Lost Pig. Grunk need find pig.

https://pr-if.org/play/lostpig/

I am not do sure, though I feel the idea is compelling enough to warrant exploration!

Text adventure games are fun and I enjoy them a few times per year.

I need to mention "Eaten By a Grue" podcast. Kay Savitz (sp?) and Kerrington Vanston play all the INFOCOM games and review them. It is an excellent library of text game commentary and insight.

Very highly recommended. They do produce a new episode from time to time as of 2024.

https://monsterfeet.com/grue/

The very best games combine witty writing, bonkers puzzles and premises and enough freedom to let you the player actually adventure some without feeling like you are on a ride with rails.

Gen AI may well come up with prose, but how well will it do character, puzzles and link game history into the thing like we see in the better titles?

That said, my mind is open. Let us see some productions!

We do have a IF game compo every year. "Eaten By a Grue" has reviewed a few games and basically listeners come away with the idea there are great new games every year.

I see others mention "lost pig" and 'nuff said.

I welcome a production to play and review.

Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - which has the best hint system ever (and you can play it hint-by-hint while still having loads of fun, as sometimes they’re misleading)

A Mind Forever Voyaging for the story and setting.

I doubt anyone would get a quarter of quality from genAI though.

Personally, I mostly enjoy cyoa types of text based games. My favorite it Warsim: The Realm of Aslona which is more simulation focused then most text based adventure games.

Multi user dungeons are also fun! I'm working on one right now but more cyoa focused.

Spider and Web by Andrew Plotkin. If you decide to play it, I recommend *not* reading about it first; just jump in for maximum effect.

https://ifarchive.org/if-archive/games/zcode/Tangle.z5

https://textadventures.co.uk/games/view/qski30iszearnimjkrzv...

I don't particularly like it, but Work is an online multi-player RPG that pays me to play it.

(Prior to approximately 2020, it was more of a LARP situation, but my instance, at least, has moved to fully online.)

Adventure (but it's admittedly a very difficult game to win):

https://grack.com/demos/adventure/

I'm gonna steer clear of games that use ASCII graphics as that'd be too many games to think about. With that out of the way: Toby's Nose, A Dark Room, Kerkerkruip