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London has been dragged underground by bats, and the writing is far better than that sentence suggests. Free, endless, faintly sinister.
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Fallen London 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. Fallen London is free to use, though it asks you to sign up.
Yes. Fallen London asks you to create an account before you get far.
Yes. Fallen London 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.
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