69,105 Keys, by David Welbourn civilstat's rating: ![]() Average member rating: ![]() 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 civilstat's rating: ![]() Average member rating: ![]() 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. |
> by @, by Aaron A. Reed civilstat's rating: ![]() Average member rating: ![]() 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... |
Birdland, by Brendan Patrick Hennessy civilstat's rating: ![]() Average member rating: ![]() Fourteen-year-old Bridget's summer camp experience takes a turn for the bizarre when her otherworldly bird dreams start bleeding into reality. |
Bronze, by Emily Short civilstat's rating: ![]() Average member rating: ![]() 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. |
Cheeseshop, by David Welbourn Average member rating: ![]() An interactive re-creation of Monty Python’s Cheeseshop sketch, where you try to buy some cheese. |
Counterfeit Monkey, by Emily Short civilstat's rating: ![]() 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... |
Eat Me, by Chandler Groover civilstat's rating: ![]() Average member rating: ![]() In this castle, you'll eat or be eaten. May contain dairy, carnage, puzzles, nuts. |
Foo Foo, by Buster Hudson civilstat's rating: ![]() Average member rating: ![]() Someone's been bopping the field mice on the head, and only Good Fairy, Senior Detective can find out who. A parser-driven noir adventure based on the interactive fiction of Ryan Veeder. |
For a Change, by Dan Schmidt civilstat's rating: ![]() Average member rating: ![]() "The sun has gone. It must be brought. You have a rock." [--blurb from Competition '99] |
Galatea, by Emily Short civilstat's rating: ![]() Average member rating: ![]() 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... |
The Gostak, by Carl Muckenhoupt civilstat's rating: ![]() Average member rating: ![]() "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 Grown-Up Detective Agency, by Brendan Patrick Hennessy civilstat's rating: ![]() Average member rating: ![]() The only thing Bell Park likes more than a mystery is solving it on her own. But when a time-traveling 12-year-old version of herself lands face-down on her rented co-working desk, she'll have no choice but... |
Gun Mute, by C.E.J. Pacian civilstat's rating: ![]() Average member rating: ![]() 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... |
Her Majesty's Trolley Problem, by Buster Hudson civilstat's rating: ![]() Average member rating: ![]() No one said life in Her Majesty's Service would be easy. Fortunately, you've got everything you need: your officer's handbook, a harpoon cannon, and the indefatigable command of Captain Lionetta herself. If... |
His Majesty's Royal Space Navy Service Handbook, by Austin Auclair civilstat's rating: ![]() Average member rating: ![]() A text adventure of paperwork, office politics, and sci-fi space battles. It's Friday night and Sheryl hasn't yet left the office. That isn't unusual; she's a dedicated service member of His Majesty Smurg... |
Hoist Sail for the Heliopause and Home, by Andrew Plotkin civilstat's rating: ![]() Average member rating: ![]() A far-future story of discovery. |
Jetbike Gang, by C.E.J. Pacian civilstat's rating: ![]() Average member rating: ![]() You're a member of a jetbike gang. Tiny Twine game for the Twiny Jam. Exactly 300 words. |
Kerkerkruip, by Victor Gijsbers civilstat's rating: ![]() Average member rating: ![]() Kerkerkruip is a short-form roguelike in the interactive fiction medium, featuring meaningful tactical and strategic depth, innovative game play, zero grinding, and a sword & sorcery setting that does not... |
KING OF BEES IN FANTASY LAND, by Brendan Patrick Hennessy civilstat's rating: ![]() Average member rating: ![]() A videogame about space bees. |
Lime Ergot, by Caleb Wilson (as Rust Blight) civilstat's rating: ![]() Average member rating: ![]() Now everyone is gone. (Well, almost everyone.) Entry in ECTOCOMP 2014. |
Lost Pig, by Admiral Jota civilstat's rating: ![]() Average member rating: ![]() 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 |
Midnight. Swordfight., by Chandler Groover civilstat's rating: ![]() Average member rating: ![]() A fool receives a challenge from a countess. Violence. Sex. Profanity. Sausage. |
Mindshadow, by Brian Fargo civilstat's rating: ![]() Average member rating: ![]() You find yourself lost in the middle of nowhere. In the middle of a mystery. Who are you? Where will you go? What will you do? London. Luxembourg. Across oceans and continents. You struggle for answers. For... |
A Murder in Fairyland, by Abigail Corfman civilstat's rating: ![]() Average member rating: ![]() Prince Blacktree is dead. All of the other fairy nobles are trying to claim credit. You're a traveling Open Sorcerer, and a convenient neutral party who just wants to get out of Fairyland. A whodunit where... |
The Northnorth Passage., by Caleb Wilson (as Snowball Ice) civilstat's rating: ![]() Average member rating: ![]() Oh no, the old family curse has flared up! This is a short story about limits to action. |
Photopia, by Adam Cadre civilstat's rating: ![]() Average member rating: ![]() "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." |
Please Answer Carefully, by litrouke civilstat's rating: ![]() Average member rating: ![]() A five-minute horror game about surveys and stalking. Made in 24 hours. |
Save the Date, by Chris Cornell civilstat's rating: ![]() Average member rating: ![]() "It’s a perfectly normal evening, and you have a quiet dinner planned with one of your friends. And so begins one of my weirder games. Save the Date is a game about a lot of things. Friendship. Stories.... |
Spider and Web, by Andrew Plotkin civilstat's rating: ![]() Average member rating: ![]() 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... |
Superluminal Vagrant Twin, by C.E.J. Pacian civilstat's rating: ![]() Average member rating: ![]() A text-only space sim. Ply the spaceways. Make five million credits. Buy back your twin. (Superluminal Vagrant Twin is a shallow but broad exploration game.) |
Varicella, by Adam Cadre civilstat's rating: ![]() Average member rating: ![]() You are Primo Varicella, Palace Minister at the Palazzo del Piemonte. This title is unlikely to impress anyone. Piedmont is the laughingstock of the Carolingian League, and the Palace Ministry has devolved... |
Violet, by Jeremy Freese civilstat's rating: ![]() Average member rating: ![]() 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] |
The Wizard Sniffer, by Buster Hudson civilstat's rating: ![]() Average member rating: ![]() You were recently acquired by the brave Ser Leonhart and his squire to sniff out the evil shapeshifting wizard. Unfortunately, you are not a wizard sniffer (if such a thing even exists). As far as you can... |
You Will Select a Decision, by Brendan Patrick Hennessy civilstat's rating: ![]() Average member rating: ![]() A pair of knock-off choose your own adventure books from Soviet-era Kyrgyzstan. |