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Arsene Lupin Once a Thief (2024)

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Discover the youth of a legend - Experience the transformation of Arsene Lupin, from whimsical thief to legendary hero, in 'Arsene Lupin - Once a Thief', an adventure and investigation game freely adapted from the works of Maurice Leblanc, with its events unfolding in the early 20th century.


  • text
  • point-and-click
  • visual-novel
  • investigation
  • colourful
  • detective
  • crime
  • atmospheric
  • exploration
  • adventure
  • historical
  • puzzle
  • stealth
  • narration
  • mystery

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eae (2024)

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PC Windows

"LOONG" is a dragon as the theme of the snake game, you will choose different styles of dragon civilization, through the snake to create the dragon totem.

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  • rogue-like
  • rpg
  • choices
  • 3d
  • 2d
  • text
  • casual
  • fiction
  • top-down
  • sokoban
  • platform
  • emotional
  • romance
  • board-game
  • surreal

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StafferCase: a psychic mystery adventure (2023)

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PC Windows

[Staffer Case] is a new kind of reasoning game that deals with documents related to murder and finds a contradiction between them. The stage was in the 1960s, when 10 percent of the city's population was in a virtual London with superpowers.

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  • cartoony
  • crowdfunded
  • detective
  • gothic
  • text
  • thriller
  • visual-novel
  • multiple-endings
  • crime
  • mystery
  • atmospheric
  • anime
  • drama
  • story
  • exploration

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The Wake: Mourning Father, Mourning Mother (2020)

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The Wake is a record of past wounds opened at a three-day funeral. The journal is encoded with a simple substitution cipher that the player must break in order to reveal the writer’s psyche and discover the contradictions that define him.

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  • hacking
  • experimental
  • text
  • drama
  • immersive
  • pixel
  • atmospheric
  • story
  • simulation
  • visual-novel
  • education
  • exploration
  • 1990s
  • minimalist
  • stylized

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Wayhaven Chronicles: Book One (2018)

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Step into the shoes of a detective and experience a world beyond your imagination in Wayhaven Chronicles: Book One. The interactive fantasy novel by Mishka Jenkins offers 440,000 thrilling words that will take you through moments of romance, friendship, drama, and more. With options to play as female, male, or non-binary, and to be straight, gay, or bisexual, you'll be able to define relationships and start lasting romances with vampires. Fulfill your job of detective in a playstyle that suits your personality. Open yourself up to the unknown and uncover the truth of what awaits in Wayhaven.


What we like:
  • Fantastic story with well-developed characters
  • Enjoyable read with good humor
  • Authentic relationships and slow-burn romances
  • Enthralling writing and vivid, distinct characters
  • Highly addictive and immersive experience
What could be improved:
  • Fairly linear with limited branching except for romance options
  • Detective aspect not prominent

  • rpg
  • text
  • adventure
  • choices
  • book
  • romance

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Fabled Lands (2021)

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Fabled Lands is a challenging old-school narrative RPG set in an open world. Complete quests, fight, trade goods and develop your character. Explore a vast land of adventure: travel across the war-torn kingdom, survive the plains of howling darkness, and escape the Court of Hidden Faces.


  • rpg
  • rogue-like
  • choices
  • hex
  • party
  • old-school
  • text
  • fiction
  • sandbox
  • turn-based
  • open-world
  • interactive
  • fantasy
  • grid
  • 2d

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The Sin (2021)

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The depressing pictures of a dying village and its inhabitants to the dark ambient music of the underground performers make those who are still trying to survive in places where everything has long died, to plunge even deeper into the world of mystical horror and deep despair


  • idler
  • horror
  • crime
  • psychological
  • fiction
  • visual-novel
  • text
  • empire
  • mythology
  • narration
  • detective
  • demons
  • thriller
  • management
  • hand-drawn

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Your Chronicle (2021)

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"Let's begin your own story." This is a text-based idle RPG game. There are already more than 2,500 unique story actions and it's still growing.


  • text
  • idler
  • auto-battler
  • clicker
  • multiple-endings
  • rpg
  • collectathon
  • battle

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AI Roguelite (2023)

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PC Windows

World's first RPG in which all entities are AI-generated and all game mechanics are AI-detected.

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  • rogue-like
  • text
  • artificial
  • intelligence
  • procedural
  • perma-death
  • dungeon-crawler
  • choices
  • visual-novel
  • crafting
  • resource-management
  • rpg
  • post-apocalyptic
  • medieval
  • turn-based

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Survivor Story: The Apocalypse (2025)

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Your goal in this text-based choice game is to help the protagonist survive until he uncovers the mysteries surrounding the city in order to reunite with his daughter, Susan.

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  • text
  • emotional
  • fiction
  • conspiracy
  • point-and-click
  • investigation
  • choices
  • interactive
  • zombies
  • post-apocalyptic
  • mystery
  • colourful
  • survival-horror
  • adventure
  • pixel

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