Endless, Nameless, by Adam Cadre Average member rating: (53 ratings) 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: (105 ratings) 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.... |
Finding Martin, by G.K. Wennstrom Average member rating: (10 ratings) Venture past the limits of ordinary reality as you investigate the mysterious disappearance of an old friend. In order to solve the most challenging of these puzzles, you will need to cooperate with yourself... |
For a Change, by Dan Schmidt Average member rating: (115 ratings) "The sun has gone. It must be brought. You have a rock." [--blurb from Competition '99] |
Guess the Verb!, by Leonard Richardson Average member rating: (28 ratings) "Now you too can GUESS THE VERB for fun and prizes! Read evocative and amusing room descriptions while manipulating interesting objects! Interact with the simulated motives and desires of quirky NPCs! No... |
Gun Mute, by C.E.J. Pacian Average member rating: (152 ratings) Step into the shoes of Mute Lawton, a lone cowboy who must stop an execution set to occur at noon by shooting his way past dangerous cyborgs and mutants in a post-apocalyptic western setting. (From the... |
Hadean Lands, by Andrew Plotkin Average member rating: (66 ratings) Marooned in an alien, airless wasteland -- your starship fractured -- your crewmates missing. Can an apprentice alchemist learn how to survive? |
Hoist Sail for the Heliopause and Home, by Andrew Plotkin Average member rating: (84 ratings) A far-future story of discovery. |
Human Errors, by Katherine Morayati Average member rating: (19 ratings) A contractor assigned to handle bug reports for a wearable mood-regulation device becomes unwitting witness to trauma and crime. |
Insight, by Jon Ingold Average member rating: (27 ratings) |
Jigsaw, by Graham Nelson Average member rating: (84 ratings) New Year's Eve, 1999, a quarter to midnight and where else to be but Century Park! Fireworks cascade across the sky, your stomach rumbles uneasily, music and lasers howl across the parkland... Not exactly... |
The Kuolema, by Ben Jackson Average member rating: (16 ratings) An abandoned vessel is found, lost and adrift in the South China Sea. Its radio is silent, there's no sign of anyone on board. Your task: find out what happened, what cargo it was carrying and if it really... |
LASH -- Local Asynchronous Satellite Hookup, by Paul O'Brian Average member rating: (41 ratings) In this historical drama and treasure hunt set in 2062, you have rented a robot called a MULE that you can control remotely to salvage artifacts from an abandoned irradiated plantation near Macon, Georgia.... |
Leather Goddesses of Phobos, by Steve Meretzky Average member rating: (70 ratings) And now... the next exciting episode of humanoids in space! How did you, a regular at Joe's Bar in Upper Sandusky, Ohio, end up on a Martian moon? Can you prevent the hideous space creature from abducting... |
Lime Ergot, by Caleb Wilson (as Rust Blight) Average member rating: (82 ratings) Now everyone is gone. (Well, almost everyone.) Entry in ECTOCOMP 2014. |
Lord Bellwater's Secret, by Sam Gordon Average member rating: (71 ratings) |
Lost Pig, by Admiral Jota Average member rating: (492 ratings) Pig lost! Boss say that it Grunk fault. Say Grunk forget about closing gate. Maybe boss right. Grunk not remember forgetting, but maybe Grunk just forget. -- IFComp 2007 blurb |
The Lurking Horror, by Dave Lebling Average member rating: (92 ratings) A winter night at the G.U.E. tech campus with most students away on vacation serves as the backdrop for this tale of Lovecraftian horror. |
Mentula Macanus: Apocolocyntosis, by One of the Bruces and Drunken Bastard Average member rating: (33 ratings) Stiffy Makane, or rather his ancestor Mentula Macanus, is here subjected to an increasingly-unlikely series of crudely sexual romps through the ancient world. It's sort of like the Satyricon, except not... |
The Meteor, the Stone and a Long Glass of Sherbet, by Graham Nelson (as Angela M. Horns) Average member rating: (51 ratings) Another day wasted as guest of the Empress, a wretchedly long tour of the breath-taking Boreal Falls, conducted as ever by the Lady Amilia. As if she weren't bad enough, an honour guard of soldiers, their... |