Twine

zorkie studios

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.

It Makes for Painful Work

soweliMosiwa

An exploration of the one left behind. There is a way out - more than one, in fact - you just might have to wander a while before you find them.

Content warning for Hamlet-typical explorations of murder, suicide, and death in general, alongside a similarly Shakespeare-typical understanding of "insanity". Also, spoilers for a centuries-old play (bet you can't guess which one).

Hamlet, Act VI, Scene I

Marie Vibbert

On your way home one gloomy night, you find a book on the sidewalk titled "Don't Open This Book." Do you?

Your choices will change not just what happens, but what has happened. Is this a mystery, a family story, horror, science fiction? Genre Issues meet Daddy Issues in this meditative fiction journey.

Don't Open This Book

When your captain dies suspiciously halfway through a hyperspace transit, you know you’re in trouble. Not because you need a captain — as an embodied AI spaceship, you can pilot yourself just fine — but because, as an aficionado of mysteries and detective stories, you know there’s only one explanation: murder most foul.

A Death in Hyperspace

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.

Verses

Colton Olds

Welcome to the Universe is a game about dots. Trust the process.

Welcome to the Universe

Emery Joyce

Encorm

Pickering Station, Antarctica: A place of science, knowledge, and deep isolation. When the last plane leaves for the winter, you and your colleagues may as well be on Mars. At least this winter-over has gone well so far — or as well as can be expected with a dozen or so eccentrics locked up together.

But then someone turns up dead...

You have ten days until the next plane arrives and law enforcement takes over the investigation, and by then the perpetrator will have covered their tracks. Can you bring them to justice first? And can you keep your sanity in the process?

Winter-Over

Sarah Mak

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.

You Can't Save Her

Kanderwund

Surreal point-and-click exploration game inspired by Yume Nikki. 100+ rooms, a few mostly optional puzzles, and minimal text. Meant to be unsettling. No jumpscares.

The Invisible Smoke Factory

lament your fate and write a poem about it

You are an Ancient Chinese Poet in Exile

You need to buy a phone charger is a game about a struggling artist trying to buy a phone cable in a late-capitalist, enshittified-to-the-max, internet hellscape. Good luck!

You need to Buy a Phone Charger

IllestPreacha

A piece of Interactive Fiction made for Dialogue Jam.

ConversationalRumblings

A dialog-only interactive fiction game where you play the role of Diplomat Calliope, charged with maintaining good relations with the planet Syzygy.

Syzygy

Introducing Chatterbox - the desktop chat app that brings back the simplicity of text-based communication. A piece of Interactive Fiction written for the 2024 Dialogue Jam.

Chatterbox

"PoeticRambling" is coded as a layered ramble in Twine. With an interactive fiction approach to a ramble that happens to rhyme.

PoeticRambling

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 Can Only Turn Left

Candace the Magnificent

One afternoon, your cat requests a treat...

Weird Little Guys

by Freyja Katra Erlingsdóttir

Two wars have left humanity licking its wounds. Earth is gone, its fleets becoming nomadic, searching the stars for somewhere to call home. In one of the scattered flotilla, a navy pilot meets a wanderer. Their culture and customs, still human, are foreign.

Perhaps a sign of things to come for another part of humanity.

Homeward in the Roil

This is a short mystery story where you have to pick the right words to answer questions.

Notes on a Mystery

South Africa, 1900: A man is brought to a field hospital wounded and on the verge of death. A volunteer nurse saves him.

A point and click game of memory and deduction. Thematically, it is an exploration of trauma and forgiveness. The game takes place in an alternate history version of the Second Boer War/South African War

Another day, another job. You work as a Solo - a contract killer. Today is June 30, 3030. Eladia Volante, the Operations Specialist at Suto-Shira, has contacted you at Gikhusko Tower, the hotel where you and the other freelance Solos are registered for hire. Apparently Suto-Shira's cofounder, Ken Suto, was found dead at Shenzen Industrial Area this morning. Eladia wants you to do what you do best - find the killer and give him what's coming to him.

Cloning Chaos

Louphole

Welcome to Simplicity Transportation Customer Service.

Thank you for taking the time to contact us about your concern. Please create a new claim so that we can deal with your enquiry quickly. We promise, it will be short and simple.

Thank You For Your Inquiry is an interactive fiction game made with Twine where you try to get a compensation from a company after a bad experience.

Thank You For Your Inquiry

qrowscant

A story about a corpse, a complicated sibling relationship, and the things we forget. Made in Twine. Written, coded, and illustrated in three weeks for the Interactive Fiction Competition.

My Brother; The Parasite

Roxy S.

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.

Mémoire 0079

Welcome back.

After over a decade, you return home.

Childhood Homes: And Why We Hate Them

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.

Neotrogla

E. Joyce

Lady Thalia is back in London and back to her old tricks, putting up with Britain’s social elite by day so she can steal from them by night. But that doesn’t mean things are easy, what with her husband back from abroad and a new detective hot on her trail. Still, she’s not going to let those little things distract her from pulling off the heist of her career, even if she needs a bit of help to do it…

Explore London, match wits with friends and foes, and steal everything that’s not nailed down (and some things that are) in this gripping installment of the Lady Thalia series!

Lady Thalia and the Masterpiece of Moldavia

You and your sister get stuck inside of a VRMMO where if you die in-game, you die in real life.

Your goal is to get to the 100th floor and get out of the game alive.

So far the game has character customization, a party system with npcs, combat, a unique inventory system that requires the use of a wardrobe, a housing system, a cooking system, being able to take jobs and a stat points system.

The Hundredth Floor

Soda-Thief

You have been tasked to deliver a spare heart to the princess, who cannot love.

Spare Heart

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.

Cut Strings

Help a plucky rover complete its planetary research mission by studying alien lifeforms... and morphing them into brand new shapes and forms!

Plasmorphosis

Interactive Dreams

You'll talk to a statue. It will incite you to remember its name, the one you both created. Will you know it?

Epithymía

Trailer

felix lecocq

A 2-minute game about a doctor's appointment.

Disintegration

It's bleak out there. No one would blame you for turning away.

Glimmer

Abigail Corfman

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.

The Absence of Miriam Lane

Survive as a monster that has taken up residence underneath a bridge, interact with strangers who pass over your bridge and see if you can not only survive the encounters, but create a home for yourself.

Under the Bridge

An entry for Cozy Autumn Game Jam 2022.

A bite-sized text-based game about what happens when you meet online friends for the first time.

Post-Disclosure, Devil's Night

Inspired by The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, this is a work of interactive fiction built in Twine. Play in your browser on any device.

Meyni

Lichene

A stone falls into a desert and is surrounded by life. Understanding comes with effort, at a cost.

Crash / Impact / Contact

A lone tower stands in a barren world.

Unbeknownst to its inhabitants, it is one of many others.

Great riches await those who dare to ascend one.

It is however home to many dangers, ones not easily surmounted.

Time for you to begin your ascent!

TOWERSCAPE is a multi-track linear narrative game, meaning the only choices you will make is which character's POV to follow. Play multiple times to see what each character is thinking.

Towerscape

The year is 1999. The place is Godfield, Louisiana: the tech capital of the world, where the sky bleeds acid and the mud boils in the bayou. It’s time for your state-mandated digital therapy.

Computerfriend is a text-based interactive fiction game by Kit Riemer. 20-60 minute playtime, 6 endings.

Computerfriend

Eat, swear & try to take over the neighbourhood.

Crow Quest

Kaemi Velatet

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.

Manifest No

Everyone who’s anyone summers in France - which means master thief Lady Thalia is there too, attending garden parties by day and stealing masterpieces by night. Unfortunately, this holiday is less than restful, as she crosses paths with foes both old and new. Case your targets, steal works of art, and team up with your Scotland Yard nemesis in this puzzle-based Twine game.

Lady Thalia and the Rose of Rocroi

Nessa Cannon

A short, interactive fiction horror game about moving over and over again. You seem to have a knack for moving into haunted houses and apartments - in fact, every place you've lived in the last year was haunted. You're hoping this new apartment will be different.

4th Time's the Charm

A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle Decoded

A short interactive fiction about Internet discourse.

Well, Fuck You Too

Adventure waits for you in a procedurally generated Archipelago! Discover strange new lands. Make a fortune from trading. Swing a Really Big Sword at a dragon. Fight wild beasts – or turn them into your allies. Meet the puffins (if you're really lucky). With dozens of possible enemies, quests, and items, no two visits to the Archipelago are the same.

4x4 Archipelago

The sky is dark. It is a time of mystery, change and struggle. It is a time of opportunity.

In this asymmetric, two-player piece of interactive fiction, you and your partner each take on the role of a leader of a great nation on the last night of a war. A war one side did not even know it was fighting. Will you play as the general of the King’s army, riding north to retake the lands that rebelled against the royal line hundreds of years ago? Or will you play the Dictator of the Republic, who finds herself abandoned in a city wholly unprepared for war, now apparently only able to decide what her last few hours will look like in the city that she loves?

Both have little doubt that the city of Alexisgrad will fall tonight. The question that both must ask is how it will fall.

The Last Night of Alexisgrad

universal hologram is a science fiction text-based game about consciousness, dreaming, suffering, and sand.

it takes about an hour to play, and has numerous branching pathways and several distinct endings.

Universal Hologram

A Memoriam to a Fallen Furry Friend

A 7k word Twine game about working retail and dealing with magic managers who hate each other. So, a normal shift.

Witches and Stitches

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.

Bring Your Own Oxygen

Arianna Ravioli

Experience a great journey with famous poet Dante and his super "reliable" narrator Virgil.

A Hell of a Journey

Explore a mysterious graveyard and its secrets before your time runs out. But be wary — not everything is as it seems.

More Bones Than You Can Count

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.

The Attendant

G.C. Baccaris

J. J. Guest

Welcome to the Excalibur Wiki. This fan-run encyclopedia preserves the details of an obscure science fantasy television series from the 1970s. Though much of its footage was lost, a group of dedicated fans still have strong memories of the show — as well as unique theories, occasional arguments, and lingering questions.

Excalibur is a hypertext-based interactive fiction piece written and developed by J.J. Guest and G.C. Baccaris, with contributions from co-creator Duncan Bowsman and others.

Excalibur

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.

Fish & Dagger

Navigate fraught social situations by day and pull off heists by night as Lady Thalia, the not-actually-aristocratic thief bent on making a mockery of British high society.

Lady Thalia and the Seraskier Sapphires

Why should we survive this, who would be there if we did? Do you feel from your statues? In your busts, do you dream? Why not die, if it kills you not to? The problem for a queen is she is one place, one people, incarnated godhood chained to a self worship. We feel as we do, forced to be a mastery, the master in the mirror is the medium, autochthon artist, but I, I am an undefined, protean in describabbles, those who resist my boundless empress me in compass, I am all the unknown in the bleeding to reach. Ghosts dance my polytones, the bones of my colossus bridge my whys keystones. Why should you see me as who I am, when that has never been enough for me?

Queenlash is an interactive novel about the life of Cleopatra told from the perspectives of eight women.

Queenlash

A Twisted Place

You are Mo, the cat! Be cute, listen to and advise your friends, and knock some plants over if you feel like it.

Violeta

Ryan Veeder

The fourth one in a series of anthologies of unbelievable terror, edited by Ryan Veeder.

Even Some More Tales from Castle Balderstone

A small interactive fiction about the day of a writer, their routine, their work, their fears, and anxieties...

A Day in the Life of a Writer

Emilie Reed

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

The Iron Hand in the Velvet Glove

Earth Year 2952: the corsair crew of the Oblivion spaceship gets attacked by some mysterious kidnappers, but they leave behind the Captain, Ivory Joyner, who is determined to take them back; in the meantime, her Second in Command, Nathaniel Shada, is making up a plan to get everyone back on the Oblivion. Will the two of them succeed?

Fight // Flight is a short interactive novel divided in 6 chapters, with two POVs.

Fight // Flight

Lawrence Marable

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.

All @ Once

Prince Blacktree is dead. All of the other fairy nobles are trying to claim credit. You're a traveling Open Sorcerer, and a convenient neutral party who just wants to get out of Fairyland. 
 
A whodunit where the suspects are clamoring to be accused.

A Murder in Fairyland

Mark Sample

We are haunted by the houses of our childhood. How unfamiliar they are, when we return. Yet you never forget, do you? You never really forget. 
 
A Southern Gothic horror story. Remember, of all the masks we wear, it's the final one that matters.

Babyface

A short story about food, belonging, and seeking home. Text your friend, call your mum, and search for congee on this rainy night.

Congee

Jack Sanderson Thwaite

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?

Minor Arcana

Joseph Pentangelo

A breath born of boredom rises in the wintry sky. Hooves and bells approach. The school bus is late.

The Pinecone

Although this is an interactive interface, your choices do NOT matter. They really do not. Before you quit, I want you to understand why. I am a believer of absurdity, that our actions in the end have no meaning in the interacting force between humans and universe. Choices lead you to different paths, but in the end, it's to a place where we share the common ground. But hey, life is about enjoying the journey, right? I hope you enjoy the choices being made along the way.

The Place

A hole-based economy and a venison-based diet. You and your dog. And a turnip.

The Turnip

Your commute is simple enough. Or at least, it should be. But today, the entire public transportation system seems to have it out for you - and is it just you, or does the geography keep... shifting?

What the Bus?

B.J. Best

This work is a collaboration with GPT-2, a neural network model designed to predict the next word in a block of given text based on its study of eight million web pages. In this application, I input a text file of my own prose from the past twenty years into GPT-2. It then generated new writing in a similar style. I selected, arranged, and lightly edited the resulting output.

You Will Thank Me as Fast as You Thank a Werewolf

npckc

Space Frog! is an indie adventure game about a frog in space.

Space Frog!

Gamma, Delta, and Epsilon have seen more than enough to last a life time. They've been given hardly any information on what they are supposed to investigate and are also bringing some fresh recruits along.

A sci-fi narrative game made in Twine.

Unto the Night

You are Lucas: a runaway teen in New York City’s Union Square, trying to make it to the hospital— with a dead phone and no money —before your father dies from cancer. This is a story about losing the fear to ask others for help, and the dangers of going it alone.

Kaleidoscope

Little Red in the Woods

—our company mission to provide grieving families with accurate, compassionate simulations of their deceased loved ones—

You! Winnifred Meyer. Remember? You are Winnifred Meyer, and you died at age twenty-six in a car accident.

Compassionate Simulation

Freya Campbell

In a quiet library on the World, a history book spills its sordid secrets.

The End of Decay

You have 20 seconds to determine your fate.

Your Phone Dies in 20 Seconds

Gameplay Video

When someone falls into a late afternoon nap, they will invariably wake to find their mind vacated of the ability to comprehend time.

Short twine game about communication and loneliness.

Radio Fall

Fluffgar

Glistening is a short sci-fi horror text adventure.

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