Silverworld

Silverworld is a 560,000-word, text-based time-travel fantasy novel in which your choices shape the story. You were guarding a laboratory when a treacherous power crippled Doctor Sabbatine’s time machine, leaving you stranded in a world of trackless jungles, colossal beasts and cruel pre-human civilizations. You must survive the past to protect the future, but you can also plunder it and return home rich—or build a civilization of your own. The game has no graphics or sound effects; it relies on your imagination.

Stranded in Silverworld

The locals may have betrayed you to appease their enemies, while the empress back home has ordered you to plunder the new world. Your friend survived the crash but was infected by the jungle and transformed into something inhuman. Meanwhile, the expedition’s chief adviser has imprisoned the Icons—architects of the universe and masters of time—and fled to build a civilization of his own.

You can try to rebuild Doctor Sabbatine’s time machine and return home, but protecting your timeline may come at a cost. After leading Silverworld’s people, you may not want to leave. The story also reveals the secret history of Doctor Sabbatine and her robot helpers.

Shape your civilization

You can carve out a Stone Age nation, use modern technology to survive or abandon it and go native. You decide whether to protect the past from exploitation or be the first to profit from it. Choose how to face challenges, using threats or charm, overt violence or subtle tricks.

Choose your path

You can play as male, female or nonbinary, and as straight, gay, bi or ace. Across the story, you can befriend, betray and romance robots, invincible warriors and bee women from the Crystal Plains. You can also confront the False Icon by fighting it, surrendering to its will or trying to trick it into granting your heart’s desire, and choose whether to free the Icons—the creators of the universe—or enslave them for your own ends.

Perils of the past

Silverworld’s dangers include giant lizards, renegade airships, feathered apes and the volcano fortress of the snake people.