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1. Ad Verbum

   Ad Verbum is a Oulipo-inspired wordplay-based game.

   Scott Rettberg - 20.05.2011 - 12:00

2. Common Ground: One Night in a Three-story House

   Common Ground: One Night in a Three-story House is the story of a poor suburban family told interactively through text.

   (Source: 2002 ELO State of the Arts gallery)

   A three-chapter game (with an epilogue) in which you're a different character in each chapter. The twist is that each chapter covers roughly the same space of time, and you interact with the other two characters, to varying degrees, when you're in each pair of shoes. The gameplay is a bit restrictive--the game doesn't allow for a lot of variation--but the characters themselves are well developed and the interactions feel reasonably realistic. The game even does a passable job of recording the actions you take when you're one character and playing them back when you're a different character, observing the antics of the first. Very short--20-30 minutes to play through at most--but worth playing; it largely eschews puzzles in favor of character interaction in a way that little IF attempts.

   (Source: Review by Duncan Stevens, BAF's guide to the IF Archive)

    

   Scott Rettberg - 17.01.2013 - 13:26

3. Vespers

   Vespers is an interactive fiction game written in 2005 by Jason Devlin that placed first at the 2005 Interactive Fiction Competition. It also won the XYZZY Awards for Best Game, Best NPCs, Best Setting, and Best Writing. Set in a 15th century Italian monastery, it is chiefly a horror-themed morality game, where the player takes moral decisions, which then affect the ending. However, whilst playing the game, it isn't obvious that these are moral dilemmas, and the game actively encourages the player to take the evil path.

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 02.07.2013 - 23:08

4. Analogue: A Hate Story

   Analogue: A Hate Story is a visual novel in the style of many Japanese titles in the same genre . It was first published on the author's website and then on the gaming service Steam. The game tells an interactive story of transhumanism, traditional marriage, loneliness, and cosplay. The journey through the final section of the history of a generation spaceship before its failure. The two major characters you interact with in the story are the ships two remaining AI, an archivist AI named *Hyun-ae and a security AI named *Mute, the two ask the player vastly different questions and give entirely different views on the fall of the generation ship. The player is tasked with finding the truth of the tale by listening to both AI as well as building a sort of relationship with them and can end the story at any time by downloading what data they have and leaving the ship to its final fate, however this presents us with the worst of the possible endings. The choices the player makes throughout the story also affect the sequel of the work Hate Plus continuing the interactive work to show another section of the generationships story and gives more insight into the AI themselves.

   Kris Kepner - 02.04.2015 - 16:45

5. Spider and Web

   A futuristic spy story with a highly unusual structure. The bulk of the game consists of flashbacks, as you try to recreate, to the satisfaction of the man interrogating you, the events leading up to your capture. The strangest thing about this is that the protagonist knows more about what's happened than the player does.

   (Source: Review by Carl Muckenhoupt (30 Jun 2000) at BAF's Guide to the IF Archive)

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   A vacation in our lovely country! See the ethnic charms of the countryside, the historic grandeur of the capital city. Taste our traditional cuisine; smell the flowers of the Old Tree. And all without leaving your own armchair! But all is not as it seems... 

   (Source: blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue) 

   Scott Rettberg - 04.04.2017 - 12:47

6. Escape: A Game

   An interactive fiction written in Google Docs. The story starts in a dream, then you wake up in your bedroom and must begin to make choices. The work was made during the COVID-19 lockdown, and online team playing was encouraged as a way to counteract physical social distancing.

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 08.06.2020 - 09:42

7. A Brief History of Interactive Fiction Games... Choose Your Own Adventure and Visual Novels

   Interactive fiction is a game genre that has been around for quite some time now and has a rather in-depth history to it. We’ve already taken a look at part of the genre, primarily text and graphical adventures. But today I’m going to talk about some other things that are important to interactive fiction!

   So, I’m sure that many of us as kids read Choose Your Own Adventure books (or CYOA); novels where at the end of each page you were asked to make a choice as to what to do and then would be directed to a different page depending on your actions. Sometimes you’d make it to the end, sometimes not.

   And if you’re wondering just what these books have to do with video games, the answer is a surprising amount! So let’s take a look at these types of books.

   Martin Li - 17.09.2020 - 16:17

8. Amazing Quest

   An adventure game about a wander's attempts to return home, involving imagination and chance.

   Nick Montfort - 16.10.2020 - 01:49