What is interactive fiction?

Interactive fiction is a story you play by making choices or typing commands, where your input changes what happens next. It covers a broad family: classic parser games where you type 'go north' or 'take lamp', choice-based stories where you click options, and hybrids of the two. The common thread is that the reader is also a participant, steering the narrative rather than just following it. Interactive fiction has roots in 1970s text adventures and stayed alive through a dedicated community that still releases new work every year, much of it free. Modern tools make it approachable without programming. If you want to try building a branching, choice-based story, Dungeon Mastron's Visual Builder is one no-code way in.