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A brief, disorienting point-and-click text adventure where you guide the Wanderer through ruins and tombs in a purgatorial world.

Welcome To The Dark Place
A free-to-play solo adventure horror where you navigate a dreamlike train-focused world through text and sound, with a chilling atmosphere and roughly 7-8 hours of cryptic gameplay.
2025-10-24
- Adventure
- Indie

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The Last Oath

A short, solemn single-player text-based adventure about a fallen knight completing their final oath, lasting around 10 minutes.

2025-04-10

Adventure
Indie
Side view

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Deep Sleep: Labyrinth of the Forsaken

A roughly 22-hour point-and-click dream adventure about lucid-dreaming your way through nightmarish realms to find your presumed-dead brother.

2025-08-21

Adventure
Horror
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Point-and-click

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Lucid Dream

A compact free-to-play point-and-click horror game about escaping a dream world, with light puzzles and unsettling sound design.

2020-05-04

First person
Adventure
Horror
Indie
Point-and-click

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Dark Roll

A free single-player action-adventure game of dark, unforgiving ball-rolling levels that test agility and logic in short, intense sessions.

2019-08-01

Action
Adventure
Indie

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The Terrible Old Man

A bite-sized point-and-click Lovecraftian horror that takes about half an hour to explore a few hand-drawn scenes.

2019-10-10

Adventure
Horror
Side view
Mystery

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Awkward Dimensions Redux

A brief, dreamlike experimental adventure that offers an intimate look into the developer's inner world.

2016-10-21

First person
Puzzle
Adventure
Indie
Drama
Music

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Ember Seeker

A short, atmospheric dark fantasy exploration game with nonlinear storytelling and retro graphics, playable in about three hours.

2026-06-14

Adventure
Indie
Arcade

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10:16

A brief atmospheric dark fantasy climb through Hell's Nine Circles, with unique art and a story that slowly engages.

2023-10-16

Horror
Fantasy
Indie
Text
Drama
Visual Novel

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The Nameless City

A roughly one-hour, single-player Lovecraftian horror walk through ancient ruins where reality and visions blur, favoring atmosphere and light puzzles over challenge.

2024-07-13

First person
Science fiction
Puzzle
Adventure
Horror
Indie

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Mainland

A short, challenging text adventure about a stranded 19th-century explorer, where careful examination of every detail is key to progress.

2015-05-08

Adventure
Indie

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The Knobbly Crook

A free single-player point-and-click adventure in a surreal, ridiculous world, with old-school puzzle-solving that typically lasts 4-6 hours.

2015-06-09

Adventure
Indie