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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.

Dream of Silence Update: Act 1, Patch 1

• Fixed error where punching Godey sometimes leads to a blank screen. Please continue to punch Godey.
• You now have to have seen the mouse before you can tell Astarion about the mouse.
• Clerics and paladins can now pray for help before resting. It does about as much as one might expect.

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Act 2 is now playable.

Dream of Silence Update: Act 2, Patch 1

• Fixed error where you can be trapped eternally talking about the teddy bear. That's a different nightmare.
• Druids with high Speech can now purr.
• Added a different sound effect that plays when you achieve one of the 'Dark' feats.

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Act 3 is done. This is now a complete game.

Act 3, Patch 1 Notes

• Combined all acts into one seamless game.
• Separated game into three difficulties.
• Made Reverie considerably easier.
• Made Dream slightly easier.
• Added warnings that more explicitly link health loss to leaving Astarion entirely alone.
• Sight 3 now lets you get a sense of how comfortable Astarion is touching you, which is distinct from how much he trusts you.
• Credited Carla.

Y’all know that I’m into ancient Roman history and I do a lot of research on it but even though I should be used to it by now sometimes I read an anecdote about how an individual slave was treated and I’m hit with the realization that like a third of the population was living like that and I just need to put my head in my hands for a second

Emperor Hadrian randomly stabbed a slave in the eye in a fit of rage and he was supposedly unusually sympathetic to slaves.

There’s other instances of people randomly punching slaves that they didn’t even know because they got in their way or something. This was just normal behavior.

And slaves didn’t rebel en masse because if even one slave committed an act of violent rebellion it was common practice to kill every slave and former slave in the household.

People only took notice for posterity when these mass executions got into the hundreds of people. One of the few recorded for the history books is of over 400 people being killed because one guy stabbed his enslaver.

Like how many people throughout history were beaten to death because some rich asshole was angry and there was no legal or social consequences for doing so? We don’t know.

When you study ancient history you’re reminded that slavery has never once been kind or justified. It just takes on different forms of evil in every time and place that it infects.

Lurking under this is also the fact that most Roman mining operations were done by slaves in conditions that were far more brutal than those of household slaves, to the point that sending a slave to the mines is a threat I’ve read leveraged multiple times in separate texts

also Rome’s slavery is considered chattel slavery.

The Twilight Zone: Our episode "A Slot Machine Chases You Around Physically" was meant as a cautionary tale about the predatory nature of the gambling industry

The Gambling Industry: We've invented the slot machine that chases you around physically from The Twilight Zone episode "A Slot Machine Chases You Around Physically"

That’s a real episode, for anyone who didn’t know.

"Iggy Pop and I were a couple of very naughty boys who went to Berlin to learn how to be good. Or was I watching the Travel Channel?"

-David Bowie, VH1 StoryTellers, Intro for 'China Girl'

oh my god i can feel the effect…

great news guys I just started a rebellion 👍 thanks for all the support, wish me luck defeating xiang yu!

new dynasty new me 😎

GUESS WHOSE GOLDEN AAAAAAGE

STOP REBLOGGING THIS SEDITIOUS POST YOU TRAITOROUS TRAITORS!!!!! THIS IS AN ORDER!!!!!

if this gets to 3k i'll bribe an itinerant scholar into writing anonymous slash fic

NO THE FUCK YOU WILL NOT!!!!!!

4K and liu bang tops

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wooo ya boy's getting paid tonight!!!!

what do you mean by this, social media intern? his royal highness has made it clear this is an unpaid position.

;O_O i mean i have grown rich in patriotism and legal knowledge under bixia's most illustrious tutelage.

maybe if we get this to enough notes @strike-the-zither will arrange the slashfic as a ballad and immortalize it in song