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New AXMA Story Maker 5.3 now supports background video.

New games

Outpost 9 Demo by Benjy Bates

Welcome to Outpost 9. A Sci-Fi/Horror Text Based Adventure Game in which you must outsmart an unwanted alien presence inside your base and hold out ten days for a rescue crew. This demo takes place on the first day, controlling captain Omaha.

Spring Thing - Main Festival

Back Then, by Janelynn Camingue
Bobby and Bonnie, by Xavid
The Bony King of Nowhere, by Luke A. Jones
brevity quest, by Chris Longhurst
The First Quest, by Matthew Mayr (with some help from Mike Bryant)
A Fly On The Wall, by Peregrine Wade
Get Seen Tonight, by Hannah Powell-Smith
GNOEM, by Joyce Lin & Matthew Reed
Guttersnipe: Carnival of Regrets, by Bitter Karella
Happy Pony Valley Riding School, by Lynda Clark
If You're Here, by Serene Sherman
Ishmael, by Jordan Magnuson
Niney, by Daniel Spitz
Refugee, by Mark C. Marino
Ted Strikes Back, by Anssi Raisanen

Spring Thing - Back Garden

Balefires Burning, by Cassandra Wolf
Buck the Past, by Andrew Schultz
Enlightened Master, by Ben Kidwell and Maevele Straw
A Fly On The Wall, or An Appositional Eye, by Nigel Jayne
left/right, by chandler groover
Not Quite a Sunset - a hypertext opera, by Kyle Rowan
The Weight of a Soul, by Chin Kee Yong

Textadventures.co.uk

“The Tale of the Morph-Man” by stopmo

You're a teenager. Your in high school. You forgot your books in your French classroom. You go back to get them at the end of the day. Sitting in your desk is a man in a blue morph suit. What do you do?

“Murder in the Woods” by Arghya

When danger comes from those near you, it is up to you to decide who to trust and who not to trust in order to survive .

“Everything is Terrible and Then You Die” by breanngrace
“Out of the Woods” by Forestry Commission Scotland
“Dungeon Crawl” by aidan101
“Murder at St. Teilo's” by David18

This is my first game, so it's not too long, and it tries to explore various mechanics. Comedy-pointless-horror-mystery in genre. I experimentally tried to pitch the 'difficulty' (i.e. how obvious it is how to move forward) at a stimulating level. Play online

“Mario Maker Simulator” by overlyformalpotato
“Neptuno y Poseidón” by cordovaoomar84
“Reor's Bush-Cave - THE HNATOV,WNBW (Hopefully Not All That Offensive Version, With No Bad Words) EDITION” by Richard Headkid

Reor's Bush-Cave -CENSORED (The Sprout Pouch pt 4) by Richard Headkid Release 1 / Serial number 170406 / Inform 7 build 6M62 (I6/v6.33 lib 6/12 REOR'S BUSH-CAVE (CENSORED) by Richard Headkid is the worst Interactive Fiction ever created. ...but it's got this penguin, named Ralph, and he's pretty cool! * THIS IS THE EDITED VERSION --EVERYTHING OFFENSIVE HAS (HOPEFULLY) BEEN REMOVED * From page 29 in the manuscript book (which is an item you should be looking for during play) I wasn't exactly sure where Reor (pronounced ROAR) had gotten off to, but I had a pretty good idea. ...and I'd always meant to see what sort of hole he'd dug up behind that bush... Ahem! Excuse me. I meant his 'Bush-Cave'. (He hates when people just call it a bush.) Anyways, if we could but just surmount my constant digressions, the story would progress thusly: I walked slowly towards Reor's bush-cave. Once I was around twenty paces from it, the smell nearly knocked me backwards. I didn't know what he had stashed away to rot and be rolled around in down in that hole, but I knew that I was going to have to tough it out. I pulled my shirt up over my nose. Then, I mustered up all of my courage and began to inch slowly towards the unholy stench. It was hard to take that first step, but Pop and a couple of nice ladies were waiting for me back on that island near Greece a couple of few thousand years ago....-- and I had left them in a pretty tough spot, so I sallied forth. With my nose under the collar of my shirt, I dropped down into the bush-cave, and... ***** Welcome to Reor's Bush-Cave! ***** *** SYSTEM MESSAGE: YOU CURRENTLY HAVE TIME. ...BUT ONLY UNTIL YOU HAVE NO TIME... WHICH SHOULDN'T BE A PROBLEM UNTIL JUST BEFORE 10:00 AM - WHICH IS WHEN THE GAME WILL END IF YOU'RE SLACKING... SO, YOU MAY WANT TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO USE THE POUCH(ES) TO YOUR ADVANTAGE BEFORE THEN! MESSAGE DELIVERED: 9:00 am (game-time)*** -Please feel free to frolic about!!! -Right now, you're in a hole beneath your cat's favorite bush. -The Sprout Pouch you carry still sort of works, but not to its full potential. -It is now 9:00 am. You have until the clock strikes 10:00 am to collect the necessary items and perform the actions required to get back to save Pop. -Just remember: time is but a passage. ...or a tunnel. ...or something like that. Play online

“Antonimo's Revenge, or, The Modern Tragedy” by shradke

The Premise: You are Antonimo Gerard. As a recent graduate with high prospects in your field, your life is on a good track. When a murder is committed near your apartment however, your plans are put on hold. As police officers and court officials pass it off as a suicide, it becomes apparent that justice will not serve itself. It is up to you to discover the truth. Take Control: Investigate, interrogate, and collect evidence in order to uncover what happened and who is guilty. Will you let the courts decide, or will you take matters into your own hands? The choice is yours, and justice must be dealt. Instructions: To play, begin by reading what is on screen. Text adventures rely on description and imagination, so pay attention to the details and read everything before you decide what to do. When you want to interact with anything, type a command in the text bar and press ‘enter.’ If the command is valid, responding text will appear describing the result of the action. An easier way to play is to make use of the hyperlinks on screen. Anything underlined is clickable and, if there are multiple actions possible, a list will show up with the options you can choose from. When an item is placed in your inventory, the action list is accessible by clicking it in the inventory bar on the right. This functions the same as entering text without doing the actual work of typing. Note: some commands are not always visible on screen as hyperlinks (especially when it comes to buildings you come across and buying things). Additionally, typing ‘look around’ won’t get you anywhere. Specificity is key. Created as a final project for ENGL 412 at the University of Calgary, Winter 2017.

“Rite of Passage” by AvB

A comedy in four parts about exciting games of instinct and wits, set in childhood. Not necessarily for children. Play online

“House of the Raven” by Craig Dutton

On a cold, rainy night you swerve to avoid a deer or something standing in the road and crash your car into a tree. You fall unconscious... This is the start of a nightmarish journey into the strange goings-on at Ravensmoor Manor and its strange occupants. You'll need your wits about you if you're to escape the House of the Raven! This is a small game compared to my others, enjoy!

“The Fateful Festival” by Tancong

An interactive story between a young man and a foreign girl in Japan during the Lunar Festival. Will love bloom through thoughtful words and actions or will the night end without any at all? Play online

“Un dernier souffle” by Dalia, Bianca et Aryane
“Andrew” by chr29r1
“Meurtre au commissariat de police de Laval” by Projet
“Escape the Lab” by boychester
“Thilde is snowed in” by naia0086
“time machine” by etienne nooyen

IFDB

“Love, Romance, and Murder” by H.W. Williams

A speed dating even gone wrong. A jilted lover takes matters into his own hands. It's 3 am and you are forced to quickly finish off that cup of coffee you were hoping to enjoy. But crime doesn't take a day...

“Communion” by Eneasz Brodski

A short piece with a heavy audio component. Voice mail from after the rapture.

“Rise of the Memelords DEMO” by HughMungus

This is a Demo version I made for some clients. Microsoft web browsers suck at playing the file directly, so I am using this site to temporarily put it on the web for my clients to access. It will be removed...

“OUT LINE” by Neven Mrgan

OUT LINE is a short interactive-fiction game about ending an argument. Heated quarrels sometimes seem as if they'll go on forever. They never do, of course; someone always "wins".

“Egress” by Aleks Samoylov

Egress is a short piece of interactive fiction by Aleks Samoylov. It asks you to explore an imaginary space, test its boundaries, and, if you feel up to it, solve a puzzle or two. Egress functions as a sort...

“The South Shall Rise Again” by H.W. Williams

DATELINE...Murder and greed run rampant in the small sleepy town of Farrell, Mississippi. A mysterious Confederate secret, a family torn apart by the poisoning of greed. And we are back at it again with...

“Killing Time at Lightspeed” by Gritfish

You never know what will be the last thing you say to someone. On a transport ship leaving earth, a passenger kills time by scrolling through the messages of their social media feed. As the ship leaves and...

“Dial K for Kidnapping” by H.W. Williams

DATELINE...Paris...A long lost love returns in need of your services. She informs you that her beloved Uncle, an employee of the Government has gone missing. Possible MURDER? A game of Spy vs Spy? All that...

“Reor's Bush-Cave - THE HNATOV,WNBW (Hopefully Not All That Offensive Version, With No Bad Words) EDITION” by R Headkid

Reor's Bush-Cave -CENSORED (The Sprout Pouch pt 4) by R Headkid Release 1 / Serial number 170409 / Inform 7 build 6M62 (I6/v6.33 lib 6/12N) REOR'S BUSH-CAVE (CENSORED) by R Headkid is the worst Interactive...

“A Room of One's Own” by Florencia Rumpel Rodriguez

Tiny Twine about not having a room for your own. Inspired by this exchange at mastodon: https://witches.town/@Rumpelcita/81116. A Room of One's Own is an essay by Virginia Woolf that I think everyone should...

“FOUR CORNERS” by A C Godliman

Travel to the four corners of the ocean and find its hidden secrets in this short story map featuring pirates, fishermen, and pun loving whales. Arrow keys to control.

“The Weight of a Soul” by Chin Kee Yong

In a world of arcane mysteries, a young doctor's apprentice unravels a conspiracy most grim. Author's Comment: "This is a mystery/suspense parser game inspired by the likes of Anchorhead and Fallen London....

“Not Quite a Sunset - a hypertext opera” by Kyle Rowan

On an orbital space station in a distant star system, Dr. Sara Reyes leads a small team tasked with surveying a planet for potential settlement. A science-fiction story set to an original musical score....

“left/right” by chandler groover

pick one

“A Fly On The Wall, or An Appositional Eye” by Nigel Jayne

The Harrison Mansion is closing after 45 years of delighting its visitors with collections of the weird and recreations of the macabre. The night before, the Fortean Society of New England gathers in the...

“Enlightened Master” by Ben Kidwell and Maevele Straw

Years of questing have brought you to the mountain where you will find the Enlightened Master.

“Buck the Past” by Andrew Schultz

A game with word puzzles and weird items and, eventually, self-actualization. Author's Comment: "While this is in the spirit of Problems Compound and Slicker City, there's no reason you have to play either...

“Balefires Burning” by Cassandra Wolf

Share the story of 15-year-old Tansy, who is on the verge of becoming an adult and a witch. In an isolated community where magic is an everyday occurrence and otherworldly beings walk the woods, you face...