
Newfound Courage
You're a young man named Alex who arrives in the cliffside town of Silverpine.
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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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No Longer Home is a game about letting go of the life you've built due to circumstances beyond your control. Immerse yourself in the lives of Bo and Ao and learn about their dreams, frustrations and fears. Welcome the magic of the everyday and somewhat extraordinary.
Also in Visual novel · Emotional, Story-driven, Hand-drawn
You're a young man named Alex who arrives in the cliffside town of Silverpine. Explore the town's many mysteries and meet its colourful townsfolk, while you grow closer to a kind-hearted local named Jake. Can the two of you save the town from the impending doom brewing inside the mysterious Vault?
Emotional, Story-driven, Atmospheric
A quiet town awaits death. Two young women fall in love.
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It's 1:15 AM, June 7th, 1995. You come home from a year abroad to an empty, rain-lashed house. No note on the fridge, nobody in sight. Open drawers, read letters, piece together where everyone went. A short, quiet, surprisingly moving mystery told entirely through the things a family leaves behind.
Emotional, Story-driven, Atmospheric
An adventure game about old computers, community, creativity, fandom, gender, and the internet. Alex Cole is a teenage trans girl in 1999 who has yet to figure herself out. She spends much of her free time on the internet, browsing a fan forum for her favorite magical girl show, and chatting with her friends.
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The summer of 1995, four teenage girls, a punk band and a camcorder that captures it all. Twenty-seven years later, a strange package pulls them back to the secret that made them promise never to speak again. A story-rich adventure from the creators of Life is Strange, where your choices shape the friendships and the ending.
Emotional, Story-driven, Atmospheric
A short visual novel about May and August, two girls who fall in love and grow old together, or don't. When the person you love hurts you, you choose how to respond, and your choices lead to five endings in about an hour. Hand-drawn art, a lo-fi soundtrack, and a story that earns its tears.
Also in Visual novel · Emotional, Story-driven, Hand-drawn
A cinematic visual novel about Fang's final year of high school, with the world about to end. Hand-drawn art, original songs you perform, and choices that shape who Fang becomes. A heartfelt, funny story about love, friendship and making things count while there is still time.
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Two high school sweethearts, one small town in late 90s rural Indonesia, and a reality that is quietly coming apart. A Space for the Unbound is a pixel-art adventure about anxiety, memory and growing up, where you explore a town, help people with what weighs on them, and pet the cats. Warm, strange and quietly devastating in the best way.
Emotional, Story-driven, Atmospheric
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.
Also in Visual novel · Emotional, Story-driven, Hand-drawn
Mae Borowski drops out of college and comes home to Possum Springs, a fading mining town where her friends have moved on and something stirs in the woods. A hand-drawn story about growing up, with sharp jokes, characters who feel real, and a mystery that gets darker the longer you stay.
Also in Visual novel · Emotional, Story-driven, Hand-drawn

You're a young man named Alex who arrives in the cliffside town of Silverpine.

It's 1:15 AM, June 7th, 1995. You come home from a year abroad to an empty, rain-lashed house. No note on the fridge, nobody in sight.

An adventure game about old computers, community, creativity, fandom, gender, and the internet.

A hand-drawn romance about meeting, marrying, growing old, and deciding what to do when love hurts.

Wander a fading mining town, talk with old friends and follow the strange things stirring at its edges.

The August Before is a meditative narrative 3D puzzle about cleaning up, sorting out and packing up your life before moving on.

Make up for lost time with Once Again, If you could travel through time, who’s the first person you’d meet?

Enter the pages of the hand painted world of Journal. A journey through the life of a young and troubled girl as she tries to face up to the choices…

Point, click and puzzle your way through the disjointed rooms of a remembered romance, from first spark to letting go.

A chill cleaning game set at the end of the world.

Lily was a normal teenager in 2004, and you just found her laptop.

An emotional and immersive game about a man named Will and the people close to him. Experience his life through a story about love, memories and hope.

Play a girl detective scraping together cash on a beautiful island, where every choice pushes you toward romance, ruin or one of many endings.

Lily was a normal teenager in 2004, and you just found her laptop.

A horror-romance visual novel following the trials of a dysfunctional friend group thrust back into the wish-granting wonderland of their youth.

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

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

Drive an old man north to keep a promise to his late wife, photographing the journey and reliving the memories it stirs up.

Clean cabins, poke through belongings and untangle a string of thefts aboard a 1960s ocean liner.

The August Before is a meditative narrative 3D puzzle about cleaning up, sorting out and packing up your life before moving on.

Until Oblivion is an atmospheric narrative game that follows 17 year old nobody Emma Wilson as she tries to rekindle a dying relationship in a dying…

Three old friends, one blazing villa in Southern Italy, two lost years to make up for.

Guide Fang through their last year of high school, making choices about love, family and music before an asteroid arrives.

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

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

Drive an old man north to keep a promise to his late wife, photographing the journey and reliving the memories it stirs up.

Lily was a normal teenager in 2004, and you just found her laptop.

Play a girl detective scraping together cash on a beautiful island, where every choice pushes you toward romance, ruin or one of many endings.

Clean cabins, poke through belongings and untangle a string of thefts aboard a 1960s ocean liner.

A horror-romance visual novel following the trials of a dysfunctional friend group thrust back into the wish-granting wonderland of their youth.

Step into a fractured 00s childhood in the South of England.

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

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

The August Before is a meditative narrative 3D puzzle about cleaning up, sorting out and packing up your life before moving on.

Rewind to 1995, bond with three friends over a band and a camcorder, then face the secret you buried 27 years later.

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