> One existential problem for the genre is that you really need a physical keyboard -- while the awesome "80 Days" can get by with limited choices, anything par

> One existential problem for the genre is that you really need a physical keyboard -- while the awesome "80 Days" can get by with limited choices, anything parser-based really feels crummy on a smartphone or tablet. Some of the mobile interpreters try to address some of the keyboard issues - with frequently used verbs &c. as composable buttons. Though given the fairly short input of traditional interactive fiction I'm not sure why it should be much more of a problem than say texting (and indeed one of the mobile interpreters even has a text-message type layout for interaction). (See Text Fiction: https://textfiction.onyxbits.de/ https://textfiction.onyxbits.de/ )