Type Your Fate

Type Your Fate is a text-based interactive fiction game set in an abandoned house. You use a command console to move between rooms, inspect objects and interact with items and events as you try to escape. An assassin is in the house and keeps chasing you, even when you stand still, so you must act quickly and quietly while choosing your actions carefully.

Investigate the house

Explore up to 17 rooms, find the numbers for the exit door’s code and uncover the house’s mysteries before the assassin catches you. Up to four different murderers may pursue you, and the main entrance code, the locations of hint devices and even the killer can change between runs. The house contains up to 68 interactive objects, alongside randomly generated trivia and math challenges.

Use the command console

You enter commands to move through rooms, check interactive objects and interact with key items or events. The game takes an old-school approach: it has no complex tutorials, and you cannot save, use a mouse or gamepad, or adjust the sound volume and difficulty outside the command line. After a Game Over, you start again from the beginning.

Customize the game

The multimedia resources are available for modification. You can change the assassin’s voice and face, sound effects, background music, rooms and room animations.