Counterfeit Monkey

Play:

Full screen Touch: Tap the game to bring up your keyboard, type a command (LOOK, X ME, WAVE R-REMOVER AT PEAR) 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:

An island nation where linguistic manipulation is a technology: your R-remover turns a CARROT into a CAR TOT, a POOL into a POL... and you, two fugitive agents fused into one body after an illicit synthesis, need it to escape. A long, generous, endlessly inventive wordplay puzzle adventure; winner of the 2012 XYZZY Award for Best Game. There is a built-in tutorial and a hint system; type TUTORIAL OFF if you already know how parser games work. First load takes a few seconds (the game file is large).

Credits:

Made by Emily Short and others, 2012. Published here under the CC BY-SA 4.0 (game); Parchment interpreter MIT licence. Source code.

Phone check: 2026-09-29

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Tags:

interactive-fiction · text-adventure · parser · puzzle · wordplay