Games tagged “narrative”
Quick playFast starts, short runs and one-more-go games.
Brain gamesLogic, words, numbers, boards and spatial puzzles.
Arcade actionDodging, shooting, racing, platforming and survival.
Build & strategisePlan, automate, defend and grow something over time.
Stories & worldsAdventures, mysteries and interactive fiction.
Play togetherTwo-player, multiplayer, drawing and party-friendly games.
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Adventures With Anxiety!
A tap-to-read, tap-to-choose visual novel where you play as someone's anxiety — with real psychology research folded into the jokes.
Coming Out Simulator 2014
A semi-autobiographical dialogue game about coming out to your parents, where dozens of small remembered choices quietly reshape a genuinely different final act.
ENDLESS SCROLL
A short narrative game with a genuine branching dialogue-choice mechanic and a striking dual visual identity - retro computer windows giving way to dithered atmospheric landscapes - confirmed genuinely working with keyboard and touch controls on desktop and phone.
Musa's Quest
A point-and-click medieval adventure with beautiful flat-vector art, judged 12th of the entire js13k 2023 field for graphics — tap to advance dialogue, tap the right character to interact.
New Year's Eve, 2019
A short, introspective interactive fiction about surviving a party you're not sure you still belong at, from the same author and engine behind three already-accepted works on this shelf.
Pageant
A sharp piece of interactive fiction about a Chinese-American teenager entering a beauty pageant she never wanted, and about the one thing this reads better on than a desktop.
Roomba Quest
A short, deadpan-funny Bitsy game where you play a robot vacuum wandering an office, narrating the dust and debris it finds — confirmed working by swipe on phone and by keyboard on desktop.
The Archivist and the Revolution
A critically acclaimed piece of interactive fiction about a chronically ill former surveillance worker in a dying, sealed city. Contains mature content warnings the game itself lets you opt into.
Under a Star Called Sun
A striking, atmospheric Bitsy narrative piece about grief and light, featured by LIMINAL magazine's GLITCH series — confirmed to control correctly by touch and keyboard alike.
We Become What We BeholdDesktop
Photograph the crowd and publish what you choose - your choices literally reshape the population around you.
you are dough
A tiny, warm Bitsy game about being a ball of bread dough on a kitchen counter — confirmed working by swipe on phone (with real item pickups, not just cosmetic movement) and by keyboard on desktop.
