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A compact modempunk horror visual novel about bartering with gods as Y2K brings the Old Ones into a crumbling reality.

Heaven Does Not Respond
A tense, story-rich analog horror investigation set in 2005, where you uncover dark secrets through a retro computer interface in about three and a half hours.
2026-02-07
- Puzzle

Adventure

Horror

Third person

Indie

Simulator

Mystery

Point-and-click

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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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Psycholonials

A ~5-hour single-player visual novel about two influencers launching a social media brand with supernatural help, blending ridiculous humor and tense character drama.

2021-02-03

Comedy
Adventure
Indie
Text
Mystery
Drama
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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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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Home Safety Hotline

A ~4-hour single-player hotline simulation about supernatural household pests in a 1990s alternate-history world, told through text and FMV with darkly comedic horror.

2024-01-16

Puzzle
Horror
Indie
Simulator
Text
Mystery
Point-and-click
Visual Novel

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Bad Faith

A solo-developed psychological horror visual novel that pairs mouse-only, narrated-menu play with a disturbing, compact story of sanctuaries and secrets.

2022-02-04

Horror
Indie
Drama
Visual Novel

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Inhuman Resources: A Literary Machination

A darkly satirical interactive fiction RPG about corporate conspiracies and horrors, with a tight ~4-hour narrative shaped by reader choices.

2025-04-16

Puzzle
Thriller
Adventure
Horror
Indie
Text
Role-playing (RPG)
Mystery
Visual Novel

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Sucker for Love: Date to Die For

An emotionally driven 90s-anime visual novel in the Black Woods, where Lovecraftian horror, cultist evasion, and eerie romances converge in a compact five-to-six-hour story.

2024-04-23

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

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Dyping Escape

A short under-two-hour single-player typing adventure in which a mysterious eyeball's instructions become reality, turning a simple exercise into unsettling psychological horror.

2026-03-13

Adventure
Horror
Indie

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Dingir OS

A ~2-hour single-player horror game that puts you inside a simulated OS to browse forbidden websites and investigate lethal files.

2025-11-27

Adventure
Horror
Indie
Simulator
Point-and-click

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Side Alley

A bleak single-player horror visual novel with point-and-click gameplay, praised for its atmosphere and weird narrative tone, playable in about four hours.

2025-10-21

Adventure