Subsurface Circular
Play a robot detective riding an underground train, questioning passengers to solve a string of disappearances.
94% of 1,497 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
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ESC
An interactive novel about identity, roleplay, and dreams.
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99% of 102 Steam reviews are positive$4.99Eternal Threads
Eternal Threads is a single-player, first-person story-driven puzzle game of time manipulation, choice and consequence.
Story-driven, Mysterious, Atmospheric
86% of 551 Steam reviews are positive$19.99Beacon Pines
A cute, creepy storybook adventure. You play Luka, a young deer snooping into his small town's strange events, and also the reader of the book telling his tale. Collect words, slot them into turning points, and watch the whole story bend around your choice. Cozy on the surface, unsettling underneath.
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97% of 3,116 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 12$19.99Storyteller
A puzzle game where the pieces are people. Drag characters and settings into comic panels until the story matches its title: love, betrayal, dragons, murder. You know how these tales go, but this time you are the author, and there is more than one way to write each one.
Also in Visual novel · Story-driven, Mysterious, Emotional
88% of 8,282 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 46$14.99Stars Die
A giant cathedral of flesh has appeared in the middle of the ocean on a dying world. A small group of scientists are secretly investigating it when a mysterious woman appears, facing an impossible task.
Story-driven, Surreal, Mysterious
88% of 150 Steam reviews are positive$4.99The Stanley Parable
A first-person walk through an empty office where a narrator tells your story, and you keep deciding whether to listen. Every disobedience sends the tale somewhere new and stranger. It is short, very funny, and it will argue with you about what a game is allowed to do.
Story-driven, Surreal, Mysterious
92% of 40,359 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 36$14.99Neve
Neve is a non-linear interactive fiction in which your decisions can completely change the course of story. Manage your team, race against time and unravel the mysteries surrounding your ship's crash in this suffocating retrofuturistic thriller that will have you hooked from the first second.
Also in Visual novel · Story-driven, Mysterious, Atmospheric
98% of 66 Steam reviews are positive$12.99Decade
Control history in Decade - a groundbreaking indie adventure. Explore an alternate past. Discover how its ideas develop, distort, and disappear. Seed new movements, destroy others. Subvert the rise and fall of empires, art, ideologies, and individuals in this experimental narrative game.
Also in Visual novel · Story-driven, Surreal, Mysterious
95% of 147 Steam reviews are positive$9.99Heart of the House
When your uncle Kent mysteriously disappears, you'll embark on a journey find out what really happened. What will you sacrifice when trapped in a haunted manor? Will you destroy this evil or claim its power? And can love bloom in a haunted house?
Story-driven, Mysterious, Atmospheric
91% of 74 Steam reviews are positive$6.99A Study in Steampunk: Choice by Gaslight
Steam-powered mechs meet forbidden sorcery in this interactive steampunk novel, inspired by Sherlock Holmes, Dracula, Jekyll & Hyde, and Jack the Ripper!
Story-driven, Mysterious, Emotional
95% of 173 Steam reviews are positive$6.99Subsurface Circular
A robot detective, a subway car full of strangers, and a mystery about missing workers. Subsurface Circular is a short, sharp text adventure where words are your evidence: collect phrases, spend them in conversation, and decide a city's future before the end of the line.
Also in Visual novel · Story-driven, Mysterious, Atmospheric
94% of 1,497 Steam reviews are positive$2.99Fate of Kai
Explore a magical hand-drawn comic book, travel through time, manipulate characters’ ideas, and solve visual puzzles in this innovative point-and-click adventure to uncover Kai’s fate.
Also in Visual novel · Story-driven, Surreal, Mysterious
91% of 167 Steam reviews are positive$6.99
Cheaper than Penrose
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
Across the Grooves
Your choices affect the destiny of Alice, drastically changing her reality and allowing her to explore alternative destinies by modifying her past.
91% of 109 Steam reviews are positive$4.19
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
Trials of Harmony ~ A Found Phone Mystery Visual Novel
What would you do if you suddenly found yourself quarantined within an underground nuclear facility, isolated, and forced to play a series of death…
67% of 21 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
Seers Isle
Seers Isle is a narrative game, set in a fantasy version of medieval northern Europe, where your choices impact the fate of a group of characters.
91% of 170 Steam reviews are positive$4.19
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
Faded Stories: Greenberg
Here in the city of Greenberg time is meaningless, and space is infinite. The city has endless history and yet... The whole place is fading away.
93% of 54 Steam reviews are positive$1.74
Gone Home
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.
77% of 13,658 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8$4.49
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 259 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
The Last Time
The Last Time features the narrative depth and emotional impact of a modern adventure title, delivered with the graphical style and game mechanics…
94% of 133 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
Paradox Factor
Alter your past and future in this thought-provoking and edgy time travel game. Are you willing to live with the effects that your changes may cause?
57% of 7 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
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Burden Street Station
A surreal, narrative adventure game where you shapeshift during conversations to uncover how God went missing.
97% of 380 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
12 Memory Lane
Explore the shifting manor of the enigmatic Henri Villemaine and uncover the truth behind his family’s sudden disappearance.
94% of 301 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Decade
Control history in Decade - a groundbreaking indie adventure. Explore an alternate past. Discover how its ideas develop, distort, and disappear.
95% of 147 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Reviver
A narrative puzzle game with themes of love, fate and time. Follow the life stories of the two main characters and influence their destinies through…
91% of 202 Steam reviews are positive$8.99
A Guidebook of Babel
A narrative-driven puzzle adventure game with the butterfly effect at its core.
91% of 888 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Beacon Pines
A cute, creepy storybook adventure. You play Luka, a young deer snooping into his small town's strange events, and also the reader of the book…
97% of 3,116 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 12$19.99
Centum
Every why has a wherefore. You are trapped, and you must escape. But is that really the goal?
78% of 168 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$9.74
Until Then
Follow Mark through school days, first love and a mystery that slowly unravels everything he thought he knew.
96% of 16,275 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 149$19.99
The Passenger
Your eldritch existence is threatened when another abomination tries to feast on you.
89% of 128 Steam reviews are positive$6.99
Eternal Threads
Eternal Threads is a single-player, first-person story-driven puzzle game of time manipulation, choice and consequence.
86% of 551 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Storyteller
A puzzle game where the pieces are people. Drag characters and settings into comic panels until the story matches its title: love, betrayal…
88% of 8,282 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 46$14.99
Fate of Kai
Explore a magical hand-drawn comic book, travel through time, manipulate characters’ ideas, and solve visual puzzles in this innovative…
91% of 167 Steam reviews are positive$6.99
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Burden Street Station
A surreal, narrative adventure game where you shapeshift during conversations to uncover how God went missing.
97% of 380 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Neve
Neve is a non-linear interactive fiction in which your decisions can completely change the course of story.
98% of 66 Steam reviews are positive$12.99
12 Memory Lane
Explore the shifting manor of the enigmatic Henri Villemaine and uncover the truth behind his family’s sudden disappearance.
94% of 301 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Decade
Control history in Decade - a groundbreaking indie adventure. Explore an alternate past. Discover how its ideas develop, distort, and disappear.
95% of 147 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Inhuman Resources: A Literary Machination
A literary machination about corporations, conspiracies, and the unspeakable horrors you’ll commit for minimum wage.
90% of 63 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$14.99
YOUR HOUSE
A narrative puzzle-thriller that blurs the lines between games and books, reality and fiction, puzzles and storytelling.
79% of 48 Steam reviews are positive$6.99
Centum
Every why has a wherefore. You are trapped, and you must escape. But is that really the goal?
78% of 168 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$9.74
Reviver
A narrative puzzle game with themes of love, fate and time. Follow the life stories of the two main characters and influence their destinies through…
91% of 202 Steam reviews are positive$8.99
Until Then
Follow Mark through school days, first love and a mystery that slowly unravels everything he thought he knew.
96% of 16,275 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 149$19.99
Still Joking
What do mirror reflections do once they have no one to repeat after anymore?
90% of 40 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
TEST TEST TEST
Play an office worker trapped in a 15-minute time loop, solving cryptic puzzles with clues that lead outside the game.
91% of 1,031 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut
A voice in your head demands a death, and the woman in the basement has other plans for you.
96% of 33,415 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 474$17.99