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This is a list of text-based IF’s (Interactive Fiction) that I and another user from itch.io, xSai or Bladed-Barbwire on Discord, made on itch.io, and I thought I’d share this here with you guys in case anyone is interested. All the credit goes to xSai for coming up with the idea. Also, note that, neither I nor xSai own the rights to any of these IF's; we are just recommending them to people as we believe they deserve more recognition and people might actually end up enjoying them. The list was made on itch.io and so, unfortunately, will have to be accessed from there for anyone wanting to access them from here. The list also had to be split into separate parts as we ran out of characters to use. All the IF’s are completely text-based, a few using some visuals and/or images, but none of them are full Visual Novels. Almost all of the IF's are made in Twine, with a few being made in ChoiceScript, Ren'py, or some other engine. Most of the IF's are free-to-play, some are pay-to-play, and some are free until they're completed and/or a price is decided. Some of the IF's have extra DLC's or bonus side content on their itch.io page or on the author's patreon, which are either free-to-play or pay-to-play. Most of the IF's can be played in a browser (works best in the itch.io app, Chrome, Firefox and some other browsers. Not guaranteed to work in every browser) with some also having a download option, but there are some IF's that only have a download option and no browser one. Most of the IF's can be played on PC and mobile, but some are not compatible for mobile. A lot of the IF's are also unfinished WIP's (Work In Progress); some of them are already completed, close to completion, just started, or may have been discontinued. Some of the links of the IF's also don't work, stop working for a while before working again, or ask for a password to access; perhaps due to being discontinued, shut down for maintenance, or for some other reason. We will continue to keep updating the list as we find more IF’s. We also have a discord server, a lemmy community, a subreddit, a tumblr blog, and a cohost page dedicated just for this. If you, or anyone else have any IF’s you want to recommend, feel free to share them on here, the three itch.io topics, the discord server, the subreddit, the tumblr blog, or the cohost page (They have to be text-based IF’s from itch.io and need to have at least some kind of interactivity. IF’s from other sites, Visual Novels, or some other type of game will not be accepted). Or if you just want to talk, or ask me for some suggestions on which IF's to try, then feel free to do that as well. Anyway, thank you for your time, and I hope you have a good day, folks. Cheers!

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Endless sky can run on really low powered hardware, and is a top down space combat/trading/adventure game. Being FOSS it's on a lot of operating systems and can be found everywhere from Steam to Flathub to F-Droid.

Originally running in Byond and now running on modern software under the broader heading of Space Station 13 and 14 respectively. It’s completely free and runs on potato computers.

With origins as a college project Space Station 13 is a simulation of a work shift on a space station feating several departments with multiple jobs each like Engineering, Science, Security, Command, Service, Entertainment, and Medical. Everyone works together to keep the station running. You must eat and drink while working to maintain a healthy speed. But each round an antagonist or a dozen of them spawn as well, they may be an agent of the syndicate seeking to steal important items or kill targets using contraband items only they have access too.

The graphics are pixel paper dolls sliding around a top down map. You can pickup items and interact with the world and other players as well. The possibilities are REALLY limitless. You can make drugs, cocktails, food, shuttles, your own bar in the maintenance tunnels, improvised weapons, and more.

There are dozens of servers each running their own fork of the code and featuring unique rules and mechanics. One server may have alien races with their own languages, another will have physics, way back when there was a fallout server with a vault section and wasteland section of the map and a raider faction and a vault faction at war.

Cannot recommend this game enough, it’s going through a renaissance right now and is a BLAST to play. Check it out, it’s free.

Nethack is now 36 years old, still in development, runs on windows, Linux, Apple and a multitude of other systems. You can run it in a console, remotely, if you don't have the ability to install or download to your computer. It's complex, difficult, entertaining and will soak up any free time you have.

I've played it on and off for a decade now and never made it past half way and have always learnt something new.

Play in browser: https://alt.org/nethack/hterm/ Telnet: alt.org port 23 SSH: [email protected] Download: https://www.nethack.org/

Have you got the Amulet of Yendor? Any stupid deaths? Surprising finds?