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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.
A darkly comedic adventure of "interactive damage-control" following the exploits of wealthy socialite Julia Hawthorne through a country club.
A text adventure that is written almost entirely in gibberish. Players must puzzle out the general meaning of the game's text in order to progress.
Calm down. All you have to do is write a thousand words and everything will be fine. And you have all day, except it's already noon. A piece of interactive fiction written by Jeremy Freese.
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.
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.
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.
In the cruel kingdoms north of the Viraxian Empire, a barbarian seeks treasure - and vengeance! A faux-retro adaptation of a nonexistent 1979 text adventure from an alternate timeline, itself based on a nonexistent 1979 pen-and-paper RPG (a complete scan of which is included).
Stolen away by apathetic Blind Ones, your only desire is to return to your Cellarium and the Song of the Universe. They should understand. You shall make them to understand. A piece of interactive fiction written by Lynnea Glasser.
A blurb? They expect you to write? You're Lottie Plum so you're not going into writing. You sing. And dance and act up a storm while everyone else can only manage a puddle. You belong at Bridger. No matter what it takes.
It figures that your pickup would die on a night like this and leave you stranded in the dark New Mexico desert. But nothing else figures about this night, man. Nothing at all. An example game for Aaron A. Reed's book Creating Interactive Fiction with Inform 7.
Missing employees, wily crustaceans, malfunctioning kitchen equipment and a terminal food shortage, all on the night the most important culinary critic in the world has chosen to review your debut restaurant? Surely there's nowhere to go but up.
A game written by Hugo Labrande for the 21st Annual Interactive Fiction Competition.
A surrealist piece of interactive fiction by Chris Klimas about a man who is offered a hallucinatory drug at a party.
A one-room interactive fiction game set in your apartment.
The King of Shreds and Patches is a novel-length work of interactive fiction. In it you will explore an historically accurate recreation of Elizabethan London, circa 1603, interact with some fascinating characters both historical and fictional, and if you are clever and lucky, thwart an occult conspiracy that threatens to bring down the entire city - or worse.
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.
In the course of searching the attic for an old tourist map of Paris, Victor Meldrew steps into a surreal adventure to uncover a centuries-old curse that has been placed on his family.
You haven't been over since she told you a month ago that she was moving to some small town in Wisconsin. But Riley is here, and the computer is here, and that's what matters for now. "Have you played the game yet?" "You told me to wait to play it with you about a billion times," she says. A work of interactive fiction by B.J. Best.
An accurate recounting of recent kitten-related events.
You burnt some toast, which set off your smoke alarm and called the fire department. If there's not a fire when they arrive, you can expect a hefty fine.