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.

08.06.2020

It's been over a year since you were last home, and now it's time to finally clear out those last few things, and the memories they bring back.

01.10.2021

You haven't been over since she told you a month ago that she was moving to some small town in Wisconsin. But Riley is here, and the computer is here, and that's what matters for now. "Have you played the game yet?" "You told me to wait to play it with you about a billion times," she says. A work of interactive fiction by B.J. Best.

01.10.2015

You burnt some toast, which set off your smoke alarm and called the fire department. If there's not a fire when they arrive, you can expect a hefty fine.

02.02.2010

Interactive Fiction created by Andrew Plotkin, where the objective is to escape a virtual room.

24.12.2007

In the cruel kingdoms north of the Viraxian Empire, a barbarian seeks treasure - and vengeance! A faux-retro adaptation of a nonexistent 1979 text adventure from an alternate timeline, itself based on a nonexistent 1979 pen-and-paper RPG (a complete scan of which is included).

01.09.2015

If you’ve never played interactive fiction before, or have poked at a few games but didn’t feel like you really knew what you were doing, start here. A short text adventure guided towards helping newcomers to the genre understand the rules and nature of IF.

29.09.2013

Stolen away by apathetic Blind Ones, your only desire is to return to your Cellarium and the Song of the Universe. They should understand. You shall make them to understand. A piece of interactive fiction written by Lynnea Glasser.

01.10.2009

A blurb? They expect you to write? You're Lottie Plum so you're not going into writing. You sing. And dance and act up a storm while everyone else can only manage a puddle. You belong at Bridger. No matter what it takes.

17.08.2010

It figures that your pickup would die on a night like this and leave you stranded in the dark New Mexico desert. But nothing else figures about this night, man. Nothing at all. An example game for Aaron A. Reed's book Creating Interactive Fiction with Inform 7.

31.12.2000

A one-room interactive fiction game set in your apartment.

15.07.2009

The King of Shreds and Patches is a novel-length work of interactive fiction. In it you will explore an historically accurate recreation of Elizabethan London, circa 1603, interact with some fascinating characters both historical and fictional, and if you are clever and lucky, thwart an occult conspiracy that threatens to bring down the entire city - or worse.

01.05.1998

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.

31.12.1993

In the course of searching the attic for an old tourist map of Paris, Victor Meldrew steps into a surreal adventure to uncover a centuries-old curse that has been placed on his family.

29.09.2013

"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.

31.12.2016

An accurate recounting of recent kitten-related events.

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.

01.10.2017

In this castle, you'll eat or be eaten. May contain dairy, carnage, puzzles, nuts.

31.12.2000

A short piece of Interactive Fiction written by Jon Ingold.

31.12.2000

A conversation with a work of art. "47. Galatea. White Thasos marble. Non-commissioned work by the late Pygmalion of Cyprus. (The artist has since committed suicide.) Originally not an animate. The waking of this piece from its natural state remains unexplained."

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.

03.03.2023

"The Snow Queen controls her servants with Shards from the Mirror of Belial," Ebenezer Scrooge explained.

01.10.2016

You are battle-weary. Your armor is scanty and your countenance is loathsome; you tire of the swords flicking at your neck. But you have a duty. There is nothing you can't take. A game written by Katherine Morayati (as Amelia Pinnolla) for the 2016 Interactive Fiction Competition.