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Eldritch Apprehension - 12 items   April 5, 2024
The weird environments, monstrosities, and existential dread of cosmic horror lend themselves to text, and so text-adventure games have...

Murder Mysteries - 14 items   March 30, 2024
Text-adventure games ask players to solve puzzles, so asking them to also solve a murder mystery is quite common. Figure out who-done-it...

Favorite Fours From Industrious Implementors, 1G - 24 items   March 27, 2024
Some I.F. writers write more than others. Here are my favorite four games from authors who've released at least half-a-dozen games to...

Favorite Fours From Industrious Implementors, 2G - 28 items   March 27, 2024
Some I.F. writers write more than others. Here are my favorite four games from authors who've released at least half-a-dozen games to...

Dueling With Dragons - 13 items   March 27, 2024
Dragons are a favorite in fantastic fiction, but they don't get as much love in I.F. as they used to. So, here's a list of games that...

Works of Wordplay - 12 items   March 27, 2024
Text-adventure games consist of little more than words, so some of them concern themselves with little more than wordplay. Here are a...

Noteworthy T2 Games [Formerly: Which Can't Be Played on the Web] - 45 items   March 26, 2024
This list was created because TADS 2 didn't have a Web-based 'terp for a long time. It's still here because these games, from long ago,...

The Great Underground Empire - 15 items   March 25, 2024
Zork, the first commercially-successful adventure game, spawned a prequel, several sequels, and a slew of homages and pastiches, all of...

Time Travelers - 13 items   March 25, 2024
Players get to travel back and forth through their player-characters' time-lines all the time by using UNDO, RESTART, and RESTORE. So,...

The Age of Exploration - 12 items   August 13, 2020
Adventure games typically involve a great deal of exploration, but few are set during the Age of Exploration. Nevertheless, here's a list...

See the Show - 13 items   August 11, 2020
If adventure games are a performance themselves, then it makes sense for some of them to also be about performers. So, here's a list of...

Noteworthy Games Which Aren't Z-Code or TADS Bytecode - 26 items   August 10, 2020
So many text-adventure games have been written with some version of ZIL or Inform or TADS that we might forget other methods get used...

Surprising Sentience - 13 items   July 6, 2020
Philosophers may wonder if people are the only ones who are rational and self-aware, but IF authors are certain we aren't. Here are some...

Campus Capers - 11 items   March 12, 2020
Games set on the author's campus have the same reputation as games set at the author's home: Trite and clumsy. But, some college games...


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