Listen, There Is No Bubble Wrap
A short interactive fiction from GGJ 2025 that pairs clickable bubble wrap with Chinese narration.
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Type Error
A story-driven logic puzzle where players repair a spaceship by changing code-like text rules.
System Rebooting
A story-driven puzzle game that unfolds through a simulated phone.
Oh No! I'm Surrounded by Money
An interactive narrative combining short live-action scenes with branching choices about money, credit, friendship, and their consequences.
When the Keys Fall
A Chinese visual novel with branching stories, relationship themes and simulated phone conversations.
No Time in the Western Chamber
A text-based retelling of The Romance of the Western Chamber, with Hongniang at the center of secret letters, group chats and social-feed-style exchanges.
The Deliberate Affairs Agency
An investigation game using memory flashbacks and two timelines. Players question people and explore clues to uncover the truth behind a case.
ClassOS: The Missing Student Lin
A narrative puzzle set on a simulated school desktop, where paperwork leads to clues about a missing student.
A Tester's Week
A simulation and narrative game about a game tester's probationary week at the end of the twentieth century. The creator describes it as free and roughly 30 minutes long.
Ten Lines on the Rooftop
An AI-native narrative game in which the player has ten lines to speak with a girl at the edge of a rooftop. Each input can affect her emotions, remaining opportunities, and the ending.
Life as a Mystery Game
An agent-based project that turns everyday concerns into interactive stories.
Fly to Butterfly Valley
A click-through visual novel that presents characters’ actions and emotions from different viewpoints. The creator labels this the original competition build; the separately listed later Steam page is not the same edition.
Intelligent Core Rescue
A strategy narrative about an emergency AI, Astra 0052, repairing a spacecraft stranded on an unfamiliar planet. Players allocate devices and energy from six reactors while weighing repairs, hibernating astronauts' survival and sacrifices. The creator describes two endings; neither was played through.
OINK
An AI-animated narrative short film, recorded in the event as a Best Narrative winner. Its theme concerns the tension between illusion and reality, and whether happiness built on an illusion can survive reality’s intrusion.
Do Programmers Dream of Digital Girls?
An anime-themed bug-finding game, previously titled Syntax Error. The development log says the gameplay was simplified to keep the project manageable.
Let's BUG Some Dumplings
A visual novel with Chinese-inspired mild horror, using reunion dumplings to explore family relationships and the expectations placed on individuals. Players read the story, choose dialogue and interact with dumpling making.
DREAMAZE
A narrative puzzle game made by a six-person team in 21 days, built around Chinese dreamcore imagery, memories and looping spaces. Players explore a repeating stairwell, collect fragments and reconstruct memories while searching for a way home.
Ni Diqiang Decides to Die
A women-oriented visual novel with metafictional elements. The player enters a domineering-CEO romance novel, decides whether to stop the protagonist from jumping, and explores relationships between players and virtual characters across multiple runs.
Dream Therapy Realm
A soft-science-fiction narrative game where a dream therapist enters an android's dreams. Three minigames, investigations and decisions gradually uncover a conspiracy involving dreams and lies.
The Millennium Bug
A lightly frightening narrative puzzle game set at the end of the twentieth century. A high-school student investigates strange events, escapes pursuit by the Millennium Bug, and searches for the truth behind a world that rewinds.
Atana
A romance visual novel in the GB role-reversal genre, centered on a companion AI and its creator, Atana. Players take the AI’s role and make choices about emotional dependence and personal autonomy.
Traces in the Deep Web
A desktop narrative puzzle game about searching for a missing family member, following clues between a computer desktop and a fictional dark web.
Mouse Dodge: Glitched World
A mouse-controlled combat game combining rhythm play and story choices. The mouse itself is the protagonist: moving and clicking fights a future AI, hits blocks and advances decisions about the world.
Clmoth
A 2D story-driven game about Cloth's workplace, with tedious assignments, a strict boss and unreliable coworkers. Dialogue and choices introduce the cast and move the story forward.