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You run a diner serving the last customers while the world ends outside. Between flipping burgers and talking with guests, a quiet, reflective story about time and human psychology unfolds.
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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.
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Max Caulfield returns, shifting between two parallel timelines at a university to unravel her friend Safi's murder. A dialogue-driven narrative adventure built on choices, mystery and emotional relationships.
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A Russian visual novel in which a young man wakes up in a Soviet pioneer camp and, through his choices, finds romance, mystery and time-loop weirdness across many routes and endings. Its nostalgic summer atmosphere and branching paths make it stand out.
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The finale of the Max and Chloe saga is a narrative-driven adventure set at Caledon University, centered on choices and emotional moments. It closes the story of the two characters with a long-awaited reunion.
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Four interlinked point-and-click episodes set in early 20th-century Austria, each following a creative mind wrestling with inspiration, self-doubt and human relationships. Your choices shape how the story unfolds.
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An otome visual novel thriller set in Shinjuku: with a poison collar around your neck, you investigate the X-Day incident alongside former police officers while romance and conspiracy unfold.
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A story-driven horror visual novel set in a North Carolina mining town, where your choices and relationships with the locals decide who survives. Folk-horror dread, a creeping mystery and a hand-drawn look define the experience.
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A dense, dark visual novel about Tokyo high school students, an end-of-the-world prophecy and heavy philosophical themes. It thrives on atmosphere, characters and an intricate, emotional narrative.
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A retro 1980s-style computer game pastiche in which a seemingly friendly AI buddy leads you through mini-games while an unsettling secret gradually unfolds. A short, surprising experience that plays with your expectations.
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What starts as a sugary anime dating sim about a school poetry club gradually turns into unsettling psychological horror that breaks the fourth wall and even toys with the game's own files.
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