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 Verses, you play as Eca: a data analyst working in a laboratory on the coast of far-future Romania. The land around you is grey and dead, the residents sickened and mutated by the poisonous soil or swept up into endless war. But your job is not to save the world — rather to understand it, digging deeply into the meaning of objects, organisms, and poems. Keep your mind clear and open. Be a conduit. Stay hungry.
The Best Game Ever Made (but in twine form)
A web-based text horror story about a family and their father who digs an impossibly deep hole in their basement.
Explore a mysterious graveyard and its secrets before your time runs out. But be wary — not everything is as it seems.
You are a secret agent. It’s the end of the world. You are cursed. You came here to rescue your partner, but the mission has taken a turn for the weird. Parody spy thriller.
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.
Solve puzzles, enlist magic beans, eat soap, plan your escape, and confront the menacing mage who keeps you confined in his tower. Will you keep cracking jokes or learn from your mistakes? Your choices matter.
A choose your own adventure game about picking a good restaurant for you and your friend group to eat at.
You have many faces. Your form is multiple. You are the cards. Created many years ago, infused with dark magic, you have seen many things. What secrets do you contain? What visions have you conjured up? How will you nudge the hands of fate?
genderfelt is a short interactive zine, in which you read the blog of young person called Anon, going through the process of discovering himself. It focuses on the issue of transmedicalism, and how one can help to pull their peers away from a harmful ideology.
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.
A short interactive narrative set in a fictional country that has recently been invaded. You have the role of the protector – though who you are protecting is part of the choices you make.
Come read this Scottish poem from 1926.
The high priest of an obscure cult is preparing a ritual. Don the priest’s sacred mantle, for these holy labors are yours to direct. You may carve a votive, lead a prayer, or make a sacrifice — but you must see to the task with care. Unearthly eyes gaze down upon you from the sea above. Will your devotion reach them? Does it matter?
The Uncle Who Works for Nintendo is a Twine horror game created by developer, Michael Lutz and illustrator, Kim Parker.
An interactive novel: weird, confusing, icy. Everything gained is loss. What is held bleeds as one wrings what matters most. We are all trapped in our desires' viscera, my skin, a mail impervious to x falling in snapped shapes. Totality, what terror springs upon its pilgrims, is it not best to seek a single perfect second and winter eternity there? And yet we fill up the faulty ongoing. Hunt my formerality and ravage me, dump my scarred corpse in the water, assume my guise veins, live my life as this lingering simulacrum in search of the apex moment before ultimate decay, ultimate disgrace, I am not revealed to be who possesses me. Trapped by my own momentum a molten enshaming. Shortfuse forcer bundled broken on the cliff I could not beg summits from besensed for the moment the sun pierces briefly the great and gray to bask the fallen silent forever in split warmth until unto rainy ages time consigns the corpse. She whose name I would not wish to whisper lest she overhear my bent spine snapping, her close passage is the light by which this longing to thrust forth shoots rootless shoots through ribcage mine to slipping freedom, some foreign unseen where could I congeal again new fleshlies no longer lying in yesteryear filths. Anchors forestalling my mind its free flight, I opened my mouth to choke on squalls, to taste what presumes not death.
You Can Only Turn Left is a playful exploration of the hypnagogic state between sleeping and wakefulness. Within this liminal space, memories morph into dreams and dreams feather into reality. You, the player have to navigate these hallucinations by choosing how the character creates their sleeping patterns. Inspired by game books and guided sleep meditations, this story invites you to imagine both the mundane and the fantastic to practice the mental flexibility of an avid dreamer.
You thought you were fluent at Galactic Basic, but no one seems to understand you when you say "I'm not interested in guys!" Your lasgun ends up having to do the talking for you. The number of star systems you've had to flee you can count on your knuckles. Well, enough! You've heard rumors of a secret paradise planet where people like you can be people like you, a glittering world where women walk arm-in-arm with women, where you can feel the heat of a lady's reciprocating gaze without having to feel the burn of a thousand judgemental stares on your skin. Lesbionica. The gay planet. Let's find it.
In It Makes for Painful Work, you spend a few days as a contract worker in a late-capitalist hellscape where you'll do fun things such as customer service, review AI training data, and vote for slogans made by terrible AIs.
Help a plucky rover complete its planetary research mission by studying alien lifeforms... and morphing them into brand new shapes and forms!
Neotrogla is a Twine horror story about discomfort in who you are, urban decay, weird hobbies, and bugs. Written for the SCREAM JAM 2022+1 in a little under a week.