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1979 Revolution: Black Friday
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A short, choice-driven adventure set in 1970s revolutionary Iran, where a photojournalist's life-and-death decisions shape a politically charged narrative.

South of the Circle
A short, choice-driven Cold War narrative about two Cambridge academics, with light interactivity and an interesting but divisive story.
2022-08-03
- Warfare
- Adventure

Third person

Point-and-click

Drama

Romance

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Breakout 13

A decision-driven full-motion video interactive drama about escaping a negligent correctional institute, with branching multiple endings and a disturbing true-story-based narrative.

2023-01-08

Adventure
Third person
Indie
Role-playing (RPG)
Point-and-click
Drama

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Attentat 1942

A historically-accurate WWII adventure about uncovering your family's past through moral dilemmas and documentary-style storytelling, lasting about four hours.

2017-10-31

Warfare
Adventure
Indie
Simulator
Text
Historical
Non-fiction
Educational
Visual Novel

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Vampire: The Masquerade — Parliament of Knives

A roughly 7-8 hour single-player interactive fiction RPG about vampire political intrigue, betrayal, and character relationships.

2021-10-28

Adventure
Indie
Text
Role-playing (RPG)

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Through the Darkest of Times

A dark, tense historical strategy-adventure about leading an underground resistance group in 1933 Berlin, with a compact campaign of roughly four to five hours.

2020-01-30

Adventure
Strategy
Indie
Side view
Simulator
Text
Role-playing (RPG)
Historical
Drama

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Not Tonight 2

A politically charged single-player adventure/RPG in a broken America, mixing choice-driven document retrieval and border crossing with punishing resource management; reviewers logged a median of ~2 hours.

2022-02-11

Puzzle
Adventure
Simulator
Role-playing (RPG)

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Alfred Hitchcock - Vertigo

A cinematic, atmospheric psychological thriller with detective investigation and conversation choices, offering a roughly 10-hour narrative where reality and fantasy blur.

2021-12-16

Action
Puzzle
Thriller
Adventure
Horror
Third person
Visual Novel

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Suzerain

A text-heavy political drama about a president's consequential decisions amid corruption, recession, and international crises, with a long and mentally demanding narrative.

2020-12-04

Adventure
Strategy
Third person
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Simulator
Text
Role-playing (RPG)
Historical
Educational
Drama

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Heading Out

A story-driven racing/action game across mythic American highways, mixing roguelike routes, narrative choices, and chases, with striking visuals but sometimes frustrating driving, lasting roughly eight hours.

2024-05-07

Action
Adventure
Strategy
Indie
Simulator
Racing

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The Cat and the Coup

A brief artistic platformer where you play the cat of Iran's deposed PM during a 1953 CIA coup, more interactive history lesson than game.

2011-06-15

Puzzle
Adventure
Fantasy
Indie
Historical
Educational

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Vampire: The Masquerade - Reckoning of New York

A World of Darkness visual novel about vampire clan politics in New York, with dual character paths and about 8–9 hours of story.

2024-09-10

Action
Adventure
Horror
Indie
Text
Role-playing (RPG)
Visual Novel

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The Westport Independent

A compact censorship simulator where you edit a newspaper in a dystopian post-war country, balancing choices and pressure.

2016-01-21

Indie
Simulator
Turn-based strategy (TBS)