John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progreſs (1678)

"Would’st thou be in a dream, and yet not sleep?"

A text-based interactive fiction from John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progreſs (1678, 1684).

Optional game features to personalize your dream(s)

• Assign Names to >100 personas along the way
• Collect ~500 hidden text from the Book
• Recall 40+ songs by the pilgrims in Journal
• Rename 40+ places as they Progress

Credits

• John Bunyan, author
• Christian Classics Ethereal Library, source text
• Type Help by William Rous, inspiration on 3rd-person investigative reading
• CSS effects
  • Progress Bar by Mike Aparicio (@peruvianidol)
  • Simple CSS Waves by Goodkatz (@goodkatz)
  • Octocat Sprite Swimming in the Ocean with CSS by Cody Pearce (@codypearce)
• SugarCube by Thomas M. Edwards (@thomasmedwards), story format
• Twine, Interactive Fiction Technology Foundation, game engine

 Alternatively, you might explore the same story in other formats, notable examples:

• The Pilgrim's Progress Game (2024) by Elvio Lujan on Steam
  
• The Pilgrim's Progress animated film (2019) by RevelationMedia 
• The Pilgrim's Progress graphic novel (2011, 2021) by Stephen T. Moore