Interactive Fiction Archive Alternatives

Interactive Fiction Archive is described as 'The contents of the IF Archive -- including thousands of text adventures, text adventure development tools, articles, essays, hint files, walkthroughs, jokes, and sly references to Greek politics -- are contributed by the interactive fiction community, past and present' and is an website. There are five alternatives to Interactive Fiction Archive, not only websites but also apps for Electron, Mac, Windows and Linux. The best Interactive Fiction Archive alternative is WrittenRealms, which is free. Other great sites and apps similar to Interactive Fiction Archive are textadventures.co.uk, Playfic, MagneticScrolls.net and Lectrote.

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  1. WrittenRealms lets you build and play narrative adventure games. Features a rich combat system with four playable classes, each with distinct skills and character customizations.

    16 WrittenRealms alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  2. textadventures.co.uk is a community of interactive fiction game makers and players.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
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    Playfic is a platform for writing and playing interactive fiction. Interactive fiction (aka "text adventures") is a genre of game that uses no graphics or sound, but instead, uses text to tell a story in an interactive world.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  4. This website allows interested players to play the following classic text adventure games online

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  5. Lectrote icon
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    A portable Interactive Fiction games interpreter application.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Electron / Atom Shell
     
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