IF/Interactive Fiction Recs (ENG)

What is an Interactive Fiction?

"Interactive fiction (IF) is software simulating environments in which players use text commands to control characters and influence the environment. Works in this form can be understood as literary narratives, either in the form of Interactive narratives or Interactive narrations. These works can also be understood as a form of video game, either in the form of an adventure game or role-playing game. In common usage, the term refers to text adventures, a type of adventure game where the entire interface can be "text-only", however, graphical text adventure games, where the text is accompanied by graphics (still images, animations or video) still fall under the text adventure category if the main way to interact with the game is by typing text. Some users of the term distinguish between interactive fiction, known as "Puzzle-free", that focuses on narrative, and "text adventures" that focus on puzzles.

The term can also be used to refer to literary works that are not read in a linear fashion, known as gamebooks, where the reader is instead given choices at different points in the text; these decisions determine the flow and outcome of the story. The most famous example of this form of printed fiction is the Choose Your Own Adventure book series, and the collaborative "addventure" format has also been described as a form of interactive fiction. The term "interactive fiction" is sometimes used also to refer to visual novels, a type of interactive narrative software popular in Japan." (from Wikipedia)

I'm going to recommend a few of the IFs that I have read in the past two years, I'll actualize it every time I read a new one. Have in mind that these are all works in progress!

The links direct you to the tumblr blogs of each IF, in most of these you will have the synopsis and a list of trigger warnings, and obviously the links to the games (If the trigger warnings aren't in the blogs, they most likely are in the first pages of the game!)

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IF/Interactive Fiction Recs (ENG)

What is an Interactive Fiction?

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