Text Adventure Games You Play in Your Browser
A text adventure is a game told in words: the story describes a scene, you decide what to do, and the next scene answers. Every Wimbook book works this way in your browser. Each scene ends with three moves you can pick, or you can type a move of your own, and Chapter I of every book is free with no account and no download.
These are story-first text games rather than puzzle games: you play the main character of an illustrated novel in romance, romantasy, mystery, fantasy or sci-fi, the characters remember what you did, and the ending is written from the path you took.
Read Chapter I free
Engaged to the Man Who Should Be Dead
You remember him falling tonight. He's alive, wearing the twin of your ring. At dawn, the Queen announces your engagement.
Your Spells Heal the Enemy Prince
He is the prince of the kingdom you swore to hate. In forty-nine days the seventh trial needs one victor, or the truce breaks.
Ghostwritten Fiancée
The hockey captain dictates chapter nine as fact: your engagement, your ring, your street. The publisher prints it in thirty days.
Treaty Bride
You drafted every clause of the peace treaty except the one that makes you the bride. Signing is in twenty days.
Every Witness You Hide Gets Found
Four witnesses you relocated this year were found within a week, and only your files knew where. Your last one testifies in thirty days.
Forty Days Under Siege
The army at your gate flies your family's banner. Relief rides in forty days, if your walls and your people hold that long.
Clone Governor
You wake after twenty years. Your face is on every poster. You never ran for anything.
Pawned Heart
A jar of love in your vault has your name on it. The man who pawned it has no idea who you are.
The Spring Heir Is Hiding in Your Icehouse
Two hundred days of winter. The only warm thing in the city hides in your icehouse.
I cured the vampire
Four hundred years undead. One sleeping draught. Now his heart beats, and he has fifty days.
Make her happy, djinn
A dead man's last wish sends a weary djinn to your stall: he chose to keep it, and the bargain ends the day you are happy.
Miracles from a dead god
You find the god dead in his crypt. Upstairs, the bells ring for a fresh miracle.
Beastqueen
Every monster in the kingdom bows to you. Your guild wants to know why. So do you.
Your spell predates you
Your best spell is a month old. Someone carved it a thousand years ago. In your hand.
Sir Aldric Enlists Again
He fights with your secret move. He has the statue's face. He wants to know who broke the vow.
Woken Forty Years Early
You wake forty years early on the Meridian. The only other person awake says he has been alone for forty years.
The flood was someone's wish
The man who won the last wish hasn't aged a day. That wish drowned your street. Now he wants to hire your boat.
The Missing Critic's Ghostwriter
For eight years you wrote her reviews in secret. Now she's gone, and the chef she ruined is at your door.
The Proposal Crossword
Half of Baltimore is solving your proposal. You never wrote it.
The Warlord Sweeps Floors
The general who burned your valley chose his penance: three years sweeping your floors. He can leave any morning. If he does, his soldiers stand trial.
Fifth Passenger
Four tourists board at dawn. You never look away. You land with five.
Two Rivals Below
They say your mentor is dead. His rope says someone wanted him that way. You and your rival go down to find out.
Her last two apprentices
She picked two apprentices. She told each of you a different story about the fire.
Arson Homecoming
The barn fire was no accident. The state inspector wants your brother. The man who left you wants you off the case.
The Poison Gardener, Poisoned
You know four hundred poisons by heart. The one killing you isn't one of them. Fourteen days to name it.
Fireworks feud
Your families haven't spoken since 1976. Now you share one show, one barge, and a shell someone cut.
Don't take that mural down
Eight musicians on a famous wall. A ninth under the paint. Take it down, and she's gone for good.
Twenty Contenders, One Prince, No King
Twenty contenders, forty days, one prince who watches you. The wire says his father is dead. He still toasts him.
Only you hear the downed airship
The papers say they are all dead. At 4 a.m. your headphones say six men are alive.
The avalanche man lies
You dig a stranger out of the snow. Everything he says is a lie. That night, someone cuts the only wire to the valley.
My dead sister is racing today under another name
Your sister died in an avalanche three years ago. This morning she is on the start list for Norway.
The suspect sees your ghost
Only the man in cell four can hear you, and the police say he pushed you off Pier Nine.
Pirates Included
The pirates were still in the hold when you bought the ship, and by their code you are their captain now.
Scanned the Wolf, Found the Man
The chip you put in a wounded wolf last night beeps in a stranger's shoulder. Hunting season opens in fourteen days.
Every Witch Lost Her Magic, and You Have It
At dawn the whole city's magic is in your hands, and the strongest warlock in Boston wants his share back by the new moon.
Three Gentlemen Swear They Were the Man on the Terrace
By breakfast all of London knows about the masked kiss, and three gentlemen wait in your parlor, each swearing he was the man in the mask.
Your Bodyguard Has a Second Contract
Your bodyguard has saved you twice this week. Tonight you find the other contract in his jacket, signed before you met.
The academy mourns you
Your face hangs on the conservatory's memorial wall, and the man who survived that winter walked out when he saw you.
The Tenth Astronaut
The shuttle home seats nine. There are ten of you, and two men answer to the engineer's name.
Lost princess, found by rival
The prince to be crowned in thirty days rows to your ferry landing to tell you the crown was always yours.
Robbed as written
The museum was robbed exactly as your unpublished chapter one describes. Chapter two puts the night guard in the river.
Juror Seven Is Next
Each morning one fewer juror comes down to breakfast, and tonight the note under your door names you.
Counterfeit Countess
You married the earl in your runaway mistress's veil, and he knew at once. On the full moon you learn why she ran.
The vampire college admits its first human
Every student at the night college is a vampire but you, and your guide is the heir who voted to keep you out. Forty nights.
You Woke Up Married to the Rival Alchemist
You wake on the lab floor wearing your rival's ring. A working gone wrong took the night, and neither of you remembers the wedding.
Treasure, Published
Grandpa's secret treasure map is on every front page in Scotland, and two hundred cars are racing you into the glen.
Witches upstairs
Your great-aunt's will leaves you five lodgers the law calls criminals. On Hogmanay, New Year's Eve, the census man knocks on every door, yours included.
The Queenmaker
Seven royals ahead of you fell in one night to secrets the spymaster swears are true. Now he kneels and calls you Majesty.
Guess the fae's name
You can trace any family back four hundred years. The fae you must name by Samhain has no family on any record.
Ex-husband, back from the alien ship
Five years ago he left you for the alien ship without a word. It sent him home, and it wants one more guest.
Text Adventure Games You Play in Your Browser: questions and answers
Do I have to type commands like in Zork?
No. You can play every scene by picking one of three moves. Typing your own move is there when none of the options fit, and you can write it in plain words.
Is this the same as a CYOA?
Close. A CYOA story branches on a few choices; a text adventure lets you act in your own words. Wimbook does both: three choices in every scene, or your own typed move.
Are these stories free to read?
Yes, Chapter I of every book is free, with no account and nothing to download. The chapters after it are written live around your choices and come with a plan.
How do the choices work?
Every scene ends with three moves you can pick. You can also type your own move, and the next scene is written around it. The characters remember what you did.