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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.

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01.10.2011

It's the last day of summer, and you're old enough now to go into town by yourself.

01.10.2009

A game about a tea party, a monarchy, and the unpredictability of language.

31.01.2021

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

30.09.2006

A piece of Interactive Fiction written by Nolan Bonvouloir.

12.08.2016

Worldsmith is an exciting, immersive text game. Type in commands and explore the World, solve puzzles, talk to people and play the Game of Worlds. In Worldsmith, you control the story. With over 150,000 words of text, Worldsmith is a full, novel length, Interactive Fable. As you explore the world of the Septem Tower, you will create solar systems and Life, unearth ancient mysteries, and discover the secrets behind the Tower and its billion year mission. Worldsmith is an Interactive Fable and is part novel, part adventure, part puzzle and part strategy game.

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.

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?

06.04.2016

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

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.

01.10.2009

Your task is simple enough. Just nab the chalice.

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.

31.12.1999

Young Gretchen could have only imagined the fanciful events that were to occur before finding herself lost in a winter wonderland. A piece of interactive fiction written by Laura Knauth.

31.12.2011

Your friend has invited you over for stew. He has not bothered to procure most of the ingredients.

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!

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.

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.

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.

24.06.2003

A train journey abruptly cut off. An enforced stay in a strange City. Intrigue, madmen, and growing sense of being watched... A work of interactive fiction by Emily Short.

01.10.2005

A piece of interactive fiction written by Jason Devlin.

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31.12.2004

In this well-crafted one-room puzzle, you play as a wizard gambling everything for a chance to gain immense power. In a deep underground sealed chamber, your spell summons an egg from another reality into your drawn pentagram. How will you deal with this egg? Decide wisely and quickly, or soon you will be dead.