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A single-player sci-fi text adventure about a traveler and an AI pilot adrift in uncharted space, with a meaningful story that takes about 98 minutes to play.

Space Bear
A short single-player text adventure that swaps real choices for silly keyboard mashing, with self-aware humor.
2020-03-05
- Adventure
- Indie

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Games like Palinurus

A single-player sci-fi text adventure about a traveler and an AI pilot adrift in uncharted space, with a meaningful story that takes about 98 minutes to play.

Space Bear
A short single-player text adventure that swaps real choices for silly keyboard mashing, with self-aware humor.
2020-03-05
- Adventure
- Indie

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i feel very lonely and i don't remember myself

A ~40-minute sci-fi visual novel in which trapped scientists' story unfolds through chat logs.

2023-10-26

Action
Science fiction
Adventure
Indie
Text

qualia

A brief text-based single-player game about classifying research participants as human or artificial in a cheerful but unsettling tech study.

2025-03-13

Indie

Control, I'm Not Coming Back

A brief, self-paced narrative about a lost astronaut finding hope in space, with a gloomy yet hopeful tone and a roughly 50-minute playthrough.

2026-05-29

First person
Adventure
Indie

Space Yandere

A brief, choice-driven space romance with pixel art and horror undertones, told from a robot friend's perspective.

2021-10-08

Action
Science fiction
Platform
Adventure
Horror
Bird view / Isometric
Role-playing (RPG)
Drama

Neoproxima

A short single-player text-based time-loop adventure blending exploration with simple RPG and survival mechanics.

2024-03-25

Adventure
Indie
Role-playing (RPG)

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

Event[0]

An atmospheric first-person sci-fi narrative about typing to a lonely spaceship AI, with choices and multiple endings, playable in about five and a half hours.

2016-09-14

First person
Science fiction
Puzzle
Adventure
Indie
Mystery

Adrift

A short interactive-fiction adventure about exploring a derelict spacecraft, unraveling a missing-crew mystery, and experiencing multiple endings.

2026-04-30

First person
Science fiction
Adventure
Indie

The Far Rings: A Space Opera Visual Novella

A short, atmospheric sci-fi visual novel about a refugee doctor aboard a spaceship, wrapped in mystery and a moral dilemma.

2019-10-05

Indie
Romance
Visual Novel

The Peresmeshnik

A short free-to-play adventure about a Soviet frigate crew confronting a sea terror, shaped by moral choices and multiple endings.

2020-07-07

Science fiction
Adventure
Horror
Text
Visual Novel

Hello my World! Lily.

A brief visual novel about a programmer whose imaginative coping mechanism blurs reality, offering thought-provoking yet rushed reading in about 80 minutes.

2025-11-01

Space Bear