Popular games built on game engine Inform

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.

You are a yet another brave adventurer set upon the quest to slay the mighty dragon that is threatening the village! Following the questing traditon, you decide to start your search for the dragon in the local tavern! What makes this quest different? It takes place on the worldz best BBS! hehehe!!! A piece of interactive fiction by Adam Cadre.

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.

As the most famous self-published Science Fiction author residing in Hillview, you are eminently qualified to judge their annual Elementary School Science Fair.

With a loud "click," the door closes behind you. Finally! You are locked inside an antebellum Southern mansion, alone, wearing only a chicken costume. You've fantasized about this moment for years. Sugarlawn is a timed treasure hunt game where the goal is to collect as much cash as possible via the valuables you pick up.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

Something new in your everyday hunter-gatherer routine: where did this strange edifice come from? Dare you enter and explore the secrets of this... thing, or do you try to face your enemies? Like you have a choice.

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.

A.D. 14. Agrippa Postumus, grandson of the recently deceased Augustus, tries to avoid death at the hands of the next emperor, Tiberius. At his disposal: a couple of old manuscripts, a lamp and a recalcitrant slave. And a powerful knowledge of the Art of Venus Genetrix, of course—the magic eventually known as the Lavori d'Aracne. A work of interactive fiction written by Emily Short.

The Baron's daughter is missing, and you are the man to find her. No problem. With your inexhaustible arsenal of hard-boiled similes, there is nothing you can't handle. An expanded rerelease of the 2011 text adventure with illustrations and music.

A one-to-many-room puzzler.

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.

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.

Open That Vein is a Parser-based horror text adventure and a La Petite Mort entry in ECTOCOMP 2015.

A country house mystery with a randomized culprit.

High school journalists spend the night in a church, investigating reports of a ghost. A piece of interactive fiction written by Ryan Veeder and Emily Boegheim.