1893: A World's Fair Mystery, by Peter Nepstad Average member rating: (25 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?... |
Augmented Fourth, by Brian Uri! Average member rating: (65 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... |
Barsoom Adventure #1: The Lost City, by Susan Schnitger Average member rating: (1 rating) |
Beanstalk the and Jack, by David Welbourn Average member rating: (4 ratings) The story of "Jack and the Beanstalk" - but backwards! |
Book and Volume, by Nick Montfort Average member rating: (13 ratings) Your pager tickles you awake. Upstairs in the house of your childhood, in your room, and it must be time for school because -- no, it's the weekend, you remember, but your alarm is going off anyway. You... |
The Box, by Paul Michael Winters Average member rating: (8 ratings) You are a collector of rare antiquities, with a special passion for puzzle boxes. You've been searching for one particular box for a long time, but perhaps this box is better left unfound. |
Building, by Poster Average member rating: (14 ratings) |
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... |
A Cock and Bull Story, by Theodore "Ted" C. Lim Average member rating: (2 ratings) This game is still in its beta-stages. Any volunteers willing to donate their time for beta-testing would be greatly appreciated. |
Dangerous Curves, by Irene Callaci Average member rating: (23 ratings) |
Degeneracy, by Leonard Richardson Average member rating: (16 ratings) 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... |
Disenchantment Bay, by Jacqueline A Lott (with a head start from Emily Short) Average member rating: (5 ratings) From the about text: "The Inform 7 examples collectively known as Disenchantment Bay were born of a trip that Emily Short made with Dan Shiovitz to Alaska to visit me and Sam Kabo Ashwell, many years ago.... |
The Dreamhold, by Andrew Plotkin Average member rating: (175 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... |
Dungeon Detective, by Wonaglot, Caitlin Mulvihill Average member rating: (17 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... |
Dungeon Detective 2: Devils and Details, by Wonaglot Average member rating: (9 ratings) The life of the world's first Dungeon Detective isn't exactly glamorous. You've spent many nights hungry, sleeping in the woods. But word is getting out, and the newest case has showed up at the foot of your... |
Earth And Sky 3: Luminous Horizon, by Paul O'Brian Average member rating: (41 ratings) |
The Eidolon's Escape, by Mark Clarke Average member rating: (14 ratings) For untold years you have been trapped, a spirit without a body, incarcerated by an evil mage. Finally your chance has come to free yourself and escape. Run wild in a body-swapping, race against time to... |
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... |
Episode in the Life of an Artist, by Peter Eastman Average member rating: (27 ratings) |
Erstwhile, by Aster (formally Maddie) Fialla, Marijke Perry Average member rating: (63 ratings) The neighborhood Thanksgiving party was going pretty well until you keeled over and died. Now you're a ghost, and you're going to figure out who killed you. But you can't exactly interview people or search... |
The Erudition Chamber, by Daniel Freas Average member rating: (26 ratings) |
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... |
For a Change, by Dan Schmidt Average member rating: (115 ratings) "The sun has gone. It must be brought. You have a rock." [--blurb from Competition '99] |
Gaia's Web, by Nigel Jayne Average member rating: (2 ratings) Correcting bugs in video games wasn't supposed to be like this. Then again, S.hip of Theseus isn't a typical game. As a titan, you maintain the real-world experience of the game players. When you lose... |
Gnome Ranger, by Pete Austin Average member rating: (4 ratings) The gnome Ingrid Bottomlow has displeased her family by her un-gnomelike behaviour, such as going off to university and getting an education. She has been teleported from her village by a faulty scroll, and... |
Goose, Egg, Badger, by Brian Rapp Andrew Schultz's rating: Average member rating: (21 ratings) |
Gruds in Space, by Joseph A. Dudar and Chuck Sommerville Average member rating: (3 ratings) There I was, like, cool to the max, man, crusing in my totally awesome Space-Commuter. I was turned on to some tunes when a blast came in over the computer/wet bar. Like wow! It was direct from President... |
It Is Your Responsibility, by Tom McLean Average member rating: (5 ratings) You're in a sleep so deep it's like you don't exist. It's the sleep of infants before they're conceived, dreamless and undisturbable. "Rest" would imply some energy that you've spent previously, but you... |
The King of Shreds and Patches, by Jimmy Maher Average member rating: (77 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... |
Losing Your Grip, by Stephen Granade Average member rating: (22 ratings) |
Lost Pig, by Admiral Jota Average member rating: (492 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 |
Lux, by Agnieszka Trzaska Average member rating: (20 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... |
Marble Madness, by Emily Short Average member rating: (16 ratings) |
Mecha Ace, by Paul Wang Average member rating: (8 ratings) Step into the cockpit of a giant robot in an interstellar civil war! Customize your mecha to duel against enemy pilots with "monosaber" plasma swords. Find glory, disgrace, and even love. "Mecha Ace" is a... |
Möbius, by J.D. Clemens Average member rating: (35 ratings) Another mission. Just when you had settled in for a nap. |
Moments Out of Time: Adventure Type, by L. Ross Raszewski Average member rating: (2 ratings) At 865741.3 UDC, StreamDiver Alpha Tango-678 performed a routine StreamDive to the middle of the twenty-first century. |
Moments Out of Time: RENEGADE Type, by L. Ross Raszewski Average member rating: (2 ratings) StreamDiver Alpha Tango-678 |
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] |
No Time To Squeal, by Mike Sousa and Robb Sherwin Average member rating: (13 ratings) "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:... |
Not Just an Ordinary Ballerina, by Jim Aikin Average member rating: (30 ratings) |
On the Farm, by Lenny Pitts Average member rating: (17 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... |
Party Foul, by Brooks Reeves Average member rating: (33 ratings) You're cornered, trapped. There seems to be no escape. You aren't in a jail cell. No, you're in the cocktail party from hell and only by using your wits and luck are you going to get out of this suburb... |
Perdition's Flames, by Michael J. Roberts Average member rating: (23 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... |
Pinched, by Anonymous Average member rating: (8 ratings) "Pinched" is an interactive episode of Firefly -- the one where Simon screws up (of course) and Jayne has to fill in for him at a society wedding in order to carry off a daring heist. Light puzzles,... |
Rover's Day Out, by Jack Welch and Ben Collins-Sussman Average member rating: (54 ratings) 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... |
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: (215 ratings) In the beginning was the Word, and it was hungry. ... |
Snowblind Aces, by C.E.J. Pacian Average member rating: (33 ratings) 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? |
The Sound of One Hand Clapping, by Erica Sadun Average member rating: (5 ratings) |
Speculative Fiction, by Diane Christoforo and Thomas Mack Average member rating: (13 ratings) A puzzle game about committing acts of financial skulduggery and exploiting ridiculous magical items. This game is the complete version of the one that appeared in IntroComp 2011, where it won second place. |
Spellcasting 101 - Sorcerers Get All The Girls, by Steve Meretzky Average member rating: (24 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... |
Spellcasting 201: The Sorcerer's Appliance, by Steve Meretzky Average member rating: (8 ratings) Sorcerer University: Dangerously close to a real education! Returning to SU for his sophomore year, Earnie Eaglebeak stumbles across the magical Appliance, survives pledge week, and romps through the... |
Spellcasting 301: Spring Break, by Steve Meretzky Average member rating: (7 ratings) Sorcerer University: Dangerously close to a real education! Follow the sun to Fort Naughtytail and party hardy with Ernie and his fraternity brothers. They're hoping to find sand in all the wrong places but... |
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. |
Tapestry, by Daniel Ravipinto Average member rating: (43 ratings) 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... |
Unauthorized Termination, by Richard Otter Average member rating: (16 ratings) NB: Do not play with the ADRIFT 5 Runner as the game will appear to work but can't be completed. Play online or use the Adrift 4 interpreter instead as this is an Adrift 4 game. You are a senior investigator... |
Weishaupt Scholars, by Michael C. Martin Average member rating: (7 ratings) Take on the roles of Hal, Benj, and Janet -- the three newest members of the shadowy conspiratorial group known only as the Weishaupt Foundation. Vie against rival conspiracies and your own baffling... |
Worlds Apart, by Suzanne Britton Average member rating: (90 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... |