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A visual novel where you're trapped in a time loop in a gray, soulless city. You unravel a mystery and decide whether escaping is truly worth it.

  • Dialogue and role-playing
  • Choices with consequences
  • Emotional impact
  • Pixel art

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Analogue: A Hate Story

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2012PC94 % positive9.75 €

Brings what grabs you about Deep Pixel Melancholy: dialogue where you play your role, choices with consequences and emotional impact.

A sci-fi visual novel in which you investigate the logs of an abandoned generation ship and talk with two AIs about its rigid, patriarchal society. Your relationships with them steer you toward one of five endings.

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The Red Strings Club

Dialogue and role-playing

A dense cyberpunk narrative game where you work as a bartender, potter and phone impersonator to steer people and expose a corporate conspiracy. It raises thoughtful questions about fate, happiness and the ethics of technology.

Mothmen 1966

Pixel art

A visual novel in a 1960s pulp style with pixel art reminiscent of old home computers. Set during the 1966 Leonid meteor shower, it tells an eerie, atmospheric tale of strange occurrences and moth-like beings.

Steins;Gate 0

Dialogue and role-playing

A dark, emotional visual novel sequel to Steins;Gate in which Okabe struggles with trauma and guilt in a timeline without time travel, torn over whether to change the past again. Your choices lead to different endings in a dense, time-travel-driven story.

Who's Lila?

Dialogue and role-playing

A reverse detective story where you are the suspect under interrogation and control your character's facial expressions instead of picking dialogue lines. The unusual mechanic makes lying, nerves and memory gaps tangible.

Orwell: Keeping an Eye on You

Strong, story-driven narrative

You work as an investigator for a government surveillance program, combing through chats, files and profiles of citizens and deciding which information to pass on. It makes the moral cost of mass surveillance tangible within a gripping thriller story.

Emily is Away

Dialogue and role-playing

A nostalgic interactive story told entirely through an early-2000s instant messenger, where your chat replies over several years shape a bittersweet relationship with Emily.

1bitHeart

Pixel art

You play Nanashi, a lonely boy suffering from agoraphobia, who untangles a string of strange mysteries in a small town while slowly making friends. Its quirky 1-bit art gives the quiet, offbeat atmosphere much of its charm.

Needy Streamer Overload

Pixel art

You manage the daily life of streamer Ame, scheduling streams and time slots while trying to keep her fragile mental state in check. Behind the colorful internet-culture look lies a dark story about dependency, with many different endings.

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