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.
In the 80s and 90s, Japanese publishing company Futabasha released a series of gamebook adaptations of various video games. Part of their "Famicom Game Book Series" was January of 1987's "Metroid: Zebes Invasion Order", written by Nobuyuki Shioda and illustrated by Arisaka Sumi. The game book is a retelling of the original Metroid video game, with an extra adventure taking place as part of an expanded ending sequence. Twinetroid is a conversion of this gamebook into interactive fiction game engine Twine. The game is freely available online at Metroid fansite Metroid Database.
Follow fledgling magical girl Darcy Dragonfruit as she simply tries to get to work!
Drowning, Depression, and Wishing for More.
"Will Not Let Me Go" is set in Dallas, Texas. 1996. Where Fred Strickland has Alzheimer's. Follow this emotional journey as you struggle to member...
As a new recruit in a repair shop for synthetic bodies, your boss puts the pressure on to prepare a few hard drives for refurbishing. The trouble is, they're very alive, and it's up to you whether you can actually do the job. With a complex morality system, your interactions with each drive can be as sinister or altruistic as you believe you are. And most importantly, every drive seems to be obsessed with the original owner of the body you're using for the drives, "Local," but she must be long since disposed of, right?
You are Mo, the cat! Be cute, listen to and advise your friends, and knock some plants over if you feel like it.
Each Tarot card tells a unique tale, so different yet alike all the same. Explore the stories and watch as fate strings them together and dances them to downfall.
Reflections of a postmodern vampire.
All Hail The Spider God is an eerie interactive fiction adventure about You, and all the Yous you've left behind.
A Twine ghost story in the English Yuletide tradition, by Michael Lutz.
Remmie's bestie Nunu invited them both to her friend Mira's housewarming party. Not only is Remmie waking up hours late, completely forgotten all about the thing until just now. Nunu isn't responding to her messages, so maybe she's there already? With only one way to find out, Remmie ends up leaving and thinks to herself.
Ascendance is a text-based fantasy love story about the first contact between humanity and the extraterrestrial beings known as The Y. Though the premise is a very fertile (and fun!) ground for sci-fi, Ascendance is inspired by several concepts from different spiritualist philosophies, as well as by great fantasy stories, so it might bring a different perspective for you!
An adaptation of a lost, 1980s CBC classic film (that could've been): an enticing, alchemical conspiracy in the Canadian steeltown. Four teenagers confront the basement sickness of the town manor: and their leader seems so different, so driven, suddenly... Who will you forge friendships with? And what will you decide to do, when the time comes to be a hero? Can blood save a society? And what have movies actually taught you?
A mystery told five paragraphs at a time.
"Perhaps the most horrible of all recorded magical spells."
An otome game involving orcs and humans.
You have three seconds to kill your former friend. The nuns and sacred algorithms have willed it. And no matter how much you want to save her, you can’t.
a friendly horror game in your neighborhood