Popular games built on game engine Inform
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.
A text adventure game about an orc named Grunk and a pig who would much prefer to remain lost.
This game is a joke. This game is a warning. This game is a satire. This game is inspired in equal parts by Vaclav Havel's "The Memorandum" and Hunter S. Thompson's "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas". This game is a big, stupid shaggy dog story.
It's been a hectic year, and it's time to get away. He told you that, and you agreed. Now you're here, in a grove of aspen, and long for a good, long bath in the nearby hot spring.
The first Taleframe game based on the 90s children's horror soap opera.
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.
A Western by IkeC
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!
“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?
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…
Ultimate Quest: Journey to the Far Side of Possible is an interactive tweet-based text adventure by internationally renowned interactive fiction author Emily Short and featuring illustrations by Silvio Aebischer.
A text adventure created by Rob Noyes in 1996.
High school journalists spend the night in a church, investigating reports of a ghost. A piece of interactive fiction written by Ryan Veeder and Emily Boegheim.
14 AD. Agrippa Postumus, grandson of the recently-deceased Augustus, tries to avoid death at the hands of the next emperor, Tiberius. At his disposal: a couple of old manuscripts, a lamp, and a recalcitrant slave. And a powerful knowledge of the Art of Venus Genetrix, of course—the magic eventually known as the Lavori d'Aracne. A work of interactive fiction written by Emily Short.
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.
You are a yet another brave adventurer set upon the quest to slay the mighty dragon that is threatening the village! Following the questing traditon, you decide to start your search for the dragon in the local tavern! What makes this quest different? It takes place on the worldz best BBS! hehehe!!! A piece of interactive fiction by Adam Cadre.
Something new in your everyday hunter-gatherer routine: where did this strange edifice come from? Dare you enter and explore the secrets of this... thing, or do you try to face your enemies? Like you have a choice.
A murder most foul has been committed and Sherlock Holmes is on the case. You are his dog.
Tomorrow is the big Teddy Bear party, and you must definitely not let your owner forget about it...
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.
"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.
Wander around. Puzzles will be posed. Eventually you win. A work of interactive fiction by Andrew Plotkin, recreating one he originally made in 1989.
Missing employees, wily crustaceans, malfunctioning kitchen equipment and a terminal food shortage, all on the night the most important culinary critic in the world has chosen to review your debut restaurant? Surely there's nowhere to go but up.
A mysterious death, a secret to be revealed… and someone who wants to know the truth, at any cost.