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Words & Music: Play 33 Text Adventures Inspired By Songs
“I need you to head down to the bad part of town and check out a StepEasy squattin’ in the industrial quarter. Dame across the street said she saw a lady, she thought it shady somehow. A man came...
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Heroes Rise: Text Adventures Coming To Steam
It’s 2014. Despite the creative rennaissance enabled by the likes of Twine, text adventures and interactive fiction are one of the few genres yet to experience a commercial revival from the rise of...
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IFComp 2014 Ballots Open, Lots Of Unusual Free Games
O, glorious IFComp. The interactive fiction competition has been running since 1995 and at times during those 19 years has felt like the last stalwart keeping the community ticking over. Now the genre...
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Freeware Garden: Hill 160
Very few games attempt to convey the complete and utter terror of war, to avoid any sort of jingoism, and to still create a sense of desperate excitement. Even fewer succeed. Hill 160, rather...
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Freeware Garden: Infini-Quest
When a procedural generation jam happens, one can expect to play with all sorts of appropriately generated and clever things, though rarely with a text adventure of sorts. Procedurally mixing words...
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Freeware Garden: Lightyear
From the moment you open your in-game eyes in Lightyear by Jim Bruges, to find yourself inside a manned space telescope crafted by text and choices and bits of Twine, you’ll also start to wonder...
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Freeware Garden: The Matter of the Great Red Dragon
Count on Jonas Kyratzes to play with the tropes detailed in The Hero with a Thousand Faces and deliver a brilliant Twine-powered text adventure that simultaneously examines traditional heroic...
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Freeware Garden: Code 7
Text adventures, interactive fiction if you will, does not have to look plain. I know, it’s the words and, in certain cases, the puzzles that count, but it really can’t hurt if a texty game looks as...
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