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by Socopus Interactive
Seoul, 2035. A first-person noir text adventure. Step into the shoes of Park Eunkyul, an investigator who verifies what no one else wants verified. Read the scene, question the witness, follow erased traces — and watch every certainty you started with quietly fall apart.
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-15%$2.54And who is the maiden?
3 days ago · Cipi Games
Both: Choose Your Own Adventure · Visual Novel · Mystery
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
$3.77La mansión de Campanillas
4 days ago · Lacinia Estudio
Both: Visual Novel · Investigation · 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
-15%$12.74Eternity Lost: Mystery of Aurum Collector's Edition
3 days ago · Cateia Games
Both: Mystery · Puzzle · Investigation
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?
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$9.99Dark Dice: Cthulhu Investigation Log
13 days ago · Selig Interactive
Both: Mystery · Interactive Fiction · 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
-20%$9.59lily's world XD
4 days ago · SonderingEmily
Both: Investigation · Puzzle · Mystery
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
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Both: Visual Novel
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Both: Interactive Fiction · Visual Novel
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4 days ago · ItWorkedOnMyMachine
Both: Puzzle · Investigation · 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.
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7 days ago · Bonuman Game Studio
Both: Puzzle · Thriller
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.
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3 days ago · Team Nyxian
Both: Visual Novel · Mystery
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.
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-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.
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5 days ago · AttritoM7 Productions
Both: Interactive Fiction
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.
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-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.
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3 days ago · Umut KAYA, Volkan USUĞLU
Both: Puzzle · 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.
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3 days ago · P.E.G
Both: Puzzle
Escape the classroom where a girl has locked you in on graduation day. Solve puzzles while looking back on your memories together, and make your way to the place where she is waiting to finally confess your feelings.
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Both: Puzzle · 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.
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Both: Choose Your Own Adventure
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4 days ago · Choice of Games
Both: Interactive Fiction · 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.
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5 days ago · Sonomio Games
Both: Puzzle
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.
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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.
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An endless road, one or two drivers, and nothing waiting at the end of it. One key changes the world around the car — no loading screen. Sixteen cars, five environments. Nothing to unlock, nowhere to be.
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5 days ago · Piece Of Voxel, Gamesforfarm
Both: Visual Novel · Choose Your Own Adventure
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4 days ago · Denki
Both: Puzzle
Sniper Dan is a delightfully funny, family-friendly 3D Hidden Object game with a big twist. Use a sniper rifle to solve hundreds of low-stakes jobs across six packed locations, discover surprising secrets, snap hilarious photo ops, and unlock costumes, upgrades, office décor, collectables and more!
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Yesterday · Jiakang Lin
Both: Puzzle
Kairos: In Step with Time is an experimental interactive experience about time, cosmic order, and human response. Align the time ring, answer six moments of change, and let your final hexagram emerge from the rhythm of the universe.
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Both: Puzzle
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Both: Puzzle · Mystery
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Both: Puzzle
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Both: Visual Novel
A visual novel you read the way you would listen to one full episode of radio. Blue Hawaii Aniki, a self-proclaimed film director, hosts a show for pocket money and reads out the small celebrations listeners send in. As the broadcast rolls on, the lives behind those letters come into view.
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Both: Investigation · 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.
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3 days ago · BobaGames
Both: Puzzle
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
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$2.99DAKENSHI
9 days ago · rspepe
Both: Investigation
Can you hear the bad can? Tap, listen, and reject defective cans in a sound-based inspection game. The line keeps accelerating. Three mistakes end your shift. Headphones strongly recommended.
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4 days ago · Terminalabs
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.
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4 days ago · adrenak, approximi
Both: Puzzle · Investigation
THE JOB INTERVIEW FROM HELL. Chelsea enters a nearly abandoned office building for an interview and gets trapped inside with a serial killer. Explore, solve item-based puzzles, hide when he gets close, and escape. A short 90s-style survival horror with fixed cameras, tank controls and no combat.
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6 days ago · お寿司
Both: Puzzle · Mystery
Observe a familiar Japanese elementary school corridor at night. If nothing has changed, go downstairs. If you spot an anomaly, go upstairs. A wrong choice sends you back to 6F. Escape the loop in this short first-person horror game.
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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.
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A proximity voice chat social deduction game where criminals must commit secret crimes while a Supervisor hunts them, and a hidden Snitch betrays them from within.
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3 days ago · Carrotbbit
Both: Puzzle · Mystery
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.
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4 days ago · Monkey-With-a-Bomb
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3 days ago · Bug Production
Both: Sci-fi
Survival is optional, rent is mandatory. Team up in Dead Margin, a brutal 1-4 player co-op horror. Whisper to survive, avoid anomalies, and scavenge scraps. Sell it to pay the greedy customer. Out here, everything has a price. Especially you.
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3 days ago · Michal Barszczewski
Both: Puzzle
A minimalist puzzle game. You only see the outer edges of the puzzle pieces in a voxel object. Put the puzzle pieces into place to reveal the hidden voxel object and watch it come to life.
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3 days ago · Green Growth Digital
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4 days ago · THE FOOL CREATE
Walk home from school — and step into a different story every time. Talk to the people you pass in town, or take a closer look at the things around you, and a new tale begins.
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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!
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4 days ago · Perfect Circle Team S.A.
Both: Investigation
Welcome to Winston Springs, Officer! The local police station is in urgent need of a Chief of Police, and you’ve been chosen for the job! Handle incoming reports, renovate and expand the station, solve cases, and fight crime!
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$9.99Friendly Steps
Sep 3 · KORO.GAMES
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.
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