You just came home from an extra-long day of work, and you're starving!
Of course, you are what you eat after all, especially on a full moon...

Wolf Night Evening

A choose-your-own-adventure heartbreak in the shape of a quiz. A short story that's sort of like if a prose poem and a buzzfeed quiz had a baby and they all fucking hated you.

Answer These 10 Questions And I'll Tell You What Kind of Lover You Are

AwakeMUD is a MUD set in the year is 2064, and the world has been reforged in the fires of magic, technology, and greed. Orks, Trolls, Elves, and other races straight out of fantasy roam the streets, along with new and unfamiliar mutations inflicted on the populace in a traumatic event known as the SURGE. Cybernetic implants and arcane workings grant incredible power to those who can afford to wield them, and information - the most valuable resource in 2064– is stolen and traded by expert hackers with homemade VR rigs. Dominating this landscape are the mega-corporations, wielding nigh-limitless political clout and conducting shadow wars while an unsuspecting populace happily consumes their products.

As a Shadowrunner, you are one of the freelance agents hired to do various organizations' dirty work (and turn a healthy profit in the process). There are many paths you can take on your road to success, and many ways you can grow in power and influence in the Seattle community.

AwakeMUD

World Wide Hack is an MMO simulation game about realistic hacking and cybersecurity. Collect the most effective sets of hacking and security tools, gather assets, and improve your computer to hack others, control parts of the network, or create the best websites and tools which will help other hackers and make you rich! Work with others to make your experimental activities useful for your faction and lead with them the world in the right direction.

World Wide Hack

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Degrees of Lewdity is a text-based erotic sandbox roleplaying game, currently in development by Vrelnir.

Degrees of Lewdity

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

5 dias com Tony Bumbum

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

Space Frog!

Glistening is a short sci-fi horror text adventure.

Glistening

A hybrid of a choose-your-own adventure type computer game and a pen-and-paper roleplaying game. Compatible with the 5th edition of the world's most popular tabletop RPG, this solo adventure introduces players to the dice-rolling action and problem-solving intrigue of a pen-and-paper role-playing game using text-based descriptions.

The Saint's Tomb

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

A short experience around cultural identity.

Half

Starmourn is a science fiction themed MUD. The sixth MUD released by Iron Realms Entertainment and the first in 9 years.

Players create characters, explore the universe, and participate with other users in a variety of ways including PvP, PvE, roleplay, politics, economics, and more. Users play Starmourn through a proprietary, cross-platform client, directly in their browser, including Android and iOS.

Starmourn

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

To the Wolves

What would you do if you got a text from someone you didn't know, who said they needed your help? Would you trust them? 
 
Subtext is an Alternate Reality Game (ARG) that plays out in real time through real communications (text messages, phone calls, emails, etc.) that you receive from characters. You'll need to solve puzzles, break into systems, and use social engineering to unravel the story of a mysterious research facility and a person who found themselves in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Subtext

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

Romance is complicated. Romance with an ovipositor is complicateder.

An easy lay

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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A Spambot In Love
A short, free visual novel by Jillian Maywhether

Input

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

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

Hold your name like oxygen in your lungs.

A drifter with a number on her wrist descends into a massive neon structure

Neon Haze

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

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

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

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

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

I train to fight angels in a monastery by the sea.

An interactive fiction piece by Porpentine.

Their Angelical Understanding

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

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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.

First Draft of the Revolution

The story of a home-schooled girl preparing to compete in the national spelling bee, dealing with various small crises with family and friends, and gradually coming to terms with the clash of subcultures involved in belonging to a family like hers. A piece of interactive fiction written by Emily Short.

You are a yet another brave adventurer set upon the quest to slay the mighty dragon that is threatening the village! Following the questing traditon, you decide to start your search for the dragon in the local tavern! What makes this quest different? It takes place on the worldz best BBS! hehehe!!! 
 
A piece of interactive fiction by Adam Cadre.

Endless, Nameless

Interactive Fiction created by Andrew Plotkin, about fairy tales. Part of a metapuzzle in the 2011 IFComp.

Cold Iron

Kerkerkruip is a short-form roguelike in the interactive fiction medium, featuring meaningful tactical and strategic depth, innovative game play, zero grinding, and a sword & sorcery setting that does not rehash tired clichés.

Kerkerkruip

You are in your car, with a gun in your pocket, going back and forth with yourself about whether you should get moving immediately, or take some time to think about your situation. Some of the wording, and the fact that the game is subtitled "an interactive heist", make it not unreasonable to infer that you are gearing up for a robbery. A piece of interactive fiction written by Ryan Veeder.

Taco Fiction

Sonic Tweet was a social game in Japan that allowed players to fight Dr. Eggman using Twitter posts and earn one of 500 virtual trading cards.

Sonic Tweet

You stagger up to its lair. Blue sand drags at your feet.
Your hands don't tremble — well, much — as you ready your new weapon. Your voice doesn't quaver (hardly at all) as you shout out the words you were taught.
One, two! Dive and roll! Jump! Attack!
...That wasn't so hard, was it? You defeated the monster, and it's not even bedtime yet.

A work of interactive fiction by Andrew Plotkin.

The Matter of the Monster

Corruption of Champions

The Fish of Māui. The Land of the Long Cloud. Aotearoa. An entire continent of untamed wilds, and the last place on Earth where dinosaurs still roam. If only you'd come ashore under better circumstances...

A piece of interactive fiction written by Matt Wigdahl.

Aotearoa

Heliopause is interactive fiction — a classic text adventure. No graphics! No point-and-click! You type your commands, and read what happens next.

Hoist Sail for the Heliopause and Home

Interactive Fiction created by Andrew Plotkin, where the objective is to escape a virtual room.

Dual Transform

Alabaster is an experiment in open authorship: a piece of interactive fiction with conversation text contributed by a number of different authors in response to an introduction written by the project's organizer, Emily Short.

Alabaster

The call comes through. Of all the dicks; you get the call, sitting in the front seat of your car, hands shaking on the steering wheel. An urgent call; but all you were thinking of was the bottle in the liquor store and so that's where you went first. 
 
Now you're pulled up outside the house. The rear mirror's showing two steely eyes. You adjust your hat, stiffen up your collar and grab your badge off the dash. Here goes. You've one last chance so... MAKE IT GOOD

Make It Good

Despite the title and cover, Shit!! is a simple puzzle game.

Don't Shit Your Pants

Walking away from a picnic, you are suddenly caught in a country storm. You must protect a bridge from being destroyed.

A game by Andrew Plotkin he describes as his "first serious work of interactive fiction".

A Change in the Weather

A piece of interactive fiction written by J. Robinson Wheeler, featuring IF luminary Andrew Plotkin in a parody of the movie Being John Malkovich.

Being Andrew Plotkin

A surrealist piece of interactive fiction by Chris Klimas about a man who is offered a hallucinatory drug at a party.

Blue Chairs

Highnoon is a BASIC game developed by Christopher Gaylo from Syosset High School, New York in early 1970 on a timeshared mainframe computer. The game is single-player and set in the Wild West in 1889.

The objective of the game is a showdown between the player and Black Bart. The status of the game, actions available and results of each action are written to the system console as textual descriptions. Turns are taken to either move closer, run, or shoot. Both the player and Bart have four shots and the odds of hitting each other increase as the player closes the 100 paces between each.

Highnoon

Interactive Fiction created by Andrew Plotkin being a fusion between a game and a programming tutorial.

Lists and Lists

On the Night of the Comet, the usual astrological bonds do not hold, and the order of the universe is threatened. It is a time made for rebels and usurpers, and all who would claim the kingdom for themselves.

You are a member of the Order of the Phoenix, a protector of the hierarchy and the kingdom itself. It is your duty to attend the royal ball, watch for dangers... and do whatever needs to be done.

A piece of Interactive Fiction written by Emily Short.

Pytho's Mask

Fantasy Interactive Fiction created by Andrew Plotkin, as both a game and an introduction to the genre.

The Dreamhold

Calm down. All you have to do is write a thousand words and everything will be fine. And you have all day, except it's already noon. A piece of interactive fiction written by Jeremy Freese.

Violet

Rendition is a 2007 work of interactive fiction by "nespresso", in which the player performs an interrogation of a suspected terrorist. The game describes itself as a "political art experiment in text adventure form".

Rendition

A piece of interactive fiction written by David Fisher. You play a magician's servant who gets trapped in your master's vault; you'll need to learn some of his tricks if you want to get out.

Suveh Nux

Grey gravel crunches in the drive. Grey windows retreat behind wrought-iron balcony rails. Grey skies press down over the looming, shadowy edifice. You do enjoy your job, but the decor can become a bit much sometimes. You shall hope that the inside of this mansion proves to be cheerier.

A "cozy mansion mystery in the making" by Andrew Plotkin.

Delightful Wallpaper

It is night on this side of the planet. Settled areas are lit: a jagged crescent in the tropics, lining the inland sea. The bright splatter along the top of the curve is Tanhua, as bright from space as New York. The north continent is darker, sprinkled finely with small lights, where the failing climate makes it hard to survive a winter. And the northernmost point, almost lost on the slope of Mt. Cordia, is the original Aleheart Colony, where the first settlers from Earth landed. It is your destination as well. A piece of interactive fiction written by Emily Short.

Floatpoint

14 AD. Agrippa Postumus, grandson of the recently-deceased Augustus, tries to avoid death at the hands of the next emperor, Tiberius. At his disposal: a couple of old manuscripts, a lamp, and a recalcitrant slave. And a powerful knowledge of the Art of Venus Genetrix, of course—the magic eventually known as the Lavori d'Aracne. A work of interactive fiction written by Emily Short.

Damnatio Memoriae

A piece of interactive fiction written by Jason Devlin.

Vespers

A free text based zombie themed MMO, with player classes involving military, citizens, scientists, and zombies.

Urban Dead

Wander around. Puzzles will be posed. Eventually you win.

A work of interactive fiction by Andrew Plotkin, recreating one he originally made in 1989.

Praser 5

A piece of Interactive Fiction. Is on the list Interactive Fiction Top 50 of all time (2015 edition).

All Things Devours

Lusternia is a text based multi-player game (sometimes called a MUD). When you create a character and log in, you join adventurers from all over the globe who will share in the trials and tribulations found only through intensive roleplaying. Some dismiss text games as retro, but many others find nothing can compare to the dynamic experience hearkening back to pen and paper RPGs.

Lusternia: Age of Ascension

Imperian is the third MUD developed by Iron Realms Entertainment, and has a much larger focus on PK/PVP than other IRE games.

Text Based Browser Games