Top 15 Most Popular Interactive Fiction Games | Dec 2024

1. textadventures.co.uk

textadventures.co.uk is a community of interactive fiction game makers and players.All games here are either playable in your web browser, or as an app for your smartphone or tablet. Almost all are free, and you can even make your own, using Quest or Squiffy ....... TpSort Score | 347,000,000

2. Dedalus

Dedalus - A system based on Javascript and HTML to generate and run Choose Your Own Adventure narrative...... TpSort Score | 307,000,000

3. Chronicler

Chronicler is an open source desktop application which allows users to create CYOA/MCG (choose your own adventure/multiple choice games) interactive fiction using a GUI not dissimilar to Twine (i.e. in the style of a flow chart). Chronicler creates .txt file outputs written in ChoiceScript....... TpSort Score | 270,000,000

4. gist-txt

gist-txt - A minimal text adventure engine...... TpSort Score | 261,000,000

5. The Frankenstein Wars

The Frankenstein Wars is a storybook adventure based on the classic tale of Frankenstein and set during the Napoleonic era in revolutionary France. It features a branching, non-linear storyline, weather effects and strategic battles.FEATURES:* Explore 8 interactive maps to reach your objectives. * You direct both Tom and Anton Clerval...... TpSort Score | 57,400,000

6. A Study in Steampunk

Steam-powered mechs meet forbidden sorcery in this interactive steampunk novel, inspired by Sherlock Holmes, Dracula, Jekyll & Hyde, and Jack the Ripper!...... TpSort Score | 34,200,000

7. Sorcery! (series)

Sorcery! is an epic four-part adventure through a land of monsters, traps, and magic an interactive story with the appeal of a classic, tabletop gamebook. With tens of thousands of choices, the story rewrites itself around your actions. Battle weird and deadly creatures, cast powerful spells, play with honour, or...... TpSort Score | 21,400,000

8. Choice of Robots

Your robots will change the world! Will you show them the true meaning of love, or conquer Alaska with your robot army? An epic interactive sci-fi novel.Choice of Robots is an epic 300,000-word interactive sci-fi novel by Kevin Gold, where your choices control the story. It's entirely text-based—without graphics or...... TpSort Score | 20,800,000

9. INSTEAD

INSTEAD – interpreter of simple text adventures for Unix and Windows!...... TpSort Score | 18,800,000

10. Buried - Interactive Story

Buried is a playable, interactive story told through stunning photos, a haunting soundscape, and gripping text. You play the role of Roger Hastings, a logger working the forests with his crew. When he awakens to find his friends missing and no memory of what's happened, he begins searching, uncovering something...... TpSort Score | 18,300,000

11. This Book Is A Dungeon

Auto-cannibalism. Demonic Seduction. Occult Rituals. Bloodfeasting Worms. This Book Is A Dungeon has it all and more. This dark, horrific Twine-based dungeon crawler pairs edgy interactive fiction with grisly pixel art and light RPG elements. Prepare to be disturbed, titillated, and savaged by unholy denizens aplenty in your quest to...... TpSort Score | 14,600,000

12. The Forest of Doom

YOU are the hero in Forest of Doom! Explore the sinister Darkwood Forest in Ian Livingstone's Fighting Fantasy classic RPG gamebook!...... TpSort Score | 9,920,000

13. Façade

Façade is an artificial intelligence-based art/research experiment in electronic narrative – an attempt to move beyond traditional branching or hyper-linked narrative to create a fully-realized, one-act interactive drama. Integrating an interdisciplinary set of artistic practices and artificial intelligence technologies, we have completed a five year collaboration to engineer a novel...... TpSort Score | 5,930,000

14. Undum

Undum is a game framework for building a sophisticated form of hypertext interactive fiction.Undum is designed for HTML5 and CSS3 browsers. It has been tested on Firefox 3.6, Chrome 5, and Safari 5. Older browsers may work okay too, but some of the animation won't work, the styles may render...... TpSort Score | 2,350,000

15. Fallen London

Fallen London is a deep and compelling, though ever humorous, journey of interactive fiction set in the dark Victorian-Gothic underworld. It's played in classic, choose-your-own-adventure style where your choices determine how the story plays out.FEATURES:- Literary RPG with over 1.5 million delicious words- Befriend, beguile or antagonise hundreds of characters...... TpSort Score | 1,960,000