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Dig through files and clues with a peculiar program to find out what happened to someone who vanished.
Miss the story-driven and mysterious pull of Free Will? These games keep things close enough to feel familiar.
A lost pixel girl named Lumi shows up on your desktop and wants her memories back. To help her, you solve puzzles in Paint and Notepad, dig through files you never put there, and slowly find out who she is. A short, funny, fourth-wall-breaking story that turns your own computer into the game.
Story-driven, Mysterious, Surreal
A child named Niko carries a lightbulb through a dying world, and you are the god who guides them. A surreal puzzle adventure where the game talks to you, uses your actual computer for its puzzles, and asks choices of you that sting. Short, strange, and hard to forget.
Story-driven, Mysterious, Dark
A little girl is home alone while her mom works, and a day of hide-and-seek, kittens and snacks slowly turns into something else. This pixel adventure hides a looping, twisting mystery behind its cute face, with multiple endings and a story that rewards a second look. Sweet on the surface, quietly unsettling underneath.
Story-driven, Mysterious, Dark
A redux version of a 2014 Ludum Dare RPG Maker Horror Game. A poor little marshmallow escapes death row into an underground subway system, where they're asked questions by a mysterious game show host. Updated in 2025 with new content.
Story-driven, Mysterious, Dark
A short pixel game about a girl who wakes up in a pink room she does not recognize. A strange man says he is going out to buy her favorite bear biscuits. Explore the weird house, solve mild puzzles, and find out what this place really is. It starts unsettling and ends somewhere warmer.
Story-driven, Mysterious, Dark
I DIDN'T WANT TO MAKE THE "OFFERING APP" SORRY πππ NEMO ORDERED ME TO DO THAT SORRY πππ
Story-driven, Mysterious, Dark
A short, cute-looking story game about Lar, an experiment trying to escape a strange research facility. Talk your way into the trust of the other experiments, poke at light puzzles, and pick the choices that decide which route you take. The story hides more than one layer: finish it once and a second playthrough opens up new paths and endings. Around three hours for the first run, with several more waiting after that.
Story-driven, Mysterious, Dark
A haiku platformer. It's short and vague.
Story-driven, Mysterious, Dark
you find an abandoned fps game on an old computer. you decide to play it.
Story-driven, Mysterious, Dark
See how a game created by the very Jigsaw would look like! Use the available objects, outwit tricky illusions and optical puzzles and above all, answer the question β will you dare to Play with Me?
Story-driven, Mysterious, Dark
Paper Lily is a pixel horror adventure about Lacie, a shut-in who follows a strange golden letter into a hidden world. Every puzzle has more than one solution, your choices shape which ending you get, and something is always watching. About four hours long, strange, sad and quietly terrifying.
Story-driven, Mysterious, Dark
Explore the mysterious room by traversing time, while you watch a man succumb to the room syndrome.
Story-driven, Mysterious, Dark

Dig through files and clues with a peculiar program to find out what happened to someone who vanished.

A slow first-person walk through a dreamlike nowhere where lost inhabitants trade regrets and half-finished sentences.

When demons leave your head and fill the whole world, all you can do is close your eyes and go forward.

you find an abandoned fps game on an old computer. you decide to play it.

A genre-hopping comedy of rage platforming, spider game shows and fourth-wall jokes, hiding a darker story with multiple endings.

SWOLLEN TO BURSTING is a weirdo RPG in which something is very wrong.

Wickeina 'Wicke' Gestalt lives in a haunted house. Trying to balance the stresses of life with the horrors of her home, play through aβ¦

Tormenture is a psychological horror game where you play as a child trapped in a cursed 8-bit game with a dark secret.

You walk through a developer's unraveling mind while his game watches you right back.

Congratulations! You've been hired by an up and coming Game Development Studio to play-test their New Game (which as of now does not have a title).

Help Lacie solve puzzles with many answers, follow the golden letter deeper, and see which of several endings your choices earn.

Follow Eliot through a pastel amusement park where every friendly rule hides something wrong, across eight chapters of psychological horror.

Follow Eliot through a pastel amusement park where every friendly rule hides something wrong, across eight chapters of psychological horror.

A slow first-person walk through a dreamlike nowhere where lost inhabitants trade regrets and half-finished sentences.

When demons leave your head and fill the whole world, all you can do is close your eyes and go forward.

Dig through files and clues with a peculiar program to find out what happened to someone who vanished.

Hey player, It's the day before the Millennium. Follow me, I will give you a unique psychological horror experience.

I DIDN'T WANT TO MAKE THE "OFFERING APP" SORRY πππ NEMO ORDERED ME TO DO THAT SORRY πππ

you find an abandoned fps game on an old computer. you decide to play it.

A genre-hopping comedy of rage platforming, spider game shows and fourth-wall jokes, hiding a darker story with multiple endings.

A short visual novel about affection and reality, where hundreds of choices twist the story toward very different endings.

Tormenture is a psychological horror game where you play as a child trapped in a cursed 8-bit game with a dark secret.

Wickeina 'Wicke' Gestalt lives in a haunted house. Trying to balance the stresses of life with the horrors of her home, play through aβ¦

A short first-person horror story about a girl raised in a shelter, told over roughly a week.