start;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.
95% of 169 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$5.99
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Sentimental Death Loop
Just as you begin to settle in for a fun day at your best friend's house, something changes in her and she kills you. And not just once—she ends your life time and time and time again.Your goal is to escape from this endless loop of despair.
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58% of 151 Steam reviews are positive$19.99It gets so lonely here
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 2,407 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6FreeYet Another Killing Game
You wake up in a house, alone with two beautiful girls... But no one is allowed to leave until one of you DIES. Why is this happening? What is the purpose of this “killing game”? But most importantly...WHO SHOULD DIE?!
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96% of 253 Steam reviews are positive$16.99start;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$5.99lily's world XD
Lily was a normal teenager in 2004, and you just found her laptop. Read her diary, dig through her blog, message her friends and decode what happened to her before it's too late. A fourth-wall-breaking mystery about friendship, body image and growing up lonely online, with someone watching your every click.
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96% of 1,808 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10$11.99FREERIDE
Your Personality plays the game! Help strange spirits solve their Unfinished Business... or leave them to Despair. In this highly-branching narrative adventure you'll only see about 1/3 of the full story in each playthrough, but the end is whenever you want it to be.
Story-driven, Mysterious, Tense
85% of 198 Steam reviews are positive$19.99The Chrono Jotter
A yuri visual novel where dying is a tool: rewind time with your clues intact, interrogate seven classmates, and unmask the killer in a school where murder has become routine. A love story wrapped in Lovecraftian dread, with endings worth replaying for.
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94% of 1,981 Steam reviews are positive$11.99Paper Lily - Chapter 1
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, Retro
99% of 9,070 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 16FreeUNREAL LIFE
A girl wakes with no memories and one name: Miss Sakura. Her only guide is a talking AI traffic light, and her only tool is a strange gift: touch an object, see its memories. A quiet, blue-toned pixel adventure about following clues through a dreamlike night city, solving gentle puzzles and finding out what really happened.
Story-driven, Mysterious, Retro
95% of 1,882 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$19.99Re:Turn - One Way Trip
Re:Turn - One Way Trip is a 2D side-scrolling puzzle-adventure horror game. Trapped in a ghostly train, Saki must search the past and present to find and save her friends. More importantly, Saki must use her wits if she is to survive against an unspeakable evil hellbent on avenging unrequited love.
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78% of 132 Steam reviews are positive$11.99Chronicles of Taldun: The Remainder
A dark fantasy tale where death is not the end but the path to the truth. Two magi trapped in a collapsing tower must unravel a deadly mystery. Each death reveals another piece of the puzzle that is their shared past and forbidden love. For fans of House in Fata Morgana and literary dark fantasy.
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94% of 140 Steam reviews are positive$27.99Pocket Mirror ~ GoldenerTraum
An amnesiac girl wakes in a strange mansion with nothing but a pocket mirror. Explore its twisted rooms, solve puzzles, meet characters who are more than they seem, and piece together who you are. A gothic horror adventure with gorgeous pixel art, a haunting soundtrack and several endings shaped by your choices.
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Good Bones
Your new house has old secrets in this haunting point-and-click mystery, where you'll search for clues about a mysterious death, solve narrative…
75% of 40 Steam reviews are positive$6.74
The Ghost of You
The Ghost of You is a text-based, yuri horror game in which a night at the symphony ends in a massacre.
97% of 31 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
Death and Progress
A girl wakes up with no knowledge of who or where she is, and she soon finds out that the only way forward... is to die.
95% of 22 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Red Bow
If you were given another chance, would you take it? Or leave it in the hands of a little girl?
88% of 238 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Purgatory’s Flower
Hand-drawn 2D point and click Horror x Dating sim Meet the 'Flowers' imprisoned in hell. They long for an escape to purgatory.
94% of 119 Steam reviews are positive$2.50
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 1,883 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
Quantum Witch
A feud between old gods, a missing flock of faer, and every choice has consequences. Ren is in the middle of it all. What will her story be?
95% of 38 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
DE:VOID
An adventure psychological horror game which explores the themes of life and death in a unique way.
91% of 22 Steam reviews are positive$6.99
Raisond'etre
Will you be able to uncover your raison d'être and solve the mysteries that await in this suspenseful thriller?
93% of 73 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
Nyakori's Rabbit Doll
Search a trap-filled mansion for a missing sister and a lost doll, and piece together a memory that hides the truth across four endings.
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Why Am I Dead At Sea
Why Am I Dead At Sea is an adventure game where you solve the mystery of your own murder.
94% of 394 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
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Lily was a normal teenager in 2004, and you just found her laptop.
96% of 1,808 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10$11.99
Heaven Does Not Respond
Heaven Does Not Respond is a psychological and analog horror game set in an alternate 2005 timeline.
90% of 576 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$9.99
Soul Mates
A haunted manor, angry spirits and one very strange dating sim where charm is your only weapon.
94% of 139 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 18$12.99
My Beautiful Faraway, Please Don't Be Cruel To Me
A slow first-person walk through a dreamlike nowhere where lost inhabitants trade regrets and half-finished sentences.
92% of 165 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$10.99
Is this Game Trying to Kill Me?
Trapped in a forest cabin, your only way out is a strange computer game its owner offers you.
95% of 1,565 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$14.99
Purgatory’s Flower
Hand-drawn 2D point and click Horror x Dating sim Meet the 'Flowers' imprisoned in hell. They long for an escape to purgatory.
94% of 119 Steam reviews are positive$2.50
Yet Another Killing Game
You wake up in a house, alone with two beautiful girls... But no one is allowed to leave until one of you DIES. Why is this happening?
96% of 253 Steam reviews are positive$16.99
Lover's Enigma
In Lover's Enigma , you investigate your husband's mysterious death while balancing complex relationships and personal trauma.
88% of 103 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$11.99
Love Alone Death
Build relationship with the characters. Your choices might earn you favor from one character, but disdain from another. Use items to solve problems.
98% of 462 Steam reviews are positiveFree
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
Little Goody Two Shoes
Win hearts in Kieferberg by day, outlast the Woods' horrors by night, and let every choice steer one of ten endings.
95% of 2,275 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 32$19.99
FREERIDE
Your Personality plays the game! Help strange spirits solve their Unfinished Business... or leave them to Despair.
85% of 198 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
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A slow first-person walk through a dreamlike nowhere where lost inhabitants trade regrets and half-finished sentences.
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lily's world XD
Lily was a normal teenager in 2004, and you just found her laptop.
96% of 1,808 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10$11.99
Lover's Enigma
In Lover's Enigma , you investigate your husband's mysterious death while balancing complex relationships and personal trauma.
88% of 103 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$11.99
Heaven Does Not Respond
Heaven Does Not Respond is a psychological and analog horror game set in an alternate 2005 timeline.
90% of 576 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$9.99
Purgatory’s Flower
Hand-drawn 2D point and click Horror x Dating sim Meet the 'Flowers' imprisoned in hell. They long for an escape to purgatory.
94% of 119 Steam reviews are positive$2.50
FREERIDE
Your Personality plays the game! Help strange spirits solve their Unfinished Business... or leave them to Despair.
85% of 198 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Yet Another Killing Game
You wake up in a house, alone with two beautiful girls... But no one is allowed to leave until one of you DIES. Why is this happening?
96% of 253 Steam reviews are positive$16.99
Reviver
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91% of 202 Steam reviews are positive$8.99
Is this Game Trying to Kill Me?
Trapped in a forest cabin, your only way out is a strange computer game its owner offers you.
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Until Then
Follow Mark through school days, first love and a mystery that slowly unravels everything he thought he knew.
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Psychroma
Psychroma is a psychological horror side-scroller set in a haunted cyberpunk house.
87% of 204 Steam reviews are positive$9.99