You're dead, but you're not on Charon's list. Impersonate mythological Greek figures (and Zeno!) and suffer eternal punishment in Hades in their place, for better or worse. Okay, it's definitely for worse.
Camping out at night takes you into a strange otherworld peopled with, among other things, several biblical references, objects of a symbolic nature, and a talking tree. Started as an entry for the first IF...
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...
Wake up... The words miss you... In this disjointed goal-less story, you play as Lex, a man who was born deaf and without ears, but who can see words, TAKE and USE them. They are the only thing you know as...
The Library, by Trekkie101 Average member rating: (2 ratings)
You have come to the largest library in the Universe, a library so large that it takes up an entire planet, with the goal of finding a way to stop the Vashta Narada swarm that currently threatens your home...
Your vision clears as you gently land in an endless landscape. There is the wind, a bleak and chill thing. And there is your sense of uncertainty: You don't know which way to go. Or, maybe, which way you...
In this tiny very-short one-room slice-of-life game that was probably written as a coding exercise, you play as a librarian. There's a fiction book in the bookdrop, a book scanner, and several shelves....
"This is not a game, but rather an experiment in telling a story using a dynamic and interactive medium. Leave your expectations at the curb side and take a walk down Beal Street." [--blurb from Competition...
Light into Darkness, by Christina Nordlander Average member rating: (9 ratings)
An ordinary woman faces an inexplicable event while staying at her summer house with her family. Fantasy/horror. Content warnings: domestic violence; some gore. A Petite Mort entry for ECTOCOMP 2016....
This is an unusual story where you play as the primary lightbulb of the John Quincy Adams Gastrodome, but also as Bob Bobkins, competative eater. What secrets is Garry, Bob's opponent in the eating contest,...
You play as Maurice L. Shelby, a laboratory apprentice employed by Commission Research Station 12B. The station is rather important: it houses one of several beacons placed around the world that generate the...
The Lighthouse, by Eric Hickman and Nathan Chung Average member rating: (19 ratings)
The Lighthouse is a small game in where your main foucus is to turn on the light in the Havenworth lighthouse. This game is very short and also is my very first game! [blurb from IF Comp 2008]
Lime Ergot, by Caleb Wilson (as Rust Blight) Average member rating: (95 ratings)
Now everyone is gone. (Well, almost everyone.) Entry in ECTOCOMP 2014.
Limelight, by Justin Lowmaster Average member rating: (1 rating)
When you become famous, life chages, and doing ordinary tasks becomes a game of hide and seek with intrusive photographers. You find yourself in a public place full of photographers and must find a way out....
Limp, by Ryan Stevens Average member rating: (4 ratings)
It's been seventeen months since your last erection. Highest time to do something about it. [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue]
In this comedic short game, you play as an overweight young man of the Massif tribe. Your dad's left you to watch over his cows, which is bad enough, but now a lion just came into the enclosure and took one...
LISEY, by Marco Innocenti Average member rating: (7 ratings)
Love has no boundaries. Not even life itself. Entry in EctoComp 2014.
Literacy, by David S. Glasser Average member rating: (2 ratings)
In this tiny one-room game, you play as some one who wants to win the robot monkey by dressing up as Gustav Schmidt for Halloween. If you can steal his death mask from the library, your win is assured.
In this short game that blends Little Red Riding Hood with the legend of Robin Hood, you of course are playing as Little Green Robbing Hood. Your grandmother's fields were torched by Sir Guy of Gisbourne, so...