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  1. Type - List of String, delimiter: ,
  2. Utility_description - Text
  3. Style - List of String, delimiter: ,
  4. Interpreter_app - Boolean
  5. Uses - List of Page, delimiter: ,
  6. Implements - List of String, delimiter: ,
  7. Format - List of String, delimiter: ,
  8. Developer - List of String, delimiter: ,
  9. System - List of String, delimiter: ,
  10. System_details - Text
  11. Version - String
  12. Date - Date
  13. Status - String
  14. Home_page - URL
  15. Download - URL
  16. Play_online - URL
  17. Picture - File
  18. Multimedia - Text
  19. License - String
  20. Notes - Text

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Page Type Utility description Style Interpreter app Uses Implements Format Developer System System details Version Date Status Home page Download Play online Picture Multimedia License Notes
(U)nix IF Development Server (edit) Utility Å-machine Glulx Z-code Fos1 Retro (u)nix command line shell account. 2024-09-06 Unavailable

URL

This site closed due to lack of interest.
6 day (edit) Authoring system Parser Gray Flannel Knight 1.27

URL

A-code (Dave Platt) (edit) Authoring system Parser Other Dave Platt Mike Arnautov Windows macOS Linux iOS Other A-code can be used on any platform supporting (a) command line and (b) an ANSI C compiler/linker. 12.86 2022-01-04 Stable

URL

URL

No multimedia as such, but browser builds can support games making use of all HTML capabilities, giving latent multimedia support. GPL3
AAS (edit) Authoring system Parser Other Roddy Ramieson Unavailable
ADLAN (edit) Authoring system Parser Other Richard Brooksby Amstrad CPC 4.5 1989 Stable

URL

URL

Adlan.jpg
Graphics (disk-based games)
ADRIFT (edit) Authoring system Parser ADRIFT 4 ADRIFT 5 HTML Campbell Wild Windows 5.0.36.4 2020-09-12 Stable

URL

URL

ADRIFT Runner (edit) Interpreter Yes ADRIFT 4 ADRIFT 5 Campbell Wild Windows 5.0 (Release 36) 2020-09-12 Stable

URL

URL

ADRIFT WebRunner (edit) Interpreter Yes ADRIFT 4 ADRIFT 5 Campbell Wild Browser 5.36.4 2020-09-12 Stable

URL

URL

Adv3lite (edit) Library TADS 3 TADS 3 Eric Eve 2.2 2025-03-01 Stable

URL

URL

MIT
Adventure (authoring system) (edit) Authoring system Parser Other Adrian Prantl Other Written in Prolog 2015-11-29 Unmaintained

URL

AGPL-3.0
Adventure Book (edit) Authoring system Choice Jon Ingold Windows
Adventure Builder System (edit) Authoring system Parser Other Tom D. Frost Sinclair ZX Spectrum Stable

URL

Usual ZX Spectrum graphics, sound & colour effects. Former Commercial
Adventure Definition Language (edit) Authoring system Parser Other Tim Brengle Ross Cunniff Windows Linux Commodore Amiga [Show] 2020 Release (still 1.0) 2020-09-25 Stable

URL

URL

ADL-2024-rebuild-Screenshot 2024-07-19-221524.png
No multimedia GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE, V2 (1992)
Adventure Prompt (edit) Authoring system Parser-choice hybrid HTML Felix Pleşoianu macOS Linux Other Made in Python; works anywhere a runtime is available. Unmaintained

URL

URL

No multimedia
Adventure.lua (edit) Authoring system Parser Other Shawn Dumas Other Written in Lua 2013-09-26 Unmaintained

URL

Unknown
Adventurescape (edit) Authoring system Parser BBC Micro/Acorn Electron N/A Unmaintained Games can be played on a BBC Emulator or the [[AScape]] interpreter
Adventuron (edit) Authoring system Parser HTML Chris Ainsley Browser 1.0.0 Beta 68k 2021 Beta

URL

URL

URL

Adventuron-classroom.jpg
Graphics, sound, some color effects
AdvSys (edit) Interpreter Authoring system AdvSys David Betz Windows macOS Linux MS-DOS Classic Mac OS Atari ST Commodore Amiga Macintosh (68k and PPC) 1.2

URL

URL

AGE (edit) Interpreter Authoring system Parser Other Al-Khwarizmi Other Both playing and authoring with the IDE require a Java Runtime Environment (JRE). 1.3.6 2017-03-04 Unmaintained

URL

URL

Colour effects, fonts, graphics, sound BSD
AGiliTy (edit) Interpreter AGT Robert Masenten David Kinder Windows macOS Linux MS-DOS Classic Mac OS Acorn Archimedes Commodore Amiga 1.1.2 2022-03-16 Stable

URL

GPL2
AGT (edit) Authoring system AGT David Malmberg Mark J. Welch Windows MS-DOS Classic Mac OS Atari ST Commodore Amiga 1.7 Stable

URL

URL

Freeware
Aimfiz (edit) Interpreter No Z-code Zzo38 Windows Unavailable GPL3+
Alan (edit) Authoring system Parser Alan 3 Thomas Nilsson Windows macOS Linux 3.0beta8 2021-09-21 Beta

URL

URL

image and sound
Alex (bot) (edit) Utility Chat bot for ifMUD Not applicable Dan Shiovitz Other System: ifMUD. Stable

URL

An Interactive Environment Engine (edit) Authoring system Parser Other Mark Damon Hughes Windows macOS Linux 0.3 2004-10-19 Unavailable

URL

URL

Format: Java
AndroidIF (edit) Interpreter No Glulx Android Unmaintained
Archetype (edit) Authoring system Parser acx Derek T. Jones Linux macOS Windows 3.0.0 2014 Stable

URL

URL

AScape (edit) Interpreter tautology0

URL

URL

Ashminster (edit) Interpreter Authoring system Parser Yes Other Roger Taylor James Byrne BBC Micro/Acorn Electron Amstrad CPC Commodore 64/128 Sinclair ZX Spectrum Graphics and sound Not available
AsyncGlk (edit) Library Glk GlkOte protocol Dannii Willis Browser Beta

URL

MIT
AXMA Story Maker (edit) Authoring system HTML Browser Windows macOS Linux

URL

URL

Babel (utility) (edit) Utility Read/manipulate Babel bibliographic data L. Ross Raszewski Andrew Plotkin 0.7 2024-10-16 Stable

URL

URL

Balladeer (edit) Authoring system Parser-choice hybrid Other tundish Windows macOS Linux Python library framework and Screenplay dialogue format 0.60.0 2025-02-08 Stable

URL

URL

Runs as a server; all web media supported. GNU General Public License v3.0
Bamboozle (edit) Utility Interactive text-mode Blorb manipulator Andrew Apted Windows macOS Linux 0.8.0 2024-12-13

URL

Bamboozle screenshot.png
MIT
Bas2inf (edit) Utility Translate BASIC to Inform 6 Johan Berntsson Bas2Inf is written in Ruby 1.8.2, and you need to install Ruby on your computer to be able to run the compiler Unmaintained

URL

Berzio (edit) Utility Compiler targeting Z-code Zzo38 Unavailable GNU GPL 3 or later version
Binksi (edit) Authoring system Other HTML Other candle Ju / smwhr PRINCESSINTERNETCAFÉ Browser 0.13.2 2023-06-16 Stable

URL

URL

ANTI-CAPITALIST SOFTWARE LICENSE (v 1.4) Format: JavaScript
Bisquixe (edit) Interpreter No Quixe Glulx Mathbrush Browser 1 2023-12-09 Beta

URL

URL

This interpreter supports color effects and css styling, as well as hyperlinks.
Bocfel (edit) Interpreter No Z-code Chris Spiegel Windows macOS Linux 2.2.3 2025-02-01 Stable

URL

URL

Color, sound, basic Z6 graphics MIT
Borogove (edit) Authoring system Parser Choice Å-machine Glulx Hugo Ink JSON Juhana Leinonen Browser

URL

Borogove is an online IDE for various IF languages.
Bunyon (edit) Interpreter ScottFree Stuart George Windows 0.3 2006 Unmaintained

URL

CellarDoor (edit) Interpreter No Frotz Git Glulx Z-code Other Unmaintained
ChoiceScript (edit) Authoring system Choice HTML Dan Fabulich Other 2024-04-04 Stable

URL

URL

Graphics: possible. Sound: ambient. Freeware Released: 2010.
CliFrotz (edit) Interpreter Yes Frotz Z-code Fangorn Other PalmOS 1.6 2005-03-24 Unmaintained

URL

URL

CliFrotz Shogun screenshot.jpg
V6 Graphics support, Hires font & colour support for OS5 and OS4 Clies
CocoaTADS (edit) Interpreter Charles Srstka macOS Original infobox said Mac OS X (10.5+). 0.3.4? Unmaintained
CocoaTADS_1893.png
Freeware Written in [[Objective-C]], [[C++]], [[C]].
Cornerstone (edit) Utility Relational database Infocom MS-DOS 1985 Unavailable
CPCZVM (edit) Interpreter Yes Z-code Kevin Thacker Amstrad CPC 2019

URL

Creative Adventure Toolkit (edit) Authoring system Philip Richmond
Cugel (edit) Interpreter ADRIFT 4 ADRIFT 5 AdvSys AGT Alan 2 Alan 3 Glulx Hugo Level 9 Magnetic Scrolls TADS 2 TADS 3 Z-code Tor Andersson macOS MacOS X (Cocoa) Unavailable Has been replaced by [[Spatterlight]].
Curveship-js (edit) Authoring system Nick Montfort 0.4.1 2021-09-22 Beta

URL

GPL3 See also [[Curveship-py]].
Curveship-py (edit) Authoring system Nick Montfort 0.6.01

URL

URL

ISC See also [[Curveship-js]].
Decker (edit) Authoring system Choice Not applicable John Earnest Browser Windows macOS Linux Other Instructions to build Decker for Linux and BSD available on Github: https://github.com/JohnEarnest/Decker 1.54 2025-03-21 Stable

URL

URL

URL

Decker logo.gif
Supports color effects, graphics, and sound effects. MIT
Dendry (edit) Authoring system Choice HTML I.D. Millington Browser Windows macOS Linux Games can run in the terminal or in the browser. Creating and compiling games requires node.js. 2024-03-25 Stable

URL

URL

URL

MIT
Dialog (edit) Authoring system Parser Choice Å-machine HTML Z-code Linus Åkesson Browser Windows Linux An online editor is available: see [[Borogove]]. 0m/03, library 0.46 2021-01-02 Stable

URL

URL

URL

graphics BSD-2-Clause
Discourse Frotz (edit) Interpreter No Frotz Z-code Robert Merefield Other System: Discourse forum. Stable

URL

URL

DMagnetic (edit) Interpreter Yes Magnetic Scrolls Thomas Dettbarn Browser Windows macOS Linux Android CP/M Other Anything with a C compiler; can be installed on Debian/Ubuntu using <code>sudo apt-get install dmagnetic</code>; works on Mac but only via Homebrew and Android but only via Termux. 0.37 2023-05-17 Stable

URL

URL

URL

Dmagnetic_verysmall.jpeg
Colour text effects: yes. Graphics: ANSI, ASCII, sixel, UTF-8. Sound: No. BSD 2-Clause. First released 14 April 2019.
Donjon FI (edit) Authoring system Parser HTML Jonathan Claes Browser 3.0 2024-11-17 Stable

URL

URL

Donjon512.png
It support different colors schemes and styles that can be changed during the game. You can add images, sounds and musics. MIT license
DreamPath (edit) Interpreter Authoring system Choice Unmaintained
Eamon (edit) Authoring system Parser Not applicable Donald Brown Windows macOS Linux Other

URL

Eamon splash screen.png
No multimedia
Elm Story (edit) Authoring system Parser-choice hybrid Not applicable ritsuke Leonardo Codamo Windows macOS Linux 0.7.0 2022-04-18 Unavailable

URL

URL

elm-story-0-7-interface.jpg
Currently supports images, sound and text formatting. Expanded customization is planned for v0.8; Summer 2022. https://elmstory.com/license/
ElseIFPlayer (edit) Interpreter Yes Emglken ADRIFT 4 Glulx Hugo TADS 2 TADS 3 Z-code He4eT Browser 0.2.0 2023-06-29 Stable

URL

URL

No multimedia MIT
Emglken (edit) Interpreter No Bocfel Git Glulxe Mjr-T3 Scare Hugo interpreter RemGlk-rs ADRIFT 4 Glulx Hugo TADS 2 TADS 3 Z-code Dannii Willis Browser Linux 0.7.0 2024-12-14 Stable

URL

Emglken in Parchment has full multimedia support, but in Lectrote only supports graphics MIT, some terps GPL-2.0
Emuera (edit) Interpreter Yes Other MinorShift Windows 1.824 2019-01-28 Unmaintained

URL

Color, Graphics zlib/libpng Runs loose EraBasic (ERB) code and CSV files
Encrusted (edit) Interpreter Yes Z-code Sterling DeMille Browser Windows Linux Non-browser version must be built from source with Rust/Cargo development environment 1.1.0 2019-02-25 Stable

URL

URL

URL

Encrusted-logo.png
MIT Z-machine version 3 only
Eramaker (edit) Interpreter Authoring system Parser Other Circle Baku Windows 2005-12-26 Unmaintained

URL

Dependent on Interpreter. The Base Eramaker interpreter does not support multimedia. Runs loose EraBasic (ERB) code and CSV files
Escenadil (edit) Authoring system 1.4.4

URL

Esclinux (edit) Utility Linux live-CD for IF Eric Forgeot Linux April 2009 Unavailable
Evergreen.ink (edit) Authoring system Choice Other Sean Beebe Rylan Schubkegel Jonathan Hays Manton Reece Ryan DeVore Browser iOS Android 1.1 2023-08-14 Stable

URL

Evergreen.png
graphics, sound
Fabularium (edit) Interpreter Yes ADRIFT 4 ADRIFT 5 AdvSys AGT Alan 2 Alan 3 Glulx Hugo Level 9 Magnetic Scrolls ScottFree TADS 2 TADS 3 Z-code Tim Cadogan-Cowper Android 1.4.1 2018-11-18 Unmaintained

URL

Colors, graphics See also [[Fabularium (F-Droid)]], a fork by David A Roberts.
Fabularium (F-Droid) (edit) Interpreter Yes ADRIFT 4 ADRIFT 5 AdvSys AGT Alan 2 Alan 3 Glulx Hugo Level 9 Magnetic Scrolls ScottFree TADS 2 TADS 3 Z-code David A Roberts Android 1.5.1 2025-01-11 Stable

URL

URL

Colors, graphics See also [[Fabularium]], the original app by Tim Cadogan-Cowper.
Filfre (edit) Interpreter No Glulx Z-code Jimmy Maher Windows 1.1.1 2013-01-24 Unmaintained

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URL

Fizmo (edit) Interpreter Z-code Christoph Ender Linux iOS 0.8.5 2017-09-10

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BSD
Flashonate (edit) Interpreter Z-code Peter Rogers Browser Flash Unavailable
Flaxo (edit) Interpreter Z-code Peter Mattsson Browser Flash Unavailable
Floyd (bot) (edit) Utility ifMUD interpreter bot Other System: ifMUD. Stable

URL

Folia (edit) Authoring system Choice Not applicable Axile Studio Alex McGivern Holly Boson Windows Linux 1.2.1 2023-08-31 Stable

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3c7knQ.png
Displays images in a dedicated pane, as well as background images, and supports image effects such as alpha blending. Sound is supported. Free for commercial use; the engine may be freely modified for non-commercial use, and for commercial use with permission. Based on Lua, allows the use of Lua code whenever needed.
FrankenDrift (edit) Interpreter Yes ADRIFT Runner ADRIFT 4 ADRIFT 5 Adrian Welcker Windows macOS Linux 0.7.0 2024-08-10 Stable

URL

Graphics, color MIT License
FRISE (edit) Authoring system Choice HTML Chris Pollett Browser Windows macOS Linux Other Games can be authored on any system that has a text editor that can save HTML files 1 2023-01-31

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URL

FriseGuy56.png
color effects, graphics, sound, video to the extent that HTML supports them Mozilla Public License 2.0
FrobTADS (edit) Interpreter Authoring system Parser TADS 2 TADS 3 Nikos Chantziaras macOS Linux Other The official release is source code only. On macOS and Linux, it can be easily installed through [https://brew.sh/ Homebrew]. Some Linux distributions also provide a package for it, but it can be outdated. Homebrew usually provides the latest version. See [[How to build FrobTADS on Mac OS X]]. 2.0 2021-05-09 Stable

URL

URL

FrobTADS_Linux.png
color effects
Frolg (edit) Utility Z-machine assembler Z-code Zzo38 1.4 2013-08-27 Unmaintained GPL3
Frotz (edit) Interpreter No Z-code David Griffith macOS Linux Other 2.55 2025-02-01 Stable

URL

URL

color effects GPL2+
Frotz for iOS (edit) Interpreter Yes Frotz Glulxe Git Mjr-T3 Glulx TADS 2 TADS 3 Z-code Craig Smith iOS 1.8.8 2023-09-24 Stable

URL

URL

Color, Graphics (No TADS multimedia support) GNU GPL-2.0
FrOz (edit) Interpreter No Malte Gabsdil Kristina Striegnitz Alexander Koller Unavailable The description on the wiki page is really vague but I've kept this in the interpreter category.
Fweep (edit) Interpreter Z-code Zzo38 Windows Other C source code and Win32 executable available 0.8.4 2013 Unmaintained

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Unsupported features include text formatting, fonts, colours, pictures, unicode, and sound effects. GNU GPL v3 or later version
FyreVM-dotnet (edit) Interpreter No Glulx Tara McGrew Windows+.NET 1.0 2015-02-05 Stable

URL

FyreVM-web (edit) Interpreter No Glulx Thilo Planz Browser 1.0 2016-10-18 Experimental

URL

GAGS (edit) Authoring system Mark J. Welch
GAME4.0 (edit) Interpreter Authoring system Parser Other David Goodenough CP/M 1990 No multimedia.
Gargoyle (edit) Interpreter Yes Alan Bocfel Git Glulxe Magnetic AdvSys Jacl Level9 Scare ScottFree AGiliTy Mjr-T3 Taylormade Plus Hugo interpreter ADRIFT 4 AdvSys AGT Alan 2 Alan 3 Glulx Hugo Level 9 Magnetic Scrolls ScottFree TADS 2 TADS 3 Z-code Tor Andersson Ben Cressey Chris Spiegel Windows macOS Linux 2023.1 2023-02-20 Stable

URL

URL

Gargoyle Photopia.png
Different for each game format GPL-2.0 Licence: [[GPL]] (front-end code), others (interpreters). [http://ccxvii.net/gargoyle Original Gargoyle homepage].
Geas (edit) Interpreter Quest Mark Tilford Windows macOS Linux 0.1

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Gelek (edit) Interpreter Level9 Level 9 Joan CiberSheep Linux Ubuntu Touch (GNU/Linux). 1.4.0 2021-03-11

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Gelek-About.jpg
GPL Written in: [[C++]], [[QML]], [[C]].
Gelek Vanilla (edit) Interpreter Yes ADRIFT 4 AdvSys AGT Alan 2 Alan 3 Glulx Hugo Level 9 Magnetic Scrolls ScottFree TADS 2 TADS 3 Z-code Joan CiberSheep Linux Ubuntu Touch (GNU/Linux). 3.1.0 2024-09-18 Stable

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URL

GelekVanilla-About.jpg
GNU GPL v2 Written in: [[C++]], [[QML]], [[C]].
Git (edit) Interpreter No Glulx Iain Merrick David Kinder Windows macOS Linux 1.3.8 2023-10-12 Stable

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URL

Color, graphics, and sound MIT
GlkOte (edit) Library Glk GlkOte protocol Andrew Plotkin Browser 2.3.6 2024-11-24 Stable

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MIT
Glulx-strings (edit) Utility Story file string extractor Glulx TADS 2 TADS 3 Z-code Jacques Frechet Browser v4.4.0 2019-09-14 Stable

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URL

MIT
Glulx-typescript (edit) Interpreter No Glulx Thilo Planz Browser 1.0 2016-10-18 Stable

URL

Glulxe (edit) Interpreter No Glulx Andrew Plotkin Windows Linux 0.6.1 2023-10-09 Stable

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MIT
GLUZMA (edit) Interpreter Z-code Zzo38 Other Runs in [[Glulx]] virtual machine

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Public domain
Gnusto (edit) Interpreter No Z-code Marnanel Thurman Atul Varma Dannii Willis Eric Liga Browser Unmaintained

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Graphic Adventure Creator (edit) Interpreter Authoring system Parser Other Sean Ellis BBC Micro/Acorn Electron Amstrad CPC Commodore 64/128 Sinclair ZX Spectrum Stable Line-and-fill images Commercial

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