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Anchorhead is a text adventure game in the style of classic Infocom games from the 1980s. Travel to the haunted coastal town of Anchorhead, Massachusetts and uncover the roots of a horrific conspiracy inspired by the works of H. P. Lovecraft. Search through musty archives and tomes of esoteric lore; dodge hostile townsfolk; combat a generation-spanning evil that threatens your family and the entire world. To mark the twentieth anniversary of its initial publication, Anchorhead is now available in a special Illustrated Edition with rewritten code, revised prose, additional puzzles, and illustrations by Carlos Cara Àlvarez.
No, not a prison, though stone stands around you, as expressionless as a mirror awaiting face and form; and in the silence you hear no plaint of flute or roar of gong, but instead the crash of porcelain shattering. A work of interactive fiction by Yoon Ha Lee.
The only thing worse than being a village idiot is being an unemployed village idiot. Maybe it’s time to change careers. Maybe it’s time to be a knight.
As the most famous self-published Science Fiction author residing in Hillview, you are eminently qualified to judge their annual Elementary School Science Fair.
If you’ve never played interactive fiction before, or have poked at a few games but didn’t feel like you really knew what you were doing, start here. A short text adventure guided towards helping newcomers to the genre understand the rules and nature of IF.
This game is a joke. This game is a warning. This game is a satire. This game is inspired in equal parts by Vaclav Havel's "The Memorandum" and Hunter S. Thompson's "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas". This game is a big, stupid shaggy dog story.
Fantasy Interactive Fiction created by Andrew Plotkin, as both a game and an introduction to the genre.
A game written by Steph Cherrywell for the 21st Annual Interactive Fiction Competition.
Six bees. Five bags of groceries. A four-pound dumbbell. Three sailboats. One twin. Sting is a puzzleless parser memoir about ordinary days and unexpected interruptions.
Kerkerkruip is a short-form roguelike in the interactive fiction medium, featuring meaningful tactical and strategic depth, innovative game play, zero grinding, and a sword & sorcery setting that does not rehash tired clichés.
An account of the disastrous sidewalk chalk tournament of August 27, 2011.
Wander around. Puzzles will be posed. Eventually you win. A work of interactive fiction by Andrew Plotkin, recreating one he originally made in 1989.
In this wonderfully laconic spoof of the Scott Adams style of adventures, you play as Jason of the Argo, tasked by King Pelias to bring the Golden Fleece to him or die.
A surrealist piece of interactive fiction by Chris Klimas about a man who is offered a hallucinatory drug at a party.
A one-to-many-room puzzler.
Anglophone Atlantis has been an independent nation since an April day in 1822, when a well-aimed shot from their depluralizing cannon reduced the British colonizing fleet to one ship. Since then, Atlantis has been the world's greatest center for linguistic manipulation, designing letter inserters, word synthesizers, the diminutive affixer, and a host of other tools for converting one thing to another. Inventors worldwide pay heavily for that technology, which is where a smuggler and industrial espionage agent such as yourself can really clean up. Unfortunately, the Bureau of Orthography has taken a serious interest in your activities lately. Your face has been recorded and your cover is blown. Your remaining assets: about eight more hours of a national holiday that's spreading the police thin; the most inconvenient damn disguise you've ever worn in your life; and one full-alphabet letter remover. Good luck getting off the island.
A piece of interactive fiction written by David Fisher. You play a magician's servant who gets trapped in your master's vault; you'll need to learn some of his tricks if you want to get out.
Playing Games is a short fantasy game about an trial of initiation in a semi-secret club.
Cragne Manor is an 'exquisite corpse' text adventure commemorating the twentieth anniversary of Michael Gentry's Anchorhead, in which each of its 84 rooms was created by a different author.
An interactive fiction adaptation of William Shakespeare's comedy The Tempest in which the player guides the spirit Ariel. The text and descriptions are lifted from the original work, i.e. in Early Modern English.
You're a writer, trying to turn a blank page into a story. Start with the setting. Should the story take place in Scotland? Io? Tied to a kite? Somewhere completely imaginary? Or maybe you shouldn't start with the setting?
Grey gravel crunches in the drive. Grey windows retreat behind wrought-iron balcony rails. Grey skies press down over the looming, shadowy edifice. You do enjoy your job, but the decor can become a bit much sometimes. You shall hope that the inside of this mansion proves to be cheerier. A "cozy mansion mystery in the making" by Andrew Plotkin.
The call comes through. Of all the dicks; you get the call, sitting in the front seat of your car, hands shaking on the steering wheel. An urgent call; but all you were thinking of was the bottle in the liquor store and so that's where you went first. Now you're pulled up outside the house. The rear mirror's showing two steely eyes. You adjust your hat, stiffen up your collar and grab your badge off the dash. Here goes. You've one last chance so... MAKE IT GOOD
In this castle, you'll eat or be eaten. May contain dairy, carnage, puzzles, nuts.