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24 alternatives to Escape & Avenge
An Unconventional Text Adventure
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Escape & Avenge launched in 2018; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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It's a web app that uses AI to turn any book into a playable text adventure. Your favorite book, but your choices, hence your story. You can even "remix" the genre like playing Dune as a noir detective story. Note: Work in progress. Suggestions are welcome.
2025 · kathaaverse.com · its alternatives →
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SmartHome is a free, browser-based game written in vanilla JavaScript and no libraries. I don't want to spoil anything about the gameplay, but if you like text adventures, point-and-click adventure games, puzzle games, escape room games, art games, incremental games, cozy games, and/or RPGs, then this might be your speed. If you find it too hard and don't mind some mild spoilers, then check out the hints page: https://smarthome.steviep.xyz/help Enjoy!
2024 · smarthome.steviep.xyz · its alternatives →
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Hi all, I'm excited to share Eonfall with Hacker News Community! It's been 2-years in the making built by a 2 man team. Eonfall, is a new third-person co-op action game with rogue-lite elements built exclusively for the web! We've finally reached a release candidate state and set our official public release date for Jan 15th! The game's current version 5.0.0-beta is live and available to test play today! Unity game engine was used to develop the game along with other services to handle the backend, and Nuxt 3 + Nuxt UI to handle the front-end. We welcome any and all questions, feedback &…
2024 · eonfall.com · its alternatives →
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2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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_Dimity Jones In Puzzle Castle: An Electronic Escape Novel in Eighty-Nine Ciphertexts_ is a (mostly) fictional story, contained in a single text file, that requires the reader to solve puzzles as they go along, and to use each chapter's solution as a key to decipher the next. Think: escape room in the form of a novel. A computer, and rudimentary coding skills in a language of your choice, will be indispensable for performing the transformations -- and might help with the solving too! My wife, the author, passed away five years ago. This is not the last thing she wrote, but it is the most…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Blank is a unique escape room, text based adventure game
2021 · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, Endless Adventure is a DOS-style text adventure game that lets you explore any story you can imagine. It should feel like it came from an alternate universe where we developed LLMs in the 80s. No login needed so you should just stop reading this and go play with it yourself! I’ve poured a lot of love into both the UI and the storytelling engine that powers it. Everything looks simple, but behind the scenes there is a lot of work to keep context, move the story forward, and maintain state for things that are never explicitly exposed (e.g. inventory, karma, quests, NPCs, etc). I…
Sep 2025 · endlessadventure.com · its alternatives →
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An experimental retro game based on CSS Grid Layout
2018 · its alternatives →
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First level is entirely browser based. Second level runs inside claude cli and you build a real skill and agent to stay alive in an adrift spaceship
Aug 2026 · meridian-claude.dogeared.dev · its alternatives →
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There’s a whole new set of dumb characters
2015 · its alternatives →
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2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi everybody. I occasionally make little browser-based games, and this is my latest attempt. It's not quite done, but it's quite playable (note: it does include audio): https://www.omiword.com/ This has been my occasional tinker target for ~5 years now, starting in the early days of Covid. The objective is to drag letter tiles within certain boundaries to spell four common American-English words. It hasn't got ads or anything, it's just supposed to be fun for its own sake. If people happen to like it, I might add an option for folks to make a small, one-time payment to unlock…
2025 · omiword.com · its alternatives →
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VIM Adventures is an online game based on VIM
2022 · vim-adventures.com · its alternatives →
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