NOLA is Burning

NOLA is Burning is a text-based interactive noir thriller set in the underworld of New Orleans. Your boss, The Bull, the city’s most dangerous gangster, orders you to rescue your kidnapped lover before dawn. The lover is officially The Bull’s, but secretly yours. You move through the city’s criminal underbelly and kill anyone who gets in your way, including gangsters, cops and the Triad.

Choices and consequences

Your choices shape the story and your character. You can play as a man or a woman, and as straight or gay. You can try to outwit your enemies or fight them with a sawtooth, and pursue respect as NOLA’s most infamous headcrusher or retire to Mexico with a fortune. Death can happen, but it is not the end.

Deals and conflict

You can make deals with cops, a Voodoo priestess, the local Triad’s leader or a fallen priest. The story combines old-world magic and advanced technology in conflicts that reach beyond death.

Interactive fiction

The game contains more than 70,000 words of interactive fiction, with 15,000 words on each run. It is entirely text-based, with no graphics or sound effects.