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[technofeudalism]

i think the near-extinction of people making fun, deep and/or unique interactive text-based browser games, projects and stories is catastrophic to the internet. i'm talking pre-itch.io era, nothing against it.

there are a lot of fun ones listed here and here but for the most part, they were made years ago and are now a dying breed. i get why. there's no money in it. factoring in the cost of web hosting and servers, it probably costs money. it's just sad that it's a dying art form.

anyway, here's some of my favorite browser-based interactive projects and games, if you're into that kind of thing. 90% of them are on the lists that i linked above.

A Better World - create an alternate history timeline

Alter Ego - abandonware birth-to-death life simulator game

Seedship - text-based game about colonizing a new planet

Sandboxels or ThisIsSand - free-falling sand physics games

Little Alchemy 2 - combine various elements to make new ones

Infinite Craft - kind of the same as Little Alchemy

ZenGM - simulate sports

Tamajoji - browser-based tamagotchi

IFDB - interactive fiction database (text adventure games)

Written Realms - more text adventure games with a user interface

The Cafe & Diner - mystery game

The New Campaign Trail - US presidential campaign game

Money Simulator - simulate financial decisions

Genesis - text-based adventure/fantasy game

Level 13 - text-based science fiction adventure game

Miniconomy - player driven economy game

Checkbox Olympics - games involving clicking checkboxes

BrantSteele.net - game show and Hunger Games simulators

Murder Games - fight to the death simulator by Orteil

Cookie Clicker - different but felt weird not including it. by Orteil.

if you're ever thinking about making a niche project that only a select number of individuals will be nerdy enough to enjoy, keep in mind i've been playing some of these games off and on for 20~ years (Alter Ego, for example). quite literally a lifetime of replayability.

[technofeudalism]

since this post blew up, i've been wanting to do an addition with all of the recommendations from the comments and tags. but there's a lot of them. some people might be crazy enough to sit down and seriously put them all in one post with descriptions. those people are honestly sick in the head.

anyway, here's all of the recommendations from the reblogs. not all of them are text-based, but it's a great mixture of styles. also don't forget the links in the second paragraph of the OP which will take you to FMHY where there are a bunch more games listed.

Games

A Dark Room - text-based science fiction role-playing game.

corru.observer - science fiction adventure web game.

Improbable Island - old-school text adventure game.

Candy Box 2 - incremental clicker game that evolves into RPG.

Arcanum - open source wizard clicker game.

sandspiel, Powder Game, Powder Game 2, The Powder Toy - more sand physics games.

Orb.Farm - fishtank simulator.

Façade - experimental game with a real-time interactive narrative where you try to fix a failing marriage.

The Catacombs of Solaris - trippy art game.

Yume Nikki Online - online version of the surreal classic plus fangames.

The Barncle Goose Experiment - combine element/alchemy game based on antique theories of abiogenesis.

Fallen London - free-to-play text-based open world RPG.

Nested - very unique text-based universe expanding game. described as possibly @orteil42's favorite thing he's ever made.

The Process of Elimination - interactive web novel (by @hypertextdog)

Discworld MUD - multiplayer, text-based, online game (a MUD, or text MMORPG) based on the Discworld books.

Horse Master - surreal text game about training a horse.

EYEZMAZE - flash (RIP) or HTML5-based puzzle games.

You Are Jeff Bezos - text game. spend Jeff Bezos' fortune.

The Password Game - challenging puzzle game where you have to meet password requirements (by neal)

Universal Paperclips - incremental paperclip making game.

Half-Earth - planetary disaster planning game where you try to save the world using socialism.

ChooseYourStory - community-driven website centered on CYOA style story games.

PhD Simulator - random event based text game. make your choice each month and see if you can graduate on time.

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup - open source roguelike.

Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead - turn-based survival roguelike set in the modern day.

Nethack - open source roguelike originally released in 1987.

FarmRPG - simple, mobile-friendly, text-based farming RPG.

Kingdom of Loathing - browser-based community MMORPG.

PokeRogue - browser-based Pokemon roguelike

Tools

Text Game Builder - works in your browser, with just a little bit of Python (by @grumpygandalf)

Twine - great (free!) tool for making text-based games quickly.

Ink - scripting language for interactive fiction (also free)

Flashpoint Archive - a community effort to preserve games and animations from the web.

PICO-8 - fantasy console for making, sharing and playing tiny games and other computer programs.

Non-Games

Library of Babel - interactive illustration which attempts to simulate what it might be like to browse The Library of Babel.

Superbad - technically not a game, sprawling website full of secrets.

17776 - serialized speculative fiction multimedia narrative about football in the far-future. beautiful, creative, legendary. created by Jon Bois, a legend and one of my favorite writers of all time.

Choice of Games - text-based, choose-your-own-adventure games (interactive fiction). some free-to-play, others can be bought like an ebook.

The Deep Sea - scroll to the bottom of the ocean. encounter the humble squid and his friends (by neal)

Space Elevator - like The Deep Sea, but up instead of down. you can equip your avatar with a scarf (by neal)

Internet Artifacts - an interactive history of the early internet (by neal)

If The Moon Were Only One Pixel - scroll through an accurately scaled model of the universe.

r/incremental_games - reddit community for incremental games.

r/WebGames - reddit community for web games in general.

thank you to everyone who contributed and the creators. please be sure to show them some love where possible.

[andrearitsu]

Reminder that this film, like everything relating to this brand, validated and puts money in the pockets of the man who spends his money like this. Cawthon is just one step removed from the re-legalizing of conversion therapy happening in America right now.

What’s particularly sad is seeing people smart enough to understand that supporting Rowling’s work is bad still somehow justify supporting Cawthon’s work because “the games are important to me.”

Cut off the parasocial umbilical cord and start exploring new art instead. Don’t say you can’t.

[industrial-decay]

If you can drop JKR you can drop Cawthon too. Don't be a hypocrite.

[absolutelyunsupervised]

Social media sucks balls

[evil-space-empress]

The Epstein Files are and have always been a piece of political theatre, a football the bourgeois parties in the USA kick around to accuse each other of being pedophile rapists constantly, knowing full well that the contents implicate many members of both parties. Hyperfocusing on these files, and even going so far as to claim that the real material movements of the bourgeoisie are a "distraction" from the theatre (!!) is completely misunderstanding politics, taking politics to be the spectacle and not the real movement of the real machinery of the state. What is the Trump administration actually doing? It's pushing for yet another imperialist war, this time on Venezuela; it's continuing Israeli colonial efforts in Palestine; it's pushing increasingly militarised ICE and other federal agents into US cities in order to brutalise immigrants and even just anyone who looks non-white at this point. What are the Democrats doing? The best they've been able to do about this is to is temporarily take away SNAP benefits from 42 million people who depend on it while also ensuring that ATC and other critical services fail to pay their workers in a failed attempt to get Trump to capitulate on demands he was never going to capitulate on using a lever which doesn't actually move him. This is where real politics can be found - in the movement of money and the deployment of troops - not in a exciting fanfare which has the affect of reducing politics to a spectator sport where you are encouraged to engage through posting on social media and speculating about which politician you hate is the biggest pedophile. If you're someone in the USA and you want to take politics seriously, if you want to produce change, you need to understand this and find how you personally are best able to enter into real material politics - get organised, agitate around the idea of a general strike which could actually bring the US economy to its knees, confront the enemy where you are truly being attacked. This, not yelling at the cinema screen hoping to convince the actors to change their actions, is how you change the world. Power is with the people when they are organised and militant.

[sadwettennaintherain]

RIP Susie/Noelle’s seven year streak as the most popular Deltarune ship on AO3, dethroned a little over three months after Spamton spoke to another man onscreen lmao

[absolutelyunsupervised]

Not the people defending the spamtenna ship in comments cuz they are bosses ;o;

Noelle and Susie are PLAYABLE CHARACTERS, Susie is literally one of the protagonists of the story!

You can easily miss majority of the spamton content!

[pocket-deer-belly]

i think in a world where the political right is aggressively trying to portray all trans women as pedophile invaders, making it your job as a trans person to hunt down trans women who you personally believe to be dangerous (based on, let's be real, information gathered through stalking campaigns from people who have nothing but malicious intent) makes you also a fascist

[txttletale]

inscryption is a really interesting game in that its twists and framing device make it radically worse

[txttletale]

"this video game is actually a HAUNTED VIDEO GAME" works fine as an escalation. it works fine when the game presents itself as innocuous because it raises the stakes. but going from "a serial killer is keeping you prisoner in the woods and making you pull your teeth out and play magic the gathering" to "actually this is a HAUNTED VIDEO GAME" is a massive deflation of any stakes or tension

[absolutelyunsupervised]

I really hated the moments with recordings of just some dude playing the game.

The setting was all there! The mood, the mystery, the horror was all perfect without the fucking card collector dude schtick.

[arabian-batboy]

Contact your country's officials to protect those who have been kidnapped: https://globalsumudflotilla.org/contact-officials/

Find a protest near you here: X, X, X, X & X

Donate or join Palestine action here: PALESTINE ACTION

A collections of GoFundMe links: https://gazafunds.com/all

Donate eSIMS cards: X, X

Donate to food distributors: X, X, X, X, X, X & X

[absolutelyunsupervised]

Whenever the topic of "do i trust cis people" comes up, I comeback to the memory of when i was attending group therapy with around 10 cis people who I had decent contact with.

And then one day during that group therapy, that whole group turned to me, said they dont believe what i've been saying during the group, that i'm lying and exaggerating and trans people don't have it bad at all in my country.

You know, Im not wary of cis people bc I've been told I shouldn't trust them.

It's just that almost every time I did decide to trust them, they pulled some bullshit like this

[deadelated]

Beautiful

[deadelated]

That rust and oil doesn't come off just ignore it

[deadelated]

You can use peanut butter for things other than putting your dick in?

[effemimaniac]

[absolutelyunsupervised]

Depending on the level of rust, it might be hard to clean off even with steel wool.

I'd suggest mixing baking soda with lemon juice to clean rust - it makes a mild acid that handles rust incredibly well.

[fortunatelychaoticphantom]

I swear to fucking god. I would claw out OneDrive from my computer if I could. I would burn down their servers if I could. I would run down their stocks to the ground if I could. I hope every single one of their workers gets a better offer from a competitor in the next 24 hours. I hope every single one of their light bulbs explodes at the same time. I hope every single carton of milk in their fridge will always be expired.

Stop backing up my fucking files.

Stop asking me to back up my fucking files.

Stop taking my fucking files off my fucking computer.

I don't want a fucking reminder in three fucking days. Let me fucking say no.

Fuckers.

[prismatic-bell]

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Go forth. Be free.

[girlzero]

i had a fever dream about hrt gummies

[tip me im broke lol]

[synthy-naiyah]

"Do you wish your vacheena was a peeNis or geegnis is vagengi. Want big boober or tiddied explode of [reverberating] fuck."

"Introducing H R T. Destosteroast. Estrager. Whendsforiain't forya."

[datadegroove-deactivated2026042]

fuck 4chan

fuck twitter

fuck reddit

fuck tumblr

and fuck you

[punksalmons]

the thing about writing is that it's very hard unless you have to leave the house in 15 minutes or perhaps go to bed

[archivezinc]

i think far too many people have only seen this video as that one sped up gif version of it and that is a crime that needs to be fixed because this video actually changed my life

[longhorned]

“they’re going to use this as an excuse to escalate” mfers im BEGGING you to study history. Open a book. They have a plan. They will either use the inevitable occurrences within a deeply broken society as justification to move forward or, if that doesn’t happen on their timeline, they will create their own justification. Open any right wing thought leader’s writings and you will find they are literally politicking on a platform of extermination of the other. “Never ever retaliate” will not fucking stop them from progressing towards this goal. Tell me how well sitting quietly and holding tight and blaming anyone but the fascists demanding extermination themselves worked for anyone else under fascism

[longhorned]

Also fuck you they’re kidnapping and torturing people and sending them to random countries RIGHT NOW. Just because they haven’t escalated against YOU yet doesn’t mean they haven’t escalated into the fucking Gestapo for others already.

[dogpuppy]

Good Morning