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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.

16.02.2015

Down, the Serpent and the Sun is a piece of Interactive Fiction written by Chandler Groover.

30.09.2007

A text adventure game about an orc named Grunk and a pig who would much prefer to remain lost.

01.10.2017

That survey course in conceptual mathematics seemed like a good idea at the start of the term - no graded homework, no midterm exams - just an oral final at the end. But now that final is tomorrow morning. After months of procrastination you've got one night left to learn enough to pass the course. You might even be desperate enough to try one of your roommate's sketchy memory pills.

01.10.2011

Interactive Fiction created by Andrew Plotkin, about fairy tales. Part of a metapuzzle in the 2011 IFComp.

12.02.2000

A piece of Interactive Fiction written by Adam Cadre. Is on the list Interactive Fiction Top 50 of all time (2015 edition).

16.04.2011

A dashing and magnetic genius has invited his closest companion to an eldritch structure, hoping to avert a cataclysm and hiding a terrible secret.

31.03.2012

You play as Alice Armstrong, the new Professor of Muggle Studies at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in Scotland, even though you've never heard of "muggles" before and never knew magic was real until the headmaster proved it to you. But when you arrive at the school, you discover that a botched spell has made everyone disappear and you're now trapped within the castle. Is this something you can fix without magic? A work of interactive fan fiction by Flourish Klink.

31.12.1999

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

06.04.2016

A musician's manic episode binds fiction and reality into a joyful union.

22.12.2023

Time is running out after a meteor strikes your interstellar starship. While the crew is under full alert, only you seem to notice the strange red portals opening up throughout the ship. Explore ten different worlds, learn the truth of your destiny, and confront the mysterious figure who has been haunting you from the start in this epic sci-fi adventure.

22.11.2000

Rameses Alexander Moran is a self-proclaimed "shy, indecisive, and uncharismatic" boy living at an Irish boarding school, which he has only contempt for. He reminisces about his childhood friend Daniel Maguire in a dream as they playfully shout profanities at each other on a busy railway station platform. He awakes on his bunkbed in a four-bed dormitory.

01.10.2018

Alias 'The Magpie' is a parser interactive fiction game, or text adventure. There are no graphics! You play as Sir Rodney Playfair, alias the 'Magpie', typing commands to decide what he does next!

24.11.2008

You're an ordinary Soviet citizen, but to your surprise you are selected to play a highly important part in the defense of the Motherland - and then the crisis comes...

01.10.2008

Can you help one hungry bulldog in his quest to find something good to eat? He would like that. A lot.

21.01.2006

When the seventh day comes and it is time for you to return to the castle in the forest, your sisters cling to your sleeves.

01.10.2017

Explore the wizard Bartholloco's castle with the help of a versatile magic wand. Can you overcome his challenge? Can you levitate a rock? Can you slice a baltavakia?

06.04.2016

A piece of interactive fiction written by Chandler Groover, where you play the magician Morgan the Magnificent.

31.10.2014

The last two officers of a tropical colonial outpost wait for evacuation.

10.10.1996

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?

01.10.2020

A millionaire guards a fabulous ruby in her private train car. Countless thieves have failed to steal it. But they weren't the Magpie!

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01.10.2005

Sweetheart. Buttercup. Sugar. Baby. Babe? Babe? For as long as you can remember, you've never really had a name--never needed one. For 22 years people have swaddled you in epithets, letting you know that even though you're not quite on the right track, the world is there to hold your hand. Your father, your friends, your boyfriend. Gas station attendants. Sweetie, do you know what you're doing there? Truth be told, it's never really mattered to you before. Sometimes you've even liked it. Not today, though. Today something is wrong.

29.09.2003

Enter a steampunk adventure set in a London that might have been. The year is 1885. Bedlam Hospital still stands in Moorsfield, a decaying shell used to house the poor and the hopeless. Steam-driven mechanical wonders roam the streets. Gear-wheeled analytical engines spin out reams of thought onto punched paper tapes. And in the darkness – in the alleys and the side shops – hide secrets. A piece of interactive fiction written by Star Foster and Daniel Ravipinto.

01.04.2005

The people had always gathered on moonless nights to hear the stories, since the time of their ancestors' ancestors. The heat of the fire and the glow in the storyteller's eyes made the past present, and the path to the future clear. The power in the telling was immense, subtle, divine. What man would dare subvert it?