In September teams form and develop new visual novel games for “Spooktober”. The games are submitted by midnight October 1, and freely available for at least one month while the judging occurs. That means hundreds of new free games for us on Itch.io this month!

Almost all of these are straightforward visual novels, with a few choices along the way. The submissions had to be Halloween or “spooky” themed visual novels. Typical length is 10k words. I’m very impressed by what some people can do in 30 days; a lot of these promise “To Be Continued”.

Some links to my favorite games so far:

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