Machine of Death is a choice-based short story about a world in which people can get cryptic predictions of how they will die, but not when, and where the predictions are so vague as to be functionally worthless.
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Sam and Leo Go to the Bodega is a short, choice-based game about two stoners making a snack run. It takes less than fifteen minutes to play. Review after the jump.
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Trapped in Time is an on-paper choose-your-own adventure about a Danish time traveler. It took me somewhere between 30 and 45 minutes to read through, I think. (This was in multiple sessions, so my tracking is a little more shaky than usual.)
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Autumn’s Daughter is a choice-based Undum work about arranged marriage in Pakistan. It’s quite short, running perhaps five minutes to play through once and a little longer to explore fully.
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Their Angelical Understanding is a choice-based interactive fantasy story, and sometimes interactive poem, about being hurt and about how we respond to that hurt.
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Moquette is a choice-based slice-of-life story about a man fighting some sort of existential crisis. It’s executed in Quest, with a number of image and typographical effects I haven’t seen in that system before. Review after the jump.
Emily Short's Interactive Storytelling 