Popular games built on game engine Twine
"Open Sorcery" is a game about technology, magic and becoming a person.
Depression Quest is an interactive fiction game where you play as someone living with depression. You are given a series of everyday life events and have to attempt to manage your illness, relationships, job, and possible treatment. This game aims to show other sufferers of depression that they are not alone in their feelings, and to illustrate to people who may not understand the illness the depths of what it can do to people.
In a quiet library on the World, a history book spills its sordid secrets.
This is pretty different. I heard about the tragic suicide of Aaron Swartz last spring and made this game in ten hours. It loops around a lot; there’s some debate over what the ending of the game is, I guess, but my point is that there’s not an ending. When I was twelve, I tried to kill myself. I’ve dealt with depression my whole life, but that was the last time I succumbed to suicidal ideation. It’s been nineteen years. This game discusses a lot of things pretty frankly— completed suicide attempts of friends, being rushed to the ER, using Christianity to prop up my self-discipline for a while, my fears for my children. You can argue whether or not this is a GAME, I guess, but it’s definitely me.
Flight 155's landing gear has jammed and it's stuck in limbo, burning fuel ahead of an emergency landing. As flight attendant Evie, you can learn about your passengers, and about yourself, as you ease their fears during the crisis.
Milano’d an interactive, text-based game that plunges players into the murky depths of corporate intrigue at a multinational corporation known for its glamorous facade and secretive dealings. As the newest employee, you are thrust into the annual Mega Raffle, an event surrounded by rumors of corruption and manipulation. Navigate through a web of deceit as you decide whether to expose the wrongdoing, exploit it for personal gain, or simply try to survive your day-to-day corporate life. Your choices will lead you through conversations with allies and adversaries alike, uncovering secrets that could alter the course of your career and the integrity of MilanoCorp. Each decision shapes the narrative, leading to multiple outcomes based on your moral compass and strategic cunning. Can you unravel the truth without losing yourself in the process?
Necessary Bimbos is an illustrated branching story written by Limerick and illustrated/coded by Sortimid. The game follows about a young guy who wakes up with a headache after a fight with his girlfriend. While trying to smooth things over, he keeps inadvertently changing reality --- her background, clothes, even how the world works! How far will he go? You get to decide! There are twelve different endings and over 60 illustrations covering 38,000 words!
in recollection of something beautiful
Mangia is a game about Nina Freeman's personal experience being diagnosed with a chronic illness.
A derelict vessel drifts slowly closer and closer to a red sun, a massive seed in its depths the only clue to the starship's fate...
A game written by Astrid Dalmady for the Annual Interactive Fiction Competition.
it helps to talk to yourself
Amity Watkins and her girlfriend Li Anderson are seniors in high school in the smallish, obscure town of Foxville, Massachusetts. It's Saturday, only five episodes of Sailor Moon Crystal have been released, and Amity wants to give Li a flower pendant. A Twine story about two girls in love, chatting about life.
You are a Chrono Agent, dispatched across space and time on sensitive missions to alter the course of history. You have arrived on board an abandoned spaceship, the only living crewmember preserved in a cryo-stasis pod, with 59 seconds until the reactor surges and fries the pod. You have already failed twice. Your operator resets you back to the anchor point, and you try again. And again. And again.
Based on a nightmare that was a result of things that happened to me, filtered through a writer's lens.
Draw Nine puts you in the role of a magician whose powers depend on a pack of magic cards. These can help or harm, but the selection available to you is determined randomly at the start of the game. Since you cannot choose your cards, you must find the path through the world that makes the most of the powers at your disposal.
This is a short mystery story where you have to pick the right words to answer questions.
A web-based text horror story about a family and their father who digs an impossibly deep hole in their basement.
it speaks to you in a voice of a birdmany-limbed bird like an angel
Eat, swear & try to take over the neighbourhood.
A short horror story about insects, endings, gods, and the destructive capacity of hieroglyphs.
A simple Twine conversion of an evocative scene. The text I used is a modern translation, by one Brian Stone, of a poem dating from about 1400. There's plenty more information available under 'about the authors' for those curious!