Text Adventure Development System (TADS)

Once and Future

Adventure

interactive fiction

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PC (Microsoft Windows)

A soldier in Vietnam is mysteriously tossed into an Arthurian story and transported between a variety of settings and times.

Fantasy

Bad Machine

BAD_MACHINE

Simulator

text adventure

Text

In a vast, hivelike robotic factory, a malfunctioning machine struggles to avoid being being captured and reprogrammed.

Science fiction

Sunset Over Savannah

Single player

text-based

You're on the last day of your vacation, trying to decide whether to quit your job, and the wonders you uncover as you wander around the beach guide your decision. 
 
A piece of interactive fiction written by Ivan Cockrum.

Glowgrass

You play as a xenohistorian on an expedition. You've been dropped (more literally than you planned) by a dropship over the ground of the Ancients. Your equipment was scattered and the dropship crashed. Now it's just you, your wits, and the Ancients to help you find a way home.

The Frenetic Five vs. Sturm und Drang

The Frenetic Five vs Sturm und Drang

In this game about under-powered superheroes, you play as Improv, leader of the Frenetic Five. You use common objects in surprisingly useful ways. Bob, your contact at Supertemps, hires your team for a new job: defeat the melodramatic supervillains Sturm und Drang who have holed up in the abandoned flange mill at the waterfront.

Comedy

Babel

In this game, you play as an amnesiac inside Babel, an abandoned Arctic facility devoted to biological research. You soon discover that you have the unusual ability to witness scenes from the past by touching various glowing items. But can you discover who you are, what happened to the station, and then how to escape from Babel?

A piece of interactive fiction written by Ian Finley.

Mystery

Small World

A small game set in a tiny solar system, where the mechanism that powers the rotation of the Earth (approx. diameter 8 feet) has broken down and must be repaired.

Frobozz Magic Support

You play as a novice glyph support clerk but no one's around but an animated burin. It seems the more experienced support clerks are either lost, got themselves un-implemented, or got stuck in a timeloop. And, of course, everyone else in Zork wants assistance too. No one said your first day on the job would be easy!

Indigo

Years ago, a witch placed you in this tower and arranged for your upkeep, paying certain villagers well to keep you supplied with the most basic necessities, and no more. 
 
Your years in the tower have changed you. You are more or less a grown woman now, with hair nearly to the floor. Your skills have developed as far as solitude and tedium can take them. You are ready to leave. 
 
Take your time.

Gun Mute

Gun Mute: A Texty Shoot-Em-Up

Shooter

western

post-apocalyptic

Step into the shoes of Mute Lawton, a lone cowboy who must stop an execution set to occur at noon by shooting his way past dangerous cyborgs and mutants in a post-apocalyptic western setting.

Action

Snowblind Aces

Two aces shelter from a snowstorm under the wing of a biplane. They've duelled and played in the air for years. Love is inevitable. But what kind of relationship will they end up in?

Survival

Warfare

Romance

The Journey of the King

games based on literature

The King goeth upon a journey with many horses, yet riding upon none, when the pomp of travelling shall be heard in the streets and the sound of the lute and the drum and the name of the King. And I would know what princes and what people shall greet me on the other shore in the land to which I travel.

The Elysium Enigma

It was meant to be a routine visit on behalf of the imperial government, just to remind the settlers that the Empire hadn't forgotten them, and if you stick rigidly to the letter of your orders and refuse to use either your eyes or your initiative that's all it'll be. But with an interstellar war brewing in the background, you'd be wise not to take anything for granted.

A piece of Interactive Fiction written by Eric Eve.

The Recruit

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Episode in the Life of an Artist

slice of life

A game about the daily routine of a factory worker.

Max Blaster and Doris de Lightning Against the Parrot Creatures of Venus

Someplace on Venus a secret weapon is being built that threatens Earth with total destruction. You and your comrade must penetrate the Xavian base and save the world -- before it's too late!

It's the night of your senior prom! You can hardly believe it. After four long years, you're about to graduate. What's more, your date is Laurie Reynolds, a tall blonde on whom you've had a crush for years. You still can't believe you worked up the nerve to ask her out, or that she agreed to come with you. You're bursting with pride as you pull up to the St. Francis hotel in your brand-new BMW Z3 convertible, Laurie at your side. You're ready for the night of your life. 
 
	You goal, as it has been for your entire high school career, is to make it all the way with Laurie. Hopefully, you'll have some fun along the way ...

Prom Night

Prom Night is a text based adult adventure run by TADS engine. It is not very easy but neither to hard. It contains over 50 roums (!!!), with a lot of objects to take or things to manipulate - more than 10 - not all at all useful. You must be cautious do not get your hands "full". Then you cannot get other things, and you must drop something. 
 
The storyline is easy-going and with very rich erotic scenes. It contains mostly "normal erotic scenes" except a lesbian one. Anal sex is almost out of question. 
 
Note that there are some some bugs eg. I could not take the key from Kate while in hot tub based on my playing or the bill is never (not needed ?) to be paid or I could get undress Debbie, but not willing to procceed to any other actions.

Erotic

First Things First

You've just arrived at home from your nightly visit to the science and invention section of the local public library, where you spend each night dreaming your dreamy dreams of one day inventing a time travel machine. Tonight, for some reason, you're especially fatigued, and can't wait to get inside and go right to bed. Seems like a good plan, but somehow you have a premonition it's not going to be that easy...

A piece of interactive fiction written by J. Robinson Wheeler.

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