Popular games built on game engine Inform

22.01.2018

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.

01.10.2020

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

31.12.2000

A conversation with a work of art. "47. Galatea. White Thasos marble. Non-commissioned work by the late Pygmalion of Cyprus. (The artist has since committed suicide.) Originally not an animate. The waking of this piece from its natural state remains unexplained."

01.10.2008

Can you help one hungry bulldog in his quest to find something good to eat? He would like that. A lot.

22.11.2000

Rameses Alexander Moran is a self-proclaimed "shy, indecisive, and uncharismatic" boy living at an Irish boarding school, which he has only contempt for. He reminisces about his childhood friend Daniel Maguire in a dream as they playfully shout profanities at each other on a busy railway station platform. He awakes on his bunkbed in a four-bed dormitory.

13.08.2017

a sweet story

31.12.2001

You are in your girlfriend's studio. Before you deal with your other errands, you have to feed Britney's fish.

01.10.1997

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

15.03.2005

This intricate all-text reworking draws on the Gothic, as well as Clue, to simulate seven characters working to outwit the killer in their midst.

29.09.2013

You should carry the bag. I'm more of a delegator. A work of interactive fiction by Ryan Veeder.

31.12.1996

A text adventure created by Rob Noyes in 1996.

01.10.2007

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.

01.01.1970

Cursed from birth with complete weightlessness, you have been imprisoned in a tower by your godfather, and need to escape and find a way home. Loosely based on George MacDonald's 1864 children's book The Light Princess.

13.04.2009

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

15.03.2023

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

31.12.2004

An exploration of a hike to the Mt. Cammerer Fire Tower in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

01.01.2002

You are locked in a cell, a position that is not unfamiliar to you- it's one of the hazards of the job. You decided to try one last, big job, and now you are locked in the deepest, darkest dungeon of King Tyrak II. This time they seem to actually be taking your incarceration more seriously than usual. There also seems to be no intention of ever letting you out, even for a rigged trial, so you will need to take your escape very seriously.

31.12.2001

A game about a young man in costume who goes about a ball stealing kisses from young women.

29.09.2003

A piece of Interactive Fiction written by Michael J. Coyne for The 9th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition.

01.01.1970

Your job is to make sure John's party is successful. It won't be, though. Written for the Apollo 18+20 tribute album project.

21.05.2015

18 Rooms to Home is an experimental work of interactive fiction. It’s a day in the life of Yesenia Reed, whose life is far from ordinary, no matter what she might prefer.

05.04.2022

“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?

31.12.1995

Set in an unusual cyber/virtual reality background, you play a disembodied consciousness trapped in an electron prison of the mind. A piece of Interactive Fiction written by Jason Dyer. Came second in the Inform division of the First Annual IF Competition, in 1995.

31.12.2001

On the Night of the Comet, the usual astrological bonds do not hold, and the order of the universe is threatened. It is a time made for rebels and usurpers, and all who would claim the kingdom for themselves. You are a member of the Order of the Phoenix, a protector of the hierarchy and the kingdom itself. It is your duty to attend the royal ball, watch for dangers... and do whatever needs to be done. A piece of Interactive Fiction written by Emily Short.