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Outside the door is a mystic visual novel set within one office.
Did CurrentDay leave you in a story-driven and dark frame of mind? You will find a few strong contenders among these games.
You only have 21 days until this living city dies. The clock is ticking. You can’t be everywhere at once. Decide what to explore, who to meet and see every decision shape the curious stories and terrible secrets of this branching narrative game.
Story-driven, Dark, Emotional
7Days Origins is a single-player story game where the storyline changes based on the player's choices. For 7 days, you will meet various characters in the world of the dead. You may become allies and embark on adventures together or become enemies and fight.
Story-driven, Dark, Emotional
The Novelist asks one central question: can you achieve your dreams without pushing away the people you love? The game focuses on Dan Kaplan, a novelist struggling to write the most important book of his career while trying to be the best husband and father he can be.
Story-driven, Dark, Emotional
Heartstop is an emotional, story-driven game, taking place in a world where every living being has suddenly stopped moving. Uncover the mystery of this eerie event while building a dynamic relationship between the only two people remaining, through the many impactful and hard-hitting choices.
Story-driven, Dark, Emotional
You have money. You have a home. You have a family. And you're dying. You have very little time left. Make impossible choices and decide what you're willing to sacrifice for one more week of life.
Story-driven, Dark, Emotional
Step into the shoes of Lyric, the humble innkeeper in a quiet mountain village, as she reflects upon a lifetime of poignant memories, heartwarming friendships, and bittersweet choices — proving along the way that you don't have to slay dragons to be the hero of your own story.
Story-driven, Emotional, Atmospheric
They both know what that means. You spend his last day together: chores, small talk, and one long conversation where every answer matters. A short, quiet, heavy story.
Story-driven, Dark, Emotional
Play 4 characters, live their unique stories and manage their daily lives to create their best day ever. In this narrative game, your decisions have consequences and change the outcome of the stories.
Story-driven, Emotional, Replayable
You have five days to save your husband, who has just been arrested by the Gestapo. Investigate, explore and form allegiances in this story-rich RPG-lite. Who will you trust?
Story-driven, Dark, Emotional
Run a roadside diner on the last ordinary day. Grill burgers, pour coffee and listen while the world outside heads for the end. A short, fully voiced story with dialogue choices, flashbacks and multiple endings, where no choice is wrong and nobody has to die hungry.
Story-driven, Dark, Emotional
Two families, one robbery gone wrong in 1998 Arizona, and thirty years of consequences. This interactive drama plays like a motion graphic novel: you steer conversations, snap decisions and split-second reactions, and every choice reshapes who these people become. Play solo or vote with up to seven friends, then replay to see how differently it all could have gone.
Story-driven, Dark, Emotional
Survive the Blackout is a narrative survival game set in a dark post-apocalyptic world. Choose Your Own Adventure gameplay, squad-level management, exploration, scavenging, and difficult moral choices. A modern-day tribute to The Oregon Trail.
Story-driven, Dark, Emotional

Outside the door is a mystic visual novel set within one office.

You owe us money, Joe, and we plan to collect. We don't care where it comes from, but you'd better not skip town on us.

Everything is getting unaffordably expensive. Groceries. Bills. How long is this even sustainable?

You've come to the village to "recharge." An hour later, you're looking for something you've lost, sniffing incense in a barn, and arguing with…

This is you, and this – is You. Both of you have something in common – exceptionality in a monotonous moment of time, when meaningless decisions…

Crush someone's skull, Suffer from Hypothermia, Transcend your Mortal Frame, Find all 10 Endings. GET YOUR HOUSE BACK.

A psychological text-based game where each day you are tasked with executing someone based on the limited information provided until one person…

An apocalyptic Ice Age approaches the automatic doors of your convenience store.

You are the captain aboard a starship. Make decisions in the terminal's text logs: from repairing the reactor to moral dilemmas that irreversibly…

Nothing To Remember is an immersive murder mystery that runs in real-time, right on your desktop.

Flashback is a strategy game oriented to your choices. You will play the role of a deliveryman and live in a turbulent city for a month.

Guide Daphné through grief, family secrets and a possible witch legacy, with four endings shaped by what you decide.

A surreal, narrative adventure game where you shapeshift during conversations to uncover how God went missing.

A gritty dice-driven RPG, in a steampunk city. You escaped the War, but how to survive? Explore the city. Build up your skills. Decide who to trust.

Play Liza, a new vampire in a 19th century town, and let every choice decide whether she keeps her humanity or loses it for good.

A narrative simulation game where you play as a mother-to-be working as a toll keeper in the fictional country of Janapa, a nation on the brink of…

Outside the door is a mystic visual novel set within one office.

Serve food and comfort at a mountain diner while the end of the world approaches.

Keep a lonely mountain border post running by blowing the whistle on schedule, while the thin air drains you and something strange takes hold.

You have five days to save your husband, who has just been arrested by the Gestapo.

Take command of a stranded polar expedition and keep everyone alive until winter lets go.

Step into the shoes of Lyric, the humble innkeeper in a quiet mountain village, as she reflects upon a lifetime of poignant memories, heartwarming…

An off-grid cabin. A tech-savvy loner. One ray of sunshine in a bleak, ruined world.

Become the overseer and shape the fate of those who come knocking at the door.

Den-Den: Tokyo Horror is a J-horror RPG where events unfold in real-time.

You have money. You have a home. You have a family. And you're dying. You have very little time left.

Become the overseer and shape the fate of those who come knocking at the door.

A surreal, narrative adventure game where you shapeshift during conversations to uncover how God went missing.

As the checkpoint guard in the only safe zone of the dystopian Republic of Valdoria, you decide who survives.

A journey through the life of a star player of a cryptic and bizarre sport.

A sci-fi drama about love, control, and the price of human emotion.

You've come to the village to "recharge." An hour later, you're looking for something you've lost, sniffing incense in a barn, and arguing with…

A gritty dice-driven RPG, in a steampunk city. You escaped the War, but how to survive? Explore the city. Build up your skills. Decide who to trust.

A narrative simulation game where you play as a mother-to-be working as a toll keeper in the fictional country of Janapa, a nation on the brink of…

Can you survive a zombie apocalypse? Day Zero is a text-based survival game where choices determine fate and ethical and moral decisions matter.

An interactive cyberpunk drama where you live the life of a border officer in a brutal future ruled by tyranny, manipulation, and survival.