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Text adventures 19 games
Interactive fiction: read, type what you want to do and explore. Classic and modern text adventures under free licences, running in the Parchment interpreter.
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All Things Devours
It is 4:17 in the morning, you have broken into a research lab to plant a bomb, and a guard is just outside. A tight puzzle about time, in which every minute matters.
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Counterfeit Monkey
A smuggler on the run on an island where words are tools, armed with a device that removes letters from things and turns them into something else. Emily Short's celebrated wordplay adventure.
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Dynamite Powers vs. the Ray of Night
Commander Dynamite Powers dangles in a cage over a lake of Martian razorfish while Lord Infamy readies his superweapon. A pulp space-serial text adventure by Mike Carletta.
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Escapade!
Captured by the Screaming Communists and locked in a cell, the sidekick of a square-jawed hero has to get out. Then do it again, and again. A one-room comedy with eleven ways out.
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Gardening for Beginners
The snow has melted, you have a new garden and a short to-do list. What could possibly go wrong? A one-room comedy about chores that keep multiplying, by Juhana Leinonen.
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Gnu in the Zoo
A gnu wakes up on a cold night to find the gate of its enclosure open. Escaping the zoo takes help, and only other gnus understand you. A short, punny animal comedy with a soft spot for free software.
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Jason and Medea
You are Medea, abandoned by Jason for a princess and about to be banished, and he has come to justify himself in front of the women of Corinth. A short Greek tragedy in which an argument is fought like a duel.
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My Name is Jack Mills
An old friend is in jail and swears his stolen artifact must be recovered at any cost. Hotels, nightclubs, a car chase and a late-night auction in a pulp detective story by Juhana Leinonen.
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Red
A basket of cake and wine, a sick grandmother and a suspiciously handsome hunter in the woods. Little Red Riding Hood retold as a short modern text adventure by Thomas Insel.
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Sparkle
Your search for the Pattern ends at an abandoned cable car on Mount Shanshan. Meditate to learn which things are secretly the same, then turn one into the other. A short puzzle adventure by Juhana Leinonen.
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Starborn
Born on a starship far from home, you are finally in orbit around the Earth, and you are told you can never go down. A short science fiction story played with single keywords, by Juhana Leinonen.
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The Art of Fugue
Every command you type is carried out four times, by four characters, one turn apart, like voices entering a fugue. Eight logic puzzles where you plan for the people behind you, not just the one in front.
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The Problems Compound
A bookmark in The Phantom Tollbooth drops an awkward teenager into a land where every phrase is turned back to front, from Pressure Pier to Idiot Village. Andrew Schultz's comedy of wordplay and social nerves.
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The Song of the Mockingbird
Texas, 1867. An old cowhand known as the Texas Mockingbird wakes up at the mercy of the outlaws he chased alone. A forgiving western text adventure by Mike Carletta.
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Threediopolis
A city stacked in layers, a list of forty odd errands and a teleporter to get home. Andrew Schultz's word-play puzzle where the route you take matters more than where you end up.
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Tristam Island
A storm forced you to bail out of your plane over a tiny island in the south Atlantic. There is an empty village, a fenced building on the hill and no one to answer. A new text adventure written for 1980s machines.
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Zork I: The Great Underground Empire
West of a white house, with a mailbox, a leaflet and an empire of caves underneath. The text adventure that taught a generation to type commands, free under the MIT licence.
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Zork II: The Wizard of Frobozz
Deeper into the Great Underground Empire, with a wizard who keeps casting spells on you. The second Zork, free under the MIT licence.
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Zork III: The Dungeon Master
The bottom of the Great Underground Empire and a final test set by the Dungeon Master. The last of the original trilogy, free under the MIT licence.