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I help run the Interactive Fiction Database. https://ifdb.org/

I think that our list of games ranked by review scores is certainly the finest repository of extraordinary text-based games in the world. https://ifdb.org/search?browse

Every game on that list is fantastic. For your reading convenience, the top ten are: Counterfeit Monkey, Anchorhead, Superluminal Vagrant Twin, 80 Days, Hadean Lands, Lost Pig, The Wizard Sniffer, Violet, and The Impossible Bottle.

You can click the "Play Online" button on almost any game in IFDB to play it right there in your browser, without downloading anything.

IFDB also includes all of the 20th century classics, including Infocom games, but IMO the modern games have long-since outclassed them.

If you're curious, here's our list of top-ranked Infocom games. https://ifdb.org/search?searchfor=tag:infocom The top-ranked Infocom games are science-fiction games, topped by Trinity, Infocom's surreal "Alice in Wonderland" time-travel game, followed by Planetfall and A Mind Forever Voyaging.



Counterfeit Monkey is great writing:

  To review, we're Alexandra now. I was Alex, before the synthesis. You were...
 
  >I don't know
  ...oh boy. Okay. Okay. I need you on form here. This is going to be hard if you don't remember being Andra. Not panicking. As far as I can tell, the operation was a success. We're meant to be one person now, unrecognizable to anyone who knew us before.
hehe


Counterfeit Monkey is my all-time favorite. I like it so much, I made a mobile-friendly demo:

https://memalign.github.io/m/counterfeitmonkey/index.html


Nicely done! What are all those trees on the right? https://ibb.co/kSG36JX Some sort of game map?


Yeah, it’s the map which is slowly revealed as you move between locations.


Unable to play any of these online in Chrome on Windows - first 3 games I tried fail to load with the message TypeError: failed to fetch.

Update looks like it's timing out so maybe server is getting hammered.


I just want to pipe in with a personal standout from when I used to play more IF, which is _King of Shreds and Patches_, Lovecraft in the London of Shakespeare, and worth a playthrough.


Hadean Lands also has a mobile app version, with a button-oriented interface so you don't have to type so much on a touchscreen keyboard.


Just want to agree with the fun that ‘80 days’ is :)

There’s also ‘Magium’, which is not really a game so much as interactive fiction.




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