What is interactive fiction?
Interactive fiction (IF) is a narrative format where the reader makes choices that shape the story. The earliest examples — text adventures from the 1970s and 80s — gave you typed commands ('go north', 'open door'). Modern AI-driven interactive fiction uses large language models so you can type anything and the character responds in real prose. The defining trait is agency without authorship: you're not the writer of the whole story, but what you say shapes where the scene goes. Reverie is built around this format.
How Reverie fits in
Reverie is a Telegram-native AI character chat platform — same category as the platform described above, but with a curated cast (8+ characters), persistent memory across days and weeks, and zero signup friction. Read the full Reverie overview →.