Warning: Improbable Island contains rancid midget brothels in addition to other silly (but mature) situations, and is best suited to equally silly grown-ups. Parental discretion is advised.
Returning players, come on in!
Oh, hello!
Improbable Island is a text-based MMORPG based around the concept of a machine that generates Improbability, or Improbable Matter, which is neither particle nor wave. Since the machine has gone crazy and started to generate Improbability in highly improbable ways, it must be stopped before it turns the world into a lemon. That's where you come in!
Since conventional warfare tactics are useless against abstract concepts such as drugs, terrorism or Improbability, government agencies devised new ways of dealing with the problem. Accordingly, you are kidnapped from your home and forced to participate in the Improbable Island Reality TV show! Your prize for destroying the Improbability Drive and ending the War On Improbability will be your freedom to return home!
Improbable Island was born out of a desire for a free browser-based MMORPG with a sense of humour. There are scads of browser-based MMORPG's out there on the Internet, but most take themselves terribly seriously. Improbable Island, on the other hand, is thoroughly ridiculous and proud of it.
We already have many contestants signed up and playing, and you should totally be the next one. Come and join in the fun!
Click here to enter The Island!
...still not convinced? Did I mention that Improbable Island contains Evil Midgets? Spiderkitties? Dali the Four-Clawed Lobster?
How about mad scientists? Do you like mad scientists? Or delicious beer? Cigarettes? We've got cigarettes. We've also got genetically-engineered bulldozers, ghosts, six-sided dice that throw sevens, Scientologists, and fetid midget brothels.
Any of those appeal to you?
Oh, I almost forgot - we've got weapons! Lots and lots of weapons! If you like ridiculously over-the-top weaponry, we've got great big guns that fire angry cats. If you're terminally insane, we've also got Chainsaw-Chuks. If you like to defy the laws of physics, we've got a cannon that'll throw a miniature sun at your opponent, complete with gravity well.
We've also got tons of armour, from Hello Kitty pyjamas and bunny slippers to sealed, servo-assisted encounter suits.
Come on, tell me that doesn't sound like good times!
Click here to enter The Island!
...are you still waiting for something? Well, once you've played through as a human, other races open up for you to play with, some of whom completely change the way the game is played. Here are some of them:
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...and there are other races too, that will open up later on. So you can see, Interesting Times are to be had!
Click here to enter The Island!
...what, you want more? Did I tell you it's free? I should probably tell you that it's free.
I also didn't mention that there are competitive and co-operative play options, that you can form clans with fellow contestants, that you can play on a mobile device without too many problems, that there's a thriving community of freaks, weirdos and bored office workers waiting to embrace you.
Nor did I mention that you can have an implant embedded into your skull to give you Special Powers, or that there are currently seven independant cities in which to explore, chat and fight. I should have mentioned that.
Surely that's enough to persuade you to Enter The Island?
...okay. Well, Improbable Island runs on a game engine called Legend of the Green Dragon, which is distributed under a Creative Commons license. This means that the game is constantly being added to and expanded upon, with new stuff to find all the time! It also means that if you've played any other games based on this engine, you'll know how to play straight away - but don't go fooling yourself into thinking that Improbable Island is the same as any other LOGD server, oh no!
If you're familiar with LOGD, you'll probably be familiar with the concept of a "Total Translation" or a "Total Conversion." Well, that's what Improbable Island is. A complete translation of the LOGD game system to include all our post-apocalyptic silliness.
What, you're still reading this? Well, this is the end of the page. There are literally many reasons to play Improbable Island, but to tell you the rest would be giving away the surprise.
Join us. You might enjoy it.