Archive - 50 Years of Text Games

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Pixelberry's Choices and the insanely popular, wildly overlooked genre of interactive fiction romance on mobile.

Dec 2

The "texting adventure" that got millions of people to swap urgent messages with a fictional astronaut.

Nov 25

Inkle Studios and the hit that took players around the world through an interactive story with 16,000 choices.

Nov 18

The story of Versu, the legendary storytelling engine that never got its chance to shine.

Nov 11

A revolution of text games powered by blue links and radical prose: Twine and the rise of Porpentine.

Nov 4

The simple text game that hid an infinite textual multiverse behind a single word.

Oct 28

The visual novel turned indie breakout that launched a career and took players "five minutes into the future of 1988."

Oct 21

The Flash-era browser game with the implausible idea to use words, not images or animation, to get clicks.

Oct 14

The interactive fiction that turned narration on its head and the design language that reinvented everything about making text games.

Oct 7

The anthology project that brought interactive fiction writers in three different languages together.

Sep 30

The text of Dwarf Fortress and procedural tales so expansive no human could ever explore them all.

Sep 23

The audio game that used sound effects and spoken descriptions to power a first-person shooter by and for blind gamers.

Sep 16

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