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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.

Anglophone Atlantis has been an independent nation since an April day in 1822, when a well-aimed shot from their depluralizing cannon reduced the British colonizing fleet to one ship. Since then, Atlantis has been the world's greatest center for linguistic manipulation, designing letter inserters, word synthesizers, the diminutive affixer, and a host of other tools for converting one thing to another. Inventors worldwide pay heavily for that technology, which is where a smuggler and industrial espionage agent such as yourself can really clean up. Unfortunately, the Bureau of Orthography has taken a serious interest in your activities lately. Your face has been recorded and your cover is blown. Your remaining assets: about eight more hours of a national holiday that's spreading the police thin; the most inconvenient damn disguise you've ever worn in your life; and one full-alphabet letter remover. Good luck getting off the island.

We're treated to a short and unusual vignette, and then realize it was just a dream. Eugene Oregon wakes up on a futon in his living room. A loud crash outside arrests his attention.

A short piece of Interactive Fiction written by Jon Ingold.

Isaac Newton receives a mysterious letter inviting him to investigate a new scientific phenomenon.

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.

Cursed from birth with complete weightlessness, you have been imprisoned in a tower by your godfather, and need to escape and find a way home. Loosely based on George MacDonald's 1864 children's book The Light Princess.

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!

“Mirror, mirror, on the wall,” you say dreamily, gazing into its sparkling surface… “You know,” replies the mirror, “I can do a lot more than just reflect fair faces. O, how I long to leap off this wall! I want to meet princesses, witches, and wolves … to win a throne and become a hero! What say you?” Well, what say you, adventurer?

A piece of Interactive Fiction written by Nolan Bonvouloir.

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

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

The little match girl is hired to assassinate a disgusting old man.

Playing Games is a short fantasy game about an trial of initiation in a semi-secret club.

You are starting your IT internship. The details you got from the university are scarce: just the address and the date (today).

The little match girl acquires a Colt Paterson revolver and teaches a virtue to a goblin.

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

A piece of interactive fiction written by David Fisher. You play a magician's servant who gets trapped in your master's vault; you'll need to learn some of his tricks if you want to get out.

Tomorrow is the big Teddy Bear party, and you must definitely not let your owner forget about it...

This intricate all-text reworking draws on the Gothic, as well as Clue, to simulate seven characters working to outwit the killer in their midst.

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

Your friend Mike thinks no one can infiltrate THE FACILITY, but you're going to prove him wrong. A game written by Arthur DiBianca for the Annual Interactive Fiction Competition.

In The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen, a little girl is forced to sell matches on the street in the cold of New Year's Eve.