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?... |
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. |
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. |
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... |
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 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... |
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... |
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) |
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... |
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... |
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 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 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. |
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... |
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... |
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) |
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... |
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... |
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. ... |
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... |
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... |
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. |
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... |
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... |
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] |
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... |
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) |
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... |
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] |
Beat Witch, by Robert Patten Average member rating: (12 ratings) An interactive loneliness ... ... |
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... |
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). |
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,... |
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 of Three, by Emily Short Average member rating: (62 ratings) |
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 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 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... |
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,... |
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. |
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... |
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... |
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. |
The Blueprint, by Thaidaree Average member rating: (2 ratings) Proclaimed heretic, professor Archibald Foster is taken by the inquisition with proof of researching electricity. |
Bobby and Bonnie, by Xavid Average member rating: (16 ratings) A light children's-story-ish adventure inexplicably starring rabbits. |
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... |
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... |
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... |
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... |
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. |
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... |
Byzantine Perspective, by Lea Albaugh Average member rating: (57 ratings) Your task is simple enough. Just nab the chalice. |
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. |
Calliope, by Jason McIntosh Average member rating: (10 ratings) |
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... |
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... |
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,... |
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... |
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... |
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... |
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.... |
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... |
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. |
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... |
Chlorophyll, by Steph Cherrywell Average member rating: (61 ratings) |
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... |
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... |
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? ... |
Civil Mimic, by Andrew Schultz Average member rating: (3 ratings) Short entry for EctoComp 2017. A simple puzzle. |
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... |
Clusterflux, by Marshal Tenner Winter Average member rating: (13 ratings) 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... |
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... |
Colours, by J. Robinson Wheeler Average member rating: (2 ratings) "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... |
Common Ground, by Stephen Granade Average member rating: (30 ratings) |
Containment, by Kevin Mintmier Average member rating: (3 ratings) 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. |
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 Average member rating: (5 ratings) Can you get yourself off the couch? |
Counterfeit Monkey, by Emily Short Average member rating: (254 ratings) 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 Cove, by Kathleen M. Fischer Average member rating: (21 ratings) |
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 JohnsonAverage member rating: (26 ratings) A tribute to Anchorhead. |
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. |
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 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, by Eleanor Gang and Simon Smart Average member rating: (4 ratings) A light-hearted journey through space and relative dimensions. |
The Curse of Dragon Shrine, by Dana Crane Average member rating: (1 rating) |
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... |
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 Average member rating: (5 ratings) 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) |
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 Average member rating: (17 ratings) 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... |
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. |
A Day at the Seaside, by Matthew Hunter Average member rating: (2 ratings) |
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... |
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... |
You are being chased by an angry cassowary....
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... |
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... |
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) |
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 Average member rating: (8 ratings) Visit a deserted dessert island! Collect magic ingredients! Learn some spells and invent new ones! |
Detective Osiris, by Adam Burt Average member rating: (17 ratings) Death. Conception. Genesis. Mystery. ... |
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... |
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... |
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) |
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. |
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. 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... |
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... |
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,... |
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 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 |
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. |
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). |
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... |
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... |
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... |
The Electric Puppet, by Christophe Géradon The weird and funny story of a 35 years old man haunted by his mother. |
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. |
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... |
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... |
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. |
The Erudition Chamber, by Daniel Freas Average member rating: (26 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 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 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? |
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. |
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.... |
Everything We Do Is Games, by Doug Orleans Average member rating: (9 ratings) A null game, inspired by John Cage's 4′33″. |
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... |
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] |
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... |
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 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 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... |
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... |
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... |
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) |
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... |
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. |
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... |
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... |
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. |
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... |
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. |
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] |
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... |
Founder's Mercy, by Thomas Insel Average member rating: (14 ratings) 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 Average member rating: (3 ratings) 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 Average member rating: (4 ratings) 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 Fox, The Dragon, and The Stale Loaf of Bread, by David Welbourn Average member rating: (4 ratings) 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. |
Fugue, by Emily Short Average member rating: (12 ratings) 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... |
Future Threads, by Xavid Average member rating: (16 ratings) 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... |
Galatea, by Emily Short Average member rating: (346 ratings) 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 Average member rating: (7 ratings) The Solar System’s greatest hero, Galaxy Jones, against the evil Admiral Thallium! |
The Gallery of Henri Beauchamp, by Mike Vollmer Average member rating: (6 ratings) 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... |
The Game Formerly Known as Hidden Nazi Mode, by Victor Gijsbers Average member rating: (29 ratings) 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... |
Gardening for Beginners, by Juhana Leinonen Average member rating: (18 ratings) 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. |
Gateway, by Mike Verdu, Michael Lindner, and Glen Dahlgren Average member rating: (36 ratings) 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 Average member rating: (3 ratings) 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 Average member rating: (6 ratings) 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 Average member rating: (11 ratings) 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... |
The Ghost Ship, by Jonathan Snyder Average member rating: (5 ratings) La Petite Mort entry in ECTOCOMP 2015. |
Ghosterington Night, by Wade Clarke Average member rating: (13 ratings) 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... |
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... |
Gnu in the Zoo, by Alex Ball Average member rating: (2 ratings) 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... |
Golden Shadow, by The Technomancer Average member rating: (3 ratings) 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 Average member rating: (11 ratings) 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... |
Goodbye Cruel Squirrel, by Extra Mayonnaise Average member rating: (11 ratings) 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. |
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 Average member rating: (2 ratings) 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... |
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... |
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? |
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? |
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 Average member rating: (9 ratings) 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 Average member rating: (3 ratings) 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... |
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? |
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... |
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,... |
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... |
Help! My Vacuum Cleaner Is Broken, by Admiral Jota Average member rating: (16 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... |
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... |
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... |
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... |
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...... |
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. |
Honk!, by Alex Harby Average member rating: (17 ratings) A Fair Game ... |
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 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 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. |
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 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 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... |
IF Tutorial, by Cooper McHatton (German translation by Marco Bakera) Average member rating: (1 rating) 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... |
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 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... |
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) |
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... |
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... |
The Invisible Argonaut, by Jacqueline A. Lott Average member rating: (8 ratings) |
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... |
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... |
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... |
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,... |
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... |
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.... |
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... |
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. |
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... |
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. |
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.... |
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... |
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 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... |
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 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... |
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. |
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. |
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... |
LISEY, by Marco Innocenti Average member rating: (7 ratings) Love has no boundaries. Not even life itself. Entry in EctoComp 2014. |
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. |
Lock & Key, by Adam Cadre Average member rating: (78 ratings) |
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... |
Lord Bellwater's Secret, by Sam Gordon Average member rating: (71 ratings) |
Losing Your Grip, by Stephen Granade Average member rating: (22 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 |
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. |
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. |
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... |
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! |
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. |
Marie Waits, by Dee Cooke Average member rating: (13 ratings) Three hours. All you can do is wait... or is it? |
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! |
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... |
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... |
Meeting Robb Sherwin, by Jizaboz Average member rating: (10 ratings) A slice-of-life adventure in Denver, Colorado. |
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... |
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... |
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... |
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) |
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... |
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... |
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? |
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... |
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... |
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... |
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. ... |
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 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 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... |
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?... |
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 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!, 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... |
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) |
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... |
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... |
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... |
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. |
Not Just an Ordinary Ballerina, by Jim Aikin Average member rating: (31 ratings) |
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? |
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,... |
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... |
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. |
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. |
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... |
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. |
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 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 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... |
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. |
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. |
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... |
Out, by Viktor Sobol Average member rating: (27 ratings) It's a wonderful morning, and you're ready to come out. |
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! |
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... |
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. |
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. |
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... |
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. |
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." |
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. |
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... |
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 |
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... |
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... |
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. |
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... |
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 Problems Compound, by Andrew Schultz Average member rating: (11 ratings) Wherein you, Alec Smart, turn what's-thats into that's-whats. |
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... |
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... |
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. |
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 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) |
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... |
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 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... |
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... |
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 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... |
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... |
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... |
Rock, Paper, Scissors!, by William Moore Average member rating: (1 rating) You are a player in the biggest Rock, Paper, Scissors tournament in history! |
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) |
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. |
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... |
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. |
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! |
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... |
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 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. |
Scavenger, by Quintin Stone Average member rating: (31 ratings) Search a war-shattered world for secrets of the past. |
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 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... |
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... |
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... |
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." |
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... |
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... |
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... |
Shrapnel, by Adam Cadre Average member rating: (170 ratings) |
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... |
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... |
Slouching Towards Bedlam, by Star Foster and Daniel Ravipinto Average member rating: (219 ratings) In the beginning was the Word, and it was hungry. ... |
Snakes and Ladders, by Ken Franklin Average member rating: (1 rating) |
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, 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. |
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. |
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... |
The Sound of One Hand Clapping, by Erica Sadun Average member rating: (5 ratings) |
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] |
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. |
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. |
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... |
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. |
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... |
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. |
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... |
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) |
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. |
stupidgame, by Sam Kabo Ashwell Average member rating: (4 ratings) |
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... |
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... |
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. |
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) |
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 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... |
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 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."... |
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." |
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... |
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... |
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... |
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. |
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... |
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... |
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.) |
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,... |
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... |
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. |
Undertow, by Stephen Granade Average member rating: (8 ratings) Go sailing on a yacht with three friends, and a corpse.... |
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... |
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. |
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 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... |
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*... |
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] |
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... |
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:... |
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... |
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... |
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... |
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... |
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 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,... |
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 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! |
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 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... |
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... |
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... |
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... |
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) |
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 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'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 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. |
Ze French countryside is full of fresh air, by Eric Forgeot Average member rating: (3 ratings) |
Zeppelin Adventure, by Robin Johnson Average member rating: (12 ratings) 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,... |
A Zeroeth Dimension, by Dewey Mowris Average member rating: (4 ratings) What happens when fictional protagonist Zakarius Novemus lives within "The Zeroeth Dimension" until everything starts changing? |
Zork I, by Marc Blank and Dave Lebling Average member rating: (222 ratings) 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: The Cavern of Doom, by Steve Meretzky and Manfred Pfeiffer Average member rating: (6 ratings) 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... |
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... |