"Peer Through The Looking Glass - and watch breathlessly as the two most original thinkers of the 20th Century - Sigmund Freud and Willie Crowther - wage a pitched battle for the soul of a defenseless...
Thanks to his father, Robert Cenric IV has been cursed to lose his soul when he reaches his 21st birthday. The problem is, his birthday is tomorrow. (This includes the original Competition release AND the...
Channel Surfing, by Mike Vollmer Average member rating: (9 ratings)
You play as someone who's supposedly consented to test an experimental television, but you don't really remember anything about your prior life. The "box" you wake up in has nothing in it except the...
Chaos, by Shay Caron Average member rating: (6 ratings)
"In Chaos, you are "Captain Chaos". Well, actually, no, you're just an observer. Captain Chaos is an evil villain and builder of robots whose ship has just clipped a tree and is slowly headed for the ground....
A tornadic storm brews outside an economically faltering town in the Great Plains as a traveling outsider attempts to unravel the town's mysteries. This is Chapter Zero (of 8). Further chapters will be...
Charming, by Kaylah Facey Average member rating: (19 ratings)
Potions shattered on the floor, pages torn out of books, a demolished statue... These are a few of the magical messes you will have to clean up before Enchantress Igmenta arrives for your coming-of-age test...
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]
Cheating Death, by Adam Biltcliffe Average member rating: (3 ratings)
A SpeedIF game from 2003. Like most SpeedIF from that era, it was written under a 2-hour start-to-finish time limit with a laundry list of elements to include, which leads to a game about as coherent as...
Cheer Up, by Sam Thursfield Average member rating: (4 ratings) Cheesed Off!, by Hulk Handsome Average member rating: (11 ratings)
An entry in the First Quadrennial Ryan Veeder Exposition for Good Interactive Fiction. This is a punny game where you solve puzzles with cheese. Mr. Veeder said the following about it: "Doesn't have much...
Cheeseshop, by David Welbourn Average member rating: (24 ratings)
An interactive re-creation of Monty Python’s Cheeseshop sketch, where you try to buy some cheese.
Chicken and Egg, by Adam Thornton Average member rating: (16 ratings)
"A pastiche of "Spider and Web", which see." [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue]
In this one-puzzle one-room game, you play as a newly-dead chicken, killed when you tried to re-cross a road. Now you're floating in a black void facing a logic puzzle posed by a sign and a choice of four...
"You find yourself in a cheezy chicken suit, working for the minimum coin outside a fast-food joint. Can things get worse? Well, you can't find North ..." [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue]
Chicks Dig Jerks, by Robb Sherwin Average member rating: (28 ratings)
"An ancient evil threatens to invade a decadent mountain town, yet all that concerns young grave robber Avandre Varick is hitting on gorgeous babes." [--blurb from Competition '99]
Child's Play, by Stephen Granade Average member rating: (55 ratings)
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...
Content Warnings: Sexual harassment, racism, transphobia. You haven't even had the chance to tell your parents you've gone vegan... Made for the Single Choice Jam. (Photo credit: Cera)
The Chinese Room, by Harry Josephine Giles and Joey Jones Average member rating: (35 ratings)
The Chinese Room is a hilarious romp through the world of philosophical thought experiments. Have you ever wanted to win Zeno's race? Free the denizens of Plato's Cave? Or find out what it's really like to...
Chlorophyll, by Steph Cherrywell Average member rating: (62 ratings)
You've been buried alive! But that's only the start of your troubles as you've got to contend with a half-man, half-ape, half-bulldog creature, a vampire who's somewhat reluctant, a mad game designer, and a...
Can you stop the evil Erik von Lastmere in this gamebook-style text adventure?
A Christmas Game, by Luke A. Jones Average member rating: (3 ratings)
It's Christmas Eve and you've still an awful lot to do. You better head into town and do some shopping. This is a relaxed small(ish) text adventure in the classic parser style (but with a much wider...