IFMachine
Play interactive fiction and classic text adventures, including Zork.
IFMachine is an interactive fiction player, bringing you the text adventures, old and new, that are the foundation of modern role-playing games. It comes with the complete Zork trilogy built in, and you can browse and download hundreds more freely available works from the interactive fiction community, then play them all on your phone with a reading-first interface built for touch.
- Includes the complete Zork I, II, and III trilogy, ready to play out of the box.
- Plays Z-machine and Glulx story files, the two most widely used interactive fiction formats.
- Browse and download hundreds more works to your library.
- An automatic map which updates as you explore, with search and auto-navigation to rooms you have visited.
- Mapping works in Z-code games and many popular Glulx games, and IFMachine can learn to map games it has not seen.
- Read stories aloud for audiobook-style listening.
- Customizable tap controls. Common commands are one tap away.
- A clean, reading-focused interface with adjustable text.
- Retro terminal and modern reading themes.
- Save and restore your progress at any point.
- Optional cloud save to your own Google Drive, so you can pick up where you left off across devices.
Interactive fiction has a decades-long history and a thriving modern community publishing new works every year. IFMachine is built to play them on the device in your pocket.
What's new in 1.4.0
- Rooms with dynamic names now appear on the map.
- Mapping follows you through more games.
- The save dialog lists your saves, so tapping one replaces it.
- Room descriptions appear on first entry in Glulx games.
- Improved text styling in Glulx and Z-code games.
- Lower battery use while a game waits at a prompt.
- Bug fixes.