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A branching coming-of-age story played through a 2004 desktop, with chats, mini-games, and drama that reviewers found immersive despite unclear dialogue options.

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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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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Closer the Distance

A single-player slice-of-life simulation about a family coping with tragedy, featuring secret-uncovering and relationship-repairing choices in a roughly 8-hour story.

2024-08-01

Adventure
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Simulator
Role-playing (RPG)
Point-and-click
Drama

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I Hate My Waifu Streamer

A compact single-player visual-novel simulation about competing for a streamer's attention through chat, comments, and donations, with branching psychological endings.

2025-09-18

Indie
Simulator

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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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Wax Heads

A cozy-punk record-store narrative sim with quirky customer chats, handcrafted music, and a compact ~8-hour story.

2026-05-05

First person
Comedy
Puzzle
Adventure
Indie
Simulator
Point-and-click

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Emberfate: Tempest of Elements

A chatroom-based visual novel about guild leadership and romance, featuring an immersive story and a roughly 14-hour playtime.

2023-01-26

First person
Indie
Simulator
Text
Romance
Visual Novel
Auditory

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Greyhat - A Digital Detective Adventure

A single-player hacking adventure where a hacker-for-hire investigates a dark conspiracy to save his kidnapped daughter, delivering an emotional story and satisfying puzzles in roughly 13 hours.

2020-08-31

Adventure
Indie
Simulator
Role-playing (RPG)

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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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Emily is Away <3

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.

2021-04-16

Adventure
Indie
Simulator
Text
Romance
Visual Novel

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StarOS

A short, surreal single-player simulation where you explore a retro-styled simulated operating system.

2023-07-04

Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Side view
Simulator
Text
Mystery

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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