Slouching Towards Bedlam

Tags:
interactive fictionsteampunkvictorianalternate-historyadventurehospitalfantasyvirusmental virusretro-futurism
Description (in English):

Slouching Towards Bedlam is an interactive fiction game that won the first place in the 2003 Interactive Fiction Competition. It [..] was finalist for eight 2003 XYZZY Awards, winning four: Best Game, Setting, Story, and Individual NPC (for the protagonist's cybernetic assistant, Triage). The game takes place in a steampunk Victorian era setting. Its title is inspired by a line from "The Second Coming", a poem by W.B. Yeats.
(Wikipedia)

Research Collection that references this work:

Title
Interactive Fiction 2019

Critical writing that references this work:

TitleAuthorYear
Command Lines: Aesthetics and Technique in Interactive Fiction and New MediaJeremy Douglass2007
The Gothic in Contemporary Interactive FictionsVan Leavenworth2010
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Star C. FosterDaniel Ravipinto