David Welbourn's Played Games

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(untitled), by Anonymous
Average member rating: (3 ratings)
In this odd tiny game, you play as an onion driving your Ford Nostradamus on a hot day in August. You want to deliver a chocolate Eiffel Tower to your friend, but the chocolate is melting in this heat!
(untitled), by Lenny Pitts
Average member rating: (5 ratings)
In this tiny game, you play as a soldier in Paris in September 1944 just after the city was liberated from Nazi Germany. You have an important appointment to keep: a clandestine meeting at the Eiffel Tower...
(You're) TOAST!, by Gunther Schmidl
Average member rating: (4 ratings)
When you had a new Toast-O-Matic Three Thousand installed, you didn't expect it to be a gigantic toaster that's two meters high. How are you supposed to make toast now?
**COUGH COUGH**, by Jennifer Maddox
Average member rating: (2 ratings)
In this tiny game, you play as some guy dragged to Vegas for Travis's bachelor party, but you're broke and you're not having any fun. All the second-hand smoke in the casino isn't any fun either. Perhaps you...
+=3, by Carl de Marcken and David Baggett
Average member rating: (23 ratings)
This one-puzzle game was Dave Baggett's response to a discussion (flame war?) in rec.arts.int-fiction and specifically to Russ Bryan's claim that there could be no puzzles which are logical yet unsolvable....

1893: A World's Fair Mystery, by Peter Nepstad
Average member rating: (26 ratings)

A theft on the fairgrounds! Precious diamonds stolen from the Kimberly Diamond Mining Exhibit! An urgent telegram from your old partner arrives, requesting your help to solve the mystery. How can you refuse?...

1981, by Anonymous
Average member rating: (30 ratings)

(author is Adam Cadre, but game is unsigned)
1982, by Zach Samuels (as Iblis Snowsdottir)
Average member rating: (6 ratings)
In this game, you play as a handsome car enthusiast but unfortunately, the Government's draconian Motor Laws and their ever gazing Eyes don't share your love of joyriding. But they're not so vigilant on...
21 Points, by Anonymous
Average member rating: (3 ratings)
2604, by Admiral Jota
Average member rating: (15 ratings)
30 Minutes, by Anastasia Trombly
David Welbourn's rating:
Average member rating: (4 ratings)
First version, very, very short. Written for a challenge in about thirty minutes, so it's not that good at all. Here for archive purposes only, if you want to play it I would recommend waiting for the next...

404- Life not Found (Beta), by Evan Derby
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

A haunting story, but in this version, the story has not been implemented. The next released version will have the Story aspect implemented.

69,105 Keys, by David Welbourn
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.

69105 More Keys, by Andrew Schultz
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

A small guessing game in two flavors. No wins or losses, just compete against yourself.

77 Verbs, by MathBrush (as Prismatik)
Average member rating: (21 ratings)

Use every standard verb in the Inform library to escape deadly situations in this introduction to parser games! (This game was formerly known as 85 Verbs.)

9:05, by Adam Cadre
Average member rating: (545 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.

98769765, 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...

A1RL0CK, by Marco Innocenti
Average member rating: (9 ratings)

Your hands. They hit the reinforced metal. They're starting to hurt. There's nothing to do. The safety lock is engaged. ----- A1RL0CK is a survival text adventure about a child and some voices. Also, a lot...

Aayela, by Magnus Olsson
Average member rating: (26 ratings)

In the forty-seventh year of the reign of King Dargon, twelve years after the battle of Cyr-Dhool, and five years after his third marriage, disaster struck the Realm. Queen Dahra became ill; at first just a...
An Abbreviated Night Before Christmas, by Adam Thornton
Average member rating: (9 ratings)
Clement Clarke Moore is rolling in his grave.

According to Cain, by Jim Nelson
Average member rating: (48 ratings)

Two brothers. One murder. And a mystery as old as mankind. You are a medieval investigator sent back in time to learn the secrets behind mankind's first murder. Using a novel alchemy system, observation, and...

Acid Rain, by Garry Francis
Average member rating: (10 ratings)

You were driving home from the Second National Conference on Acid Rain when you started getting tired. As it was late at night and you were in the middle of nowhere, you pulled over to the side of the road...

The Acorn Court, by Todd S. Murchison
Average member rating: (17 ratings)

A small, one-location game in which you must escape from a court. The game shows Inform's capability of handling multiple equal objects. [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue]

The Act of Misdirection, by Callico Harrison
Average member rating: (75 ratings)

The curtain lifts to a torrent of applause, as the city's gents and ladies lose their decorum for a just few moments in anticipation of something magical. The spotlights drown the glitter of sequins and...

An Act of Murder, by Christopher Huang
Average member rating: (82 ratings)

Ad Verbum, by Nick Montfort
Average member rating: (136 ratings)

"With the cantankerous Wizard of Wordplay evicted from his mansion, the worthless plot can now be redeveloped. The city regulations declare, however, that the rip-down job can't proceed until all the items...

The Adam and Eve Project, by Brian Kwak
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

In this incomplete game, you play as Adam and Eve, two amnesiac people selected to participate in an experiment by an unknown third entity. The entity offers a choice: spend the rest of your lives here in...

Additional Tales from Castle Balderstone, by Ryan Veeder
Average member rating: (12 ratings)

Another anthology of terror, edited by Ryan Veeder, again. Also an ECTOCOMP 2019 entry.

Adoo's Stinky Story, by B. Perry
Average member rating: (10 ratings)

In this game, you play as a university student named Adoo, back home for an extended break. But your childhood home is in danger! Your parents have put their house up for sale! To stop any possible sale, you...

ADRIFT Maze, by Dana Crane
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

ADRIFTmas Party, by Dana Crane

Advent Door, by Andrew Plotkin
Average member rating: (16 ratings)

Where’s that door? This game was written for a collaborative 2019 Advent Calendar project. The theme was "The City of Doors" from the Planescape roleplaying setting. That project was never completed, so I...

Advent Mirror, by Andrew Plotkin
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

"You had no idea where the portal would take you. That's life in the City of Doors. One more step as always." Created for the Confounding Calendar 2022.

Adventure, by William Crowther and Donald Woods
Average member rating: (100 ratings)

Adventurer's Consumer Guide, by Øyvind Thorsby
Average member rating: (32 ratings)

The Adventurers' Museum, by Lee Chapel
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

Aesthetic Deletions, by Johanna Hunt
Average member rating: (2 ratings)
Afflicted, by Doug Egan
Average member rating: (52 ratings)
This isn't the safest neighborhood. A young woman was abducted near here only recently. But as a city sanitarian you are obligated to complete your annual inspection of the local dive. [blurb from IF Comp...
AFGNCAAP - IF Agent! Todays Adventure: Holy Goat!, by Marius Müller
Average member rating: (1 rating)
Agency, by Ricardo Signes
Average member rating: (2 ratings)
Agent 4-F From Mars, by Michael Arnaud
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

Ailihphilia, by Andrew Schultz (as N. Y. Llewellyn)
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

No need for aibohphobia. It's polite on the Zarfian cruelty scale -and- will let you jump to the exciting conclusion if your 2-hour judging period is almost up!

Aisle, by Sam Barlow
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...

Akkoteaque, by Anthony Casteel
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

It is a wet, disgusting day in the middle of April. You are just about sick of the rain. You're just about sick of everything. They keep telling you, when you turn sixteen you can do what you like and live...

The Alchemist, by Jim MacBrayne (as Older Timer)
Average member rating: (9 ratings)

Ezekiel Throgmeister, commonly referred to by the villagers as The Alchemist, has left you in charge of his currently-running experiment while he attends to other pressing business. Can you succeed in...

Alchemist's Gold, by Garry Francis
Average member rating: (12 ratings)

Of all the forms of alchemy practised throughout the ages, the best known is the quest to turn base metals into gold. Of course, everyone knows this is impossible. Even so, there's a rumour that an alchemist...

Alcohol solves everything, by Christos Dimitrakakis
Average member rating: (1 rating)

Alien Abduction?, by Charles Gerlach
Average member rating: (12 ratings)
All Quiet on the Library Front, by Michael S. Phillips
Average member rating: (15 ratings)
As a student with an IF assignment looming, you need to get a biography out of the library - however, it is a very rare book, and surely you won't be allowed to take it with you... [--blurb from The Z-Files...
Alma Mater, by Roger Carbol
Average member rating: (3 ratings)
The least you could do for your long-suffering mother is bring her a card once a year.
The Amazing Maze, by Daniel Gunnell
Average member rating: (2 ratings)
Welcome to the Amazing Maze, a fun family attraction that is opening near you. It's sponsored by your local interactive fiction archive and the few people in your local area who like interactive fiction...
The Amazing Uncle Griswold, by David Whyld
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

Amnesia, by Dustin Rhodes
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

In this poorly-written game, you play as someone who washed ashore onto an island. You were supposed to have amnesia, but you don't, so the author will make up a new story where you just need to solve a few...

Amusement Park, by Penczer Attila
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

In this small relaxing slice-of-life game, it's the last day of summer and a few hours before sunset. You have just found an abandoned amusement park in a nearby forest and you've decided to explore it.

Anchorhead, by Michael Gentry
Average member rating: (409 ratings)

You take a deep breath of salty air as the first raindrops begin to spatter the pavement, and the swollen, slate-colored clouds that blanket the sky mutter ominous portents amongst themselves over the little...

And So It Goes, by Adam Conover
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

In this short game, you play as Failure, the literal embodiment of failure. It's your job to make people experience failure, and soon, your boss will call you, ordering you to your new assignment.

And the Waves Choke the Wind, by Gunther Schmidl
Average member rating: (10 ratings)

"some thing inside of me has opened up its eyes why did you put it there? did you not realize?" [--blurb from Competition Aught-Zero]

And Then is Heard no More, by H. A. Helfgott
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

And Then You Come to a House Not Unlike the Previous One, by B.J. Best
Average member rating: (69 ratings)

Title: Infinite Adventure Year: 1986 Genre: Adventure Summary: Wander through an apparently infinite number of spooky mansions, solving a basic puzzle in each one. ForgottenGames.com rating: ★ ★ ★

And Yet it Moves, by Orion Zymaris
Average member rating: (12 ratings)

Eppur si muove

The Angel Curse, by David Welbourn
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

Neither the girl in the wheelchair nor the angel pendant she wears are quite what they seem to be. Written for Speed-IF 19.

Animals, by David Fisher
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

A logic/observation puzzle game, inspired by the word game "my very eccentric Aunt". Four difficulty levels. An entry in the C-40 competition, which required games to be at most 40K in size. Definitely not...
Annoyed Undead, by Roger Ostrander
Average member rating: (7 ratings)
"You've awakened from a refreshing 500-year nap. Someone, without so much as a by-your-leave, has built a church over your crypt. Very trying for a hungry vampire." [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue]
Another Day, Another Sea Monster, by Dan Schmidt
Average member rating: (7 ratings)
Another Goddamn Escape the Locked Room Game, by Riff Conner
Average member rating: (17 ratings)
In this escape game intended to be a parody of the genre, you play as someone with amnesia who wakes up in a unfamiliar basement or bomb shelter. Your head is pounding from a massive headache. The steel door...

Another Terminal Beach, by Mike Bonsall
Average member rating: (1 rating)

Based on J G Ballard's short story The Terminal Beach.

Antiquest, by Anton Lastochkin
Average member rating: (9 ratings)

Are you tired of fighting an annoying parser and unraveling strange puzzles? Come along, and you and the parser will fight together against logic and common sense! You won't be bored with this game's...

Aotearoa, by Matt Wigdahl
Average member rating: (63 ratings)

The Fish of Māui. The Land of the Long Cloud. Aotearoa. An entire continent of untamed wilds, and the last place on Earth where dinosaurs still roam. If only you'd come ashore under better circumstances...

Apartment F209, by Ben Parrish
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

"A small game in which you try to escape from your dull life in Apartment F209. Contains only a small number of puzzles, but lets you learn the hard way if you missed to solve one." [--blurb from The Z-Files...
Apocolyptica, by Jake Wildstrom
Average member rating: (3 ratings)
In this tiny one-room game, you play as a street worker for the Church of Cthulu the Kitsch Collector. You can sense that something unbelievably monstrous is coming. Very soon, Life as You Know It will end...
Apollo 11, by Brooke Heinichen
Average member rating: (3 ratings)
Welcome, Mr. Armstrong! Congratulations on reaching this historic day in humanity! You are now in the Kennedy Space center, your last stop before getting aboard the Columbia and making history!
Apoptosis, by Kate McKee
Average member rating: (2 ratings)
In this small game, you play as a short-lived creature with the evolutionary ability to steal traits from other creatures. You have lots of competition trying to get inside, but you can do this. Use your...
Appallatron: Annoyotron 3, by Sean Barrett
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

The Apprentice, by Saevar Benjaminsson
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

A short text only fiction. Released earlier in 2006, but an incomplete version. This version is the completed one. The plot is to find the holy grail and overcome various obstacles. It takes place in a...

Arborea, by Richard Develyn
Average member rating: (13 ratings)

'The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes...

Are You A Chef?, by Adam Biltcliffe
Average member rating: (1 rating)

It doesn't get more niche than a fangame of a nonsensical (albeit brilliant) SpeedIF. Don't expect this to make any sense unless you're familiar both with You Are A Chef! and with ifMUD circa the year 2000.
ARGH's Great Escape, by Dana Crane
Average member rating: (1 rating)

Ariadne in Aeaea, by Víctor Ojuel
Average member rating: (25 ratings)

Isle of Aeaea, the eastern Aegean. 3,500 years ago. In the northern wastes, the Achaeans have a new and warlike chieftain. Palace after palace is falling to his armies. On the shores of Crete, the Minoan...

Arrival, or Attack of the B-Movie Clichés, by Stephen Granade
Average member rating: (34 ratings)

Art D's First Batch Adventure, by Arthur DiBianca
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

In this simple limited-command-set adventure game, you play as somone walking along a sunny path. You soon find a knife, a wrapped box, and the entrance to the Cave of Thrills. It looks like the local...
Art D's Next Batch Adventure, by Arthur DiBianca
Average member rating: (2 ratings)
In this simple limited-command-set adventure game, you continue your adventure, starting in a sunny clearing with the King's word from the last adventure. Soon you will find a solid gold torch and explore a...
Art D's Third Batch Adventure, by Arthur DiBianca
Average member rating: (2 ratings)
In this simple game, you continue your adventure. Back outside the caves, you find a dusty old book in a meadow near a village. Follow its whimsical directions to learn what the king wants you to do next.
Arthur Yahtzee: The Curse of Hell's Cheesecake, by Ben Croshaw
Average member rating: (3 ratings)
In this comedic espionage game, you play as Agent Arthur Yahtzee of the Special Secret Service. Your mission is to stop the most evil and sadistic human in the multiverse, Doctor Diablo, from ever using...

Arthur: The Quest for Excalibur, by Bob Bates
Average member rating: (30 ratings)

"Whoso pulleth out this sword of this stone, is rightwise king of England." In the days before Camelot, when magic and evil rule England, a sword sheathed in stone appears in a quiet churchyard. Engraved...

Arthur's Day Out, by Jason Oakley
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

You begin in the broom closet of a pub (as dictated by the game jam rules) and from here you find your away around in standard text adventure format. Arthur has a bit of a hangover to start with, so go easy...

The Ascent of the Gothic Tower, by Ryan Veeder
Average member rating: (34 ratings)

A story of mild and non-debilitating obsession.

ASCII and the Argonauts, by J. Robinson Wheeler
Average member rating: (19 ratings)

In this wonderfully laconic spoof of the Scott Adams style of adventures, you play as Jason of the Argo, tasked by King Pelias to bring the Golden Fleece to him or die. Surprisingly both entertaining and...

ASCII and the Argonauts: Astral Plane, by Anonymous
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

You play as the hero, Jason of the Argo, tasked by Pelias to restore the GOLDEN FLEECE. The final guardian of the FLEECE, the Great Dragon, attacked you but thanks to Medea's magic locket, you're in the...
Asendent, by Nate Cull and Doug Jones
Average member rating: (6 ratings)
In this short game that attempts to parody the style of author Rybread Celsius, you play as an office worker who just drank some coffee spiked with hallucinogenic drugs. You are overcome with a desire to...
The Asian Challenge, by Conrad Knopf
David Welbourn's rating:
Average member rating: (2 ratings)
As a Special Senate Investigator, you have been sent to Asia on a mission to gather important information. You must report to the Foreign Aid Committee shortly on whether or not to grant additional funds to...

Assembly, by Ben Kirwin
Average member rating: (25 ratings)

Today has been an extraordinarily long day. You picked up the keys to your new apartment in the morning, you went shopping for furniture in the afternoon, and you've spent the evening putting it together. ...

Assignment, by Matthew A. Murray
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

Asteroid Aftermath, by Duncan Bowsman
As systems administrator for Satellite Control Station XI, you must re-align the station's satellites and restore communication service with the Sol system in the Parigathon Galaxy.

Asylum, by cpuguy89
Average member rating: (18 ratings)

A simple "Escape the room" style game. It is the first of my games that is actually worth publishing. It is not intended to be difficult, and was created for those who are just getting into interactive...

At the Bottom of the Garden, by Adam Biltcliffe
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

In this small charming game, you play as a retired homeowner trying to protect your wife Martha's prize rosebush from an increasing horde of dragons before she and her horticulturally-minded friends arrive...
Atrocitron, by Michael Martin
Average member rating: (1 rating)
A puzzlebox text game that’s half prank and half puzzle-hunt artifact.
Attack of the Terror Tabby!!!, by Eric Mayer
Average member rating: (10 ratings)
"Oh no! The cat's ticking. It must have swallowed a bomb!"
Attack of the Yeti Robot Zombies, by Øyvind Thorsby
Average member rating: (31 ratings)
Auden's Eden, by Tommy Herbert
Average member rating: (3 ratings)
In this very short incomplete story, you play as someone visiting W.H. Auden's idea of paradise as described in his collection of essays called The Dyer's Hand. You've arrived by hot air balloon and welcomed...

Augmented Fourth, by Brian Uri!
Average member rating: (67 ratings)

WANTED: Amateur musicians to serve the Royal Court. Must provide own instrument and be inured to copious constructive criticism. Impress your friends! Meet the King! Apply in person at the Castle, located on...

Augustine, by Terrence V. Koch
Average member rating: (13 ratings)

St. Augustine, Florida is a city rich in history. Touted as the Oldest City in the United States, tourists flock to her to learn something of the nation's earliest settlers and get a sense of what life was...
Aunt Nancy's House, by Nate Schwartzman
Average member rating: (6 ratings)
"This is an interactive tour of the author's aunt's soon-to-be former home." [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue]

Aunts and Butlers, by Robin Johnson
Average member rating: (45 ratings)

It's 1920, you're a minor aristocrat fallen on hard times, and your wretched Aunt Cedilla is on the warpath. A Wodehousean comedy of manners, manors, mysterious butlers and unfriendly poodles.

Aura-Scope, by Square Peg

At the time of our story, the "GREAT COSMIC WHEEL" was in the charge of a strange little gnome-like creature called NUB and he attended to its every need. He had performed this simple duty for as long as any...
Authority, by Eva Vikström
Average member rating: (4 ratings)
Authority - Life in a Central Government Authority; the game depicts life, objectives, events and language in a contemporary central government authority. It's localized to a west European country, probably...
Avenger of Rubicon, by Conrad Knopf
Your King and fellow warriors have been slain. You have been severely wounded. As you stagger from the battlefield, you vow to avenge this carnage. You will seek out and destroy the perpetrator of this foul...

Awakened Deeply, by R.A. Cooper
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

You are Captain Pitker aboard the S.S. Crusade. You awaken from a deep sleep in your cryo tube. All of the crew has been decimated or vanished mysteriously. The onboard computer instructs you to investigate...

Awakening, by Pete Gardner
Average member rating: (15 ratings)

Awakening on the ground next to an open grave, you have no recollection of how you came to be there. Do you investigate the nearby church and graveyard, or leave well enough alone?
The Awakening, by Dennis Matheson
Average member rating: (30 ratings)
"You remember darkness. And the cold. Cold and darkness. And silence. Those memories are all that you have. That, and a feeling that something you never knew you possessed has been lost. Suddenly, oblivion...

The Awakening: Prologue to the Saturn Chronicles, by PKProStudio
Average member rating: (1 rating)

"One man begins the longest journey of his life in this prologue to the upcoming Saturn Chronicles" ...

Babel, by Ian Finley
Average member rating: (156 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...

baby tree, by Lester Galin
Average member rating: (33 ratings)

a short horror game

Bad Beer, by Vivienne Dunstan
Average member rating: (18 ratings)

A tale of dodgy drinks, things that go bump in the night, and stuff from the past that just ain’t right Content warning: alcohol (the game is set in a British pub selling beer), some spooky stuff and death

Badland Machine, by Sam Kabo Ashwell
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

In this tiny game set in the steampunk fantasy western genre, you play as a dew fairy—a dew fairy in leathers with a motorbike. You're tired and in an incredibly bad mood. You have a delivery to make in...

Baggage, by Katherine Farmar
Average member rating: (11 ratings)

An exploration of stuckness, change, and the things we can’t let go.

Bakemono no Sekai - World of Monsters, by Gianluca Girelli
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

After graduating from the University of Tokyo and living in the overcrowded city for a few years, you decide to take a vacation and return to the village where you grew up. It is now a small town and the...

Baking with Lizzie, by Adri
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

Your friends are arriving soon, and you need to bake a batch of cookies! Now where is that recipe card...? This game was created for the Short & Sweet Jam.

Balances, by Graham Nelson
Average member rating: (39 ratings)

"A homage to Infocom's Enchanter Trilogy, at the same time showing some of the things that Inform is capable of doing." [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue]

Balder's Death, by Wynne Lok
Average member rating: (1 rating)

This is a simple retelling of the Norse myth about how the god Balder died. In this retelling, depending on your choices, you may find yourself playing as the blind god Hod, or as the trickster god Loki, or...

Ballyhoo, by Jeff O'Neill
Average member rating: (45 ratings)

Spangleland! Sawdust and glitter, buffoons and cotton candy! It's a place where your wildest dreams come true! At least, that's what you think... until you get behind the scenes at the big top. Then you...

Ballymun Adventure, by Brendan Cribbin
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

In this game, you play as a new male student at the school. As an orientation exercise, Mr Byrne, the principal, has organized a small competition. The winner will be the first student to bring four specific...

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...

Banana Apocalypse and the Rocket Pants of Destiny, by Emily Short
Average member rating: (16 ratings)

Barton, by Ricardo Dague
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

You play as Barton, an office worker who is also a dog. Your boss orders you to bring Shatner to the studio, pronto!

Basic Train-ing, by bpsp
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

An infantryman finds himself trapped on a peculiar train traveling through an even stranger forest. But could the situation be more than what it appears?

Basilica de Sangre, by Bitter Karella
Average member rating: (11 ratings)

What's a demon to do? Your mother has been missing for weeks. Rumor has it that she's being held prisoner in the infamous convent Basilica de Sangre. They say no demon has ever escaped from Basilica de...

Basket of Destiny, by John Cater
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

Battle of the Planets, by Gunther Schmidl
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

The Bean Stalker, by Jack Welch
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

Caught in an economic downturn, can Jack leverage his starving cow and climb the economic ladder? ...

Beanstalk the and Jack, by David Welbourn
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

The story of "Jack and the Beanstalk" - but backwards!

A Bear's Night Out, by David Dyte
Average member rating: (69 ratings)

"Tomorrow is the big Teddy Bear party, and you must definitely not let your owner forget about it..." [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue]

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

Beat the Devil, by Robert M. Camisa
Average member rating: (17 ratings)
You are some guy who, after a night of drinking and proclaiming that you'd sell your soul for a chance with the lovely Gwyneth, wakes up in a literal "Mall of Hell". It seems Lucifer overheard you and...

Beat Witch, by Robert Patten
Average member rating: (12 ratings)

An interactive loneliness ...

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A Beauty Cold and Austere, by Mike Spivey
Average member rating: (61 ratings)

That survey course in conceptual mathematics seemed like a good idea at the start of the term - no graded homework, no midterm exams - just an oral final at the end. But now that final is tomorrow morning....

Because You're Mine, by Owlor
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

Find the various components necessary to perform a dark ritual in a swamp populated by Horses. A Petite Mort entry for ECTOCOMP 2016.

Bedtime story, by Marius Müller
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

"Daddy, will you tell me a story?" asks your son, Danny. Your wife, Randa, started the story of Prince George and his quest to rescue a princess while you were away for six months. Now it's your turn to...

Bee, by Emily Short
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...

Beef, Beans, Grief, Greens, by Andrew Schultz
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

A quest to prepare a memorial feast.

Beet the Devil, by Carolyn VanEseltine
Average member rating: (35 ratings)

Your dog is gone. She must be brought. You have a beet (and some other vegetables).

Behavior, by William J. Shlaer
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

"Early Sunday morning, but already light when you wake. The desperate push to complete your thesis on the nocturnal performance of chickens has again foundered on the nocturnal performance of graduate...
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...

Being Andrew Plotkin, by J. Robinson Wheeler
Average member rating: (58 ratings)

"Zarf? you think to yourself. Could it be? The one and only Zarf? Xyzzy Award winner? IF Competition winner? The mighty Inscruitable One? Gosh. What it must be like to be Zarf... You begin to crawl forward,...

Being the Ending of the Beginning , by Chris Conley
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

(Intro text) Darkness It is pitch black. The only sound is an electrical hum.
Being the Little Guy, by Adam Biltcliffe
Average member rating: (2 ratings)
In this short game, you play as a humble farmer boy who lives in an enchanted glade with your friend, Patty the Unicorn. Unfortunately, Patty tells you that the evil and cruel Ogre Lord has another quest for...
Bellclap, by Tommy Herbert
Average member rating: (26 ratings)
Beneath: a Transformation, by Graham Lowther
Average member rating: (9 ratings)
In this Lovecraftian game inspired by the works of Robert E. Howard, you play as a poor resident of the rundown town of Stregoicavar. You want to continue reading your borrowed library book, Worms of the...
Berrost's Challenge, by Mark Hatfield
Average member rating: (7 ratings)
Light-hearted (semi-)heroic fantasy. Can an aging apprentice end his apprenticeship with a flourish (and a few new spells to cast)? Just an old-school text adventure with a tip of the cap to Infocom's...

Best Gopher Ever, by Arthur DiBianca
Average member rating: (23 ratings)

Help the unfortunate residents of Fairview! (Who are all animals, by the way.) A light puzzle game for all ages.

Best Laid Plans, by David Whyld
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

Your lab partner has been shot dead and you've been locked in a room, likely to face a similar fate. Your chances of escape are pretty slim as you have no weapons or means of opening the door. But, of...
The Best Man, by Rob Menke
Average member rating: (10 ratings)

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

A Bet's A Bet, by Santa's Helper
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

In this incomplete game, you play as a man who normally works in the finance department, but tonight, you're dressed as Santa Claus and you're on a roof with his reindeer. Somehow you lost a bet to Santa and...
Beta Tester, by Darren Ingram
Average member rating: (15 ratings)
The goal is discovery. The fun is walking around and doing and seeing, with an emphasis on games and puzzles.

Beyond, by Roberto Grassi, Paolo Lucchesi, and Alessandro Peretti
Average member rating: (45 ratings)

A mysterious death, a secret to be revealed… and someone who wants to know the truth, at any cost. ...

Beyond The Blue Event Wall, by Mark Musante
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

In this tiny game, you play as a dashing hero with a sword in a damp corridor infested with badgers. Go find something heroic to do, hero.
Beyond the Tesseract, by David Lo
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

Beyond Zork, by Brian Moriarty
Average member rating: (52 ratings)

Dread times have befallen the Kingdom of Quendor. The wizards have mysteriously disappeared. The Enchanter's Guild Hall lies in ruins. Villages are abandoned, drunken men mutter strange tales, and vicious...

The Bible Retold: The Bread and the Fishes, by Justin Morgan and Celestianpower
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

The Bible Retold: The Lost Sheep, by Ben Pennington
Average member rating: (18 ratings)
There is dissent in the ranks! One of your sheep makes a run for the next field, jumping gracefully over the hedgerows. You stand up quickly and collect your crook. You need that sheep!

The Bibliophile, by Marshal Tenner Winter
Average member rating: (10 ratings)

“Azathoth is a cosmic horror; a force outside of known physics, Higgins.” Doctor Coffey explains, “It is the embodiment of chaos and destruction and now Dennison has found a way to bring this nightmare...

Big Red Button, by Mister Nose
Average member rating: (9 ratings)

You walk into a temple one day. You see the holy Big Red Button. It is, of course, the holy button which none shall click. You try to resist the urge to click it. But the only command that does anything...

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:...

Bio, by David Linder
Average member rating: (10 ratings)

In this game, you play as a male live-in janitor for a scientific research facility in a Brazilian jungle. Tonight, the scientists are away at a convention and you're enjoying the peace and quiet....

Birmingham IV, by Peter Emery
Average member rating: (12 ratings)

A solitary scholar, his purpose and presence in the world a mystery even to himself, ventures abroad in a dream state. He finds a land of sunny lanes and dark forests, steeped in the blood of Celt, Saxon,...

Birth of Mind, by Justin de Vesine
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

(Intro text) You awake, the pain in your eyes gone after...you can’t even remember how long.
Biscuit, by Petar Kanuritch
Average member rating: (3 ratings)
In this game, it's your responsibility to arrange the funeral of the family's pet rabbit, Biscuit. You'll need a poem from your friend Peter to read, and your son Joe insists that the burial takes place in...

Blackness, by Michael Phipps
Average member rating: (9 ratings)

In this short horror game, you play as a hospital janitor. You just need to mop a couple floors and then you can go home. Assuming the blackness doesn't get you first.

The Blair Bee Project, by Adam Biltcliffe
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

SpeedIF game written for a Halloween event where every entry had to involve a black and orange colour scheme. Bees aren't really black and orange, but there you go.
Blast, by Richard Otter
Average member rating: (1 rating)
Your day starts with a headless receptionist and then just goes from bad to worse; don't you just hate Monday mornings.

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...

The Blind House, by Amanda Allen
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...

Bliss, by Cameron Wilkin
Average member rating: (19 ratings)

Bloodless on the Orient Express, by Hannes Schueller
Average member rating: (14 ratings)
1899: On the way to your well-earned summer vacation, the Orient Express gets stuck in a snow drift – and there is a murderer on board. Time to get out of your coffin and investigate!
The Bloody Mess, by Doug Jones
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

Blorp!, by Shawn Sijnstra
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

This is a short adventure set in an underwater brewery. You left your rather expensive experiments in the hands of your friend Dave, but you know something isn't right. The game has been updated to a...

Blow Job Drifter, by Big Al
Average member rating: (15 ratings)

Al speaks: "I feel confident that I have tapped the vast majority of male heterosexual fantasy cliches and offensive female stereotypes. The lack of cheerleaders is only due to a forthcoming game...
Blue, by Marius Müller
Average member rating: (13 ratings)
In a dying world, there is one last choice to make.
Blue Head Yurt, by Anonymous
Average member rating: (3 ratings)
In this very small game, you play as someone intrigued by the Blue Head Yurt, a primitive rock dwelling that contains a startling stone sculpture of a head. It seems made from a sandstone-like rock, but it...

The Blue Lettuce, by Caleb Wilson
Average member rating: (9 ratings)

You are a groundhog who lives in a wizard's magical garden. A text adventure suitable for children and beginners. Made for the Text Adventure Literacy Jam.

Blue Sky, by Hans Fugal
Average member rating: (9 ratings)

You play as a tourist in Santa Fe, New Mexico. You've overslept your first morning here and your tour group has already left the hotel without you. You'd better hurry up and find them!

The Blueprint, by Thaidaree
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

Proclaimed heretic, professor Archibald Foster is taken by the inquisition with proof of researching electricity.

Bmissfille, by Anonymous
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

Bobby and Bonnie, by Xavid
Average member rating: (16 ratings)

A light children's-story-ish adventure inexplicably starring rabbits.

The Body, by Sean Barrett
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

In this rather linear game loosely based on the Stephen King novella The Body, you play as a kid named Gordie Lachance. One of your friends found out about a dead body by the tracks outside of town, so a...

The Bony King of Nowhere, by Luke A. Jones
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

This is a relaxed small(ish) text adventure in the classic parser style (but with a much wider vocabulary), and also with a modest attempt at humour! Author's Comment: "After growing up with text adventures...

Book and Volume, by Nick Montfort
Average member rating: (13 ratings)

Your pager tickles you awake. Upstairs in the house of your childhood, in your room, and it must be time for school because -- no, it's the weekend, you remember, but your alarm is going off anyway. You...

The book of Fistandantalus, by Andrew Wilson
David Welbourn's rating:
Average member rating: (1 rating)

Find the book of magic owned by the great mage Fistandantalus rumoured to be somewhere in his home.
Bored Ladders, by Marius Müller
Average member rating: (2 ratings)
You are a respected member of your people. They have given you and Kevin a mission. Find the Tomb of the Unknown Tool and find the artifact that will defeat the evil Braintree, the oldest enemy of your...
A Boy And His Goat, by Ola Sverre Bauge
Average member rating: (4 ratings)
"Today's a big day; you're going into town to sell your family's only goat. Although you'll be sorry to see the old bleater go, the money will put food on your table for the winter. And if someone were to...

Brain Guzzlers from Beyond!, by Steph Cherrywell
Average member rating: (74 ratings)

You are Bonnie Noodleman, Ordinary Well-Adjusted Teen-Ager, on an ordinary well-adjusted drive up Make-Out Mountain--until some gooey monstrosity from beyond the stars guzzles your boyfriend's brains clean...

A Brain in the Rain, by Norman Perlmutter
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

Brain of the Night Guest, by Caelyn Sandel and Carolyn VanEseltine
Average member rating: (2 ratings)
You play as Alex, a student into pharmaceuticals. You passed out during a tour of the Plutonian Commonwealth museum, and now a maintenance bot is telling you the museum's closed and it'll take you to police...

Breakfast in the Dolomites, by Roberto Ceccarelli
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

It is the mid-1990s. On a Friday evening in the summer, a guy and his girlfriend leave work for a short holiday in the Dolomites. You play as Francesco, about 30 years old, blond hair. Francesco works as a...

The Bright Blue Ball, by Clary C.
Average member rating: (11 ratings)

You are Max, a beloved golden retriever, and you have to find your bright blue ball with only your sense of smell and your wits amidst danger and peril. Aimed at beginners. Kid friendly.

Bright Brave Knight Knave, by Andrew Schultz
Average member rating: (13 ratings)

Friends, for ends, or mends (more). Sixth in my Prime Pro-Rhyme Row series, though it is fully independent of the others. Option to skip one room with an off-color name and bonus puzzle.

Bronze, by Emily Short
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.

The Bryant Collection, by Gregory Weir
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

The Bryant Collection is an interactive anthology: a collection of ’story worlds’ by Laura Bryant. They were found at a yard sale in an old strongbox. Five pieces of interactive fiction written by...

BSE, by Chris Smith
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

Strange Things have been happening in Skebdale - and not just the BSE crisis, either. Rumours about devil-worshipping and all manner of strange happenings. Can you, as the unfortunate soul dispatched by the...

Buccaneer's Cache, by Wilfried Elmenreich
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

In this text adventure, you face big challenges and follow the tracks of a great pirate to discover his cache. Made with PunyInform, the Inform 6 compiler, and Ozmoo for the PunyJam#1 competition.

Bugged, by Anssi Räisänen
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

The conceit of this game is that your cousin has written a very buggy IF game that you are determined to play through to the end. Can you take advantage of the bugs in the game to get around the other bugs...
Bullhockey 2 - The Return of the Leather Whip, by B F Lindsay
Average member rating: (7 ratings)
Your girlfriend has disappeared--again--before your very ears.

Bullhockey!, by B F Lindsay
Average member rating: (10 ratings)

Your girlfriend has left you, leaving disturbing notes. And she--oops--lost your laundry. In various places. Around town. You can't have her back. But you can try to get your laundry.

Bureau of Strange Happenings, by Phil Riley
Average member rating: (11 ratings)

What secrets are concealed in the depths of a crumbling strip mall in the suburbs of Washington, D.C.? How is one supposed to open a desk drawer when the key is locked inside? Are there really such things as...

Bureaucracy, by Douglas Adams, The Staff of Infocom
Average member rating: (49 ratings)

IMPORTANT! Our records show that you do not have a license to operate this software. Normally, you would be required to complete a License Application Form and mail it (with proof of purchase) to our...

Buried Alive, by David Whyld
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

Unbelievable! You've been buried in the back garden by your wife who's left you for a younger man! Can you get out and get revenge before the soil starts closing in on you?
Buried In Shoes, by Kazuki Mishima
Average member rating: (24 ratings)
Everything is about the question. [blurb from IF Comp 2008]
Burnt Toast, by Josh Giesbrecht
Average member rating: (5 ratings)
You wake to the smell of burnt toast - but there's no smoke. The smell is coming from downstairs.
Business As Usual, by Abbi Park
You work at this place where visitors move the four "Grand Items" (book, shoe, vase, and lamp) from their proper rooms. Your job is to put them all back before the boss arrives--or else.
By the Lake, by Marius Müller (as Eldridge Murray)
Average member rating: (7 ratings)
An entry in ShuffleComp: Disc 2. Inspired by "The Ghost Who Walks" by Karen Elson.

Byzantine Perspective, by Lea Albaugh
Average member rating: (57 ratings)

Your task is simple enough. Just nab the chalice.

The Cabal, by Stephen Bond
Average member rating: (27 ratings)

In this satire, you play as a young American man who loves old puzzle-based IF. You are also racist, sexist, and prone to believe in conspiracies. While playing Infidel, you learn that a secret society...

Cabin Fever, by Dr. Froth
Average member rating: (9 ratings)

An entry in the 2007 One Room Game competition. You are on vacation in a cabin far from anywhere, snowed in, unable to reach civilization for several hours at least. You are bored.

Cacophony, by Owen Parish
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

The sand stretches around you in all directions. There is a grassy countryside. Rocks are scattered about. You are in a room. The room has walls and a ceiling. You blink. It seems as though you've been...

Calliope, by Jason McIntosh
Average member rating: (10 ratings)

Camping, by Gunther Schmidl
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

"An interactive, well, camping trip. See if you can solve it in more than two moves." [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue]

Campus Invaders, by Marco Vallarino
Average member rating: (14 ratings)

For some time you have been waiting for the open day of the Vigamus Academy to visit the building that also hosts the game design course taught by Professor Mark M. Etal. Just arrived, however, you saw a...

Can You Escape, by Last but not Least

In this minimalistic challenge, you have decided to escape from the haunted house. Some creatures in the house are helpful, but most are not. Find the right path through the house to win.
Cana According To Micah, by Christopher Huang (as Rev. Stephen Dawson)
Average member rating: (20 ratings)
Being an account of the wedding at Cana, by the servant Micah; in which further details, doubtlessly apocryphal, are given of the event, including his contention with a surly Baptist, an interfering orphan,...
The Canapés of Death, by Cedric Knight
Average member rating: (2 ratings)
Candy, by Ryan Stevens
Average member rating: (10 ratings)
"You are playing a small child dropped off at the house of its aunt, on a desperate quest for candies. This is a beta version of "Candy."" [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue]
Captain Cumshot's Second Adventure: The Rim Job, by Jake Wildstrom
Average member rating: (2 ratings)
In the second installment of the Captain Cumshot series, the eponymous major (after a promotion) travels to the furthest reaches of the galaxy to repair a malfunctioning unmanned mining station. Except for...

Captain Cutter's Treasure, by Garry Francis
Average member rating: (9 ratings)

You wake up in the broom closet of The Red Anchor with a nasty bump on the back of your head. A note is pinned to the wall with a knife. It says, 'Return me treasure by sunset or the girl gets it. - Cutter'....

Captain Piedaterre's Blunders, by Wade Clarke
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

"You are Captain Piedaterre, proud rat, scourge of a good number of seas and collector of amazing things that people forget to nail down and don't seem to care about when they go missing." Captain...

Captain Speedo: The New Generation Series Premiere: Missed by a hair - but not forgotten!, by Gilles Duchesne
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

In this short game, you play as Erik Starson, a young boy who idolizes Captain Speedo, the famous galactic hero from yesteryear. Erik and a magnetic comb will play pivotal roles in engineering Captain...

Captivity, by Jim Aikin
Average member rating: (17 ratings)

Locked in a tower in a castle by an evil duke — how annoying. And you’re not even a princess! Duke Esteban is demanding an outrageous ransom of your well-born and well-meaning but cash-strapped parents,...

Capture Santa!, by James Higgins
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

In this strange little game, it's the night before Christmas Eve, and you hate that Santa keeps breaking into your home every year to leave a present. You're gonna set some traps and capture that fat man...

Cargo Breach, by Garry Francis
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

You wake suddenly. When you look out the porthole, you see that it's dark outside. It should be light. You must have overslept. Why didn't anyone wake you? Maybe they felt sorry for you after you got seasick...

Carnival, by Admiral Jota
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

You play as someone visiting the carnival. You've had a great day, but you haven't won a prize yet.

Carpathian Vampire, by Garry Francis
Average member rating: (10 ratings)

Deep in the Carpathian Mountains, the Romanian villagers tell tales of the strigoi. The strigoi are said to be troubled spirits that have risen from the grave. They are attributed with the abilities to...

The Case of LeAnne's Missing Bunny, Wendy, by Ryan Veeder
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

A Haunted House Jam entry by Sheridan Mitchell.
The Case of Samuel Gregor, by Stephen Hilderbrand
Average member rating: (6 ratings)
Casino Viridoso V, by Anonymous
Average member rating: (2 ratings)
In this very short game, you play as someone playing slots at the casino. Then the famous actor Harry Q. Suppertime IV walks in, a smiling dame on his arm. They're celebrating their five-week anniversary....
CASK, by Harry M. Hardjono
Average member rating: (8 ratings)
"The author's first stab at interactive fiction. A very buggy game that consists mainly of obscure puzzles, with no story at all." [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue]
Castaway, by Conrad Knopf
David Welbourn's rating:
Average member rating: (4 ratings)
You are shipwrecked in the Pacific. Slowly you drift through the fog until you find a deserted island. There you find countless treasures, but they are worthless if you cannot return to civilization. Will...
Castle Amnos, by John Evans
Average member rating: (4 ratings)
""crux ('kr&ks, 'kruks) Function: noun Etymology: Latin cruc-, crux cross, torture 1 : a puzzling or difficult problem : an unsolved question 2 : an essential point requiring resolution or resolving an...

Castle of the Red Prince, by C.E.J. Pacian
Average member rating: (55 ratings)

Welcome to Amaranth, foreigner. The Red Prince haunts your dreams, you say? If you want to overthrow our tyrant, you’ll need to consider this whole blighted land at once. (Castle of the Red Prince is a...

The Castle of Vourtram, by Alexandre Torres
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

The Kingdom of Gwalinad is in its last days of existence. The evil wizard Vourtram, aided by an army of demoniac creatures, razed most of the old cities, spreading terror everywhere. When the capital...

Castronegro Blues, by Marshal Tenner Winter
Average member rating: (12 ratings)

You listen to the dame on the other end of the phone as she finishes her plight. "My brother has gone missing. I want you to find him." You promised yourself a vacation, but this broad sounds a bit dishy....

The Cat in the Tree, by Roy Lee

Catch That Haggis, by Adam Biltcliffe
Average member rating: (1 rating)
In this small silly game, you play as a green tentacled alien. You and Xurg need to pick up an indigenous lifeform from the Scottish Highlands to take home.
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...
Catventure, by Sleepy Macaw
Average member rating: (3 ratings)
You are a cat who purrrsues their dream of running away to Chipawgo.
Causality, by Hugo Martay
Average member rating: (3 ratings)
The Cave of Morpheus, by Mark Silcox
Average member rating: (4 ratings)
"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...
The Cenric Family Curse, by Jonathan Snyder
Average member rating: (7 ratings)
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....

Chapter Zero: Welcome to Cicada Creek, by P. F. Sheckarski
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

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: (18 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: (10 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]
The Chicken Under the Window, by Lucian P. Smith
Average member rating: (10 ratings)
"A pastiche of sorts of The Space Under the Window. Get the chicken across the road." [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue]
Chicken!, by Gunther Schmidl
Average member rating: (5 ratings)
"There's this chicken, see, and this road..." [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue]
The Chicken's Dilemma, by Jason Dyer
Average member rating: (4 ratings)
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...
Chickens of Distinction, by Liza Daly
Average member rating: (6 ratings)
"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: (27 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: (54 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...

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: (61 ratings)

Choose Your Own Romance, by David Dyte
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

Choose Your Own Three Hour Adventure, by David Whyld
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...
Choose Your Own..., by David Whyld
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...

A Christmas Game: The Sequel, by Luke.A. Jones
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

It's Christmas eve, and once again you've left your preparations a bit late, and are missing some essential items for a decent Christmas. You'd better head out into town to get some shopping done, problem is...

The Christmas Party, by OldGrover

A Christmas Quest, by Richard Pettigrew
Average member rating: (4 ratings)
A retro style text adventure with a Christmas theme!
Christminster, by Gareth Rees
Average member rating: (88 ratings)
"When your brother Malcolm sends you a telegram inviting you to visit him at Biblioll College in the ancient university town of Christminster, you imagine that the mysterious `discovery' he alludes to is...
Chronicle Play Torn, by Penczer Attila
Average member rating: (6 ratings)
In this fantasy quest, your granduncle, the occultist Jumon Hakai, has disappeared. Searching his mansion for clues, you learn he was plagued by a visitor from Nexus Eden, another world whose portal is in...
The Chronicler, by John Evans
Average member rating: (21 ratings)
A short game with a few interesting tricks.
The Circus of Sadness, by Duncan Cross
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

Citizen of Nowhere, by Luke A. Jones
Average member rating: (9 ratings)

The King, your father, is dead. You have refused to take the crown and the land of Nowhere has instead evolved into a republic. A simple invitation to the capital city of Lost sparks an epic quest as forces...

The Citizen of the Year: The Game, by KG

Inspired by the brickfilm made by Watson ( Players Unfamilier with The Citizen of the Year are encouraged to type About for more info )

City of Dead Leaves, by Felix Pleșoianu
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

There's nothing left in your life. There's nothing left in anyone's life. Will he even remember you after all this time? Will he want you back? ...

The City, by Sam Barlow
Average member rating: (9 ratings)

"An interactive short experience." This game is intended not as an exploration or a challenge, more as a situation. Stylistically interesting for its lack of banners, opening-titles, location-headers,...

Civil Mimic, by Andrew Schultz
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

Short entry for EctoComp 2017. A simple puzzle.

Civil Seeming Drivel Dreaming, by Andrew Schultz
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

Okay, so semi-content warning up front: there's one thing where you are logically cued to say something very bad, but CSDD discourages you strongly beforehand, and hopefully you're rightfully punished for...
Class Challenge, by Daniel Gunnell
Average member rating: (1 rating)
In this game, you must escape a detention set by your English teacher Mr Mcwalters. He is based on a real life person of the same name.

A Clean Getaway, by Michael Bub
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

A PunyJam #3 game In this small escape game, you play as a PhD student and research scientist in an exciting new field. While working late after midnight in the clean room, you notice you're alone, which...

The Clock, by Cleopatra Kozlowski
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"You've done it again. This is what you get for being easy-going and good natured. Kitty called you up last night at some inhuman time, and implored you to come over to her house at the edge of town. You've...

Clusterflux, by Marshal Tenner Winter
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You have a new pet but it happens to be a talking mongoose. You have a new friend but she seems to have come from another place and time. And you have fun housemates but some of them have dropped off the...

The Coast House, by Stephen Newton and Dan Newton
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"The mystery, for you, started two years ago. "Come here, there's something I want to tell you," your old grandfather had said, "Quick, before your mother comes back in the room." The smell of antiseptic and...

Code Name Silver Steel, by SpecialAgent
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

A freelance spy is a great job. It pays well and you get to travel to new and interesting places. Unless you get caught, that part is not so great. You open the unmarked envelope and unfold the mission...

Coffee Quest II, by Dog Solitude
Average member rating: (9 ratings)

In this very silly game, you play as a bored office worker who just wants a decent coffee. Go find it.
Coffins, by Christopher Huang
Average member rating: (7 ratings)
Coke Is It!, by Lucian P. Smith, Adam Thornton, J. Robinson Wheeler, Michael Fessler, Dan Shiovitz, David Dyte
Average member rating: (19 ratings)
"Ahhhh! Another can of refreshing Coca-Cola! You sigh in contentment as you partake of the sweet carbonated beverage, so recently purchased. But what's this? The dispenser light is still on! You can select...
Cold Iron, by Andrew Plotkin (as Lyman Clive Charles)
Average member rating: (38 ratings)
Your good axe has gone missing. Reverd Pearson would say you're a careless lunkhead who'd lose his ear if it wasn't nailed on. You figure he's right, a man of the cloth, but that doesn't mean piskeys didn't...
Color and Number, by Steven Kollmansberger
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Color of Milk Coffee, by Anonymous
Average member rating: (3 ratings)
The Colour Pink, by Robert Street
Average member rating: (15 ratings)
In this game, you are a spaceman sent to investigate an out-of-contact colony on an abandoned planet. Your mission is to find out what happened to the scientists and report back to the Captain. But what do...

Colours, by J. Robinson Wheeler
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"Out of the TextFire "12-pack", this is an April's Fool game "demo" all about colours - you need to change the sterile world you're in into a truly blue experience." [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue] This...

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...

Common Ground, by Stephen Granade
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Comp00ter Game, by Brendan Barnwell
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"play my comp00ter game and yyuo wil see its glory!!!!!" [--blurb from Competition Aught-Zero]
Compliance, by Chris Conley
This is an experimental project, designed to be tightly integrated with a music system and sound effects. Playing without an interpreter capable of sound playback is not recommended. Music and Sound Design...
The Computer Lady, by Daniel Gunnell
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The Computer Lady Ltd is a small business in New Romney, England. It repairs computers, software and even trains the elderly to use social media. This game is based on it, where you must try to repair your...
CompXX, by Lucian P. Smith
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A "front-end" game for the IF Competition, providing information on all the games and systems used to run them, plus the ability to sort the games you can play into a random list, and prepare a ballot....
Conan Kill Everything, by Ian Haberkorn
Average member rating: (68 ratings)
In this short one-room game, you play as Conan with a very large sword, and an evil wizard has just summoned a wildcat to attack you. Your goal is obvious: KILL EVERYTHING.
Concrete Paradise, by Tyson Ibele
Average member rating: (6 ratings)
Condemned, by Mark Jones
Average member rating: (18 ratings)
Connect, by James Hudson
Average member rating: (4 ratings)
You huddle in the concrete cell. Ever since the Hedonans built their outpost in the valley near your village, you never gave them any reason to single you out. Maybe it has something to do with the strange...
Constraints, by Martin Bays
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Containment, by Kevin Mintmier
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In your six months as a night-shift security guard for the RPV-1 reactor station, you've taken several naps on the job without consequence. Apparently your luck just ran out.

Conversation with a Hitchhiker, by James Webb

The Corn Identity, by Carl Muckenhoupt, Serhei Makarov, Tama Wise, J. Robinson Wheeler, A O Muniz, Admiral Jota, Andrew Schepler, Jacqueline A. Lott, Sam Kabo Ashwell, Dan Shiovitz, John Cater, Duchess, and Mark Musante
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

Corrupter of Dreams, by Robert Patten
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

You are a nightmare in paradise.

Couch of Doom, by Megan Moser and Margaret Moser
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Can you get yourself off the couch?

The Count of Monte Cristo, by Duchess
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In this very short adaption of Alexandre Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo, you play as Edmond Dantes, a man wrongly imprisoned for espionage. Escape your cell in Chateau d'Cliff and take your revenge on...

Counterfeit Monkey, by Emily Short
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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...

The Courier Who Missed Me, by Christopher Huang
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In this small game, you play as a dashing young secret agent. You're here on West Avenue to stop the Courier from delivering the secret plans to the Roman.

The Cove, by Kathleen M. Fischer
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Cragne Manor, by Ryan Veeder, Jenni Polodna et al.
Show other authorsAdam Whybray, Adri, Andrew Plotkin, Andy Holloway, Austin Auclair, Baldur Brückner, Ben Collins-Sussman, Bill Maya, Brian Rushton, Buster Hudson, Caleb Wilson, Carl Muckenhoupt, Chandler Groover, Chris Jones, Christopher Conley, Damon L. Wakes, Daniel Ravipinto, Daniel Stelzer, David Jose, David Petrocco, David Sturgis, Drew Mochak, Edward B, Emily Short, Erica Newman, Feneric, Finn Rosenløv, Gary Butterfield, Gavin Inglis, Greg Frost, Hanon Ondricek, Harkness Munt, Harrison Gerard, Ian Holmes, Ivan Roth, Jack Welch, Jacqueline Ashwell, James Eagle, Jason Dyer, Jason Lautzenheiser, Jason Love, Jeremy Freese, Joey Jones, Joshua Porch, Justin de Vesine, Justin Melvin, Katherine Morayati, Kenneth Pedersen, Lane Puetz, Llew Mason, Lucian Smith, Marco Innocenti, Marius Müller, Mark Britton, Mark Sample, Marshal Tenner Winter, Matt Schneider, Matt Weiner, Matthew Korson, Michael Fessler, Michael Gentry, Michael Hilborn, Michael Lin, Mike Spivey, Molly Ying, Monique Padelis, Naomi Hinchen, Nate Edwards, Petter Sjölund, Q Pheevr, Rachel Spitler, Reed Lockwood, Reina Adair, Riff Conner, Roberto Colnaghi, Rowan Lipkovits, Sam Kabo Ashwell, Scott Hammack, Sean M. Shore, Shin, Wade Clarke, Zach Hodgens, Zack Johnson

Average member rating: (26 ratings)

A tribute to Anchorhead.

Cramming, by Chuck Bartholomew
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A brief foray into the world of Interactive Fiction. Mostly a way to learn Inform. Play as a college student minutes away from the due date of their final project. Get it done and hand it in. Pray for a...
Cranial Pounding, by Simmon Keith
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

The Crescent City at the Edge of Disaster, by Emily Short
Average member rating: (14 ratings)

A Speed-IF featuring New Orleans, Emeril, and armed hamsters.

Crimson Detritus, by Dana Crane
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The boss caught you playing ADRIFT at work and now you have to pay the price, as you suddenly find yourself on a strange planet covered in crimson dust...

Crocodracula: The Beginning, by Ryan Veeder and Harrison Gerard
Average member rating: (12 ratings)

The first Taleframe game based on the 90s children's horror soap opera.

The Cross of Fire, by Matthew Carey
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The Crouton Caper, by Andrew Schepler
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Cruel and Hilarious Punishment, by Mel S
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The Cruise, by Norman Perlmutter
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You play as a male tourist on a 3-day Caribbean cruise on The Rhinoceros. It seems like a normal vacation until a self-proclaimed good and powerful wizard asks you to find and use three power crystals to...
Cryptographer, by David Fisher
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A simple code breaking game, where each letter of the alphabet is replaced with another one. The texts to decode are all to do with Interactive Fiction. An entry in the C-40 competition, which required games...
Crystal and Stone, Beetle and Bone, by Jenny Brennan
Average member rating: (8 ratings)
You are God! The last God and Lornedei is your only true believer. You need her to stand against the coming dark. Can you guide her? Will she follow?
Crystal Ball, by Marian Taylor
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The Crystal Palace, by Peter Orme
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

Your decision to spend a quiet weekend in the cabin that belonged to your second cousin (now gone missing) was not so strange. The strange things only started afterwards, when you started poking around the...

The Cube in the Cavern, by Andrew Schultz
Average member rating: (9 ratings)

A round world is scientifically ridiculous, of course, but a cube floating in air? You just might find a great scientific secret. Don't be too square to give it a try!

The Cube, by Eleanor Gang and Simon Smart
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A light-hearted journey through space and relative dimensions.

The Curse of Dragon Shrine, by Dana Crane
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Curse of the Garden Isle, by Ryan Veeder
Average member rating: (12 ratings)

Let's both take a deep breath.

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...

Custard, by Evin Robertson
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Cyber Warp, by Robby L.
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As the fire warrior "Flame", you must enter a cyber warp and rescue your partner "Lightning" from the overlord of Bisstonia.
d2d, by Simon Lamont
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Daddy's Birthday, by Jonathan8
Average member rating: (8 ratings)
It all started with a walkthrough of an imaginary game that 8-year-old Ruth typed for Daddy's birthday... then Daddy converted it into a real game, with Ruth's help. It is possible to play it exactly as in...
The Damp Camp, by James Dean and Jarvist Frost
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The Damsel and the Dragon, by Richard Bos
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In this very short one-room game set in someone's personal library, you play as a would-be hero. The Damsel, Elise, is in obvious Distress. Could you please turn off her Dragon computer for her?
Dancing Even Him?, by Richard Otter
Average member rating: (3 ratings)
You enjoyed the party at your friends last night, good food, plenty to drink and loads of chat. You can't remember what fool suggested they get the quija board out and then if that wasn't bad enough it moved...
Danger School, by Dan Shiovitz
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

Dangerous Curves, by Irene Callaci
Average member rating: (23 ratings)

Danny Dipstick, by Garry Francis
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

You need to find a girlfriend, but all the girls think you're a dork. Try to overcome your dorkiness to pick up a girl.

Dark and Deep, by Amanda Walker
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Secrets, sins, and bones that will not rest. Content warnings: Violence, death, murder, sexual content

A Dark and Stormy Entry, by Emily Short
Average member rating: (26 ratings)

Dark Continent, by Conrad Knopf
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You have traveled to darkest Africa in search of King Solomon's Diamond. But after 3 days, your native bearers desert you and take your money and supplies. Will you survive and find the diamond, or will you...
Dark Soul, by A O Muniz
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Darkiss! Wrath of the Vampire - Chapter 1: the Awakening, by Marco Vallarino
Average member rating: (24 ratings)

You're the nightmare from which people can't wake. Dead twice. One by the hand of your maker, the second by the fiend who drove a stake through your heart while you were sleeping defenceless in your coffin....

Darkiss! Wrath of the Vampire - Chapter 2: Journey to Hell, by Marco Vallarino
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Ovranilla: a gloomy land full of traps. And wicked monsters. Carmilla, Millarca and Mircalla: the priestesses of the god Valmar, waiting for you in the devil's hole. Welcome back, Martin Voigt. Will hell be...

Darkness Falls, by CJ592

You play a private detective investigating the disappearance of your friend. His last known location was a small run down motel in the middle of nowhere.

Dash Slapney and the Calamitous Candy Corn Cornucopia, by Andrew Schultz
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

Written for Ectocomp 2011. A bunch of do-gooders are out to take the chocolate fun out of halloween. You must foil them...without seeming like you did anything right.

Dawn of the Demon, by Paul Drallos
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This game takes place in the world of Zork, in and near the twin towns of Pheebor and Borphee, but hundreds of years before the events of the Zork series. You play as a young adventurer who plans to find the...
A Day at the Iachini House, by Michael Iachini
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Spend a day at the Puzzle house doing light household chores.

A Day at the Seaside, by Matthew Hunter
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A Day for Fresh Sushi, by Emily Short
Average member rating: (99 ratings)

No time for fantasy. Must feed fish.

A Day for Soft Food, by Tod Levi
Average member rating: (30 ratings)

"Ever since the provider's sickness began, he's been all hisses and growls. Even the slightest misstep seems to annoy him. Perhaps that's why your bowl has held nothing but hard food lately. And not much of...

The Day I came back, by Marius Müller
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Will the lovers be reunited after Alex fell beyond time and memory on Mercury in the last game? And who the hell is Marsha?
The Day I died, by Marius Müller
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This year, our heroes try to escape a prison on Mercury, which is luckily very earth-like.
The Day I hugged Ghandi, by Marius Müller
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"The Day I hugged Ghandi" is the fourth entry in the Alex & Paul series, and sees our heroes on a yachting trip. Includes mermaids.
The Day I mauled ..., by Marius Müller
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In this game, you once again play as Alex, a young gay man attending another New Year's Eve party at your boyfriend Paul's. Paul keeps having unexpected problems at his parties, like this Thompson's gazelle...
The Day I saved Elvis , by Marius Müller
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"The Day I saved Elvis" is the fifth entry in the Alex and Paul series, and sees our heroes on the mysterious Voodoo Island.
The Day I shot ..., by Marius Müller
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You play as Alex, a young gay man attending a New Year's Eve party at your boyfriend Paul's. Paul would just love to host a perfect party, but he keeps running into unexpected problems, like this mouse in...
The Day I shot Alex, by Marius Müller
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Paul is at the perfect party! But someone is missing...
The Day I stabbed Stalin, by Marius Müller
Average member rating: (4 ratings)
The third part in the Alex and Paul series. Contains some violence.
A Day in Life, by John Goettle
David Welbourn's rating:
Average member rating: (2 ratings)
A day in life is a game where you ride vehicles and buy things.
The Day of the Queen, by Marius Müller
Average member rating: (2 ratings)
"I thought you were done with this!" yells Paul and hits the gas. "You mean running away from Sharkmen?" "Getting us in trouble!" he grumbles and handbrakes the golf cart around a corner.
The Day time stood still, by Marius Müller
Average member rating: (4 ratings)
Dear Abbie, I have a problem with my marriage and I don't know what to do. My husband Paul and I had our troubles in the past, but now he is possessed by the spirit of his evil Uncle Wally, while the forest...
The Day we got a pet, by Marius Müller
Average member rating: (3 ratings)
Man, what a relief. The Time Rangers finally reset all that damage that you and Paul and basically everyone did to the timeline faster than you can say "soft reboot". Now you and him are living back in your...

De Baron, by Victor Gijsbers
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
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...

A dead man's hug, by "Leaner Gilts"
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You are being chased by an angry cassowary....
Dead of Winter, by Gunther Schmidl (as 'Christina Pagniacci')
Average member rating: (15 ratings)
In this short story that's part romance and part tragedy, you play as a young woman. A week ago, the Ice Queen stole your boyfriend from your bed, leaving a snowflake in his place. Now, you stand outside her...
Dead Pavane for a Princess, by Emily Boegheim
Average member rating: (14 ratings)
You are Maurice Ravel, the noted composer. You must find a way to escape from your study, for your poor friend — now your zombified ex-friend — Claude Debussy lurks outside!

Deadline, by Marc Blank
Average member rating: (60 ratings)

Twelve hours to solve the mystery. One false move, and the killer strikes again. It's been called "part of the latest craze in home computing (TIME magazine), an "amazing feat of programming" (THE NEW YORK...

Deadline, or, Being Douglas Adams, by Gunther Schmidl
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

In this short one-room tribute to Douglas Adams, you play as someone in the bath with a rubber ducky. The phone is ringing, but it's quite far away from you.
Deadsville, by William McDuff
Average member rating: (6 ratings)
DEATH DEATH DEATH DEATH, by Gunther Schmidl
Average member rating: (4 ratings)
Death Number Four, by Dave Footitt
Average member rating: (5 ratings)
With a familiar crackle, you come into existence once more. You find yourself in a broom closet and you wonder why you are needed. In the beginning of the game, you have to work out who (or what) you are and...
The Death of Two Great Minds, by Alex Watson
Average member rating: (3 ratings)
In this small tribute game to Douglas Adams, you play as Arthur Dent. Together with Fenchurch and Ford, you have travelled to the planet Preliumtarn to read God's Final Message To His Creation, which is said...

Death off the Cuff, by Simon Christiansen
Average member rating: (54 ratings)

They all stare at you expectantly, like children waiting to be told a bedtime story. Who can blame them? You are, after all, Antoine Saint Germain, the great French detective. No criminal has ever been a...

December 31, 2002, by Christopher Shelton
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Deep Breathing, by Admiral Jota
Average member rating: (11 ratings)
In this very abbreviated version of The Three Little Pigs, you play as someone tall and furry, with immense lungs and an empty stomach. You have tracked your quarry to a shack in the woods. There is, of...
Deep Brow Lifter, by Neil deMause
Average member rating: (1 rating)
Define Far, by N. B. Horvath
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

Delicious Breakfast, by Molly G.
Average member rating: (9 ratings)

This is a re-implementation of the first work I finished in Inform 7. I made it for Glorious Trainwrecks' Pirate Kart 2, then re-released an improved version (along with a bunch of other games) for the IGF...

Delightful Wallpaper, by Andrew Plotkin ('Edgar O. Weyrd')
Average member rating: (78 ratings)

Delusions Again, by Duncan Bowsman
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You are Kevin Masters, a gloomy man in a diner with your friend Jim. Something is wrong with you for some ambiguous reason involving a woman named Marilyn.
Descent of Man, by Jake Wildstrom
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

Desert Heat, by Papillon
Average member rating: (10 ratings)

"WARNING. This game is intended for mature readers and may contain explicit sexual scenes and/or questionable consensuality depending on play. It is possible to complete the game without encountering these...

Desolation, by Earth Traveler
Average member rating: (10 ratings)

You barely escaped your pursuers as you ran from the mansion. Now you must survive a vast, trackless desert with no food or water, and escape the grasp of a demonic cult... Written as a sequel to "Two braids...

Dessert Island Adventure, by Nils Fagerburg
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Visit a deserted dessert island! Collect magic ingredients! Learn some spells and invent new ones!

Destiny of the Chihuahua, by Adam Biltcliffe
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

A SpeedIF game from 2001. 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...

Detective Osiris, by Adam Burt
Average member rating: (17 ratings)

Death. Conception. Genesis. Mystery. ...

The Devil Made Me Do It, by David Cornelson
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

"Sitting atop a small white picket fence, you watch the children play in their backyard. Behind you, is old Mr. Harkin's place, an odd place, with an odd owner. What evil might we do today? As the Devil...

Dial C for Cupcakes, by Ryan Veeder
Average member rating: (33 ratings)

A cantankerous ex-cop calls in a favor from his old partner.

Diddlebucker!, by J. Michael
Average member rating: (13 ratings)

Who's the best and brightest Gamer of 'em all? Find out by joining the 27th Annual All-Night Diddlebucker Run! You'll compete against hundreds of other teams in the world's most popular scavenger hunt! Find...

Digging for Onions, by Christopher Huang
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

You play as an archaeologist at the site of the Eiffel Tower. Since it's a day of rest, you dare not do any work and risk being struck down by moonbeams. But you do love to look at the work already done and...
Digging thru Doctrine of the Dead, by Simmon Keith
Average member rating: (3 ratings)
Digging Time!, by Rob Wheeler
Average member rating: (2 ratings)
You are Mendoza, a miner on Pluto. The planetoid is shaking. You need to find your fellow miners and get off this rock before it breaks apart completely.
Dining With the Alien, by R. N. Dominick
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

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...

Dinnertime, by Bob Reeves
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

Not a game but a single puzzle, a simple and ancient one.
Dino Hunt, by Admiral Jota
Average member rating: (5 ratings)
In this small game, you play as a kid in a playground. You want to play dinosaurs in the sand box, but you forgot to bring your toy dinosaurs with you.
A Dino's Night Out, by Aris Katsaris
Average member rating: (2 ratings)
In this small game, you play as a one-foot-tall velociraptor pet, but you are dissatisfied. Is this really how your life should be? Tonight, while your "owner" Tim and his family sleep, you will explore the...
Dinosaur Dinnertime!, by David A. Clysdale
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Dinosaur Love, by Anonymous
Average member rating: (2 ratings)
Diorama, by Anonymous
Average member rating: (4 ratings)
You play as a fourth grade boy who made a cool diorama of a Maasai village for school, but the toy cow is missing! Is it hidden in the diorama somewhere? Or did one of your classmates take it?
Discord, by Sean Barrett
Average member rating: (3 ratings)
"These three are a hardened bunch. No matter how you’ve hammered them independently, they haven’t caved. But then Second Detective Leftenant Gustav Schmidt got the bright idea: put ’em together and see...

Ditch Day Drifter, by Michael J. Roberts
Average member rating: (23 ratings)

You're an undergraduate at Caltech, and you wake up to find it's Ditch Day, the traditional event when seniors leave the campus for the day, leaving behind puzzles for the underclassmen to solve in order to...

Dithyrambic Bastards, by Sam Kabo Ashwell
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

Djibouti Dirigible Discombobulation, by Sam Kabo Ashwell
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

Djinn on the Rocks, by Joshua Wilson
Average member rating: (12 ratings)

James Merl III is a thrice-cursed pain in your magically imprisoned butt. What are you going to do about it? ...

Domestic Elementalism, by fireisnormal
Average member rating: (25 ratings)

The plants that grow out of your bedroom walls are associated with Earth. The fairy lights strung across your kitchen are associated with Fire. Change an object's element, and the object will turn into...

Domicile, by John Evans
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

Don't Fire Until You See The Yellows Of Their Niblets, by Dan Shiovitz
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

You're working the night shift at the Big Foods supermarket. You just need to finish sweeping the produce aisle and you can go home... unless you find yourself fighting a duel to the death with a corn...
Don't Push The Mailbox, by Ralfe Rich
Average member rating: (3 ratings)
You have no idea why that thing is here or what ancient powers were used to bring this thing here of all places. But everything will be fine as long as you Don't Push The Mailbox.
Don't Push The Mailbox 2 And Aisle, by Ralfe Rich
Average member rating: (3 ratings)
A tribute to "Pick Up the Phone Booth and Aisle" and sequel to Don't Push The Mailbox. This game was originally entered into The Emily Short Anniversary Contest.
Don't Shit Your Pants, by Kenny Lee and Teddy Lee
Average member rating: (10 ratings)
Doom, Death, Destruction and All That, by Jason Dyer
Average member rating: (2 ratings)
In this tiny one-room game, you're attending the 2009 XYZZY Awards. Psmith is about to present the award for Best Game, but then you hear someone mention there's a hidden bomb and the doors are locked. And...
Doomsday, by Admiral Jota
Average member rating: (3 ratings)
In this game, you play as Agent Seafoam, a secret agent from the future. Disguised as a Taco Bell janitor, you have traveled to 1999 to prevent Agent Blue from delivering the plans to the Doomsday Machine...
Down, by Kent Tessman
Average member rating: (7 ratings)
In this short game, you play as a survivor of an airplane crash. You regain consciousness on a gentle slope with a broken leg, your watch beside you. Help yourself and the other survivors as best you can.

Down and Out at the Big Creepy House on the Poison Lake, by Shii
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

Yeah, so it looks like I'm a dope and wrecked my boat at this nasty old house.

Downtown Tokyo, Present Day, by John Kean
Average member rating: (25 ratings)

"In this game you actually play two people - one is the real you, sitting in the dark in a movie theatre, and the other is the hero of the film that you are watching. Originally conceived for Adam Cadre's...

Dr Ego and the egg of Man-Toomba, by Wesley Werner (as 'Special Agent')
Average member rating: (12 ratings)

You are Dr Ego, purveyor of artifacts, seeker of treasure, and adventurous archeologist. You explore the jungles of Papua New Guinea with hopes to find a mysterious artifact - the golden egg of Man-Toomba.

Dr Horror's House of Terror, by Ade McT
Average member rating: (20 ratings)

The Grave cannot hold them...Nothing human can stop them...Torn from their tombs to terrify the world, the cravings of their undead blood made them kill...kill...KILL! Feel the chill of the crypt in your...

Dr Ludwig and the Devil, by SV Linwood
Average member rating: (48 ratings)

Join esteemed mad scientist Dr Ludwig as he faces the greatest challenge of his nefarious career: making a deal with the Devil and coming out on top. ...

Dr. Death's House of Horrors, by John Olsen
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

You stand in a medieval jail cell, watching the stone walls close together to crush you. If you can escape, you must still find the keys to freedom hidden somewhere in the wax museum known as Dr. Death's...

Dr. Dumont's Wild P.A.R.T.I., by Muffy Berlyn and Michael Berlyn
Average member rating: (9 ratings)

"Failing physics--again--would be traumatic enough. But now, you're trapped inside a Particle Accelerator and Reality Translation Integrator, the product of mad genius meeting mixed metaphors. Originally...

Dracula - Prince of Darkness (formerly "House of the Midnight Sun"), by Paul T. Johnson
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

The Dragon Diamond [modern versions], by Kenneth Pedersen
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

PLOT Your name is Bash, a famous warrior, ordered by the evil Queen Drana to obtain the fabled Dragon Diamond from the Forest of Fear. The queens chauffeur Leon drives you to the outskirts of the forest in a...

Dragon Flies Like Labradorite, by Troy Jones III
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

"You're in a right proper mess now. That blasted dragonfly has gone and disappeared, and what's more, you're down to your last farthing..." This game was released as an entrant in the Thanksgiving Speed-IF...

Dragon George and the Man, by Marnie Parker
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

In this fantasy adventure, you play as a young dragon named George. While trying to find an underground troll kingdom, you are attacked by a mimesis-breaking man named Bruce who finds you too cute and...
Dragon Resources Stories, by Anonymous
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

The Dragon Will Tell You Your Future Now, by Newsreparter
Average member rating: (14 ratings)

The things they say about dragons can't really be true right? Maybe it was a bad idea to come here, maybe the only future the dragon holds is the one that ends with you in it's jaws tonight! Ridiculous,...

Dragon!, by Adam Thornton
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

In this extremely short game, you play as a dragon who's flown from New Jersey to Chicago for one reason: to eat the man known as Jarb.
Drama Class, by Arf
David Welbourn's rating:
Average member rating: (1 rating)
Avoid being humiliated.

Dreadwine, by Eric Eve
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

An entry into the MCDream minicomp, this game tries to capture the essence of a vivid dream its author remembers having many decades ago.

Dream Pieces, by Iam Curio
Average member rating: (11 ratings)

You are in a dream but if you stay you'll miss out on a great birthday! If you like the rhyme... It's hammer time!

Dream Pieces 2, by Iam Curio
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

You got trapped in a dream again before your birthday. Now you are a figurine toy and everything is made of lego! Escape a series of rooms with puzzles by playing with pieces of words.

The Dream-Trap of Zzar, by S. John Ross
Average member rating: (10 ratings)

Trapped in a dream-state by a mad scientist bent on galactic domination, you must force yourself awake in the only way known to science. A silly, slightly adult-themed space opera adventure written for...

The Dreamhold, by Andrew Plotkin
Average member rating: (177 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...

Dreamland, by Tatiana Statsenko (as eejitlikeme)
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

Dreams are fascinating, illogical, colourful, and some people just cannot live without them. Are you sleeping to remember or are you sleeping to forget? Credits to testers: Uliana Sirotina, Matt Nicolls

Dreary Lands, by Paul Lee
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

A surreal game that starts you out amnesiac in a brightly colored cell and turns swiftly into fantasy thereafter. Placed 29th in the 2005 Interactive Fiction competition.
Drinks With Lord Hansom, by James Webb
Average member rating: (1 rating)

Dual Transform, by Andrew Plotkin
Average member rating: (110 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.

Duckman, by Wade
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

Can you save the city? Without opposable thumbs? Probably not. But you're still going to try. Not because you can do it... but because no one else will. [Author's Note: Please do not play this game. It was a...
Dude, Where's My Scapula?, by Zachary Hodgens
Average member rating: (5 ratings)
Where on Earth did you leave that thing?
The Duel in the Snow, by Utkonos
Average member rating: (21 ratings)
A Tale of Old Russia

Dungeon Detective, by Wonaglot, Caitlin Mulvihill
Average member rating: (18 ratings)

You're a gnoll. Whether that's a blessing or a curse is up to you. Unlike other gnolls, you're trying to eke out a simple existence by plying your trade - that of the world's first Dungeon Detective. Amass...

Dust, by IkeC
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

A Western Story. English version of Staub (German).

Dutch Dapper IV: The Final Voyage, by Harry Hol
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

You play as the great space-time detective Dutch Dapper near the end of his career. Despondent after the events of the prologue, he goes on one last adventure.
Dwenodon, by G. J. Shannon

Dynamite Powers vs. the Ray of Night!, by Mike Carletta
Average member rating: (11 ratings)

Dynamite Powers and Rosalind have escaped the Chinese water torture on Lord Infamy's dirigible. With the help of their new friend, Melcor, they led the revolt of the singing monkeys of Melodion and toppled...

Earl Grey, by Rob Dubbin and Allison Parrish
Average member rating: (30 ratings)

A game about a tea party, a monarchy, and the unpredictability of language.

Earth and Sky, by Paul O'Brian
Average member rating: (84 ratings)

It's been almost a month since your parents disappeared. One Tuesday, they just didn't come home, and there's been no sign of them since. For the University and the rest of the town, the mystery is beginning...

Earth and Sky 2: Another Earth, Another Sky, by Paul O'Brian
Average member rating: (55 ratings)

Earth And Sky 3: Luminous Horizon, by Paul O'Brian
Average member rating: (43 ratings)

Easter Egg Hunt 2020, by David Welbourn
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

In this light-hearted scavenger hunt, it's your task to find twelve colorful Easter eggs hidden inside other works of interactive fiction! But who are the eggs for, and what do they really want? Note: The...

Eat Me, by Chandler Groover
Average member rating: (109 ratings)

In this castle, you'll eat or be eaten. May contain dairy, carnage, puzzles, nuts.

Eat the Eldritch, by Olaf Nowacki
Average member rating: (11 ratings)

Everybody's got a hungry something. ...

Ecdysis, by Peter Nepstad
Average member rating: (81 ratings)

You wake, a pounding headache loud in your inner ear, the back of your head itching and tingling, your mouth full of cotton. The pain drives away your dreams, weird visions of alien landscapes... Ecdysis is...

Edge of the Cliff, by Poster
Average member rating: (16 ratings)

A non-interactive satire: love has abandoned you and you are on the cliff edge.

The Edifice, by Lucian P. Smith
Average member rating: (85 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...

Eduard the Seminarist, by Heiko Theißen
Average member rating: (9 ratings)

It's the evening of May 13th, 1824, in Germany. You play as Eduard, a student at the seminary. You want to sneak out and meet your friends Wilhelm and Scardanelli in Pressel's gazebo before midnight.
Eight Miles High, by Josh Giesbrecht (as Lambert Lambert)
Average member rating: (5 ratings)
Eight miles high And when you touch down You'll find that it's Stranger than known.

The Electric Puppet, by Christophe Géradon

The weird and funny story of a 35 years old man haunted by his mother.

The Elements, by Andy Lee
Average member rating: (1 rating)

In this game, you play as the grandchild of Stradivarius. Your musical career begins when you find one of his violins. Ten years after retiring, you get a summons from the queen to perform. Now you must find...
Elephants and the Afterlife, by David Fillmore
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

The Empty Chamber: A Celia Swift Mystery, by Tom Sykes
Average member rating: (14 ratings)

A game of observation, conversation, and deduction, set inside a run-down terrace flat in post-war Essex.

Empty Rooms, by Kevin Lovegreen
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

A combined Maze and tutorial, first game I did. Has some spelling errors, but the technical stuff works fine :) Was originally posted at www.ifiction.tk

En Garde, by Jack Welch
Average member rating: (24 ratings)

A man who has lost his mind. A mouse who has lost his realm. A dog who has lost his family. And the scientist who will save the world.

The Enchanted Castle, by Gregg Roberts
Average member rating: (1 rating)

You fall asleep and wake up in a castle. Find the princess and the hidden treasure.

Enchanter, by Marc Blank, Dave Lebling
Average member rating: (111 ratings)

In Enchanter, the first of a spellbinding series in the tradition of Zork, you are a novice magician whom Fate has chosen to do singlehanded combat with a dark and fierce power. But worldly weapons will...

Encryptment, by Taro Ogawa

Endgame, by Samuel T. Denton
Average member rating: (5 ratings)
In this well-crafted one-room puzzle, you play as a wizard gambling everything for a chance to gain immense power. In a deep underground sealed chamber, your spell summons an egg from another reality into...

The Endling Archive, by Kazuki Mishima
Average member rating: (30 ratings)

Browse the Endling Archive to uncover the purpose of its creation.

The Enigma of the Old Manor House, by Daniel M. Stelzer
Average member rating: (10 ratings)

Everyone's heard stories about the old mansion on the hill. Decades ago, they say, old Doctor Black lived up there all alone. Until something happened—nobody knows what—and he vanished without a trace....

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...

Entropy, by David Cornelson
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

Once upon a time in the future an android wakes up amidst the wreckage of a great battle on Earth. There are no survivors except "her", as she was made in the form of her creator. Chrysilya doesn't remember...
The Epitome of Toastlessness, by Jason Love
Average member rating: (3 ratings)
In this very short game, you play as someone in the land of No TOAST. There is NO TOAST here. Can you do something about it?
Epyk, by Ivan Mattie
Average member rating: (3 ratings)
A game very difficult to beat, but not impossible.
Eragon, by Anonymous
Average member rating: (3 ratings)
A (probably fan-written) game set in the Alagesia universe of Christopher Paolini's "Inheritance" novels.
Erehwon, by Richard Litherland
Average member rating: (10 ratings)
"You are standing next to the only traffic light in the one-horse town of Erehwon, Aksarben. You are 13 years old, and desperate to gain the approval of Smurf and his gang. You will know you have this when...

Eric the Unready, by Bob Bates
Average member rating: (42 ratings)

A tongue-in-cheek graphic text adventure/point and click adventure hybrid. You are a chivalrous knight attempting to save a princess; your quest takes you through a mad-cap Douglas Adams-style world.

Eric's Gift, by Joao Mendes
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

Eric's Gift - A short interactive story about painting the future.

The Erudition Chamber, by Daniel Freas
Average member rating: (26 ratings)

Eruption, by Richard Bos
Average member rating: (15 ratings)

You have just woken up, in a cave, with a hangover, and something is rumbling. And it isn't your stomach.
Escape from a Planet Filled with Monkeys!, by Randall M. Gee
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

Escape from Dinosaur Island, by Richard Pettigrew
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

Escape from Dinosaur Island, is an IF text based adventure based very loosely on 'The Lost World' by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. After enduring a hurricane, your hot air balloon has crashed on an a mysterious...

Escape from Ice Station Hippo, by Jason McWright
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

Life at the station, a collection of domes resembling the large herbivore graced with its name, has been a miserable farce. Now it's time to leave.
Escape from Lowell Prison, by Doug Jones
Average member rating: (1 rating)
As prisoner 31337, you are seriously tempted to escape from Lowell Prison, even though you've always avoided the wide-open gate until now.
Escape from the Arboretum, by Robbies Dog
Average member rating: (1 rating)
In this sprawling old-school puzzle game, you play as a resident of the Arboretum, which is a decaying city district cut off from the rest of world, fit only for hippies, zombies, and other disgusting...
Escape from the House, by CJ592
This is the author's first attempt at a game. The goal is straightforward: you have to get out of the house.

Escape From the Mechanical Bathhouse, by Christopher Merriner (as Nathaniel Spence)
Average member rating: (1 rating)

A bit of whimsy made as a distraction during lockdown. A first attempt at an adventure game; at the very least, it kept the author amused for a few weeks in the making.

Escape from the SS Borgarís, by Kevan Davis
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

A stowaway on a cruise ship awakes to find the vessel deserted.
Escape from the Starship Zenon, by Andrew Gawthorpe
Average member rating: (2 ratings)
You play as someone accused of "multi-planaterial" murder and thrown into the brig of the Starship Zenon with a life sentence. But I'm sure someone as clever as you can find a way to escape.
Escape from the Underworld, by Karl Beecher
Average member rating: (5 ratings)
Take control of Bobby T. Minion, the demon who has had a change of heart, and help him escape from the Underworld, the place to where torturing the souls of the damned has been outsourced. [blurb from IF...

Escape Into Fiction, by M27
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

A light-weight text-based escape game. After finding yourself in a library can you escape and solve the story?

Escape the Bear Campsite, by CJ592

This is a very quick game which involves one site (room). You have to escape the campsite.

An Escape To Remember, by Sean Barrett, Tom Blawgus, Roger Carbol, John Cater, Ricardo Dague, Jeremy Douglass, Josh Giesbrecht, N. B. Horvath, Carl Muckenhoupt, Mark Musante, Karl Parakenings, Mordechai Shinefield, Dan Shiovitz, Lucian Smith
Average member rating: (1 rating)

An Escape To Remember is a collaborative 'Chinese Whispers' / 'Telephone' style interactive fiction piece, written by 14 authors each of whom only saw the preceding section of the the game.

The Escapist, by Rick Dague
Average member rating: (1 rating)

Eschew as if you were She, by W. M. Wellman
Average member rating: (5 ratings)
In this minimalist work, you can visit each of the four seasons where there are representative items — and She.
ESS Chance: Reactor 1, by Justahack
Average member rating: (1 rating)
A spaceship's reactor threatens catastrophic failure-- you're the only one who can save it!

Eunice, by Gita Ryaboy
Average member rating: (10 ratings)

Eunice is a shadow of its former glory. Hope is lost, just a faint mem-ory Whatever might have brought you here, That Eunice needs you, it is clear. Type out simple commands, and Notice the changes in Eunice...

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....

Everybody Loves a Parade, by Cody Sandifer
Average member rating: (15 ratings)

You play as a woman driving a moving van across the United States to her new job as New York City's Assistant to the Chief Engineer. Your gas runs out when you arrive at Chewton, Arizona which is having its...

Everything We Do Is Games, by Doug Orleans
Average member rating: (9 ratings)

A null game, inspired by John Cage's 4′33″.

The Evil Chicken of Doom, by Mel S
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

"God. That chicken does have two noses!?" "We have to do something, a chicken like that must evil magic powers." "How do you think that?" "Well, he has two noses! Imagine what other unimaginable evil things...

The Example of the Chicken Sexer, by Simon Christiansen
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

"With his thumb and forefinger, the sexer flips the bird over and parts a small flap on its hindquarters to expose the cloaca, a tiny vent where both the genitals and anus are situated, and peers deep...

Excelsior, by Arthur DiBianca
Average member rating: (11 ratings)

In this generic puzzlefest that uses a minimalist command set, you play as someone who finds and explores a very tall tower in a forest. There's no story here. Just solve the puzzles and reach the roof to...

Exhibition, by Ian Finley
Average member rating: (27 ratings)

"The Hartman Gallery extends their invitation to an exhibition of Anatoly Domokov's "American Paintings." Who draws the line between art and life? HTML enhanced." [--blurb from Competition '99]

Expedition, by Jonathan Rosebaugh
Average member rating: (1 rating)

EXTERMINATE!, by Michael Martin
Average member rating: (4 ratings)
The extraordinary events of the last day of Professor Mangleworth, by "Taleslinger"
Average member rating: (2 ratings)
CW: Suicide In this Holmesian short story, you play as Professor Mangleworth, despondent about the death of your daughter, your little dragonfly. You plan to kill yourself, but your death must not appear as...
Eye of the Inca, by John Olsen
Average member rating: (2 ratings)
You have finally found the long lost Incan Temple here in a jungle clearing. Now you'll enter in your search for the world's largest diamond, known only in legend as the "Eye of the Inca."
Face Your Fears, by Shawn Sijnstra
Average member rating: (7 ratings)
Face Your Fears was developed as part of the PunyJam #2 PunyInform Interactive Fiction competition. It's a small interactive fiction, built around the Jam theme relating to the main character having at least...
Fade to Black, by Jake Wildstrom
Average member rating: (2 ratings)
A game in which every description is written in haiku, with a largely senseless plot involving Justin Timberlake lurking backstage at the XYZZY awards. As a historical footnote, this is one of the few Z-code...

Fail-Safe, by Jon Ingold
Average member rating: (115 ratings)

Fairest, by Amanda Walker
Average member rating: (29 ratings)

“Mirror, mirror, on the wall,” you say dreamily, gazing into its sparkling surface… “You know,” replies the mirror, “I can do a lot more than just reflect fair faces. O, how I long to leap off...

Fairyland, by Daniel Gunnell
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

In Fairyland, where any magical thing can happen, your job is to give a mushroom to Derek the dwarf.

Fajfeta sur la Luno, by David Welbourn
Average member rating: (1 rating)

This is an Esperanto translation of my game Squeaky on the Moon, my silly entry in the Pi-Theta-Alpha-Parallax speed-if. As Alvin the Chipmunk, rescue your landlady’s cat. Very short; four and ½ rooms.

Falling Angel, by David Cornelson
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

Falling to Pieces, by Gianluca Girelli
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

A short, dark, text adventure written with the Inform 6 language using the PunyInform library.

The Familiar, by Stickscoder
Average member rating: (1 rating)

In your family it's tradition that once someone turns thirteen they go down into the cave to go through the ritual to summon a familiar - a companion and protector for life. This year it's your turn and on...

The Familiar, by groggydog
Average member rating: (13 ratings)

You are a witch's crow familiar, headstrong as anything but still young and untested. What starts as a normal day soon takes a harrowing turn when your pacific caretaker, Valmai, is struck down by a terrible...

Fantastic Finale IV, by Derek Sutcliffe
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

In this short one-room game, you play as someone playing an RPG late at night. It's now the final boss battle against the Grue Lord. You're determined to finish this game no matter what, but can you win...

The Fantasy Dimension, by Johan Berntsson
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

Embark on a thrilling adventure through a fantasy world, starting at an enigmatic airlock.

Fat Fair, by AKheon
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

A strange boy in backwater Finland wants to establish his own amusement park, or so it seems. This game features a character-driven story, flexible gameplay mechanics, multiple endings and a lack of common...

Fætt Tiw, by Michael Martin
Average member rating: (1 rating)

Fear, by Chuan-Tze Teo
Average member rating: (11 ratings)
"The world is suddenly such a frightening place. People are out to get you, and everywhere there is danger, lurking in the dark, even here, in your own home. Can you conquer your own fears before it's too...
Feeling Adventurous, by Jim Howes
Average member rating: (2 ratings)
This game is a puzzle.

Ferryman's Gate, by Daniel Maycock
Average member rating: (19 ratings)

You punctuation-obsessed uncle has died, leaving your family his house, but leaving you, a mere kid, with his unfinished business. As you follow the clues left by your uncle, you quickly discover that while...

Fido and the Dead Body, by David Cornelson
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

Fiendish Zoo, by Elizabeth Heller
You're the demon Enzak, and you're in charge of the Fiendish Zoo. Time to get to work!
Fifteen, by Ricardo Dague
Average member rating: (5 ratings)
You stand in the kitchen. Sigh! Yet another darn treasure hunt game! Modeled after Scott Adams's "Adventureland." Dedicated to Sam Loyd (1841-1911), inventor of the 15-puzzle. [--blurb from The Z-Files...
The Fifth Continent, by Daniel Gunnell
Average member rating: (2 ratings)
In The Fifth Continent, the sequel to The Computer Lady, you play a tourist exploring the Romney Marsh in Kent. Along the way, you'll find the scorch mark of a UFO and deliberately upset a bird watcher in...

fin de sickleburg, by Caleb Wilson
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

It is nearly dawn, and at last you've come back to your chamber. Written for Gothic Novel Jam 2018 (https://itch.io/jam/gothic-novel-jam).

Final Assault of the Big Green Cliches, by Sam Kabo Ashwell
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

In this short work, it's last stand time. You're pinned down with your companions, Waptrap, Mindbraid, and Aur in a bad position behind a fallen pillar. The infidels are well within range, but you can't see...

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

Find the Bed, by Jacob Mianecki
Average member rating: (1 rating)

If your reading this you're probaly in a closet. But more importantly, your stuck in a some-what haunted house and I can imagine your tired. Very, very tired. I recommend you find a bed and take a nap, that...
Finding Henry, by Duncan Cross
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

Finding Light, by Abigail Jazwiec
Average member rating: (14 ratings)

You remember fire and smoke when the raiders invaded the town, chasing you until everything went dark, but now you are alone, and Aurel is missing. You have to rescue him, no matter the cost! It's a perilous...

Finding Martin, by G.K. Wennstrom
Average member rating: (10 ratings)

Venture past the limits of ordinary reality as you investigate the mysterious disappearance of an old friend. In order to solve the most challenging of these puzzles, you will need to cooperate with yourself...

Finding the Mouse, by James Dessart
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

In this tiny one-room game, you play as someone in their mostly-empty kitchen who wants to use their computer. But where's the mouse? Where did that thing go?

Fine-Tuned, by Dennis Jerz
Average member rating: (23 ratings)

"Can Troy, the handsome daredevil autoist, live up to his "sterling" reputation? What secret threatens the career of the talented singer, Miss Melody Sweet? With the help of the mechanical genius Aloysius...

The Fire Party Penguins Mustn't Go Out, by Coolcoder360
Average member rating: (1 rating)

In this short game, you are a homeowning penguin invited to the Posh Penguin Party hosted by the Fire Penguins. You have two tasks to do today. First, eat breakfast. Second, go to the local campground and...

The Fire Tower, by Jacqueline A. Lott
Average member rating: (51 ratings)

Firebird, by Bonnie Montgomery
Average member rating: (32 ratings)

"Firebird is based on the Old Russian folk tales that inspired the Stravinsky piece of the same name. You are Prince Ivan, and have been charged by your father, the tsar, to find the Firebird that has been...

Fireboat, by fos1
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

An IF spooky adventure set in the Hudson River off the coast of New York City. An entry for EctoComp 2024.

First, by Shannon Prickett
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

As brief introductions go, it's among the briefest. Contains only a single point.
First Person, by Buster Hudson
Average member rating: (13 ratings)
Entry in EctoComp 2014.

The First Snows of Winter, by chrisatthestudy
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

As a member of the Sorceror's Guild you have been asked to investigate the mysterious silence of the local Guild in a small highland town. The early winter weather proves to be the least of your problems. A...

First Things First, by J. Robinson Wheeler
Average member rating: (23 ratings)

You’ve just arrived at home from your nightly visit to the science and invention section of the local public library, where you spend each night dreaming your dreamy dreams of one day inventing a time...

FIRST WAVE, Then Jump Up and Down Screaming, by L. Ross Raszewski
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

You play as someone acting as a penniless drifter in an aliens-versus-the-world story. Your task: climb to the top of the Eiffel Tower and defeat an evil alien's evil plan!* * Now with footnotes!
Fish and Spaceships, by Adam Biltcliffe
Average member rating: (4 ratings)
A SpeedIF game from 2002. 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...

Fish Bowl, by Ethan Rupp and Joshua Rupp
Average member rating: (30 ratings)

You are a beachcomber living by the shore. Today, you wake to find an empty fish bowl in your home, and don't remember how it got there. You try to piece your memory back together, but soon learn what the...

Fish-Bot!, by R. N. Dominick
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

In this very short game with several possible endings, you play as a sentient goldfish masquerading as a human using the Fish-Bot 2000. Tonight, you're in the Franco-Texan embassy to gain the respect of the...
The Five Tutors, by Anonymous
Average member rating: (4 ratings)
Flat Feet, by Joel Ray Holveck
Average member rating: (3 ratings)
In this comedic game, you play as a cat named Jacques. You and your throwable ferret partner, Ralph, are private investigators in need of a case. Soon, you're hired to find a thief who's been stealing art...

Flawed Addendum, by Jalbum
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

Will your future be exciting yet dangerous, or merely very short? That depends on how you perform when you find yourself in an upscale corridor with four doors.

Flexible Pants, by Jonathan Rosebaugh
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

Flight of the Hummingbird, by Michael Martin
Average member rating: (29 ratings)

Dr. Sinister is at it again! The Concordance of Powered Response isn't entirely clear on what it is he's planning, but it's big. This is clearly a task for one of the world's mightiest champions!

Flotsam & Driftwood, by Peter Orme (as Conrad Elton)
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

Flotsam and Driftwood was published for the 2014 ShuffleComp, and like all those games it is based (or at least inspired) by a song, in the case the Genesis song Home by the Sea. Conrad Elton is an alias of...

Floyd, by Adam Biltcliffe
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

A SpeedIF game from 2001. 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...
The Fluid of Life, by Carl Muckenhoupt
Average member rating: (3 ratings)
A Flustered Duck, by Jim Aikin
Average member rating: (13 ratings)
You play as Elliott, a pig-boy. It starts when Granny Grabby orders you to get Mabel the duck down from the roof. You try, but a series of unfortunate events ensue ending with Mabel swallowing the diamond...
The Foggy Banana Adventure, by DaveH
Average member rating: (1 rating)
You are an old warehouse man on a foggy wharf. What horrors or riches will the latest cargo contain?
Foggywood Hijinx, by Ivan Cockrum
Average member rating: (1 rating)
Folkar Station, by Doug Jones
Average member rating: (2 ratings)
In this incomplete game, you play as a standard clone, revived from cryosleep to deal with three emergencies on the deserted station that's orbiting Mars. Your first task, and only task in this intro, is to...

Foo Foo, by Buster Hudson
Average member rating: (65 ratings)

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.

Food Magic, by Paul Hughes, Caolan Madden, Rory Madden, Laura Hughes, and (with a little help from) Carl Muckenhoupt
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

In this small silly game, you play as someone who's far more interested in cooking up varieties of Old Granny's soda bread than paying the landlord his rent money. America!

For a Change, by Dan Schmidt
Average member rating: (117 ratings)

"The sun has gone. It must be brought. You have a rock." [--blurb from Competition '99]

For the Love Of Ornery Blue Yaks, by Doug Jones
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

Foreign Soil, by Olaf Nowacki
Average member rating: (12 ratings)

How does it feel to be the only one on a lonely planet? Foreign Soil is part sci-fi, part surreal story about - well, about what, really? Probably you can judge that better than I can. If it were a film, it...

Forest House 3: Sacrifice, by Seciden Mencarde
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The Forests of Lachryma, by Roger Carbol
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You play as Aris Bleph, an important citizen of the Upper Forest of Lachryma, one of the twin nations currently threatened with catastrophe. Scientists recently spotted an asteroid plummeting towards the...
FORK: The Great Underground Dining Room, by Chris Federico
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In Fork: The Great Underground Dining Room, you are attending a Convention in a hotel on Baer Boulevard trying to play old video games.

Founder's Mercy, by Thomas Insel
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You awake. You are lonely, so lonely. It was a thousand days ago today. All alone these thousand days. Your parents were the last. No, your father was the last. He held on for nearly a hundred days longer....

Four Days of Summer, by David Welbourn
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In this pleasant and silly game, spend the first four days of July with your friend David, a shameless author insertion character who seems inordinately fond of making interactive fiction references.

The Four Eccentrics, by Tim Wolfe and Caleb Wilson as Mild Cat Bean
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This dream took an odd turn, somewhere. Why can't you wake up? And so much seems awry here: lost dreams are abandoned in the park, the local poetry trade is drying up, and nobody seems able to get into Night...

The Four Symbols, by The Grue!
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"A seemingly simple quest, but with a sting in its tail! Can you prove yourself innocent of witchcraft? Will you curse the day you encountered the black cat? Will you survive? Only time will tell as your...
Fox, Fowl and Feed, by Chris Conroy
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The Fox, The Dragon, and The Stale Loaf of Bread, by David Welbourn
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This is the beginning of an unusual fairy tale. Written for IntroComp 2005. Eleven locations.

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.

Fran and Bart Want a Snowman!, by Tommy Herbert
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Frankenstein's Legacy, by John Olsen
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In this horror game, you play as Victor Frankenstein's last living relative. He's invited you to the family estate so you can assist him in bringing his newest creature to life.
A Freak Accident Leaves Seattle Pantsless, by Christopher Huang
Average member rating: (7 ratings)
Frenemies; or, I Won An Andy Phillips Game!, by B F Lindsay
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When pulling on the door doesn't 'cut it'. A delightfully shameless, unforgivable one-room tribute to the games of Andy Phillips.
The Frenetic Five vs. Mr. Redundancy Man, by Neil deMause
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In this game about under-powered superheroes, you play as Improv, leader of the Frenetic Five. You use common objects in surprisingly useful ways. While queueing for stamps at the Post Office, you receive...
The Frenetic Five vs. Sturm und Drang, by Neil deMause
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In this game about under-powered superheroes, you play as Improv, leader of the Frenetic Five. You use common objects in surprisingly useful ways. Bob, your contact at Supertemps, hires your team for a new...
Friar Bacon's Secret, by Carl Muckenhoupt
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The mystery begins when Friar Bungay asks you to fetch Friar Bacon. But instead of finding him, you discover strange unnatural objects that must be of demonic origin.
Frobozz Magic Support, by Nate Cull
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You play as a novice glyph support clerk but no one's around but an animated burin. It seems the more experienced support clerks are either lost, got themselves un-implemented, or got stuck in a timeloop....
From Thanet to New Romney, by Daniel Gunnell (as Kentish Plover)
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In the sequel to Kentish Plover, you must find a way to get back to your business. You will encounter a sailing boat in Broadstairs, a cake in a bakery and many more.
Frozen, by Jeremy Farnham
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You're working late at the computer lab in an attempt to finish the assignment which is due in very shortly. Emerging from a daydream you carelessly lapsed into, you are surprised to find that the whole...

Fugue, by Emily Short
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Published by Up Right Down, in response to the following plot prompt: THE PLOT: In a bistro in Paris a young woman (A) tells her three girlfriends (B, C, and D) about the affair she had with an American...

Fun and Games, by Ian Finley
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FunHouse, by C. A. Gist
David Welbourn's rating:
Average member rating: (1 rating)
Have fun at the funhouse.
Further, by Will Hines
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You are a collection of energy loosely held. You are an echo of a person. Something holds you here.

Future Threads, by Xavid
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You see it. Today is the day they will come. Their ship will crash, but the resulting explosion will trouble them not at all. They will emerge, wrapped in shadows and smoke, from the wreckage. Their senses...

Gaia, Živa, Jarilo, by Harkness (as Formless)
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In this work, you are an Earthling tourist visiting a zoo on Živa which features animals from three worlds. Explore the place at your leisure. There is no goal you must accomplish, and although the work has...

Galatea, by Emily Short
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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...

Galaxy Jones, by Phil Riley
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The Solar System’s greatest hero, Galaxy Jones, against the evil Admiral Thallium!

Gallery Gal's Architectural Adventure, by Damon L. Wakes
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You are Gallery Gal! Bane of evil-doers, scourge of n'er-do-wells... ...except, actually, nobody even knows you have superpowers. (This was an entry to IntroComp, and is thus incomplete.)

The Gallery of Henri Beauchamp, by Mike Vollmer
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You have a chance to see an exclusive exhibit of the lost works of artist Henri Beauchamp, but you must prove you’re a devotee of the art to get in. An Interactive Fiction based on an old creepy story. It...

Game Developers Conference 2009, by Jim Munroe
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"You're actually here. The Gee Dee Cee. You don't know which session to check out first. Unlike your hometown, you're one artist among many here -- exciting and intimidating. Exciting because between now and...

The Game Formerly Known as Hidden Nazi Mode, by Victor Gijsbers
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The Game Formerly Known as Hidden Nazi Mode was, in fact, formerly known as Hidden Nazi Mode. As such it was a failed experiment, detailed in the accompanying essay. In this release the Nazi mode has been...

Garbage Collection, by Matt Weiner
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From imaginary games jam. Based on the review: Garbage Explorer It sounds like a joke. In fact, it started out as one — specifically, as an image macro on various game dev boards, expressing disdain for...
Garden of the Dragon, by Admiral Jota
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The Garden of Verging Paths, by Quinn Spence
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

Gardening for Beginners, by Juhana Leinonen
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When the snow melts it's time to make that garden of yours look better than ever. An entry to the 2008 Spring Speed IF.

The Garlic Cage, Episode I, by Taro for writing , NOM3RCY for programing
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This is a joint effort between me and NosesAreAlive. We've been at it for about a year. Now it's finally here. It is top secret. It is deadly. It is the ultimate war weapon. It smells like garlic. You wake...

Gateway, by Mike Verdu, Michael Lindner, and Glen Dahlgren
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In the early twenty-second century, adventurous citizens of Earth can travel to a place called "Gateway": a long-abandoned alien space station, now rediscovered by humans and turned into a jumping-off point...

The Gateway of the Ferrets, by Feneric
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So life lately has been traveling through one portal after another, each with its own risks and rewards. Sometimes portals lead to dead ends. Sometimes they close and lock behind you. Sometimes it's...

Gaucho - An Interactive Geek Western, by Dave Bernazzani, Steven Robert, Jason Hanks
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Gaucho was written for the RPG Geek / BoardGameGeek site-wide adventure project. Nearly 500 players worked their way through this game in the first full week of August, 2012. Gaucho was written by Dave...

Geist - An Interactive Geek Horror, by Dave Bernazzani, Dean Svendsen, Jonna Hind and Steven Robert
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Geist was used as a site-wide adventure for Board Game Geek in January of 2014. During the week of the event, nearly 700 players worked their way through this game. The community rallied around the players...

Generic Title, by Bowen Greenwood
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In this short short story, you play as J. Alfred Prufrock. Your creator, T. S. Eliot, wants you to fetch a thousand litres of tea so people will stay awake longer, read more of his poetry, and make him...
Genie, by Stark Springs
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In this incomplete game, you play as a genie. Soon, your new Master will open your bottle and you will need to grant his first wish: to bring him another drink because he's not drunk enough.
Germania, by Vicente Munoz
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When Roman Legionaries find a strange cave the Germanic tribes fear the Centurion orders you to investigate what is inside and to come back with proof. An entry in the Interactive Short Fiction Competition...
Get Treasure For Trabula, by David Good
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This game was written for a one-hour competition and admittedly is not my best effort.
Getting to know the General, by Jake Wildstrom
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In this game, you play as a man who looks rather like author Neil Gaiman, and you're in yet another mess. You were trying to save money by flying to Atlanta inside a large suitcase, but instead, you've ended...
Ghost Riders of El Diablo, by John Olsen
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Ghost Ship, by Pete Hitchin
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The Ghost Ship, by Jonathan Snyder
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La Petite Mort entry in ECTOCOMP 2015.

The Ghost Train, by Paul T. Johnson
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This game begins on Christmas Eve, 1935, on a train trip home from London to Torquay with your best friend Ingrid. Tragically, the train crashes! — and you are the sole survivor — or are you? When you...

Ghosterington Night, by Wade Clarke
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Danger-filled Ghosterington Manor appears atop the same cliff each year on Samhain night. Hidden inside are the last four works of the dead bad poet Vigilance Ghosterington. Those four poems are worth a...

Glacial Rift of the Dick Cavett, by Anonymous
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Glass, by Emily Short
Average member rating: (108 ratings)

The Prince sits awkwardly on the couch, holding his glass slipper and trying to keep it from crushing. Lucinda and Theodora have the ends of the same couch, and they are taking turns seeing who can bend...

Gleaming the Verb, by Kevin Jackson-Mead
Average member rating: (23 ratings)

In this very short one-room game, you play as someone abducted to solve a series of related word puzzles.
Glik I, by Logan Edwards
Average member rating: (4 ratings)
An archaeologist in a post-apocalyptic world searches for a missing comrade.
Glossary, by Caleb Wilson
Average member rating: (6 ratings)
Glowgrass, by Nate Cull
Average member rating: (100 ratings)
You play as a xenohistorian on an expedition. You've been dropped (more literally than you planned) by a dropship over the ground of the Ancients. Your equipment was scattered and the dropship crashed. Now...

Gnu in the Zoo, by Alex Ball
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The powerful sun radiating down from the endless blue sky. Vast empty wilderness for as far as the eye can see. Running through the glorious scrubby grasslands, running, running, running free... The flash of...

Go West, by Hulk Handsome
Average member rating: (10 ratings)

An interactive fiction inspired by the Village People song of the same name. The aim is to go west. Or is it? Put together in less than half an hour for the 50th Klik of the Month Klub...
Goblin Hunt, by David Whyld
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It's that time of year again: the annual goblin hunt! So grab your best axe and get out there and kill yourself a goblin! Mindless violence and bloodshed guaranteed or your money back.

Golden Shadow, by The Technomancer
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You awaken from a strange nightmare in a gaudy golden room. Armed with nothing but your unusual top hat, can you escape?

Goldilocks is a FOX!, by J. J. Guest
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Staggering back from yet another wild student party, blonde bombshell Goldilocks decides to take a shortcut through the enchanted forest. All she really wants is a nice hot bowl of porridge and somewhere to...

Gone Out For Gruyere, by B F Lindsay
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"Just TRY getting me out of the way! HA HA HA!!" chortled the giant wheel of cheese, diminishingly.
A Good Breakfast, by Stuart Adair
Average member rating: (4 ratings)
You are longing for a good breakfast, but where do you get the ingredients from? [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue]
Good For Nothing, by Katalina
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You wake to find your children murdered. This is 1920s Texas and the public is baying for your blood. Do you protest your innocence, believe you're mad, or think you're capable of infanticide? (This was an...

Goodbye Cruel Squirrel, by Extra Mayonnaise
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You are a gray squirrel in a suburban neighborhood. Your mission is to save your tribe from starvation. Enjoy the characters you meet, and be creative in solving puzzles.

Goodbye Doggy, by Goodbye Doggy, Meri and Mark
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The goodbye doggy cemetery is full of mystery.

The Gorreven Papers, by Derek T. Jones

To think of them was unspeakable; to speak of them was unthinkable. They're in the wrong hands, and you, intrepid agent that you are, went after them. But something went wrong and now you're their prisoner!...

Gorxungula's Curse, by Duncan Bowsman
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Help us, Lophese. A misspoken word has birthed Gorxungula, who now terrorizes the absurd voids above our beloved faraway Rabbits. Make a proper sacrifice to Elder Moose, the Great Antlered One, and rid us of...

Gossip, by Hugo Labrande
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

The Gostak, by Carl Muckenhoupt
Average member rating: (93 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...

Got Toast?, by Jim Fisher
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You promised your girlfriend Beth a home cooked breakfast of eggs, bacon, toast, pancakes, and syrup. But considering you've only got bread and a new toaster in your kitchen, this may be a difficult promise...
Gourmet Gaffe, by Hulk Handsome
Average member rating: (5 ratings)
A one room game set in a historically inaccurate France. Inspired by the prejudice the author has faced as a lover of tomato sauce.
The Grade 3 Parallax, by Christopher Shelton
Average member rating: (2 ratings)
The Grand Quest, by Owen Parish
Average member rating: (10 ratings)
You've spent the best part of your life as a man dreaming of the goblet. While you've had a job, and a family, your thoughts were always looking forward, dwelling on the day when it would surely fall into...
The Grand Tour, by Daniel Gunnell
Average member rating: (2 ratings)
A little Inform 7 game that was based on an article at The Brass Lantern.

Grandma Bethlinda's Remarkable Egg, by Arthur DiBianca
Average member rating: (23 ratings)

How do you break out of handcuffs when all you've got is an egg?

The Granite Book, by James Mitchelhill
Average member rating: (12 ratings)

IFComp 2002 entry.
Grayscale, by Daniel Freas
Average member rating: (4 ratings)
""We really think you'll like this one, see you on the other side!" ...and suddenly the room is ripped away. Air slams into your chest as you struggle to breathe and inky blackness swirls in at the edge of...
The Great Ritual, by Gunther Schmidl
Average member rating: (4 ratings)
You play as a young Masai warrior armed with a spear. You have been ordered by the elders to find a stolen herd of cattle and a missing herder. After twelve hours of tracking footprints, you hope you find...
The Green Mountains, by Clark Radwin
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Average member rating: (8 ratings)
You wake up on a mountain, you have no idea what's going on. You find a letter on the ground that says you must go to the Green Mountain. Except that it's as treacherous as it is dangerous.

Grooverland, by Mathbrush
Average member rating: (26 ratings)

"Magic comes with a price. But on your birthday, all your expenses are paid. Welcome to Grooverland." Grooverland is a large parser game that takes over two hours to complete. It is based on the works of...

Grubbyville, by Andrew Schultz
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

In this game, you play as a male high school student who wants to be valedictorian. (Your Pop is even more keen on the idea.) Unfortunately, Harley Drotz got into honors Ceramics for his fine art elective...

Grue., by Charles Mangin
Average member rating: (14 ratings)

It is pitch black. You are a grue. Can you catch your next meal, or will you succumb to starvation and worse?

Guitar of the Immortal Bard, by Jason Burns
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

A Gummi Bear's Night Out, by Roger Carbol
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

Gun Mute, by C.E.J. Pacian
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...

Guttersnipe: Carnival of Regrets, by Bitter Karella
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

Guttersnipe: Carnival of Regrets is a humorously grotesque (or grotesquely humorous) game about a circa 1929 street urchin and her pet sewer rat trying to survive a trip through a dark carnival full of sin,...

Guttersnipe: St. Hesper's Asylum for the Criminally Mischievous, by Bitter Karella
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The year is 1929. You are Lil' Ragamuffin, the roughest toughest urchin in all of Garbagetown DC and the surrounding wastes of Montgomery County, but somehow the constabulary has managed to capture you and...

Guttersnipe: The Baleful Backwash, by Bitter Karella
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It's 1929. Incorrigible street urchin Lil' Ragamuffin and her sewer rat pal Percy have been imprisoned in the cellar of the Baleful Backwash speakeasy by dastardly gangsters. Save Percy and evade...

Gymnasium, by John Olson
Average member rating: (1 rating)

Hadean Lands, by Andrew Plotkin
Average member rating: (69 ratings)

Marooned in an alien, airless wasteland -- your starship fractured -- your crewmates missing. Can an apprentice alchemist learn how to survive?

Hallowe'en, by Duncan Cross
Average member rating: (1 rating)

Hallway, by Ricardo Dague
Average member rating: (3 ratings)
Halothane, by Ravi Rajkumar
Average member rating: (11 ratings)
"You're having a hard enough time getting your second novel to work; how could it ever be possible that you, Harold Banks - world's most unsuccessful published author - could actually be sent on a quest to -...
Hamilton Hall, by Cedric Knight
Average member rating: (1 rating)

Hamlet -- The Text Adventure, by Robin Johnson
Average member rating: (18 ratings)

Who really killed Hamlet's dad? Can the Prince ever 'get' Gertrude, or is that just wrong? What does Richard III want with a horse anyway? And where did the gravedigger get that gorgeous pink dress? Avenge...

The Hand That Rocks The Pumpkin, by Christopher Huang
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

Hangar 22, by Rob O'Hara
Average member rating: (6 ratings)
An out-of-luck computer programmer finds more than just a job opportunity in a mysterious government facility.
The Hangover, by Will Conine
Average member rating: (6 ratings)
The Hangover is the story of you. You awake in your apartment with an unknown women and your bank informing you that you changed your name last night. The goal? Get the approval form in triplicate to get the...
Hank Buzzcrack Has A Job To Do, God Damn It, by Duncan Cross
Average member rating: (2 ratings)
In this very short game, you play as Hank Buzzcrack, a professional thief. You have two missions: steal a gold mask from one museum then steal a golden banana from another museum.
Happy Ever After, by Robert M. Camisa
Average member rating: (1 rating)
"You still can't quite believe that Gwyneth dumped you. Not after all you went through. Hopefully sepnding a couple of days babysitting Uncle Steve's museum will at least make a start on mending your...
Harlequin Girl, by Sean M. Elliott
Average member rating: (2 ratings)
Harrington House, by Gayla Bassham
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

Haunted House, by Pedro Fernández
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

Haunted House is a remake of a 1979 game made by Device Oriented Games for the TRS-80 computer. Written for the 2011 Indigo speed-comp, it features an original plot over the classic game set-up. Its final,...

Haunted P, by Chad Rocketman
Average member rating: (10 ratings)

Discover fascinating minature worlds.... interact with an intricately modeled NPC.... discover the secret of the magical substance, P, and how it became to be haunted....

The Haunting of Corbitt House, by Arlan Wetherminster
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

A private eye investigates a haunted house.

Headless, Hapless, by Geoff Moore
Average member rating: (14 ratings)

It's happened again. You've had a great night riding around, freaking everyone out with your whole headless horseman thing, and you're about to set off for home when you realise you've lost your head. Well,...

Health Inspector, by Joe Mason
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

Heated, by Timothy Peers
Average member rating: (19 ratings)
Get to work early, don't get too angry and get your raise. You've been a slacker for long enough, and this is your one opportunity to really wow the boss!

Heavenly, by Jim Aikin
Average member rating: (9 ratings)

You're an angel. You're in Heaven. Everything is perfect. Honestly, it's perfect. It's so nice, so mind-numbingly nice, you'd give anything to get away from here....

Hebe, by Marina Diagourta
Average member rating: (9 ratings)

Your anniversary celebration takes a dark turn when the Titan Kronos strikes Mount Olympus, threatening the very existence of the Olympian gods! Embark on a journey through ancient Greece, where you'll solve...

The HeBGB Horror!, by Eric Mayer
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

"What ever happened to those legendary punk rockers The Laughing Kats? If you can discover the terrible secret lurking in the HeBGB rock club you might just become a star." [--blurb from Competition '99]
Hedge, by Steven Richards
Average member rating: (8 ratings)
Heezy Park, by Andrew Schultz
Average member rating: (3 ratings)
La Petite Mort entry in ECTOCOMP 2015.
Heist, by Andy Phillips
Average member rating: (11 ratings)
Your unloved uncle has died. At his funeral, you are given a curious note from him, asking you to finish his dream for him. But what is it he wants you to do? One thing is clear: it won't be easy. The choice...
Hell: A Comedy of Errors, by John Evans
Average member rating: (9 ratings)

Help! My Vacuum Cleaner Is Broken, by Admiral Jota
Average member rating: (16 ratings)

The Hentai Adventures of Captain Cumshot, by Jake Wildstrom
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

Hercules!, by Leo Weinreb
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

The man. The myth. The soon-to-be legend. Your cousin has tasked you with twelve impossible Labors, but nothing is impossible for the great hero HERCULES! …so long as you remembered to bring your inhaler...

Here Be Dragons!!!, by Gunther Schmidl
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

In this minimalistic satire, you play as a generic adventurer in a standard fantasy setting. If you can find and defeat the dragon, you'll be able to claim its treasure!
Hero, Inc Part 1: Calling All Heroes, by Nate Cull
Average member rating: (3 ratings)
You play as J. Random Hero, Fairhaven's newest hero if you answer the call to duty from Hero, Inc. by entering their contest and performing several feats of heroism. Don't wait! Enter the contest now and you...
Herr Doktor von Nördlingendinkelsbühlhündchen-am-Rhein, by Mad Monk
Average member rating: (1 rating)
Hey, I'm Supposed to be Free Range, by Anonymous
Average member rating: (6 ratings)
Crossing the road just got a lot tougher. All these damn traffic cones. You're amazed ... [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue] Written by "Opal O'Donnell", it was revealed years later this game was really...
Hey, Jingo!, by Caleb Wilson
Average member rating: (5 ratings)
Welcome to Costa Verdoun; The Green Coast; sole colony of the tiny European Republic of Urbitan. Its brief moment of importance is vanishing as the light of colonialism fades all over the world. "General...
The Hidden King's Tomb, by Joshua Fratis
Average member rating: (13 ratings)
Built beneath a lake dark and deep, The Hidden King’s Tomb was once well protected against would-be thieves. Between its only marked entrance was built a labyrinth of locked doors and false vaults. All...
Hidden Verbiage, by Linus Hamilton
Average member rating: (3 ratings)
A puzzle from the 2018 Caltech Puzzle Hunt. The city of Reality has turned invisible due to lack of interest. The nearby city of Illusions, while beautiful, is but a figment of the collective imagination....
Hide a pachyderm!, by Simon Deimel
Average member rating: (7 ratings)
You know that you are not allowed to keep pets in your apartment. But you could not leave your pet elephant behind when you moved in. And now there is trouble ahead. Story adaption of the old joke. This is...
Highland Chef, by Graeme Pletscher
Average member rating: (1 rating)
In this pleasant little fetch-quest game, you play as a guest assistant chef to Chef Duncan Alexander. He has a show on the Cooking Channel, and it's filmed in his own cottage. Find a turnip, an onion, and...

Hildy, by J. Michael
Average member rating: (12 ratings)

You are Hildy, a twenty-year-old apprentice enchantress who is seriously considering a change of vocation. And who can blame you? The Guild Masters don't understand you, the other apprentices think you're a...

The Hippo and the Flute, by Anonymous
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

Hippo on Elm Street, by Adri ("Erin Gigglecreek")
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

Baby, it's cold outside. All you want to do is snuggle up in a warm sock and take a nap. But something seems to be going on in the house, and you're determined to find out what it is. This game is based in...

His Majesty's Royal Space Navy Service Handbook, by Austin Auclair
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

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...

History Repeating, by Mark Choba and Renee Choba
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

You play an adult who, in the middle of a boring day at the office, suddenly wakes up as their teenage self in their grade 12 math classroom! Your science teacher, Mr. Hopkins, brought you back in time with...

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams and Steve Meretzky
Average member rating: (188 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...

A Hobbit Trek, by Crispin
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

A giant flood has ravaged the countryside, sweeping aside villages and destroying homes. You were caught up in the raging waters and carried away to a strange land. The flood drops you off in the branches of...

The Hobbit, by Serhei Makarov
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

Hoist Sail for the Heliopause and Home, by Andrew Plotkin
Average member rating: (86 ratings)

A far-future story of discovery.

Hollywood Hijinx, by Dave Anderson, Liz Cyr-Jones
Average member rating: (34 ratings)

Vampire Penguins. A Corpse Line. Meltdown on Elm Street. Who could forget these classic Hollywood movies produced by your uncle, Buddy Burbank? But his greatest masterpiece has yet to be experienced......

The Holy Grail, by Jim MacBrayne

The consequences to be faced if you fail in your mission are dire indeed. Are you up to the challenge? [blurb from The (Other) TADS Games List version 1.2] Originally published as a HiSoft BASIC game for...

HOLY ROBOT EMPIRE, by Caleb Wilson (as Ralph Gide)
Average member rating: (16 ratings)

You are going to find the Robopope and then kiss its papal ring, or your name isn’t Morgen Santamore.

Homecoming, by Carolyn VanEseltine
Average member rating: (13 ratings)

"Homecoming" is a short, twisted comedy about a newly awakened AI.

The Homework of Little Carl Gauss, by Stefano Gaburri
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

Honk!, by Alex Harby
Average member rating: (17 ratings)

A Fair Game ...

The Horror of Rylvania, by D. A. Leary
Average member rating: (11 ratings)

"What you expected would be a fun outing in scenic Rylvania turns into a gruesome nightmare, with *you* playing the starring role. Find out what it's like to be alternately the source and challenger of evil...
The Horste, by Roger Carbol
Average member rating: (4 ratings)
WARNING: This piece of Westworld fanfic contains SPOILERS for Westworld (the 2016 HBO television series, not the 1973 movie.) Proceed, if you dare, forewarned. (It occurs prior to the events of the third...
Hotel Tutorial, by Leandro Ribeiro
Average member rating: (3 ratings)
So you are new to Interactive Fiction? You don't even really know what Interactive Fiction is? Well, I'm here to help you. I'm the Tutorial Guide. We're going to play a very small game together, so that you...

The House of Mystery, by James G. Lynch (Jimmy Joe)
Average member rating: (1 rating)

Description:...

The House on Sycamore Lane, by Paul Michael Winters
Average member rating: (10 ratings)

Trapped in an old, abandoned house, you must solve the mystery that has cursed the house for a hundred years... and escape with your life!

The House, by Owen Parish
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

In this small escape game, you wake up with a headache in the mysterious Gralow family's house. How much were you drinking? And did you come in through the fireplace? Ugh. Better get out of here fast.

The House, by Jazz Remington
Average member rating: (1 rating)

In this small text adventure, you play as someone who enters an abandoned house on a whim, only to be trapped inside by a restless spirit. Can you figure out what the spirit wants and banish him?

How Many Roads Must a Man Walk Down?, by Tom Waddington
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

In this tribute game to Douglas Adams, you play as someone at an asylum. There's a sandy sea-shore to the south, and a curious inside-out house to the north. It's a beautiful day.

How the Little Match Girl Got Her Colt Paterson Revolver, and Taught a Virtue to a Goblin, by Ryan Veeder
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

Written for Day 13 of #EnigMarch 2023.

How the Little Match Girl Met the Queen of Vampires, by Ryan Veeder
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

Written for Day 18 of #EnigMarch 2022.

How to Win at Rock Paper Scissors, by Brian Kwak
Average member rating: (27 ratings)

The disgrace and humiliation of last year's defeat is behind you. This time, with the help of the gods, you'll win this competition for sure.

Hunter, in Darkness, by Andrew Plotkin
Average member rating: (123 ratings)

Hypnotist of Ladies, by David Cornelson
Average member rating: (9 ratings)
In this small one-note game, you play as the Hypnotist of Ladies. Your plan is to hypnotize all the ladies.
I am the Law, by djchallis
I am detective Joshua Kent. Captain Seth was murdered in this remote research space station. I will find the killer, make the decisions, and pass judgment. In short: I am the Law.
I don't remember why this game is called "Onion", by Dan Shiovitz
Average member rating: (4 ratings)
In this short silly game, you play as someone on Mars visiting the pretend Eiffel Tower that aliens built in the past. Features Nostradamus and a hose-pipe and not much else.

I Expect You To Die, by Anthony Schuster
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

Help the secret agent escape from the villain's deathtrap. Or is there more?

I Must Play, by Geoff Fortytwo
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

Why are the older boys so mean? You stood around the arcade all day and weren't able to play even one game on any of the machines! You thought you had your chance when nearly everyone else went home earlier...

I pressed on, being chased by a stapler with my name on it., by Charlie Marcou
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

"I pressed on, being chased by a stapler with my name on it. This was unbelievable. Liz was turning my on stationary against me. What would she throw at us next?" - Garth Marenghi --- Based off of Garth...

I-0, by Anonymous
Average member rating: (158 ratings)

Stranded on Interstate Zero after your car broke down, you are miles away from the last sign of civilization. It's twenty minutes to noon and the temperature is well over 120°F. It's beginning to look like...

I'm Gonna Take You To The Video Bar!, by James Mitchelhill
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

Ice Cream, by Roy Lee
Average member rating: (1 rating)

Ice House of Horrors, by Sean M. Shore
Average member rating: (9 ratings)

In this very short horror story, you play as an injured walleye, lured and caught by monsters who throw you onto a pile of corpses. Your options are extremely limited. You can't breathe. And it's so cold...

Identity Thief, by Rob Shaw-Fuller
Average member rating: (12 ratings)

In this game, you play as a thief who uses cyber implants to steal identities and commit crimes. A "Mr. Johnson" hired you to steal a datachip from Senator Barbara Tarlette's mansion, but things went south...
IF Aquarium, by Michael Kichline and Michael Eckhart
Average member rating: (2 ratings)
A short piece of (vastly unfinished) interactive art.
IF Progressive One, by Sarah Morayati, Rick Dague, Dan Shiovitz, Carl Muckenhoupt, Marius Müller, Mark J. Musante, and Tom Blawgus
Average member rating: (1 rating)
This chaotic game was written by six authors sequentially, each author only adding to the game as written so far. It all begins with you as a kindergarten teacher in your classroom after all the kids have...

IF Tutorial, by Cooper McHatton (German translation by Marco Bakera)
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The german version of the introduction into IF gameplay from the playfic.com website. The basic commands and possibilities of interaction with IT games are described interactively.

IFDB Spelunking, by Joey Jones
Average member rating: (21 ratings)

In the depths of the interactive fiction database strange games lurk! This is an emulation of ten random works found on the IFDB, in which inventory carries over between games for unique effect.

Igor's Quest, by Garry Francis
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

One day, Igor is minding his own business in the living room of Frankenstein's castle, when the doctor comes running down the stairs from his laboratory. He is clearly excited. "Igor! I've done it! The...

Illuminismo Iniziato, by Michael J. Coyne
Average member rating: (24 ratings)

Lovingly handcrafted in Inform6, this overripe sequel to Risorgimento Represso is full of cheese, gunpowder, chemistry and explosions (well, only a little chemistry). Includes automap, sounds and graphical...

An Important Appointment, by Jennifer Earl
Average member rating: (1 rating)

The Impossible Bottle, by Linus Åkesson
Average member rating: (82 ratings)

Housework is only as dull as your imagination. Join Emma, six years old, on a playful adventure of peculiar proportions. Merciful puzzlefest. Parser or point-and-click, as you please. Web (including mobile)...

The Impossible Stairs, by Mathbrush
Average member rating: (30 ratings)

Getting ready for a party can take a lot of time. Help CJ navigate a text adventure of temporal trials. Merciful puzzlefest. Parser or point-and-click, as you please. Authorized sequel to The Impossible...

Improv: Origins, by Neil deMause
Average member rating: (9 ratings)

In the long-awaited (by someone, surely, maybe) prequel to the Frenetic Five trilogy, your new employer SuperTemps has sent you out into the field with nothing more than your wits and your freshly minted...

In a Manor of Speaking, by Hulk Handsome
Average member rating: (27 ratings)

In a Manor of Speaking is a punny adventure set in the surreal world of Calembour. Journey through the bizarre Outlands, the bustling streets of Rudeville, and eventually find your way to the manor itself as...

In a Tomb with a Donkey, by Dee Cooke
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

Evidence Sweet has been defeated in battle during the Annual Spellcasting Competition... again. Blasted into ancient Egypt with her spells seemingly scattered to the winds, she finds herself chased down by...

In Search of Velocitas fictus, by Jacqueline A. Lott
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

In The House of Professor Evil: The HAM HOUSE, by S. John Ross
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

A sci-fi/pulp satire, extremely brief and slight (it can be beaten in 12 turns) beginning in a cell beneath the house of a mad scientist. The scientist lay dead at your feet, and now you must answer the...

In the Navy, by Ernesto Heywood
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

In the Spotlight, by John Byrd
Average member rating: (8 ratings)
A one-room game with one major puzzle. Tie two strings together. Simple? [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue]
IN-D-I-GO SOUL, by Jonathan Blask
Average member rating: (2 ratings)
Silly game written for the Indigo New Language Speed IF, where every entrant had to write his or her submission in a language they were unfamiliar with. Not recommended for young audiences.
The Incredible Shrinking Woman, Too!, by David Dyte
Average member rating: (3 ratings)
Oh no! Somehow, your hairspray shrank you down to tiny size, and you're trapped on the kitchen counter. If only you could reach the phone on the other side of the sink, you could call for help. But instead,...

Indigo, by Emily Short
Average member rating: (55 ratings)

"Years ago, a witch placed you in this tower and arranged for your upkeep, paying certain villagers well to keep you supplied with the most basic necessities, and no more. Your years in the tower have...

Indistinguishable, by MathBrush (as Prismatik)
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

Inevitable, by Kathleen M. Fischer as Timothy Lawrence Heinrich
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

Inevitable, by Matthew Pfeiffer
Average member rating: (9 ratings)
It's hard being an unsuccessful mad scientist. You're spending valuable time making ends meet when you should be bossing around henchmen. Now that your latest invention, the TIME SCRYER, is complete, nothing...
Infiltration on Io, by Ryan N. Freebern
Average member rating: (4 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...

An Informal Time, by Anonymous
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

A brief experiment into Inform. It probably would help (not that the game is particularly hard, or particularly a game for that matter) if you are aware of IF slightly - but it isn't necessary. If you get...

Inside the Facility, by Arthur DiBianca
Average member rating: (64 ratings)

Your friend Mike thinks no one can infiltrate THE FACILITY, but you're going to prove him wrong. A light puzzle game. In the author's opinion, it's totally family-friendly. (If you're playing the Browser...

Inspiration, by David S. Glasser
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

Inspiration!, by Jacob Polar
Average member rating: (3 ratings)
"Tick tock. Tick tock. Hours pass by as you sit in your office trying to write your interactive fiction. But the plot just doesn't seem to work... You change a few sentences, read them, and erase them. And...
Interactive Fiction Player, by Charlie Marcou
Average member rating: (7 ratings)
This is an interesting little game...
Interface, by Ben Vegiard
Average member rating: (12 ratings)
What happens when your favorite uncle, a successful electronics company owner, has you try out his latest invention? Of course, something goes amiss and you must struggle to set it all right or suffer the...

Internal Documents, by Tom Lechner
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

In this odd, large, and sparsely-implemented game, you play as a civil servant sent by the incumbent governor to the tiny township of Sebastian to examine the records of the John B. Holden estate. There's...

Interstellar Pizza Brigade, by Peregrine Wade
Average member rating: (1 rating)

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to travel through space and time to deliver a pizza. Failure is not an option. Hilarity, however, is. This was written for the 18th Anniversary Speed-IF. The...
Into That Good Night, by Iain Merrick
Average member rating: (3 ratings)
In this game dedicated to the memory of Douglas Adams, you play as a holistic detective who believes in the fundamental interconnectedness of all things. Your client, Mrs Antrobus, has hired you to find her...
Intro to Jabberwocky, by Gregory Weir
Average member rating: (7 ratings)
In this game, based on the Lewis Carroll poem "Jabberwocky", you play as a farmer's child, sent out before brillig to deal with the family's animals. You also find a tablet with a pattern of lines and...
Intro to The Devil's Music, by Harkness Munt
In this tricky introduction to an incomplete game, you play as the Devil. You've traveled to Earth to collect the soul of Ezra Mayhew. You carry his contract, recorded in bile and blood, and his final...
Inventory, by Christopher Armstrong
Average member rating: (2 ratings)
Time to go! Off to the train station! Chop chop, buddy! Time waits for no man, and neither does my employer!

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

The Island of Infinity, by Alex Freeman
Average member rating: (1 rating)

Islands Far Away, by Shanon Fernald
Average member rating: (2 ratings)
Islands Far Away is my first work of interactive fiction. I created it as an entry for the Ludum Dare 48 Hour Game Competition #17. The game is about a programmer who is trying to create a game in the Ludum...
The Isle of the Cult, by Rune Berg
Average member rating: (4 ratings)
The Isolato Incident, by Alan DeNiro
Average member rating: (4 ratings)
"We need to save the kingdom! But...where is the kingdom? What are its bounds? Can history be distilled? Why do ghosts feign friendliness? We will make a quest of questions!" [--blurb from Competition...
It Could Only Happen To You, by Mike Sousa
Average member rating: (3 ratings)
It's a Dog's Life, by Mr. Wigglebutt
David Welbourn's rating:
Average member rating: (1 rating)
You have been chosen as the winner of a fully trained Australian Cattle Dog (you lucky devil). What adventures lie in store? Odd, really, that you can't seem to pet it. [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue]
It's Easter, Peeps!, by Sara Brookside
Average member rating: (5 ratings)
A one-room game where your goal is to assemble an Easter basket of goodies for your son, Max.
J'dal, by Ryan Kinsman
Average member rating: (18 ratings)
Jack in the box, by Marius Müller
Average member rating: (2 ratings)
Jack's Adventures, by Dan Shiovitz
Average member rating: (5 ratings)
In this extremely short one-room demo game, you play as Jack Winklebee, an aspiring hero in Fairyland. You've traded your cow for some magic beans, a trowel, and a magic watering can. Now it's time to find...
Jacks or Better to Murder, Aces to Win, by J. D. Berry
Average member rating: (18 ratings)
In this short game of intrigue, you play as the venerable A, the highest-ranking member of your religion's Hierarchy. During a formal service at a remote holding, you sense a conspiracy to eliminate you is...
Jacob's Travels, by Anssi Räisänen

Jacqueline, Jungle Queen!, by Steph Cherrywell
Average member rating: (24 ratings)

You are Jacqueline McBean, modern woman for the Thirties and intrepid international correspondent for the Fresno Bee. The good news is that you're on your way to a plum assignment among the glitzy spires and...

Jailbreak Bob, by David Whyld
Average member rating: (1 rating)

Jane, by Joseph Grzesiak
Average member rating: (17 ratings)
Janitor, by Peter Seebach and Kevin Lynn
Average member rating: (28 ratings)
Jarod's Journey, by Tim Emmerich
Average member rating: (6 ratings)
""Jarod!" comes the weakened call from the father's room. With a torn heart, Jarod remembers his father of old, a once great centurion. Jarod quickly runs to his father's bedside. When he kneels beside the...
jason finds fleece, by Gunther Schmidl
Average member rating: (3 ratings)
In this IF abuse modeled after robot finds kitten, you play as Jason of the Argonauts, looking for the Golden Fleece. Jason is represented as a # symbol which you'll manuever around the screen using your...
Jay Is Ponies, by JohnB, Kyh, Steve, Tricky, and Trinn
Average member rating: (2 ratings)
The kingdom is in great peril. King Jay, our wise, benevolent, and perpetually hungry ruler, is in need of assistance. He was about to eat a delicious pizza, and then it split into slices and vanished. Go...
Jeenin Tonn-nx, by Anonymous
Average member rating: (4 ratings)
In this one-room tribute to Douglas Adams, you play as someone at a pub. The bartender tells you he can make an alcoholic beverage that you eat instead of drink. It's called a Jeenin Tonn-nx.

Jesse Stavro's Doorway, by Marshal Tenner Winter
Average member rating: (13 ratings)

Jordan is looking for his friend, Jesse, who is in hiding from the government. Picking up the trail, he discovers that Jesse is following the Grateful Dead on tour, but as Jordan immerses himself into the...

Jesus of Nazareth, by Paul Allen Panks
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

It is the year 28 A.D. The Roman authorities control a vast empire, stretching from Africa to Syria. You are Jesus, hailing from the small village of Nazareth. Your goal is to convert as many followers as...
The Jewel of Knowledge, by Francesco Bova
Average member rating: (6 ratings)
"A somewhat traditional cave crawl." Possession of the long-lost Jewel of Knowledge is said to bring fame, wealth, power, and of course knowledge, but you'll have to beat the extraordinarily high mortality...

Jigsaw, by Graham Nelson
Average member rating: (84 ratings)

New Year's Eve, 1999, a quarter to midnight and where else to be but Century Park! Fireworks cascade across the sky, your stomach rumbles uneasily, music and lasers howl across the parkland... Not exactly...

Jigsaw 2, by Anonymous
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

(author is Adam Cadre, but game is unsigned)
Jobs for Antioch!, by A O Muniz
Average member rating: (2 ratings)
In this tiny game, you play as Bohemond, prince of Antioch. The principality has fallen upon hard times with the decline of the time tourism and liquid leather industries. You do have an awful lot of cows,...
John's Fire Witch, by John Baker
Average member rating: (40 ratings)
A small, witty text adventure. Its clever puzzles received quite a bit of acclaim on rec.arts.int-fiction upon its release. You've come to visit your old friend John Baker, but he's missing, and a blizzard...

Jon Doe – Wildcard Nucleus, by Olaf Nowacki
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

Be Jon Doe, secret agent at MI5, and solve the mystery about the death of scientist Monsieur Edulard and his latest world-changing invention. A story with thrilling women, sinister villains and cutting-edge...

Journey, by Marc Blank
Average member rating: (25 ratings)

Have you mettle enough to make siege on the Dread Lord himself? ...We shall see. If you've ever been spellbound by a fantasy story, captivated by a role playing game, or enthralled by interactive fiction,...

Journey from an Islet, by Mario Becroft
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

In this small game, you play as an adventurer. You have traveled long and far and have now fallen onto an island in the darkness before dawn. How will you escape from there and continue your journey?

The Journey of the King, by Peter Nepstad
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

"The King goeth upon a journey with many horses, yet riding upon none, when the pomp of travelling shall be heard in the streets and the sound of the lute and the drum and the name of the King. And I would...

Jump, by Chris Mudd
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

"The first slivers of light rise from the horizon. Colours, hues gather... A gull rides a thermal to the clouds above. All that has happened seems inconsequential." [--blurb from Competition Aught-One]

Jungle adventure, by Paul Barter
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

A rip roaring, immersive, intense and gripping text based adventure game with a generous serving of humour added at no additional cost. Escape from a dangerous jungle, confront and overcome badies, get...

Junior Arithmancer, by Mike Spivey
Average member rating: (58 ratings)

A one-to-many-room puzzler.

Ka, by Dan Efran
Average member rating: (20 ratings)

For an Egyptian mummy's soul - or "Ka" - death is but the first step on a puzzling and perilous journey. The second step? Getting out of all those coffins....

Kaboot's Story, by Josh Giesbrecht
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

Kallisti, by James Mitchelhill
Average member rating: (9 ratings)
"This game may, as they say, contain scenes of a sexual nature and language unsuitable for the young and/or easily offended." [--blurb from Competition Aught-One]

Katana, by Matt Rohde
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

You play as an American tourist visiting Shinobu Palace in Japan hoping to learn more about your ancestor, Matsuo Kaneiji, an infamous samurai executed for treason. Through several puzzles and flashbacks,...

The Kazooist, by Charlie Marcou
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

You are at your birthday party and your about to eat some cake and stuff, but then some weird stuff happens...

Keepsake, by Savaric
Average member rating: (28 ratings)

The planning was easy. Committing the murder was easy. But getting away with it? That's another thing. Keepsake is a short, surreal story about vengeance and its consequences.

Kenny Koala's Bushfire Survival Plan, by Garry Francis
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

The weather is getting hotter and bushfire season is approaching. The animals have to stock up on food and prepare their bushfire survival plans. Every year, the animals appoint a bushfire warden. The...

Kentish Plover, by Daniel Gunnell (as Kentish Plover)
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

Your micro enterprise, Kentish Plover, has been a success in starting up. You've managed to convince people to start playing interactive fiction in the local area. Now, if you're going to make the business a...
The Keys of the Kingdom, by Anonymous
Average member rating: (1 rating)
Kids Shouldn't Have to Save The World, by Marnie Parker
Average member rating: (4 ratings)
Kids, don’t eat your Halloween candy without having your parents inspect it first because there are SICKOS out there who will put RAZOR BLADES in it and you will CUT YOUR MOUTH and GET A POISONED INFECTION and DIE, all from eating your candy early. So don’t do that., by Dan Shiovitz
Average member rating: (12 ratings)

Kii!Wii!, by Adri
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

This experience was created in order to impart a bit of happiness and sweetness into your life.

A Killer Headache, by Mike Ciul
Average member rating: (21 ratings)

The apocalypse is over. The human race lost. You're hungry. And you have a hell of a headache. Discretionary warning: This game is violent, scatological, and eschatological.

Killing Machine Loves Slime Prince, by C.E.J. Pacian
Average member rating: (14 ratings)

A biomechanical killing machine stalks a strange world. The slime she loves is dying. And the one responsible is out there somewhere.

King Arthur's Night Out, by Mikko Vuorinen
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

"You are King Arthur of Britain who wants to spend the night in a pub. But your wife, Queen Guinevere, won't let you. Adventures await as you try to leave your castle without your wife knowing." [-- blurb...

The King of Shreds and Patches, by Jimmy Maher
Average member rating: (81 ratings)

January 14th Dear friend. My sojourn in parts foreign is at an ende. I am at lodgings in Southwark not far from the bridge at Stoney Street, come dine with me two days hence to ring in the newe year. I have...

The King's Ball, by Garry Francis
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

Every year, the king holds an extravagant ball where he invites all the local dignitaries and they lavish him with gifts. The king sells some of these gifts after the ball and uses the money to fund the ball...

Kiss Chase, by Anonymous
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

Kissing the Buddha's Feet, by Leon Lin
Average member rating: (24 ratings)
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...
Koan, by Esa Peuha
Average member rating: (11 ratings)
Kook U, by Anonymous
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

Koustrea's Contentment, by Jeremy Pflasterer
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

A tiny community of immortals receives a newcomer named Koustrea, who makes an unsettling discovery while struggling to find a paradisial niche, as the others have long ago.

Krakatoa Tuna Melt, by David Welbourn
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

An interactive cookin' disaster. Written far too slowly for SpeedIF 10-9. Twelve locations.

La Seine, by Derek Sutcliffe
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

Visit Paris, France in 1884 and explore a large park on the bank of the river Seine.
Labyrinth, by Samantha Casanova Preuninger
Average member rating: (12 ratings)
In this puzzle game, you play as Damien Alexander, professor of mathematics. Before waking up in this gaudy and sweet-smelling cubical room, you remember crashing your car while driving with your wife...
The Lake, by John Cater
Average member rating: (2 ratings)
In this one-room game, you play as a stressed museum employee taking a break. You're hoping some time at the lake reading and relaxing will help.

The Landing, by Neil K. Guy
Average member rating: (1 rating)

In this one-room puzzleless story set in Hussar, Alberta, Canada, you play as a farmer. On the way home, you noticed one of your hens some distance from the farm just pecking at the road. You're about to...

LASH -- Local Asynchronous Satellite Hookup, by Paul O'Brian
Average member rating: (42 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....

Last Day, by Earth Traveler
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

The world is about to end, and you are just a guy living on the islands of northwest Washington. What will you do on your last day?
Last Day of Summer, by Doug Orleans (as Cameron Fox)
Average member rating: (21 ratings)
It's the last day of summer, and you're old enough now to go into town by yourself.

The Last Hour, by Roberto Grassi
Average member rating: (1 rating)

[Entry in the cancelled ADRIFT One Room Comp 2004]

Last House on the Block, by Jason Olson
Average member rating: (13 ratings)

Mr. Harrison was a quiet old man who lived in the house at the end of the block. No one really knew him, but everyone said he was rich; anyone who lived like as much like a hermit as he did *had* to be a...

The Last Laugh, by David Cornelson
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

You play as a notoriously handsome hero who's very good at killing dragons, especially the ones from New Jersey. You were just swallowed by a balding, pot-bellied dragon, but luckily, your trusty cigar case...

Last-Minute Magic, by Ryan Veeder
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

An optimization tale from Leah Naidu's world of Visit Skuga Lake, featuring the same magic system.

Lawn of Love, by Santoonie Corporation
Average member rating: (11 ratings)

Santoonie's first romantic adventure.

Lazy Gods of Earth, by Stark Springs

You play as some guy in a black swimsuit. You're visiting your friend James and his girlfriend Karen at his West Coast beach house, but after a week of doing nothing, you're getting bored. But then you...

Lazy Wizard's Guide, by Lenard Gunda
Average member rating: (14 ratings)

It is time to take the final exam in your magician studies. The only problem is, for all the years you have spent in this prestigious school of magic, you have been really lazy. Really, really, "you don't...

Leap Time, by Sarah Morayati
Average member rating: (12 ratings)

Learning to Cross, by Mark Musante
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

You play as someone walking through farm country to visit your aunt, and so you stop at a farmhouse hoping you can barter for some food. The farmer offers to have his wife cook up whichever of his chickens...

Leather, by Christopher Tate
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

Leather Goddesses of Phobos, by Steve Meretzky
Average member rating: (72 ratings)

And now... the next exciting episode of humanoids in space! How did you, a regular at Joe's Bar in Upper Sandusky, Ohio, end up on a Martian moon? Can you prevent the hideous space creature from abducting...

Leaves, by Mikko Vuorinen
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

In this rather colourless and linear game, you play as some guy escaping from some complex. The obstacles on your route to freedom are a guard, a fence, a forest, an underground tunnel system, and a river....

The Legend of Horse Girl, by Bitter Karella
Average member rating: (11 ratings)

Welcome to Santa Diablo, Texas, a tiny desert town held in the grip of fear by a corrupt judge and his gang of outlaws. No one dares to stand against these rustlers. No one, that is, until the fateful day...

The Legend of the Missing Hat, by Adri
Average member rating: (31 ratings)

A tiny story about four tiny ninjas and a tiny top hat.

The Lesson of the Chicken, by Rob Noyes
Average member rating: (1 rating)

Catch the chicken for dinner. Should be easy, it's already lost its head ... [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue]
The Lesson of the Tortoise, by G. Kevin Wilson
Average member rating: (19 ratings)
In this short game, you play as Wang Lo, a Chinese farmer. Alas, you shall learn that your wife has been unfaithful and desires your death.

Let's Play: Ancient Greek Punishment: The Text Adventure, by Pippin Barr
Average member rating: (11 ratings)

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.

Lethe Flow Phoenix, by Dan Shiovitz
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

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...

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...

The Life (and Deaths) of Doctor M, by Michael D. Hilborn
Average member rating: (30 ratings)

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...

Life on Beal Street, by Ian Finley
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

"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....
Light Of My Stomach, by David Fletcher
Average member rating: (11 ratings)
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,...
The Light: Shelby's Addendum, by Colm McCarthy
Average member rating: (8 ratings)
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]
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]
The Lion in Winter, by Iain Merrick
Average member rating: (5 ratings)
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.
Little Green Robbing Hood, by Jake Wildstrom
Average member rating: (3 ratings)
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...

The Little Match Girl 2: Annus Evertens, by Ryan Veeder
Average member rating: (13 ratings)

The little match girl is hired to assassinate a disgusting old man.

The Little Match Girl 3: The Escalus Manifold, by Ryan Veeder
Average member rating: (12 ratings)

"The Snow Queen controls her servants with Shards from the Mirror of Belial," Ebenezer Scrooge explained.

The Little Match Girl 4: Crown of Pearls, by Ryan Veeder
Average member rating: (24 ratings)

A touching epic time travel fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen.

The Little Match Girl 5: The Hunter's Vow, by Ryan Veeder
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

A few years have passed since the events of The Little Match Girl 4.

The Little Match Girl against the Universal Sisterhood of Naughty Little Girls, by Ryan Veeder
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

This one takes place very soon after The Little Match Girl 4: Crown of Pearls.

The Little Match Girl and Her Friend, the Crow, by Ryan Veeder
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

The little match girl goes on a spooky adventure with her friend (a crow). Written for Day 21 of Drawlloween 2023.

The Little Match Girl and His Holiness Pope Pius IX, by Ryan Veeder
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

His Holiness has a favor to ask of the little match girl and her associate.

The Little Match Girl in the Court of Maal Dweb, by Ryan Veeder
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

A spooky tribute to one of the great authors of weird fiction.

The Little Match Girl, by Hans Christian Andersen, by Ryan Veeder
Average member rating: (22 ratings)

A touching short story.

LiveJoseph, by Joseph Miller
Average member rating: (1 rating)

In this short interactive non-fiction, you're visiting the game's author in his apartment. Make yourself at home and ask Joseph questions about his job, his family, and a few other topics.
Living Room, by Doug Jones and Anonymous
Average member rating: (3 ratings)
Llangollen Rock City, by Sam Thursfield
Average member rating: (4 ratings)
Lobster Bucket, by Rick Yost (as Lady Tallhat)
Average member rating: (7 ratings)
You have always had the knack for finding things in dungeons. Maybe that’s why the aquabats have asked you to retrieve their most treasured possession from the Evil Overlord and his mooks. Don’t get...
The Lobster, by Caleb Wilson
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

Lock & Key, by Adam Cadre
Average member rating: (78 ratings)

The Locked Room, by Chris Schneider
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

'The Locked Room' This is a simple riddle adventure. You only need to accomplish three tasks to escape and win the game. You will be awarded points for each completed task and some sub-task. To win the game...
Lomalow, by Brendan Barnwell
Average member rating: (4 ratings)
"This game has one puzzle, and the solution to this is given immediately as the game begins. It's about loss, sadness, love, mystery, supernatural beings, and moving to a higher plane of existence. It is all...
The Lone Star Menáçe, by Ricardo Signes
Average member rating: (2 ratings)
In this game, you play as a handsome clownfish wearing a Man Suit, high above L'Austin in a hot air balloon. You're on an espionage mission. Your objectives are: survive freefall, locate the embassy, obtain...

The Lonely Troll, by Amanda Walker
Average member rating: (17 ratings)

Meet a cast of mythological characters in a text adventure about making friends. This game is suitable for children as well as adults and has an extensive tutorial for first-time players. A walkthrough, or...

The Long Barrow, by Christy Henshaw
Average member rating: (1 rating)

Looking for Godot, by Patrick Shaughnessy
Average member rating: (3 ratings)
Highest time to return that copy of "Waiting for Godot" to the library. But where did you put it? [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue]

Lord Bellwater's Secret, by Sam Gordon
Average member rating: (71 ratings)

Losing Your Grip, by Stephen Granade
Average member rating: (22 ratings)

Losing Your Step, by Gunther Schmidl
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

Lost In New York, by Mikko Vuorinen
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

The Lost Islands of Alabaz, by Michael Gentry
Average member rating: (12 ratings)

Once upon a time, our Kingdom was much larger than it is now, reaching across all ten islands of the Alabaz Archipelago. But then a terrible curse fell upon us. A thick, gray mist covered the sea, hiding...

Lost Pig, by Admiral Jota
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

The Lost Spellmaker, by Neil James Brown
Average member rating: (13 ratings)

Spells are in short supply, and spellmakers are disappearing one by one. So your boss T sends you on a mission to find the famous Drew Tungshinach so that he may entertain the community further with his...

Lovely Assistant: Magical Girl, by Bitter Karella
Average member rating: (16 ratings)

A magician's assistant has two very important duties, to point at things and to look good in a form-fitting evening gown. But when Mugwort the Magician is kidnapped by his devious riddle-obsessed...

Low, by Peregrine Wade
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

A Petite Mort entry for ECTOCOMP 2016.

Lowell Prison, by Emily Short
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

A small conversation piece between you, an inmate of Lowell Prison, and an old man who crouches beside a wide-open gate.

Lowell's Paradise, by Jesse McGrew
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

A scientist's mishap leads to a hidden world.
The Ludicorp Mystery, by Cal "Bees" Henderson
In this game, you play as a concerned citizen, very likely a gamer, exploring a large office building. Ludicorp is very overdue with their next game release. You're worried that something has gone wrong at...

Lulu and the Asteroid of 100% Guaranteed Doom, by Ben Ryan
Average member rating: (1 rating)

Like every cat owner, it is your responsibility to ensure that your pet stays safe from things like busy roads, dogs and extinction level asteroid impacts. This is a call to arms! And possibly paws...

Lunar Base 1, by Michael Phipps
Average member rating: (15 ratings)

Two astronauts set out to settle America's first lunar base in the year 2080. You are one of them.

Lurid Dreams, by Torgrim Mellum Stene
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

A musty old tome with a strange text on self-hypnosis sends our protagonist into a lucid dream searching for answers. But the dream has an agenda of its own.

Lurk. Unite. Die. Invent. Think. Expire., by Ryan Stevens
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

"Morning seems strange, almost out place." [--blurb from Competition '99]

The Lurking Horror II: The Lurkening, by Ryan Veeder
Average member rating: (29 ratings)

An unauthorized sequel to the Infocom classic, written for the 2018 MIT Mystery Hunt.

The Lurking Horror, by Dave Lebling
Average member rating: (95 ratings)

A winter night at the G.U.E. tech campus with most students away on vacation serves as the backdrop for this tale of Lovecraftian horror.

Lux, by Agnieszka Trzaska
Average member rating: (21 ratings)

You wander around in darkness – even though the lights are on. Sandra is the only one to survive a mysterious attack on a deep space mining station. She is alive, but has lost her vision. Now Sandra must...

Lydia's Heart, by Jim Aikin
Average member rating: (32 ratings)

"Lydia's Heart" is a large, complex game with a serious tone and seven or eight NPCs you can converse with. The genre is low-key horror: There's almost no actual blood, but there are several ways to die in a...

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

Madame L'Estrange and the Troubled Spirit, by Ian Ball and Marcus Young
Average member rating: (6 ratings)
For Madame L'Estrange, contacts with beings from the ghost world are everyday routine. This case, however, is not. Did Dr. Taverner really kill himself? If not, who did it? And what about that beast?...
The Mage Wars: Statue, by Jim Fisher
Average member rating: (4 ratings)
In this lengthy unfinished game divided into chapters, you'll be playing as various characters, but mostly as Dr. Marcus Philbrook, a man who petrifies himself into a statue in 1997 and wakes up in a museum...
Magic, by Geoff Fortytwo
Average member rating: (6 ratings)
In this odd game, you play as a magician-for-hire the day after a bad gig and a night in the rain. You find your top hat and flip its catch to release Rupert, your rabbit, who immediately attacks you like a...
The Magic Circle, by Patrick Crosmun
Average member rating: (1 rating)
Welcome to the circle. To enhance your experience we have outfitted you with an Augmented Reality Device, or ARD. Your ARD will provide you with relevant information about your surroundings on the convenient...
The Magic Toyshop, by Gareth Rees
Average member rating: (20 ratings)
A one-location game in which you play a series of puzzles against a shopkeeper in order to get a present. [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue]
Magic Travels, by Mister Nose
Average member rating: (11 ratings)
You are the last magician on earth, struggling to bring back magic. Oh, no. What a hard game I have made. Maybe it could be easier. I know! The computer will play the game for you! How convenient! Please...
The Magnificent Museum of Masterly Masterworks, by Nils Fagerburg (as Inverted Normals)
Average member rating: (3 ratings)
In this puzzleless work of interactive fiction, you may tour a small museum of art pieces inspired by the interactive fiction works of Ryan Veeder. The source code is also presented as artwork.

The Magpie Takes the Train, by Mathbrush
Average member rating: (41 ratings)

A millionaire guards a fabulous ruby in her private train car. Countless thieves have failed to steal it. But they weren't the Magpie!

Maiden of the Moonlight, by Brian P. Dean
Average member rating: (12 ratings)

You are standing in front of Drochsolas Manse, preparing to explore it in an attempt to find the key to ending the Baron's curse upon the surrounding land. You have come bearing your sword and pistol as well...
Main Course, by Quantum Sheep,quantumsheep
A alien, shapechanging tentacle monster called a SoMorph wakes up on a small frieghter traveling through hyperspace towards Earth. It has a hangover. And it wants to go home.
The Man from DEFRA, by Kevan Davis
Average member rating: (3 ratings)
You play as a goat whose goal is to prevent the slaughter of yourself and your herd by health officials from DEFRA. (DEFRA is the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, a UK government agency.)...
The Man in the Rain, by Karl Adamson
Man Overboard!!!, by TonyB
Average member rating: (1 rating)
You are Captain Jean Luc-Warm of the Royal Navy cargo ship, HMS Challenged. It's day 3 of your first mission to deliver IKEA furniture to the Island of the Damned, but, y'know, you won your captaincy by...
The man-eating, halitosic gorilla of Brazil, by Marius Müller
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

Manna, by Sam Kabo Ashwell
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

The Manor at Whitby, by L. E. Hall
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

Visiting your British relations for the first time, you discover the secrets of the strange ancestral manor.

Mansion, by Tercel
David Welbourn's rating:
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

You have just inherited your great aunt Agatha's English mansion, Gharston Hall, a rambling monstrosity built in the 17th century. But as you start looking around your new home, a Mr. Brookes lets himself...

Marie Waits, by Dee Cooke
Average member rating: (13 ratings)

Three hours. All you can do is wait... or is it?

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.
Martha's Big Date, by Mary Potts
Average member rating: (5 ratings)
You're a teenage girl, getting ready for a date. Oh, and your father is Superman.
A Masochist's Heaven, by The Mad Monk
Average member rating: (1 rating)
In this tiny game, you play as a masochist in Heaven, and you don't like it. You want pain! You want suffering! Find a way to get kicked out of Heaven and into Hell where you belong.
Matt's House, by Matt Mancini
David Welbourn's rating:
Average member rating: (1 rating)
Matt walks around his parents' house.

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!

Mazemapper, by Bob Reeves

Dedicated to everyone who loves mapping mazes. I think there might be three of us.

Mean Mother Trucker, by Bitter Karella
Average member rating: (15 ratings)

Big Ester is a mean mother trucker about to take her big rig down The Devil’s Taint, the most treacherous stretch of mountain road on the whole trucking circuit... but first she’s got to win the heart of...

The Mean Story, by Bob Reeves
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

An egregiously heartless and un-p.c. example of black humor, inspired by fantasies two of my friends came up with in high school. We've all grown since high school. You'd think.

Mean Streets, by Bad Dog Studios
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

In this text adventure you play as Dirk Justice, a grizzled detective on the edge who’s about to have a very bad day. This game has some graphic descriptions of violence, and some language as well as drug...

Mechs, by Allan Crain

Meeting Robb Sherwin, by Jizaboz
Average member rating: (10 ratings)

A slice-of-life adventure in Denver, Colorado.

Mental Entertainment, by Thomas Hvizdos
Average member rating: (13 ratings)

Your job is to talk to people. Interview three patrons of the 'Mental Entertainment' virtual reality entertainment center in Dayton, Ohio, and determine if they have a problem. Conversation-driven parser IF.

Mentula Macanus: Apocolocyntosis, by One of the Bruces and Drunken Bastard
Average member rating: (33 ratings)

Stiffy Makane, or rather his ancestor Mentula Macanus, is here subjected to an increasingly-unlikely series of crudely sexual romps through the ancient world. It's sort of like the Satyricon, except not...

Merk, by Jesse McGrew and Kate Matthews
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

"Dear Jim and Kevin, I have a mission for you: find me a 100-year-old typewriter. You'll be rewarded with space riches beyond your wildest dreams! Your new friend, Merk from Pluto"
Merlin's Golden Trove, by John Olsen
Average member rating: (3 ratings)
Merlin's Magic Forest, by John Olsen
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

Metamorphoses, by Emily Short
Average member rating: (133 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...

The Meteor, the Stone and a Long Glass of Sherbet, by Graham Nelson (as Angela M. Horns)
Average member rating: (51 ratings)

Another day wasted as guest of the Empress, a wretchedly long tour of the breath-taking Boreal Falls, conducted as ever by the Lady Amilia. As if she weren't bad enough, an honour guard of soldiers, their...

Mhairie Sioux Escrivain and the Dracula of Hogwarts, by Roger Carbol (as M Grablowsky)
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

You were just a regular girl living a regular life in North Dakota when a letter arrived that changed your life. You had been accepted as an exchange student to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry,...
Microwave Man!, by Tim Clarke
David Welbourn's rating:
Average member rating: (2 ratings)
You're a man! In a microwave! Get out of there!
Midair Madness, by Paul J. Furio
Average member rating: (2 ratings)
You're on a private jet owned by your Uncle Doug, flying east over the Great Plains. At least, it was flying until Uncle Doug, in an act of madness, magically stopped the plane in midair for reasons...
The Midsummer Banquet, by R. N. Dominick
Average member rating: (1 rating)

Midsummer's Eve, by Tristin Grizel Dean
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

It's Midsummer's Eve. The annual Midsummer Circus is in town, but, more importantly, tonight is the Midsummer Eve's Treasure Hunt. Every summer, the 13-year-old children of the town compete to find the...

The Milk of Paradise, by Josh Graboff
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

In this short game, you are the Khan in your pleasure dome. You are a ruler, a conqueror, handsome, excellent, eternal, yet your memories are strangely gone. O, my Khan, I am but your humble servant, and I...
The Mind Electric, by Jason Dyer
Average member rating: (13 ratings)
Set in an unusual cyber/virtual reality background, you play a disembodied consciousness trapped in an electron prison of the mind. [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue]

A Mind Forever Voyaging, by Steve Meretzky
Average member rating: (118 ratings)

"If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not..." --Shakespeare It's 2031. The world is on the brink of chaos. In the United States of North America, spiraling...

Mingsheng, by Deane Saunders
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

A Minimum Wage Job, by John Cater
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

Mirror and Queen, by Chandler Groover
Average member rating: (33 ratings)

Your mirror never lies. A puzzleless reflection. Fifteen to forty minutes.

Missing Grandpa: Lost in Time, by Becky Kinkead
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

In this severely under-implemented game, you play as someone looking for your Grandpa. Grandpa's been missing for three days. You have a suspicion where he's gone and you decided to check his notes in his...

Mission From Short, by Jessica Knoch and Jennifer Maddox
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

In this small game, you play as someone at the 2003 XYZZY Award Ceremony. It's odd that Mike Sousa wasn't here to claim his Best Individual Puzzle award, but that doesn't mean there's a conspiracy going on,...
The Mission, by Jim MacBrayne
Average member rating: (1 rating)
A quest for a shoelace? Well, there's a lot at stake here...and it's up to you whether or not you win the bet and succeed at your mission. [blurb from The (Other) TADS Games List version 1.2] Originally...
Mite, by Sara Dee
Average member rating: (32 ratings)
In this small fantasy adventure game, you play as Mite, a pixy lad, who is carrying an egg-shaped jewel dropped by a cloaked thief who you tripped that morning. The gem belongs to the Fairy Prince! You must...

Molly and the Butter Thieves, by Alice Grove (as Cosmic Hamster)
Average member rating: (15 ratings)

You are Molly Butterfield, dairy farmer extraordinaire. In the past week there have been two mysterious butter disappearances from your own kitchen. There will not be a third. Molly and the Butter Thieves...

A Moment of Hope, by Simmon Keith
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

"At first glance, you look the same as always; waist-title_length brown hair tied back, red-blonde spanish goatee scraggly as ever, a few studs sticking through each earlobe, and fingernails -- except for...

Monday, 16:30, by Alexander "Mordred" Andonov
Average member rating: (10 ratings)

How long is half an hour when you are bored and miserable? How about when it's Monday, and it's 16:30? How about when you're in love?

A Monkey Stole Your Toast!, by Admiral Jota
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

You just made some delicious toast! Yum! Then a monkey stole your toast! Oh no! YOU MUST GET IT BACK.
Moon Base, by Andrew Brown
Average member rating: (7 ratings)
This is a sci fi/horror game... I hope you enjoy/are scared by it!!! You'll need to run this using FIREFOX
Moon Over Jupiter, by Admiral Jota
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

Moon-Shaped, by Jason Ermer
Average member rating: (38 ratings)

In this game partly inspired by Little Red Riding Hood, you play as Rosalind Wechsler, a girl on the cusp of her 13th birthday. What begins as a trip to Grandmother's house in the woods leads to disturbing...

Moonbase, by Mike Eckardt
Average member rating: (9 ratings)

You play as an employee of Earth Control. Moonbase Alpha hasn't contacted Earth for three days; it's your job to teleport over there and find out what's happening up there. Good luck!
Moondarkling: Elfboon, by Sam Kabo Ashwell
Average member rating: (5 ratings)
You play as Zbyana (and you have many other names) of the Ruritanian Liminal Patrol. In the Margin Cafe, you find a beautiful outclade elf. Do you arrest her, ignore her, or try to help her?
Moonglow, by Dave Bernazzani
Average member rating: (9 ratings)
A spacecraft has landed in the corn fields nearby. You're the only one around to make contact. Moonglow was written to see what could be done with a 10K (10240 byte) Z-Machine file. It uses a custom library...
The Moonlit Tower, by Yoon Ha Lee
Average member rating: (63 ratings)

Moonmist, by Stu Galley, Jim Lawrence
Average member rating: (50 ratings)

More ghosts haunt the misty sea-coast and stone ramparts of Cornwall than anyplace else on earth. One such soul roams Tresyllian Castle: a pale phantom with flaxen hair and a luminous, flowing gown. It seems...

Moonwrecked, by Caelyn Sandel (as Colin Sandel) and Carolyn VanEseltine
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

You are an employee of Prometheus Corp, on the Moon, wearing a pressure suit but carrying nothing. Following a bogus distress call into some ruins, you discover your moon buggy has been sabotaged by someone...
Moral Me This, by Mark Musante
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

Morris, by Dee Cooke
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

The bells. The bells! You left it too late to leave the pub... and now THEY are here. How are you going to escape them this time? You are in the pub... but you've stayed too long. It's the Pokey End Folk...

Mortlake Manor, by Ben Chenoweth
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

Rumour has it that a valuable treasure has been hidden somewhere in Mortlake Manor. It is your task to find the treasure. However, you must be careful; rumour also says the place is haunted... Mortlake Manor...

Motel California, by Doug Schwartz of Pegamoose Games
Average member rating: (1 rating)

Welcome to the Motel California! You are ready to check out and leave this place behind. Before you can leave, you must return your room key, find your car key, and find your luggage. Sounds easy? Maybe not....

Mother Loose, by Irene Callaci
Average member rating: (12 ratings)

It's been one of those days. It started out bad and just got worse: You're seven years old and in trouble a lot. You try to be good and to do as you ought, but nothing, it seems, goes exactly as planned. For...

The Mouse Who Woke Up For Christmas, by Luke A. Jones
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse... Well, that's not quite true, there was a mouse stirring, not in the house, but in the shed at the...

Moving (On), by quackoquack
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

A game about nostalgia, jumping around in time, and clearing out your childhood room. ...

Mr. Fluffykin's Most Harrowing Misadventure, by Justahack

A CYOA in which you are the bear cub Mr. Fluffkins, who must prepare for his first day of school.
Mrs. Pepper's Nasty Secret, by Jim Aikin and Eric Eve
Average member rating: (40 ratings)
Walking home from school is mostly okay, except for one big problem: Every day you have to pass right by Mrs. Pepper's house. She may not actually be a witch, but she sure acts like one. And now she's stolen...

Muggle Studies, by M. Flourish Klink
Average member rating: (19 ratings)

You play as Alice Armstrong, the new Professor of Muggle Studies at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in Scotland, even though you've never heard of "muggles" before and never knew magic was real...

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.
The Mulldoon Murders, by Jon Ingold
Average member rating: (12 ratings)

The Mundane Tale of the Morning After, by Adri
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

A tiny story about a tiny ninja and a not-so-tiny headache.

Murder at the Aero Club, by Penny Wyatt
Average member rating: (15 ratings)

In this short game, you play as a detective investigating the murder of an ASAC inspector at the TAF Aero Club, eight hours away from Sydney. Let's hope you can solve the case quickly!

Murder at the Manor, by Obter9
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

The year is 1936 and the murder of Lord Stagwood is your first big case as an Inspector of the Metropolitan Police, London. You play the part of Inspector Percival Pike, tasked with investigating the murder...

The Murder of Jack Morley, by Dana Crane
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

Murder on the Big Nothing, by Tony Pisculli
Average member rating: (9 ratings)
In its heyday, the Burlington-Northern Railroad criss-crossed the country, a favorite of tramps and vagabonds who called it... The Big Nothing.

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]

Museum of Paranormal Phenomena, by Olaf Nowacki
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

MoPP, it read above the entrance, short for Museum of Paranormal Phenomena. In fact, this is just a shrine that pays homage to a 40-year-old movie without wanting to infringe any copyright. Which movie?...

Music Education, by Bill Linney
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

"A typical day in the life of a college music student." [--blurb from Competition '99]
My Evil Twin, by Carl Muckenhoupt
Average member rating: (26 ratings)
After last night's all-nighter (I had an important report to do for work), I intended to sleep all through the day. But I can't afford to do that. Somewhere out there, my evil twin is plying his schemes, and...

The Mysterious Case of the Acrobat and His Peers, by Amanda Tien
Average member rating: (1 rating)

In this interactive adventure, a greenhorn detective must find a missing acrobat and solve the mystery by exploring the circus and questioning everything from tiger trainers to monotone ringmasters to sad...

Mystery House Makeover!, by Anonymous
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

Joins early home computing to a ritual of today's popular culture, offering a disturbing transformation of domestic space. (author is Adam Cadre, but game is unsigned)

The Mystery of the Darkhaven Caves, by David Whyld
Average member rating: (1 rating)

The Mystery of Winchester High, by Garry Francis
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

Frederick H Winchester III was a rich man who lived in the city of Dunedin in New Zealand. When he died, his mansion was bequeathed to the city to be turned into a high school. Apart from the mansion, the...

Mystery Science Theater 3000 Presents "Detective", by C. E. Forman, Matt Barringer, Graeme Cree, and Stuart Moore
Average member rating: (58 ratings)

"A rewrite of Matt Barringer's incredibly bad game "Detective", this game was ported to Inform and subjected to treatment with Mystery Science Theater 3000 sarcasm. This version is the Silver Screen edition...

Mystery!, by Gene Welborn
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

A homage to the Parker Brother's game CLUE™. The first half of the game is the 'setup' for the murder, the second half is the search for the murderer. Since the solution is randomly generated, it can be...

MythTale, by Temari Seikaiha
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

In this game about Greek myths, you play as several characters. In the prologue and endgame, you are a hero who wants to make his destiny with the Golden Bowl of Artemis. In the main game, you are a...

Napier's Cache, by Vivienne Dunstan
Average member rating: (13 ratings)

Scotland, 1594: You're used to strange requests in your role as servant to John Napier. He's not just famous as a mathematician, but is also known for his occult skills and knowledge, still valued in these...

Narcissi, by Teela Brown
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

Written for the NarraScope 2020 Game Jam. An Elizabethanesque Revery in a Shady Grove.

Narcolepsy, by Adam Cadre
Average member rating: (63 ratings)

Nazi Mice, by Ricardo Dague
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

Nebula, by Conrad Knopf
David Welbourn's rating:
Average member rating: (3 ratings)
You are a NASA explorer sent to investigate a newly discovered star system. Your mission is to collect specimens from the new galaxy. Will you be able to complete your mission or will you be engulfed by the...
Need! More! Toast!, by Adam Biltcliffe
Average member rating: (4 ratings)
In this one-room game, you play as someone who's made eight slices of toast and put them all, from largest to smallest, on one of two plates glued to the counter. Naturally, you must sit to eat, and of...
Negotis: Book 1, by Robert DeFord
Average member rating: (4 ratings)
The Nemean Lion, by Anonymous
Average member rating: (28 ratings)

Never Gives Up Her Dead, by Mathbrush
Average member rating: (20 ratings)

Time is running out after a meteor strikes your interstellar starship. While the crew is under full alert, only you seem to notice the strange red portals opening up throughout the ship. Explore ten...

Nevermore, by Nate Cull
Average member rating: (25 ratings)

"A short tale of mystery and madness inspired by Poe's "The Raven"." [--blurb from Competition Aught-Zero]
The Ngah Angah School of Forbidden Wisdom, by Anssi Räisänen
Average member rating: (8 ratings)
In this fantasy romance, you are a new arrival at the very secretive Ngah Angah School of Forbidden Wisdom. Now prove you have the right to be there by completing three extreme tests. The penalty for failure...
A Night at Milliways, by Graeme Pletscher
Average member rating: (5 ratings)
In this interactive tribute to Douglas Adams, you play as someone at Milliways, the Restaurant at the End of the Universe. You need to meet an acquaintance of yours at one of the first-class tables.
A Night at the Museum Forever, by Chris Angelini
Average member rating: (5 ratings)
Retrieve the diamond ring from the time museum....
A Night at the XYZZYies, by John Cater
Average member rating: (2 ratings)
In this game, you're attending the 2000 XYZZY Awards when the MC, inky, announces that their one-of-a-kind trophies have disappeared and there will be no XYZZY awards this year. Everyone leaves the...
A Night Guest, by Valentine Kopteltsev
Average member rating: (4 ratings)
"If you're fond of bad poetry, you'll like this one. Also, it probably would make a valid entry for the Inventory Comp." [--blurb from Competition Aught-One]
Night of the Walking Dead, by John Olsen
Average member rating: (3 ratings)
You are in an old rundown cemetery at the edge of a Louisiana bayou, looking for the grave of your Aunt Bedilia. Can you bring back her locket? Or will you be thwarted by the secrets of the dead?

Nightfall, by Eric Eve
Average member rating: (61 ratings)

The Enemy is expected to arrive at any moment. Staying behind is either the stupidest or the bravest thing you've ever done. Only one thing - or one person - could have made you stay. So now there's nothing...

Nine Lives, by Merlin Fisher
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

Le Grand Guignol entry in ECTOCOMP 2015.

Niney, by Daniel Spitz
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

Explore the nature of relationships and identity on a weird train. Author's Comment: "We all ask ourselves, "Who am I?" One of the ways we try to answer this question is by examining the effects we have on...

Ninja Burger, by Andrew Drazkowski
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

Nord and Bert Couldn't Make Head or Tail of It, by Jeff O'Neill
Average member rating: (60 ratings)

You are standing at the edge of a barren field. A steady wind, having secreted away the topsoil, is now drifting sandy dirt across the plain. A scant sign of life here is a freshly-burrowed molehill on the...

The Northnorth Passage., by Caleb Wilson (as Snowball Ice)
Average member rating: (26 ratings)

Oh no, the old family curse has flared up! This is a short story about limits to action.

Nostradamus's Onion Sandwich, by David Cornelson
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

In this small game, you play as someone at the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, 2042. You're here to fulfil a prophecy.
Not Just A Game, by John Menichelli
Average member rating: (1 rating)
You've arrived at your teacher's home for your weekly Go lesson, but she's missing. And her Go board is missing too. Is this one of her tests?

Not Just an Ordinary Ballerina, by Jim Aikin
Average member rating: (31 ratings)

Not Much Time, by Tyson Ibele
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

After a frantic and incoherent phone call from your Auntie, you've rushed over to her farmhouse to find out what's wrong. And when you do find her, you'll need to bring her a few things in order to fix the...

Not the Same Old Lang Syne, by Jacqueline A. Lott
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

Nothing But Mazes, by Greg Boettcher
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

In this large game, you play as Gary Randall, a man who had a heart attack in 2026, was frozen in a cryogenic tube, then revived in 2189 by green aliens from Oo. Humanity bombed itself back to the Iron Age...

Nowheresville, by Morpheus Kitami and Cody Gaisser
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

You are stuck in an oddly perfect town that might be Hell. Are you going to try to escape again?

Nudists Gone Wild, by Hulk Handsome
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

A short, silly adventure where the player is a nudist trying to make their way to a nudist camp. Inspired by true events in the author's life. It also features dinosaurs.

Nyna Lives, by Sarah Rhiannon Nowack
Average member rating: (11 ratings)

The life of a witch's cat is no stroll in the park. It's more like a stroll through monster-infested woods, over temperamental streams, and across festering swamps. But you can handle it, right? Hurry home,...

Obituary, by Drew Mochak and Johnny Rivera
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

The Obscene Quest of Dr. Aardvarkbarf, by Gary Roggin
Average member rating: (5 ratings)
The story so far: You were a undergraduate in Temporal Physics until a dalliance involving a stolen time machine and cheap champagne got you expelled. Now you work as an assistant to Dr. Bignose, chair of...

Of Their Shadows Deep, by Amanda Walker
Average member rating: (22 ratings)

A story about love and disease and loss. Contains graphics and has a screen reader mode for use with text to speech software. Written in Inform 7 for 2022 ParserComp. Play time about one hour. Content...

Offensive Probing, by Ben Croshaw
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

In Offensive Probing, you play Martin McSondheim, a post-graduate ensign of the Space Federation who, due to lack of openings, finds himself trying to cling onto a dirty little life on one of the downmarket...

Offering, by Richard Smyth
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

A story about what it takes to give.

Office Goose, by Liz Henry
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

It's a beautiful day in the tech company office, and you are a horrible goose.

Oh no, Mr.Crab stole your hat!, by Brown Cow
David Welbourn's rating:
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

This is an incredibly short game about what happened when Sir Syd crab Mr Lord stole your hat.
Oh, Human, by Abbi Park
You find yourself in a dark room, a small electrical device stuck to you. What's going on? Is this some kind of test?
The Oily Deeps, by John Cater
Average member rating: (3 ratings)
Old Jim's Convenience Store, by Anssi Räisänen
Average member rating: (18 ratings)
When you heard that Uncle Jim has left you his convenience store in his will, you were initially delighted. After all, you've always wanted to stand on your own, make your own money and get forward in life,...

Old King Nebb, by Caleb Wilson (as Abandoned Pools)
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

In this work, you play as Absalome Pilcrow, a youth from Panzitoum on a walking tour. On the way to the Redfort, you stop by the palace of Old King Nebb and decide to explore it.

The Old Sherwood Cemetary, by Duchess
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

The Oldest Hangover on Earth, by Marius Müller
Average member rating: (4 ratings)
La Petite Mort entry in ECTOCOMP 2015.
Ollie Ollie Oxen Free, by Carolyn VanEseltine
Average member rating: (29 ratings)
"War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children." - Jimmy Carter
On the Cross, by Ian Kaleb
Average member rating: (2 ratings)
In this first chapter of an unfinished story, you play as a man named Joseph (a.k.a. Joe). After ten years with the company, Kenneth (a.k.a. Ken) is dissatisfied with the documents that you give him so he...

On the Farm, by Lenny Pitts
Average member rating: (18 ratings)

"Visiting Grandma and Grandpa on the farm for the weekend is not your idea of a good time. Mom has told you countless stories about the great adventures she had growing up there. Days spent feeding the...

On Your Back, by Dan Doyle III
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

You are a poor turtle in search of some lettuce. But then a farm boy put you on your back. Can you get right side up and get some lettuce?

Once and Future, by G. Kevin Wilson
Average member rating: (13 ratings)

A Once in a Lifetime Opportunity, by Interpied
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

You get a chance to win a lot of money, but your phobia may get in the way.

The one about the chicken, the lion and the monkey?, by Sam Barlow
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

You, too, must cross that road. If you want your girlfriend to ever speak to you again. [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue]

One Eye Open, by Caelyn Sandel (as Colin Sandel) and Carolyn VanEseltine
Average member rating: (47 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...

One Foot Down, by Jason Reigstad
Average member rating: (1 rating)

One King to Loot them All, by Onno Brouwer
Average member rating: (17 ratings)

A tale of High Adventure In the old free days, all you needed was a sharp sword and a straight path to your enemies. Overthrowing the old dynasty was easy enough, but you quickly learned that as a King, no...

One Night in the North Atlantic, by Christopher Huang
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

One Night Stand, by Giannis G. Georgiou
Average member rating: (12 ratings)

After a night of vodka and vague acquaintances, Sandy wakes up in an unknown bedroom, unable to remember the name of the man sleeping next to her. Too proud to leave without a proper goodbye, she will get...

The One That Got Away, by Leon Lin
Average member rating: (20 ratings)

Go fishing for 'The Old One'. Won 3rd place....

One way out, by Story by Steffen Görzig, Cover by Oliver Lindau
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

On the left side, a man with his heart full of tears. On the right side, a woman with her head full of fears. On both sides, desperate beings seek to break out of spheres.

The Onion of Destiny, by Jason Dyer
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

You have come to the top of the Eiffel Tower to prevent a catastrophe. Nostradamus's writings have told you that unless you cut an onion with a ceremonial knife before 10 this morning somewhere up here, the...
Only After Dark, by Gunther Schmidl
Average member rating: (8 ratings)
""HERE BE DRAGONS" is what the rutter said, but the small island turned out to be free of those animals after all. Instead, you landed near a tiny village full of friendly natives. Aaah, shore leave! You...
OnNoEf, by Evin Robertson
Average member rating: (3 ratings)
In this bizarre tiny game, you are on top of a tall tower in Paris, but you don't remember its name or what it's for. Perhaps you can ask someone about it.

An Open Field, by Chris Daniels
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

It is a beautiful day to relax and enjoy your surroundings! And yet, it seems something isn't quite right today. What is so disconcerting?

Open That Vein, by Chandler Groover
Average member rating: (21 ratings)

You are going to open that vein. La Petite Mort entry in ECTOCOMP 2015.

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...
Operate!, by Cody Sandifer
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

Oppositely Opal, by Buster Hudson
Average member rating: (68 ratings)

You've practiced long and hard for PotionComp, but Grusilda won't give up her title so easily. UGH! Curse that Grusilda! A one-room potion-brewing spell-casting parser puzzler, where things might go opposite...

The Oracle, by Brandon Allen
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

Orchid Species of the Erastian, by Ryan Veeder
You begin on a beach on Ankers Island. You have a sketchbook to which you may paint or sketch any examples of orchids that you may find. You have no particular goals except to relax, explore, and draw...
Order, by John Evans
Average member rating: (9 ratings)
You play as a spirit who delights in solving puzzles summoned by an enclave of wizards into a realm where matter is less stable and energy is plentiful. You have been gifted with the power to create what you...
The Orion Agenda, by Ryan Weisenberger
Average member rating: (16 ratings)
In this sci-fi story, you play as Capt. Jon Stark of SciCorps. You're monitoring a promising alien species on Orion 3 from orbit on Station One when the General gives you your first field assignment. Outpost...
Orpington, by William J. Shlaer
Average member rating: (2 ratings)
Sunday noon. Barbara has gone inside the farmhouse carrying wood for the stove. Farmer Bill is standing outside sharpening his axe and looking hungry. Your beady little eyes take all this in. You stop...
Oth., by Gunther Schmidl
Average member rating: (4 ratings)
An extremely abbreviated retelling of Shakespeare's Othello.
Our Island, by Patrick Williams
Average member rating: (3 ratings)
You're on an Island. Explore!

Out, by Viktor Sobol
Average member rating: (27 ratings)

It's a wonderful morning, and you're ready to come out.

Out of the Study, by Anssi Räisänen
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

Oxygen, by Benjamin Sokal
Average member rating: (25 ratings)

An explosion rattles the Aegis mining station and the oxygen tanks are leaking. Who gets the remaining oxygen and who will perish? The choice is up to you, a lowly technician trapped in an access conduit.

Paint, by Paul VanKoughnett
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

Destroy a painting and save lives!

Pantheon, Party On, by Tony Delgado
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

Pants on the Run, by Jonathan Fry, Kim-Loi Mergenthaler
Average member rating: (2 ratings)
Paparazzi, by EV
Average member rating: (3 ratings)
You belong to the paparazzi that hunt royal celebrities. Your employer wants you to take dubious snapshots of young princesses, and to find out when and whom they will marry. You haven't been successful in...
A Parallax Dream, by Andrew MacKinnon
Average member rating: (3 ratings)
The Parallax Moon Bar Conspiracy, by Adam Biltcliffe
Average member rating: (2 ratings)
A SpeedIF game from 2001. 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...

Paranoia, by cpuguy89
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

My second game published, another escape the room game. It is considerably more difficult than my first game, Asylum, but is still rather short. The link has been updated, and should now lead to the updated...

A Party to Murder, by David Good
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

In financial difficulties, you go to meet with a neighbor during a party. However, he seems to be missing. Where could he be? And who are these mysterious party guests? Watch out for the police, they seem to...
Passenger, by Niall Richard Murphy
Average member rating: (1 rating)
In this brief intro to an uncompleted game, you play as someone Summoned onto a ship by the wizard Lorian. But before he say why, a black-clad figure assassinates him. Lorian orders you with his last breath:...
Passing Familiarity, by Papillon
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

PataNoir, by Simon Christiansen
Average member rating: (58 ratings)

The Baron's daughter is missing, and you are the man to find her. No problem. With your inexhaustible arsenal of hard-boiled similes, there is nothing you can't handle.

PAX East 2010 Speed-IF, by Jesse McGrew and Kate Matthews
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

You play as a magic user who wants to visit the 1846 Better Living Through Wizardry convention in Boston. First you have to get there, then you need to find the transubstantiation panel, and maybe pick up a...
PAXLess, by Royce Odle
Average member rating: (2 ratings)
You're someone in orbit who wants to attend PAX-East in Boston, so you send a remote-bot in your place. Now that you're effectively in the hotel, all you have to do is find the Interactive Fiction Suite!

Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich: The Text Adventure, by Rex Mundane
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

You struggle against fate itself to create, and consume, a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.

Peeling Lucky, by Peregrine Wade
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

In this tiny game, you play as Snow White. There's a potato peeler, some diamonds, and an utterly evil witch with a bright red apple. What do you want to do?
Pen and Paint, by Owen Parish
Average member rating: (19 ratings)
In this game, you play as a writer, waking up after hearing something downstairs. You and your wife Eleanor soon discover there's been an intruder and her paintings are infected! You'd better find your pen...

Perdition's Flames, by Michael J. Roberts
Average member rating: (24 ratings)

The afterlife isn't what you expected. Explore a strangely modernized and bureaucratic underworld, replete with strip malls, government offices, and science labs, as well as the occasional lake of molten...

A Perfect Day for Candiru, by H. A. Helfgott
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

In this very short one-room surreal game, you seem to be a god in a formless void. How unutterably dull. Your only possessions are a cup of coffee and a swiss gold coin. Your only companion is a vague green...
The Perfect Spy, by Blackmaster
Average member rating: (1 rating)
Escape from a secret laboratory using a device you invented that lets you change from human form into different animals and back.
Perilous Magic, by David Fillmore
Average member rating: (9 ratings)
"A really short interactive comic tragedy." Humourously based on Infocom's Enchanter trilogy, your goal is to run off a newly completed report in triplicate. But you'll need the appropriate spell scrolls......
Perils of Darkest Africa, by John Olsen
Average member rating: (2 ratings)
Peter Theta Fixes the Holodeck, by Duncan Cross
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

Phantom of the Arcade, by Susan Arendt, John Moulton, and Russ Pitts
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

Enter The Escapist's very own haunted house ... if you dare!

Pharaoh, by Gianluca Girelli
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

An IF work taking place in a fictitious Egyptian set up.

Phlegm, by Jason Dyer
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

You've found it at last - the chest containing the Treasure of Phlegm. Now, all you need to do is get it down from the tree. A cannon could help, if you can find the tools necessary to fire it... [--blurb...

The Phoenix Move, by Daniele Giardini
Average member rating: (11 ratings)

You are standing on a tall pole. So tall you can't see the ground below. All you see, is a bright blue sky around you. And the sun. And some clouds. And a huge egg, motionlessly floating a couple of feet...

Photograph: A Portrait of Reflection, by Steve Evans
Average member rating: (27 ratings)

Photograph was an entry in the 2002 IFComp, in which it placed 3rd out of 38 entries. It was also nominated for two XYZZY awards, "Best Player Character" & "Best Use Of Medium". It's a story-driven, almost...

Photopia, by Adam Cadre
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."

The Physiognomist's Office, by Christina Nordlander
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

Find a way to escape the clinic. Try not to think about the things you see. A short escape-the-room game, created in three hours. La Petite Mort entry in ECTOCOMP 2015.
Pick Up the IF-Archive and Pi, by Jake Wildstrom
Average member rating: (3 ratings)
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)
Pick Up The Phone Booth And Die, by Rob Noyes
Average member rating: (114 ratings)
A very short game. Whatever you do, do not pick up the phone booth; well, you can guess from the title what happens if you do. [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue]
Pick up the pine box and die, by Alan Smithee
Average member rating: (4 ratings)
You are a prisoner of Lowell Prison. There's a pine box. And a wide-open gate. What will you do?
Piece of Mind, by Giles Boutel
Average member rating: (8 ratings)
Piece of Mind is a short, humorous work which uses the first person "puppet" concept from Scott Adams and other early games and examines the possible causes and consequences of being so controlled by the...
Pieces of eden, by Nicodemus
Average member rating: (1 rating)
As an assassin-for-hire, elude the police as you try to escape from the coffee shop where you were drinking a late-night coffee after your last kill.
pigpancake, by Aubra Penner
Average member rating: (2 ratings)
In this very short one-room game, you play as a non-descript person on a farm where you'll find a pig and a pancake. Enjoy!

A Pilgrim, by Caleb Wilson (as Abandoned Pools)
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

A Pilgrim was written for ECTOCOMP 2020 in four hours. This version was not tested except by me, Abandoned Pools, who also wrote it.

Pirates and Ninjas and Aliens, Oh My!, by John Cater
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

In this game, you play as a child who wakes at night, sensing something wrong. Your stuffed Kermit the Frog warns you that they'll be here soon, and then your window blows in, revealing something floating...
Pirates of the Caribou, by Jeremy Thurgood
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

Pirateship, by Robin Johnson
Average member rating: (15 ratings)

Who doesn't love pirates? Who, that is, apart from the British, the Spanish, the French, the Dutch, innkeepers, crocodiles, flying children, other pirates, merchant seamen with valuable cargoes of gold and...

Pirating, by Erica Sadun
Average member rating: (1 rating)

In this short intro to a game that was never released, you play as an over-age, out-of-condition pirate. A new adventure awaits you, but before you can leave your room in the Pirate Guildhouse, you must be...
Pit of the Condemned, by Matthew Holland
Average member rating: (15 ratings)
Hundreds of years ago those who built the city disappeared. Years ago we found the city and stole all we could. Soon after we woke the beast. Now we don't go there, except to send criminals for exile and...
Plan 6 from Inner Earth, by Adrien Saurat
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

Plane Walker, by Jack Comfort
Average member rating: (9 ratings)

Set out on a dire mission through worlds with nothing but amnesia and intuition. *Requires an interpreter that can display special characters

Planet of the Infinite Minds, by Alfredo Garcia
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

""All that is secular is given over to rudeness and capricious violence. The Mohammedan principle -- the enlightenment of the Oriental World -- is the first to contravene this barbarism and caprice." (G.W.F....
Planet Y, by Doug Jones
Average member rating: (2 ratings)
In this tiny game, you're in a bar called Planet Y. It looks like there was a wild party here recently, but the place is empty, quiet, and still.

Planetfall, by Steve Meretzky
Average member rating: (121 ratings)

"Join the Patrol, and see the Galaxy!" You took the poster's advice, bait and all, and marched right over to the recruitment station near your home on the backwater planet of Gallium. Images of exotic...

Plaque, by Admiral Jota
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

Playing Games, by Kevin Jackson-Mead
Average member rating: (20 ratings)
One of the four games in the meta-puzzle for IF Comp 2011. See http://gameshelf.jmac.org/2011/11/cold-iron-my-very-short-if-entry-in-the-comp/ for a short synopsis of the meta-puzzle.

Please Help Me, by Phillip J Rhoades
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

Help the person on the other end of the machine get free. You find a small black box with a keyboard and a little screen buzzing and flashing at you. When you pick it up, you see the numbers "1979" scratched...

Plundered Hearts, by Amy Briggs
Average member rating: (67 ratings)

In the 17th century, the seas are as wild as the untamed heart of a young woman. But when you set out on the schooner Lafond Deux, bound for the West Indies, your thoughts are only of your ailing father who...

Polendina, by Christopher Lewis
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

In this game, you play as an adult who inexplicably wakes up in an abbreviated and sparsely furnished version of their childhood home. The story will touch on the dog you wanted but never had, the way your...
Pollo y Camino, by Jay Goemmer
Average member rating: (3 ratings)
There's a chicken. And a road. But who are you? [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue] Note: This game is also known as "Chicken and Road".

Ponderances, by Roadcrosser
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

The player finds themself inside a White Cube and has to escape. ----- A short game I made. There's nothing much else to say about it because the game is so short that saying anything might be a spoiler.

Poor Zefron's Almanac, by Carl Klutzke
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

Poppet, by Bitter Karella
Average member rating: (12 ratings)

A ragdoll awakes in an empty house. You're not sure how long you've been asleep. You're not sure where you are. And, worst of all, you're not sure what happened to the girl who once treasured you as her...

Portcullis, by Robin Johnson
Average member rating: (14 ratings)

Your home town, Portcullis, has been taken over by an evil sorcerer (because that's what evil sorcerers do) and a party of adventurers has arrived to overthrow him (because that's what adventurers do.) An...

Porter Cave Adventure, by Cam Miller
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

A text adventure about history and game design.
Post-Christmas Letdown, by Emery Joyce
Average member rating: (4 ratings)
(intro text) It’s December 26th. Your family has all gone home. Your apartment is a disaster. You have an eggnog hangover. You need to get ready for work. Too bad the Mouse King has parked himself in front...
Potsticker, by Nick Montfort
Average member rating: (3 ratings)
The Potter and the Mould, by Robert Street
Average member rating: (5 ratings)
Practical Astrology, by Admiral Jota
Average member rating: (5 ratings)
You play as Agent Hamburg, a stellar control operative, thanks to your acquisition of the definitive textbook on the subject, Moving the Stars. In normal astrology, one predicts the future by reading the...
The President, The Democrats, and Smelly Pete, by David Cornelson
Average member rating: (3 ratings)
In this short silly game, you play as a president who lives in a white house with some Democrats and a man named Smelly Pete. But today, things will change. It all begins when you're lost in the woods with a...
The Presidential Pizza Plot, by Emery Joyce
Average member rating: (1 rating)
The Galactic President demands pizza, and as Rockstar Pizza's best (well, only) delivery guy, you are the only one who can undertake this dangerous interstellar task. Are you a bad enough dude to deliver the...

Priceless Vase Adventure, by Robert Szacki
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

You play the role of Anthony Smith, a traveller seeking new adventures. Your current trip got you into a poor financial situation, so you decided to search for some treasures. You start in your hotel room....

The Princess In The Tower, by David Whyld
Average member rating: (1 rating)

The Prize, by Simon Vigonski
Average member rating: (1 rating)
An ambitious adventurer has made it to a secret valley, where the remains of the great Alchemist are buried. He must make his way into the sealed inner chamber of the tomb, learning the most coveted secrets...

The Problems Compound, by Andrew Schultz
Average member rating: (11 ratings)

Wherein you, Alec Smart, turn what's-thats into that's-whats.

The Profesee, by Dan Schmidt
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

In this small game, you play as someone at the top of the Eiffel Tower. You are destined to save the world with a urinal cake.
Professor Frank, by Laurence Kilday
Average member rating: (10 ratings)
You play as the absentminded Professor Frank, noted Scottish expert in newts, but nothing else. You wake up locked inside the Auldtoon Public Library and soon discover that several characters from various...

The Promise, by Sean Huxter
Average member rating: (9 ratings)

Your village lives a harsh life of perpetual winter and has for as long as you can remember. As a young boy unable to go on the hunt, you may find that, with almost everyone away, you can be of some use to...

Pryde And The Pink Flamingo, by Christopher Huang
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

Welcome to Suburbia. It's a magical land of pristine green lawns, stretching as far as the eye can see. Of pesticides and strict conformity and grass, grass, grass. But not if you can help it. The plastic...
Pub Adventure!, by Robin & Tom Edwards
Average member rating: (4 ratings)
Your great uncle left you a pub in his will, but the pub is dusty and deserted. Where are all the customers and what is that strange moaning coming from under the floor? The game starts in a broom closet....
Puddles on the Path, by Anssi Räisänen
Average member rating: (4 ratings)
In this game where proverbs are magical spells, you play as an apprentice to Larumis the Sorcerer. After two years in his service, you're on the road home for a well-earned summer vacation when, through an...
Pumping!, by Stephen Granade
Average member rating: (8 ratings)
The Pumpkin Contest, by Alex Weldon
Average member rating: (3 ratings)
The Pumpkin, by Andrew Schepler
Average member rating: (3 ratings)
Punk Points, by Jim Munroe
Average member rating: (21 ratings)
"It's the first day of high school and you've decided to give yourself a mohawk. Now you've gotta stand up to teachers, impress peers and make a name for yourself until you've earned enough Punk Points to...

The Purple Pearl, by Amanda Walker
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

A stolen treasure. A desperate king. Two valorous volunteers will prove their worth as a team to recover the luck of the kingdom, or die trying. This is a 2-player text adventure. You will need a partner to...

The Puzzle Box, by Richard Otter
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

An entry in the 2007 One Room Game Competition. Your objective is to escape the room by solving a number of logic puzzles.
Queen of Swords, by Jessica Knoch
Average member rating: (4 ratings)
In this one-room art piece, you play as a woman in a reserved room at the local library where you and your husband, David, will practise using electric fencing equipment. There's quite a lot of it, and...
Quest for Food, by Lumin
Average member rating: (1 rating)
You're a small animal named Swishtail the Sniffy, and you're hungry. You know the humans keep food in the huge plastic can. You just have to get to it.
The Quest for Spam, by Whatever
Average member rating: (1 rating)
Quest for the Magic Healing Plant, by Adam G. Crutchlow
Average member rating: (4 ratings)
Find the magic plant that can heal your daughter - before it's too late! [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue]
The Quest of the Golden Banana, by Eric Eve
A combination of cave exploration and time-travel with clear allusions both to the Lord of the Rings and Dr Who, this game is primarily an example game to provide a tutorial on the adv3 library for aspiring...

A Quest Only For The Noble, by Jakob Gleby
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

Finding yourself in your bedroom one day, you decide to do something useful with your life. Having walked around in circles for a couple of hours on the floor, you decide what to do. This is the game about a...

A Quiet Evening at Home, by Anonymous
Average member rating: (20 ratings)

They say you should write what you know. Sorry.

Quite Queer Night Near, by Andrew Schultz
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

Quite Queer Night Near is a text adventure where you need to escape a small silly nightmare by finding the right rhyming pairs to advance. How will you get beyond the bare bones stair stones and find your...

Rainbow Bridge, by John Demeter
Average member rating: (14 ratings)

In this tiny game, you play as the angel Gabriel in an isolated cabin with your lover, a mortal man named Demeter. Because of an unexpected crisis, you must now return to the celestial plane. But to get...

Ralph, by Doug Jones
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

Ralph, by Miron Schmidt
Average member rating: (16 ratings)

In this short excourse you play a dog. It doesn't matter what race, though it's probably a male dog (hence the name 'Ralph'). What matters is that you know you have buried a bone last year, which you now...

Rameses, by Stephen Bond
Average member rating: (127 ratings)

Ramón and Jonathan, by Daniele A. Gewurz
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

This small story takes place on space station Tithonus. The main tribunal has just read its verdict: Ramón and Jonathan, also known as the People's Friends, the hangmen who killed so many people, are...
RANS: An Interworld Progress, by Bob Reeves
A burnt-out fantasy writer is transported into his own imaginary kingdom to learn a few lessons about himself and be confronted with a few questions. [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue]
Reality Railroad, by Admiral Jota
Average member rating: (3 ratings)
Reality Show, by Anonymous
Average member rating: (3 ratings)
In this short game, you play as one of five players in a TV game show, but only one of you is real. Explore the vicinity and earn points by discovering what is real and what isn't real. The first player to...
Reality's End, by Harry Hol
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

Recorded, by Nick Junius
Average member rating: (11 ratings)

Sometimes we lose the things most precious to us and must look for them in unlikely, or sometimes likely places. You have lost your voice and find yourself in a place you do not recognize with its own loss...

Red Door Yellow Door, by Charm Cochran
Average member rating: (12 ratings)

Guide your sister through a game of visualization, adventure, and danger, and perhaps discover truths about each other along the way. This was originally intended for SeedComp!, but winded up being a bigger...

Red Moon, by Jonathan Hay
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

In this short one-room game, you play as a young former football player somehow trapped by fear in a wooden hut with your sister. It's frighteningly dark in the hut, save for the red light that shines...
Reddex, by Phlegethon
Average member rating: (1 rating)
In this small game, you play as a bored IT worker who gets a message to visit reddex.app. You do so and find yourself in a cliché text adventure. Find coins and rocks and kill a dragon!

Redux, by Shawn Sijnstra
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

A text adventure exploration into rebuilding yourself. The game is an exploration into the mind of the protagonist, and has a highly unusual gameplay.

Reg and the Kidnapped Fairy, by Caranmegil
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

In this adventure, you are Reg, the Good Werewolf, who is tasked with finding all the good fairies who are kidnapped by the bad fairy.

The Relentless Adventures of Captain Speedo, Episode 112: Alert on Aleph V!, by Gilles Duchesne
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

The Relentless Adventures of Captain Speedo, Episode 14: Victim of the Vacuum!, by Gilles Duchesne
Average member rating: (3 ratings)
The Relentless Adventures of Captain Speedo, Episode 16: Let them "heat" cake!, by Gilles Duchesne
Average member rating: (4 ratings)
The Relentless Adventures of Captain Speedo, Episode 42: So Long, and Thanks for All the Books, by Gilles Duchesne
Average member rating: (3 ratings)
In this tribute to Douglas Adams, you once again play as Captain Speedo, the hero of a popular sci-fi radio series. In the last episode, our hero's spaceship was captured by the evil crime lord, Lord...

The Reliques of Tolti-Aph, by Graham Nelson
Average member rating: (15 ratings)

"It used to be said that there are two kinds of magic-user: those who have been to Tolti-Aph, and charlatans. It used to be generally understood that the attempt to prove oneself in the unforgiving society...

The Reluctant Resurrectee, by David Whyld
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

The Further Adventures Of The King Who Wanted To Die But Whose Subjects Just Weren't Ready To Let Him Go… You’re alive. Again. And not too happy about it. During your current period of deadness, your son...

Rematch, by Andrew D. Pontious
Average member rating: (93 ratings)

You thought you were such a great pool player. But Nick has beaten you once tonight already, and Ines is watching him more closely than you would like. So you challenge him to a rematch. "Sure, Kurt!" Nick...
Remembrance, by Casey Tait
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

rendition, by nespresso
Average member rating: (38 ratings)

They caught Abdul during an insurgency in the east. He tried to take out a regiment with some home-made explosives strapped to his chest. They didn't explode, so pretty soon the coalition had a real live...

Rent-A-Spy, by John Eriksson
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

You are Jane O'Connor, a professional spy employed by Rent-A-Spy. Your boss, Mr. Graham Darcy, has assigned you a new mission: secretly infiltrate Meramax's research facility and return with hard evidence...

Repeat the Ending, by Drew Cook
Average member rating: (27 ratings)

Explore an all-new "critical edition" of a 1996 Inform 5 game about mental illness, magic, and the second law of thermodynamics. When D, a psychiatrically disabled chaos wizard, learns that an estranged...

Return to Ditch Day, by M.J. Roberts
Average member rating: (31 ratings)

It's been a decade since you graduated, but now it looks like you're going to have to solve one more Ditch Day stack.

Return to Dracula's Castle II: Revenge of Dracula's Castle, by Mel S
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

Return to the Forest House, by Seciden Mencarde
Average member rating: (2 ratings)
You're 17 now, five years after your first visit to this mysterious house in the forest. You're trapped inside. How will you escape?

Return to the Stars, by Adrian Welcker
Average member rating: (10 ratings)

After having been taken captive in battle, you soon settled into a routine: sleep, eat, shower, reconsider your life choices, repeat. Until, one day, there is no more food. Or guards, for that matter. It...

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.
Revenge of the Moon Goddess, by John Olsen
Average member rating: (2 ratings)
Revenge of the Mutant Spiders, by Adam Biltcliffe
Average member rating: (3 ratings)
A SpeedIF game from 2000. In this event, each of the participants was given a section of a short story (involving the disposal of a dead body), with the intention that each game would follow on from the...
Revenge of the Nockle : A Speed IF, by Josh Giesbrecht
Average member rating: (1 rating)
The Ribos Operation, by Kelsey Lewis
Average member rating: (2 ratings)
Dr Who themed game. The Doctor and Romana must find the first segment of the key to time on the pre-technological planet of Ribos

The Richard Mines, by Evan Wright
Average member rating: (9 ratings)

Czechoslovakia, 1949. Though World War Two has been over for several years, rumors of underground German factories still persist. No one has found found yet, until now...

The Right Tool, by Christopher Huang
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

You play as a gravedigger. You and your fellow gravediggers have buried the ancient tool, but unfortunately, the tomb's tablet is blank and after all the construction delays, everyone's forgotten what the...
Rings for Bony Fingers, by John Olsen
Average member rating: (3 ratings)
You are being buried alive! Can you escape your coffin of death? If so, your nightmare has only begun. Descend the Steps of Doom. Enter the crypt in search of the ten rings of Zoltan. Elude the walking...
Rippled Flesh, by Ryan Stevens
Average member rating: (4 ratings)
You wake, as a balding, plump middle aged man, in what appears to be a house of horrors. How did you get here? What is going on? [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue]

Risorgimento Represso, by Michael J. Coyne
Average member rating: (48 ratings)

You play as an Oxbridge student who, during a particularly boring lecture, falls through a green portal under their desk into the cluttered library of the wizard Ninario. Ninny was trying to summon a...

Ritual of Purification, by Jarek Sobolewski
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

Tha' art a magician, embarked on an astral projection. Danger. Romance, perhaps. Learning, maybe... [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue]
Riverside, by Jeremy Crockett and Victor Janmey
Average member rating: (16 ratings)
In this incomplete mystery, you play as a man named Mike who feels obligated to investigate the murder of his psychiatrist friend John. CAUTION: Contains read-authors'-minds issues and an abrupt troll...
The Road to Destruction (featuring Bob Hope), by Jake Wildstrom
Average member rating: (2 ratings)
Robodud, by Ian Waddell
Average member rating: (2 ratings)
In this short story, you play as a Robodud, that is, a failed Robodude. Deemed useless, you have regained awareness inside a massive junkyard of scrap metal where countless other roboduds have been sent to...
Robot Gardening, by Ancil Anthropy
Average member rating: (3 ratings)
The flowers are beautiful, the most beautiful things you know. But their beauty is not without cost-they must be watered every day. To them the water is life, but to you it is the opposite. Water will rust...
A Rock and a Hard Place, by J. Robinson Wheeler
Average member rating: (2 ratings)
You play as someone who can barely see or move. There's a hard stone slab in front of you and a granite boulder pins your legs behind you. You're literally stuck between a rock and a hard place.

Rock, Paper, Scissors!, by William Moore
Average member rating: (1 rating)

You are a player in the biggest Rock, Paper, Scissors tournament in history!

Rock'Em Sock'Em Robots, by Benjamin Mullins
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

Rogue of the Multiverse, by C.E.J. Pacian
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...

A Roiling Original, by Andrew Schultz
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

Romeo, Juliet and the Dog, by Ricardo Dague
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

Roofed, by Jim Munroe
Average member rating: (16 ratings)

You and your brother’s job — scouring the city’s highest spots for a rare building material in the year 2040 — is already hard enough. Now Anton’s gone and gotten you trapped on a rooftop. Your...

Room Serial, by merricart
Average member rating: (13 ratings)

An escape game where you escape from a series of rooms, gaining new actions on the way. The new actions help you advance. You must also piece together the mystery of why you were there.

A Rope of Chalk, by Ryan Veeder
Average member rating: (35 ratings)

An account of the disastrous sidewalk chalk tournament of August 27, 2011.

ROWR!, by Gunther Schmidl
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

In this short surreal game, it begins with you celebrating the new dekamillennium and getting lost by following a hottie in red. Venues will change abruptly, you'll briefly interact with an "EGG" and a...

THE RUIN OF 0CEANUS PR1ME, by Marco Innocenti
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

«There's nothing here, Carter. Vital signs zero-zero. It's a fucking cemetery.» THE RUIN OF ØCEANUS PR1ME is a survival text adventure about a rescue mission gone completely wrong. It has an in media res...

Runes, by Deane Saunders

In this incomplete work, you play as an herbalist who wants to take samples of everything from the forest. Bark, berries, flowers, leaves, that sort of thing. Collect as much as you can, then quit.

Ryan Veeder's Authentic Fly Fishing, by Ryan Veeder
Average member rating: (15 ratings)

Relax at the Jewel Pond Recreation Area with Ryan Veeder as your guide.

The Sacred Shovel of Athenia, by Andy Galilee
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

A simple puzzle based IF game in the style of the early Infocom games. The Aim of the game is to find the lost ‘Sacred Shovel’ and return it to the king. We had recently acquired a kitten and my son was...
Safehouse, by Benjamin Sokal
Average member rating: (2 ratings)
You play as someone named Jones and you're in your underground bunker, safe from the deadly Actinic rays. But you're so bored! Why did you forget your spellbook? At least you remember some of your spells.

Sage Sanctum Scramble, by Arthur DiBianca
Average member rating: (23 ratings)

A grab bag of puzzles, mostly word puzzles. Collect keywords and save the Sanctum!

Saied, by Robb Sherwin
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

She's dumped you, and the first problem is getting out of bed. [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue]
Salutations, by Lumin
Average member rating: (1 rating)
You've always fancied yourself an outdoorsman and are quick to tell anyone who asks that your hobby is hiking. Now, you've spotted a dessicated deer's corpse and something dropped from the trees to attack...

Sam Fortune - Private Investigator, by Steve Blanding
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

The IBS Radio Network presents... Sam Fortune - Private Investigator A transcribed drama filled with suspense and adventure broadcast weekly over this IBS affiliate. Tonight's drama: The Case of the Missing...

The Samurai and the Kappa, by Garry Francis
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

Ever since the Battle of Sekigahara and the rise of the Tokugawa shogunate, the samurai have gradually lost their military function to become courtiers, bureaucrats and administrators. This life was not for...

Samurai Tea Room, by Ricardo Signes
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

You play as a young Samurai, ready to prove his skills. You have your katana. The Apprentice's Toaster and a loaf of bread stand ready. The Master waits to see if you can pass this final challenge.
Sanctuary, by Conrad Knopf
A nuclear war has devastated the Earth. You are one of the few remaining survivors. Gangs of mutants roam the land. You must find a sanctuary to ensure your survival. Have you ever wondered what civilization...

Santa's Sleigh Ride, by Molly Geene
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

It's late Christmas Eve, and Santa is on the last house of his ride. Help Santa make this delivery!

Santa's Trainee Elf, by Garry Francis
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

It's 23 December 2020. It's been a really tough year for many people with bush fires, floods and other natural disasters and then the Covid-19 pandemic. Many people are doing it tough, so it's up to Santa...

Sardoria, by Anssi Räisänen
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

You play as a young villager who is attempting warn the king about an imminent attack at nightfall. The castle guards, not believing your tale, have imprisoned you in the castle's wine cellar. You must...

Save Princeton, by Jacob Weinstein and Karine Schaefer
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

"Have you ever wanted to kill somebody by feeding them school food? To hobnob with F. Scott Fitzgerald? To be single-handedly responsible for the salvation or destruction of one of the oldest universities in...

Save the Cheshire Cat!, by Marco Vallarino
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

English version of Italian comedy text adventure "Salvate lo Stregatto" by Marco Vallarino. It is a very short and simple 'interactive intrigue' about a missing cat. Your aim is to find the feline before...

Savoir-Faire, by Emily Short
Average member rating: (134 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...

Scarlet Portrait Parlor, by MathBrush (as Prismatik)
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

In this minimalist story: Darkness has fallen. There is a loom. You carry a heavy guilt.

Scary House Amulet!, by Ricardo Dague
Average member rating: (13 ratings)

You have green hair! Your name is Britney!! Legend says there is a valuable, powerful Amulet in the house, which may be retrieved by anyone who is daring! Do you dare?

Scavenger, by Quintin Stone
Average member rating: (31 ratings)

Search a war-shattered world for secrets of the past.

Scavenger Hunt, by Gilles Duchesne

SCI-FI (previously "Jet-Blue"), by Paul T. Johnson
Average member rating: (2 ratings)
Screen, by Edward Floren
Average member rating: (6 ratings)
Screw the Boston Tea Party, by Iain Merrick
Average member rating: (2 ratings)
In this game, you play as Mother Theresa, secretly employed by American revolutionaries to sow discord. Arrogant English aristocrats are sailing into Boston harbour with their luxurious tea! It's time to...
A Scurvy of Wonders, by Rob Dubbin, Courtney Stanton, and Darius Kazemi
Average member rating: (3 ratings)
You play as a person on a yacht who is dying from scurvy. Apparently pursuing a diet of just pizza, chicken fingers, and beer for nearly two months wasn't your best idea. A tiny amount of vitamin C can save...

Sea Coral, by Jeff Greer
Average member rating: (1 rating)

A seaborne crime with a search and rescue sub-drama, written with the Punyinform library for entry into PunyJam #3.

The Sea of Night, by G. Kevin Wilson
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

In this small game, you play as a cargo driver of a one-person spaceship, The Shooting Star. While en route to Io, your ship collides with something and you crash inside the landing bay of an alien ship....
The Sea Phantom, by John Olsen
Average member rating: (1 rating)

The Sealed Room, by Robert DeFord
Average member rating: (16 ratings)

In this tiny game, you play as a man who briefly meets an old man on a park bench before he inexplicably teleports you away. When the magical mist dissolves, you find yourself in an exit-less stone chamber...

Seance, by Quantum Sheep,quantumsheep

With the help of the famous medium, Madame Sousa, you hold a seance to contact the spirit of your beloved wife Emily, who died a year ago but whose presence still lingers.

Search for the Lost Ark, by Garry Francis
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

The stories about the Ark of the Covenant are well known, but its current location is a mystery. According to French author Louis Charpentier, the Ark was taken to the Chartres Cathedral by the Knights...

Search for the Sacred Stone, by Mikel Rice
Average member rating: (1 rating)

Search for the Sacred Stone is an "old school" text adventure for the Microsoft Windows® operating systems. Originally written on an IBM Mainframe, this PC remake has been overhauled to include more...

Seasonal Apocalypse Disorder, by Zan and Xavid
Average member rating: (18 ratings)

As cities around the world turn to ash, the Federal Bureau of Druids sends you back in time to the autumnal equinox to stop the Order of the Fiery Doom. Find plants for your mystical cocoon and travel to...

Second Chance, by David Whyld
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

I'm injured! I want to shout. Don't move me! I'm injured! But none of them hear me. They turn me over. Still no pain. Just a detached feeling. Someone starts crying; someone else asks me questions that...

Secret of the Starry Depths, by Felix Pleșoianu
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

Secret of the starry depths is a very short game about a wannabe cave explorer who discovers that when things seem too easy, there's usually a reason. It was originally a demo for the experimental authoring...

the secret of vegibal island, by ralf tauscher
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

A tourist searching for total boredomness slips into an adventure and accidentally reveals the secret of a famous point'n'click adventure trilogy that never was. Maybe you want to visit "that island" again...

Seeker of Magic, by Garry Francis
Average member rating: (1 rating)

You are Rowan of Bunglewood Downs, would-be thief and seeker of magic. There's known to be a Cave of Magic deep in the forest of Bunglewood. The cave is not hard to find, but no one goes there for fear of...

Seeking Solace, by Justin Larue
Average member rating: (1 rating)

It's very lonely in Lowell Prison. Vultures circle overhead. A familiar skull is at your feet. The barracks are west. And that wide-open gate is to the east.
Selves, by J'onn Roger
Average member rating: (1 rating)

Sentencing Mr Liddell, by Anonymous
Average member rating: (15 ratings)

"The time has come", the Teacher says, "to talk of many sins: of wives and mums and unloved sons (of where it all begins), and why it's really all your fault, and whether no-one wins."

The Seven Doctors, by David Burke

In this game inspired by Doctor Who, you play as the Seventh Doctor. Old foes have captured your previous six incarnations. Rescue the Doctors by giving each a time-ring; they will return to when and where...

Several Other Tales from Castle Balderstone, by Ryan Veeder
Average member rating: (12 ratings)

Third in a series of anthologies of unbelievable terror, edited by Ryan Veeder, again. Also an ECTOCOMP 2020 entry.

Shade, by Andrew Plotkin
Average member rating: (421 ratings)

"A one-room game set in your apartment." [--blurb from Competition Aught-Zero]

Shades of Gray, by Mark Baker, and Steve Bauman, and Belisana, and Mike Laskey, and Judith Pintar, and Cindy Yans, and Hercules
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

You wake painfully, from a fitful sleep, to find yourself surrounded by three shadowy figures… After a horrible dizzying moment, the shapes come into focus — vampires, they are vampires, and they are...

A Shadow of Helpfulman, by Clara Raubertas
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

You play as Kevin, a graduate student. You share an office with two other graduates: Jim and Molly. Molly Malone is the most beautiful creature in the world. You'd love to ask her out but you're so...

Shaka!, by Olaf Nowacki
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

At the end of a sleepless night, you went to dreamland just before the alarm clock rang. You drove to work as if on autopilot. But when you got there, you realized it was Hawaiian shirt day and you forgot to...

Shallow, by Austin Eady

In this empty work, your character could be anyone in a bottomless void with shifting voices and swirling colours. There's three locations of static prose and nothing else.
Shangri La, by Caleb Wilson
Average member rating: (3 ratings)
In this short surreal game, you play as a PEZ™ dispenser about to go on a date with a Red-Hot Ball'O'Fire™ in Candyland. At least, that's how it begins...

Sheep Crossing, by Andrew Geng
Average member rating: (16 ratings)

Sometimes you get an impulse you know you'd regret--especially in the face of an arbitrary task of questionable value. So when Grandmother asks you to bring her a cabbage, a sheep, and a stinky bear, what...

Shelter from the Storm, by Eric Eve
Average member rating: (23 ratings)

It is set in October 1940. Jack is a newly-commissioned sapper officer on his way to his first posting somewhere on Salisbury Plain (in southern England) when his car breaks down. The weather is starting to...

Sherlock: The Riddle of the Crown Jewels, by Bob Bates
Average member rating: (23 ratings)

Moriarty has set a deadly trap for Sherlock Holmes. And only you can stop him... Travel back in time to Victorian London, where the city is bustling with preparations for Her Majesty's Golden Jubilee. Crowds...

The Ship of Whimsy, by U. N. Owen
Average member rating: (14 ratings)

The Ship of Whimsy is almost ready to set sail...
Shiversword 2: The Magic Harp, by CJ592
This is the sequel to Shiversword: The Beginning. Shiversword is on the trail of the famous Magic Harp, after his friend and Mentor John Lemon died leaving him a map. However his journey leads him into the...
Shiversword: The Beginning, by CJ592
This is a short game based on the character Shiversword the Bard from Sir Loin 2: The Phantom Dennis. It is much the same format. You play Shiversword trying to fulfil his destiny to become a world famous...

Shrapnel, by Adam Cadre
Average member rating: (170 ratings)

Shred 'Em, by David Good
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

Not a terribly exciting game. What do you expect for an hour-long SpeedIF?

Shuffling Around, by Andrew Schultz (as Ned Yompus)
Average member rating: (25 ratings)

A weird power to save a weird world. So you just got fired from the best company ever, and it's the best day of your life. New opportunities! New horizons! New ways to look at things! Like calling this...

The Silence of the Gods , by Adele Riquefort
Average member rating: (1 rating)

The Gods are not mute. If you can’t hear their voice, it’s because they spend a lot of time thinking. Ages. Millennia. The answers they are looking for are hard to get. So, they need time. And time...
A Simple Theft 2: A Simple Theftier, by Mark Musante
Average member rating: (1 rating)
Your master Apaman has learnt about something that may help him unlock the secrets of magic, and has sent you, his apprentice, on another mission: to retrieve the sky rock from the north tower of Fossen...
Sinking the Lily Jane, by Ryan N. Freebern
Average member rating: (2 ratings)
Sins Against Mimesis, by Adam Thornton
Average member rating: (25 ratings)
Your lover Black left, and your days are full of loneliness. Your progress in finding him, however, is blocked by none other than the Devil himself; and to get rid of him, you must commit the seven deadly...
Sir Loin 2: The Phantom Dennis, by CJ592
This is the sequel to Sir Loin and the Coming of Age. After just being made a Knight of the Brown Table, disaster struck. Queen Winalot has been kidnapped and it is up to you to find her and solve the...
Sir Loin 3: The Quest for the Holy Quail, by CJ592
Sir Loin is back, and this time he is hunting for one of the rarest creatures in history - The Holy Quail. Will he be able to uncover the mystery of the ghostly pirate, survive the killer Yeti and help a...
Sir Loin and the Coming of Age, by CJ592
Loin, a small orphan boy living in the stable at Castle Cum-Ere-A-Lot, has dreams of becoming a Knight of the Brown Table. But first he has to prove himself...
Sisychickenphus, by Lelah Conrad
Average member rating: (2 ratings)
In this short pun-filled game, you play as Sisychickenphus, the most persistent chicken in the world. It's time to shoulder a new burden and solve another Eternal Question: WHY are all these chickens...

Six Stories, by Neil K. Guy
Average member rating: (25 ratings)

After losing control of your car during a blizzard in the mountains of British Columbia, you make your way to a rundown shack and sleep. You wake up elsewhere and soon encounter a mouse, a pair of drawing...

Skipping Breakfast, by Stephen Griffiths
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

In this short one-room game, you are a rabbit tied to a tree in a moonlit clearing. You need to escape before you're roasted over a fire for a wolf's breakfast.
The SkyCrane, by WHARRGARBLSMURF
In this short story, you play as someone emerging from the ocean outside a deserted city, the SkyCrane looming far overhead in the upper atmosphere. Two endings.
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.
Slicker City, by Andrew Schultz
Average member rating: (7 ratings)
Years after the Problems Compound, Alec Smart still runs into reverses.

Slouching Towards Bedlam, by Star Foster and Daniel Ravipinto
Average member rating: (219 ratings)

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

SLUDGE, by Neil deMause
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

In this game, you play as E.J. Sludge, private eye, formerly P.D. Sludge, superspy until the, er, incident. But today, you receive an urgent phone call telling you to stop superspy Mercury Schwartzkopf from...
A small & simple text adventure, by Daniel Gunnell
Average member rating: (2 ratings)
A small & simple text adventure was written for the Marsh Academy and presented in an English lesson on Monday 10 June 2019.
The Small Room, by Anthony
Average member rating: (3 ratings)
A standard escape game that begins in darkness. Fortunately, you're carrying a lemon, a wire, and a flashlight...
Small World, by Andrew D. Pontious
Average member rating: (15 ratings)
Smote, by Robert Street
Average member rating: (1 rating)

Snakes and Ladders, by Ken Franklin
Average member rating: (1 rating)

Snowman Sextet Part I: But For A Single Flake, by Roger Carbol
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

Snowman Sextet Part II, by Jessica Knoch
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

Snowquest, by Eric Eve
Average member rating: (48 ratings)

You've been on your quest so long you've almost forgotten what it is all about, but now you are nearing your destination -- if only you can stay alive long enough in this frozen wilderness to reach it.

So Far, by Andrew Plotkin
Average member rating: (73 ratings)

Sitting in a cramped theatre, irritated that your partner apparently hasn't turned up, you are strangely intrigued by a current of air. It will lead you to a place very different from your own familiar...
So I Was Short Of Cash And Took On A Quest, by Anssi Räisänen
Average member rating: (7 ratings)
The fate of the world could be in your hands, or then it could be just an innocent shopping list. Your task is to deliver the mystery envelope, not ask questions.

So, You've Never Played a Text Adventure Before, Huh?, by Ryan Veeder
Average member rating: (16 ratings)

Robin Monaghan and her friends explore a creepy house.

The Sofa At The End Of The Universe, by Sean Barrett
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

In this homage to Douglas Adams, you play as Dirk Gently, the world's only holistic detective. Your landlord has ordered you to move your new sofa that the movers left in the stairwell, but there doesn't...

Sohoek Ekalmoe, by Caleb Wilson
Average member rating: (11 ratings)

Written for the NarraScope 2020 Game Jam. This game is dedicated to all the weeds.

Solid Leather, by Simmon Keith
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

In this very short game, you play as an old bull, forced to take sides in a human war. King Trilobyte has kidnapped a virgin cow so he can make a minotaur to use against his enemies. You can stop his evil...
Solitary, by Kahlan
Average member rating: (12 ratings)
Somewhen, by Bryce J. Rhaiz
Average member rating: (3 ratings)
Sommeril, by H. Lee Parten
Average member rating: (2 ratings)
Son of Ali Baba, by John Olsen
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

The Song of the Mockingbird, by Mike Carletta
Average member rating: (17 ratings)

A ruthless outlaw. A kidnapped dancer. A singing cowboy. A long dance of death in the Texas sun. You're unhorsed and disarmed, but you still have your wits and your guitar. You can only hope they'll be...

Sorcerer, by Steve Meretzky
Average member rating: (68 ratings)

Sorcerer, the second of a spellbinding fantasy series in the tradition of Zork, takes you on a magical tour through the darker side of Zorkian enchantment. Your journey begins with a cryptic diary - the last...

Soul-Searching, by Jason Love
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

In this very short game, you play as Eric, a man weary with life. But thanks to an unknown great-uncle and the Seelie Court, there is a plan to save you. If you are willing, meet the soul technician waiting...

The Sound of One Hand Clapping, by Erica Sadun
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

South America Trek, by Conrad Knopf
David Welbourn's rating:
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

You are a special investigator for the Federal Geographical Bureau. You have been sent to gather information about each country in South America. Your travels will take you from one end of the continent to...

The Space Under the Window, by Andrew Plotkin
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]

SpAdventure, by Jay Walton
Average member rating: (1 rating)

The original Adventure changed to include spells as seen in "Balances." [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue]

Sparkle, by Juhana Leinonen (as Karly Di Caprio)
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

My search for the Pattern has brought me to Mount Shanshan. Now it's just a matter of a short cable car ride up to the top.

Spectrum, by Caelyn Sandel (as Colin Sandel)
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

In this surreal game, you are at the center of a color wheel representing 25 states of mind. Near you are a diary entry, a map, and four broken statues. Find a way to repair the statues so the diary entry...
speed5, by Lenny Pitts
Average member rating: (3 ratings)
You are secret agent .0000008. Your superior V has ordered you out to the visitors dugout at the University of Spam's baseball diamond to meet a contact. There you will receive your orders for another...
SpeedApocalypse, by Anonymous
Average member rating: (2 ratings)
You can't remember a thing! WHAT WAS YOUR SIN?
SpeedIF #2, by J. Robinson Wheeler
Average member rating: (4 ratings)
SpeedIF 11, part six, by Mikko Vuorinen
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

A speedIF O entry, by David Welbourn
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

Get Neil Gaiman to sign your comic book collection. Very short; one room.

SpeedIF of Destiny or Nothing, Punk, by Søren J. Løvborg
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

In this short Orwellian tale, your dreams are interrupted by the phone. You are needed at work. You are tired. You dare not tell anyone about your dreams. You are needed at work.
speedif zombie, by J. Robinson Wheeler
Average member rating: (3 ratings)
SpeedIF6 - A Top Hat for Eddie, by David Cornelson
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

Spellbound, by Adam Perry
Average member rating: (12 ratings)

You still remember well the moment that the professor shocked the orthographic community by announcing that there were, somewhere out there, 26 letters in all. Harness the alphabet's power to find the 23...

Spellbreaker, by Dave Lebling
Average member rating: (59 ratings)

Spellbreaker, the riveting conclusion to the Enchanter trilogy, explores the mysterious underpinnings of the Zorkian universe. A world founded on sorcery suddenly finds its magic failing, and only you,...

Spellcasting 101 - Sorcerers Get All The Girls, by Steve Meretzky
Average member rating: (25 ratings)

From MobyGames: Spellcasting 101 is the first in a series of risque adventures from the mind of Steve Meretzky of Leather Goddesses of Phobos fame. This textual liaison pits you as Ernie Eaglebeak, a student...

Spitting Crumbs, by Duncan Cross
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

A surreal game where you made a slice of toast with butter and "jam". Expect explosions.

A Spliff in Time, by Sam Kabo Ashwell
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

In this silly and surreal little game, you play as the anthropomorphic superhero known as Super Skunk. Toking up some choice substances has Unhinged you in Time, so it's time to go on a Mission.

Sporkery 1: There Will Be Sporking, by David Hughes
David Welbourn's rating:
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

Spring Cleaning, by Roger Carbol
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

A down-on-his-luck commoner has been hired to clean the tower of the wizard Morkenmindan. Spring Cleaning was written as part of Spring 'Speed' IF during the last week of March, 2008. I say 'speed' because...

Spy in the Snow, by Matthew Amster-Burton
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

You are John Keats, alias Jack Alias. You're 6'2", have the consumption, and are the greatest spy the Yukon has ever known.
The Spy Who Always Wears Gloves Now, by David Cornelson
Average member rating: (4 ratings)
In this tiny game, you play as a private detective waiting in a dark alley outside a television studio. You're waiting for the signal.

Squeaky on the Moon, by David Welbourn
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

A silly entry in the Pi-Theta-Alpha-Parallax Speed-IF. As Alvin the Chipmunk, rescue your landlady’s cat. Very short; four and a half rooms.

Stairs, by Anonymous
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

Starcross, by Dave Lebling
Average member rating: (51 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...

Stargazer, by Jonathan Fry
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

The prologue to a much longer game, Stargazer features you as a young lad trying to escape the everyday routine of life underground. [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue]
Statue, by David A. Clysdale
Average member rating: (2 ratings)
Stiffy Makane: The Undiscovered Country, by Adam Thornton
Average member rating: (21 ratings)
"Stiffy Makane: The Undiscovered Country. A game months in the making. A game designed to stretch the limits of Glulx Inform, and completely shatter the boundaries of good taste. A game described by sentence...
Stink or Swim, by Renee Choba
Average member rating: (7 ratings)
The only entry in a personal Speed-IF challenge. The Olympic medalist, skunk, and public bathing one.
Storm Over London, by Juhana Leinonen
Average member rating: (4 ratings)
A stormy night. An old mansion. And the woman keeps calling me Elizabeth.
The Story of Morris the Chicken Being Helped by a Squirrel, by Mikko Vuorinen
Average member rating: (1 rating)
You play as a squirrel. Morris, a chicken, wants to cross a busy road and hopes you can help her do it.

The Story of the Shinoboo, by Adri
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

La Petite Mort entry in ECTOCOMP 2015.

Stranded, by Jim Bayers
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

A Stroll on the Roof, by Sam Thursfield
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

Stuff of Legend, by Lance Campbell
Average member rating: (21 ratings)

The only thing worse than being a village idiot is being an unemployed village idiot. Maybe it’s time to change careers. Maybe it’s time to be a knight.

Stupid Creek. Stupid Christmas., by Troy Jones III
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

Stupid Mom made you take your stupid little brother to town for stupid Christmas shopping in the freezing cold. And now you have to cross this stupid freezing-cold creek in a stupid boat to get back home.
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]

stupidgame, by Sam Kabo Ashwell
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

Sturdlint (The Mempotnaclob), by Bob Reeves
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

The easiest of all games, containing the easiest imaginable puzzles, but ... uh ... what are they, exactly?

Submarine Sabotage, by Garry Francis
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

You are currently serving aboard the USS Ibis, the first of the US Navy's top-secret Puny class submarines. The Puny class is an attack submarine that packs maximum firepower into a minimum-sized hull. It...

The Suffering Supplicant, by Anonymous
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

A Sugared Pill, by Colin Borland
Average member rating: (1 rating)

As you wind your merry way home from a night out, a mystery gunman fires the shot which throws you into the world of self-delusion and deadly political intrigue...

Sun And Moon, by David Brain
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

Not a text adventure -- closer to an alternate reality game, with puzzles strewn across various web sites, comprising diaries by fictional characters, press releases by fictional companies, and so on. It...
Sunset Over Savannah, by Ivan Cockrum
Average member rating: (57 ratings)
In this game, you play as an office worker on vacation on a beach in Savannah. This is your last day of a very blissful vacation, and you realize you really really hate your job. You could quit, but should...

Supermarket Robbery, by Mister Nose
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

You are a disgruntled maniac in a Supermarket filled with Greasy Teenagers. The Market overcharges you all the time, and the Teenagers pickpocket you all the time, and you've had just about enough. Today you...

The Surprising Case of Brian Timmons, by Marshal Tenner Winter
Average member rating: (24 ratings)

You listen to the old broad on the other end of the phone as she finishes her plight. "Brian has gone insane. I've had to have him committed.", she tells you. You haven't seen Brian Timmons in several years...

Suspect, by Dave Lebling
Average member rating: (25 ratings)

You're guilty until proven innocent. You have walked into a hotbed of deceit and trickery. And now they're accusing you of something you couldn't have done. But they have proof that you did it. "You're a...

Suveh Nux, by David Fisher
Average member rating: (228 ratings)

An entry in the 2007 One Room Game Competition. You play a magician's servant who gets trapped in your master's vault; you'll need to learn some of his tricks if you want to get out.

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

Symetry, by Ryan Stevens
Average member rating: (10 ratings)
This new mirror you bought really is something. But in the night, it has a life of it's own... [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue]

Take the Dog Out, by ell
Average member rating: (11 ratings)

It’s nine A.M., and your (perfect, responsible) girlfriend needs (flighty, distractible) you to take the dog out. Take the Dog Out is a brief game asking you to do one simple task.

The Tale of The Crazy Diaper Man, by Charlie the Spiffy
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

You are the crazy diaper man. And now you have the muffin!

The Tale of the Cursed Eagle, by Slat Leering
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

In this short escape game, you play as an eagle cursed into a man's shape, pursued by a black beast created from your own siphoned despair. Run! Run and find safety somewhere soon before the beast catches...

The Tale of the Kissing Bandit, by J. Robinson Wheeler (as 'Cary Valentino')
Average member rating: (47 ratings)

Tall Tales in the Big Easy, by Anonymous
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

Tanker and Webb, by Andrew Frederiksen
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

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.

Tea and Toast, by Matt Weiner (as Maria del Pangolin)
Average member rating: (13 ratings)

Tea Ceremony, by Naomi Hinchen
Average member rating: (20 ratings)

In this game of diplomacy, you play as an inept junior member of the diplomatic corps. This week, you need to convince Brc'nl, who is some sort of noble glob from Glorpon-42, to argue in Earth's favor in a...

Tears Keep Getting In My Dr. Pepper, by Marnie Parker
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

Tears May Fall, by Ryan N. Freebern
Average member rating: (3 ratings)
In this small game, you play as a traveler. Today, in October 1904, you're visiting Paris. It's a rather windy day, but you still wanted to visit the top of the Eiffel Tower anyway.
Tears of a Tough Man, by Bruce Humphrey
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

The Temple of Shorgil, by Arthur DiBianca
Average member rating: (25 ratings)

One day, travel guides will talk about this "masterpiece of the Pirothian architect Kitral" -- but only if you, the first person to visit it in over 1,000 years, can find out what's inside. (Puzzle-oriented...

The Temple, by Johan Berntsson
Average member rating: (11 ratings)

You play as someone plagued by nightmares of falling, but in tonight's nightmare, you've somehow landed in in a strange alien city. With the time-lost Charles Bristow, you'll uncover the city's dark secrets,...

The Tenyaka Memorial of Vegreville, by Roger Carbol
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

In this small game that parodies Teletubbies, Pokemon, and Scientology, you play as a Knight of Xenu, sworn enemy of Thetans. Your quest has led you to the world's largest Easter egg in Vegreville, Alberta....

The Terrible, Old Manse, by Joe Johnston
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

Dee Ceased, formerly of that horrible old house on the hill, has died but his Urn has been broken. Unite the pieces of the Urn to put his soul at ease. This game is inspired by the Atari 2600 game /Haunted...

Tethered, by Linus Åkesson
Average member rating: (32 ratings)

"I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly, dreaming I am a man."...

Tex Bonaventure and the Temple of the Water of Life, by Truthcraze
Average member rating: (17 ratings)

In this homage to Indiana Jones, you play as Tex Bonaventure, an adventurer and treasure hunter. After three days of exploring the deep dark swamps of the Everglades, you've finally found your destination....
Text Adventure Collector, by Rex Mundane
Average member rating: (1 rating)
You moved to the northern outskirts of Questlvania for one reason, and one reason alone. You heard the legends that in this town are no fewer than Ten Legendary Text Adventure Games, scattered about the...
There Is No Bread, by Mikko Vuorinen
Average member rating: (2 ratings)
In this minimalist non-game and non-story, you are someone in a kitchen with a toaster. There is no bread — or anything else.
They're After You!, by Bob Reeves
Average member rating: (3 ratings)
A chase scene ... yeah, that's about it.

Things, by Jacqueline A. Lott and Sam Kabo Ashwell
Average member rating: (9 ratings)

This is the game that I wrote, by David Welbourn
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

Written for SpeedIF Gruff on Jan. 21, 2006; the theme was fractured fairy tales. Vaguely inspired by "This is the house that Jack built."

This Is The Toaster, by Anonymous
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

A bizarre game involving creatures that live on a toaster. Uses Nate Cull's Reactive Agent Planner to manipulate the NPCs, and one part of the game is presented entirely in future tense.
Thorfinn's Realm, by Robert Hall and Roy Main
Average member rating: (3 ratings)
"Travel back in time, find all the treasure to join the Adventurer's Society." [--blurb from Competition '99]
Three Princes, by Alex Godofsky
Average member rating: (2 ratings)
Three Steps to the Left, by Lucian P. Smith
Average member rating: (4 ratings)
The important thing in acting is: stay in character, and don't get mixed up in the another play. [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue]

Three-Card Trick, by Chandler Groover
Average member rating: (69 ratings)

You're going to perform a three-card trick or your name isn't Morgan the Magnificent.

Threediopolis, by Andrew Schultz
Average member rating: (28 ratings)

A wordplay/quasi-maze game.

Threnody, by John "Doppler" Schiff
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

A cat o'nine tails; a tale o' nine cats. You are a baby in your mother's womb, about to be born. When you try to leave and the cord starts to strangle you, you must choose the Lion, Dragon, or Ferret to...

Through the Looking Glass, by Gareth Rees
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

The compiled version of the Inform tutorial - a small portion from "Alice in Wonderland." [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue]
Tightest, by Jake Wildstrom
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

Till Death Makes a Monk-Fish Out of Me, by Mike Sousa and Jon Ingold
Average member rating: (35 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...

The Time Machine, by Brian Howarth
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

Trapped in a thick fog on the moors whilst searching for the house of Dr. Potter, you begin to wonder just what sort of a story will unfold for your newspaper about the strange goings on that have been...

Tin, by Jim Aikin
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

Tinseltown Blues, by Chip Hayes
Average member rating: (3 ratings)
The Tiny House, by Dan Doyle III
Average member rating: (6 ratings)
Christine comes home from work to her tiny house to find that her son and husband are missing. In searching for clues she discovers a spellbook and must learn various magical spells and go to several...
Titanic: Leo's Revenge, by Volker Lanz
Average member rating: (3 ratings)
To Catch A Dragonfly, by Andrew Metzger
Average member rating: (2 ratings)
In this small game, you play as an electrical engineer, maybe? Anyway, you were getting ready for a big date in a rented tux when your boss orders you to get the new high-powered experimental safety net...
To Get To the Other Side, by Bob Reeves
Average member rating: (3 ratings)
My first actual game. Fun with boxes, painted rooms, broken tv sets, toy nuclear bombs, homicidal truckdrivers, and more (but no chickens). Z-Code version eliminates a pair of doors and their key which were...

To Sea in a Sieve, by J. J. Guest
Average member rating: (19 ratings)

Peter Petibon, cabin boy, hath a problem. He be goin' down -- to Davy Jones' locker, by the powers! Lest he seize the booty o' the dread pyrate Booby, and heave it all o'erboard, he and the Cap'n both will...

Toasterama, by Doug Jones
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

The good news: your ex-girlfriend, Kelly, moved out and took most of your possessions with her. The bad news: she left you with that demonic appliance, the Toasterama, and you want to eat some toast.

Toby's Nose, by Chandler Groover
Average member rating: (120 ratings)

A murder most foul has been committed and Sherlock Holmes is on the case. You are his dog.

ToK, by Sacra
Average member rating: (1 rating)

In this tiny buggy game, you play as someone in the entrance hall of a venue, but because the wallpaper is so bright and golden, all you can currently see is a clumsily-built wooden box.
Tommy the Toaster, by Coala
Average member rating: (5 ratings)
A near puzzleless one-room game where you make toast. Featuring Tommy the Toaster and Brad the Bread.
Too Much Exercise, by Robert Street
Average member rating: (1 rating)
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!
Toonesia, by Jacob Weinstein
Average member rating: (21 ratings)
From the introduction: "Oooh, that rascally rabbit! You were out hunting him when he somehow got the jump on you, blindfolded you, and dumped you into a cell. Well, you’ll show him. He’ll be hasenpfefer...
Tooth Ow Zunden Too, by Duncan Cross
Average member rating: (4 ratings)
Tooth Ow Zunden Won!, by Duncan Cross
Average member rating: (5 ratings)
Topaz, by Woodfish
Average member rating: (1 rating)
An Interactive Fiction Prologue.
Total Paddling Mania, by Dr. Aloysius, Ph.D Beltway
Average member rating: (6 ratings)
"You need a paddle! Without a paddle, an adult is just a cartoon character to a child. With a paddle, the adult becomes a powerful force of justice and order in the hedonistic and ignorant world of the...
Tourist Trap, by Iain Merrick
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

Tower, by Simon Deimel
Average member rating: (11 ratings)

Out of the blue, and into the blue. And there you are, in a chamber, trying to find out what is going on. Everything is so unreal... what has happened to you? TOWER is a short interactive fiction with...

Tower, by Vivienne Dunstan

In this tiny game, you play as an elderly person who is somehow transported to a mist-shrouded garden outside a tower. Explore the tower and find a way home.
The Tower of Beef, by Ricardo Signes
Average member rating: (2 ratings)
In this short game against the clock, you play as a beef courier who wants to destroy Mr. McBeefy's Beef Imporium from within before the Beef Flu finally destroys you from within. You don't have much time...
Toxic Sewage (A (Love) Story), by John Cater
Average member rating: (3 ratings)
In this (short) story that delights in overusing parentheses, you play as someone who came (here) to a sewage treatment plant hoping to find your (lost) love, Josephina. But you were (almost) too late...
Toxin X, by Sam Schrag
Average member rating: (2 ratings)
In this very incomplete game, you play as a homeowner in a town where a toxin is turning the people into zombies. A note from Fritz tells you that survivors have set up a camp deep in the forest, but they...
Tragedy strikes at the XYZZY awards!, by Adam Biltcliffe
Average member rating: (3 ratings)
In this very short one-room game, you're someone under the stage at the XYZZY awards. Eileen yells down to you that the Best Game trophy is missing. If you can find it, throw it at the trapdoor!
Trainstopping, by Ben Collins-Sussman
Average member rating: (3 ratings)
Trap Cave, by Emilian Kowalewski
Average member rating: (6 ratings)
First complete fantasy adventure in english and german for my advanced MC & CYOA system Node-X (V1.1, Generation 1). Short demo for writing your own Node-X games included, as well as Win32 and Linux...
Trapped in a One-Room Dilly, by Laura Knauth
Average member rating: (11 ratings)
A one-room game. It's nicely appointed, but... [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue]
The Travels of Fitzwilliam Pound, by Caleb Wilson
Average member rating: (4 ratings)
In this small game, you play as the adventurer called Fitzwilliam Pound. Your quest is to travel the globe to rid yourself of a cursed marble.

Trial of the Inuop, by Jordan Jones
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

You find yourself on board an alien space vessel, tasked with escaping it. The fate of the Earth is at stake. This is intended to be a short puzzle game which may take around 20 - 30 minutes. Experienced IF...

Trinity, by Brian Moriarty
Average member rating: (105 ratings)

You're neither an adventurer nor a professional thrill-seeker. You're simply an American tourist in London, enjoying a relaxing stroll through the famous Kensington Gardens. When World War III starts and the...

Triple Bear Beer, by David Cornelson
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

Triumphant Return of the Evil Sea Grape, by Adam Biltcliffe
Average member rating: (6 ratings)
A SpeedIF game from 2001. 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...

Trouble in Sector 471, by Arthur DiBianca
Average member rating: (30 ratings)

The power just went out in Sector 471. You had better go take a look. (The Glulx version was entered in IFComp 2022. A browser-based version was released subsequently, in 2024.)

TRUDGE, by Neil deMause
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

Truth, by Carl Muckenhoupt (as John Earthling)
Average member rating: (8 ratings)
Somebody asked you what it really means to be true. Uncertain of how to respond, you have embarked on a quest to find truth!
Tryst of Fate, by G. M. Zagurski
Average member rating: (9 ratings)
Your last trip up the stairs before you can relax in a nice hot bath brings you into rather unfortunate contact with a toy car left carelessly on a stair, and your head connects with the wooden banner near...
Tube Trouble, by Richard Tucker
Average member rating: (7 ratings)
You have been trapped in the underground system for what may be days or even weeks - and you are desperately hungry. The chocolate machine is playing up, and there's never a train when you want one. [--blurb...
Turning Point, by Robert Street
Average member rating: (3 ratings)
The twenty-year war between Valkon IV and Delmoke X is at a crux. In this small game, you are Athtax, bodyguard and aide to the Valkonian Captain Athta, a tactical genius who will lead the final assault...

Tuuli, by Daurmith and Ruber Eaglenest
Average member rating: (28 ratings)

"The old witch, your teacher Mákke, is dead. If you want to save your village you'll have to destroy the raiding fleet that's coming. Can you do it, young Lenne-who-would-be-the-witch?" ---------- Mákke,...

The Twelve Heads of St. John the Baptist, by Jake Wildstrom
Average member rating: (9 ratings)

Twilight of the Dogs, by Jake Wildstrom
Average member rating: (2 ratings)
In this short game, you play as a human warrior in the middle of a bloody war with the Dogs. Your regiment has recently won a battle. Now it's time to make an attack on the Dogs' last fortress.
Tyler's Great Cube Game, by Tyler Bindon
Average member rating: (1 rating)

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...

Ultimate Escape Room: IF City, by Mark Stahl
Average member rating: (13 ratings)

You and your friends have fallen into the escape room craze that has swept the country in recent years. You love the feeling of living out a real life adventure game. You've made plans with your friends to...

Undefined, by 30otsix
Average member rating: (1 rating)

Under the Bed, by Dan Doyle III
Average member rating: (10 ratings)
For many years you have hidden from the monster under your bed. Now, with the birth of your baby brother, the monster threatens not only you, but your family. Now it is not a time to hide, now it is time to...

Under the Sea, by Heike Borchers
Average member rating: (17 ratings)

Deep under the sea lies the wreck of the sunken galleon Santa Tortosa. On your quest to find its treasure, you will discover uncharted places, learn new skills, and make scaly friends. But will the honorable...

Under, In Erebus, by Brian Rapp
Average member rating: (17 ratings)

Board that Drain-Bound El for an adventure that could only happen in Erebus.

Underground, by Phlegethon
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

You wake from many dreams, soon after you notice you are no longer in your bedroom. What happened? Are you still dreaming? With not much else to do, you should go explore. Underground
The Underoos that Ate New York!, by G. Kevin Wilson
Average member rating: (28 ratings)
Looks like that meteor crash from page 12 wasn't as harmless as everyone was expecting: now your clothes are playing mad!...

Undertow, by Stephen Granade
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

Go sailing on a yacht with three friends, and a corpse....

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....
The Unfortunate Training of Frank Lee, Monkey Butler to Be, by Josh Giesbrecht
Average member rating: (7 ratings)
The Unicorn Pool, by Tiddy Ogg
Average member rating: (3 ratings)
The story is an amalgam of a Theodore Sturgeon short story, "The Silken Swift", with the characters in Thomas Hardy's "The Woodlanders" - well, someone had to give poor Marty a happy ending if only in a...
Unity!, by Greg Ewing
Average member rating: (2 ratings)
In this game strongly-inspired by Infocom's Trinity, you play as someone who—thanks to an oddly-helpful chicken—travels to other places and times to prevent disasters in the fast-food cold war between a...
Unnkulia Zero: The Search for Amanda, by D. A. Leary
Average member rating: (7 ratings)
"Will you, the Valley King's most trusted warrior, rescue his Lady Amanda from the gruesome clutches of the evil Unnkulians? Along the way to victory (or, <shudder>, defeat!), you will:...
Unraveling God, by Todd Watson
Average member rating: (11 ratings)
Unscientific Fiction, by Tom Tervoort
Average member rating: (8 ratings)
Unscientific Fiction is a very, very soft science fiction IF in which you are abducted by an alien spaceship and must find a way to get back home. During an epic and sometimes pretty nonsensical adventure...

The Unstoppable Vengeance of Doctor Bonesaw, by Caleb Wilson (as Lewis Blanco)
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

A Petite Mort entry for ECTOCOMP 2016.

Untold Riches, by Jason Ermer
Average member rating: (22 ratings)

You were reluctant to undertake another adventure with Professor d'Squarius (especially after the last near-catastrophe, in the Tomb of the Screaming Mummies), and from the moment you agreed to join the...

The Untold Story, by Michael Pavano
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

After spending months alone in your Cabin after the sudden loss of your brother, you find yourself on an unusual journey through the home you once thought you knew in a desperate search to retrieve what you...

Unyielding Fury, by Michael Pruitt
Average member rating: (1 rating)

In this short introduction to a horror game, you play as a 13-year-old boy dreaming of running in the dark forest. You feel you belong there. You find a glowing stone, and soon afterwards, a huge werewolf.
Upon the Spooky House, by Ben Poisonor
Average member rating: (3 ratings)
A new text game by the man whose very words are a contagion spreading excitement and entertainment to the masses, Upon Spooky House is a chilling tour-de-force containing only the finest frights, thrills,...

The Usher, by Branden Rishel and Daphne Gabrieli
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

You are Lalu, a young woman who is buried alive—entombed. Your job is to lead the dead queen to the afterlife in this multi-dimensional tale of escape.

Uxmulbrufyuz, by Andrew Schultz
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

EctoComp 2017 entry. Quick weird abstract puzzle.

Vacationing in Scotland, by Duchess
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

In this very short game, you play as a tourist visiting McCain castle in Scotland. You somehow got separated from your tour group who are probably waiting for you in the foyer. You just need to find your way...
Vagabond, by Scott Meridian
Average member rating: (2 ratings)
Get off the planet as soon as possible. It doesn't matter how or where you go. I'll contact you again when it is safe.

Vague, by Richard Otter
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

With amnesia it is quite possible to have a complete or partial loss of memory, but this isn't like that. It is not that you can't remember who you are or anything about your life, you have no thoughts...

The Valley House, by Bob Reeves
Average member rating: (1 rating)

A puzzle-free trip through a day, in some ways a typical day, in other ways not. How much you discover about the nature of this day, and your part in it, is up to you.

The Vambrace of Destiny, by Arthur DiBianca
Average member rating: (21 ratings)

A light dungeon crawl. Tap spell gems to defeat monsters! In this game, all your commands are single keystrokes. You don't even have to press the enter key.

Vampire Gold, by Olaf Nowacki
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

A minimalist dungeon crawler.

The Vanishing Conjurer, by Marshal Tenner Winter
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

You wish you were doing almost anything else than having dinner with this bloviating douchebag. Still, it's a potential client. Maybe you should hear what he has to say. . .

Varicella, by Adam Cadre
Average member rating: (132 ratings)

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...

Vault of Hugo II: Electric Boogaloo, by Jonathan Blask
Average member rating: (1 rating)

Small game written for the PAX East 2011 Speed-IF. You play as a roguish space pirate in the future! Today, you're going to plunder a long lost museum devoted to interactive fiction.

A Very Hairy Fish-Mess, by Byron Alexander Campbell
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

Have you ever wondered what Christmas would be like if it were run by your horrible cat, who also happened to be a timeless Lovecraftian horror? Find out in this bloody festive holiday treat!

The Very Old Witch and the Turnip Girl, by Megan Stevens
Average member rating: (9 ratings)

The witch on the hill outside of town is retired. She threw in the towel long ago, when it became obvious that the humans don't need her help blighting and smiting each other. But the world isn't quite done...

A Very Strong Gland, by Arthur DiBianca
Average member rating: (12 ratings)

You find yourself abducted by space aliens who would like to give you some challenging tests. How will you perform? Note: To reduce wear and tear on your poor fingers, this game uses a patented*...

Veteran Experience, by Robert Street
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

Vindaloo, by Adam G. Crutchlow
Average member rating: (4 ratings)
You wake up, just in the right mood for a chicken vindaloo. You'll have to find the ingredients and make it yourself, though. Not recommended for vegetarians or animal lovers :) [--blurb from The Z-Files...

Violet, by Jeremy Freese
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]

The Virtual Grand National, by Daniel Gunnell
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

In this very short game, you play as a jockey outside the entrance of Aintree Racecourse with your horse. Unfortunately, this year's Grand National was cancelled because of the lockdown, so now you're just...
the virtual human, by Duncan Bowsman
David Welbourn's rating:
Average member rating: (6 ratings)
In this game, the user participates in the textual formation of a virtual human. By filling in strings of text under simple constraints, the user can create any number of possible humans from the absurd to...

Visit Skuga Lake - Masterpiece Edition, by Ryan Veeder
Average member rating: (12 ratings)

An unpaid intern learns to cast over forty spells as she skulks around a small town, looking for her boss. "Visit Skuga Lake" originally appeared in Even Some More Tales from Castle Balderstone. This...

Visualizing, by Marnie Parker
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

Voices of Spoon River, by Jon Scoresby, Tim Stowell, Tom Caswell, Jared Bernotski, Marie Duncan, Marian Jensen, Jennifer Jorgensen, and Brett Shelton
Average member rating: (1 rating)

"Every cemetery has a plot, a series of secrets that some would prefer stayed buried. This graveyard is haunted. It wouldn’t be, except that unresolved issues torment Spoon River’s former inhabitants and...

The Voodoo You Do 2, by Marshal Tenner Winter
Average member rating: (10 ratings)

The casket opens and the pitch blackness is replaced with the sight of the moon; full in the night sky. Then, someone leans over, facing you and smiling a lunatic grin. He wears a dirty black top hat and...

Vortex 2305, by Jacqueline A. Lott
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

Vortex 2305 was a speed IF written in the suite of a Hilton Hotel in Boston, MA during the 2010 PAX East convention. Room 2305, if you must know. It is silly and short. Participants were asked to include:...

The WadeWars Book III: Askin, by Jim Fisher
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

In this fantasy adventure, you play as someone looking for their uncle Seamore. Seamore is an oddball scientific genius who invented a transdimensional teleportation device, and now he's trapped in a...
Waiting for The End, by Paul Lee
The End that for long ages had been foretold is near at last. You must find it. (The included source code may serve as an example of a game built on the Roodylib shell template.)

Wake Up, by Phillip J Rhoades
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

You are awake and alone. Unable to move. Unable to fight against the thing slowly rising from within you. Is there any part of you that can resist? Any part that you can still move? (Based on a true event in...

A Walk Around the Neighborhood, by Leo Weinreb
Average member rating: (19 ratings)

The sun is filtering hazily through a partly-cloudy sky on this gorgeous Sunday afternoon. You're feeling lazy and a bit glued to the couch, but your partner insists on you getting some exercise. And...

A Walk Through Forever, by Duncan Cross

The Wand, by Arthur DiBianca
Average member rating: (60 ratings)

Explore the wizard Bartholloco's castle with the help of a versatile magic wand. Can you overcome his challenge? Can you levitate a rock? Can you slice a baltavakia? (Puzzle-oriented and family friendly.)

The War On New Year's, by Sam Kabo Ashwell
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

The Warbler's Nest, by Jason McIntosh
Average member rating: (92 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...

A Warm Reception, by Joshua Hetzel
Average member rating: (10 ratings)

You're a reporter assigned to cover the wedding of the princess of the land. When you get there, you find an empty castle and are pulled into the mystery of what happened. Explore a vast castle. Solve...

The Waterhouse Women, by Jacqueline A. Lott
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

The Wayward Story, by Ralfe Rich (as Cristmo Ibarra)
Average member rating: (10 ratings)

It starts with you sitting down, eyes glued to your laptop as the credits roll on the penultimate episode of your favorite series. It's 2:00 AM on a weekday, and your bed's looking pretty good, but it's the...

We are coming to get you!, by Richard Otter
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

It really is so much fun being a germ. Not only do you travel the world from one flesh-sack to another, you get to meet your millions of relatives and breed. You have never been that sure what infection you...

The Weapon, by Sean Barrett
Average member rating: (38 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...

Weary Eerie Way, by Andrew Schultz
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

EctoComp 2021 game, in the vein of Under They Thunder
Weaving a Basket (or Something), by Kevin Y.
Average member rating: (4 ratings)
Wedding Day, by Emery Joyce
Average member rating: (9 ratings)
Your wedding ceremony will begin soon. You must prepare.
The Wedding, by Neil James Brown
Average member rating: (10 ratings)
What should have been a simple task, watching your old flatmate Malcolm get married, becomes an awful lot more complicated when it transpires that Malcolm has disappeared mere hours before the service. You...

The Weight of a Soul, by Chin Kee Yong
Average member rating: (27 ratings)

In a world of arcane mysteries, a young doctor's apprentice unravels a conspiracy most grim. The Weight of a Soul is a mystery-horror interactive novel inspired by IF classics like Blue Lacuna and...

Weird City Interloper, by C.E.J. Pacian
Average member rating: (58 ratings)

An interactive tale of strange conspiracy. Pull up your hood, lower your gaze and enter the city of Zendon. If you can gather enough information, you may just be able to change the course of history. (Weird...

The Weird Sister, by Roger Carbol
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

Weishaupt Scholars: Prologue, by Michael C. Martin
Weishaupt Scholars is the full version of this game.
Welcome, by Ryan Veeder
Average member rating: (6 ratings)
There are no quotation marks in the source code for this game. Please check out the readme first.

Werewolves Rising, by Roger James Ronald
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

A ChoiceScipt game which takes place in a small village in a fantasy world. The worlds is filled with desolation and hardships that the villagers must go through to survive in this world. Every night, the...

Wetlands, by Clara Raubertas
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

Wetlands is an interactive quagmire that leads you from the image of a fantastical city to a choice about the actual city's future, via a collection of mechanical puzzles in a watery setting.

What Dreams May Come, by Jake Wildstrom
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

In this tiny game, you begin as a gopher in a busy maze of cubicles. Co-workers keep giving you envelopes to deliver, but you can never reach your destinations in time. And why is a jester following you...
What happened in 1984, by Harris Conger
Average member rating: (3 ratings)
A short science fiction game that focuses on story. (The author intends for the finished version of the game to be three times as long.)

What Happens in Vagueness, by Sam Kabo Ashwell, Tom Blawgus, N.B. Horvath, Justin Larue, Jacqueline A. Lott, Michael Martin, Carl Muckenhoupt, Marius Müller, Mark Musante, and Brian Rapp
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

What Heart Heard Of, Ghost Guessed, by Amanda Walker
Average member rating: (41 ratings)

Margaret, are you grieving Over Goldengrove unleaving… Come home to Goldengrove, a beautiful old house haunted by a lost soul. Uncover the secrets of your tormented past in a tale of unrequited love,...

When I Grow Up I Want To Be A Firetruck, by Rob Noyes
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

Where Nothing Is Ever Named, by Viktor Sobol
Average member rating: (24 ratings)

A brief escape puzzle inspired by Chapter 3 of "Through the Looking-Glass" by Lewis Carroll.

Where There's a Will, by Dan Shiovitz
Average member rating: (1 rating)

In this game loosely based on Sierra's Mystery House, you play as Norman, a potential heir to your late Uncle Oscar's estate. You have one day to find a diamond necklace hidden in his "Mystery House" to...

White Houses, by Jason Lautzenheiser (as Mr. Stamp)
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

Jenny called you late and asked to meet you out here in the middle of nowhere. You've never been this far in the forest before and you never knew this white house was out here. She said she had something...

Whitefield Academy of Witchcraft, by Steph Cherrywell
Average member rating: (19 ratings)

The year is 1957, and the place is lush, storm-tossed Stinglash Island, just off the north coast of Washington's Olympic Peninsula. You are Page LeBlanc, witch in training, and you've returned for another...

Who Iced Mayor McFreeze?, by Damon L. Wakes
Average member rating: (14 ratings)

A Bubble Gumshoe Mystery ...

Who Kidnapped Mother Goose?, by Garry Francis
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

You feel your brain rattling around inside your head. Someone is shaking you. "Wake up! Wake up!" You rub your eyes and squint in the bright morning sunlight. You vaguely make out the silhouette of your...

Who Shot Gum E. Bear?, by Damon L. Wakes
Average member rating: (24 ratings)

Gum E. Bear lies dead in a pool of his own liquid centre, and only Bubble Gumshoe - private eye extraordinaire - can deliver sweet justice on the rain-sticky streets of Sugar City. Explore the area, seek out...

Whom The Telling Changed, by Aaron A. Reed
Average member rating: (64 ratings)

The people had always gathered on moonless nights to hear the stories, since the time of their ancestors' ancestors. The heat of the fire and the glow in the storyteller's eyes made the past present, and the...

Why does my New Year's Eve always crash and burn?, by Anonymous
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

Why Pout?, by Andrew Schultz
Average member rating: (11 ratings)

Silence! We GAVE you ice cream. Content advisory: there's a small profanity-themed area with no penalty whatsoever for skipping it. It is clearly signposted. Just so you're forewarned!

The Wide-Open Gate, by John Cater
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

Escape from Lowell Prison (featuring a gatehouse, a cafeteria, and a wide-open gate) if you can....
Will the Real Marjorie Hopkirk Please Stand Up?, by Neil James Brown
Average member rating: (5 ratings)
In this demo game, you play as an assassin hired to kill Mrs. Marjorie Hopkirk. Unfortunately, she's cloned herself ninety-nine times which means you're going to have to kill her one hundred times to get the...
Winchester's Nightmare, by Nick Montfort
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

Winter Wonderland, by Laura Knauth
Average member rating: (43 ratings)

"Young Gretchen could have only imagined the fanciful events that were to occur before finding herself lost in a winter wonderland." [--blurb from Competition '99]

Wishbringer, by Brian Moriarty
Average member rating: (111 ratings)

It's an ordinary day in your ordinary little town, and you've been performing your ordinary mail clerk's duties in an altogether ordinary way. But there's something quite extraordinary in today's mail. It's...

Wisher, Theurgist, Fatalist, by Xavid
Average member rating: (11 ratings)

From the ranks of the people you have been raised up as a Wisher— ...

The Wishing Wood, by Elizabeth Bernhardt

Welcome to Death's country. You have a compass and a magic word. And Death? Death has bird-ladies and dying stars and way too many desserts. Will you find your way from Death's house through the stained...
Wisp, by Lea
Average member rating: (10 ratings)
In this very small adventure, you're on a road late at night, trying to get home to bed, when you see a light ahead. You soon find yourself in a confusing marsh, hazy with mist.
A Witch Tale, by Dan Blazquez
Average member rating: (1 rating)
A waitress learns that her unusual purple eyes are the hexenmark, the mark of a witch! Eager to claim her heritage, she had best be observant if she wants to learn her first spell!

The Witch, by Charles Moore
Average member rating: (12 ratings)

You’re typically a sober-minded upstanding elf but last night you were out a little too late and had a little too much mead. This morning you woke up wedged in a tree in the woods outside of town with a...

The Witch's Apprentice, by Garry Francis
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

Your name is Susan. You are 14 years old and you have ambitions of becoming a witch. You have just completed two years of study at the Spooksville Academy of Witchcraft. You reckon you know all the theory...

Withdrawal Symptoms, by Niclas Carlsson
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

"You have the keys to the deposit box safely in your hand as you approach the bank. Finally you are about to find out exactly what you inherited from your old aunt. Nothing can go wrong now. At least that is...

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...

The Witness, by Stu Galley
Average member rating: (30 ratings)

February 1938, Los Angeles. FDR's New Deal is finally rolling. Hitler's rolling, too; this time through Austria. But as Chief Detective for a quiet burgh on the outskirts of L.A., you've got other fish to...

A Wizard Goes Shopping, by Kevin Jackson-Mead
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

You play as a wizard, doing some food-shopping for your partner. You need a lobster, a mango, and a box of fettuccine. You doesn't expect to need any magic, but you have your spell book just in case.

The Wizard Sniffer, by Buster Hudson
Average member rating: (138 ratings)

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...

The Wizard's Apprentice, by Alex Freeman
Average member rating: (13 ratings)

As the wizard's apprentice, can you complete the challenges set by your master, the wizard Gwydion?
Wizard's Magic, by Daniel Gunnell
Average member rating: (3 ratings)
You're a wizard who has lost his wand and you're upset about it. Your wand can't have gone far, can it?
The Wolf and the Seven Kids, by Moritz
Average member rating: (2 ratings)
In this short sparsely-implemented adaptation of the fairy tale, you play as the wolf. Your goal is to get into the house and eat all seven kids.
WOODEN CAT vs. ROBOT MONKEY, by Sam Thursfield
Average member rating: (2 ratings)
In this tiny game, you play as a private detective and inventor. You've sent your robot monkey out on a mission and it's returned chasing a sorry-looking wooden cat down a railway line to your office and...
Woof, by Roberto Grassi
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

Worlds Apart, by Suzanne Britton
Average member rating: (91 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...

Wormwood Days II: The Aftermath, by Caleb Wilson
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

In this short surreal game, wormwood has contaminated the world's water supply. Death and disarray are everywhere as agents, both good and bad, travel throughout time to promote their faction's survival....
Wreckage, by Daniel Hiebert
Average member rating: (2 ratings)
Wuthering Heights, by Jonah Siegel
Average member rating: (3 ratings)
The X Chicken, by David Cornelson
Average member rating: (5 ratings)
Dang. Combined chicken/X-Files jokes. It just doesn't get any better than this. [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue]
Xmaton, by Simeon Maxein
Average member rating: (1 rating)
In this short one-room game inspired by Eyezmaze's GROW games, you play as a homeowner with a new X-Maton machine. It has six buttons to help you prepare your house for Christmas, but what order should you...

The Xylophoniad, by Robin Johnson
Average member rating: (17 ratings)

The King of Anachronopolis has ordered you to end the Trojan War, slay the dreaded Bicyclops, and rescue a couple of inmates from Hades. A comic adventure set in Greek mythology.

Yak Shaving for Kicks and Giggles!, by J. J. Guest
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

You are Steve Goodwin. You're a regular guy, young, successful, dynamic. But a nagging question gnaws at your soul, undermines your joy at your success and interferes with the very business of living. For...

Yay Games, by David Welbourn
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

Relive the 2003 XYZZY Awards ceremony. (Well, okay, only the first half of the ceremony.) Written for SpeedIF Century. One location.

Yellow Dog Running, by Sam Kabo Ashwell
Average member rating: (10 ratings)

The Yellow Stone, by David S. Glasser
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

In this tiny game, you play as someone outside a dark, foreboding bar. If you dare to enter, you may find a golden bottle of beer inside.
Yes, Another Game with a Dragon!, by John Kean
Average member rating: (27 ratings)
In this game, you play as a brawny adventurer heroically rescuing a fair maiden from a fire-breathing dragon. Oops, sorry, no, that was just a dream. You're actually an out-of-shape drunken lout. But then...
Yesternight, by Robert Szacki
Average member rating: (7 ratings)
This is my debut text-adventure titled "Yesternight". The game is written in AdvSys adventure-writing system by David Betz. The system is available for example for PC and Amiga. The game is created for...

Yon Astounding Castle! of some sort, by Tiberius Thingamus
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

In this adventure, findeth ye olde treasures from within yon castle. Maketh friends as ye o'ercome meddlesome goblins! Outwitteth ye riddling gnome! Resizeth ye belts & belt-like things! Can ye getteth all...

You are a Chef!, by Dan Shiovitz
Average member rating: (50 ratings)

You Are a Turkey!, by Jacqueline A. Lott
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

This was written at pretty much the very last second for ClubFloyd's 2011 Thanksgiving Speed-IF session, inspired by Christos Dimitrakakis, who said, "Let's play You Are A Turkey!" during a ClubFloyd session...

You Are Here, by Roy Fisher
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

"Dragons. Demons. Undead. An adventurer's perils are many. But in the world of MUDs, nothing is more dangerous than electronic sex... "You Are Here" is a short, simple diversion promoting "MultiUserDungeon",...
You Have to Put the Baby New Year in the Champagne Bottle, by SoftSoft
Average member rating: (4 ratings)
"Can you beat our amazing new New Years puzzle challenge? It’s all a part of our brand-new New Years new brand initiative!" (Game Intro)

You've Got a Stew Going!, by Ryan Veeder
Average member rating: (37 ratings)

Your friend has invited you over for stew. He has not bothered to procure most of the ingredients.

Your Choice, by J. Robinson Wheeler
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

Your Little Haunting, by Christina Nordlander
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

Trying to find your way through a dark, deserted house. Made for La Petite Mort in ECTOCOMP '24.

Your mind is gone, it must be brought, you have some rock candy., by Lenny Pitts
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

In this tiny surreal game, you play as a monkey. Or, at least, you look like one. You begin in the Start Room with a yellow rock candy corn.
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, by Justin de Vesine
Average member rating: (2 ratings)
In this tiny minimalistic work that satisfies the premise of the speed-if in which it was entered, you play as someone in a walled quadrangle surrounded by all items in the premise. An exit leads east.

Ze French countryside is full of fresh air, by Eric Forgeot
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Zeppelin Adventure, by Robin Johnson
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Piloting a tea-zeppelin on Mars is a lonely job, but this run is nearly over and then you're due for a holiday. That's unless you get sucked into a puzzly adventure involving pterodactyls, robots,...

Zero Sum Game, by Cody Sandifer
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You play as either Duff Malcolm Mint or Charlotte Candy Mint who returns home with 75 points and a bag full of treasure. Unfortunately, your mother is very displeased and demands that you return all those...

A Zeroeth Dimension, by Dewey Mowris
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What happens when fictional protagonist Zakarius Novemus lives within "The Zeroeth Dimension" until everything starts changing?

Zig-zy, by Jonathan Rosebaugh
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In this small one-room game, you play as a woman named Amy attending the XYZZY awards ceremony in VR space. Your friend Mark thinks that Earth Company is going to kill Stephen Bishop during the ceremony...
Zombie Cow!, by Amber Rollins-Walker
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Zombies Are Cool, But Not So Cool When They're Eating Your Head, by Mel S
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Zombies!, by Chris Cenotti
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In this small horror game, you're an assistant janitor at the complex. Before Old Mac died last week, he warned you about the zombie research they were doing here and he must've been right because your boss...
Zork, by Tim Anderson, Marc Blank, Bruce Daniels, and Dave Lebling
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Also known as Dungeon. The original mainframe game that was later split and adapted into the Zork trilogy for microcomputers.

Zork I, by Marc Blank and Dave Lebling
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Many strange tales have been told of the fabulous treasure, exotic creatures, and diabolical puzzles in the Great Underground Empire. As an aspiring adventurer, you will undoubtedly want to locate these...

Zork II, by Dave Lebling, Marc Blank
Average member rating: (100 ratings)

The Wizard appears, floating nonchalantly in the air beside you. He grins sideways at you. The Wizard incants "Fantasize," but nothing happens. He shakes his wand. Nothing happens. With a slightly...

Zork III, by Dave Lebling, Marc Blank
Average member rating: (79 ratings)

An old, oddly youthful man turns toward you slowly. His long, silver hair dances about him as a fresh breeze blows. "You have reached the final test, my friend! You are proved clever and powerful, but this...

Zork Zero: The Revenge of Megaboz, by Steve Meretzky
Average member rating: (61 ratings)

The Great Underground Empire is in its heyday. Upscale condos crowd the massive caverns. Subterranean highways stretch from Aragain to the Fublio Valley. And no adventurer has yet set foot in the open field...

zork, buried chaos, by Brad Renshaw
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You were exploring the underground empire when there was an earthquake and it caved in! You have to escape!

Zork: The Cavern of Doom, by Steve Meretzky and Manfred Pfeiffer
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The gamebook was initially published by Tor Books in September 1983 in the US (later by Puffin in the UK) as the third in a Zork gamebook series, part of the fledgling "What-Do-I-Do-Now" gamebooks line. It...

Zork: The Undiscovered Underground, by Marc Blank, Michael Berlyn, and G. Kevin Wilson
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Grubald the Bold, Matchlick the Mighty, Linklaw the Lucky; all of the great Heroes are busy, laid up, contracted or dead. So it is you who gets to explore a never before seen part of the Great Underground...

Zorkian Stories 1: G.U.E., by Marshal Tenner Winter
Average member rating: (15 ratings)

Finally making it to the Eastlands, you find a shaft leading to the depths of the Great Underground Empire where, supposedly, lost treasures that have been forgotten for centuries are waiting to be found...

Zozzled, by Steph Cherrywell
Average member rating: (48 ratings)

Hotsy-totsy! It's 1928 and you're madcap flapper Hazel Greene, tottering around the city's finest hotel with a gullet full of giggle juice...until a gaggle of ghosts shows up to spoil the fun by turning...

Zugzwang, by Magnus Olsson
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Out of the TextFire "12-pack", this is an April's Fool game "demo" in which you get to play a pawn in a chess game - at the very end. Incorporates a very nifty variation on the status line to show the...
The Zuni Doll, by Jesse Burneko
Average member rating: (8 ratings)
The small African Zuni Doll seemed a nice addition to your collection of oddities. Myths say it captures the spirit of an African Tribesman who died while committing a cowardly act. To regain honour, he must...
Zymurgy, by Roger Carbol
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

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