Text-Based Interactive Stories
Unearth a universe of stories, worlds of fantasy, and realms of science fiction through interactive, text-based stories, each with its own flavour. Would you find magic or alchemy? Would you choose revenge or forgiveness? Which path will you take?
Unearthed Stories offers text-based, interactive, speculative fiction (fantasy and sci-fi) for adult readers – imagine ebooks but with choices.
Read thought-provoking stories with thematic work. You’ll read once, and end up mulling over them for hours. Would you have chosen differently?
This is a library in your hand – each story is standalone and unique, and you’ll find something for almost every mood reader.
And the best thing? We keep unearthing new stories and new chapters periodically!
Some of our favourite stories include:
Dance With Me. In a world of beauty, a ceramic-made ballerina awakens atop her music box enchanted with elven magic. She dances for her owners, until one day she falls and her ceramic fractures—but the ballerina stands and dances again, until the ballet becomes her sole purpose and jailer. Should the ballet go on? This is a dark fantasy exploring the confines of depression and emotional abuse.
Mien. Strezia is in distress, and their nobles request political assistance from The Orders. They send Mien, an untried alchemist from a cohort known as Chimeras. Can Strezia be helped, or is it doomed by its corruption? This is a morally-grey, political-philosophical story set in a fantasy world where the unescapable biases of perception taint all decisions and memories.
Restorers. The Cybers are robots tasked to protect, preserve, and restore the physical world around them. They follow specific Values, which narrow their options to ensure compliance. When a new mission arrives, XB-12 must decide whether to perform its duty as a Cyber, or apply its newly acquired will to infer a different path of action. This is a far-future sci-fi story discussing knowledge as an enabler of choice.
Herald. The inhabitants of Nol’ireh live at peace, ignoring that the undeads, unrelenting academics with an unlife of education, are plotting something that could threaten the world’s stability. A flawless, purrfect grey-furred feline working as a Herald for Nol’ireh’s Council, is tasked to stay undercover and inform the Council of the undeads' ploys. The universe depends on him! This is a low-stakes, cozy fantasy story where cats' seemingly unreasonable actions seem to make sense.
You can read Unearthed Stories reviews on the Interactive Fiction Database (ifdb.org)
You can listen to BookTuber Varsha (from Reading by the Rainy Mountain) review Unearthed Stories, followed by an interview of our writer, Livia J. Elliot, with Susana Imaginario (author of Wyrd Gods).
Here is a review of Unearthed Stories by Angela (from the BookTube channel Do Unicorns Dream?):
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SFF writer, born and raised in Argentina, and now living in Australia. An avid reader and gamer since young, her passion for books evolved through the years. She begun writing in the 2000s in a self-published blog (now defunct), and resumed years later in Australia with the intention to self-publish. Her favourite books are "1984" and "Farenheit 451".
Mexican architect, born in Huatabampo, and now living in Hermosillo, Sonora. From an early age he showed interest in drawing and the arts in general, he was always a very dreamy and lonely child who preferred to spend time discovering the world around him through books. He graduated with an Architecture degree at the University of Sonora, and currently works as a freelance artist.
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