Mainland had been approved on Steam Greenlight (I think due to longevity — it had been on there a while) and has just appeared on the service.
Click here to go to the Steam main page
Note that the “parser” is somewhat hybridized. You type a verb you want to use and the initial letters you type are used to generate suggestions that you can click (essentially like texting).
However, to finalize picking a verb you have to click, you can’t just type. The space bar does nothing.
After clicking a noun, there’s an option to continue using “with” or to simply enter the command.
Despite the oddities, this is good news for followers of commercial interactive fiction. Steam opens a vast new audience for text adventures. The game is free-to-play and should gather curious people that might normally not buy it.
At the time of this writing there’s a weird bug that makes the game hard to install. If you have the Steam service installed, clicking here should do the trick. (NOTE: The game is Windows-only.)
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