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An interactive novel about identity, roleplay, and dreams.
99% of 102 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
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In the middle of a world-ending pandemic, a group of scientists discover the galaxy has been watching. From the award-winning team behind Thomas Was Alone and Subsurface Circular, Quarantine Circular is the next mutation in text-based adventure.
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Having lost everything, a retired, hardboiled detective, John Cooper, must take his last case to find a missing upper-class girl among the lowest parts of the dystopian city-planet Terrahive. Choose your unique path in this atmospheric narrative future-noir thriller.
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A sci-fi story set in near-future Taipei, where humans sign their brains over as computing power for AI. You wake in a borrowed body, share it with its original owner's subconscious, and talk your way through a society quietly eating its poorest. Choices branch everywhere, hidden clues unlock new dialogue, and the ending you get is the one you earned.
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An archaeologist, her robot, and a dead language waiting to be read. Sail the Nebula, dig up artefacts, and piece together a lost history where every guess and every word shapes what happens next.
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A murder in the solar system, and you are the agent who has to make sense of it. Question suspects, file your reports, and live with what they cause: Lacuna is a pixel-art noir detective story where every choice sticks, the truth stays ugly, and the ending depends entirely on how well you did your job.
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Humanity wiped itself out, and the robots inherited a quiet Earth. You play RT-217NP, a tinkerer bot who switched off his mandatory updates and got curious about the extinct humans. Then a ship crashes in his yard. A story-driven point-and-click adventure with puzzles, fateful choices and a secret worth digging for.
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99% of 102 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
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Lacuna – A Sci-Fi Noir Adventure
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Buried: An Interactive Story
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CARIMARA: Beneath the forlorn limbs
Investigate a haunted forest house as a small mute mystic who can only ask questions, one conjured card at a time.
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Stories Untold
Play through four linked 80s horror stories, each with its own way of playing, in about three or four hours.
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Whispers of a Machine
Investigate a string of murders as an augmented agent in a world where artificial intelligence is outlawed.
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SELF
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67% of 21 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
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