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.
Interactive Fiction created by Andrew Plotkin, about fairy tales. Part of a metapuzzle in the 2011 IFComp.
Ply the spaceways. Make five million credits. Buy back your twin. A space sim in the form of interactive fiction, written by C.E.J. Pacian.
It is a symbol and a tool. It is your past and your future. It is all things, in time. You, Timothy Hunter, have lived, and like all things mortal you have died. But the aftermath of that lifetime is anything but simple... Faced with creatures beyond your ken, the fruition of whose inscrutable motives hinge on your decisions, what will you do? Will you face who and what you once were? Or will you try to change things for the better? Or the worse?
A piece of Interactive Fiction written by Adam Cadre. Is on the list Interactive Fiction Top 50 of all time (2015 edition).
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.
You are battle-weary. Your armor is scanty and your countenance is loathsome; you tire of the swords flicking at your neck. But you have a duty. There is nothing you can't take. A game written by Katherine Morayati (as Amelia Pinnolla) for the 2016 Interactive Fiction Competition.
A game written by Arthur DiBianca for the 21st Annual Interactive Fiction Competition.
The Prince sits awkwardly on the couch, holding his glass slipper and trying to keep it from crushing. Lucinda and Theodora have the ends of the same couch, and they are taking turns seeing who can bend lowest and show off the most cleavage; while the old lady, in her wing chair, carries on about nonsense... Glass is a conversation-oriented fairy tale, taking place in one room.
A piece of Interactive Fiction written by Victor Gijsbers. Winner of the Spring Thing 2006.
Interactive Fiction created by Andrew Plotkin being a fusion between a game and a programming tutorial.
An interactive tale of strange conspiracy. Pull up your hood, lower your gaze and enter the city of Zendon. If you can gather enough information, you may just be able to change the course of history. (Weird City Interloper is a shallow but broad conversation game.)
A piece of interactive fiction written by Jason Devlin.
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.
The phone rings. Oh, no — how long have you been asleep? Sure, it was a tough night, but... This is bad. This is very bad.
A train journey abruptly cut off. An enforced stay in a strange City. Intrigue, madmen, and growing sense of being watched... A work of interactive fiction by Emily Short.
It's been a hectic year, and it's time to get away. He told you that, and you agreed. Now you're here, in a grove of aspen, and long for a good, long bath in the nearby hot spring.
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.
Your friend has invited you over for stew. He has not bothered to procure most of the ingredients.
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.
A piece of Interactive Fiction written by Nolan Bonvouloir.
Interactive Fiction created by Andrew Plotkin, where the objective is to escape a virtual room.
Spider And Web is not a game about a vacation. It is a game about deception, incomplete knowledge, and the ways that stories in other people's heads can be the best lies. It is also about the role of the narrator works in interactive fiction -- but you don't have to worry about that to play the game. (Well, not much.)