Text Fiction Alternatives

Text Fiction is described as 'With interactive fiction novels you're more than just a passive book reader, following the adventures of the hero. Instead, you become the hero! Explore the world, make decissions and ultimately decide on the outcome' and is an game in the games category. There are more than 10 games similar to Text Fiction for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Web-based and Android apps. The best Text Fiction alternative is MUME, which is free. Other Text Fiction like games are Mudlet, Windows Frotz, TinTin++ and Gargoyle IF Player.

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  1. MUME icon
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    MUME, Multi-Users in Middle-earth, is a multiplayer text-based online game based upon J. R. R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth during the epic war between the forces of the Dark Lord and the armies of the Free peoples.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Windows
     
    • MUME is the most popular Web-based, Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Text Fiction.

    • MUME is the most popular free alternative to Text Fiction.

    • MUME is Free and ProprietaryText Fiction is Free and Open Source
  2. Mudlet icon
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    Mudlet is a freshly-minted MUD client, designed to take mudding to a new level.

    It’s a new breed of a client on the MUD scene – with an intuitive user interface, a specially designed scripting framework, and a very fast text display. Add to that cross-platform capability, an ope.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
    • Mudlet is the most popular Open Source alternative to Text Fiction.

    • Mudlet is Free and Open SourceText Fiction is also Free and Open Source
    • Mudlet is Customizable and LightweightText Fiction is not according to our users
  3. Windows Frotz is an interpreter that can play all the old Infocom text adventures. Infocom used a novel approach to write their games: they had a system that produced a data file for the adventure that was the same on every computer, and an interpreter for every computer that...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  4. TinTin++ icon
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    TinTin++, aka tt++, is a free MUD client for Mac OS X, Linux, and Windows. The Windows port named WinTin++ (using the PuTTY derived mintty terminal) is available for those who do not use Cygwin (A Linux/Unix emulator for Windows) and runs on Windows Xp, Windows Vista, and...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  5. Gargoyle is an IF player that supports all the major interactive fiction formats.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  6. BlowTorch icon
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    BlowTorch is a basic telnet client that supports the following features that people find helpful for playing MUDs.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Android
     
    • BlowTorch is the most popular Android alternative to Text Fiction.

    • BlowTorch is Free and ProprietaryText Fiction is Free and Open Source
  7. Lectrote icon
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    A portable Interactive Fiction games interpreter application.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Electron / Atom Shell
     
  8. CMUD icon
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    Are you tired of the constant grind of the graphical MMO games? Tired of paying monthly subscription fees? Try playing one of the hundreds of free text-based adventure games on the Internet using CMUD: The fastest and most versatile MUD client from the creator of zMUD.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
    • CMUD is the most popular commercial alternative to Text Fiction.

    • CMUD is Paid and ProprietaryText Fiction is Free and Open Source
  9. Create and play interactive fiction on your Android phone or tablet. Also known as text adventures, interactive books, playable novels, z-machine, glulx, tads, terps.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Android
     
  10. dMagnetic icon
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    "You wake up on a sunny August morning with birds singing, and the air fresh and clear. However, your joints are stiff and you have not woken up in your bedroom as you would have expected. Trying to recall what happened the night before, you manage to piece together a few...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • FreeBSD
    • AmigaOS
    • NetBSD
    • OpenBSD
     
  11. Windows Git is an interpreter for Glulx games. Windows Git consists of a core interpreter called Git, and an input/output library, called Windows Glk. Together these two components form the Windows Git package, which has been created by David Kinder.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  12. 32-bit MUD/telnet client, supporting ANSI color, macros, triggers, scripting in LUA, built-in timers, MXP and MCCP support. MUSHclient is user friendly, and quite a powerful MU* client.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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