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Text Adventures & Interactive Sagas
The Deep Road
Text Adventure · Est. 1976 · Ninth Night Edition
The game that invented the genre, rebuilt for its fiftieth year. Descend into the legendary cave system, outwit the dwarves, learn the magic words, and carry out all the treasure you can hold. Every original puzzle intact. Three hundred and fifty points waiting. Your lamp is burning.
Enter the Cave ›The Six-Episode Saga
Varg Sigridsson was born a thrall in Rogaland and should have died one. Instead he is outlawed, and an outlaw must keep walking. Six episodes carry him from the Hafrsfjord Thing to the law-stone in Vestfold, and every silence along the way costs as much as every word. Play them in order.
Rogaland · Hafrsfjord
A thrall-born boy learns whose blood he carries — and the Thing at Hafrsfjord names him outlaw for it.
Begin ›The Outlaw's Road
No hall will take him, no law will hold him. The wolf-road is the only road left, and it does not run gently.
Continue ›Eastward
The road coils east, past oath-friends who turn and enemies who do not. Every bargain here has a second edge.
Continue ›Gold & Oath
A hall of gold, a table set, a lord who smiles. Varg has learned what such welcome usually costs.
Continue ›The Open Sea
South across the whale-road, further from home than any man of Rogaland has reason to go — and further from any law that might protect him.
Continue ›Vestfold · The Law-Stone
The jarl's silver was false, and there are witnesses. At the law-stone in Vestfold every debt is finally counted — including his.
Finish it ›The Star-Road
The old kingdoms took their oaths, their hall-rites and their long ships up into the dark — and the conquest followed them there. Three episodes of spearpoint politics at the edge of settled space, where a lord's word still binds and a shield-wall still holds, even between stars.
Text Adventure
The first landing. Oaths sworn under an unfamiliar sun, and a claim that someone older intends to contest.
Begin ›Text Adventure
The conquest arrives in force. Hold the line, or bend the knee and learn what bending costs.
Continue ›Text Adventure · 3D Minigames
Ambush in the dark between worlds, and blades drawn in the arena. The reckoning comes with steel in hand.
Continue ›The Northern Road
Wind-age, wolf-age, before the world goes down. It begins in a Minnesota October, in a house at the end of a gravel road — with a boy named Erik who would rather be reading than hunting, and something out past the treeline that has been waiting for the old winter to come back. The first night he holds the door. The second, the dark comes for what the door was keeping. Play them in order.
Parser · Illustrated
The duck opener takes your father and the dog out before dawn, and the house is yours until dusk. Then the wind turns, the dark comes down early, and the woods stop sounding like woods.
Begin ›Parser · Illustrated
Your father’s truck comes up the road at dusk, too late. Maren is already past the treeline, and the thing that marks its own is choosing tonight. Beat the rescue clock, or learn what the mark is for.
Continue ›More roads are being written
New sagas, expeditions, and explorations will appear in this hall