Open-source Visual Basic interactive-fiction concept demo with a sentence parser and complete Visual Basic source code in case anyone wants to riff off this. Didn't want to throw it in the garbage. The engine is called TARS (Text adventure RPG system). The game is called Beached. Let me know if anyone wants to keep working on this old-ass program I made years ago.
Link: https://blancaster45.itch.io/beached-demo