u r meme-staken

im in otome hell and im doing dumb shit here. requests are.... closed... but like,, asks are open? call me Tree!! she/they, 30-something, works night shift PST likes and follows from @treenostalgia

[xiaomikome]

Hanahaki disease 🥀

You can now get a print of this illustration on my Inprnt shop linked in my bio :)

[sunsetagain]

"Fiend" and "Evil Mage"

[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.

[pianta]

rafayearning

★ bsky | ko-fi | ig | prints ★

[krebkrebkreb]

love and deepspace is so funny in a ton of ways, not the least of which being that it’s an angst game full of angst with a huge helping of angst on top masquerading as a romance game

and this angst romance game has wacky characters like:

🐠 merman sea god who is an artist with flame powers for some reason. his symbol is not a fish but a duck. there is a section of the story where he goes into heat. canonical billionaire. also a serial revenge killer.

❄️ accomplished heart surgeon with ice powers who is trapped in a cycle of multiverse-spanning reincarnations. mc’s childhood friend and also her doctor. blatantly the horniest of the lot but you wouldn’t know it because he has never shown anyone an emotion ever.

💫 centuries old immortal space prince. literally an alien. got stuck in the past after attempting wormhole travel and has been bopping around earth until mc is born. mc’s monster-fighting coworker and upstairs neighbor. secretly batman.

🐦‍⬛ dangerous crime boss. also an alien, probably. also a dragon whose soul is bound to mc’s. once made mc shoot him in the heart to prove his immortality. wife guy in a “he supports women’s wrongs” way.

🍎 cyborg military commander with gravity powers. flies space planes. was killed in an explosion but got better. a narrative representation of the biblical eve. diagnosed mentally/emotionally unwell. wife guy in a “he is the wife” way.

and. like. originally i was going to say only a sentence about each of them but i could not pick just one of the many, many unhinged things about the tiny men who live in my phone.

absolutely batshit insane game. hilarious.

i have cried probably a dozen times while playing it.

[threadbearsweater-archive-deact]

Phone sex operator Sylus, except you pay him to whisper dirty fantasies to you along the lines of:

"I took out the trash and put a new bag in the bin."

"Your laundry is folded and put away. Go put your feet up and have a glass of wine. You deserve it."

"Filled up your gas tank and washed your car."

"I called your boss and told him you're taking time off tomorrow. Rest up...you'll need it when I get there."

[comatosebunny09-deactivated2025]

I love you so much. This would be so funny to watch come to life. 😂😂😂 The confusion in his voice when you ask him to recite those very specific lines. He becomes so used to your calls, he starts talking to you like you’re married, actually looking forward to a breakup in the sex talk. I’m squeezing you with hugs rn.

[threadbearsweater-archive-deact]

"It's me."

You hear his sigh of relief when he realizes it's you. As much as he'd fain to admit it, he's grown fond of these conversations and can almost set his watch to the frequent predictability of your calls.

"Did you take a nap like a good girl?" he asks in that deep, rich baritone. Your toes curl against the carpet and you sink further back against your couch, closing your eyes.

"Just like you said." Already, you feel loose, relaxed. High on his voice. Your head is light. Your smile is easy and slow.

"I'm proud of you." He inhales through his nose, and you imagine him there with you, his face in the crown of your head, his arm around your shoulders. You have no idea what he looks like, but your imagination fills in the blanks. You know he's tall. You would bet money that he's broad and stylish and has impeccable taste.

Or maybe that's wishful thinking.

"Tell me about your day," he says. If you didn't know any better, you'd think him genuinely interested in your mundane little life. You tell him; you lean into your couch and close your eyes, listening to him breathe in the silences. He asks relevant questions (almost like he's really listening). He graces you with a laugh when you tell him about a particularly tough client. He praises your efforts to get organized and cook a balanced meal for yourself.

He reminds you that you have two paid minutes left.

"Check your email," he says. "And make sure you get to bed early. A good night's sleep is more important than you think, kitten."

Your face warms, your ears burn. Kitten? That's a new one. But you do as you're told and flip your laptop open before the call ends.

You have one new message.

It's a phone number. You gasp.

"Call that number in two hours," he says.

Before you can ask what you already know is true, the automated voice interrupts to tell you that your paid time is up and your call will be disconnected.

You stare at your laptop screen, still holding your phone to your ear.

Two hours.

[z-nth]

this is where i bury my wallet...

[mistake-memessenger]

Sylus is akin to Gomez Addams to me

[em-109]

Do you ever go about your day and everything is great, or at the very least well enough, and your mind starts drifts to Sylus telling MC, “I wish for you to always live freely and brilliantly”

and while already such a great line on its own, you suddenly realize how much harder it hits now that we know that when Sylus finally found MC again- after searching for her for so long, crossing space itself to get to her- it was only to see her being locked in a chamber suffering through death again and again and again.

And so then you just stand there as this line suddenly takes on such a deeper meaning and you have to act like everything is okay?

Or is that just me?

[leighsartworks216]

Ahhhhhhh dragon sylus !!!!! 🖤 🖤 🖤 🖤 🖤 🖤 🖤 🖤 🖤 🖤 🖤 🖤 🖤 🖤 🖤

I love him so much 🖤 🖤 🖤 and I love how you write him 🖤🖤🖤🖤

Hope you have a fantastic day ✨ ✨ ✨ (definitely made mine, better I'm gonna go reread that 🥰🥰🥰)

I just have big feelings 🥺

Having to learn how dragon's show affection first because he's so much more intense about his care even in the subtle ways

Dragon Sylus giving you big game that he just caught like a cat bringing you a mouse; plopping it in front of you so proud and wagging his tail as he waits for your reaction. So confused/disgruntled when you don't react the way he expects. He catches an even bigger animal to you, but that makes things worse. Confusedly offers you a tiny rabbit he caught like??? Maybe no like big things?? You have to explain that you like gifts, and you appreciate the gesture, but uhhh dead animals isn't really... your thing (even as/for food). He doesn't bring you a gift for a few days, just studying you, watching you peter around his hoard to figure out what things you do like. Next time he gifts you something, it's an item, like a book or jewelry or clothes. Makes it his mission to collect the things you like most from then on, even if he doesn't fully understand it, because it makes his mate happy

Dragon Sylus doing that like male lion plop thing they do. Finding you laying down and just plopping on top of you with an oomph, full body weight and all. Feels really bad if he hurts you. Next time, does it really gently, landing mostly right next to you

Leaving little bites on your skin isn't so bad, actually. They're already small and dainty, but he may leave one too many in one spot that irritates your skin or makes you sore. He loves biting your neck and shoulders and will pout if he makes them too sore so he can't bite them anymore

Can't preen your wings so he preens your hair instead. Gently detangles and brushes through it with his fingers. Hates that he can't do it if you have really thick or curly hair, without hurting you anyway. Will try to learn hairstyles if you show him, but with his claws, that may not work out

Licks your cheek when he's happy or deeply affectionate. Doesn't understand why you make a face at it. Probably the hardest change to make once he learns about kissing. Using his lips isn't his default - using his teeth and tongue are. So sometimes you'll be cuddled up with him for bed, his wings wrapped around you, and he'll lick your forehead or cheek or neck. Sometimes he does it repeatedly, too, like he's grooming you. Especially after a workout or sex, he wants to taste your skin

Nuzzling is the best one, by far. Imagine this big, scary dragon man coming toward you just to nuzzle his nose against your cheek with a purr. Sighing in contentment when he can just bow his head and meet your forehead with his, rubbing against you. You're gone for a little too long and when you get back, he's rubbing all over you to mark you with his scent again. Your hands on his face instantly get nuzzled. If you kiss his cheek, he's leaning into you to nuzzle you. Get nuzzled idiot

[mistake-memessenger]

was thinkin abt Sylus LADS and feeling some FEELINGS about him on my way home from work this morning

like

hold on a minute

this man is. your soulmate. by choice (or by my understanding at least - do not take this as fact bc i am a terribly fallible creature and i can and will get things wrong lol). your souls are bound to each other’s on purpose. he really chose you. he chose you oughhgdhh

he seems really aggressive when we first meet him in the main story line but then. BUT THEN with each subsequent side story he seems to get softer?? bc that’s what YOU have expressed you want from him. softer. more vulnerable. kinder. and by god he delivers

evidence? Sylus’ birthday event comes to mind and i know i’ve def seen this take elsewhere but i gotta say it too: he’s got a reputation for being dark and mysterious etc etc but as soon as you express interest in wanting to know licherally annnnyyyythinggg abt him he fesses up soooo fast. Luke and Kieran spend the whole month (happily and like the mischief- makers they are) celebrating each day as if it’s Sylus’ bday because if they do they’ll eventually get it right and that’s the point and it’s honestly so cute lol but THEN with you there? Sylus just tells you. straight up tells you the date. he’d give time of birth if he had that info on hand i bet

where was i going with this? idk i love Sylus so much y’all oh my god

he loves you

and MAN if you were like locked up “for your own good” or smth like “you’re a danger to yourself and others” Sylus is the kind of man who would look at you in your cage and immediately go “Absolutely not” and break you out so fast, hardly a thought bc so what if you’re a danger to him? he can handle it and he loves you. he loves you and to him that means your freedom, your happiness. he’d do anything you ask of him, anything your heart desires. even die for you, at your hands. only at your hands, even. he will only die if you kill him and he is your soulmate and he loves you

[twoandahalfstudios]

Arriving in the town of Willowmist, you run into a certain man in your aunt's store... maybe you'll be friends?

🌿 Run a store! Don't go broke! Help the locals! 🌿 Stats! Dice rolls! A talent tree! 🌿 3M/2F love interests! 🌿 Choose MC's name/pronouns/sprite! 🌿 Soooo much more oh my god send help

The Willowmist Emporium of Antiques & Curiosities on Steam

A cozy narrative shop sim where you move to the sleepy town of Willowmist to run your aunt’s antique store. Meet 5 charming love interests a

[onefernecito]

I love that they feel so strongly about this to the point it's an issue between them.

[arthoure]

I had a real Life Imitates Art hour with Viv's writer when she showed me this exchange before turning in the draft, and I went "Hahaha that's so perfect for the two of them, of course Vivienne loves fake chocolate" and she went "FAKE?? EXCUSE ME????" and we ended up having this exact argument again

[bastart13]

Love & Legends (Recreation) by Bast

Recreating Lovestruck Voltage's Love & Legends with new art

Love & Legends (Recreation) is live!

Available on Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android!

This is an unofficial recreation of Love & Legends from Lovestruck Voltage featuring unique art and GUI.

After a lightning strike, you're teleported to a fantasy world of knights, elves, fairies… and evil queens. And turns out you look just like the evil queen, the one killed three years prior. People in the world either want you in a dungeon or to restart war as their despotic overlord and you have to learn to navigate the world, chosing someone to stay by your side.

It's a visual novel/dating sim with seven unique routes, each with their first season fully available. The main character is a bisexual woman from Chicago with two female and five male love interests.

This has been such a fun project these past 2.5 months and I hope people will enjoy it, even if you haven't read the originals. I'll be updating things as we go for the next seasons and new characters.

[transparentgames]

Saintess of the Golden Bow by Transparent Games

I survive my death event in a web novel and steal the role of the savior from the main character

After four years of development, we're finally ready to show Transparent Games' first commercial project, "Saintess of the Golden Bow", to the public. The 1-hour-long demo is completely free to play and shows the beginning of Celeste's story as the Saintess of the Golden Bow.

"Saintess of the Golden Bow" is a project that's very close to my heart. I'm a huge fan of webtoons, especially "Villains are Destined to Die", "I Failed to Oust the Villain" and "Father I Don't Want This Marriage". I wanted to tell the story of a girl that is also a webtoon/webnovel fan, dreaming of what it would be like to be isakai-ed into a fantasy world and have hot guys fall in love with you. 

And she does! After a fateful encounter with Truck-kun, she gets reincarnated in the web novel she's a fan of - "Saint of the Golden Bow". Only that she's not anybody significant, she's just an extra in the main character's backstory - until she changes her new reality and it's her who becomes the Saintess. 

She steals the spotlight from Levi, the book's Saint. Soon she's thrown into going on a journey to defeat the Demon Queen with her Loyal Knight Levi, the Mad Prince Noah and the High Priest Elijah. Whom will she fall in love with?

I'd like to thank my whole team for being with me on my own journey of creating this visual novel. There's still a long road ahead of us - we want to develop the story into a 300k-word otome visual novel. If you want to support us, please subscribe to our patreon or back the kickstarter in the future!

On the Patreon we will be showing WIPs of art, exclusive illustrations and short stories. We also plan to, starting August, release Extended Demo builds first on patreon, and then to the public. We want to show the whole Common Route as an Extended Demo - so about 4 hours of gameplay.

I hope you'll have as much fun with the demo as we had making it. Saintess is really a labor of love, and I'm happy to share that love with you.

I wish everybody all the best,

Anna 'Lavinnia' Kończak

Transparent Games

[bestlaidplansproductions]

Thrilled to see another indie otome / rofan / isekai game in the making!

I enjoyed Celeste as a character and her interactions with Noah - the spoiled prince - are a great homage to an iconic moment from one of my favorite villainess manwha, Villains Must Die. So much fun and can't wait to see it develop further!

[dinoberrypress]

Customizing & marking your Masks in Little Wolves

In Little Wolves, players make physical changes to masks they wear during play.

These Marks represent trials they’ve overcome and favors they’ve done for The Forest's Queens and real, physical changes their characters undergo as a result, all in addition to counting as XP!

Marks come in many shapes, like antlers, leaves, runes, scars, little creatures, gems and more. Along with a mask template to help people make & customize their masks, we’re also creating mark templates that can be colored, cut, and glued in place.

Oh, and were designing vinyl sticker sheets with a wide range of marks you can easily stick on, too!

If you’d like to know more, follow Little Wolves on BackerKit and be ready for our crowdfunding campaign to launch May 14th!

Little Wolves: A Realm of Folk and Fae

From Dinoberry Press - Little Wolves: A Realm of Folk and Fae

[zhoras-bitch]

If you're missing Lovestruck on the second anniversary of the app going down, here are some wonderful links to indulge your nostalgia.

1. @ls-salvation-squad's YouTube Cannel with recordings of all Lovestruck stories, routes, shorts and specials. They also have Emily Verma's route from Queen's Gambit and some bits from Kisses & Curses (other Voltage US apps). More about the latter @searchingkissesandcurses.

2. Their itch.io page with a reconstruction of the Lovestruck app for Mac or PC, which has:

all seasons for all characters from Edge Case: Love's Pursuit and My Siren Crush

season 1 of Fiona Eichen's route from Wicked Lawless Love 

season 1 of Mackenzie Hunt's and Vanessa Helsing's routes from Havenfall is for Lovers

3. The itch.io of the phenomenal @beamycomet, who is working on their own version of the app too. Their version works for Mac, PC and Android and has:

all seasons of Helena Klein's route from Love and Legends

seasons 1-2 of Altea Bellerose's route from Love and Legends

season 1 of Reiner Wolfson's route from Love and Legends

all specials of all characters from My Siren Crush

season 1 of Lexi Sweetwater's route from My Siren Crush

Plus, they have some of these available in a version for web browsers, although they are not developing that one further.

If there are any other projects that I have not mentioned here, please reblog and tell me!