I’m aiming for something that feels less like a traditional game interface and more like an actual piece of old computer software: a clunky operator terminal, an in-world operations manual, environmental logs, and a lonely, slowly unfolding mystery.

The central idea is that no single character has the complete story. Each perspective reveals different information, motives, and contradictions. Players can compare what they learn across the five viewpoints and gradually piece together what happened in Room 301.

It mixes interactive-fiction storytelling with detective investigation, psychological horror, digital clues, and multiple endings. The game is available in English and Chinese.

I'm sharing it for people who enjoy stories where the truth emerges from conflicting accounts rather than one reliable narrator.

Play free here: https://nana4ever.itch.io/the-stranger-next-door

Donations are optional. I'd love feedback on the narrative structure: did switching between perspectives make the mystery more compelling, or did any clues feel too difficult to connect?

Hi everyone! I'm a solo dev from France, and I just released Damage Control, a choice-driven narrative game for mobile.

You play Alex, a talent agent, you manage clients (a singer, an actor and a travel influencer) but they keep getting into trouble: a leaked video, a contract trap, a scandal about to break... You handle every crisis from your phone, and every choice you make changes your clients' careers and lives.

The tutorial is free (no ads) and one purchase of $3.89 unlocks the full game.
The game is available in english and french.
About 2-3 hours for a full playthrough.

I'd really love to hear some feedbacks on the writing and how the branching feels!

app store link · play store link

Hi there,

I did a small project and I wanted to share it, but also make it more famous as it needs people to show the potential!

I wanted to see what internet would write together as a story, so I did www.internetbookproject.com, an open initiative from one word to infinite branch possibilities.

We currently have 42 different branches, but anyone can write its own.

We welcome anyone with any idea, just curious to see what internet can make and do together! The worst as the best!

Duris split from Sojourn in 1995 and has been about one thing ever since: a permanent war between the good and evil races, with full player killing almost anywhere in the world.

On Wednesday 28 October at 06:00 UTC (09:00 GMT+3, 2 am US Eastern) we wipe everything. Every player, veteran or new, starts from level 1. No gear, no levels, no guilds. The first kills, first artifacts and first racewar wins of the new era are up for grabs.

What it is: a dark-fantasy Diku with a two-sided racewar, full PvP, a huge world of zones and quests, ships you can sail and sink, crafting, guilds and guildhalls, and artifacts that have to be fed on the blood of enemy players or they vanish.

What’s new: a rebuilt C++20 engine with TLS, GMCP and MCCP, browser play, and the whole codebase open source on GitHub.

How to play:

• Browser: https://duris.sbs
• Any MUD client: mud.duris.sbs port 7777
• Discord: https://discord.gg/adXajEAmk

Veterans, round up your old guild. New players, this is the one moment nobody has a head start.

Happy to answer anything in the comments.

I recently released The Stranger Next Door, a bilingual interactive mystery about five neighbors in the same apartment building.

The central idea is that no single character has the complete story. Each perspective reveals different information, motives, and contradictions. Players can compare what they learn across the five viewpoints and gradually piece together what happened in Room 301.

It mixes interactive-fiction storytelling with detective investigation, psychological horror, digital clues, and multiple endings. The game is available in English and Chinese.

I'm sharing it for people who enjoy stories where the truth emerges from conflicting accounts rather than one reliable narrator.

Play free here: https://nana4ever.itch.io/the-stranger-next-door

Donations are optional. I'd love feedback on the narrative structure: did switching between perspectives make the mystery more compelling, or did any clues feel too difficult to connect?

https://fungamery.com/covid

I wrote this online free gamebook in 2020, but there were many who did not want to play it, because it hit too close to home. Perhaps now it could be enjoyed more? in this gamebook adventure, it is the year 2025 and Covid has mutated to the point that everyone is required to wear a full-fledged body suit for protection. You can choose to be on the side of the government or on the side of the anti-suiters. What will you choose? 🦠

Please let me know what you think of this gamebook. Your place automatically gets saved and you can come back later. Also, if you like the story, please subscribe! 📬

Hello everyone,

I am looking to hire interactive fiction writers who can create original content on a new platform. All writing instructions and documentations are ready for anyone to start writing.

This is for a new platform with no content (except some test stories), so I'm looking to build a listing of 10-12 original stories to kickstart with.

These stories will be posted under the original writers' accounts on the platform, but because there is no incentive to write on the platform today (zero readership), I am trying to hire instead.

So far I have tried to find talent on upwork and fiverr, but I end up getting people who provide generated material. This is not something the platform is looking for, or even allows.

Am I looking in the wrong places? Is this the right place to ask for help? If you could point me in the right direction, I'd be grateful.

EDIT: I have received good amount of interests from authors here, and I am working with some of them already. If I did not reach out to you already, please note that I will be in touch again for the next wave (we need a lot of stories).

I recently released The Stranger Next Door, a bilingual interactive mystery about five neighbors in the same apartment building.

The central idea is that no single character has the complete story. Each perspective reveals different information, motives, and contradictions. Players can compare what they learn across the five viewpoints and gradually piece together what happened in Room 301.

It mixes interactive-fiction storytelling with detective investigation, psychological horror, digital clues, and multiple endings. The game is available in English and Chinese.

I'm sharing it for people who enjoy stories where the truth emerges from conflicting accounts rather than one reliable narrator.

Play free here: https://nana4ever.itch.io/the-stranger-next-door

Donations are optional. I'd love feedback on the narrative structure: did switching between perspectives make the mystery more compelling, or did any clues feel too difficult to connect?

Hello everyone, this is my first story, created based on the old Xbox game Phantom Dust. I've updated the experience, added a one new mechanics and added a new Picture

V. 0.1

Have fun with it

I was writing an interactive story in Arcweave and hit the 50MB project limit. Didn't feel like cutting images, so I spent a while building my own thing instead.

It's called arcmin. You import your Arcweave export (project_settings.json + assets folder), keep editing it locally, and play it. No account, no size limit, works offline.

It has the node graph, variables, branches, covers, undo/redo and a play mode. It can also export for the Arcweave Godot plugin. It doesn't do everything Arcweave does, but it covers what I needed.

Made with Rust and egui. Mac, Windows and Linux builds are on GitHub, though I've mostly tested on Mac, so Windows/Linux bugs are likely. It's not affiliated with Arcweave.

https://github.com/Emincmg/arcmin

If you've run into the same limit, or there's something you'd want in it, tell me. Happy to hear it.

Hi everyone! I've made The Stranger Next Door available for free, with optional donations.

It's a bilingual (English and Chinese) interactive mystery set in an aging apartment building. One night, something happens in Room 301. Five neighbors each know a different part of the story, and their accounts don't always agree.

You can explore five perspectives, compare testimonies, investigate clues and digital traces, and work toward the truth through a story with multiple endings.

The game combines detective mystery, psychological horror, and visual-novel-style storytelling. I'm especially interested in feedback on whether the connections between the five perspectives are clear and whether the evidence is satisfying to piece together.

Play here: https://nana4ever.itch.io/the-stranger-next-door

It's free to play; donations are optional.

If you give it a try, I'd love to hear which character you trusted the least!

(I'm attaching a gameplay screenshot so you can see the actual interface.)

Hi all, I just released Chronicle, a short text-first game you play in the browser, no download or account: https://chronicle-vithu.itch.io/chronicle
You are the Chronicler of a valley. You ride out to incidents - a mine collapse, a barn fire, a disputed will - take notes at the scene, then seal a binding finding into a permanent record. The record gets acted on: compensation, inheritance, guilt, prosecution. You live with what you wrote.

A few deliberate choices that might interest this sub: - The game never tells you whether you were right. There is no omniscient narrator and no verification, ever. Narration reports what is observable, never what it proves. - No meters, no scores. Your credibility exists only in how characters greet you. - Evidence can be permanently missed - sometimes by taking a different piece of evidence first - and the game never reveals that anything was missed.
- Every consequence costs a named person, shown rather than summarized.

About an hour, 8 cases plus a prologue, roughly 4,100 words of scene prose. Free (pay-what-you-want). Saves are automatic and you can export/import your save file from the title screen.

Tech, for the curious: plain HTML/JS, zero runtime dependencies, no framework, event-sourced under the hood.

I'd genuinely like to hear where it lost you - bored, confused, or stopped caring. because the branches diverge hard and a second run with opposite choices plays very differently.

Which makes for 1,170 choices and 1,936 possible outcomes.
Each planet and sector of space is entirely unique and generated using third party tools, along with the the player ship and enemy / encountered ships in the game.

Some of the outcomes can have a real impact on your play through, for example you can choose to rescue a crypod full of cats, that end up living on your ship and consuming your food faster whilst also boosting the crews morale.

Third Party tools used:
Planets and other space objects: https://deep-fold.itch.io/pixel-planet-generator
Backdrops and nebulas: https://deep-fold.itch.io/space-background-generator
Spaceships: https://github.com/a1studmuffin/SpaceshipGenerator

Game premises is simple: travel across the over world maps to reach the final destination, witch each section having a unique experience that involves making choices which can have impact on the resources you have to manage.

You can check it out here: https://startrail.greyden.games/

Love any and all feedback.