TextSpaced is a text-based sci-fi MMORPG played in your browser, where as a captain you attempt to survive and prosper in an infinite and hostile universe. TextSpaced blends the style of more traditional text adventures with modern principles to create a game where everyone coexists in the same expansive universe which is steeped in lore and intrigue. The entire universe is organic where everything is connected to everything else, every decision you make has a cascade of repercussions for you and your faction. The sandbox nature of the game leaves you, the player, the freedom to decide at any point what to do next.

TextSpaced

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You haven't been over since she told you a month ago that she was moving to some small town in Wisconsin. But Riley is here, and the computer is here, and that's what matters for now. "Have you played the game yet?"

"You told me to wait to play it with you about a billion times," she says.

A work of interactive fiction by B.J. Best.

And Then You Come to a House Not Unlike the Previous One

Six bees. Five bags of groceries. A four-pound dumbbell. Three sailboats. One twin.

Sting is a puzzleless parser memoir about ordinary days and unexpected interruptions.

Sting

“You? Win the Libonotus Cup?” Sammy scoffs. “I'd be impressed if your ship even makes it to the starting line tomorrow morning, let alone Portobello.”

“Aye,” you say, “me ship may have taken a beating in that last raid, but I'll bet ye 500 doubloons I can still beat you to the finish line!”

You'd better get to it, the race starts at dawn and your ship isn't exactly seaworthy at the moment.

The Libonotus Cup

"Magic comes with a price. But on your birthday, all your expenses are paid. Welcome to Grooverland."

Grooverland is a large parser game that takes over two hours to complete. It is based on the works of author and programmer Chandler Groover, although it does not require previous knowledge of his games to play.

Grooverland

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!

Ascendance

Ever wondered what an infinitely generated world would look like? Always feel limited by the imagination of the developers? KoboldAI is the open-source alternative to AI Dungeon and NovelAI, focussing on you as the player and the AI as the Dungeon Master. With new AI models constantly being released by the community, you are always guaranteed to have a new and unique experience in the field of text-based dungeon delving.

KoboldAI

In a world of arcane mysteries, a young doctor's apprentice unravels a conspiracy most grim.

The Weight of a Soul is a mystery-horror interactive novel inspired by IF classics like Blue Lacuna and Anchorhead.

The Weight of a Soul

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

You are stranded on an unknown island and you find a mobile phone where strangers, who are more or less attentive, give you advice via instant chat.

Survival Messenger Adventure

An account of the disastrous sidewalk chalk tournament of August 27, 2011.

A Rope of Chalk

Four cardboard boxes stacked in the centre of a bare office. You can't leave til they're all unpacked, and there's an awful lot to unpack here, including emotional baggage, academic misconduct, and a blood feud spanning centuries.

Academic Pursuits (As Opposed to Regular Pursuits)

Victorious at last, you now need to get yourself and your fleet back home. Decide as if it all depends on you, trust as if it all depends on the gods, and you will have an amazing quest...

Amazing Quest

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

Isaac Newton receives a mysterious letter inviting him to investigate a new scientific phenomenon.

Standing on the Shoulders of Giants

The only thing worse than being a village idiot is being an unemployed village idiot. Maybe it’s time to change careers. Maybe it’s time to be a knight.

Stuff of Legend

Housework is only as dull as your imagination. Join Emma, six years old, on a playful adventure of peculiar proportions.

The Impossible Bottle

A millionaire guards a fabulous ruby in her private train car. Countless thieves have failed to steal it. But they weren't the Magpie!

The Magpie Takes the Train

The memoir of a demonic spy in the Cold War between Heaven and Hell.

Vain Empires

The first Taleframe game based on the 90s children's horror soap opera.

Crocodracula: The Beginning

It's been over a year since you were last home, and now it's time to finally clear out those last few things, and the memories they bring back.

Moving On

A cute fox girl explores her small hometown on her way to a date with a friend.

Rebel Kitsune

The black gate at the east end of the schoolyard is closed, locked. The After School Program does not relinquish its warriors willingly.

Here is where the mud is thinnest on the ground, and in some places the painted lines of the kickball diamond are visible.

A text adventure by Ryan Veeder.

Mud Warriors

Mackerelmedia Fish is an ARG-like text adventure about digital archeology and friendship in unlikely places.

Mackerelmedia Fish

A gothic mystery game in which you rely on your environment to uncover the truth. Contains religious content, multiple endings, optional audio, and lots of Latin.

Domvs

An AI-powered text-based RPG like you've never played before. Write stories, interact with realistic characters, and experience virtually infinite worlds and genres. Escape to alternate universes where you direct the action and anything is possible!

AI Dungeon

With a loud "click," the door closes behind you. Finally! You are locked inside an antebellum Southern mansion, alone, wearing only a chicken costume. You've fantasized about this moment for years.

Sugarlawn is a timed treasure hunt game where the goal is to collect as much cash as possible via the valuables you pick up.

Sugarlawn

Relax at the Jewel Pond Recreation Area with Ryan Veeder as your guide.

Ryan Veeder's Authentic Fly Fishing

Hoping to score a discount on provisions, a traveler haggles with a merchant named Dasra.

Dasra's Cabinet

Play as Hua Mulan, a young lesbian who is conscripted into the First Opium War against the British Empire. Run a flower shop, kiss a girl, shoot a matchlock rifle, and uncover a military conspiracy! Your actions will lead you to one out of four different endings. Will you get the girl, or will you die an inglorious death?

Lionkiller

Cragne Manor is an 'exquisite corpse' text adventure commemorating the twentieth anniversary of Michael Gentry's Anchorhead, in which each of its 84 rooms was created by a different author.

Cragne Manor

A game written by Els White for the Annual Interactive Fiction Competition.

To the Wolves

Sir Rodney Playfair, gentleman thief, has a simple plan: impersonate a psychiatrist, infiltrate a country house, steal a priceless Egyptian scarab and make it back to London in time for cocktails. All in a day's work for the illustrious 'Magpie'.

Alias 'The Magpie'

Junior Arithmancer

The Warden Game is a text-adventure style game that helps players understand the contradictions of prison life in an age of mass incarceration. Designed by Ed Mead around 1987, while he was incarcerated at the Washington State Reformatory at Monroe, the game explores power in prison and how individuals exercise it.

The Warden Game

Two sisters, a truck driver and a housewife, fend off a Kaiju apocalypse in the Great Smoky Mountains with their mech Mama Possum.

Mama Possum

Witches and Bandits and Swords (Oh My) is a mouse-only, adventure choosing graphic novel game in which you must explore dangerous forests, save your friends from a pirate conspiracy, and avoid a particularly odd barbarian who wants to do unpleasant things to your squishy innards.

Witches and Bandits and Swords (Oh My)

Gameplay Video

"Dancing with Fear" (1958, directed by Víctor Ojuel). In this forgotten classic of Golden Age Hollywood, a vedette fallen on hard times (Salomé Vélez) finds herself enmeshed in a tangle of political intrigue, romance and betrayal in a Caribbean republic. Torn between her love for a smuggler, the lust of a corrupt policeman and the machinations of a Soviet intelligence operative, the protagonist navigates the dangers of a high-society party on the eve of revolution. As she tries to survive through that fateful night, the memories of her past will come to haunt her. Controversial at the time for its depiction of Cold War politics and morally ambiguous protagonist. (120 minutes, Technicolor, in-game hint system).

1958: Dancing with Fear

The plants that grow out of your bedroom walls are associated with Earth. The fairy lights strung across your kitchen are associated with Fire. Change an object's element, and the object will turn into something else.

As a research witch, elemental transformation is second nature to you. And that's just as well, because your house is malfunctioning, and you'll need to use everything you know to put it right.

Domestic Elementalism

In this castle, you'll eat or be eaten. May contain dairy, carnage, puzzles, nuts.

Eat Me

Arc Symphony places you as an invader in the Usenet newsgroups of yesterday. Discover the ancient JRPG, Arc Symphony, in this meditation on fan culture and identity in the reflection of the monitor.

Arc Symphony

An accurate recounting of recent kitten-related events.

Don't Eat the Cactus

A short Zork inspired piece of interactive fiction played with a chatbot through Facebook Messenger.

A Messenger Adventure

You are battle-weary. Your armor is scanty and your countenance is loathsome; you tire of the swords flicking at your neck. But you have a duty. There is nothing you can't take.

A game written by Katherine Morayati (as Amelia Pinnolla) for the 2016 Interactive Fiction Competition.

Take

You're a vampire hunter on your night off.

You're getting a manicure, seeing a movie, and eating fast food.

But there's a vampire in this McDonalds.

If you don't do something, then in one hour it will eat the cashier.

16 Ways to Kill a Vampire at McDonalds

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

Cactus Blue Motel

A game written by Robin Johnson for the Annual Interactive Fiction Competition.

Detectiveland

As the most famous self-published Science Fiction author residing in Hillview, you are eminently qualified to judge their annual Elementary School Science Fair.

Fair

Your friend Mike thinks no one can infiltrate THE FACILITY, but you're going to prove him wrong. A game written by Arthur DiBianca for the Annual Interactive Fiction Competition.

Inside the Facility

Your mirror never lies. A game written by Chandler Groover for the 2016 Interactive Fiction Competition.

Mirror and Queen

SCREW YOU, BEAR DAD! is a game about puns, rampant drug use, learning to enjoy life despite uncertainty, and elderly women in attack helicopters.

Also - bears.

A game written by Xalavier Nelson Jr. for the Annual Interactive Fiction Competition.

Screw You, Bear Dad

A game written by Chandler Groover for the Annual Interactive Fiction Competition.

The Queen's Menagerie

SPACEPLAN is an experimental piece of interaction based partly on a total misunderstanding of Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time. Use manual clicks and the passage of time to create and launch potato-based devices and probes from your nondescript satellite orbiting a mysterious planet. Unlock the mysteries of the galaxy or just kill some time in what the astrophysics community is calling the ‘best narrative sci-fi clicker game of all times’.

Spaceplan

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You, Mary Jane Minsky, have a few things to clear up with your best friend Jenny Yoshida. When your robotic birthday gift doesn't go over as planned, you may need to reset your expectations, for her and yourself.

The Mary Jane of Tomorrow

Someone's been bopping the field mice on the head, and only Good Fairy, Senior Detective can find out who. A parser-driven noir adventure based on the interactive fiction of Ryan Veeder.

Foo Foo

A piece of interactive fiction written by Chandler Groover, where you play the magician Morgan the Magnificent.

Three-Card Trick

Ply the spaceways. Make five million credits. Buy back your twin. A space sim in the form of interactive fiction, written by C.E.J. Pacian.

Superluminal Vagrant Twin

A text adventure adaptation of Dracula, faithfully reimagining several characters and ignoring most of the original plot. Guide Jonathan Harker on a trip through Transylvania, interacting with vampires, mad scientists, zombies, annoying magpies, and moustachioed werewolves.

Uses a mobile-friendly clickable text interface.

Draculaland

What Fuwa Bansaku Found

The last two officers of a tropical colonial outpost wait for evacuation.

Lime Ergot

You burnt some toast, which set off your smoke alarm and called the fire department. If there's not a fire when they arrive, you can expect a hefty fine.

5 Minutes to Burn Something!

A young adult text adventure about falling in love, coming to terms with who you are, and saving your entire summer camp from weird alien bird monsters.

Birdland

A game written by Steph Cherrywell for the 21st Annual Interactive Fiction Competition.

Brain Guzzlers from Beyond!

A game written by Cat Manning for the 21st Annual Interactive Fiction Competition.

Crossroads

Final Exam takes place in the near future after an AI revolution has led to the establishment of a new sort of government. You are seeking a job within this government: your performance in the “final exam” determines the outcome. You wake up on the day of your exam to find that your world has unexpectedly changed. You leave your room to seek answers, and find the Administration Centre deserted... 
 
A game written by Jack Whitham for the 21st Annual Interactive Fiction Competition.

Final Exam

A fool receives a challenge from a countess.

Midnight. Swordfight.

A brief look at the life of a fictional war correspondent. A game written by Megan Stevens for the 21st Annual Interactive Fiction Competition.

Much Love, BJP

A game written by furkle for the 21st Annual Interactive Fiction Competition.

Spy Intrigue

A puzzle game about secrets in the Age of Lead. You've spent seventeen years preparing for an infiltration. Stealing the Confessor's secrets is only the beginning: it will all be for nothing if you leave a trace.

Sub Rosa

"Perhaps the most horrible of all recorded magical spells."

Taghairm

An interactive comic, in which you play as under-cover operative Cinder. Your mission is to infiltrate the Royal Ball and dodge the guards to steal the Secret Military Plans before the clock strikes midnight. The opulence of Versailles disgusts you as you walk through the gilded rooms. Then there is the prince who keeps getting in your way.

Secret Agent Cinder

You are starting your IT internship. The details you got from the university are scarce: just the address and the date (today).

Byod

A very short piece of Interactive Fiction created by Chandler Groover for Twiny Jam.

creak, Creak

A murder most foul has been committed and Sherlock Holmes is on the case. You are his dog.

Toby's Nose

This is interactive poetry: you can type particular words that occur in the text, or words that are implied. You can be entirely experiential and use word-association. Keep in mind that what you type is much a part of the poem as the verse.

Renga in Four Parts

A short piece of Interactive Fiction written by Liz England for Twiny Jam.

Itch

Qikiqtaaluk, 1962. The sun falls below the horizon and won't return for months. You wander the broken shoreline, wary of your mother's stories about the qalupalik. Fish woman, stealer of wayward children: she dwells beneath the ice.

Beneath Floes

A short Twine adventure that blends digital and physical interaction. In the game The Player takes the role of the slave of a monstrous queen in a fantasy world, until an old friend appears seemingly out of nowhere.

With Those We Love Alive

Dragon Age: The Last Court is a text-based, free-to-play browser game that serves as an interquel between Dragon Age II and Dragon Age: Inquisition.

Dragon Age: The Last Court

The Uncle Who Works for Nintendo is a Twine horror game created by developer, Michael Lutz and illustrator, Kim Parker.

The Uncle Who Works for Nintendo

A half-true story about half-truths. 
 
You play as a semi-fictional version of me, on a night that changed my life forever. Choose your (my?) words wisely. Every character will remember everything you say -- or don't say -- as you figure out how to approach my (your?) hyper-conservative Asian parents. And if all that seems confusing or awkward... well, that's the gist of coming out as queer, isn't it?

Coming Out Simulator 2014

An interactive tale of strange conspiracy.

Pull up your hood, lower your gaze and enter the city of Zendon. If you can gather enough information, you may just be able to change the course of history.

(Weird City Interloper is a shallow but broad conversation game.)

Weird City Interloper

Your friend, a folk storyteller, has offered to perform their latest work. As their audience, it is your task to advise how their tale should unfold.

The Domovoi

A text adventure about mermaids and motherhood.

3x3x3: A Mermaid's Tale

Cyberqueen is a text based game that explores the Violence perpetrated on the player by a brutal cyberpunk AI character.
The violence is conveyed in an erotic manner, having the player imagine the dominance of the AI over the player's body.

Cyberqueen

A short interactive novel based on a real-life experience with sexual assault. It is available as a browser game or via download.

The Day the Laughter Stopped

An adaptation of Hamlet in which the player takes the role of Polonius's servant, trapped by fate.

The Adventures of Reynaldo

You should carry the bag. I'm more of a delegator.

A work of interactive fiction by Ryan Veeder.

Captain Verdeterre's Plunder

Stolen away by apathetic Blind Ones, your only desire is to return to your Cellarium and the Song of the Universe. They should understand. You shall make them to understand. 
 
A piece of interactive fiction written by Lynnea Glasser.

Coloratura

"War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children." - Jimmy Carter

A piece of Interactive Fiction written by Carolyn VanEseltine.

Ollie Ollie Oxen Free

High school journalists spend the night in a church, investigating reports of a ghost.

A piece of interactive fiction written by Ryan Veeder and Emily Boegheim.

Robin & Orchid

Horse Master: The Game of Horse Mastery is a horse management sim, crossed with Cronenbergian body horror.

Horse Master

Sacrilege is a dating sim, created with Twine, about being heterosexual and conditioned to isolate one's self from others. The game explores the nightclub environment.

Sacrilege

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.

Depression Quest

Twine game about a wannabe Cowgirl made by Christine Love.

Even Cowgirls Bleed

A pair of knock-off Choose Your Own Adventure books from Soviet-era Kyrgyzstan, newly declassified by the CIA.

You Will Select a Decision

Interactive Fiction created by Andrew Plotkin as fanfic of the xkcd comic "Click and Drag".

Bigger Than You Think

Frog Fractions is a 2012 browser game developed by Twinbeard Studios, a company composed primarily of founder Jim Crawford. The game, released on October 25, 2012, has been described as a spoof of the edutainment game genre. In the game, the player begins by controlling a frog to eat bugs and defend fruit. Later on, the player may spend points on upgrades to improve their frog's abilities. The game does not actually teach the player about fractions; the player's score is given in fractions, but no knowledge of them is necessary to play.

Frog Fractions

Gameplay video

Howling Dogs is an interactive fiction made in TWINE by Porpentine. Trapped in a small area with limited supplies, the player can temporarily visit other worlds through some sort of virtual reality visor.

Howling Dogs

An interactive epistolary story written by Emily Short and Liza Daly, in which the reader acts by revising the letters exchanged by its characters. Part three in the Lavori d'Aracne series.

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