It’s spooky, it’s meta, oh, and it’s free.

The House Abandon is a short horror game where you play a text adventure on an old CRT monitor in a spooky house, with the environment changing depending on your actions. Lifeline is available on iOS and Android. It’s a tense experience, one worth playing if you like suspenseful scenarios and making tough decisions. The game plays out in conversation form: you choose where they go and what choices they end up making. Taylor needs your instructions to stay alive. Lifeline is a game with a fascinating concept: you’re communicating with an astronaut named Taylor who’s become stranded on a mysterious planet. To say too much about Sun Dogs would spoil the fun, but it’s definitely a heady type of game, and a unique experience worth playing if you’re into sci-fi. Sun Dogs is billed as a “transhumanist adventure” where you explore the solar system. Though the game is available on mobile and PC, I recommend playing the mobile version when you’re on the go for a more thematically immersive experience. The game is massive and its branching paths give it a lot of replay value, as two adventures will hardly ever be the same. If you’re curious about the genre but have never dived in, this guide will serve as a pretty good starting point, with 10 great recent text adventures that are definitely worth your time.Ĩ0 Days is an interactive, steampunky take on Jules Vernes’ classic novel Around The World In 80 Days. It’s been fascinating to watch the genre bounce back after laying dormant for many years, thanks to the rise of digital distribution, basic programs like Twine, and growing mobile games market.

I’m probably the biggest dork at GI when it comes them, seeing as I used to have a column about them over at Playboy and even wrote a couple myself.

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