Popular games built on game engine Twine
"Open Sorcery" is a game about technology, magic and becoming a person.
Degrees of Lewdity is a text-based erotic sandbox roleplaying game, currently in development by Vrelnir.
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.
A game about trans women, tarot, therapy, and alien abduction.
An Unknown Alien Being acquires a child's forgotten book and mistakenly believes that it depicts proper protocol for interaction with the human world.
A very short piece of Interactive Fiction created by Chandler Groover for Twiny Jam.
a story about personal kinks and meditation may contain triggers (abuse, PTSD) please be safe
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!
You just came home from an extra-long day of work, and you're starving! Of course, you are what you eat after all, especially on a full moon...
Sometimes people give pieces of themselves away. Sometimes they give too much and who they are wears thin. They become an absence. A hole in the world. And a terrible Light shines through.
Solve a puzzle/mystery as a giant fish covered in worms!
Two wolves go out for a night on the town.
I made this game in 2013 after I went to PAX East, where a dude I'd just met in person pissed all over my personal boundaries and slam dunked them into a trash can. I was angry and this helped me feel much better!
A text based cyberpunk adventure/choice-game/history-sim.
This is a short story about two girls meeting one night, taking a liking to each other, and exploring themselves further. Weighing in at around ~7.5k words, it is more akin to a kinetic novel, except for the lack of images.
In the game, you will control the journey of MC as they try to make their way to church on Christmas Eve. You will run into a series of roadblocks and unexpected changes to your path. As you meet the cast of lonely characters, you will be given chances to make a connection, take action, or simply try to survive the night on your own.
ALL @ ONCE is a twine based interactive novel. Take the role of Wyatt Reynolds, your average everyday black teen in the small lake-centered town of Primwood a town where the world is quiet and the mornings are hazed. Where Devils walk the street with pockets full of spice. This young man whose life blinked by without a second thought becomes something more when his mind takes on something new. When the thoughts in his head aren't his own and the reality of reading people's minds comes into play.
Media that wants to stay lost. A horror blogger stumbles upon a series of lost media finds that leads them to uncover the mystery of characters "escaping" from their source material.
It is the year 19xx in England. You are an Indian university student who attended the boarding school Grayling Towers. You are returning to the town of Grayling after your first year at university to meet your old school friends: Cicily Thomas, Fatima Khan, and Susheela Rajaram. As the only Indian girls at Grayling Towers, the four of you quickly became close friends, but you haven't seen each other in a year. You're not sure what has changed since then, but this is your chance to find out. "Such, Such Were the Joys" is a queer historical dating sim set in mid-century England, with six possible endings. It is inspired by the English school stories of authors like Enid Blyton and Elinor Brent-Dyer, while trying to acknowledge some of the colonial and racial realities that those stories ignored.
Eser is the only human left alive. Gods and monsters, blessings and curses, an island ruled by giant insects — and in their midst: a reluctant human priest. Grief-stricken and bound by oath to obey the Queen’s newest divine decree, Eser will seek advice, encounter strange visitors, draw the attention of powers beyond comprehension, and surely make mistakes. As a baby, they were brought to Achthoven to save their life. As an adult, they must decide what kind of life is worth living.
It's bleak out there. No one would blame you for turning away.