I'm not completely sure it's what you're looking, but I read this Gamasutra article: https://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/293928/How_Episode_became_the_worlds_bi

I'm not completely sure it's what you're looking, but I read this Gamasutra article: https://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/293928/How_Episode_became_the_worlds_biggest_interactive_fiction_platform.php https://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/293928/How_Episode_becam.... I think it was linked somewhere on dampfkraft.com. There are also all the Interactive Fiction type games, they have been discussed here before (for example https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19643668 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19643668) and there are some on Steam.