69,105 Keys, by David Welbourn tggdan3's rating: 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. |
Ad Verbum, by Nick Montfort tggdan3's rating: 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... |
Adventure, by William Crowther and Donald Woods tggdan3's rating: Average member rating: (99 ratings) |
Aisle, by Sam Barlow tggdan3's rating: 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... |
Alabaster, by John Cater, Rob Dubbin, Eric Eve, Elizabeth Heller, Jayzee, Kazuki Mishima, Sarah Morayati, Mark Musante, Emily Short, Adam Thornton, Ziv Wities tggdan3's rating: Average member rating: (124 ratings) 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.... |
Bronze, by Emily Short tggdan3's rating: 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. |
Bureaucracy, by Douglas Adams, The Staff of Infocom tggdan3's rating: 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... |
Burn the Koran and Die, by Poster tggdan3's rating: Average member rating: (19 ratings) It is the one sacred cow remaining in American political life. You are a rebellious student at a typically oppressive PC college. What happens next? Whatever you do, don't burn the Koran, or you'll die. |
Child's Play, by Stephen Granade tggdan3's rating: 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... |
Couch of Doom, by Megan Moser and Margaret Moser tggdan3's rating: Average member rating: (5 ratings) Can you get yourself off the couch? |
Counterfeit Monkey, by Emily Short tggdan3's rating: 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... |
Curses, by Graham Nelson tggdan3's rating: 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... |
Divis Mortis, by Lynnea Dally tggdan3's rating: Average member rating: (43 ratings) The infection has spread. They are coming. |
The Djinni Chronicles, by J. D. Berry tggdan3's rating: Average member rating: (33 ratings) |
The Dog/House, by Byron Alexander Campbell tggdan3's rating: Average member rating: (9 ratings) A slight revision of the author's first foray into interactive fiction, "The Dog/House" is a dream-like exploration game on a very small scale. Discover the goal for yourself. Release 2 includes improved... |
EGC Paper Chase, by The Educational Gaming Commons tggdan3's rating: Average member rating: (1 rating) Welcome to the EGC Paper Chase game! This game was conceived of and built by the Penn State Educational Gaming Commons to illustrate the origins of modern computer games, and to introduce some of the hotter... |
The Empty Room, by Matthew Alger tggdan3's rating: Average member rating: (14 ratings) You awake, finding yourself upon a hard, cool, plasticky surface. Placing your hands against the smooth floor you hoist yourself up. There's nothing here. Nothing at all. For you have found yourself in what... |
Enchanter, by Marc Blank, Dave Lebling tggdan3's rating: Average member rating: (110 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... |
Enlightenment, by Taro Ogawa tggdan3's rating: 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 tggdan3's rating: 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. |
Forbidden Castle, by Mercer Mayer tggdan3's rating: Average member rating: (2 ratings) On vacation in London, you enter an antique store, and are drawn to a magic book which hurtles you into a fantastic world, where you are to undo the harm done to the world by the wicked Blue Faerie, and... |
Fugue, by Emily Short tggdan3's rating: 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... |
Galatea, by Emily Short tggdan3'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 tggdan3's rating: 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... |
Leather Goddesses of Phobos, by Steve Meretzky tggdan3's rating: 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... |
Llama Adventure, by John Cooney tggdan3's rating: Average member rating: (13 ratings) 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 tggdan3's rating: Average member rating: (78 ratings) |
Lost Pig, by Admiral Jota tggdan3's rating: Average member rating: (500 ratings) Pig lost! Boss say that it Grunk fault. Say Grunk forget about closing gate. Maybe boss right. Grunk not remember forgetting, but maybe Grunk just forget. -- IFComp 2007 blurb |
The Lurking Horror, by Dave Lebling tggdan3's rating: Average member rating: (94 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. |
Mini-Zork, by Dave Lebling, Marc Blank tggdan3's rating: Average member rating: (6 ratings) This story file is a condensed version of Zork I, Infocom's most popular title, reduced to make it viable for the cassette-based Commodore 64. The only Infocom story file ever to be intended to run from... |
Monday, 16:30, by Alexander "Mordred" Andonov tggdan3's rating: 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 Girlfriend's An Evil Bitch, by Divarin tggdan3's rating: Average member rating: (2 ratings) The main premise of the game is wilderness survival but you also must collect evidence that your girlfriend plotted to kill you. |
Nord and Bert Couldn't Make Head or Tail of It, by Jeff O'Neill tggdan3's rating: 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... |
Party Foul, by Brooks Reeves tggdan3's rating: Average member rating: (34 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... |
Photopia, by Adam Cadre tggdan3'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." |
Planetfall, by Steve Meretzky tggdan3's rating: 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... |
rendition, by nespresso tggdan3's rating: 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... |
Shade, by Andrew Plotkin tggdan3's rating: 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 tggdan3's rating: 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... |
Sorcerer, by Steve Meretzky tggdan3's rating: 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... |
Spellbreaker, by Dave Lebling tggdan3's rating: 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,... |
Suveh Nux, by David Fisher tggdan3's rating: 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. |
Taunting Donut, by Kalev Tait tggdan3's rating: 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. |
To Hell in a Hamper, by J. J. Guest tggdan3's rating: Average member rating: (112 ratings) 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... |
Wishbringer, by Brian Moriarty tggdan3's rating: 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... |
Zegrothenus, by Poster tggdan3's rating: Average member rating: (6 ratings) You are the rather famous, but altogether lazy, wizard Zegrothenus. The Council has imprisoned you in your own lair as a last-ditch effort to cure you of procrastination. Can you create a new potion before... |
A Zeroeth Dimension, by Dewey Mowris tggdan3's rating: Average member rating: (4 ratings) What happens when fictional protagonist Zakarius Novemus lives within "The Zeroeth Dimension" until everything starts changing? |
Zork II, by Dave Lebling, Marc Blank tggdan3's rating: 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 tggdan3's rating: 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 tggdan3's rating: 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 tggdan3's rating: 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... |