So Far vs Losing Your Grip

"So Far" is a surrealist interactive fiction game written by Andrew Plotkin and published in 1996. It challenges players with an abstract, dreamlike narrative where characters are transported through a series of disconnected, highly allegorical landscapes. The game relies heavily on complex text parsing, wordplay, and unconventional logical deductions to overcome its difficult puzzles. It won the...

"Losing Your Grip" is a work of interactive fiction by Stephen Granade that uses a parser interface and spans multiple acts. The narrative engages with psychological themes through surreal scenarios that blur literal and figurative events. The work is recognized within the interactive fiction community for its literary ambition and structural experimentation in addressing difficult emotional subje...