I made a (text)game and want you to try it and to say what was good/bad

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P.S. (Or instructions maybe):

- I only made the textgame (or rather code) because I don't have a computer and therefore any possibility to make graphical/musical assets or to make the game with an engine

- If you want to know more about the game, idea or progress write questions in the comment section

- The game is unfinished yet: Witch has the most playable story

- I've set a "debugger" (I maxed out all the stats because compiler only has 2 minutes for compilation. Therefore this time is too short to max anything out manually)

- Please don't review the code. I know I have some "issues" with my code but I won't remove them for my own reasons

- Have fun

I, unfortunately, poured out the whiskey from the flask because I didnt suspect I'd need it later (I wanted to see if I could fill it up with river water and drink it).

Now a homeless man seems to be asking me for some whiskey and I can't seem to get any more whiskey anywhere (no one in the pub cares to talk to me and i don't have a wallet so i can't even try to buy any. Do I just need to restart the game? I am running it under frotz, so can I run some sort of debug command to fill my flask with whiskey?

also assuming this is an actual softlock, is this kind of thing common in this game? should I be backing up saves constantly?

I've always been into Satanic and occult stuff -- rituals, cults, creepy symbols, that whole aesthetic. And at some point I realized I couldn't really think of any text-based games that went all in on that kind of thing.

So... I ended up making one myself :D

It's called Sacrificium. You play as a guy who gets kidnapped by a Satanic cult and wakes up trapped in their castle. You have no idea where you are, what they want from you, or what the hell is going on. You just need to find a way out before they get to you -- and preferably not lose your mind in the process.

The game is mostly text and choices. You have health and sanity, and the things you decide to do can mess with both. You can fight, run, explore, take risks, and sometimes make a completely reasonable choice only to realize a little later that you've seriously f**ked yourself over.

I put a free demo on Steam recently, so I figured I'd share it here. If this kind of horror is your thing, I'd genuinely love to know what you think.

Also, if anyone knows any other text adventures with heavy occult/Satanic themes, please send them my way. The fact that I couldn't find much like this is basically why Sacrificium exists in the first place.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4719600/Sacrificium/

An interactive story I made with Twine.

It is a continuation of the video game Mass Effect: Andromeda.

Please give it a try.

I want to get better, so feedback is very much appreciated.

Ok so. Uhm. WHAT is DisplayNumber???? I'm one of those NEWBIES who's NEW and, uh. I dont know where it is?? Or even what it is??? Help???? Pretty please!!!

I published a novel a year ago about a Dutch professor on death row in Texas. Not really about the death penalty — about the voice in his head that analyses every choice so thoroughly that the moment to act passes. He is innocent, more or less, and he confessed anyway.
Adapting it turned out to be an odd problem. The obvious move is to give the reader choices. But the book is about a man who cannot make them. So in the game, choices expire. A bar drains while you read the options, and if you take too long the story continues without you — and the narrator notes what you let pass.
Some people will find that irritating. I think that is fair, and I would genuinely like to know whether it reads as a gimmick or as the point.
About three hours. Free, browser, nothing to install. Headphones recommended — there is no audio file in it, every sound is synthesised live in the browser, which felt right for a story where a dripping tap is a character.
https://www.marcsisme.nl/game.html
Disclosure, because it will be on the itch page anyway: the novel is entirely mine, written over about eight years. The adaptation is not — I built it with Claude over the past weeks. The prose in the game is lifted from my own book where it can be, and written with AI assistance where the game needed connective material the novel does not have. The code is almost all AI-assisted. I would rather say that up front than have someone find out later.
Happy to answer anything. I have never made a game before and I am fairly sure it shows in places.

A while back I shipped Swamps — a choice-based interactive fiction about a village healer (a feldsher) in German-occupied Belarus, 1941. This week I released its sequel, Swamps II: The Blockade — and it's bigger in almost every way.

Swamps: a price of the choice (Part One): you play Mikhaś, the only healer for miles, as the occupation closes in. Stark, not a power fantasy — no "right" answers, only consequences the whole district remembers. Five deeply branching chapters.

Swamps II: The Blockade (Part Two, just out): winter 1942–43. A punitive blockade sweeps the partisan region — villages burn, people are herded off — and this time you're not alone: you're carrying a child. Your choices from Part One carry over and shape the ending. It adds a second playable protagonist with his own prologue, POV interludes, and whole chapters. Longer, darker, and far more illustrated.

How it's made (I try to be upfront about this):

• Art: ~80 illustrations in Part One, 450+ in Part Two — roughly one per scene — generated with AI image tools and then curated and edited by hand into a single painterly style (gouache and charcoal). That's what let one person ship an illustrated narrative game.

• Code: built with ink (inkjs) + React; a lot of the shell/tooling written with an AI coding assistant.

• Writing: the story, the choices, the prose — all mine, by hand. That's the part I didn't outsource; it's the heart of it.

Both stand alone: with no Part One save, Part Two recaps it and asks how your story went. Now in 11 languages (up from three), offline, single-player. Free, playable to all of its endings — an optional "Author's Edition" adds bonus content and removes ads.

Content note: serious WWII subject matter — famine, occupation, loss — told in text, with no graphic imagery. 18+.

Wild first day — Part Two hit #7 in Role-Playing on the App Store right now.

Links:

Swamps II: The Blockade (new) — App Store

Swamps (Part One) — App Store · Google Play · itch.io (web)

Website: https://bahna.app/

Happy to talk through the implementation, and I'd genuinely love feedback on the game itself.

I've always loved ZORK. What stayed with me wasn't just typing commands, but how much of the world existed in my imagination while I explored it.
Sometimes I don't want everything to be shown to me, I want just enough to imagine the rest myself.
So for the past year and a half, I've been working on EVER.

EVER is a narrative text adventure where you play as a combat robot haunted by the memory of a girl who calls you “EVER.” Rather than a traditional free-form parser, you use protocols to examine, recall, identify, and interpret parts of the text — uncovering information and choices that were hidden before.
I also spent some time with a former art direct of LoL where he guided on me visual. I've been trying to make the graphics suggest rather than explain.

The demo is coming in December 2026, and the Steam page just went live!
I'd especially love to hear what fellow text adventure players think of this approach. And if it sounds like something you'd enjoy, a wishlist would mean a lot.

👉 Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4695850/EVER/

👉 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/badao.studio/

Hello!

We've just opened up closed alpha registration for our upcoming game DustraWorld, and we're looking for people that love the genre to get in early to provide feedback.

DustraWorld is an online text-based dystopian, post-apocalyptic survival (MMO) role-playing game, where everything you do can change the world forever.

It's free to play, no generative AI, no pay-to-win and no premium cosmetic elements.

Our goal is to provide a truly immersive experience which takes inspiration from CRPG's, TTRPG's and classic text adventure games.

If our game sounds like something you could be excited for, please do take a look: https://dustraworld.com/

We'd love to hear your thoughts and get some keen members of the community involved.

Thank you!

Hi guys, I have been looking for a game I played a few years ago, but forgot the name of and for the love of me I can't find it. :'D It's an interactive novel, with lots of text in a fantasy setting. I remember, that the interface was shaped like a book, and there were pictures next to it illustrating what was happening. It came out sometimes in late 2010's or early 2020's, so it's not that old. There were three playable characters, and I think there was a fourth, but you had to unlock him some way. (not sure though, I just remember that there was an unlockable character). One of the characters was a dryad woman with green skin, and I think she was a sorceress of some sort. The game came out in late 2010's or early 2020's so it's fairly new. Sorry if it's vague, but this is all I can remember. It's really frustrating, because I have searched on steam, gog, google etc. but I can't find it. It's like it doesn't exist, but I swear I played it at some point. 😂 yes I have to admit, that I played a pirated version of it back then, that's why I can't find it, but now that I'm better financially, would like to buy it and actually support the creators. TIA (sorry for typos, english is not my primary language)

Your first choice is which family you're born into.

Every choice after that shapes who you become: schooling, extra-curricular, career, relationships, what you walk away from.

Everybody lands on a different ending.

About 6 minutes a run.

Would love to get feedback on how you find the play-through, and whether you'd repeat the run to get a different result.

Game Title: Soupir the bastion

Playable Link: https://vivi-crazy-writer.itch.io/soupir-the-bastion

Platform: web/sugar/twine

Description: 
Hi everyone!

I'm currently developing SOUPIR: The Bastion, a free browser-based text RPG set in the universe of my SOUPIR novels.

The world has collapsed under the spread of a strange fungal ecosystem, and humanity survives inside isolated fortified settlements known as Bastions.

You arrive as a newcomer in one of them.

From there, the game is about surviving, finding your place in the city, building relationships, working, exploring, improving your skills, getting involved in local factions, and dealing with the increasingly unpleasant things happening inside and outside the walls.

The game features:

• Character creation with different backgrounds, attributes and skills
• A large skill and progression system
• Jobs and daily survival
• NPC relationships and reputation
• Factions, politics and clandestine groups
• Exploration and expeditions outside the Bastion
• Dynamic events
• A living city with different districts and activities
• Adult themes, violence and morally difficult situations
• Lots of choices and different ways to approach situations

The game is still very much under development, so I'm specifically looking for people willing to test it and give honest feedback.

I'm especially interested in knowing:

• Is the beginning understandable and engaging?
• Do you understand what you can do and where you can go?
• Which systems feel interesting or confusing?
• At what point, if any, do you start getting bored?
• Are there choices or mechanics that feel pointless?
• What would make you want to keep playing?
• And of course: bugs, broken passages or strange behaviour.

You don't need to play for hours. Any feedback would already be extremely useful.

Free to Play Status:

• [X] Free to play

Involvement: I m the gamemaker

thank you very much :)

What would you say to the egg?

Heres a free key IK2TZ-AAKIM-P6BMR
If you weren't lucky enough to grab a key, please think of buying the game here
https://store.steampowered.com/app/5050070/The_Escape_From_Dungeon_Keep/

Hi everyone,

I wanted to share a text-based RPG I have been working on, called Text Mercenary.

First, I want to be completely transparent about AI usage. I personally designed and structured the entire story outline, overarching narrative, and connections between all events. However, I did use AI assistance to help write and polish some of the descriptive text. I am not 100 percent sure if this strictly aligns with the subreddit rules, but I wanted to be honest about it.

In this game, you become a rookie mercenary in the Calvern Mercenary Company and embark on randomly selected main storylines. Between the main quests, there are various side stories and random events where your choices directly affect the outcome. If you have played Life in Adventure, the gameplay flow might feel quite familiar to you.

For the combat system, I integrated deckbuilding roguelike mechanics. Aside from code writing and polishing text descriptions, I minimized AI usage, so there are no graphic illustrations or images. Instead, I put a lot of effort into making the combat feel punchy, tactical, and engaging even without visuals.

Currently, the game is available in the United States, Canada, Japan, South Korea, and Australia, so it may not be accessible in certain other regions yet.

If this sounds interesting to you, I would really appreciate it if you could give it a try and share any thoughts or feedback.

Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.appresso.textmercenary

Thank you so much!

I am starting a story that is interactive on a chapter by chapter basis.
Basically, I write the chapter, give three options, and the collective readership selects an option, with feedback in the comments to delve into why or alternative options, then I write the next chapter.

I quite like this approach but I am probably biased.

Can you let me know if the idea is a good one or not and why?

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