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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.

Your friend Mike thinks no one can infiltrate THE FACILITY, but you're going to prove him wrong. A game written by Arthur DiBianca for the Annual Interactive Fiction Competition.

The little match girl is hired to assassinate a disgusting old man.

Playing Games is a short fantasy game about an trial of initiation in a semi-secret club.

Heliopause is interactive fiction — a classic text adventure. No graphics! No point-and-click! You type your commands, and read what happens next.

Aisle started out as a game which would not need the usual meta-verbs... i.e. a game with only one turn. The initial idea was: How do I make a game with only one turn interesting? Give it lots of endings--in fact there are many 'endings' and (hopefully) every sensible action results in an 'ending'. There is no winning action. There is however more going on than just this and the more endings you see the more things should become clear.

A short piece of Interactive Fiction written by Jon Ingold.

A puzzle game about secrets in the Age of Lead. You've spent seventeen years preparing for an infiltration. Stealing the Confessor's secrets is only the beginning: it will all be for nothing if you leave a trace.

Tomorrow is the big Teddy Bear party, and you must definitely not let your owner forget about it...

This is where I end and you begin. That, at least, is what I want to think. I don’t know you. Perhaps one day I will. But this Implementation-rather, its copies-are my seeds blowing to the wind. The palm-parsers, their oak gears whirring, will be pressed into hands long after I finish this. Hands like yours. A metatextual work of interactive fiction by Anya Johanna DeNiro.

“Mirror, mirror, on the wall,” you say dreamily, gazing into its sparkling surface… “You know,” replies the mirror, “I can do a lot more than just reflect fair faces. O, how I long to leap off this wall! I want to meet princesses, witches, and wolves … to win a throne and become a hero! What say you?” Well, what say you, adventurer?

Isaac Newton receives a mysterious letter inviting him to investigate a new scientific phenomenon.

A piece of interactive fiction written by Chandler Groover, where you play the magician Morgan the Magnificent.

Interactive Fiction created by Andrew Plotkin with unforgiving puzzles. A theatrical performance leads to a long journey.

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.

We're treated to a short and unusual vignette, and then realize it was just a dream. Eugene Oregon wakes up on a futon in his living room. A loud crash outside arrests his attention.

You are starting your IT internship. The details you got from the university are scarce: just the address and the date (today).

The little match girl acquires a Colt Paterson revolver and teaches a virtue to a goblin.

In The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen, a little girl is forced to sell matches on the street in the cold of New Year's Eve.

A murder most foul has been committed and Sherlock Holmes is on the case. You are his dog.

A game written by Arno von Borries for the 21st Annual Interactive Fiction Competition.

The fourth one in a series of anthologies of unbelievable terror, edited by Ryan Veeder.

Explore an all-new "critical edition" of a 1996 Inform 5 game about mental illness, magic, and the second law of thermodynamics.