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Telltale’s The Walking Dead Season 1 is an interactive drama adapting Robert Kirkman's comic book series. Players experience the story through choices that directly impact Lee Everett and Clementine’s survival in a zombie-infested world. This critically acclaimed game revived the choice-based advent...
Tally Ho is a choice-based interactive fiction game written by Kreg Segall and published by Hosted Games in 2017. The narrative is structured as a comedy of manners set in 1920s England, focusing on the relationship between a wealthy member of the gentry and their valet. The game's tone and social d...
Sorcery! Part 4: The Crown of Kings is a fantasy role-playing game developed and published by inkle in 2016. It is an adaptation of the fourth and final book in the Sorcery! gamebook series originally written by Steve Jackson. Players navigate the Mampang Fortress to confront the Archmage and recove...
Jolly Good: Cakes and Ale is a choice-based interactive fiction game developed by Kreg Segall and published by Hosted Games in 2019. Serving as a sequel to Tally Ho, the story continues to explore a comedic 1920s English society inspired by the works of P.G. Wodehouse. Players manage the chaotic liv...
inkle Studios' adaptation of the second Sorcery! Fighting Fantasy gamebook by Steve Jackson. Players navigate Kharé, a trap-filled city, through a deeply branching narrative structure with multiple paths and outcomes. The game features a magic system, combat mechanics, and decision-making that carri...
The third installment in inkle Studios' adaptation of Steve Jackson's Sorcery! gamebook series. Players explore the open wilderness of Kakhabad while tracking seven magical serpents, each with different abilities and behaviors. The game expands on the series' combat and magic systems while introduci...
Heaven's Vault is a 2019 archaeological adventure game developed by inkle Studios. Players control Aliya Elasra, an archaeologist exploring the Nebula, an ancient network of connected moons. The game's central mechanic involves deciphering a constructed hieroglyphic language through context clues an...
Overboard! is a 2021 interactive mystery game developed by inkle Studios. Set aboard the SS Hook in 1930s England, players take on the role of Veronica Villensey, who has just murdered her husband and pushed him overboard. Rather than solving the crime, players must cover it up by manipulating other...
Slammed! is a text-based interactive fiction game developed by Choice of Games under their Hosted Games label. Set within the world of professional wrestling, the game allows players to navigate a wrestler's career from the independent circuit to the main event. The gameplay involves managing matche...
Fallen London is a browser-based, text-driven narrative game developed by Failbetter Games, originally launched under the title Echo Bazaar in 2009. The game is set in an alternate history where a Victorian-era London has been physically relocated underground into a vast subterranean cavern known as...
"A Study in Steampunk" is a choice-based interactive fiction game developed by Heather Albano and published by Choice of Games. Set in an alternate-history Victorian era, the narrative blends elements of a detective mystery with advanced steampunk technology, including clockwork devices and airships...
"Sorcery! Part 1: The Shamutanti Hills" is a 2013 fantasy role-playing text adventure developed and published by inkle. It serves as a comprehensive mobile adaptation of Steve Jackson's 1983 Fighting Fantasy gamebook of the same name. Players navigate a branching narrative by swiping across a visual...
Mecha Ace is a text-based interactive fiction game released under the Hosted Games label, written by Paul Wang. The narrative falls within the science fiction genre and centers on the pilot of a giant mechanized suit during an interstellar conflict. Players navigate tactical combat scenarios and pol...
Choice of Magics is a text-based interactive fiction game developed by Choice of Games and written by Kevin Gold. It features a branching narrative where players learn and master multiple schools of magic, including necromancy, telepathy, and technomancy. The game distinguishes itself through a cons...
The Wayhaven Chronicles: Book One is a text-based interactive novel published through Hosted Games, written by Mishka Jenkins. The player takes the role of a homicide detective in the town of Wayhaven whose first major case introduces supernatural events and a team of vampire operatives. The story c...
The Walking Dead: Season 2 (Telltale) is an interactive drama where players control Clementine as she navigates a ravaged Georgia after the zombie apocalypse. This choice-based adventure expands upon the original series’ narrative, focusing on Clementine's growth and survival skills. It’s designed f...
"Creatures Such as We" is a choice-based interactive fiction game written by Lynnea Glasser and released in 2014. Set on a commercial lunar resort, the narrative explores the philosophical and emotional dimensions of video game design, player agency, and human relationships. The player takes on the...
Choice of the Vampire is an interactive text-based role-playing game developed and published by Choice of Games. Written by Jason Stevan Hill, the narrative spans several decades of American history, beginning in the antebellum South and continuing through the American Civil War. Players assume the...
Keeper of the Sun and Moon is a text-based interactive fantasy game published by Hosted Games and written by Dash Wall. Set at a magical college for supernatural beings, the narrative allows players to define their character's identity, select classes, and form relationships. The game features an ex...
Choice of the Dragon is a text-based interactive fiction game released in 2009 by Choice of Games. Written by Adam Hammond, it serves as the studio's debut title and established their signature multiple-choice narrative format. Players assume the role of an ambitious dragon making moral and tactical...
Hollywood Visionary is a historical, choice-based interactive fiction game developed by Choice of Games. Set in 1930s Hollywood during the film industry's turbulent transition to synchronized sound, the narrative casts the player as a movie studio director. Players must navigate complex studio polit...
Choice of Romance is a text-based interactive fiction game developed and published by Choice of Games, set in a fantasy world inspired by the Spanish Renaissance. Players assume the role of a young noble seeking to navigate the complexities of royal court life, balancing romantic pursuits with polit...
A Heist with Markiplier is a 2019 interactive comedy special created for YouTube by Mark Fischbach, the creator known online as Markiplier. The special uses YouTube's interactive video features to allow viewers to make choices that determine the direction of a comedic heist narrative, leading to mul...
The Hero of Kendrickstone is an interactive text adventure developed by Paul Wang and published by Hosted Games. Set in a classic sword-and-sorcery fantasy world, the game functions as a choice-based RPG where players develop their character's combat and magical abilities. Players navigate a narrati...
Choice of Broadsides is an interactive text adventure developed and published by Choice of Games. Set during an alternate-history Napoleonic era, players assume the role of a naval officer commanding a warship. The choice-based narrative focuses on tactical naval combat, managing a loyal crew, and n...
A Midsummer Night's Choice is an interactive fiction game developed and published by Choice of Games, officially released in 2016. Written by Kreg Segall, the text-based game functions as an adaptation of William Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream. The narrative allows players to assume th...
Choice of Kung Fu is a text-based interactive fiction game published by Choice of Games, set in a fictionalized ancient China inspired by wuxia traditions. Players develop a martial artist character, choosing fighting styles and navigating relationships with masters, factions, and political powers....
Heroes Rise: The Prodigy is a text-based interactive fiction game written by Zachary Sergi and published by Choice of Games. Set in a near-future city where superpowered individuals are regulated professionals, players create a hero who competes in televised crime-fighting contests while uncovering...
Choice of Alexandria is an interactive fiction game developed and published by Choice of Games, set in ancient Egypt during the height of the Library of Alexandria. As a text-based adventure, players navigate historical and scholarly events, interacting with notable figures from the ancient world. T...
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