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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.

01.10.2017

In this castle, you'll eat or be eaten. May contain dairy, carnage, puzzles, nuts.

14.09.2019

Relax at the Jewel Pond Recreation Area with Ryan Veeder as your guide.

01.10.2005

A piece of interactive fiction written by Jason Devlin.

31.12.1996

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

03.10.2018

A text terminal interface for interacting with your model RCM301-303 remote controlled mech.

01.10.2023

A light dungeon crawl. Tap spell gems to defeat monsters!

01.10.1998

Photopia is a short, narrative-driven piece of interactive fiction. Written by Adam Cadre in 1998, it won first place in that year's Interactive Fiction Competition.

11.09.2010

The Game Formerly Known as Hidden Nazi Mode was, in fact, formerly known as Hidden Nazi Mode. As such it was a failed experiment, detailed in the accompanying essay. In this release the Nazi mode has been removed, and what remains is, as the subtitle says, "a cute game for unattended young children". It involves bunnies and lots of hints.

29.09.2013

"War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children." - Jimmy Carter A piece of Interactive Fiction written by Carolyn VanEseltine.

13.08.2017

a sweet story

11.09.2010

A pure story-less puzzle game featuring logical puzzles based on the idea of the fugue: your commands are performed by four different actors, but with increasing delays. The version with music features Daniel Bautista's rendering of Beethoven's Grosse Fuge on electric guitars.

03.05.2012

Standing in front of a London brothel with the clear intent to enter, our protagonist's future may seem dark and foreboding. But perhaps an unexpected and life-changing experience is waiting for him. Comes with a manifesto about the relation between interactive fiction and sexuality, and its importance for our spiritual health.

12.03.2011

A small game written for the IF Demo Fair at PAX East 2011. It showcases a competitive conversation system: as Medea, you are attempting to get the choir on your side in your verbal debate with Jason.

01.10.2023

Join esteemed mad scientist Dr Ludwig as he faces the greatest challenge of his nefarious career: making a deal with the Devil and coming out on top. Research demonology! Read legal documents! Face off against the world's least effective torch and pitchfork-wielding mob! All this and more!

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31.12.2004

In this well-crafted one-room puzzle, you play as a wizard gambling everything for a chance to gain immense power. In a deep underground sealed chamber, your spell summons an egg from another reality into your drawn pentagram. How will you deal with this egg? Decide wisely and quickly, or soon you will be dead.

30.09.2012

You play Tony, a fourteen-year old thief who needs some help looting the legendary Oakville Manor. Luckily it’s the 1980s and finding fellow adventurers is just a modem squeal away…

31.01.2021

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

31.12.1996

Interactive Fiction created by Andrew Plotkin being a fusion between a game and a programming tutorial.

31.03.2006

A piece of Interactive Fiction written by Victor Gijsbers. Winner of the Spring Thing 2006.

31.12.2000

You wake to stillness. The hammering, banging, and shouting that kept you awake half the night are gone. The air is cold, and something smells burnt. Your master's experiments must be finished, but with what result? A piece of Interactive Fiction written by Emily Short.

23.07.2023

What if you had only one shot? A brief parser game with a single choice. Take your time and read carefully: there's no going back.

01.05.2007

A short example game created to accompany the essay "Co-Authorship and Community". It gives the player a kind of freedom that is not seen in any other interactive fiction: the freedom to determine what the state of the world is at the beginning of the game. (Version 2 is a 2010 update.)