1893: A World's Fair Mystery, by Peter Nepstad Average member rating: ![]() A theft on the fairgrounds! Precious diamonds stolen from the Kimberly Diamond Mining Exhibit! An urgent telegram from your old partner arrives, requesting your help to solve the mystery. How can you refuse?... |
Adventurer's Consumer Guide, by Øyvind Thorsby Average member rating: ![]() |
All Roads, by Jon Ingold Average member rating: ![]() "Wave a circle round him thrice, And close your eyes with holy dread For he on honey-dew hath fed And drunk the milk of paradise." [--blurb from Competition Aught-One] |
Aotearoa, by Matt Wigdahl Average member rating: ![]() The Fish of Māui. The Land of the Long Cloud. Aotearoa. An entire continent of untamed wilds, and the last place on Earth where dinosaurs still roam. If only you'd come ashore under better circumstances... |
Babel, by Ian Finley Average member rating: ![]() In this game, you play as an amnesiac inside Babel, an abandoned Arctic facility devoted to biological research. You soon discover that you have the unusual ability to witness scenes from the past by... |
Bad Machine, by Dan Shiovitz Average member rating: ![]() |
Bigger Than You Think, by Andrew Plotkin Average member rating: ![]() Bigger Than You Think is a choice-based interactive narrative. This game was written for the Yuletide 2012 fanfic exchange. The game was inspired -- perhaps loosely -- by Randall Munroe's comic xkcd-1110:... |
Blue Lacuna, by Aaron A. Reed Average member rating: ![]() You have always been different. One in a trillion have your gift, your curse: to move between worlds, never settling, always alone. To Wayfare. Yet there are others like you, and something stronger than... |
Child's Play, by Stephen Granade Average member rating: ![]() It is playgroup day and playgroup day is normally a good day but ever since that little red-haired girl started coming she always wants your toys. She shouldn't get your toys. You tried telling the mom this... |
City of Secrets, by Emily Short Average member rating: ![]() |
Coloratura, by Lynnea Glasser Average member rating: ![]() Stolen away by apathetic Blind Ones, your only desire is to return to your Cellarium and the Song of the Universe. They should understand. You shall make them to understand. |
Counterfeit Monkey, by Emily Short Average member rating: ![]() Anglophone Atlantis has been an independent nation since an April day in 1822, when a well-aimed shot from their depluralizing cannon reduced the British colonizing fleet to one ship. Since then, Atlantis... |
Cry Wolf, by Clare Parker Average member rating: ![]() You are awoken, startled by a sound in the night. Still bleary from dreams, you turn on the light to chase away the shadows. But there, beyond the safety of your room, something moves in the darkness. It is... |
Cryptozookeeper, by Robb Sherwin Average member rating: ![]() Marrow is delicious but that's not why you're here. You're supposed to pick up a single jar of alien bone jelly, which of course can't exist and doesn't exist, so you've convinced yourself that transporting... |
Curses, by Graham Nelson Average member rating: ![]() "As "Curses" opens, you're hunting about in the attic of your family home, looking for a tatty old map of Paris (you're going on holiday tomorrow) and generally trying to avoid all the packing. Aunt Jemima... |
Dangerous Curves, by Irene Callaci Average member rating: ![]() |
Deadline, by Marc Blank Average member rating: ![]() Twelve hours to solve the mystery. One false move, and the killer strikes again. It's been called "part of the latest craze in home computing (TIME magazine), an "amazing feat of programming" (THE NEW YORK... |
Delightful Wallpaper, by Andrew Plotkin ('Edgar O. Weyrd') Average member rating: ![]() |
The Elysium Enigma, by Eric Eve Average member rating: ![]() It was meant to be a routine visit on behalf of the imperial government, just to remind the settlers that the Empire hadn't forgotten them, and if you stick rigidly to the letter of your orders and refuse to... |
Endless, Nameless, by Adam Cadre Average member rating: ![]() The first time I ever saw someone play a text adventure was in fifth grade. One of the sixth-graders didn't go to outdoor ed, and therefore spent the week in my fifth-grade classroom, playing Scott Adams's... |
Everybody Dies, by Jim Munroe Average member rating: ![]() It starts with a metalhead, Graham, realizing that throwing that shopping cart over the bridge was not the great idea he thought it was. Even if it did get him out of washroom duty at Cost Cutters.... |
For a Change, by Dan Schmidt Average member rating: ![]() "The sun has gone. It must be brought. You have a rock." [--blurb from Competition '99] |