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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.

01.10.2001

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.

31.12.1996

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

01.10.2010

The Fish of Māui. The Land of the Long Cloud. Aotearoa. An entire continent of untamed wilds, and the last place on Earth where dinosaurs still roam. If only you'd come ashore under better circumstances... A piece of interactive fiction written by Matt Wigdahl.

05.01.2016

A samurai explores a haunted shrine.

29.09.2003

A piece of Interactive Fiction written by Michael J. Coyne for The 9th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition.

01.04.2002

The beautiful life is always damned, they say. As for you, you've overexpended yourself: fifteen years of prominence, champagne, carriage rides in the Tuileries, having your name whispered behind manicured hands, getting elegant ladies out of elegant fixes - and you're in debt. Bound by oath and honor to a pack of scoundrels. Your father, old peasant that he was, could have warned you against their type. A piece of interactive fiction written by Emily Short.

01.01.1970

Your job is to make sure John's party is successful. It won't be, though. Written for the Apollo 18+20 tribute album project.

26.03.2012

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.

25.02.2013

Castle of the Red Prince is a small text adventure with a different perspective on how locations can work in a parser game.

01.10.2017

You were recently acquired by the brave Ser Leonhart and his squire to sniff out the evil shapeshifting wizard. Unfortunately, you are not a wizard sniffer (if such a thing even exists). As far as you can tell, you are an ordinary pig.

17.04.2017

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

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!

01.10.2005

A piece of interactive fiction written by Jason Devlin.

31.12.1994

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.

13.06.2014

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.)