+ = x, by Chandler Groover Average member rating: (26 ratings) An equation is a language, which is a road to move information. All matter is information. Even a crust trimmed from a sandwich. Even a planet's crust, adrift in space, with its core blown. Those lights are... |
♥Magical Makeover♥, by S. Woodson zylla's rating: Average member rating: (67 ratings) "You hold in your hand a pink, heart-shaped card daubed in rosewater and oil of jasmine — an invitation to the Princess Philantha's Grand Equinox Ball. In gilded, sweeping, sweet-smelling calligraphy, the... |
69,105 Keys, by David Welbourn zylla's rating: Average member rating: (80 ratings) There's just one room. How hard can it be? Just unlock the door. Oh. There's 69,105 keys. |
9:05, by Adam Cadre zylla's rating: Average member rating: (544 ratings) The phone rings. Oh, no — how long have you been asleep? Sure, it was a tough night, but... This is bad. This is very bad. The phone rings. |
Aisle, by Sam Barlow zylla's rating: Average member rating: (326 ratings) "Late Thursday night. You've had a hard day and the last thing you need is this: shopping. Luckily, the place is pretty empty and you're progressing rapidly. On to the next aisle... Aisle started out as a... |
Alabaster, by John Cater, Rob Dubbin, Eric Eve, Elizabeth Heller, Jayzee, Kazuki Mishima, Sarah Morayati, Mark Musante, Emily Short, Adam Thornton, Ziv Wities Average member rating: (124 ratings) The Queen has told you to return with her heart in a box. Snow White has made you promise to make other arrangements. Now that you're alone in the forest, it's hard to know which of the two women to trust.... |
Bee, by Emily Short zylla's rating: Average member rating: (89 ratings) The story of a home-schooled girl preparing to compete in the national spelling bee, dealing with various small crises with family and friends, and gradually coming to terms with the clash of subcultures... |
Being There, by Jordan Magnuson zylla's rating: Average member rating: (14 ratings) Being There is an extremely experimental little work of interactive fiction with pictures, about existence and Korea. Only requires a few minutes to play through, but you are encouraged to take your time. |
Bell Park, Youth Detective, by Brendan Patrick Hennessy zylla's rating: Average member rating: (61 ratings) A headstrong twelve-year-old detective gets in over her head when she's hired to solve a murder mystery at an internet technology conference. |
Bigger Than You Think, by Andrew Plotkin Average member rating: (52 ratings) 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:... |
Birdland, by Brendan Patrick Hennessy zylla's rating: Average member rating: (173 ratings) Fourteen-year-old Bridget's summer camp experience takes a turn for the bizarre when her otherworldly bird dreams start bleeding into reality. |
The Blind House, by Amanda Allen zylla's rating: Average member rating: (38 ratings) I scarcely know the woman at my side. I don't even know why she was the one I turned to. I can only hope that we haven't been followed, that she won't ask too many questions. The only choice left to me now... |
Blue Lacuna, by Aaron A. Reed zylla's rating: Average member rating: (114 ratings) 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... |
Bogeyman, by Elizabeth Smyth Average member rating: (89 ratings) You can go home when you learn to be good. |
Bronze, by Emily Short zylla's rating: Average member rating: (290 ratings) When the seventh day comes and it is time for you to return to the castle in the forest, your sisters cling to your sleeves. |
Candlesmoke, by Caelyn Sandel and Carolyn VanEseltine zylla's rating: Average member rating: (25 ratings) Entry in EctoComp 2014. |
Conversations With My Mother, by Merritt Kopas Average member rating: (10 ratings) A brief game about family relationships, in which you can click on words in the dialogue to change them before continuing the conversation. |
Creatures Such As We, by Lynnea Glasser zylla's rating: Average member rating: (96 ratings) A dating sim about how humanity connects through art, even out in the vastness of space. |
CYBERQUEEN, by Porpentine Average member rating: (67 ratings) integration necessitates evisceration |
De Baron, by Victor Gijsbers zylla's rating: Average member rating: (167 ratings) An evil nobleman, a kidnapped daughter and a father who wants to rescue her at any cost--that is not the way life works. Something much darker, something much more human, lies underneath. Een kwaadaardige... |
Dead Like Ants, by C.E.J. Pacian zylla's rating: Average member rating: (60 ratings) You play as a young woman in red overalls, a red worker ant. Every spring, five dangerous creatures visit the tree and threaten the village, and every spring, the Queen sends one of her daughters to... |
Depression Quest, by Zoe Quinn, Patrick Lindsey, Isaac Schankler zylla's rating: Average member rating: (61 ratings) "An interactive (non)fiction about living with depression." The player of this multimedia hypertext game is given a series of everyday life events, and has to attempt to manage their illness, relationships,... |
Encyclopedia Fuckme and the Case of the Vanishing Entree, by Anna Anthropy Average member rating: (24 ratings) If there's one thing Encyclopedia Fuckme knows - and this is a hypothetical statement, of course, because she's actually got a lot crammed in her big fat brain - it's how to get off! But in addition to her... |
Eurydice, by Anonymous zylla's rating: Average member rating: (37 ratings) A short game about grief, with occasional snakes. |
Everybody Dies, by Jim Munroe Average member rating: (107 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.... |
Fallen London, by Failbetter Games zylla's rating: Average member rating: (57 ratings) Poet or Assassin? Lover or Spy? Choose your fate in Fallen London, a gothic metropolis a mile beneath the surface of the earth. An epic adventure where you live a sometimes horrific, often curious, but... |
First Draft of the Revolution, by Emily Short, Liza Daly and inkle Average member rating: (56 ratings) It is dangerous to deceive a husband of magic-using rank... Juliette has been banished for the summer to a village above Grenoble: a few Alpine houses, a deep lake, blue sky, and no society. Now she writes... |
The Fixer, by Chikodili Emelumadu zylla's rating: Average member rating: (10 ratings) Story: Chikodili Emelumadu Art: Onyinye Iwu Interactivity: Tory Hoke She finds you, and she won’t let go. Two women hire a private investigator to trail their erring husbands. Playing time: 8 minutes |
A Fleeting Case of Self-Possession, or, Memento Moratori, by Lea Albaugh Average member rating: (8 ratings) |
Galatea, by Emily Short zylla's rating: Average member rating: (346 ratings) Emily Short's description: A conversation with a work of art. "47. Galatea. White Thasos marble. Non-commissioned work by the late Pygmalion of Cyprus. (The artist has since committed suicide.) Originally... |
Ghost Highland Way, by Harry Giles zylla's rating: Average member rating: (7 ratings) A spooky sad scots randomised gamepoem, about being outside and looking and remembering. |
Guess the Verb!, by Leonard Richardson zylla's rating: Average member rating: (29 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 zylla's rating: Average member rating: (156 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... |
Hana Feels, by Gavin Inglis zylla's rating: Average member rating: (64 ratings) Something is bothering Hana. Can you work out what it is? Take the part of four important people in her life and guide their conversations. After each scene, peek at Hana's journal and find out how she felt... |
howling dogs, by Porpentine zylla's rating: Average member rating: (128 ratings) death cube sim | galactic survey | visionatrix | facet machine | power gardens | women | fascination two significant endings |
The Ice-Bound Concordance, by Aaron A. Reed and Jacob Garbe zylla's rating: Average member rating: (1 rating) The Ice-Bound Concordance is an award-winning indie game ("Best Story/World Design" winner, IndieCade 2014; "Excellence in Narrative" nominee, IGF 2015) with cutting-edge interactive story technology,... |
Investigative Journalism: A Welcome to Night Vale Fan Game, by Astrid Dalmady zylla's rating: Average member rating: (15 ratings) In Investigative Journalism, you play as the newest intern at Night Vale Community Radio and you’re tasked with hunting down The News that just escaped. |
Jetbike Gang, by C.E.J. Pacian zylla's rating: Average member rating: (23 ratings) You're a member of a jetbike gang. Tiny Twine game for the Twiny Jam. Exactly 300 words. |
The Lift, by Colin Capurso zylla's rating: Average member rating: (28 ratings) You wake up in a room with no memory of who you are or what you're doing there. You need to survive, that's all you know. |
Lost Pig, by Admiral Jota zylla's rating: Average member rating: (500 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 |
Map of Fahlstaff, by Ian Hinck zylla's rating: Average member rating: (8 ratings) A "map" of the mysterious town Fahlstaff. |
maybe make some change, by Aaron A. Reed zylla's rating: Average member rating: (14 ratings) Inspired by the Maywand district killings in Afghanistan, 'maybe make some change' explores a frozen battlefield moment from six violently conflicting perspectives. |
Moonlight, by Jonas Kyratzes Average member rating: (10 ratings) Moonlight is an interactive story about life, dreams, and Stephen Fry. |
my father's long, long legs, by michael lutz zylla's rating: Average member rating: (148 ratings) A weird tale. Some parts make use of sound, so this game is best played with headphones. One ending. |
Myriad, by Porpentine Average member rating: (25 ratings) branching outcomes of a fetid day. 115 nodes. suited for treaders, meat-eaters, plant-eaters, students, arthropods, starvers, and victims. inspired by HyperCard shareware adventures packed on cd-roms with... |
Photopia, by Adam Cadre zylla's rating: Average member rating: (568 ratings) "Will you read me a story?" "Read you a story? What fun would that be? I've got a better idea: let's tell a story together." |
A Place of Infinite Beauty, by Porpentine Average member rating: (11 ratings) "Once I saw mountains angry, And ranged in battle-front. Against them stood a little man; Aye, he was no bigger than my finger. I laughed, and spoke to one near me, 'Will he prevail?'" -Stephen Crane |
The Play, by Dietrich Squinkifer (Squinky) zylla's rating: Average member rating: (66 ratings) Pull yourself together, Ainsley. Just one more rehearsal until the big day, assuming nothing catastrophic happens. But really, all you have to do is get your motley crew of actors to run their parts once... |
rat chaos, by Winter Lake zylla's rating: Average member rating: (28 ratings) |
Robin & Orchid, by Ryan Veeder and Emily Boegheim zylla's rating: Average member rating: (65 ratings) High school journalists spend the night in a church, investigating reports of a ghost. |
Rogue of the Multiverse, by C.E.J. Pacian zylla's rating: Average member rating: (75 ratings) Congratulations, convict 76954! You have been selected for scientific experimentation! You will be matter-transmitted to exotic non-Treaty worlds - where opportunities abound to take in fantastic sights and... |
Shade, by Andrew Plotkin zylla's rating: Average member rating: (421 ratings) "A one-room game set in your apartment." [--blurb from Competition Aught-Zero] |
shadows on the mirror, by Chrysoula Tzavelas zylla's rating: Average member rating: (27 ratings) I am falling, I am fading, I am drowning, help me to breathe... |
Sisters of Claro Largo, by David T. Marchand zylla's rating: Average member rating: (10 ratings) A word becomes a sentence becomes a story about two sisters who become the world. |
Snowblind Aces, by C.E.J. Pacian zylla's rating: Average member rating: (33 ratings) Two aces shelter from a snowstorm under the wing of a biplane. They've duelled and played in the air for years. Love is inevitable. But what kind of relationship will they end up in? |
Solarium, by Anya Johanna DeNiro zylla's rating: Average member rating: (55 ratings) The year is 1954. One year after mutually assured destruction. And I am trying to find you, through memory and alchemy. Not many people know how the nuclear devastation really happened. But we do. We were... |
The Space Under the Window, by Andrew Plotkin zylla's rating: Average member rating: (100 ratings) A new, experimental game that has no puzzles but uses only words that change your focus on things, thereby adapting the story. [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue] |
Taco Fiction, by Ryan Veeder zylla's rating: Average member rating: (118 ratings) Taco Fiction is a game about crime. |
The Tale of the Kissing Bandit, by J. Robinson Wheeler (as 'Cary Valentino') zylla's rating: Average member rating: (47 ratings) |
Tangaroa Deep, by Astrid Dalmady zylla's rating: Average member rating: (48 ratings) We know more about space than we do about the ocean. Isn’t it time to start changing that? Released for the 2016 Spring Thing |
Teräsdarra, by ArtVandelay zylla's rating: Average member rating: (1 rating) Olet Teräsmies. Heräät intergalaktiseen krapulaan ja huomaat viittasi kadonneen. Sinun tulisi olla illan A-studiossa kommentoimassa nuorten syrjäytymistä, joten viitta on ehdottomasti saatava takaisin. |
Three-Card Trick, by Chandler Groover zylla's rating: Average member rating: (69 ratings) You're going to perform a three-card trick or your name isn't Morgan the Magnificent. |
Toby's Nose, by Chandler Groover zylla's rating: Average member rating: (120 ratings) A murder most foul has been committed and Sherlock Holmes is on the case. You are his dog. |
Úrquel, the black dragon, by David T. Marchand zylla's rating: Average member rating: (9 ratings) A short hypertext adventure story about a dragon kidnapping a princess and a hero trying to rescue her. But it's also a joke about how silly the typical "you" character is in most IFs. And a commentary on... |
Violet, by Jeremy Freese zylla's rating: Average member rating: (389 ratings) Calm down. All you have to do is write a thousand words and everything will be fine. And you have all day, except it's already noon. [blurb from IF Comp 2008] |
When acting as a particle / When acting as a wave, by David T. Marchand zylla's rating: Average member rating: (10 ratings) A game with links. The links tell you the story and the consequences of having clicked on previous links. There’s nothing other than links. Can you read that text? Then you can click it! It’s been said... |
You are Standing at a Crossroads, by Astrid Dalmady zylla's rating: Average member rating: (30 ratings) You are Standing at a Crossroads is a short Twine story about being lost, being changed, and being stagnant. |
You Couldn't Have Done That, by Ann Hugo Average member rating: (27 ratings) Your first day on the job wasn't going to be pleasant. Such was inevitable. It's a big change. And, you are autistic. But this was a different story, far worse than unpleasant. |
You Will Select a Decision, by Brendan Patrick Hennessy zylla's rating: Average member rating: (80 ratings) A pair of knock-off choose your own adventure books from Soviet-era Kyrgyzstan. |