Popular games built on game engine Inform

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.

25.12.2012

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

05.04.2023

Explore an all-new "critical edition" of a 1996 Inform 5 game about mental illness, magic, and the second law of thermodynamics.

01.10.2007

A country house mystery with a randomized culprit.

08.12.2018

Cragne Manor is an 'exquisite corpse' text adventure commemorating the twentieth anniversary of Michael Gentry's Anchorhead, in which each of its 84 rooms was created by a different author.

26.03.2016

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.

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.

01.10.2009

Your task is simple enough. Just nab the chalice.

31.12.1998

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.)

14.09.2019

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

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01.10.2006

An adaptation of the classic sword & sorcery tale by Robert E. Howard, first published in 1933.

04.04.2015

A murder most foul has been committed and Sherlock Holmes is on the case. You are his dog.

01.10.2015

A game written by Arno von Borries for the 21st Annual Interactive Fiction Competition.

30.09.2012

You play Tony, a fourteen-year old thief who needs some help looting the legendary Oakville Manor. Luckily it’s the 1980s and finding fellow adventurers is just a modem squeal away…

31.03.2006

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

31.12.2000

You wake to stillness. The hammering, banging, and shouting that kept you awake half the night are gone. The air is cold, and something smells burnt. Your master's experiments must be finished, but with what result? A piece of Interactive Fiction written by Emily Short.

17.04.2020

The black gate at the east end of the schoolyard is closed, locked. The After School Program does not relinquish its warriors willingly. Here is where the mud is thinnest on the ground, and in some places the painted lines of the kickball diamond are visible. A text adventure by Ryan Veeder.

06.04.2016

Someone's been bopping the field mice on the head, and only Good Fairy, Senior Detective can find out who. A parser-driven noir adventure based on the interactive fiction of Ryan Veeder.

11.01.2021

No criminal has ever been a match for you, and everybody is looking forward to a description of your brilliant deductions. There is just one small problem. One tiny detail that makes it different this time. A mere trifle, really. This time you have no idea who did it.

06.04.2016

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

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.

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...

01.10.2017

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.