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Enter the pages of the hand painted world of Journal. A journey through the life of a young and troubled girl as she tries to face up to the choices and responsibilities that come with childhood. An experience that questions the reliability of how we choose to remember events and explores the truths hidden within our dreams.
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-30%$6.99Undusted: Letters from the Past
Oct 13 · 5minlab Corp.
Both: Short · Visual Novel
Undusted: Letters from the Past is a casual game in which you clean and restore dirty items. What is her story as she returns to a long-neglected house? Enjoy the satisfying audiovisuals featuring sensually designed sounds and graphics.
CozyRelaxingShortStory RichFamily FriendlyVisual NovelWholesomePuzzleCleaningSimulation👍 1,738
$14.99School Days
Jan 28 · 白雨工作室
Both: Visual Novel · Interactive Fiction
《学生时代》是一款可自由构筑的校园人生模拟器。你将在高度还原的中国校园中,从入学一路走到高考,与多个性格鲜明的同学一起成长,互相陪伴。你的养成和选择,不但会决定你的人生,也会影响到朋友们的未来。
ExplorationDating SimLife SimChoose Your Own AdventureTime ManagementImmersive SimRogueliteShop KeeperVisual NovelInteractive Fiction👍 6,028
-20%$9.59Memory of Memorie : A Chill Story
Jul 22 · BeXide Inc.
Both: Visual Novel · Interactive Fiction
A story-driven productivity adventure where you work alongside Memorie, an apprentice witch from another world. As you focus using the Pomodoro timer, the story progresses and her world gradually transforms. Turn solitary work into time shared with someone.
CozyRelaxingCasualTime ManagementImmersive SimUtilitiesIdlerVisual NovelInteractive FictionPoint & Click👍 248
-10%$10.79Witch Please!
4 days ago · Steamy Buns Games
Both: Visual Novel · Female Protagonist
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
-20%$19.99Realm of Ink
May 26 · Leap Studio
Both: Female Protagonist
Realm of Ink is an Ink-style action Roguelite game. While pursuing the Fox Demon, the swordswoman Red, unexpectedly finds that her life is dictated by the 'destiny' within the world of the book. Only by breaking free can she unveil the truth of her existence and challenge the constraints of fate.
Action RoguelikeStylizedRogueliteMartial ArtsHack and SlashFemale ProtagonistAction RPGColorfulRoguelikeAction-Adventure👍 5,013
-15%$2.54And who is the maiden?
3 days ago · Cipi Games
Both: Visual Novel · Short · Interactive Fiction
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
-20%$15.99Rubinite
Jul 22 · Cup Dog Games, GameWorks Ventures
Both: Female Protagonist
Rubinite is an extremely challenging boss rush action game. in a dark fairy tale world, use Ruby's crimson eyes to expose the weak points of the Bloodstained monsters, then strike and shatter them. Carve a road home through the ruined Scarlet Kingdom and face the Witch who took it all.
DifficultPixel GraphicsBoss RushSouls-likeFemale ProtagonistIndie2DAction RPGTop-DownAction👍 3,626
$19.99Sovereign Tower
Aug 6 · WILD WITS GAMES
Both: Visual Novel · Hand-drawn
Play as the Sovereign of a magical tower in this story-rich, Round Table management RPG. Recruit eccentric Knights, assign quests and balance egos whilst carving out your kingdom's destiny. If destiny doesn’t go your way, keep turning back time, uncover secrets and rewrite fate again and again.
Choices MatterMedievalChoose Your Own AdventureVisual NovelIndieManagementDialogue HeavyHand-drawnRPGStory Rich👍 3,150
$11.99Orb of Creation
Jun 23 · MarpleGames
Orb of Creation is a non-idle incremental-puzzle game in which you recreate the world with nothing but magic and ingenuity. Conjure resources, buy upgrades, and become an all-powerful wizard!
IncrementalMagicCasualStrategyResource ManagementPuzzleIndieMinimalistSingleplayerCrafting👍 2,170
-50%$12.49Bye Sweet Carole
Oct 9 · Little Sewing Machine
Both: Female Protagonist
Bye Sweet Carole is a narrative-horror adventure game completely hand-drawn in the style of classic animated films. Follow the trail of missing Carole Simmons and uncover the dark secrets hidden behind her disappearance from Bunny Hall orphanage.
Dark FantasyHorrorSupernaturalFemale ProtagonistAtmosphericSurvival HorrorCartoonyAdventurePuzzle PlatformerSingleplayer👍 1,041
$5.99Dreamcore: Rabbit Hole
Apr 24 · Ankoku
Both: Walking Simulator
Walking simulator. Explore cozy liminal spaces that feel unsettlingly familiar and spark your imagination, like a dream you’ve been in before.
ExplorationWalking SimulatorPsychological HorrorFirst-Person3DAdventureSurrealNonlinearHorrorRelaxing👍 398
-20%$7.99Escape the Backrooms
Oct 23 · Fancy Games, Blackbird Interactive
Escape the Backrooms is a 1-4 player co-op horror exploration game. Traverse 30+ eerie backrooms levels while avoiding entities and other dangers. Try to escape but be warned: survival isn't guaranteed.
HorrorMultiplayerOnline Co-OpPsychological HorrorCo-opSurvival HorrorFirst-PersonEscape RoomExplorationAdventure👍 137,469
Free正体 SHOUT-AI
Jun 20 · 852話
Both: Visual Novel · Interactive Fiction
Walk through a broken game with Yoka in this psychological horror visual novel. Move dialogue windows, peer through fragmented images, and read records no one answers. What you touch, preserve, or leave behind shapes your conversations and leads to six endings.
Visual NovelPsychological HorrorStory RichChoices MatterMultiple EndingsAtmosphericChoose Your Own AdventureInteractive FictionCute2D
$17.99Kebab Chefs! - Restaurant Simulator
Jun 11 · Biotech Gameworks
Kebab Chefs! is a Co-Op, cooking and restaurant management game that can be played up to 4 players. Design your own restaurant. Cook delicious foods, fill your menu with various recipes, feed customers and become the biggest kebab restaurant in town!
CookingMultiplayerSimulationManagementPhysicsSandboxFunnyTime ManagementImmersive SimBuilding👍 7,017
-10%$5.39RLG:Origins
4 days ago · Stardust Factory Studio
Both: Interactive Fiction · 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
$19.99Erannorth Renaissance
Oct 6 · Spyridon Thalassinos
Both: Interactive Fiction
Erannorth Renaissance is a text driven gamebook with sandbox elements. Create your hero, build their party, and shape your journey. Set in an open world, it mixes text based narrative, turn based combat, deep character customization, and sandbox freedom.
Dating Sim2DModdableInteractive FictionSingleplayerTactical RPGAdventureChoose Your Own AdventureCharacter CustomizationTurn-Based Combat👍 186
$9.50Garden Ink
11 days ago · Kranich
Both: Hand-drawn
Paint, combine and discover! Garden Ink is a cozy sandbox game. Combine decorations and use painting tools to customize your world. With hand-painted graphics and a relaxing soundtrack, it’s time to discover every cute surprise.
CozyRelaxingCuteHand-drawnDecoratingMinigamesExplorationSandboxFamily FriendlyCasual
$17.99Lost Castle 2
Jun 10 · Hunter Studio
"Lost Castle 2" is a 2D Beat'em up Rogue-Lite game. Explore abundant treasures and items to enhance yourself, master various weapons to showcase your skills, and challenge powerful monsters to demonstrate your strength. A new adventure is calling for treasure hunters!
MultiplayerLocal Co-OpOnline Co-OpRoguelikeBeat 'em upRogueliteAction-AdventureAction RoguelikeRPGFunny👍 10,858
-10%$8.99Black Lotus
8 days ago · VNhub
Both: Visual Novel · Female Protagonist
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
$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
$17.99Sephiria
Jul 31 · TEAM HORAY
Save Bunnyville from a doomed fate: a top-down action/RPG roguelite from the makers of Dungreed. Explore the depths of the tower, collect and upgrade artifacts, and defeat hordes of demons to keep your village safe.
Action RoguelikeRogueliteRoguelikeCo-opPixel GraphicsInventory ManagementActionRPGCombatCute👍 11,674
$29.99Hades II
Sep 25 · Supergiant Games
Both: Female Protagonist
Battle beyond the Underworld using dark sorcery to take on the Titan of Time in this bewitching sequel to the award-winning rogue-like dungeon crawler.
ActionRoguelikeRogueliteHack and SlashMythologyAction RoguelikeFemale ProtagonistRPGDungeon CrawlerAction RPG👍 114,459
$6.99RAKKA: WAKE 01 - SOOT
Apr 26 · PMT Games Division
Both: Visual Novel · Hand-drawn · Female Protagonist
A homage to the gritty fiction of the ’90s. “RAKKA: WAKE 01 - SOOT” unfolds as an episodic, linear visual novel that blends paper-cut style comics, animation, music and dialogue into a slow-burn mystery thriller that dares you to dig deeper — even when you really, really shouldn’t.
Visual NovelStory Rich1990'sAnimeThrillerPoint & ClickLore-RichHand-drawnFemale ProtagonistDark Comedy
$29.99Voidtrain
Nov 7 · HypeTrain Digital
Become a crew member of an Interdimensional Express Train! Discover a new world full of mysterious creatures, enemies and places. Upgrade and customize your train, gather new materials and build better weapons. Play solo or online сo-op with up to 4 people.
Open World Survival CraftCo-opTrainsMultiplayerSurvivalBase BuildingOpen WorldCraftingOnline Co-OpAdventure👍 8,715
$14.99Territory: Farming and Warfare
Feb 4 · Wit Studio
From a small village of a dozen people to a small kingdom of thousands of people. Arrange for residents to work, gathering, fishing and hunting, farming and mining, processing and manufacturing. Trade, accumulate supplies, increase your strength, and fight evil forces and monsters.
SingleplayerSimulationBase BuildingCity BuilderStrategySandboxAutomationPixel GraphicsResource ManagementBuilding👍 738
$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!
Open World Survival CraftSurvivalOnline Co-OpOpen WorldMultiplayerBuildingCraftingBase BuildingExplorationCo-op👍 465,813
$0.99Cave Escape
3 days ago · Carrotbbit
Both: Walking Simulator
An observation-based 3D thriller game where you must safely escape a dark cave to save a companion trapped under a boulder. Carefully explore the cave: if you spot an anomaly, turn back immediately; if there are no anomalies, keep moving forward to find your way out.
CasualSimulationPuzzleWalking SimulatorFirst-PersonAtmosphericDarkHorrorIndieMystery
-50%$3.99Unbox the Room
Oct 17 · Weird Penguin Games
Unbox the Room is a relaxing simulator where you play as an interior designer helping clients move into their new homes. Unbox and arrange their belongings to create a cozy space, placing everything just right — from the smallest cup to the largest sofa.
RelaxingDecoratingOrganizingCozyCuteCasualIsometricPixel GraphicsFamily FriendlySimulation👍 243
-15%$8.49Tape 101: Liminal Descent
3 days ago · 2H-Productions
Both: Walking Simulator
A psychological horror descending through liminal spaces shaped by the Kübler Ross model - the five stages of grief, where your perception and an RC car are the only tools to grasp what’s real.
HorrorPsychological HorrorWalking SimulatorAtmosphericRealisticExplorationFirst-PersonSingleplayerImmersive SimSurreal
$29.99The Scroll of Taiwu : Beyond The Dome
Jun 16 · ConchShip Games
"The Scroll of Taiwu" is an indie game themed around Chinese mythology and wuxia. Players assume the role of the mysterious "heir of the Taiwu clan" in an alternate ancient China, working through generations of heirs to defeat a powerful hereditary enemy and shape the fate of the human world.
RPGMartial ArtsSandboxWuxiaOpen WorldStrategyIndieSingleplayerAdventureSimulation👍 56,539
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Both: Hand-drawn
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$13.99Sol Cesto
Apr 10 · Tambouille, Géraud Zucchini, Chariospirale
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$4.99Mall: Tidy Up Together
Aug 21 · Games Together
Shelve the products, unlock new skills, and use your unique methods to tidy up the mall. Enjoy the online co-op and online PvP with your friends, or go solo! Fill up the shelves and experience a sense of relief and satisfaction.
CasualSimulationCollectathonOrganizingOnline Co-OpPuzzleRelaxingPvPSandboxRealistic👍 258
$4.99TRADESMAN: Deal to Dealer
Aug 27 · AZAMATIKA
Both: Walking Simulator
A challenging trading and combat game with a story and quests, where goods have unique properties, and the more you carry, the more dangerous the journey becomes.
ExplorationComedySide Scroller2DPixel GraphicsSandboxAuto BattlerTradingOpen WorldWalking Simulator👍 1,533
$5.99东方华心传Touhou Blooming Soul
Jan 30 · 二色幽紫蝶
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-50%$7.49Dungeon Clawler
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Roguelike DeckbuilderReplay ValueArcadeStrategyRogueliteGamblingTurn-Based StrategySingleplayerPhysicsRoguelike👍 3,722
-10%$2.69Take Care of My Heifer
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Both: Walking Simulator
“Take Care of My Heifer” is a short horror game packed with terror and dark humor. You’ve been asked to look after a heifer until morning and follow the owner’s instructions. Just make sure you don’t miss anything.
Walking SimulatorIndieHorrorDarkAtmosphericPsychological HorrorSimulationExplorationThrillerFirst-Person
-15%$5.94Northanger Abbey
3 days ago · Spiral Atlas Games
Both: Visual Novel · Interactive Fiction
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
$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!
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$29.99Pax Dei
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MMORPGSandboxOpen WorldMedievalCraftingBase BuildingRPGExplorationPvPPvE👍 7,166
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RhythmMusicPixel GraphicsStory RichLevel EditorIndieSingleplayerLocal Co-OpAction2D👍 25,025
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Both: Visual Novel
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$13.99Fields of Mistria
Aug 5 · NPC Studio
Start your new life! Build the farm of your dreams as you discover a world brimming with possibilities. Magic, romance, and adventure all await you in this nostalgic farming / life sim RPG!
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May 29 · Reuniko
Online voxel sandbox where you can build anything imaginable. Forget simple cubes – sculpt slopes, curves, and structures of any size with many realistic materials. Your imagination is the only limit!
Early AccessVoxelBuildingSandboxProcedural GenerationLevel EditorFantasyChoose Your Own AdventureGod GameCharacter Customization
$9.99Fell & Sell
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Both: Short · Female Protagonist
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$24.99Bootstrap Island
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