Long branching novels where your stats matter and the prose does not embarrass itself; a good number play free in the browser.
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Choice of Games sits in Text Adventures under Play, filed as rabbit hole.
About this category: Interactive fiction, MUDs and choose-your-path stories. Some are forty years old and still better written than most things released this year.
Yes. Choice of Games is free to use and needs no account.
No. You can use Choice of Games without signing up for anything.
Yes. Choice of Games works on phones as well as desktop browsers.
Yes, we file it as safe for work. It also works muted.
We file it as "Rabbit hole": Clear your evening. We warned you.
Community-written choose-your-path stories with ratings, which is the only thing keeping the good ones above the fan fiction.
Ankh-Morpork rendered as a text world, with guilds, working shops and an obsessive attention to what Pratchett actually wrote.
London has been dragged underground by bats, and the writing is far better than that sentence suggests. Free, endless, faintly sinister.
Catalogue, reviews and play links for four decades of interactive fiction, maintained by people who take the form extremely seriously.
Fourteen small experiments — spectrogram, harmonics, arpeggios — that explain how music works by letting you break it.
A history map with a timeline slider, layered with rulers, religions, battles and linked encyclopedia articles.
Scanned American newspapers from 1770 to 1963, full-text searchable, which is a dangerous thing to discover on a weeknight.
Five photographs, one question each: what year was this taken? Points scale with how close you land, and the cars always give it away.
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