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Point it at any classic story file and it runs in the tab, which makes the whole Infocom era playable without installing an interpreter.
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iplayif sits in Text Adventures under Play, filed as coffee break.
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. iplayif is free to use and needs no account.
No. You can use iplayif without signing up for anything.
Not well. We file iplayif as desktop only, so open it on a laptop or desktop computer.
Yes, we file it as safe for work. It also works muted.
We file it as "Coffee break": Five to fifteen minutes of proper attention.
You are a colony ship AI choosing which disasters to absorb, and every run ends with a summary of how badly humanity settled.
Thousands of browser-playable parser and choice games, plus Quest, the authoring tool most of them were written in.
Every interactive fiction file anyone thought worth keeping since 1992, in a directory listing that has never once been redesigned.
The listing that has catalogued live text MUDs since 1994, and still tells you which of them have people logged in tonight.
Every clue from every episode of the American quiz institution, transcribed by fans back to 1984 and playable board by board.
The review site that effectively invented walkthrough culture for escape games, with an archive going back nearly two decades.
The DOSBox emulator compiled for the browser, and the machinery most of the other DOS-in-a-tab projects are built on.
Stick-figure RPG that has been landing daily jokes since 2003, wrapped around a combat and item system far deeper than the drawings imply.
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