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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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A short, surreal horror trip of about an hour that feels like a glitchy hard drive full of nightmares. A narrator who starts out jokey leads you into ever darker corners of the human mind.
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An atmospheric pixel-art horror game where you wake in a strange house and piece together a murder. Your own reading of the clues shapes what really happened.
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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 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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A night out on an island turns supernatural when a group of teens tune a radio into eerie frequencies. Its fluid walk-and-talk dialogue lets you answer without stopping, and those choices shape both the friendships and the ending of this moody mystery thriller.
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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 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 lengthy visual novel blending horror and romance, about a trans man whose devotion to art becomes disturbingly literal. A branching story, watercolor illustrations and nine endings encourage replays.
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As an unqualified new hire at a sinister megacorporation, you explore a cursed office complex in pixel art, full of witches, puzzles and absurd humor. A dark, quirky blend of workplace satire and survival-horror adventure.
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A short, dark story adventure about a little girl chasing a terrible secret through a colorful fairy-tale world of oddball characters. The contrast between cute visuals, black humor and heavy themes is what makes it memorable.
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