games
Explore a modern city in first person as a vampire blood sorcerer. Move with supernatural speed, master blood abilities, complete jobs for a hidden night authority, earn money, upgrade your abilities, and rise through the ranks of vampire society.
Early AccessActionAdventureCasualRPGSimulationAction-AdventureAction RoguelikeFPSHero Shooter
$11.99CARAVAN in the MAJIN WORLD
6 days ago · PubMangaS
Both: Hand-drawn
You trading goods to fund adventure. Knowing when and where to trade is the true thrill of caravan life. As journey unfolds caravan caught in a conflict between the Majin and humans. NPCs self-talk their concerns through manga-style speech bubbles. Immerse yourself in a real life fantasy.
RPGJRPGComic BookStory RichFantasyDungeon Crawler2DHand-drawnTurn-Based CombatMinimalist
$9.99Runeomicon
5 days ago · TLR Games
Perform a dark ritual with your own hands under relentless pressure. Draw runes in real time, defend the ritual from enemies trying to stop it, and upgrade your skills to unleash devastating magic. Summon ancient eldritch gods in this dark fantasy game driven by skill, strategy and constant tension.
Tower DefenseResource ManagementReal Time TacticsStrategyPixel GraphicsSide Scroller2DActionDifficultDark Fantasy
-40%$1.79I Wish You Weren't Here
3 days ago · Covenant
Both: Psychological
After waking up alone in an unfamiliar building, you have 2 questions: Why are you here, and where is everyone? As you explore, things start to make sense - but not everything is as it seems
AdventurePuzzleExplorationEmotionalSingleplayerStory RichWalking SimulatorPsychologicalDarkAtmospheric
-10%$13.49Toxic Yuri
3 days ago · Yuri Kissaten
Both: Visual Novel
An overworked office lady discovers a sludge girl abandoned in a box and takes her home. A poisonous and fluffy romance begins. Will your relationship be healthy? Disastrous? Completely tepid? The choice is up to you in the only visual novel to prominently feature a literal dead dove.
Dark ComedyVisual NovelLGBTQ+Psychological HorrorRomanceFemale ProtagonistCuteModernDialogue HeavyDark Humor
-10%$3.59The Midnight 21
3 days ago · FKG
Both: Mystery
Dive into a night filled with blackjack, but also put your detective instincts to the test—because this night will be about much more than just blackjack. Only those with truly sharp eyes will be able to make it through the night.
CasualStrategyCard GameTime Management3DFirst-PersonAtmosphericMysteryInvestigationIndie


