All Things Devours

Play:

Full screen Touch: Tap the game to bring up your keyboard, type a command (X DESK, UP, SET TIMER) and press Enter. Everything is typed, so it plays on a phone but is comfier with a real keyboard. · Keyboard: Type commands and press Enter. Up and Down arrows recall earlier commands. SAVE and RESTORE keep your progress in this browser.

About:

You have broken into a research facility to destroy a prototype time machine before it can be used. Then you use it. A tight, clockwork time-travel puzzle in which every earlier version of you is still walking the corridors, and running into yourself is fatal. Short, hard and brilliantly constructed; expect to restart and save often, it says so itself. Type ABOUT first. Released by its author into the public domain.

Credits:

Made by half sick of shadows (Toby Ord), 2004. Published here under the Public domain (game); Parchment interpreter MIT licence. Source code.

Phone check: 2026-09-29

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Tags:

interactive-fiction · text-adventure · parser · puzzle · time-travel