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Writer's Rush is a writer life simulator where you compete with other authors for the title of the world's greatest writer. Craft articles, books, scripts, and fanfics. Complete publisher contracts, unlock new skills, and level up your literary talents.
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$9.99PRODUCER 2021
Nov 14 · Stuffed Wombat, ThorHighHeels
Both: Interactive Fiction · Point & Click
a ~2 hour long graphic adventure novella. Tasked with disrupting the end of the world, you explore, investigate and produce your way through a strangely familiar world.
AdventureRPGInteractive FictionPoint & ClickVisual NovelCRPGExplorationImmersive SimChoose Your Own Adventure2D👍 164
$0.99My Dream is a Lost Memory
Jun 18 · LeJunesArt
Both: Interactive Fiction · Point & Click
My dream is a Lost Memory is a short interactive story about having Déjà vu, realizing that this Déjà vu came to you because of a dream, and then wondering if that dream is actually a memory. It's a story about work, limitations and self-respect.
CasualInteractive FictionPoint & ClickVisual Novel2DHand-drawnMinimalistDarkLinearExperimental👍 224
$9.99Kyle is Famous: Complete Edition
Nov 18 · John Szymanski
Both: Interactive Fiction · Point & Click · Dynamic Narration
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.
AdventureChoose Your Own AdventureInteractive FictionFunnyMultiple EndingsText-BasedReplay ValuePoint & ClickComedyDynamic Narration👍 198
$0.99The 39 Steps
Apr 25 · The Story Mechanics
Both: Interactive Fiction · Point & Click
Prepare to experience the original man-on-the-run thriller in a completely new way! There are secrets to be discovered, locations to be explored and - above all - an incredible tale to be told in this ground-breaking interactive novel.
AdventureIndieInteractive FictionCasualBased On A NovelPoint & ClickSingleplayerStory RichHorrorThriller👍 433
FreeWhisper Books
Jul 1 · 滑稽猫
Both: Interactive Fiction · Dynamic Narration
Whisper Books is a collection of high-profile visual novel, artistically expressed based on literature, with hand-painted illustrations, dubbing and interactive options. The gameplay is weak relative to storytelling, suitable for players and readers who like stories.
Visual NovelInteractive FictionHand-drawnDynamic NarrationStory RichIdlerText-BasedAdventureCinematicSingleplayer
$8.997Days Origins
May 2 · Buff Studio
Both: Point & Click · Interactive Fiction
7Days Origins is a single-player story game where the storyline changes based on the player's choices. For 7 days, you will meet various characters in the world of the dead. You may become allies and embark on adventures together or become enemies and fight.
Story RichHorrorVisual NovelPoint & ClickChoices MatterChoose Your Own AdventureInteractive FictionPsychologicalPsychological HorrorDark Comedy👍 313
$9.99Journal
Feb 17 · Locked Door Puzzle
Both: Interactive Fiction
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.
IndieAdventureFemale ProtagonistHand-drawnWalking SimulatorInteractive FictionCasualVisual NovelSingleplayerShort👍 316
$19.99Until Then
Jun 25 · Polychroma Games
Both: Interactive Fiction
A fateful meeting sets off a chain reaction, upending Mark's life. People disappear and memories prove unreliable. Uncover a hidden truth with Mark and his friends in this narrative adventure and race to unravel the mystery before it's too late.
Visual NovelEmotionalPixel GraphicsStory RichInteractive FictionPsychological2DRomanceMysteryAdventure👍 15,742
$9.99Endless Monday: Dreams and Deadlines
May 4 · hcnone
Both: Interactive Fiction
"Endless Monday: Dreams and Deadlines" - In this short story from the Endless Monday, Penny, a mild-mannered corporate grunt, spends a weekend at the office in an effort to finish her project on time while overcoming distractions from coworkers, space aliens, imaginary friends, and herself.
Visual NovelChoose Your Own AdventureInteractive FictionHand-drawnChoices MatterMultiple EndingsAnime2DCuteAdventure👍 1,829
Elegy for a Dead World
Dec 10 · Dejobaan Games, LLC, Popcannibal
Both: Interactive Fiction
Explore dead civilizations, write about what you find, and share your stories with the universe: a game about writing fiction.
IndieAdventureStory RichAtmosphericInteractive FictionExplorationWalking SimulatorExperimentalSingleplayerSci-fi👍 121
$2.49Love in the distance
Feb 4 · Level-Buster Studio
Both: Interactive Fiction
A word adventure game based on a long-distance relationship. On high school and college campuses, pick up memories that belong only to that time. Ideal and reality, if we can chose it again, can we not have regrets?
IndieWord GameDating SimMultiple EndingsStory RichAnimeInteractive FictionSingleplayerVisual NovelCasual👍 268
FreeBad Dream: Fever
Nov 15 · Desert Fox
Both: Point & Click
The world is covered in strange ink, an unknown plague has gathered its cruel harvest. The city seems to be completely empty and dead, but in its every corner there are manifestations of fear, sorrow, loneliness and suffering.
IndiePoint & ClickAdventureHorrorPsychological HorrorSingleplayerFree to PlayAtmosphericDetectiveGore👍 910
$0.99Retention
Jan 13 · Sometimes You
Both: Point & Click · Interactive Fiction
This game is about a person who kept running through his life, never looking back at the past. Once during a trip, he gets into trouble. Now he's lying on the cold ground, buried beneath his bicycle. Slides of various moments fly through his head.
IndieCasualAdventureShortSingleplayerVisual NovelSimulationPoint & ClickPuzzleInteractive Fiction👍 215
$4.99Dark Scavenger
May 16 · Psydra Games LLC
Both: Point & Click · Interactive Fiction
Dark Scavenger is a bizarre point-and-click RPG adventure with a focus on exploration, gaining loot, and meaningful choices. Filling the role of a powerful space traveler, you find yourself stranded on a mysterious alien planet. Will you save the world or just yourself?
RPGIndieAdventureCasualChoose Your Own AdventurePoint & ClickSci-fiComedyInteractive FictionMouse Only👍 153
$3.99Gamer Career Tycoon
Mar 29 · Raptor Claw Games
Both: Management
Start your life as a simple gamer in the year 2000. Find popular games to stream or compete in 8 different Esports. Who will you be? Play your career and story. Can you become the most famous broadcaster or the best progamer in the world?
CasualSimulationRPGIndieManagementEconomy2DSingleplayerReplay ValueDifficult👍 258
$8.99UFO: Henfield
Jan 25 · TACS Games Ltd.
Both: Interactive Fiction · Point & Click
A point and click puzzle adventure game set across multiple time periods. Discover and enjoy this strange and surreal story about a mysterious letter, a missing professor and a confusing mansion. With more than a hundred items, locations and objects to investigate, can you solve the mystery?
Choose Your Own AdventureInteractive FictionPuzzlePoint & Click2DCuteTop-DownDetectiveFunnySurreal
$3.99A Night at the Watermill
Jan 26 · Neon Tales
Both: Point & Click · Interactive Fiction
You wake up in an old watermill in the middle of the night ... and can't remember anything. Examine the surroundings in this thrilling point&click adventure and find out what happened.
Point & ClickFemale ProtagonistDarkVisual NovelInteractive FictionHand-drawnAtmosphericExplorationThrillerHorror
FreeReturn NULL - Episode 1
Apr 2 · Michael Lückgen
Both: Interactive Fiction · Point & Click
Return NULL, a Point & Click Adventure, is set in a distant dystopian society under an oppressive force where you play the role of Jack Drebin; husband and soon to be father whose life is on the verge of chaos. Episode 1 sets up key characters and a plot that escalates into an intense finale.
Interactive FictionIndieComic BookGreat SoundtrackPoint & ClickAdventureSingleplayerVisual Novel
$24.99SEASON: A letter to the future
Jan 31 · Scavengers Studio
Both: Interactive Fiction
Leave home for the first time to collect memories before a mysterious cataclysm washes everything away. Ride, record, meet people, and unravel the strange world around you in this third-person meditative exploration game.
ExplorationInteractive FictionPhoto EditingVisual NovelFemale ProtagonistRelaxingOpen WorldStory RichCasualStylized👍 1,832
$7.99A Memoir Blue
Mar 24 · Cloisters Interactive
Both: Interactive Fiction
A song from years ago triggers a flood of memories for champion swimmer Miriam. Embark on an evocative journey through her turbulent childhood and the complicated relationship she shared with her devoted mother.
AdventureCasualInteractive Fiction2D3DEmotionalFemale ProtagonistAtmosphericColorfulStory Rich👍 450
-75%$2.74Roadwarden
Sep 12 · Moral Anxiety Studio
Both: Interactive Fiction
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.
RPGText-BasedAdventureIndiePixel GraphicsInteractive FictionStory RichChoose Your Own AdventureChoices MatterFantasy👍 4,478
$4.99Gnosis
Mar 15 · So Ro
Both: Interactive Fiction · Point & Click
A dark atmospheric test that asks you to see things in new ways, including the experience of playing itself. In this love letter to flash horror, explore 60 ending permutations and reactivity to your answers, as the game not only allows but implores you to play and break it how you see fit.
Interactive FictionPoint & ClickGothicChoose Your Own AdventureAtmosphericHand-drawnMinimalistMysteryStylizedText-Based
$5.99The Fan
May 10 · Ezhaac Studio
Both: Point & Click · Interactive Fiction
The Fan is an interactive photo fiction with real locations and actors.The game is a first person thriller with a unique twist. Driven by a creepy and unsettling atmosphere, it will take you deep within the darkest places of Paris underground.
ViolentAdventurePoint & ClickHorrorHidden ObjectFirst-PersonDarkPsychological HorrorShortInteractive Fiction👍 133
$19.99Anna's Quest
Jul 2 · Daedalic Entertainment
Both: Point & Click
With her telekinesis, unorthodox use of torture instruments, a knack for improvisation and the help of a shady fox she makes her way from the peaks of Glass Mountain to the deepest dungeon.
AdventurePoint & ClickIndieFemale ProtagonistFantasyDark HumorSingleplayerDarkPuzzleComedy👍 1,829
$4.99This Book Is A Dungeon
Oct 9 · Nathan Meunier
Both: Interactive Fiction
Auto-cannibalism. Demonic Seduction. Occult Rituals. Bloodfeasting Worms. This dark, horrific Twine-based dungeon crawler pairs edgy interactive fiction with grisly pixel art and light RPG elements. Navigate this sprawling narrative-driven labyrinth bristling with otherworldly doom.
IndieAdventureInteractive FictionHorrorDungeon CrawlerChoose Your Own AdventureLovecraftianText-BasedRPGPixel Graphics👍 193
FreeAnswer Knot
May 31 · Naraven
Both: Interactive Fiction
A short narrative and exploration game about Zach, June, and a strange phenomenon. You're Zach and, stuck in your home, you will do everything to keep hearing June's voice messages. What is happening out there?
IndieFirst-PersonShortInteractive FictionWalking SimulatorFree to PlayHorrorSurrealEmotionalSingleplayer
$4.99The Novelist
Dec 10 · Orthogonal Games
Both: Interactive Fiction
The Novelist asks one central question: can you achieve your dreams without pushing away the people you love? The game focuses on Dan Kaplan, a novelist struggling to write the most important book of his career while trying to be the best husband and father he can be.
Story RichChoices MatterAtmosphericStealthIndieFirst-PersonInteractive FictionMultiple EndingsSingleplayerReplay Value👍 553
$2.99Billionaire Lovers
Jul 2 · Ayacat Games
Both: Interactive Fiction
You’re a broke college graduate. Your rich, distant uncle has just shown up and given you 100 million dollars! And right at this moment, four handsome men come into your life. Could this be… the romance you’ve been waiting for!? But wait, there’s something behind their smiles that says otherwise…
Visual NovelRPGPsychological HorrorEducationAnimeEmotionalCasualStory RichInteractive Fiction2D👍 3,652
-70%$1.79Riven (1997)
Aug 4 · Cyan Worlds, Inc.
Both: Point & Click
Released in 1997 as the original sequel to Myst, one of the best-selling puzzle adventure games of all time. Prepare to enter a world "torn asunder" by timeless, unresolved conflicts -- a world of incomparable beauty, intrigue, and betrayal.
AdventurePuzzlePoint & ClickExplorationClassicStory RichDifficultFirst-PersonCasualAtmospheric👍 1,317
$9.99The Order of the Thorne - The King's Challenge
Jan 26 · Infamous Quests
Both: Point & Click
Be a Bard! The challenge awaits!!Join Finn the bard as he undertakes "The King's Challenge" and see if he has what it takes to not only survive, but to write the greatest song in all of the land of Uir!
AdventureIndiePoint & ClickFantasyRetroSingleplayerPuzzle2DFunnyFamily Friendly👍 102
$5.99PAGO FOREST: DRAGON'S REVENGE
Oct 27 · Futurtech
Both: Interactive Fiction · Point & Click
The first of its kind, "Pago's Forest" is an educational game: you improve your grammar through the discovery of a heroic fantasy tale.
EducationSpellingInteractive FictionStory Rich3DVisual NovelTurn-Based TacticsWord GamePoint & ClickText-Based
$17.99Kebab Chefs! - Restaurant Simulator
Jun 11 · Biotech Gameworks
Both: Management
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
$5.99LA FORET DE PAGO : LA VENGEANCE DU DRAGON
Sep 24 · Futurtech
Both: Interactive Fiction · Point & Click
The first of its kind, Pago Forest is an educational game: you improve your grammatical spelling through the discovery of a heroic fantasy tale.
EducationSpellingChoose Your Own AdventureInteractive FictionVisual NovelWord GamePoint & ClickExperimentalStrategy3D
$14.99Rocco's Island: Ring to End the Pain
Mar 2 · Cogoo
Both: Point & Click · Interactive Fiction
Join Evelyn on her quest to save a mysterious island in a puzzle-based atmospheric adventure with a story that spans across 30,000 years of time. Interact with fantastic characters to learn past secrets and transform the Four Elements’ kingdoms, leading up to an epic finale with shocking reveals.
ExplorationFemale ProtagonistPoint & ClickPost-apocalypticEmotionalAdventurePuzzleAtmosphericStory RichInteractive Fiction
$3.99法医探案团之碎嘴小诗
Feb 10 · 芒果互娱
Both: Interactive Fiction
在《法医探案团之碎嘴小诗》中,玩家将化身被害人小诗,用独特的“逝者视角”沉浸式与法医一同寻找自己死因真相!通过“拟真尸检”和“嫌疑人的调查”、“多样的剧情选择”和“技能释放”中冲出层层迷雾,而在扑朔迷离的案情不断袭来之时,一个「糖果岛」的神秘符号,竟引出无数少女的神秘失踪与被囚禁的线索,把案件再次推向新的高潮!
RPGInteractive FictionFMVAdventureMysteryPuzzleStrategyFemale ProtagonistInvestigationLogic👍 135
$2.99Malware
Jul 31 · Odd Games
Both: Point & Click
Malware lurks where you least expect it. Unscrupulous software vendors have hidden traps inside legitimate installers — can you spot them all and keep your computer clean?
SimulationPuzzleSingleplayerStrategyPoint & ClickHidden ObjectIncremental1990'sLife Sim2D👍 1,141
$3.99Polda 5
May 1 · Zima software
Both: Interactive Fiction · Point & Click
Elite private detective Pankrac saves the world as an agent of the Time Police. Help him settle all the time anomalies in the history of mankind.
AdventureCasualAnimation & ModelingDesign & IllustrationInteractive FictionPoint & ClickPuzzleChoose Your Own AdventureIncrementalExploration
$12.99Turmoil
Jun 2 · Gamious
Both: Management
Drill for oil like it's 1899! Turmoil offers players a visually charming, tongue-in-cheek take on the simulation genre inspired by the 19th century oil rush in North America.
ManagementMiningStrategyTime ManagementResource ManagementTurn-Based StrategyMultiplayerSingleplayerRelaxingAsynchronous Multiplayer👍 13,158
$4.99Heroes Rise: The Prodigy
Jun 17 · Choice of Games
Both: Interactive Fiction
Do you have what it takes to become a legendary Powered hero? "Heroes Rise" is an epic interactive novel where your choices control the story. The game is entirely text-based--without graphics or sound effects--and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination. How high will you rise?
RPGChoose Your Own AdventureText-BasedIndieSuperheroInteractive FictionStory RichLGBTQ+Female ProtagonistChoices Matter👍 381
$19.99The Whispered World Special Edition
May 6 · Daedalic Entertainment
Both: Point & Click
When the fate of a world hangs in the balance, an unusual hero arises! The visually impressive adventure-epic The Whispered World is now available as a Special Edition for the first time. Let the Whispered World enchant you with its many animated details and fantastic characters.
AdventurePoint & ClickIndieSingleplayerPuzzleStory RichFantasyAtmosphericGreat SoundtrackHand-drawn👍 1,726
FreeAnachronism\>
May 4 · EloThere
Both: Interactive Fiction
It's 1999 and your friend sends you a floppy disk, titled "RemBo". It turns out to be the installer for an old BBS service, filled with both strangers and a familiar face. How are you going to use it?
Interactive FictionText-Based1990'sTypingVisual NovelChoose Your Own AdventureSingleplayerChoices MatterFemale ProtagonistSoftware
$12.99Sorcery! Parts 1 and 2
Feb 2 · inkle Ltd
Both: Interactive Fiction
An epic adventure in a land of monsters, traps and magic. Journey across the deadly Shamutanti Hills and through Kharé, Cityport of Thieves. Armed with your sword and over fifty spells with weird and wonderful effects, embark on a narrative adventure of a thousand choices where every one is remembered.
Choose Your Own AdventureRPGAdventureIndieInteractive FictionStory RichChoices MatterFantasyText-BasedMagic👍 585
$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
$9.99Bookstore Simulator
Jul 8 · Bookstore Simulator
Both: Interactive Fiction
This is a realistic Bookstore where you can read real books of several different topics. Interested in learning about business communication? Find and read any book in this realistic virtual bookstore. our Other Games Movie Theater Simulator Restaurant Simulator
SimulationCasualInteractive FictionLife SimVisual NovelWalking SimulatorChoose Your Own AdventureFPSIdlerThird-Person Shooter
$14.99Epistory - Typing Chronicles
Mar 30 · Fishing Cactus
Epistory immerses you in an atmospheric action/adventure game where you play a girl riding a giant fox who fights an insectile corruption from an origami world. As you progress and explore this world, the story literally unfolds and the mysteries of the magic power of the words are revealed.
TypingAdventureNarrativeExplorationStory RichFemale ProtagonistSingleplayerColorfulIndieMagic👍 4,029
$0.99Landlord of the Woods
Mar 17 · Madison Karrh
Both: Point & Click
You're 25, you feel like all of your peers are ahead of you in life so you apply for a new job to try to find some sort of meaning. Your new career is filled with physics-based puzzles, hand drawn art & a cute little story.
Point & ClickHidden ObjectPuzzleSurrealCuteAdventurePhysicsShortHand-drawnAtmospheric👍 1,242
$19.99Vellum
May 2 · Alvios Games
Write on! Defend the books in Vellum, a co-op, literary roguelike! Harness class-defining colors, master an inspired spellbook, and influence the growth of your enemy! As a group or solo, you'll craft plot-twisting builds to rewrite the rules in Ink!
Online Co-OpAction RoguelikeThird-Person ShooterFantasyMagic3DRogueliteActionRoguelikeMultiplayer👍 1,291
$0.99Game Tycoon 1.5
Feb 11 · Sunlight Games
Both: Management
Welcome to the Game Industry!The year is 1982. Three young entrepreneurs discover the computer and potential to strike it rich in the Games Industry! Their love for computer games is a common bond that they all share but they are also in fierce competition with one another in a race to build a successful Games Development House…They...
SimulationStrategyManagementEconomyCasual👍 322
$5.99Temple of Endless Night
Nov 12 · Hosted Games
Both: Interactive Fiction
When you discover that the Serpent of Chaos is trying to destroy Egypt, will you stand against him, or will you help spread his eternal darkness?
RPGChoose Your Own AdventureInteractive FictionCharacter CustomizationText-BasedHistoricalHorrorLore-RichChoices MatterMultiple Endings
$12.99Forgotten Fields
Apr 14 · Frostwood Interactive
Both: Interactive Fiction
Forgotten Fields is a game about yearning and nostalgia. Play as Sid - a struggling writer who travels back to his childhood home one last time before it's sold off. Visit old friends, relive memories and play through sections of Sid's book in this warm game about the passage of time.
Interactive FictionNarrativeAdventureStory RichWalking SimulatorCinematicAtmosphericDialogue HeavyRelaxingEmotional
-75%$3.74Valthirian Arc: Hero School Story
Oct 2 · Agate
Both: Management
Build a school for RPG heroes in a mix of simulation and role-play adventure. As Principal of a school for the warriors and mages of the future, you must build your Academy to train the best in the land. Place and upgrade facilities, form teams of the best students and send them out on epic quests!
JRPGRPGStrategySimulationActionFantasyManagementAdventureSwordplayTop-Down👍 247
$12.99CorpoNation: The Sorting Process
Feb 22 · Canteen
Both: Point & Click
Greetings, valued employee. You have been tasked with sorting the Ringo CorpoNation's genetic samples. With the credits that you earn, you can shop, game and pay your bills on time. Rogue workers may try to entice you into betraying your beloved employer, but we know you'll give 110%.
AdventureDystopian SimulationJob SimulatorPoint & ClickStory RichPolitical SimCapitalismMysteryRetro👍 118
$9.99Lilly Looking Through
Nov 1 · Geeta Games
Both: Point & Click
What Lilly sees is about to change her life forever.... Help our heroine through a variety of enchanting environments brimming with magic and wonder, as she seeks to rewrite the past, change the present, and unlock the ultimate mystery. Geeta Games presents an animated point-and-click adventure for all ages: Lilly Looking Through.
Point & ClickAdventureIndie2DFemale ProtagonistShortStory RichPuzzleFamily FriendlyRetro👍 200
FreeTo Carry a Sword
Feb 14 · We Three Nouns
Both: Interactive Fiction
Story-rich roleplaying game mixing interactive events, strategic planning, and real-time combat. Become the guard of a medieval caravan in a journey where the social connections you make are just as important as the money.
RPGChoose Your Own AdventureInteractive FictionProcedural GenerationStory RichRogueliteAtmosphericMedievalHand-drawnModdable
-60%$4.79Mortal Glory 2
Mar 4 · Redbeak Games
Both: Management
Manage a team of traveling gladiators in this turn-based fantasy roguelike. Find the best recruits, discover powerful item combinations and come up with clever tactics on the battlefield. The tournament awaits those who desire MORTAL GLORY!
Turn-Based TacticsRoguelikeOld SchoolTurn-Based CombatParty-Based RPGManagementRogueliteReplay ValueTactical RPGRetro👍 296
Crosswalks
Mar 31 · XinPo Game
Both: Interactive Fiction
Crosswalks in a visual novel that tells different stories when you switch among perspectives. In 2018, an explainable portal appeared under the city of Sanghville, linking two parallel universe together. On one side there are dozens of unsolvable crimes, while the other side was always peaceful...
RPGText-BasedInteractive FictionDetectiveChoose Your Own Adventure2DSingleplayerIndieMystery















