"Do Not Meddle", by Teaspoon Average member rating: (9 ratings) Will you be one of the naughty, meddling boys, or the good one who obeys the dictum "DO NOT MEDDLE"? Done largely as an exercise in third-person coding, this is a verbose adaptation of a 19th century Moral... |
♥Magical Makeover♥, by S. Woodson Average member rating: (67 ratings) "You hold in your hand a pink, heart-shaped card daubed in rosewater and oil of jasmine — an invitation to the Princess Philantha's Grand Equinox Ball. In gilded, sweeping, sweet-smelling calligraphy, the... |
10pm, by litrouke Average member rating: (27 ratings) 10pm, and dinner is still sitting in the oven. The TV is droning. The front door is closed. You look at the clock. You look at the door. You wait. --- Content warnings: profanity, allusions to sex and... |
16 Ways to Kill a Vampire at McDonalds, by Abigail Corfman Average member rating: (101 ratings) You're a vampire hunter on your night off. You're getting a manicure, seeing a movie, and eating fast food. But there's a vampire in this McDonalds. If you don't do something, then in one hour it will eat... |
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. |
9:05, by Adam Cadre illuki's rating: Average member rating: (544 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. |
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... |
All Your Time-Tossed Selves, by Porpentine Average member rating: (16 ratings) a story made in Google Forms |
Animalia, by Ian Michael Waddell Average member rating: (37 ratings) This is the story of Charlie Stewart, nine-year-old Human child. Inside this ordinary nine-year-old Human child are four animals from the Forest, working tirelessly to keep YOUR Taiga Federation safe from... |
Artist Survival Simulator, by Gabriel Widing Average member rating: (10 ratings) This is a more or less auto-biographical work on the living conditions for artists. I want to share my experience of balancing the thin line between artistic delusion and economic collapse. |
Before the End of the World, by Silverstring Media Average member rating: (13 ratings) The sky is tearing itself open. Fire rains from the heavens. And you've returned home to reflect on the person you fell in love with in your dreams. Before the End of the World is a Twine game created to... |
Best of Three, by Emily Short Average member rating: (62 ratings) |
Birdland, by Brendan Patrick Hennessy Average member rating: (173 ratings) Fourteen-year-old Bridget's summer camp experience takes a turn for the bizarre when her otherworldly bird dreams start bleeding into reality. |
Birthday Simulator 2, by Jon Prime Average member rating: (2 ratings) The long-awaited sequel. |
Bogeyman, by Elizabeth Smyth Average member rating: (89 ratings) You can go home when you learn to be good. |
Cactus Blue Motel, by Astrid Dalmady Average member rating: (87 ratings) Somewhere between New Mexico and Arizona, three friends were driving through a barren desert of red rocks, and wide empty skies. It was the end of summer, the end of high school, the end of so many things.... |
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... |
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... |
climbing 208 feet up the ruin wall, by Porpentine Average member rating: (36 ratings) -OVER 207 FEET -MORE THAN 1,000,000 PROCEDURALLY GENERATED VINES -REALISTIC WEATHER SYSTEM -LOOKS LIKE WE GOT A “CLIMB”-INAL INVESTIGATION |
Counterfeit Monkey, by Emily Short Average member rating: (253 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... |
creak, creak, by chandler groover Average member rating: (36 ratings) "You have to look." 111 words. Made for Porpentine's Twiny Jam. |
CYBERQUEEN, by Porpentine Average member rating: (67 ratings) integration necessitates evisceration |
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... |
Deadline Enchanter, by Alan DeNiro Average member rating: (58 ratings) |
Delicious Breakfast, by Molly G. Average member rating: (9 ratings) This is a re-implementation of the first work I finished in Inform 7. I made it for Glorious Trainwrecks' Pirate Kart 2, then re-released an improved version (along with a bunch of other games) for the IGF... |
Delightful Wallpaper, by Andrew Plotkin ('Edgar O. Weyrd') Average member rating: (78 ratings) |
Depression Quest, by Zoe Quinn, Patrick Lindsey, Isaac Schankler Average member rating: (61 ratings) "An interactive (non)fiction about living with depression." The player of this multimedia hypertext game is given a series of everyday life events, and has to attempt to manage their illness, relationships,... |
Divis Mortis, by Lynnea Dally Average member rating: (43 ratings) The infection has spread. They are coming. |
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. |
Eat Me, by Chandler Groover illuki's rating: Average member rating: (109 ratings) In this castle, you'll eat or be eaten. May contain dairy, carnage, puzzles, nuts. |
Eden, by Gaming Pixie Average member rating: (12 ratings) In Eden, you’re a scientist faced with a choice: risk your life and career for someone else who's beautiful, but "not even human" or look out for Number One. And that's just the beginning. Can you really... |
Empyreum, by n-n Average member rating: (1 rating) Shopping at the end of the world. A short Interactive Fiction. |
Endless, Nameless, by Adam Cadre Average member rating: (56 ratings) The first time I ever saw someone play a text adventure was in fifth grade. One of the sixth-graders didn't go to outdoor ed, and therefore spent the week in my fifth-grade classroom, playing Scott Adams's... |
Escape from the Crazy Place, by J. J. Guest, Loz Etheridge and friends Average member rating: (11 ratings) You've been locked in a padded cell for no obvious reason with only a deranged hamburger-eating clown for company. The cell doesn't even have a door. So begins an adventure that will take you to many places... |
Everything We Do Is Games, by Doug Orleans Average member rating: (9 ratings) A null game, inspired by John Cage's 4′33″. |
Façade, by Michael Mateas, Andrew Stern Average member rating: (6 ratings) Façade is an artificial intelligence-based art/research experiment in electronic narrative—an attempt to move beyond traditional branching or hyper-linked narrative to create a fully-realized, one-act... |
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] |
Galatea, by Emily Short illuki's rating: 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... |
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... |
Gourmet, by Aaron A. Reed and Chad Barb Average member rating: (55 ratings) Missing employees, wily crustaceans, malfunctioning kitchen equipment and a terminal food shortage, all on the night the most important culinary critic in the world has chosen to review your debut... |
Grandma Bethlinda's Variety Box, by Arthur DiBianca Average member rating: (38 ratings) It's the latest model, and it would really like to play with you. |
Guilded Youth, by Jim Munroe Average member rating: (49 ratings) You play Tony, a fourteen-year old thief who needs some help looting the legendary Oakville Manor. Luckily it's the 1980s and finding fellow adventurers is just a modem squeal away... |
Her Pound of Flesh, by Liz England Average member rating: (15 ratings) Body horror choose-your-own-adventure game about heartache. About 30 minutes of play time, with multiple endings. |
HHH.exe, by Robot Parking Average member rating: (17 ratings) The disk drive uttered a sickening crack as you tried to access it. Somehow, you were able to run the single program installed on it, HHH.exe. It's a game, apparently. By turns unfun and... |
HIGH END CUSTOMIZABLE SAUNA EXPERIENCE, by Porpentine Average member rating: (21 ratings) designed last minute for a live performance played for a crowd while they shouted out decisions more info (archived): http://aliendovecote.com/?p=4732 |
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... |
Homecoming, by Carolyn VanEseltine Average member rating: (13 ratings) "Homecoming" is a short, twisted comedy about a newly awakened AI. |
The House of Fear, by Gwen Katz Average member rating: (3 ratings) When 19-year-old Leonora Carrington runs away to France with an artist twice her age, she doesn’t know that she’ll end up in a Spanish mental asylum and he in a concentration camp. Follow her on a... |
howling dogs, by Porpentine Average member rating: (128 ratings) death cube sim | galactic survey | visionatrix | facet machine | power gardens | women | fascination two significant endings |
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... |
little, by chandler groover Average member rating: (10 ratings) a tiny yarn for ectocomp |
Little Blue Men, by Michael S. Gentry Average member rating: (71 ratings) This game is a joke. This game is a warning. This game is a satire. This game is inspired in equal parts by Vaclav Havel's "The Memorandum" and Hunter S. Thompson's "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas". This... |
Midnight. Swordfight., by Chandler Groover Average member rating: (87 ratings) A fool receives a challenge from a countess. Violence. Sex. Profanity. Sausage. |
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? |
my father's long, long legs, by michael lutz Average member rating: (148 ratings) A weird tale. Some parts make use of sound, so this game is best played with headphones. One ending. |
Nemesis Macana, by Herman Schudspeer, Victor Gijsbers Average member rating: (14 ratings) Standing in front of a London brothel with the clear intent to enter, our protagonist's future may seem dark and foreboding. But perhaps an unexpected and life-changing experience is waiting for him. Comes... |
Olivia's Orphanorium, by Sam Kabo Ashwell Average member rating: (24 ratings) Sparky young entrepreneur Olivia sets out to fulfil her dream of running an orphanage. The beatings will continue until morale improves. |
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. |
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. |
Patrick, by michael lutz Average member rating: (27 ratings) A very short game about having an uncomfortable conversation with a vaguely sinister white guy. One ending. Or is there? Ask a friend to play and then compare notes. |
Photopia, by Adam Cadre illuki's rating: 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." |
Shade, by Andrew Plotkin illuki's rating: Average member rating: (421 ratings) "A one-room game set in your apartment." [--blurb from Competition Aught-Zero] |
Shrapnel, by Adam Cadre Average member rating: (170 ratings) |
Silver Spooning: Close Encounters with Mr. Right, by A. Hagen Average member rating: (5 ratings) You are a woman. You just broke up with your boyfriend because he was really boring. It is time to meet someone new. You create an account on Silver Spooning, a dating website for the shamelessly rich. Will... |
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] |
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. |
Tailypo, by Chandler Groover Average member rating: (21 ratings) Alone in his cabin, a hungry man eats something he shouldn't. |
their angelical understanding, by Porpentine Average member rating: (76 ratings) I train to fight angels in a monastery by the sea. Wear headphones. TW: Suicidal ideation, ableism, abuse, possible epilepsy trigger. |
Tower of the Blood Lord, by michael lutz Average member rating: (14 ratings) I’ve made a twine game called The Tower of the Blood Lord, which is based on the time I played the first twenty minutes of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. |
Transparent, by Hanon Ondricek Average member rating: (20 ratings) There is a house. There is a room in the house. There is a door in the room. The door is locked. Some people are in the room. Some people are transparent. An eerie exploration of an abandoned historic house.... |
Treasures of a Slaver's Kingdom, by S. John Ross Average member rating: (48 ratings) In the cruel kingdoms north of the Viraxian Empire, a barbarian seeks treasure - and vengeance! Having escaped the clutches of the Slaver King, he has vowed to pillage the wealth of the kingdom ... then... |
Violet, by Jeremy Freese illuki's rating: 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] |
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] |
The Writer Will Do Something, by Matthew Burns, Tom Bissell Average member rating: (25 ratings) The year is 2012. You are the head writer for the third game in the wildly popular ShatterGate™ franchise. Expectations are through the roof: fans of the series are waiting for the biggest, most bad-ass... |
You are Standing at a Crossroads, by Astrid Dalmady Average member rating: (30 ratings) You are Standing at a Crossroads is a short Twine story about being lost, being changed, and being stagnant. |
You Will Select a Decision, by Brendan Patrick Hennessy Average member rating: (80 ratings) A pair of knock-off choose your own adventure books from Soviet-era Kyrgyzstan. |
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... |