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As a border inspector in the fictional Eastern Bloc state of Arstotzka, you scrutinize paperwork under time pressure while balancing duty, your family's survival, and the fates of desperate travelers. A bleak, morally gripping game with many endings.
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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.
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You staff an eerie home safety hotline, using a manual to tell callers whether the things in their house are harmless or deadly. Its analog horror look and the weight of your judgments build creeping dread.
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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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As a state-appointed apartment manager in a totalitarian regime, you spy on tenants and make morally heavy decisions. Time, money and conscience are all scarce, and your choices lead to many different endings.
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You join a secret club that spies on strangers through surveillance cameras and decide whether and how to interfere in their lives. You also have to pay rent and buy food, which makes every moral choice harder.
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A visual novel thriller where a group of strangers fights for survival in deadly games. Puzzles, logic and votes drive a dark, twist-filled story.
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A Japanese-style horror game in which you play a college student working a night shift at a convenience store. Mundane job tasks blend with creeping dread, puzzles and multiple possible outcomes.
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You are holed up at home while a disaster reshapes the world, and you must decide whom to let in each night, since not every visitor is human. A tense game of observation, paranoia and consequential decisions.
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A dark, story-driven RPG Maker horror about two siblings starving in a quarantined apartment. Your choices lead to disturbing, macabre and often darkly funny turns across many endings.
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A point-and-click detective adventure set in an alternate steampunk-tinged 19th-century city, where investigator Miles Fordham solves cases and hunts his partner's killer. Wrong accusations have real consequences, since cases carry on even when you reach incorrect conclusions.
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