q.u.q.
You follow a crude girl and her enormous gun across a dying desert, through nine endings of weird, funny and quietly sad story.
94% of 1,879 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
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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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94% of 2,402 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6FreeUntil Then
Mark is a regular high school student until a meeting sets off a chain reaction: people vanish, memories stop adding up, and something is very wrong beneath the everyday. A pixel-art narrative adventure from the Philippines that starts as a warm coming-of-age story and turns into a mystery you will not put down.
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96% of 16,233 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 149$19.99q.u.q.
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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94% of 1,879 Steam reviews are positive$1.99The NOexistenceN of you AND me
What follows is a short, strange visual novel about existence, affection and what is real, told through hundreds of choices, surreal detours and multiple endings. Cute on the surface, unsettling underneath, and harder to shake off than its few hours suggest.
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93% of 20,708 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 109$1.99Radiotext
Rise against the corporate overlords and become a cyber activist hacker. Join the uprising in a cyberpunk world using radio waves.
Story-driven, Emotional, Mysterious
96% of 89 Steam reviews are positive$11.99start;again
A BL/yaoi mystery visual novel that follows a man named Sebastian as he’s forced into a game of life-or-death, alongside three strangers. Who put him there, and more importantly… who can he trust?
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95% of 169 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$5.99Mr. Rainer's Solve-It Service
When the last thread becomes entangled, their song will be heard.
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98% of 323 Steam reviews are positive$5.99Mobile Murder Mystery
Follow the story of the Unseen Narrator, whose repetitive life falls apart when their co-worker decides to quit on a whim.
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97% of 76 Steam reviews are positiveFreeMinotaur
An adventure game with visual novel-style narrative, Minotaur tells a dark mystery story set in a newly created science fantasy world of synthets, magic-wielding androids and cybernetically enhanced penguins… God, what a (bloody) mess.
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94% of 292 Steam reviews are positive$14.99Burden Street Station
A surreal, narrative adventure game where you shapeshift during conversations to uncover how God went missing.
Story-driven, Surreal, Emotional
97% of 376 Steam reviews are positive$14.99Scottside
"Scottside" is a non-linear visual novel in the thriller genre. A small provincial town may seem quite dull. However, everything changes when you find a strange object in the forest.
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96% of 125 Steam reviews are positive$4.99i feel very lonely and i don't remember myself
A short sci-fi visual novel about four scientists trapped in an underground lab. Explore their chat records to uncover the mysteries of Inturg Technologies. How can they escape their doom?
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Cheaper than ESC
The NOexistenceN of you AND me
A short visual novel about affection and reality, where hundreds of choices twist the story toward very different endings.
93% of 20,708 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 109$1.99
outside the door
Outside the door is a mystic visual novel set within one office.
93% of 764 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
Buried: An Interactive Story
Buried is a playable, interactive story told through stunning photos, a haunting soundscape, and gripping text.
95% of 155 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Stories Untold
Play through four linked 80s horror stories, each with its own way of playing, in about three or four hours.
86% of 4,413 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
Mandemon
Crumbling school buildings in Japan. A string of bizarre incidents. The eerie legend of Mandemon. Lies and truth intertwine.
86% of 354 Steam reviews are positive$2.69
Love Stories: When Pastel Meets Grotesque
Some Scary Love Stories is a visual novel game with option branches Players tap the screen to read the story and make their own choices, eventually…
87% of 256 Steam reviews are positive$0.79
Shadows on the Vatican: Nightingale
Writing on a blog and using her obscure ability, the mysterious Nightingale has been helping people in danger for years.
88% of 34 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Vessels
Quarantined inside an airlock. No memories. No way out. The remaining crew thinks there’s something wrong with you, but the Voice says it’ll help…
95% of 117 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
CINERIS SOMNIA
A girl wakes on the seashore. Her mother is gone; all that remains is her sister's yellow bucket and the sand castle they built together.
90% of 1,280 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 36$4.49
Your Future Self
Your Future Self is a 1-2 hour long story-driven experimental text adventure with unique conversational mechanics, time loop based gameplay, and an…
79% of 84 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Kanna Maze
In an isolated lab beneath the earth, a childhood friend is resurrected. Amidst sealed walls, a spree of killings unfolds.
88% of 373 Steam reviews are positive$3.19
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A quiet town awaits death. Two young women fall in love.
97% of 456 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Scottside
"Scottside" is a non-linear visual novel in the thriller genre. A small provincial town may seem quite dull.
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Denpa Nightmares
No matter how long you’re gone, there will always be a girl waiting for you in the same place. This is a story about forgetting, and about waiting.
92% of 187 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Siren's Call: Escape Velocity
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outside the door
Outside the door is a mystic visual novel set within one office.
93% of 764 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
S4U: CITYPUNK 2011 AND LOVE PUNCH
Play Miki, a part-time online mouthpiece in a pixel-art city, and decide whose words you type and which memories you keep.
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THE AWARD-WINNING CONCLUSION TO THE [ENIGMA] TRILOGY, [ECHOSTASIS] presents a world where our reality is not only curated by algorithms, but created…
90% of 222 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
i feel very lonely and i don't remember myself
A short sci-fi visual novel about four scientists trapped in an underground lab.
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a ~2 hour long graphic adventure novella. Tasked with disrupting the end of the world, you explore, investigate and produce your way through a…
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q.u.q.
You follow a crude girl and her enormous gun across a dying desert, through nine endings of weird, funny and quietly sad story.
94% of 1,879 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
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The NOexistenceN of you AND me
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