[You wake up itching.], by Michael S. Gentry Average member rating: This game is an entry in the Mystery House Taken Over project. The story and graphics are adapted from Roberta Williams' original Mystery House. With illustrations subtly changed but in a style like the... |
> by @, by Aaron A. Reed Average member rating: On the surface, > seems to be a traditional adventure game, featuring treasure, an NPC, a puzzle, and a happy ending. However, matters are complicated by the realization that the work's purported author is... |
9:05, by Adam Cadre Average member rating: 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. |
The Act of Misdirection, by Callico Harrison Average member rating: 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 perch's rating: Average member rating: "Frederic Sheppard." Chief Inspector Duffy pulls at his moustache mournfully and stares up at the house through the windshield. "Theatrical sort, usually has a finger in some play or other. He bought up Gull... |
Ad Verbum, by Nick Montfort perch's rating: Average member rating: "With the cantankerous Wizard of Wordplay evicted from his mansion, the worthless plot can now be redeveloped. The city regulations declare, however, that the rip-down job can't proceed until all the items... |
The Adventures of the President of the United States, by Mikko Vuorinen Average member rating: |
Aisle, by Sam Barlow perch's rating: Average member rating: "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... |
Alabaster, by John Cater, Rob Dubbin, Eric Eve, Elizabeth Heller, Jayzee, Kazuki Mishima, Sarah Morayati, Mark Musante, Emily Short, Adam Thornton, Ziv Wities perch's rating: Average member rating: The Queen has told you to return with her heart in a box. Snow White has made you promise to make other arrangements. Now that you're alone in the forest, it's hard to know which of the two women to trust.... |
All Roads, by Jon Ingold Average member rating: "Wave a circle round him thrice, And close your eyes with holy dread For he on honey-dew hath fed And drunk the milk of paradise." [--blurb from Competition Aught-One] |
Anchorhead, by Michael Gentry Average member rating: 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... |
Andromeda Awakening - The Final Cut, by Marco Innocenti perch's rating: Average member rating: The most important discovery in history. And then, the whole world goes crumbling down. Armed with but a computer and an expired railway ticket, how can one expect to save the day when the doomsday clock has... |
Aotearoa, by Matt Wigdahl perch's rating: Average member rating: 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 Argument, by Harvey Smith perch's rating: Average member rating: |
Arid and Pale, by Michael R. Bacon perch's rating: Average member rating: A short interactive example poem for the Interactive Poetry extension for Inform 7. Not intended to be appreciated as a game or poem. |
Arrival, or Attack of the B-Movie Clichés, by Stephen Granade Average member rating: |
The Ascot, by Duncan Bowsman perch's rating: Average member rating: Anything might happen to you on the way to the convenience store. You might even run into a guy handing out cursed ascots that lead you to lost fortunes guarded by terrible monsters. Can you nab 100% of the... |
At Wit's End, by Mike Sousa Average member rating: "A case study of Murphy's Law in action. In-game hints available." [--blurb from Competition Aught-Zero] |
The Atomic Heart, by Stefan Blixt Average member rating: |
Augmented Fourth, by Brian Uri! Average member rating: 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... |
Awake the Mighty Dread, by Lyle Skains perch's rating: Average member rating: You wake up on a train in a strange world, knowing only that if you sleep, the nightmares return. But someone else is also lost, and you must find him, or else the nightmares will capture you forever. (Part... |
Babel, by Ian Finley Average member rating: 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... |
Badland Machine, by Sam Kabo Ashwell perch's rating: Average member rating: 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... |
Balances, by Graham Nelson perch's rating: Average member rating: "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] |
Baluthar, by Chris Molloy Wischer Average member rating: 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 perch's rating: Average member rating: |
A Bear's Night Out, by David Dyte Average member rating: "Tomorrow is the big Teddy Bear party, and you must definitely not let your owner forget about it..." [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue] |
Beet the Devil, by Carolyn VanEseltine perch's rating: Average member rating: Your dog is gone. She must be brought. You have a beet (and some other vegetables). |
The Beetmonger's Journal, by Scott Starkey Average member rating: "Victor Lapot and I were miles from base camp on the south continent, once again hacking through previously unsurveyed lands and searching for forgotten cultures. The expedition reminded me of our grand... |
Being Andrew Plotkin, by J. Robinson Wheeler perch's rating: Average member rating: "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 of Three, by Emily Short Average member rating: |
The Bible Retold: Following a Star, by Justin Morgan perch's rating: Average member rating: You are Balthasar, a magus from Babylon. You and your companions, Gaspar and Melchior, are about to embark on a journey to Judea, a client kingdom of the Roman Empire, to venerate a newborn king. You'll need... |
BiCon, by rach perch's rating: Average member rating: An interactive story of love and friendship set at the UK BiCon and International Bisexual Conference 2010. Though written primarily for conference attendees and friends, BiCon requires no knowledge of the... |
Blighted Isle, by Eric Eve perch's rating: Average member rating: 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... |
Blind, by Andrew Metzger perch's rating: Average member rating: A creep kidnaps you, a blind girl. But you're not as disabled as you look - who says blindness is a handicap? |
The Blind House, by Amanda Allen perch's rating: Average member rating: 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... |
Blue Lacuna, by Aaron A. Reed perch's rating: Average member rating: You have always been different. One in a trillion have your gift, your curse: to move between worlds, never settling, always alone. To Wayfare. Yet there are others like you, and something stronger than... |
Bolivia By Night, by Aidan Doyle Average member rating: A mystery adventure game set in Bolivia. |
Bonehead, by Sean M. Shore perch's rating: Average member rating: September 23, 1908. Win this game, and your Giants will have the National League pennant almost within reach. You've done your part. You've just made a base hit, putting McCormick on third with the winning... |
Brace, by Merritt Kopas Average member rating: "A brief text adventure for two, made for my partner on our two-year anniversary." |
Broken Legs, by Sarah Morayati perch's rating: Average member rating: A blurb? They expect you to write? You're Lottie Plum so you're not going into writing. You sing. And dance and act up a storm while everyone else can only manage a puddle. You belong at Bridger. No matter... |
Bronze, by Emily Short perch's rating: Average member rating: 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. |
Byzantine Perspective, by Lea Albaugh perch's rating: Average member rating: Your task is simple enough. Just nab the chalice. |
Calm, by Joey Jones and Melvin Rangasamy perch's rating: Average member rating: Since the spores came life has been happier. How could it not be? For now stress is fatal and all who remain alive must remain calm... |
The Cavity of Time, by Sam Kabo Ashwell perch's rating: Average member rating: An Undum-fueled CYOA through a surrealistic landscape of intertextuality and logorrhoea, starring Stiffy Makane in his usual pornographic, antiheroic groove. |
Cheeseshop, by David Welbourn perch's rating: Average member rating: An interactive re-creation of Monty Python’s Cheeseshop sketch, where you try to buy some cheese. |
City of Secrets, by Emily Short perch's rating: Average member rating: A train journey abruptly cut off. An enforced stay in a strange City. Intrigue, madmen, and growing sense of being watched... |
A Comedy of Error Messages, by Adam Le Doux perch's rating: Average member rating: A loyal but punctilious PC attempts to save its master from taking part in a disastrous blind-date, set up through the MMORPG Realms of Realmland. (This is the game formerly known as The Elfen Maiden) |
The Cove, by Kathleen M. Fischer Average member rating: |
The Crescent City at the Edge of Disaster, by Emily Short perch's rating: Average member rating: A Speed-IF featuring New Orleans, Emeril, and armed hamsters. |
Cryptozookeeper, by Robb Sherwin perch's rating: Average member rating: Marrow is delicious but that's not why you're here. You're supposed to pick up a single jar of alien bone jelly, which of course can't exist and doesn't exist, so you've convinced yourself that transporting... |
Cursed, by Nick Rogers perch's rating: Average member rating: Accused of murdering your best friend, you are about to face the death penalty. But instead you are cursed, transformed into a beast and begin an epic journey to unravel the mystery of the real murderer, why... |
Curses, by Graham Nelson Average member rating: "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... |
Damnatio Memoriae, by Emily Short perch's rating: Average member rating: 14 AD. Agrippa Postumus, grandson of the recently-deceased Augustus, tries to avoid death at the hands of the next emperor, Tiberius. At his disposal: a couple of old manuscripts, a lamp, and a recalcitrant... |
Dangerous Curves, by Irene Callaci perch's rating: Average member rating: “Los Angeles, California. City of Angels.” “Not so fast, Sherlock; I’m no angel.” She pauses, the cigarette poised an inch from her lips. A stray beam of sunlight leaks from a broken slat in the... |
A Dark and Stormy Entry, by Emily Short perch's rating: Average member rating: |
A Day for Fresh Sushi, by Emily Short perch's rating: Average member rating: No time for fantasy. Must feed fish. |
De Baron, by Victor Gijsbers Average member rating: 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 Hotel, by Comazombie perch's rating: Average member rating: Escape from a zombie-infested hotel by fighting or shooting your way out in this short CYOA survival horror adventure. |
Dead Like Ants, by C.E.J. Pacian perch's rating: Average member rating: 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... |
Deadline Enchanter, by Alan DeNiro perch's rating: Average member rating: |
Death of Schlig, by Peter Timony perch's rating: Average member rating: Schlig is kidnapped by aliens and turned into a mutant eyeball freak by their experiments. Now Schlig must use his eyes in ways that no human was ever intended to in order to escape from the aliens and find... |
Death off the Cuff, by Simon Christiansen perch's rating: Average member rating: 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... |
Degeneracy, by Leonard Richardson Average member rating: The glitterings of Gold, Jewels, Tapestries, &c. belie the Corruption of he who 'til recently occupied this high Seat. A white Carpet, once flanked by Sycophants & Counsellors, now lies untravelled. It leads... |
Delightful Wallpaper, by Andrew Plotkin ('Edgar O. Weyrd') perch's rating: Average member rating: |
Dig My Grave, by Ryan Veeder perch's rating: Average member rating: For reasons which remain obscure, it is your job to dig a grave. Written for the Apollo 18+20 tribute album project. |
Dinner Bell, by Jenni Polodna perch's rating: Average member rating: 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: 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 perch's rating: Average member rating: |
Djibouti Dirigible Discombobulation, by Sam Kabo Ashwell perch's rating: Average member rating: |
The Dream-Trap of Zzar, by S. John Ross perch's rating: Average member rating: 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 perch's rating: Average member rating: 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... |
Dreams Run Solid, by Caleb Wilson |
Dual Transform, by Andrew Plotkin perch's rating: Average member rating: 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. |
Earth and Sky, by Paul O'Brian Average member rating: 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: In this sequel game, you play as Austin Colborn, a young man who wears an earthsuit made by your scientist parents. It gives you great strength and invulnerability. You and your sister Emily, who wears the... |
Earth And Sky 3: Luminous Horizon, by Paul O'Brian Average member rating: |
Ecdysis, by Peter Nepstad perch's rating: Average member rating: 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... |
Enchanter, by Marc Blank, Dave Lebling perch's rating: Average member rating: 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... |
Encyclopedia Fuckme and the Case of the Vanishing Entree, by Anna Anthropy perch's rating: Average member rating: If there's one thing Encyclopedia Fuckme knows - and this is a hypothetical statement, of course, because she's actually got a lot crammed in her big fat brain - it's how to get off! But in addition to her... |
Enlightenment, by Taro Ogawa perch's rating: Average member rating: "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... |
The Erudition Chamber, by Daniel Freas Average member rating: |
Escapade!, by Juhana Leinonen perch's rating: Average member rating: An entry in the 2008 One Room Game Competition. You play the bumbling sidekick of the heroic Captain McBrawn; while trying to carry out a task he's set you, you are captured by the Screaming Communists and... |
Escape From Santaland, by Jason Ermer perch's rating: Average member rating: Ugh. Christmastime at the mall. The last place you want to be, during the worst time of year to be there. |
Everybody Dies, by Jim Munroe perch's rating: Average member rating: 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.... |
Fallacy of Dawn, by Robb Sherwin Average member rating: In a world that never quite got over the '80s, Delarion Yar dispenses quarters for the local arcade... badly. A software pirate from better days, he's crossed the wrong people one too many times. Locked into... |
Fan Interference, by Andrew Schultz perch's rating: Average member rating: The 2003 Cubs are on the brink of the World Series. It's game 6, and they're even going to take a late 3-0 lead in the clinching game. They won't keep it. Unless you, who just got kicked off the bus near... |
The Fat Lardo and the Rubber Ducky, by Anonymous Average member rating: |
Figaro, by Victor Gijsbers perch's rating: Average member rating: A short example game created to accompany the essay "Co-Authorship and Community". It gives the player a kind of freedom that is not seen in any other interactive fiction: the freedom to determine what the... |
Final Assault of the Big Green Cliches, by Sam Kabo Ashwell perch's rating: Average member rating: 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... |
Fine-Tuned, by Dennis Jerz Average member rating: "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 Tower, by Jacqueline A. Lott Average member rating: |
Firebird, by Bonnie Montgomery Average member rating: "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... |
Flight of the Hummingbird, by Michael Martin perch's rating: Average member rating: 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!... |
Fog Convict, by Andrew Metzger perch's rating: Average member rating: There's a convict loose, a fog that just won't go away, and you're pretty sure your dorm mate just blew up his microwave. Just another day in college, right? |
Fragile Shells, by Stephen Granade perch's rating: Average member rating: 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 perch's rating: Average member rating: 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... |
Galatea, by Emily Short Average member rating: 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... |
Gigantomania, by Michelle Tirto and Mike Ciul perch's rating: Average member rating: Living under the Stalin era, in four parts. |
Goose, Egg, Badger, by Brian Rapp Average member rating: |
The Gostak, by Carl Muckenhoupt Average member rating: "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... |
Gourmet, by Aaron A. Reed and Chad Barb Average member rating: 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... |
Grounded in Space, by Matt Wigdahl perch's rating: Average member rating: Testing your homebuilt rocket engine outside sounded like a good idea, until you incinerated Mom's greenhouse. Now Dad thinks that a few weeks away from the home asteroid mining the Belt alone might teach... |
The Guardian, by Lutein Hawthorne perch's rating: Average member rating: A beginner level fantasy quest, made to be straightforward to finish without previous IF experience. Small feelies, an instruction book and MIDI music, are included. |
Guess the Verb!, by Leonard Richardson Average member rating: "Now you too can GUESS THE VERB for fun and prizes! Read evocative and amusing room descriptions while manipulating interesting objects! Interact with the simulated motives and desires of quirky NPCs! No... |
Gun Mute, by C.E.J. Pacian perch's rating: Average member rating: 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... |
Hallow Eve, by Michael Wayne Phipps Jr. perch's rating: Average member rating: You are about to drive out to meet some friends for a camping trip on Halloween night. Everything seems to be going according to plan, but the unexpected can always occur. If it did, you would need to rely... |
Hamlet -- The Text Adventure, by Robin Johnson perch's rating: Average member rating: 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... |
Help! My Vacuum Cleaner Is Broken, by Admiral Jota perch's rating: Average member rating: |
Hoist Sail for the Heliopause and Home, by Andrew Plotkin perch's rating: Average member rating: A far-future story of discovery. |
Hoosegow, by Ben Collins-Sussman, Jack Welch perch's rating: Average member rating: Muddy's plan done landed you and your partner in the hoosegow. Now you're fixing to rectificate the matter before the marshal introduces you to the business end of a hangin' rope at dawn. Created for the... |
The Hours, by Robert Patten perch's rating: Average member rating: Your new job as a time traveler may be harder than you thought. A simple heist in the ancient Library of Alexandria turns into a murder mystery. ONLINE PLAY: The status bar is essential to the game, but may... |
howling dogs, by Porpentine perch's rating: Average member rating: death cube sim | galactic survey | visionatrix | facet machine | power gardens | women | fascination two significant endings |
I-0, by Anonymous Average member rating: 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: |
IFDB Spelunking, by Joey Jones perch's rating: Average member rating: 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. |
In the End II, by Adam Thornton perch's rating: Average member rating: The winner of the IF Fan Fest 1998 comp. This game is a parody of Joe Mason's "In The End". The original game didn't make me feel suicidal enough. Original story by Joe Mason. [--blurb from The Z-Files... |
In the Woods, by Anna Anthropy perch's rating: Average member rating: |
An Informal Time, by Anonymous perch's rating: Average member rating: 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... |
It, by Emily Boegheim perch's rating: Average member rating: "The rules of the game are easy. I'm It, so I go and hide. You and the others count to 50, then you have to look for me. If you find me, you have to get into the hiding spot with me. If you're the last... |
Jigsaw, by Graham Nelson Average member rating: 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... |
Ka, by Dan Efran perch's rating: Average member rating: 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.... |
Kaged, by Ian Finley Average member rating: ""But my madness speaks: It will but skin and film the ulcerous place, Whilst rank corruption, mining all within, Infects unseen." Welcome to the Citadel of Justice. The Inquisitor is waiting." [--blurb from... |
Keepsake, by Savaric perch's rating: Average member rating: 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. |
Kerkerkruip, by Victor Gijsbers perch's rating: Average member rating: Kerkerkruip is a short-form roguelike in the interactive fiction medium, featuring meaningful tactical and strategic depth, innovative game play, zero grinding, and a sword & sorcery setting that does not... |
The King of Shreds and Patches, by Jimmy Maher perch's rating: Average member rating: 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... |
LASH -- Local Asynchronous Satellite Hookup, by Paul O'Brian Average member rating: 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 Sonnet of Marie Antoinette, by Emily Short perch's rating: Average member rating: |
Leadlight, by Wade Clarke perch's rating: Average member rating: 15-year-old Belinda Nettle is studying at Linville Girls High School in Australia's Blue Mountains. After falling asleep in the library one afternoon, she wakes from her mundane existence into a nightmare... |
Letters from Home, by Roger Firth perch's rating: Average member rating: "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 Life (and Deaths) of Doctor M, by Michael D. Hilborn perch's rating: Average member rating: 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... |
Little Blue Men, by Michael S. Gentry Average member rating: 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... |
Llama Adventure, by John Cooney perch's rating: Average member rating: You're a llama confronted with a series of escape-the-room tasks. Your interaction takes the form of a chat with the person supervising your tests. |
Lock & Key, by Adam Cadre Average member rating: |
Lord Bellwater's Secret, by Sam Gordon Average member rating: The game takes place on the town house of the fictional Lord Bellwater on the night of 19th June/20th June 1863. The player character is a groom who works in Bellwater's service and wants to discover more... |
Losing Your Grip, by Stephen Granade Average member rating: |
The Lost Islands of Alabaz, by Michael Gentry perch's rating: Average member rating: 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 perch's rating: Average member rating: 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. Now Grunk need find pig. -- IFComp 2007 blurb |
Love, Hate and the Mysterious Ocean Tower, by C.E.J. Pacian perch's rating: Average member rating: |
Lowell Prison, by Emily Short perch's rating: Average member rating: A small conversation piece between you, an inmate of Lowell Prison, and an old man who crouches beside a wide-open gate. |
Luster, by Jared Smith perch's rating: Average member rating: In the outskirts of a deserted town, the adventurer carefully explores, looking for rare gems. |
Mammal, by Joey Jones perch's rating: Average member rating: The lizards have taken over. You, a lowly human slave, are tasked with eradicating all mammalian traces from the Don Quixote Memorial Museum. (Written for the Apollo 18+20 tribute album project.) |
Manna, by Sam Kabo Ashwell perch's rating: Average member rating: |
Max Blaster and Doris de Lightning Against the Parrot Creatures of Venus, by Dan Shiovitz and Emily Short Average member rating: 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! |
Mentula Macanus: Apocolocyntosis, by One of the Bruces and Drunken Bastard perch's rating: Average member rating: 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: 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: 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... |
The Missing Piece, by C. Yong perch's rating: Average member rating: Complete "the missing piece" to escape from the evil world in this GUI text-based CRPG game. [blurb from IF Comp 2008] |
The Myothian Falcon, by Andy Joel perch's rating: Average member rating: "That day, the 9th of June, 3145, started out like any other, perhaps a little hotter than usual. Then Maisy DeValle entered his office." Vic Gantry, P.I., has a new client. She is wanted for the murder of... |
Mystery House Kracked, by Nick Montfort (as "the Flippy Disk") Average member rating: The Flippy Disk's crack works "liberated" digital art into Mystery House in a deft demonstration of what the hackers of the home computer era called "skillz." |
Mystery House Possessed, by Emily Short Average member rating: This intricate all-text reworking draws on the Gothic, as well as Clue, to simulate seven characters working to outwit the killer in their midst. |
Narcolepsy, by Adam Cadre Average member rating: |
Narrow Your Eyes, by Ben Collins-Sussman and Jack Welch perch's rating: Average member rating: Your wedding rehearsal is hours away, and what do you do but sit on your glasses, crushing them beyond repair? Can you and your stylish cell phone survive the day? |
Necrotic Drift, by Robb Sherwin perch's rating: Average member rating: Necrotic Drift is a survival horror text adventure... but with graphics and sound! An homage to the old Magnetic Scrolls game in presentation, Necrotic Drift follows the story of gaming store employee Jarret... |
No Time To Squeal, by Mike Sousa and Robb Sherwin Average member rating: "He thought he saw a pantomime That queried his own deal: He looked again, and found it was A ticket to a meal. He thought he saw infanticide Per chance to make it real. 'I have but one regret,' he said:... |
Nord and Bert Couldn't Make Head or Tail of It, by Jeff O'Neill Average member rating: 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... |
Not Made With Hands, by Emily Short perch's rating: Average member rating: |
One Eye Open, by Caelyn Sandel (as Colin Sandel) and Carolyn VanEseltine perch's rating: Average member rating: 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... |
Out of Babylon, by Out of Babylon perch's rating: Average member rating: The scraping sound you hear is life as you know it grinding to a halt. Welcome to the New World Order. "Out of Babylon" is an online interactive apocalyptic story of the near future. Make the right choices... |
PataNoir, by Simon Christiansen perch's rating: Average member rating: 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. (Originally entered in the 2011... |
The People's Glorious Revolutionary Text Adventure Game, by Taylor Vaughan perch's rating: Average member rating: Sure, there's only five of you against a world full of reactionaries, but you have Revolutionary Spirit! You can't possibly fail. Nothing can stand in your way! Now if only you could find your Revolutionary... |
Photopia, by Adam Cadre Average member rating: "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." |
Piracy 2.0, by Sean Huxter perch's rating: Average member rating: Admiral Copeland entrusted you with a mission to bring a pirate to trial. En-route the pirate's band attacks, boards your ship and kills your crew, throwing you into the brig. But you're not going to let... |
The Plant, by Michael J. Roberts Average member rating: You're on a business trip with your boss, driving down a deserted highway in the middle of nowhere, when the car breaks down. You set off on foot seeking help, but you soon find yourself in the middle of a... |
The Play, by Dietrich Squinkifer (Squinky) perch's rating: Average member rating: Pull yourself together, Ainsley. Just one more rehearsal until the big day, assuming nothing catastrophic happens. But really, all you have to do is get your motley crew of actors to run their parts once... |
Plundered Hearts, by Amy Briggs perch's rating: Average member rating: 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... |
The Promise, by Sean Huxter perch's rating: Average member rating: 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... |
Pytho's Mask, by Emily Short Average member rating: On the Night of the Comet, the usual astrological bonds do not hold, and the order of the universe is threatened. It is a time made for rebels and usurpers, and all who would claim the kingdom for... |
A Quiet Evening at Home, by Ruth Alfasso perch's rating: Average member rating: They say you should write what you know. Sorry. |
Rameses, by Stephen Bond Average member rating: |
Recess At Last, by Gerald Aungst perch's rating: Average member rating: After endless months of indoor recess, an eager student's plan to try out his brand new sneakers is thwarted by one missing assignment. [blurb from IF Comp 2008] |
The Reliques of Tolti-Aph, by Graham Nelson perch's rating: Average member rating: "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... |
Resonance, by Matt Scarpino perch's rating: Average member rating: James Drayton stood toe-to-toe with the forces of darkness...and lost. He lost everything: his successful private investigator firm, his loving wife, and his respected position in society. Now, months later,... |
Risorgimento Represso, by Michael J. Coyne Average member rating: 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... |
Rogue of the Multiverse, by C.E.J. Pacian perch's rating: Average member rating: 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... |
Rover's Day Out, by Jack Welch and Ben Collins-Sussman perch's rating: Average member rating: Three hundred years ago, the Brazilian Space Agency discovered a rocky exoplanet only 38 light years from Earth. With a surface temperature of 1200 Celsius and nine times Earth gravity, it's hardly the sort... |
Sam Fortune - Private Investigator, by Steve Blanding perch's rating: Average member rating: 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... |
Sand-dancer, by Aaron Reed and Alexei Othenin-Girard perch's rating: Average member rating: It figures that your pickup would die on a night like this and leave you stranded in the dark New Mexico desert. But nothing else figures about this night, man. Nothing at all. An example game for Aaron... |
Savoir-Faire, by Emily Short Average member rating: 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... |
Scavenger, by Quintin Stone Average member rating: Search a war-shattered world for secrets of the past. |
Search for the Ultimate Weapon, by Sharon Lynn Chu Yew Yee perch's rating: Average member rating: The interactive fiction is very loosely based on the story of Wu Mei, a legendary Kung Fu nun during the Qing Dynasty in China. She is said to be the founder of various Chinese martial arts such as Wu Mei... |
Sentencing Mr Liddell, by Anonymous perch's rating: Average member rating: "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." |
Shade, by Andrew Plotkin Average member rating: "A one-room game set in your apartment." [--blurb from Competition Aught-Zero] |
shadows on the mirror, by Chrysoula Tzavelas Average member rating: I am falling, I am fading, I am drowning, help me to breathe... |
Shelter from the Storm, by Eric Eve perch's rating: Average member rating: 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... |
Shrapnel, by Adam Cadre Average member rating: |
Six, by Wade Clarke perch's rating: Average member rating: Your name is Harriet Leitner, and you and your twin sister Demi turned six this morning! You're having a fancy dress birthday party, and this afternoon you'll be playing Hide and Seek Tip over in the park.... |
Six Stories, by Neil K. Guy Average member rating: 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... |
Slap That Fish, by Peter Nepstad Average member rating: This time, those fishy bastards are finally going to get what's coming to them. |
Slouching Towards Bedlam, by Star Foster and Daniel Ravipinto Average member rating: In the beginning was the Word, and it was hungry. ... |
Snowblind Aces, by C.E.J. Pacian perch's rating: Average member rating: Two aces shelter from a snowstorm under the wing of a biplane. They've duelled and played in the air for years. Love is inevitable. But what kind of relationship will they end up in? |
Snowquest, by Eric Eve perch's rating: Average member rating: 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. |
The Sons of the Cherry, by Alex Livingston perch's rating: Average member rating: A game of espionage and arcane magic in the American Revolution. Choose a side or go it alone in the secret war for the soul of the new nation. Use multiple magic disciplines to reach your goals and change... |
The Space Under the Window, by Andrew Plotkin Average member rating: 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] |
Spider, by Andrew Schultz perch's rating: Average member rating: A game about summer camp, government funding, and a physics problem or two. And weird robot spiders. |
Spider and Web, by Andrew Plotkin perch's rating: Average member rating: A vacation in our lovely country! See the ethnic charms of the countryside, the historic grandeur of the capital city. Taste our traditional cuisine; smell the flowers of the Old Tree. And all without... |
Square Circle, by Eric Eve Average member rating: What is your crime? Why do you feel both guilty and unjustly punished? What has happened to your memory? How will you draw a square circle and get out of your prison? What will you find then? |
The Statue Got Me High, by Ryan Veeder perch's rating: Average member rating: Your job is to make sure John's party is successful. It won't be, though. Written for the Apollo 18+20 tribute album project. |
stupidgame, by Sam Kabo Ashwell perch's rating: Average member rating: |
Suveh Nux, by David Fisher perch's rating: Average member rating: 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. |
Taco Fiction, by Ryan Veeder perch's rating: Average member rating: Taco Fiction is a game about crime. |
The Tale of the Kissing Bandit, by J. Robinson Wheeler (as 'Cary Valentino') perch's rating: Average member rating: |
Tales of the Traveling Swordsman, by Mike Snyder perch's rating: Average member rating: You are the traveling swordsman; the strong and silent stranger; the wandering vanquisher of villainy. Damsels swoon for you. Good men respect and envy you. Scoundrels learn to fear you. Even so, you are but... |
Tapestry, by Daniel Ravipinto Average member rating: You were born; you lived; you died. Not everyone gets a second chance to go back and change crucial decisions. You have been granted one and must go back to critical moral dilemmas; but do you change the... |
Ted Paladin And The Case Of The Abandoned House, by Anssi Räisänen perch's rating: Average member rating: Known for your text adventure skills, you have been called in for help to reveal the secrets of a locked, abandoned house scheduled to be demolished soon. Can you manage the task bestowed upon you? |
Tenth Plague, by Lynnea Glasser (as Lynnea Dally) perch's rating: Average member rating: You are thrust into earthly existence to fulfill the tenth and final plague. |
Threediopolis, by Andrew Schultz Average member rating: Even in the future with GPS, it's how you get there that matters! A wordplay/quasi-maze game. |
Till Death Makes a Monk-Fish Out of Me, by Mike Sousa and Jon Ingold Average member rating: 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... |
To Hell in a Hamper, by J. J. Guest perch's rating: Average member rating: Professor Pettibone, eminent Victorian balloonist, has a problem. He can't get it up. His balloon that is. If he can't reach an altitude of 20,000 feet, and soon, both he and his mysterious travelling... |
Trein, by Leena Ganguli perch's rating: Average member rating: Trouble has been brewing in Trein Hill. The people stopped playing their taxes and all is silence. What's worse, there's rumors of disappearances and even rebellion! It is up to you to find out what is... |
Trinity, by Brian Moriarty perch's rating: Average member rating: 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... |
Ugly Chapter, by Sam Kabo Ashwell perch's rating: Average member rating: 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... |
the uncle who works for nintendo, by michael lutz perch's rating: Average member rating: You are 11 years old. You are sleeping over at your best friend's house. You and your friend like videogames. Your friend has a lot of cool games. And, believe it or not, an uncle who works for Nintendo. And... |
Under, In Erebus, by Brian Rapp perch's rating: Average member rating: Board that Drain-Bound El for an adventure that could only happen in Erebus. |
Varicella, by Adam Cadre Average member rating: 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... |
Vestiges, by Joanna Houston (as Josephine Wynter) perch's rating: Average member rating: In the absence of reality, perception must suffice... You awake in a grave, with no memory of who you are or what happened to you. Using the items around you, you must escape the entity pursuing you and... |
Violet, by Jeremy Freese perch's rating: Average member rating: 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] |
Voices, by Aris Katsaris perch's rating: Average member rating: |
A Walk in the Park, by Anonymous perch's rating: Average member rating: On a walk in the park with your dog, you find a large tree blocking the path.... |
Walker & Silhouette, by C.E.J. Pacian perch's rating: Average member rating: Team up with a dashing detective and an iconoclastic flapper to solve absurd and unfathomable crimes in this interactive story - where you control the action just by typing or clicking highlighted words in... |
The Warbler's Nest, by Jason McIntosh perch's rating: Average member rating: 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... |
The Weapon, by Sean Barrett Average member rating: |
Wetlands, by Clara Raubertas perch's rating: Average member rating: 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. |
When in Rome 1: Accounting for Taste, by Emily Short Average member rating: Manhattan, May, 1954. |
When in Rome 2: Far from Home, by Emily Short Average member rating: Manhattan, 1954. |
Where There's a Will, by Dan Shiovitz Average member 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... |
Whom The Telling Changed, by Aaron A. Reed Average member rating: 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... |
Winter Wonderland, by Laura Knauth Average member rating: "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] |
Within a Wreath of Dewdrops, by Sam Kabo Ashwell and Jacqueline A. Lott perch's rating: Average member rating: 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... |
Worlds Apart, by Suzanne Britton Average member rating: 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... |
Yon Astounding Castle! of some sort, by Tiberius Thingamus perch's rating: Average member rating: 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've Got a Stew Going!, by Ryan Veeder perch's rating: Average member rating: Your friend has invited you over for stew. He has not bothered to procure most of the ingredients. |
Zork I, by Marc Blank and Dave Lebling Average member rating: 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: 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: The Undiscovered Underground, by Marc Blank, Michael Berlyn, and G. Kevin Wilson Average member rating: Grubald the Bold, Matchlick the Mighty, Linklaw the Lucky; all of the great Heroes are busy, laid up, contracted or dead. So it is you who gets to explore a never before seen part of the Great Underground... |