Hadean Lands vs Alabaster

Hadean Lands is a text-based puzzle game designed by Andrew Plotkin and released in 2014 after a successful Kickstarter campaign. Set on a crashed spaceship, the player assumes the role of a technician-in-training who must use an alchemy-based magic system to repair the vessel and save the crew. The core mechanic involves a ritual that resets the physical world while allowing the player to retain...

Alabaster is a 2009 collaborative parser-based interactive fiction game led by Emily Short, with contributions from eleven additional authors, written in Inform. It retells the Snow White fairy tale from the perspective of a hunter sent to kill Snow White, who must interview characters through a branching conversation system. The game is notable for surfacing different narrative threads depending...