Text Adventure Literacy Jam is an annual event that encourages authors to write text adventures (or parser-based interactive fiction) suitable for beginners to the genre. The games must include a tutorial at the start of the game. This is one of the aspects that makes this competition unique. This is the 5th year that the competition has been running and the winning submissions are elligible for some very generous prizes.

The games submitted to Text Adventure Literacy Jam 2025 are now available for playing and judging. All games are free to play for the duration of the judging period, which started yesterday and finishes on 31 May 2025.

7 games were submitted this year. There are some top quality games amongst them, so join in the fun! Everyone that likes text adventures should play and rate these games. If you've never heard of text adventures or never played a text adventure, then these games were designed for you. Give them a go!