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.

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

Calm down. All you have to do is write a thousand words and everything will be fine. And you have all day, except it's already noon. A piece of interactive fiction written by Jeremy Freese.

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.

27.12.2003

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.

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?

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.

29.09.2003

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.

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

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

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).

31.12.1996

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

07.12.2004

Fantasy Interactive Fiction created by Andrew Plotkin, as both a game and an introduction to the genre.

31.12.1995

Set in an unusual cyber/virtual reality background, you play a disembodied consciousness trapped in an electron prison of the mind. A piece of Interactive Fiction written by Jason Dyer. Came second in the Inform division of the First Annual IF Competition, in 1995.

21.09.2015

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

01.10.2015

A game written by Steph Cherrywell for the 21st Annual Interactive Fiction Competition.

01.03.2007

You are nine months pregnant, and the contractions have already begun. Trapped in a castle with more enemies than friends, and Queen in name but not in influence, you fear for the future of your child. But your spells have finally worked, and now your crystal ball shows what fate awaits him. If you act with speed and determination, and if you are willing to do what is necessary, you may still have time to influence your son's destiny before the waters break.

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01.10.2004

An interactive fiction interpretation of the Hamlet story, blended with Jewish culture and mysticism.

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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

Your task is simple enough. Just nab the chalice.

31.12.2016

An accurate recounting of recent kitten-related events.

01.01.2019

Hotsy-totsy! It's 1928 and you're madcap flapper Hazel Greene, tottering around the city's finest hotel with a gullet full of giggle juice...until a gaggle of ghosts shows up to spoil the fun by turning every drop in the place into lousy, undrinkable WATER. Explore the beautiful Poseidon Grand Hotel, meet Barnaby Mooch the Magnificent Pooch, and get splifficated on a snootful of ectoplasm in this paranormal puzzle comedy.

01.10.2011

You are in your car, with a gun in your pocket, going back and forth with yourself about whether you should get moving immediately, or take some time to think about your situation. Some of the wording, and the fact that the game is subtitled "an interactive heist", make it not unreasonable to infer that you are gearing up for a robbery. A piece of interactive fiction written by Ryan Veeder.