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2015PC86 % positive5.99 €

A short, story-driven visual novel about two former best friends. You have one day to mend a broken friendship, with the focus on emotion and dialogue decisions.

Dialogue and role-playing
Emotional impact
Choices with consequences
Companions and relationships

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Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Asphyxia special. The reasons are listed right on each game.

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97 %Match

2005PC

An experimental interactive drama where you visit a quarreling married couple and type free-form text to talk with them. AI-driven characters react in real time, so each conversation unfolds differently and can save or wreck their marriage.

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Dialogue and role-playing

A story-focused visual novel set in the European countryside where your decisions shape the protagonist's personality and appearance, leading to different romance and mystery outcomes.

Emily is Away <3

Emotional impact

A nostalgic chat-window story in the style of old instant messengers: you talk with Emily across several school years, and your replies shape how your relationship turns out. Short, intimate and emotional.

Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Simulator

Companions and relationships

A comedic dating sim where you play a single dad getting to know and romancing other dads in the neighborhood. Goofy, heartfelt writing and a warm father-daughter story define the experience.

You and Me and Her: A Love Story

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An anime-style visual novel where you play schoolboy Shinichi and choose between two girls, with your decisions leading to different romances and endings. It is purely text-driven, with no combat or puzzles.

We Know the Devil

Emotional impact

A short, unsettling visual novel about three teens at a summer camp who must face the devil. It focuses on fraught friendship, exclusion and identity, presented in a bold blue-and-red art style.

Far from Noise

Emotional impact

A short, contemplative narrative in which a woman's car teeters on a cliff edge while she talks with a deer about life and death. You pick dialogue responses and soak in the mood, music and quiet nature.

Emily Is Away Too

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A nostalgic early-2000s instant messenger simulator where you chat with Emily and Evelyn through your senior year. Your replies shape friendships, romances and a bittersweet ending.

Collar x Malice

Companions and relationships

An otome visual novel thriller set in Shinjuku: with a poison collar around your neck, you investigate the X-Day incident alongside former police officers while romance and conspiracy unfold.

Katawa Shoujo

Companions and relationships

A story-driven visual novel set at a school for disabled students, where you live through five distinct romance routes as Hisao. It focuses on heartfelt character drama, with choices steering you onto each heroine's path.

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