BASIC adventure games

The main purpose of this portal is for readers of 50 Years of Text Games to find up-to-date links to play, download, or buy each game covered in the book. Each entry also has a collection of bonus links, including items like interviews with authors, hints and manuals, scans of vintage ads, and links to other online coverage.

Most of these games are best played on a desktop or laptop computer, rather than a mobile or tablet device.

Twine is an open-source tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories.

You don't need to write any code to create a simple story with Twine, but you can extend your stories with variables, conditional logic, images, CSS, and JavaScript when you're ready.

Twine publishes directly to HTML, so you can post your work nearly anywhere. Anything you create with it is completely free to use any way you like, including for commercial purposes.