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.

A headstrong twelve-year-old detective gets in over her head when she's hired to solve a murder mystery at an internet technology conference.

Mémoire 0079 is a narrative adventure game about exploring a wiki-like interface to uncover the secret history of a mecha war between earth and space in the uncomfortably not-so-distant future.

Follow user StaircaseHaven14 on a Neopets-esque site called Ruffians as she faces life's challenges, RPs with her long-distance BFF (or more than BFF?) Bee, and encounters familial hardship, from age 8 to 18.

ONE DAY HIKE is a brief interactive fiction where you revisit an old, familiar hiking trail and recount the memories that you've tried-- and failed-- to leave behind.

A game about disability and attempting to achieve the usual. Explore Elery as a 10 year old kid just trying to finish their town history project, and uncover the town's secrets, or don't. Bring Your Own Oxygen is a story about a chronically ill child trying to do what every other kid in Elery does, only to find some strange truths about the world around them. Whether you report it or not, the consequences may be more than you think.


have you ever gotten sick of your dumb human body and depressing future prospects? why not play through a twine story in which you can coat your body in charged animal essences and enact satanic rituals to gain weird demonic body parts and terrible power? Sabbat: Director's Kvt features: * 5 different animals (snake, centipede, crow, goat, wolf) to influence the horrifying demon parts you gain * over 100 possible body combinations that affect your actions in the game multiple endings (two, there's two endings) * music by stationlost * over 200 sprites by cactusbee * abstract, cruelty-free sacrifice options * 3 initial genital options * enhanced headcanon support

So, Agent! Are you a bad enough Trusted Internet Investigator to conduct a "Knock-and-Talk" with ███████ (henceforth known as "The Subject")?

"In FLATSPACE, on HJÖ, where HJÖRIANS live in DOMES in symbiosis with RAINCOATS...you'll find MR.RAINER'S SOLVE-IT SERVICE. You've got a problem - we solve it." One day, HEINO's partner dies. He gets a new one.

A game written by Astrid Dalmady for the Annual Interactive Fiction Competition.

Based on a nightmare that was a result of things that happened to me, filtered through a writer's lens.

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.

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.
“We Are Not All Alone Unhappy” is a short interactive narrative piece made in Twine which interrogates the idea of the Shakespearean happy ending. It asks players to create a pairing between two characters who received canonically unhappy endings in Shakespeare’s plays.
Depressing Cosmic Horror


Reset is a game about the bizarre, frightening, and exciting possibilities for kink in the cyborg/transhuman future.

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.

A web-based text horror story about a family and their father who digs an impossibly deep hole in their basement.