Interactive fiction where your choices shape the story
Play free browser-based adventures, or write and share your own without installing anything. Telling Tales combines readable story files with a capable editor, branching game logic, instant testing, and private links for sharing work in progress.
Play instantly
Open an adventure in your browser with no download. Make choices, manage inventory, save your progress, and discover different endings.
Write in the browser
Create readable .game files with page folding, search, autocomplete, multiple files, images, and custom CSS—all in one editor.
Build living stories
Use choices, conditions, variables, characters, inventory, item exchanges, combat, automatic transitions, and multiple endings.
Write. Validate. Play. Share.
See the story formatCatch problems early
Validate the whole project before playing. Clear, clickable messages take you directly to broken links, invalid instructions, and unreferenced pages.
Test and share immediately
Launch the current draft from the editor, then create a private test link so friends can play it safely in Demo mode.
Keep full control
Split large stories into chapter files, upload artwork and styles, download the complete game as a ZIP, and keep drafts private to your account.
Latest tales
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Book and text adventure formats.
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Download the Windows console player with the built-in games, then play or write stories from a terminal without a browser.