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Browser incremental that turns into a text adventure. One page, no account.
https://adarkroom.doublespeakgames.com
Volume Flash portal from the Viacom years. Still a pile of short browser games.
https://www.addictinggames.com
Curated Flash / HTML5 house. Fancy Pants, War Games, the “quality portal” of that era.
https://armorgames.com
Infocom’s Hitchhiker in the browser. Official BBC 30th-anniversary edition.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/1g84m0sXpnjCc5e3S6DhsgQ/the-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-game-30th-anniversary-edition
The incrementer that ate a decade. One page, no install.
https://orteil.dashnet.org/cookieclicker
Zarfhome. IF, toys, the list, and the rest of the Plotkin shelf.
https://eblong.com/zarf
Offline archive of Flash and Shockwave games. Download the package, play the lab catalog.
https://flashpointarchive.org
Directory of incrementals and idle games. Skip if you only wanted Zarf; keep if the tab stays open.
https://www.incrementaldb.com
The IF card catalog. Reviews, tags, and “play online” links into Parchment.
https://ifdb.org
The nonprofit under IFDB, the Archive, and the interpreters.
https://iftechfoundation.org
Archived SWF collection. Play in the Archive player when the original host is gone.
https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_flash
Current WWW game bazaar. Filter by “HTML” or “interactive fiction” for tab-sized games.
https://itch.io
Later Flash portal. Achievements, badges, a lot of it still wrapped for a modern browser.
https://www.kongregate.com
Draw a line, sled down it. Original 2006 toy, still a web page.
https://www.linerider.com
Play a Z-machine or Glulx story in the tab. Drop a .z5 / .gblorb or follow an IFDB link.
https://iplayif.com
Flash emulator in Rust. What Newgrounds and the Archive use so the SWF still runs.
https://ruffle.rs
Zarf’s hypertext MMO. Browser rooms, shared pages, closer to a MOO than a canvas game.
https://seltani.net
Plotkin’s own games in the browser via Parchment / Quixe. Spider and Web, So Far, Shade. Complete stories, not demos.
https://eblong.com/zarf/if.html
Andrew Plotkin’s 1993–95 Mosaic-era list, frozen as it stood in April 1995. Most links are dead on purpose. This is the index card for WWW games.
https://eblong.com/zarf/zarfs-list.html
