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69,105 Keys, by David Welbourn
Average member rating: (79 ratings)

There's just one room. How hard can it be? Just unlock the door. Oh. There's 69,105 keys.

> by @, by Aaron A. Reed
Average member rating: (24 ratings)

On the surface, > seems to be a traditional adventure game, featuring treasure, an NPC, a puzzle, and a happy ending. However, matters are complicated by the realization that the work's purported author is...

Accuse, by David A. Wheeler
Average member rating: (17 ratings)

This is a small puzzle/game where you must determine who murdered someone, with what, and where, by making a series of accusations. The solution, suspect placement, and weapon placement is random each time....

Adventure, by William Crowther and Donald Woods
Average member rating: (97 ratings)

All Roads, by Jon Ingold
Average member rating: (154 ratings)

"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]

Allein mit Kai, by Ingo Scharmann and Joana Markus
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

Arndt Koschke is very excited. After a few dates on neutral territory he meets Tanja today in her apartment for the first time. But suddenly she has to go out for half an hour and Arndt has to watch her...

Andromeda Dreaming, by Joey Jones
Average member rating: (18 ratings)

Aliss can control her dreams, but will this help her when she's stuck in a galaxy on the brink of destruction? Winner of the Andromeda Legacy competition 2012, Andromeda Dreaming is in the same setting as...

April in Paris, by Jim Aikin
Average member rating: (16 ratings)

On the first day of your dream vacation, you encounter an exasperating social difficulty. (Game file contains complete hints and walkthrough. Zip file includes pdf map.) [blurb from IF Comp 2008]

Babel, by Ian Finley
Average member rating: (155 ratings)

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...

Baluthar, by Chris Molloy Wischer
Average member rating: (20 ratings)

In this game of horror, you play as an old man of a tribal culture. For months, you've been weary of life and kept to your bed. But when you learn that your adult son, Rykhard, has foolishly gone into the...

The Beetmonger's Journal, by Scott Starkey
Average member rating: (16 ratings)

"Victor Lapot and I were miles from base camp on the south continent, once again hacking through previously unsurveyed lands and searching for forgotten cultures. The expedition reminded me of our grand...

Behold!, by Admiral Jota
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

In this tiny game, you play as someone backstage at the XYZZY Awards ceremony. Eileen has sent you to bring out the celebrity presenter, Stephen Bishop, but he's been turned into a basket of mangoes! You...
Bellclap, by Tommy Herbert
Average member rating: (26 ratings)

Best of Three, by Emily Short
Average member rating: (62 ratings)

The Big Scoop, by Johan Berntsson
Average member rating: (13 ratings)

Blighted Isle, by Eric Eve
Average member rating: (43 ratings)

Blockade duty in the Bay of Biscay, vile weather, and an unplanned jaunt over the side of the ship into the tossing waves. But instead of drowning, you end up on an island that has no right to be there - and...

Blue Lacuna, by Aaron A. Reed
Average member rating: (111 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...

Broken Legs, by Sarah Morayati
Average member rating: (31 ratings)

A blurb? They expect you to write? You're Lottie Plum so you're not going into writing. You sing. And dance and act up a storm while everyone else can only manage a puddle. You belong at Bridger. No matter...

Bronze, by Emily Short
Average member rating: (286 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.

Cacharens dilemma, by Johan Ottosson
Average member rating: (1 rating)

You're a journalist, and you're expected to finish an article today. The problem is, you're also an avid geocacher, and you just got a message that there's a new cache nearby. You could be the first to find...
Catseye, by Dave Bernazzani
Average member rating: (7 ratings)
Try to get a secret item from your Uncle Xevion's house. Catseye was written to see what could be done with a 10K (10240 byte) Z-Machine file. It uses a custom library called MinForm which reduces the parser...
Cheater, by Wesley Osam
Average member rating: (9 ratings)
"A small game; the only way to win is to literally cheat. Might be difficult for players who aren't familiar with the Inform language debugging verbs." [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue]

City of Secrets, by Emily Short
Average member rating: (103 ratings)

Coming Out of the Closet, by Mikko Vuorinen
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

In this one-room puzzle game, you play as someone somehow trapped in a closet. The door isn't locked and you have no trouble opening it, but something stops you from leaving. Note: Despite the title, this...

Cottage, by Viggo Eriksson, Kimmo Eriksson, Olle E Johansson
Average member rating: (1 rating)

You're on a jetty by a lake somewhere in Småland. In the distance you can see a red cottage. Around the house there are forests extending for miles and miles, waterfalls, and many strange characters. When...

Couch of Doom, by Megan Moser and Margaret Moser
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

Can you get yourself off the couch?

Curses, by Graham Nelson
Average member rating: (132 ratings)

"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: (23 ratings)

Dark Soul, by A O Muniz
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

De Baron, by Victor Gijsbers
Average member rating: (160 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
Average member rating: (58 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...

Der Angstbaum, by Jens Bojaryn
Average member rating: (11 ratings)

You are a Borinoi in love, setting out to do something stupid. Desperate to win the heart of your beloved, you break into the house of your rival at night. When you realize that you're not the only one doing...

Der Garten, by Carsten Kreysler
Average member rating: (1 rating)

The player tries to satisfy his hunger in a garden. A garden gnome can assist him.

Die Hausaufgabe, by Mischa Magyar
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

Third place at the German interactive fiction Grand Prix 2010.

Dinner Bell, by Jenni Polodna
Average member rating: (54 ratings)

You are the involuntary and very hungry test subject of a semi-anthropomorphized dog in a labcoat who wants you to find all sixteen food items mentioned in They Might Be Giants' song Dinner Bell, which have...

The Djinni Chronicles, by J. D. Berry
Average member rating: (33 ratings)

The Dreamhold, by Andrew Plotkin
Average member rating: (175 ratings)

The Dreamhold is interactive fiction — a classic text adventure. No graphics! No point-and-click! You type your commands, and read what happens next. The Dreamhold is designed for people who have never...

Dual Transform, by Andrew Plotkin
Average member rating: (109 ratings)

This game takes place in a single room — but not always the same one. The room contains just one item, but again, there's more to it than that. Experiment and enjoy.

Earth And Sky 3: Luminous Horizon, by Paul O'Brian
Average member rating: (41 ratings)

The Edifice, by Lucian P. Smith
Average member rating: (84 ratings)

"Something new in your everyday hunter-gatherer routine: where did this strange edifice come from? Dare you enter and explore the secrets of this... thing, or do you try to face your enemies? Like you have a...

The Elysium Enigma, by Eric Eve
Average member rating: (76 ratings)

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: (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...

Enlightenment, by Taro Ogawa
Average member rating: (42 ratings)

"The intrepid Adventurer has escaped the caverns. Nought remains to block a successful escape but this troll here. Hmmm. A one-room adventure. The author recommends this for people who grew up on Zork II and...

Fallacy of Dawn, by Robb Sherwin
Average member rating: (19 ratings)

In a world that never quite got over the '80s, Delarion Yar dispenses quarters for the local arcade... badly. A software pirate from better days, he's crossed the wrong people one too many times. Locked into...

Final Selection, by Sam Gordon
Average member rating: (18 ratings)

The Fire Tower, by Jacqueline A. Lott
Average member rating: (49 ratings)

Floatpoint, by Emily Short
Average member rating: (98 ratings)

It is night on this side of the planet. Settled areas are lit: a jagged crescent in the tropics, lining the inland sea. The bright splatter along the top of the curve is Tanhua, as bright from space as New...

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]

Fragile Shells, by Stephen Granade
Average member rating: (51 ratings)

You don't know how long you've been hammering against the station's wall, but you stop as soon as you realize what you've been doing.

Goose, Egg, Badger, by Brian Rapp
Average member rating: (21 ratings)

The Gostak, by Carl Muckenhoupt
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Average member rating: (88 ratings)

"Finally, here you are. At the delcot of tondam, where doshes deave. But the doshery lutt is crenned with glauds. Glauds! How rorm it would be to pell back to the bewl and distunk them, distunk the whole...

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams and Steve Meretzky
Average member rating: (185 ratings)

Don't Panic! Relax, because everything you need to know about playing The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is contained in the pages of this manual. In this story, you will be Arthur Dent, a rather ordinary...

IF Quake, by Jason Bergman
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

Inform School, by William J. Shlaer
Average member rating: (4 ratings)
NOTE: This "game" warns about the possibility (certainty!) of eventually crashing your interpreter. This will happen. It also warns about possibly locking up your entire computer. This is highly unlikely in...

The Invisible Argonaut, by Jacqueline A. Lott
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

Knight Orc, by Pete Austin
Average member rating: (20 ratings)

Knight Orc casts you as an oppressed orc in a magical world where all is not as it first seems. For generations humans have been persecuting orcs, and now it's time to get your own back. A fantasy adventure...

Knot To Be Undone, by Lelah Conrad (as 'Jess Kiddon')
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

In this tiny one-room game, you play as a knotter named Weava Knottersdaughter. When Body Adventura hops into your knot shop with his left leg hooked over his neck, it's up to you to untie the knot he's made...
Large Machine, by Jon Ingold
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

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....

Letters from Home, by Roger Firth
Average member rating: (20 ratings)

"Centuries of ancestry, decades of memories, years of decline; now, barely two hours in which to reflect on the glorious past, that bygone golden age when nostalgia really meant something... " [--blurb from...

Little Blue Men, by Michael S. Gentry
Average member rating: (70 ratings)

This game is a joke. This game is a warning. This game is a satire. This game is inspired in equal parts by Vaclav Havel's "The Memorandum" and Hunter S. Thompson's "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas". This...

Lock & Key, by Adam Cadre
Average member rating: (77 ratings)

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

Madam Spider's Web, by Sara Dee
Average member rating: (38 ratings)

Marika the Offering, by revgiblet
Average member rating: (23 ratings)
An entry in the 2007 One Room Game Competition. You play a young girl, trapped in a tower room and in fear for her life.

Masquerade, by Kathleen M. Fischer
Average member rating: (36 ratings)

"You walk purposefully down the sidewalk, looking neither left nor right. You don't need to look; you can tell you are being watched from whispers overheard as you pass by. "Poor Amelia..." you hear somebody...

Max Blaster and Doris de Lightning Against the Parrot Creatures of Venus, by Dan Shiovitz and Emily Short
Average member rating: (15 ratings)

Someplace on Venus a secret weapon is being built that threatens Earth with total destruction. You and your comrade must penetrate the Xavian base and save the world -- before it's too late!

Medusa, by Jim Fisher
Average member rating: (1 rating)

Metamorphoses, by Emily Short
Average member rating: (130 ratings)

You wake to stillness. The hammering, banging, and shouting that kept you awake half the night are gone. The air is cold, and something smells burnt. Your master's experiments must be finished, but with what...

Möbius, by J.D. Clemens
Average member rating: (35 ratings)

Another mission. Just when you had settled in for a nap.

The Mulldoon Legacy, by Jon Ingold
Average member rating: (45 ratings)

"In the event of my disappearance, my legacy shall not be distributed until every room in my museum has been searched in case I can be located." --Last Will and Testament, E. Mulldoon.

Muse: An Autumn Romance, by Christopher Huang
Average member rating: (35 ratings)

Early September, 1886. Autumn. The Victorian Era. The Rev. Dawson, 59, is off to the Continent and an unexpected Romance... [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue]

Mystery House Possessed, by Emily Short
Average member rating: (11 ratings)

This intricate all-text reworking draws on the Gothic, as well as Clue, to simulate seven characters working to outwit the killer in their midst.

New Cat, by Poster
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

You are the new cat, but you do not have a name. Today, He has left the door to your place open. If you explore the new world, can you get a name?

A New Day, by Jonathan Fry
Average member rating: (9 ratings)

For some reason, the author of this game died while writing it, and so you're stuck in an unfinished room. The author's creation, Winston, asks you to find out what happened. Can you finish an unfinished...
Obituary, by Drew Mochak and Johnny Rivera
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

One Eye Open, by Caelyn Sandel (as Colin Sandel) and Carolyn VanEseltine
Average member rating: (46 ratings)

Had you known the bloody history of Corona Labs, you would never have signed up as a test subject. But now, plunged into that history, surrounded by the damned and the dying, you must find the truth. Perhaps...

Opening Night, by David Batterham
Average member rating: (28 ratings)

You stepped off the streetcar moments ago, halting before the grand facade of the Marquis Theatre. You have come to see your idol, the Broadway star Miranda Lily, performing in all her dizzying glory. [blurb...
Paint!!!, by David Whyld
Average member rating: (10 ratings)
[Entry in the cancelled ADRIFT One Room Comp 2004]

Party Foul, by Brooks Reeves
Average member rating: (33 ratings)

You're cornered, trapped. There seems to be no escape. You aren't in a jail cell. No, you're in the cocktail party from hell and only by using your wits and luck are you going to get out of this suburb...

Pick Up the Phone Booth and Aisle, by David Dyte, Steve Bernard, Dan Shiovitz, Iain Merrick, Liza Daly, John Cater, Ola Sverre Bauge, J. Robinson Wheeler, Jon Blask, Dan Schmidt, Stephen Granade, Rob Noyes, and Emily Short
Average member rating: (107 ratings)

The Play, by Dietrich Squinkifer (Squinky)
Average member rating: (62 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...

Pytho's Mask, by Emily Short
Average member rating: (68 ratings)

On the Night of the Comet, the usual astrological bonds do not hold, and the order of the universe is threatened. It is a time made for rebels and usurpers, and all who would claim the kingdom for...

Revenge of the Chalupa, by Dan Schmidt
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

In this small game, you play as a bad-guy-stopper. You have come to this snowy baseball field to stop some bad guys from passing on some secret plans.
Rockrider, by David Mear
Average member rating: (2 ratings)
It'll be the biggest find of your career... If you can ride it home safely. Won 1st place at the 1st Annual MetaFilter Interactive Fiction Contest.

Savoir-Faire, by Emily Short
Average member rating: (131 ratings)

The beautiful life is always damned, they say. As for you, you've overexpended yourself: fifteen years of prominence, champagne, carriage rides in the Tuileries, having your name whispered behind...

The Sleeping Princess, by Molly Engelberg, Alex Engelberg, and Mark Engelberg
Average member rating: (21 ratings)

You are a pageboy, well, actually you're more like a janitor. Can you wake the sleeping princess? An entry in the IFBeginnersComp.

Slouching Towards Bedlam, by Star Foster and Daniel Ravipinto
Average member rating: (215 ratings)

In the beginning was the Word, and it was hungry. ...

Souterraine, by jarel
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

An entry in the 2007 French IF Comp. Seul et endolori au fond du trou. La tribu doit être en train d’émigrer vers le Sud, vers des lieus plus chauds avant l’arrivée du froid. Ils ne s’attarderont pas par...

Spider and Web, by Andrew Plotkin
Average member rating: (310 ratings)

A vacation in our lovely country! See the ethnic charms of the countryside, the historic grandeur of the capital city. Taste our traditional cuisine; smell the flowers of the Old Tree. And all without...

Starcross, by Dave Lebling
Average member rating: (50 ratings)

Starcross, Infocom's science fiction mind-bender, launches you headlong into the year 2186 and the depths of space. And not without good reason, for you are destined to rendezvous with a gargantuan starship...

Stupid Kittens, by Marc Valhara
Average member rating: (18 ratings)

"You are standing in Karen's room. >POOP ON COMPUTER Woo, bad kitten!" [--blurb from Competition Aught-Zero]

Suspended, by Michael Berlyn
Average member rating: (43 ratings)

They said you would sleep for half a millennium - not an unreasonable length of time, considering you'd be in limited cryogenic suspension. Your body would rest at the planet's nerve center, an underground...

Swineback Ridge, by Eric Eve
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

Tapestry, by Daniel Ravipinto
Average member rating: (43 ratings)

You were born; you lived; you died. Not everyone gets a second chance to go back and change crucial decisions. You have been granted one and must go back to critical moral dilemmas; but do you change the...

Taunting Donut, by Kalev Tait
Average member rating: (21 ratings)

One-room game where you need to get an out-of-reach donut tied to the ceiling of your exitless room.

Theatre, by Brendon Wyber
Average member rating: (89 ratings)

Your job as a real estate agent brings you into contact with many old buildings, but none are quite like the old theatre that has stood deserted for almost thirty years. After visiting it with some...

Till Death Makes a Monk-Fish Out of Me, by Mike Sousa and Jon Ingold
Average member rating: (34 ratings)

Dr. Taylor's looking worried. Dr. Kurner's looking exhausted. Zak is grinning with glee. Today is the big day, and you're about to try out the crowning experiment of your life, and in AtlantisLab's chequered...

Tookie's Song, by Jessica Knoch
Average member rating: (13 ratings)

Cat aliens from the planet Purrsimmon have stolen your pet dog, Tookie! Rescue him by solving all the various light-hearted puzzles they've set up for you!

Ugly Chapter, by Sam Kabo Ashwell
Average member rating: (12 ratings)

In this short story, you play as Leti, a rich woman and a patron of the arts, who travels from Hawaii to Mars, as told by an angry and bitter male poet who knew her. What you did in the most ugly chapter of...

Uncle Zebulon's Will, by Magnus Olsson
Average member rating: (62 ratings)

Your eccentric Uncle Zebulon considered himself a wizard, and was rumoured to be very wealthy. But when he died, he only left you one single object in his will... Winner in the TADS division of the First...
Undo, by Neil deMause
Average member rating: (17 ratings)
You're almost at the end of that adventure game you've struggled so hard to beat, when things get a little crazy....
Vespers, by Jason Devlin
Average member rating: (174 ratings)
It has been five days, now. Five days since I made the choice. Five days since I closed the gate. Really, there was no choice. Rovato was damned when the first spot appeared: when the first bloody cough...

The Warbler's Nest, by Jason McIntosh
Average member rating: (91 ratings)

Surely the reed bank counts as a wild place. While it gives you so much, you've never tended it, not really, not like you do with your garden. It's something like the forest, then, but much safer to search...

The Weapon, by Sean Barrett
Average member rating: (35 ratings)

Wearing the Claw, by Paul O'Brian
Average member rating: (32 ratings)

A traditional fantasy quest in which you and your village have been cursed with a slow transformation into various animals. The only way to stop the curse is to retrieve the Pendant of Elinor from the...

Within a Wreath of Dewdrops, by Sam Kabo Ashwell and Jacqueline A. Lott
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

In this small game, you are the only actor onstage in Within a Wreath of Dewdrops, a historical opus which has entered its final act. Using just four pathetic props, can you act as the hero, the heroine, and...

Worlds Apart, by Suzanne Britton
Average member rating: (90 ratings)

For over 20 years, I dreamed about an alternate universe I called the Higher World. For three of those years, I poured almost all of my creative energy into a novel-length story set in that universe. Worlds...


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