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A nostalgic, choice-driven narrative set on a retro social network, where you navigate senior-year relationships across a compact ~6-hour story with multiple endings.

Emily is Away Too
A short text-adventure about messaging friends and making choices that shape a branching relationship story, playable in about two to three hours.
2017-05-26
- Adventure
- Indie

Simulator

Text

Role-playing (RPG)

Romance

Visual Novel

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VIDEOVERSE

A casual, choice-driven interactive fiction about 2000s-era online friendships and the fictional Videoverse social network.

2023-08-07

Adventure
Indie
Side view
Simulator
Text
Drama
Romance
Visual Novel

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Afterlove EP

A compact, emotionally charged slice-of-life interactive fiction in Jakarta about a grieving young musician, with dating-sim choices, music, and multiple endings.

2025-02-14

Adventure
Indie
Side view
Simulator
Text
Point-and-click
Romance
Music
Visual Novel
Auditory

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Life After Magic

A compact ~7-hour queer retro visual novel about jaded ex-magical girls reuniting on Y2K New Year's Eve, with dating sim choices and multiple endings.

2023-03-23

Comedy
Indie
Text
Romance
Visual Novel

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Speed Dating for Ghosts

A roughly six-hour afterlife dating sim with branching dialogue, ghostly love interests, and a sweet-spooky tone.

2018-02-13

Comedy
Horror
Indie
Simulator
Text
Role-playing (RPG)
Romance
Visual Novel

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Know by heart

A short, melancholic atmospheric adventure about childhood friends reuniting and confronting memory and loss.

2022-02-10

First person
Adventure
Third person
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Drama
Romance

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Desktop Explorer

An eerie, story-driven detective adventure through the abandoned files of an old PC, combining retro-90s simulation, psychological mystery, and creative file-based puzzles in a ~8-hour single-player experience.

2026-07-17

Puzzle
Thriller
Adventure
Indie
Simulator
Mystery

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S4U: CITYPUNK 2011 AND LOVE PUNCH

A single-player narrative-driven typing sim set in 2011, where you use an online persona to make life decisions for yourself and clients, offering a simple, engaging story over roughly 14 hours.

2025-01-08

Science fiction
Indie
Side view
Simulator
Text
Visual Novel

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Emily is Away

A nostalgic, ~1-hour interactive fiction about chatting with a friend on a retro messenger, where choices shape a bittersweet branching story.

2015-11-20

Adventure
Indie
Simulator
Text
Romance
Visual Novel

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Left on Read

A melancholic, dialogue-focused adventure about a college student's quarantine regrets and unconfessed feelings.

2020-05-19

Platform
Adventure
Horror
Indie
Simulator
Romance

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Land of Screens

A cozy, uplifting single-player adventure about stepping back from social media to find real-world relationships after a breakup.

2022-02-04

Puzzle
Adventure
Indie
Side view
Point-and-click
Drama

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Killing Time at Lightspeed: Enhanced Edition

A solemn, brief adventure about watching friends age through social media at an accelerated pace and the longing to reach out one last time.

2016-07-05

Science fiction
Adventure
Indie
Drama
Visual Novel