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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.

31.12.1995

Walking away from a picnic, you are suddenly caught in a country storm. You must protect a bridge from being destroyed. A game by Andrew Plotkin he describes as his "first serious work of interactive fiction".

31.10.2014

The last two officers of a tropical colonial outpost wait for evacuation.

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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.

31.12.2011

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

01.10.2015

Final Exam takes place in the near future after an AI revolution has led to the establishment of a new sort of government. You are seeking a job within this government: your performance in the “final exam” determines the outcome. You wake up on the day of your exam to find that your world has unexpectedly changed. You leave your room to seek answers, and find the Administration Centre deserted... A game written by Jack Whitham for the 21st Annual Interactive Fiction Competition.

31.12.1999

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

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?

16.02.2015

Down, the Serpent and the Sun is a piece of Interactive Fiction written by Chandler Groover.

22.12.2023

Time is running out after a meteor strikes your interstellar starship. While the crew is under full alert, only you seem to notice the strange red portals opening up throughout the ship. Explore ten different worlds, learn the truth of your destiny, and confront the mysterious figure who has been haunting you from the start in this epic sci-fi adventure.

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.

30.09.2007

A text adventure game about an orc named Grunk and a pig who would much prefer to remain lost.

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.

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.

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01.10.2006

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

10.10.1996

It is a symbol and a tool. It is your past and your future. It is all things, in time. You, Timothy Hunter, have lived, and like all things mortal you have died. But the aftermath of that lifetime is anything but simple... Faced with creatures beyond your ken, the fruition of whose inscrutable motives hinge on your decisions, what will you do? Will you face who and what you once were? Or will you try to change things for the better? Or the worse?

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01.10.2005

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.

28.07.2020

The first Taleframe game based on the 90s children's horror soap opera.

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.

21.10.2023

The little match girl goes on a spooky adventure with her friend (a crow).

01.10.2023

In The Little Match Girl 4 by Hans Christian Andersen, a prince has been born, and the titular little match girl must assemble the subtitular Crown of Pearls.

20.07.2023

The little match girl plays a magical flute.

16.11.2023

A short game taking place soon after The Little Match Girl 4: Crown of Pearls.

09.09.2015

The Baron's daughter is missing, and you are the man to find her. No problem. With your inexhaustible arsenal of hard-boiled similes, there is nothing you can't handle. An expanded rerelease of the 2011 text adventure with illustrations and music.