StoryNexus worlds will shut down on 27th January 2026

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As forums stalwarts, I expect some of you will remember StoryNexus!

StoryNexus was our attempt to offer interactive fiction writers a tool for making stories like Fallen London. It didn’t pan out the way we had hoped, and 12 years ago we put StoryNexus into maintenance mode. Now, the time has finally come: on 27th January next year, or shortly afterwards, StoryNexus worlds will go offline.

We’ve kept the small number of playable StoryNexus worlds available as long as we felt we could. Sometimes that has meant quietly doing various sorts of maintenance, but even so, it’s slowly degraded over the years – both as browsers and other online infrastructure changed around it, and because of downstream effects from work we do on Fallen London, the codebase for which StoryNexus is tightly bound to.

Alongside that, people no longer play StoryNexus games very often. Earlier this year, a bug appeared that prevented most people playing them at all, and it took two months for anyone to tell us. We fixed it, but it was at that point we decided it was time to let things go.

Thank you to everyone who made and played a StoryNexus game down the years.

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Is there somewhere with a full list of the currently-active worlds? I’d like the chance to give some a spin before they’re gone, but I actually don’t know how to find any of them except for the Silver Tree.

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The old directory is still there, you could try and see which ones still work:

http://www.storynexus.com/sd

There’s also this thread linked on my profile. And this post.

I knew this had to happen at some point and actually expected it to happen a lot sooner. Still, 27th January 2026 will be a sad day for me. :cry:

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