Popular games built on game engine Inform

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.

An interactive fiction story by Andrew Plotkin depicting a tense and harrowing chase in a claustrophobic cavern setting.

You've had a long day. All you want to do is climb into bed. But why is your pillow quivering like that? I Found a New Friend is a short text adventure in the style of the old Infocom games. It is based loosely on the They Might Be Giants song of the same name.

With the cantankerous Wizard of Wordplay evicted from his mansion, the worthless plot can now be redeveloped. The city regulations declare, however, that the rip-down job can't proceed until all the items within had been removed. As an adventurer hired by the demolitions contractor to kleptomaniacially clear out this mansion, you must engage in wordplay in order to gather all the items inside. It is not necessary to think of puns, cliches, or homonyms, however, as has been the case with previous logological interactive fiction. The puzzles in Ad Verbum are of a different—and perhaps even unique—nature.

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!

A piece of interactive fiction written by J. Robinson Wheeler, featuring IF luminary Andrew Plotkin in a parody of the movie Being John Malkovich.

Your friend has invited you over for stew. He has not bothered to procure most of the ingredients.

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.

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.

Venice. The tight winding alleys and long dirty canals. Easy to become lost here, where every street emerges somewhere unexpected. In the central square a scaffold has been erected for your neck, and if only you can escape for long enough you might survive, but in this city all roads lead back to Piazza San Marco and the Hanging Clock.

You are in your car, with a gun in your pocket, going back and forth with yourself about whether you should get moving immediately, or take some time to think about your situation. Some of the wording, and the fact that the game is subtitled "an interactive heist", make it not unreasonable to infer that you are gearing up for a robbery. A piece of interactive fiction written by Ryan Veeder.

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 surrealist piece of interactive fiction by Chris Klimas about a man who is offered a hallucinatory drug at a party.

Master Bryce is throwing a party. As his most faithful servant, that means it's your job to make the party run smoothly. But you only have two hands—and far too many duties. You'll have to manage requests from the guests, the master's eccentric demands, and your own composure. All the other staff have quit, unwilling to entertain the master's "moods," but you've served Wyatt Manor for decades; what's one more evening? A comedy of errors, mild frustrations, and major workplace-safety violations. With limited actions and a limited inventory, juggle hors d'oeuvres, flaming curtains, and radioactive elements—and keep the drinks coming!

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

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

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.)

Interactive Fiction created by Andrew Plotkin as fanfic of the xkcd comic "Click and Drag".

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.

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.

Left/Right is a short, experimental parser-based text adventure about fate, created for The 2017 Spring Thing Festival of Interactive Fiction.

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.