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You follow a crude girl and her enormous gun across a dying desert, through nine endings of weird, funny and quietly sad story.
Loved how dark and story-driven Diptych can get? You will find a few strong contenders among these games.
Four strangers and one brave dog get swept into World War I, and their fates keep crossing as they try to survive it. A hand-drawn comic book adventure of puzzles, sneaking and small acts of kindness in the trenches, with a story that stays with you long after the end.
Dark, Story-driven, Atmospheric
11th November 1916, a young photographer leaves Canada to join the western front in Europe. The same day, a German technician is told that his son is missing in action. Both want to preserve their humanity and come back alive to their loved ones.
Dark, Story-driven, Atmospheric
A surreal visual novel about a foul-mouthed girl dragging a giant cannon through a desert, on her way to shoot down the sky. Nine endings, a striking retro look, a soundtrack worth sitting still for, and many ways to die stupidly. Short, strange and surprisingly moving.
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The WWI story where your goal isn’t to kill, but to survive. In the still trenches, three soldiers learn the harsh truth of war: reckless missions, digging trenches, collecting dog tags and ghostly whispers in the dark. Home before the leaves fall, they thought.
Dark, Story-driven, Atmospheric
Stagger through the First Lassallian War and find love amongst doomed youth. Because We're Here is an otome visual novel in an unforgiving WW1-inspired setting. Nothing to worry about - it'll all be over by Christmas.
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A dark fairytale visual novel about a girl running through a night forest, and the three lonely strangers waiting at the end of each path. A yandere yuri story told in second person, where love and danger wear the same face and every ending arrives exactly on time.
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The silent union of two girls begins to dissolve in an abandoned high school. A melancholic and liminal short story played in a single sitting, where the fear of collapse is felt at every moment.
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The first of seven chapters, which will tell an amazing story about the adventures of a girl and her friends. Colorful landscapes and warm sunny atmosphere. Also, they will find the real door! And take part in the contest! Can you imagine?
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A quiet town awaits death. Two young women fall in love.
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A visual novel set in an afterlife where nothing really matters, so you might as well make friends. Explore 80+ hand-drawn locations, help seven charming souls work through what kept them stuck, crack far too many cat puns, and find one of several endings. Short, funny and quietly moving.
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A short, very red horror visual novel. Alexey hides from his pursuers in the village where he grew up, and the forest around it turns out to hold something his grandmother's tales never quite invented. Six endings, hand-drawn black-and-red art and a dark ambient soundtrack make it a tense evening well spent.
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Without a Dawn is a dark, psychological, and philosophical visual horror novel featuring hauntingly beautiful pseudo-ASCII art.
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You follow a crude girl and her enormous gun across a dying desert, through nine endings of weird, funny and quietly sad story.

Be the voice guiding a girl through one small errand that feels impossibly hard.

Waking up from a nightmare, Jessica finds confirmation to her suspicions.

A dark fantasy action adventure where you unbury a tale of intimacy and violence in order to cleanse a demonic infestation from a once-beautiful land.

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

An unemployed girl takes the only job she can find, and it happens to be fighting evil as a magical girl.

You wake up in a mysterious place, alone and freezing to death, the only person around seems to be a weird girl with a long sleeve soviet jersey.

Lead The Rebellion, build your army, and shape the world with your choices.

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

Explore a student's shrunken world, follow her thoughts as they turn strange, and choose between three endings.

Twilight is a small dividing line between light and darkness. Sometimes you have to choose where you should stay and for what purpose.

They say it's hard to find a place to call your own, but what if such a place was not uniquely yours?

A quiet town awaits death. Two young women fall in love.

A short, linear story game of a random demon guy's life.

The WWI story where your goal isn’t to kill, but to survive.

The silent union of two girls begins to dissolve in an abandoned high school.

Without a Dawn is a dark, psychological, and philosophical visual horror novel featuring hauntingly beautiful pseudo-ASCII art.

Hide in your childhood village, listen to the old tales, and find out which of six endings is yours.

A dark, witty, psychological thriller in the horror genre, A Work of Art presents a 1-2 hour story-driven experience with Visual Novel features and…

As an adventurer, you have unintentionally uncovered a horrifying secret hidden in the town for years.

MOOD is a short visual novel combining horror, dark humor, and dialogues on a wide variety of topics, from old movies to ancient wars.

"In my dreams, I can get out. In my dreams, I can fit in." 'ghostpia' mixes the adorable art style of an illustrated book with glitches-and-noise…

You follow a crude girl and her enormous gun across a dying desert, through nine endings of weird, funny and quietly sad story.

Run through a night forest, choose your path, and meet the three strangers waiting at the end of each one.

The silent union of two girls begins to dissolve in an abandoned high school.

One war and three heroes on opposing sides. Love, conviction and sacrifice will define them.

A fully hand-drawn Point & Click adventure game. 1916. Somewhere deep in the night. War. Death. Play as a lost man, stuck between two front lines.

The WWI story where your goal isn’t to kill, but to survive.

A quiet town awaits death. Two young women fall in love.

A short, linear story game of a random demon guy's life.

Investigate the lives of Ivy, Issa, Everett, Logan, Anju, Aisha, Billy, Leslie, Idris, Jimmy, Pinto, e-slum5, Mel, Granny, Gramp, Au, Joel, Eel…

Horror vs. Heartfelt: You decide, when you play a teen sneaking out to hold a seance for your lost twin sister on the anniversary of her death.

"Lies, treachery, and a bounty worth dying for. You’re no warrior, just a cunning hunter—will your wits be enough to catch Ralph Devour?"

Follow the story of the Unseen Narrator, whose repetitive life falls apart when their co-worker decides to quit on a whim.

You were hired to extract a bioengineer. Now your team is cut off, your comms are dead, and you're surrounded by something wearing human skin.

Without a Dawn is a dark, psychological, and philosophical visual horror novel featuring hauntingly beautiful pseudo-ASCII art.