Games like WORDS

The Library of Forking Paths is a Borgesian book remixer. It takes whatever source material you give it, combines all the words, and then creates new titles and stories. At present, most of it doesn't make sense...but it's eerie and delightful when sentences do start to coalesce! Here's a list of source literature in this web build: Selections from the Mahabharata (a Sanskrit epic)the Theogony (…

Chapter 4 of Scout: An Apocalypse Story has been released! You have found the  People Across the Orange Plains. What will you do now? This story is at about 60,000+  words thus far. I am planning for it to be 10 chapters, 100,000+ words upon completion (probably closer to 150,000 at this point).  Next chapter? I'm estimating about one month. If you follow me on Tumblr, you'll know that my personal…

- A Story Where Your Choices Count - The Synopsis Sinkcity is a withering metropolis built on a textile landfill torn by rebellion and savage rat politics. An insurgence group plans to oust the king while noble houses compete for his approval.  The story follows Ronnie Rocket, a runaway prince turned smuggler. After a heist goes wrong, the young rat is rescued by an unlikely ally, a cat. After se…

The Aetherhollow Archive is a steampunk romance soaked in a gallon of magic. It is set in Summersmead, the fictional empire from the book you are sucked into.  Four hundred years after the Chosen One failed to save their world, you find yourself in the shoes of the presumed, and freshly murdered, villain of the story - ostentatiously called Sovereign. You embark on a journey to unfold the mysteri…

Story The year is 2021—or maybe 1602? Hamlet the Younger has just tragically died and Fortinbras the Younger, King of Norway and newly-conquered Denmark, has a lot of cleaning up to do. Elsinore: After Hamlet is an interactive fiction exploration of William Shakespeare's Hamlet as a plague text and a reckoning of Asian American identity during these trying times. Also contains bad puns and glowin…

Break blocks. Free words. Create poems. A new take on interactive fiction.My development report, which goes into the working process and thoughts on the game, can be found at: https://johanholmdevlog.wordpress.com/category/gam704/?order=asc

Life is unpredictable. You have just been to your first party, with hope for a different, better, and more social future, but instead of waking up with a hangover, you wake up 13 months of coma later, severely ill and with no chance to build the life you wanted to live. Confined at home, confined to the night by your medication, deprived of outside contact to keep stress away from you,…

94%Game Brain Score

story, emotional

gameplay, character development

98% User Score Based on 47 reviews

A short, emotional visual novel following a grieving man who relives memories of days long gone. An exploration of loss presented honestly and kinetically.

47%Game Brain Score

story, monetization

grinding, graphics

73% User Score Based on 15 reviews

This game is a psychological horror VN set on a rural farm in middle-America. It is very short, taking only 15-20 minutes to read through once. It was made for the farmjam2024, and panic horror jam over the course of a month by a single person (myself). The theme of the game is really simple: What do you do when your memory seems to be unreliable, and not line up with what you can see in fro…

In a world ravaged by decay and despair, where civilization crumbles and hope fades, lies the enigma known only as The Great Apperance. Set in a post-apocalyptic dystopian future, two young men set out on a journey to find The Great Appearance which manifests itself inside mankind's mind. Story: In the aftermath of an apocalypse that left the world decaying, survivors live in small socie…