Fallen London is a browser-based choose-your-own-adventure game set in "Fallen London", an alternative Victorian London with gothic overtones. Forty years ago, London was stolen by bats. Discover a dark and hilarious Gothic underworld where Hell is close, immortality is cheap, and the screaming has largely stopped... Welcome. Delicious friend.
AdventureFantasyHorrorHistoricalchoose your own adventuredigital distributionWeb browser
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Character
Contemplative, richly built and open-ended.
- contemplativerelentless
- sparerichly built
- resolvedopen-ended
- contemporarynostalgic
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the game
- Platforms
- Web browser
- Developer
- Failbetter Games
- Publisher
- Failbetter Games
- Released
- October 1, 2009
- Modes
- Single player
- Perspective
- Text
- Engine
- StoryNexus
IGDB rating 8.4/10 from 7 ratings.
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