Californium
Taking the form of a first-person experience of a bad trip, Californium pays homage to sci-fi legend Philip K.
71% of 269 Steam reviews are positive$0.90
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ШХД: ЗИМА / IT'S WINTER
Panel houses, snow, overcast sky, tiny kitchen, shabby staircase… It's Winter is an indie game which genre could be classified as sandbox, post-soviet, sad 3d, russian sadness. Nothing awaits you: there is no chance to get out, no room for adventures and breathtaking plot.
Surreal, Relaxing, Atmospheric
77% of 811 Steam reviews are positive$9.99q.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 1,883 Steam reviews are positive$1.99Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
A girl needs to buy milk. That is the whole errand, and it is one of the hardest things she has ever done. You are the voice in her head, guiding her through a red-drenched, ten-minute spiral of wordplay, dread and fragile trust. A tiny visual novel that says more in a quarter of an hour than most games manage in twenty hours.
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96% of 32,184 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 13$1.49Burden Street Station
A surreal, narrative adventure game where you shapeshift during conversations to uncover how God went missing.
Surreal, Relaxing, Story-driven
97% of 379 Steam reviews are positive$14.99Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It
A quiet outcast. A missing girl. A closed Soviet town that would rather not talk about either. Z.A.T.O. is a linear visual novel about Asya Shubina, who asks the questions nobody in Vorkuta-5 wants asked, and sends a signal to the universe. Seven-odd hours of strange, tender, unsettling storytelling.
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98% of 13,985 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 84FreeESC
An interactive novel about identity, roleplay, and dreams.
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99% of 102 Steam reviews are positive$4.99Вторая степень покоя
Read words and make choices as you immerse yourself in the adventures inside the protagonist's head. This dark visual novel tells the story of a lost man among corpses in a northern Russian town. Will you help the hero find a good ending? I don't know what to do with him anymore.
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100% of 13 Steam reviews are positive$4.99Life Tastes Like Cardboard
A game about boredom and self-pity. It's about myself mostly. You walk around and press the 'interact' button. Sorry for making this.
Surreal, Story-driven, Atmospheric
95% of 339 Steam reviews are positiveFreeExperimentation
A linear visual novel about five short stories, unrelated at first glance. Be prepared for mysticism, gloomy atmosphere and light psychological horror. Not recommended to play if you are experiencing depression or severe psychological state.
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73% of 51 Steam reviews are positive$2.99My 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. You wander, read, talk, and piece together 10+ puzzles to give a finished story some closure. Worth playing for its sad, strange mood and early-2000s look.
Surreal, Relaxing, Story-driven
92% of 164 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$10.99Mr. 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$5.99Winter Novel
Snow, dullness, depression. Constant dissatisfaction with work and superiors and feeling like there is no escape. Is this what life will always be? Perhaps… but I can always hope for change to be just around the corner!…
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82% of 459 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
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Bottle
Bottle is a very short game in which you play as an alcoholic man of solitude.
84% of 79 Steam reviews are positive$0.74
One Night Stand
After a night of fun, passion, and one too many drinks, you wake up the next morning to find a complete stranger lying naked beside you in bed.
89% of 670 Steam reviews are positive$0.74
CAT Interstellar
A short story inspired by Robert Heinlein's:The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
70% of 697 Steam reviews are positive$0.89
Pluviophile
Pluviophile is a very short experience about the mood of rain in the woods.
89% of 281 Steam reviews are positive$0.74
Tonight, I Die in My Sleep
Navigate broken memories in a powerless fantasy fueled equally by nightmares and confessional poetry.
88% of 17 Steam reviews are positive$0.74
MAN STANDING
The ALFINA GAMERS team together with ALFINA WORLD GAME PUBLISHING are pleased to present a unique game experience.
84% of 328 Steam reviews are positive$0.79
Скуф на даче
A cottage is not just about garden beds! Dacha is primarily a solitude with oneself.
88% of 683 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$0.49
The 39 Steps
Prepare to experience the original man-on-the-run thriller in a completely new way!
81% of 433 Steam reviews are positive$0.89
Fariwalk: The Prelude
The world where humanity is almost gone. A few remaining people search for each other amongst monsters, common inhabitants of the Earth.
59% of 69 Steam reviews are positive$0.89
TABLE GAME END
After school today, I talk with her again. Through the window, I see the sunset and someone playing in the schoolyard.
93% of 59 Steam reviews are positive$0.66
Murder
From the designer and artists behind "Stranded" comes a short story about the intersection of morality and sentience, in a cyberpunk future where…
53% of 273 Steam reviews are positive$0.49
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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 379 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Eternal Afternoon
Spend one last afternoon exploring your childhood neighborhood before the world ends at 6:38 PM.
95% of 459 Steam reviews are positive$8.99
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 164 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$10.99
Without a Dawn
Without a Dawn is a dark, psychological, and philosophical visual horror novel featuring hauntingly beautiful pseudo-ASCII art.
93% of 701 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
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 188 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Banebush
Hide in your childhood village, listen to the old tales, and find out which of six endings is yours.
94% of 2,204 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$2.99
outside the door
Outside the door is a mystic visual novel set within one office.
93% of 770 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
MOOD
MOOD is a short visual novel combining horror, dark humor, and dialogues on a wide variety of topics, from old movies to ancient wars.
86% of 436 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It
Ask the questions a closed Soviet town wants left alone, in a strange, tender visual novel about a missing girl and the quiet outcast who won't stop…
98% of 13,985 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 84Free
HOPE LEFT ME
You wake up in a mysterious place, alone and freezing to death, the only person around seems to be a weird girl with a long sleeve soviet jersey.
96% of 874 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
Neyasnoe
Wastelands, grim folks behind garages, a nightclub, and a huge gray sky — a lost world for a lost generation.
93% of 465 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$9.99
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
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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.
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soulstation
Kin and Clef lose themselves in The Station – an afterlife that rotates dreams into realities and a wish into a memory.
100% of 22 Steam reviews are positive$8
Burden Street Station
A surreal, narrative adventure game where you shapeshift during conversations to uncover how God went missing.
97% of 379 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Set Yourself on Fire
A quiet town awaits death. Two young women fall in love.
97% of 458 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Eternal Afternoon
Spend one last afternoon exploring your childhood neighborhood before the world ends at 6:38 PM.
95% of 459 Steam reviews are positive$8.99
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 188 Steam reviews are positiveFree
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A visual novel about warm summer days in a quiet, slightly melancholic little town, lost somewhere in the vast post-Soviet landscape.
100% of 27 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It
Ask the questions a closed Soviet town wants left alone, in a strange, tender visual novel about a missing girl and the quiet outcast who won't stop…
98% of 13,985 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 84Free
Yunashi no Yume
A fractured dream of a girl who tried to make something beautiful, and was silenced before she could finish it. Now, her voice resurfaces.
86% of 56 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Without a Dawn
Without a Dawn is a dark, psychological, and philosophical visual horror novel featuring hauntingly beautiful pseudo-ASCII art.
93% of 701 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
Вторая степень покоя
Read words and make choices as you immerse yourself in the adventures inside the protagonist's head.
100% of 13 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
MOOD
MOOD is a short visual novel combining horror, dark humor, and dialogues on a wide variety of topics, from old movies to ancient wars.
86% of 436 Steam reviews are positive$5.99