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.

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B.J. Best

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

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

E. Joyce

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

frodewin

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

Ryan Veeder

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

A Rope of Chalk

ub4q

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)

Nick Montfort

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

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

Ilmur Eggert

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

Standing on the Shoulders of Giants

Lance Campbell

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

Linus Åkesson

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

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

alienmelon

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

Mike Spivey

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

Jakrit

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

Dasra's Cabinet

Jenni Polodna

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

J. J. Guest

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

Ed Mead

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

Bravemule

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

Krunchy Fried Games

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)

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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

Chandler Groover

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

Eat Me

Aether Interactive

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

Kilian Valkhof

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

A Messenger Adventure

Katherine Morayati

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

Abigail Corfman

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 Phantom Williams for the Annual Interactive Fiction Competition.

500 Apocalypses

Astrid Dalmady

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

Hanon Ondricek

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

Arthur DiBianca

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

Strange Scaffold

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

Jake Hollands

Devolver Digital

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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Buster Hudson

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

C.E.J. Pacian

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

sub-Q Magazine

What Fuwa Bansaku Found

Caleb Wilson

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

Lime Ergot

Alex Butterfield

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!

Steph Cherrywell

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

Brain Guzzlers from Beyond!

Cat Manning

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

Crossroads

Jack Whitham

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

furkle

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

Spy Intrigue

Joey Jones

Melvin Rangasamy

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

Emily Ryan

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

18 Rooms to Home is an experimental work of interactive fiction. It’s a day in the life of Yesenia Reed, whose life is far from ordinary, no matter what she might prefer.

18 Rooms to Home

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

Jason Dyer

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

Liz England

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

Itch

Pinnguaq

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

Failbetter Games

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

Michael Lutz

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

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.

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