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"So, About Last Night...", by Elissa Black
Average member rating: (1 rating)

Los Angeles, CA 1996 Okay, so it’s not the first time you’ve hooked up with a stranger at a party. And it’s certainly not the first time you’ve woken up feeling like death after a party. This is,...

18 Cadence, by Aaron A. Reed
Average member rating: (16 ratings)

18 Cadence is an iPad/PC storymaking platform that lets its readers explore the history of a house through the hundred years of the twentieth century. Moving through space and time, a reader encounters...

1893: A World's Fair Mystery, by Peter Nepstad
Average member rating: (28 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?...

50 Shades of Jilting, by Rowan Lipkovits (as Lankly Lockers)
Average member rating: (13 ratings)

The relationship is in a walking dead situation: it's over, only continuing to move onward solely on inertia. One way or another, it ends here.

80 DAYS, by inkle, Meg Jayanth
Average member rating: (106 ratings)

1872, with a steampunk twist. Phileas Fogg has wagered he can circumnavigate the world in just eighty days. Choose your own route around a 3D globe, travelling by airship, submarine, mechanical camel,...

9 Secret Steps, by mathbrush
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

A hypertext fiction based on the They Might Be Giants song of the same name. Choose what to sacrifice as you enter a mystic society. Play time less than 15 minutes. Three endings.

Absent-Minded, by Anonymous

Accelerate, by The TAV Institute
Average member rating: (19 ratings)

A multimedia project about the end of everything. This is not a true story. Everything in it happened, and will. Any resemblance to actual events, or actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental....

The Act of Misdirection, by Callico Harrison
Average member rating: (75 ratings)

The curtain lifts to a torrent of applause, as the city's gents and ladies lose their decorum for a just few moments in anticipation of something magical. The spotlights drown the glitter of sequins and...

An Act of Murder, by Christopher Huang
Average member rating: (84 ratings)

"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...

Advent Window, by Andrew Plotkin
Average member rating: (1 rating)

"The wildest journey begins with a single step. Sometimes that step is straight down into an open trap-door. Commit or stay home!" Created for the Confounding Calendar 2024.

Affairs of the Court: Choice of Romance, by Heather Albano and Adam Strong-Morse
Average member rating: (12 ratings)

Plunge into court politics and change the course of history, or pursue a love affair that rocks the kingdom to its foundations! "Affairs of the Court" is an epic interactive fantasy novel by Heather Albano...

Afternoon in the House of Secrets, by Anna Anthropy
Average member rating: (10 ratings)

You have come to this enigmatic house in search of the secret that you know is here. You shall not leave until you find it! Made in two hours for the 25th Klik of the Month Klub.

Ailihphilia, by Andrew Schultz (as N. Y. Llewellyn)
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

It is what you think, you. What, is it? 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!

Alabaster, by John Cater, Rob Dubbin, Eric Eve, Elizabeth Heller, Jayzee, Kazuki Mishima, Sarah Morayati, Mark Musante, Emily Short, Adam Thornton, Ziv Wities
Average member rating: (128 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....

Alice Aforethought, by Hanon Ondricek
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

I need your help. I mean, you're the one who is supposed to talk me out of things before I do anything stupid. Time has stopped moving, and that might turn out to have been my fault. I didn't mean to do it....

All I Do is Dream, by Megan Stevens
Average member rating: (15 ratings)

Your girlfriend has gone to work and you're alone in the house. What will you do? Learn a new language? Take up an instrument? Train for a marathon? Or I guess you could take a nap.

All or Nothing (1973), by Autumn Chen
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

A collection of anecdotes about a troubled Kickstarter production. ~7500 words. Made for the Goncharov Game Jam.

All Roads, by Jon Ingold
Average member rating: (159 ratings)

"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]

All Things Devours, by half sick of shadows
Average member rating: (98 ratings)

From the game's about command: "All Things Devours is a short piece of interactive fiction, leaning strongly towards the text-adventure end of the spectrum. It explores an all-too-familiar science fiction...

All Through the Night, by Daniel "Bosch" Saults
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

A short piece of interactive fiction horror, created for the Bogleech Creepypasta Cook-Off 2013. Includes music and sound effects.

All Tomorrow's Parties, by Niamh Schönherr
Average member rating: (1 rating)

Created specifically for anyone who may be questioning and struggling, "All Tomorrow's Parties" is an autobiographical game about the early stages of investigating and questioning one's own gender. Similar...

All Visitors Welcome, by Bitter Karella
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

Sloane Rock SHP was established in 1920 to help preserve the legacy of Lazarus Sloane and his many cultural and economic contributions to the history of the state of California. A visit to Sloane Rock SHP is...

Alter Ego, by Peter J. Favaro
Average member rating: (18 ratings)

The game allows the user to make decisions for an imaginary person (being therefore the player's alter ego) and shows what possible consequences these decisions could have on that person. Alter Ego is...
The Amiable Planet, by Yoon Ha Lee
Average member rating: (5 ratings)
It’s been a long journey beyond stars and things stranger than stars, when at last you alight on an amiable planet.

The Anachronist, by Peter Levine
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

In the year 1596, Anna is about to be burned at the stake. As the constable prepares to light the fire below her, she can do nothing but seek a solution in her own memory and imagination. ...

Andromeda Dreaming, by Joey Jones
Average member rating: (19 ratings)

Aliss can control her dreams, but will this help her when she's stuck in a galaxy on the brink of destruction? Winner of the Andromeda Legacy competition 2012, Andromeda Dreaming is in the same setting as...

another happiness, by Saori & Nitori
Average member rating: (1 rating)

You see, once you reach my age, you start thinking a lot about things from when you were younger. Places you've been to... people you knew. And in your memories, everything's still exactly as it was back...

Antique Panzitoum, by Caleb Wilson (as Abandoned Pools)
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

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Aquarium, by Harris Powell-Smith
Average member rating: (21 ratings)

You're seventeen. It's dark in here. Aquarium is a story game about skipping school with a cute boy. There are multiple endings. You can play in your browser on most devices - Internet Explorer will not...

Arcane Intern (Unpaid), by Astrid Dalmady
Average member rating: (48 ratings)

Getting coffee, making copies, tampering with powers beyond your control. You know, normal intern things. Now if only you were getting paid for it...

The Ascent of the Gothic Tower, by Ryan Veeder
Average member rating: (35 ratings)

A story of mild and non-debilitating obsession.

Aspel, by Emily Short
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

Her Majesty has sent your team to investigate the mountain palace of Aspel, now ruined, to find out its secrets and determine what value it may still have. Aspel is an experimental interactive experience...

Ataraxia, by Lauren O'Donoghue
Average member rating: (18 ratings)

Ataraxia is a neighbourhood simulator in text adventure form. Inspired by folk horror, mystery and landscape narratives, you play as a newly-arrived traveller on a remote island. Explore the world. Settle...

The Axolotl Project, by Samantha Vick
Average member rating: (54 ratings)

As a lowly intern on Sadler Pharmaceutical’s high-security lunar research base, you set out to find an escaped test subject before your boss does. Along the way, you’ll unravel the mystery of your...

Babel, by Ian Finley
Average member rating: (157 ratings)

In this game, you play as an amnesiac inside Babel, an abandoned Arctic facility devoted to biological research. You soon discover that you have the unusual ability to witness scenes from the past by...

Babyface, by Mark Sample
Average member rating: (26 ratings)

We are haunted by the houses of our childhood. How unfamiliar they are, when we return. Yet you never forget, do you? You never really forget. A Southern Gothic horror story. Remember, of all the masks we...

Barry Basic and the Quick Escape, by Dee Cooke
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

Somewhere near a quiet English village in 1969, a forbidding-looking computer factory looms over the woods. Most of the local kids prefer to avoid the place, but computer-obsessed Barry Basic has decided to...

A Bathroom Myth, by Anya Johanna DeNiro
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

A folktale about, among other things, a sentient restroom and a trans woman surviving in a magical city. Pay what you want--all proceeds are donated to the Transgender Law Center, an organization that "works...

Beanstalk the and Jack, by David Welbourn
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

The story of "Jack and the Beanstalk" - but backwards!

A Beauty Cold and Austere, by Mike Spivey
Average member rating: (64 ratings)

That survey course in conceptual mathematics seemed like a good idea at the start of the term - no graded homework, no midterm exams - just an oral final at the end. But now that final is tomorrow morning....

The Beetmonger's Journal, by Scott Starkey
Average member rating: (16 ratings)

"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...

Bell Park, Youth Detective, by Brendan Patrick Hennessy
Average member rating: (63 ratings)

A headstrong twelve-year-old detective gets in over her head when she's hired to solve a murder mystery at an internet technology conference.

Bellclap, by Tommy Herbert
Average member rating: (26 ratings)

Sir, Bellclap is in need of help, sir. He's in one of your temples in the mountains. He says he has insufficient food to return home, sir. He is also complaining about the weather.

The Best Man, by Stephen Bond
Average member rating: (14 ratings)

Best of Three, by Emily Short
Average member rating: (62 ratings)

Beware The Faerie Food You Eat, by Astrid Dalmady
Average member rating: (29 ratings)

They say that some of the faerie folk can grant wishes, that they can give gifts to that who gain their favor. Now, you’ve found a portal into their world and you’re ready to step through and claim that...

Beythilda the Night Witch, by DCBSupafly
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

Bigger Than You Think, by Andrew Plotkin
Average member rating: (52 ratings)

Bigger Than You Think is a choice-based interactive narrative. This game was written for the Yuletide 2012 fanfic exchange. The game was inspired -- perhaps loosely -- by Randall Munroe's comic xkcd-1110:...

The Binary, by Simon Mark (as Bloomengine)
Average member rating: (19 ratings)

The Timeline must be sanctified. Relive the same few minutes over and over again, attempting to stop a bullet from changing history.
Bliss, by Cameron Wilkin
Average member rating: (19 ratings)

Blood Island, by Billy Krolick
Average member rating: (15 ratings)

Become the Final Girl or Guy (or anything in between) of your dreams on Blood Island. You're a new contestant on the hit reality dating show Passion in Paradise, where you can be who you want and date who...

Bloom, by Caelyn Sandel
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

A story about being old enough that you should have everything figured out, only to discover that you’re living as the wrong gender… Ongoing multimedia hypertext serial interactive fiction.

Blue Chairs, by Chris Klimas
Average member rating: (95 ratings)

She turns and looks at you curiously. 'You're here. You really came.' 'Of course I did,' you say. 'What happened?' 'I was dreaming,' she says with a sudden, awkward smile. 'I was dreaming of monsters.'

Blue Lacuna, by Aaron A. Reed
Average member rating: (115 ratings)

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...

Bogeyman, by Elizabeth Smyth
Average member rating: (90 ratings)

You can go home when you learn to be good.

Border Reivers, by Vivienne Dunstan
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

It's late fifteenth century Scotland, and the dangerous world of the Anglo-Scottish Border Reivers. A murder has been committed, and it's your task as the Warden's son to try to find out who was responsible....

Brain Guzzlers from Beyond!, by Steph Cherrywell
Average member rating: (73 ratings)

You are Bonnie Noodleman, Ordinary Well-Adjusted Teen-Ager, on an ordinary well-adjusted drive up Make-Out Mountain--until some gooey monstrosity from beyond the stars guzzles your boyfriend's brains clean...

Briar, by Hanon Ondricek
Average member rating: (13 ratings)

You are young, dumb, and full of hope for the future; on a secret quest that may change your life forever! Or it may end in death and utter humliation. Good thing you're not really all that bright. This is...

Bronze, by Emily Short
Average member rating: (291 ratings)

When the seventh day comes and it is time for you to return to the castle in the forest, your sisters cling to your sleeves.

The Brutal Murder of Jenny Lee, by Daniel Gao
Average member rating: (10 ratings)

You are sent back in time to investigate a 17-year-old mystery. Who murdered Jenny Lee?

Byzantine Perspective, by Lea Albaugh
Average member rating: (60 ratings)

Your task is simple enough. Just nab the chalice.

The Cabal, by Stephen Bond
Average member rating: (28 ratings)

In this satire, you play as a young American man who loves old puzzle-based IF. You are also racist, sexist, and prone to believe in conspiracies. While playing Infidel, you learn that a secret society...

Cabin, by Tobias V. Langhoff

All families have skeletons in their closets. Did you know: When you learn that a loved one has died, you might attach strong memories not only to the place they passed away, but also to the place you were...

Caduceus, by Sarah Willson (as Mala Costraca)
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

Caduceus was written in a day for Event One of the Second Quadrennial Ryan Veeder Exposition for Good Interactive Fiction, whose challenge was to create a game in Inform 7 with beautiful source code text....

Cannelé & Nomnom - Defective Agency, by Younès R. and Yazaleea
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

« You set foot in the mysterious city of Falaisant, with no memories of who you are. Lost and hopeless, you hire the only detective agency willing to help you. There's only one issue: They. Are. DISASTROUS!...

Cannery Vale, by Hanon Ondricek (as Keanhid Connor)
Average member rating: (38 ratings)

Hell, even a seagull would hit the spot right now, roasted crispy over a flame-- He immediately put all thoughts of food out of his head because at the moment it was just torture_

Cape, by Bruno Dias
Average member rating: (47 ratings)

Cape is a superhero origin story for the cyberpunk dystopia we're all living in.

A Change in the Weather, by Andrew Plotkin
Average member rating: (74 ratings)

"Walking away from a picnic, you are suddenly caught in a country storm. You must protect a bridge from being destroyed. An ultra-linear game." [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue]
The Chasing, by Anssi Räisänen
Average member rating: (10 ratings)

Childhood Homes (And why we hate them), by qrowscant
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

After over a decade, you return home. A short, interactive-fiction horror story, and my first attempt at making something in Twine. I'm doing my best! Trigger list: Eyestrain + light flashing Descriptions of...

A Chinese Room, by Milo van Mesdag
Average member rating: (13 ratings)

A one or two reader experience, A Chinese Room is one story in two. A story of power, control, inhumanity, and love....

Chlorophyll, by Steph Cherrywell
Average member rating: (62 ratings)

Christminster, by Gareth Rees
Average member rating: (91 ratings)

"When your brother Malcolm sends you a telegram inviting you to visit him at Biblioll College in the ancient university town of Christminster, you imagine that the mysterious `discovery' he alludes to is...
The Chronicler, by John Evans
Average member rating: (21 ratings)
A short game with a few interesting tricks.

Cis Gaze, by Caelyn Sandel
Average member rating: (13 ratings)

Cis Gaze is a diary entry told through hypertext effects, an exploration of the intersection of gender dysphoria and depression. It's not really a game. Content warnings: transmisogyny, depression, suicidal...

City of Dead Leaves, by Felix Pleșoianu
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

There's nothing left in your life. There's nothing left in anyone's life. Will he even remember you after all this time? Will he want you back? ...

City of Secrets, by Emily Short
Average member rating: (110 ratings)

A train journey abruptly cut off. An enforced stay in a strange City. Intrigue, madmen, and growing sense of being watched...

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

com__et, by SuperBiasedGary
Average member rating: (1 rating)

Everyone has always shown You the path to follow. And so You do, because you ____ ____ ____ want to end up with Him. But then You can play again, maybe if You say something different ___ ____ ____ to Her, it...

Coming Out Simulator 2014, by Nicky Case
Average member rating: (39 ratings)

A half-true game about half-truths. You play as a semi-fictional version of me, on a night that changed my life forever. Choose your (my?) words wisely. Every character will remember everything you say - or...

Compassionate Simulation, by Rachel Swirsky, P H Lee, Aster Fialla
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

—our company mission to provide grieving families with accurate, compassionate simulations of their deceased loved ones— You! Winnifred Meyer. Remember? You are Winnifred Meyer, and you died at age...

consciousness hologram, by Kit Riemer
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

HTML/Twine. a hybrid poetry project turned on-rails game intended to appraise the state of both utopic and dystopic sci fi w/ a specific focus on existence/consciousness, deep futurism, transhumanism, art,...

Consider the Consequences!, by Doris Webster and Mary Alden Hopkins and Gregory Theriot

Consider the Consequences!, by Doris Webster and Mary Alden Hopkins, was a 1930 novel with branching storylines inviting readers to explore the social consequences of the life choices of three protagonists....

Conversations With My Mother, by Merritt Kopas
Average member rating: (10 ratings)

A brief game about family relationships, in which you can click on words in the dialogue to change them before continuing the conversation.

The Coral Labyrinth, by Coral Nulla
Average member rating: (1 rating)

Lost in a strange, enclosed world, you explore a series of interconnected rooms and get to know its inhabitants and secrets. Is there a way out? Will you even want to find it? What can you learn from the...

The Corridor, by Dog in a Tank
Average member rating: (1 rating)

The Corridor is a post-apocalyptic interactive fiction game set in an alternative 1991 Britain devastated by Element-Zero - a mysterious substance that has dramatically altered both the landscape and its...

Cozy Simulation 2999, by KADW
Average member rating: (11 ratings)

Short horror game made for SeedComp 2023 in a few days. About fifteen minutes long. (4/25/2023: This game was made in a short period of time, and looking back on it, I like it even less than I did before. I...

Creatures Such As We, by Lynnea Glasser
Average member rating: (101 ratings)

A dating sim about how humanity connects through art, even out in the vastness of space.

Crème de la Crème, by Harris Powell-Smith
Average member rating: (25 ratings)

Climb to the very top of the class at your exclusive private school for socialites! Will you study hard, find a perfect match, or embrace scandal? "Crème de la Crème" is a 440,000-word interactive novel by...

The Cube in the Cavern, by Andrew Schultz
Average member rating: (9 ratings)

A round world is scientifically ridiculous, of course, but a cube floating in air? You just might find a great scientific secret. Don't be too square to give it a try!

The Curse of the Scarab, by Nils Fagerburg
Average member rating: (11 ratings)

Archeology licenses are for suckers, not for Rhoda Tarcrew. But now the authorities are closing in and there's only time for one last dig before you have to flee the country. Better make it count.

Curses, by Graham Nelson
Average member rating: (134 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...

CYBERQUEEN, by Porpentine
Average member rating: (67 ratings)

integration necessitates evisceration

Damnatio Memoriae, by Emily Short
Average member rating: (59 ratings)

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...

Danse Nocturne, by Joey Jones
Average member rating: (18 ratings)

Danse Nocturne is interactive blank verse, based on one of the legends of Charlemagne. It is played by dancing in different ways and has over a dozen different endings and understands over 1200 different...

Darkness, by Jeff Schomay
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

It is in the face of darkness, that we remember the importance of light. A parable about finding hope.

Dawn of The Soviet Ladybirds, by Christopher Merriner
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

‘Ladybirds. What a summer for them! They were simply everywhere. Dorothy was ordinarily happy to see them in her garden, but this year there was such an abundance of them that it really was rather...

A Day for Soft Food, by Tod Levi
Average member rating: (30 ratings)

"Ever since the provider's sickness began, he's been all hisses and growls. Even the slightest misstep seems to annoy him. Perhaps that's why your bowl has held nothing but hard food lately. And not much of...

De Baron, by Victor Gijsbers
Average member rating: (171 ratings)

An evil nobleman, a kidnapped daughter and a father who wants to rescue her at any cost--that is not the way life works. Something much darker, something much more human, lies underneath. Een kwaadaardige...

Dead Like Ants, by C.E.J. Pacian
Average member rating: (61 ratings)

You play as a young woman in red overalls, a red worker ant. Every spring, five dangerous creatures visit the tree and threaten the village, and every spring, the Queen sends one of her daughters to...

Dead Meat in the Pit, by Christina Nordlander
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

A dialogue-driven game made in one hour for Weekly Hour Game Jam - W21 2017. Based on the Brothers Grimm's fairy tale "Going A-Travelling". Short, but contains multiple endings.

Deadline, by Marc Blank
Average member rating: (63 ratings)

Twelve hours to solve the mystery. One false move, and the killer strikes again. It's been called "part of the latest craze in home computing (TIME magazine), an "amazing feat of programming" (THE NEW YORK...

Deadline Enchanter, by Alan DeNiro
Average member rating: (58 ratings)

Death off the Cuff, by Simon Christiansen
Average member rating: (55 ratings)

They all stare at you expectantly, like children waiting to be told a bedtime story. Who can blame them? You are, after all, Antoine Saint Germain, the great French detective. No criminal has ever been a...

Delightful Wallpaper, by Andrew Plotkin ('Edgar O. Weyrd')
Average member rating: (80 ratings)

Delightful Wallpaper is a ghoulishly humorous take on the mannerly (or manorly) murder mystery. You do not play the detective, however. Your point of view is part of the mystery; but don't worry, it will all...

Delphina's House, by Alice Grove
Average member rating: (14 ratings)

A girl must say goodbye to her home. But there's time for one last adventure....

The Deluge, by Lionstooth
Average member rating: (1 rating)

"The forest seemed like a fairy tale when you were little, one where you might wander down the trail and never return. In truth, it only stretches a few acres to what used to be an outlying subdivision. Now,...

Desert Heat, by Papillon
Average member rating: (10 ratings)

"WARNING. This game is intended for mature readers and may contain explicit sexual scenes and/or questionable consensuality depending on play. It is possible to complete the game without encountering these...

Detectiveland, by Robin Johnson
Average member rating: (57 ratings)

New Losago, 1929 - a town full of creeps, clowns, mobsters and, if you know where to look, the occasional honest citizen. Guide private investigator Lanson Rose through a series of puzzling cases: solve the...

THE DEVIL'S IMAGO, by DOMINO CLUB, cecile richard, and isyourguy
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

"A tale of primeval forces, unknown, uncaring, and unearthed" made for DOMINO JAM VI — HUMORS & HUMUS

DEVOTIONALIA, by G.C. "Grim" Baccaris (as G. Grimoire)
Average member rating: (26 ratings)

The high priest of an obscure cult is preparing a ritual. Don the priest’s sacred mantle, for these holy labors are yours to direct. You may carve a votive, lead a prayer, or make a sacrifice — but you...

Dial C for Cupcakes, by Ryan Veeder
Average member rating: (35 ratings)

A cantankerous ex-cop calls in a favor from his old partner.

Digital: A Love Story, by Christine Love
Average member rating: (27 ratings)

A computer mystery/romance set five minutes into the future of 1988.

Dinner At Suzanne's, by jwfreeman
Average member rating: (1 rating)

Suzanna, your coworker from the call center, and her partner David told you to stop by for dinner this evening, but there's two problems. 1. You're terribly awkward in most social interactions. 2. You're a...

Djibouti Dirigible Discombobulation, by Sam Kabo Ashwell
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

Downtown Tokyo, Present Day, by John Kean
Average member rating: (25 ratings)

"In this game you actually play two people - one is the real you, sitting in the dark in a movie theatre, and the other is the hero of the film that you are watching. Originally conceived for Adam Cadre's...

The Dreamhold, by Andrew Plotkin
Average member rating: (185 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...

dripping with the waters of SHEOL, by Lady Isak Grozny
Average member rating: (10 ratings)

A ghost of a peculiar origin stalks the corridor of your flat. Maybe you should go talk to it? A story about gay love and how all things hidden become evident, featuring a bigender protagonist and their...

Duck Diary, by Mathbrush
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

Your new rubber friend will help you get through this.

Dull Grey, by Provodnik Games
Average member rating: (17 ratings)

An interactive drama in the traditions of Soviet fiction about choosing a profession. Mother and her teenage son live on the edge of the world amid hot springs, steam, mountains, five-story houses and rusty...

Ecdysis, by Peter Nepstad
Average member rating: (81 ratings)

You wake, a pounding headache loud in your inner ear, the back of your head itching and tingling, your mouth full of cotton. The pain drives away your dreams, weird visions of alien landscapes... Ecdysis is...

The Eleusinian Miseries, by Mike Russo
Average member rating: (27 ratings)

Well, isn't this a lark! After solid years of going after old Alky to let you in on that Mysteries wheeze of his, at last tonight's the night. He's dragged you from Athens to Eleusis for the to-do, but no...

Elixir, by Zoyander Street
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

Try to convince the Metaphysician to prescribe you the elixir so that you can ascend to your true form. Discover what your true form is while you experiment with performativity. Crush medical equipment with...
Emily is Away, by Kyle Seeley
Average member rating: (17 ratings)
Remember a time before Facebook and Skype? When Windows XP was the next big thing and AIM was king. Relive that era with Emily is Away, an interactive story. Create a screenname and browse buddy infos in...

En Garde, by Jack Welch
Average member rating: (25 ratings)

A man who has lost his mind. A mouse who has lost his realm. A dog who has lost his family. And the scientist who will save the world.

The End Means Escape, by Steve Kodat
Average member rating: (11 ratings)

"Some things should be left undone." [--blurb from Competition Aught-Zero]

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...

Entangled, by Dark Star
Average member rating: (12 ratings)

Caught up in a time-travel experiment gone wrong, the actions you perform in the past will ripple forward in time. Can you find your way back without unraveling the universe? A small town stirs in your wake.

Ether, by MathBrush
Average member rating: (33 ratings)

"For the first time in centuries, something is different. Your tentacles tingle as you float to the east past icebergs and whirlwinds. You skirt a pocket of hot air, bounce through a field of ice, and...

Even Some More Tales from Castle Balderstone, by Ryan Veeder
Average member rating: (18 ratings)

The fourth one in a series of anthologies of unbelievable terror, edited by Ryan Veeder. Also an ECTOCOMP 2021 entry.

An Evening at the Ransom Woodingdean Museum House, by Ryan Veeder
Average member rating: (24 ratings)

Karen Chambers gives tours in a restored Victorian home.

Everybody Dies, by Jim Munroe
Average member rating: (109 ratings)

It starts with a metalhead, Graham, realizing that throwing that shopping cart over the bridge was not the great idea he thought it was. Even if it did get him out of washroom duty at Cost Cutters....

Everything, To A Computer..., by Wellington Owen
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A short magical-realist exploration of how nonbinary gender interacts with our increasingly discrete, algorithmic, and categorical world. CONTENT WARNINGS This game contains references to past self-harm and...

Excalibur, by J. J. Guest, G. C. Baccaris, and Duncan Bowsman
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The psychedelic science fantasy series Excalibur was wiped by the BBC. It lives on, in the memories of its fans. Author's Comment: "Welcome to the Excalibur Wiki. This fan-run encyclopaedia preserves the...

Exhibition, by Ian Finley
Average member rating: (27 ratings)

"The Hartman Gallery extends their invitation to an exhibition of Anatoly Domokov's "American Paintings." Who draws the line between art and life? HTML enhanced." [--blurb from Competition '99]

The Fading City, by KADW
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There are places at the edge of the Commonwealth where the land falls into silent anonymity. You have been sent to one of those places.

The Faeries Of Haelstowne, by Christopher Merriner
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“Hailstone," announced the Chief. “Round Ashton way. A little job for you, Arthur - their vicar's gone missing. They're a funny lot over in those parts. Superstitious. Someone's hiding something; don't...

Fair, by Hanon Ondricek
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As the most famous self-published Science Fiction author residing in Hillview, you are eminently qualified to judge their annual Elementary School Science Fair.

Faithful Companion, by Matt Weiner
Average member rating: (22 ratings)

The "Play On-line" link should now go to version 2!

Familiar Shadows, by Becky Carpenter
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You return to your childhood home for spring break, but something is very amiss... This text adventure will take 1-2 hours to complete, so please use the Save/Load feature when you start feeling tired or...

The Family Record, by sharkinfishnets, pointyshades, AmeKinoko
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Years ago, a great sickness swept this land. Rich, poor, it didn't matter -- the plague killed indiscriminately. Entire families were wiped out in mere days. Even now, some of the houses still stand empty......

Fifteen Minutes, by Ade McT
Average member rating: (25 ratings)

You're in a tight spot. You have fifteen minutes before the Principal expels you from the cosy world of academia and into the cold harsh reality of the real world. You really should do something about it. A...

Figaro, by Victor Gijsbers
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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...

Film at Eleven, by Bowen Greenwood
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

"Welcome to a day in the life of Betty Byline! Two months out of journalism school you enter the workplace with big time dreams of network television news. Fame, fortune and glory, all writ large under the...

fin de sickleburg, by Caleb Wilson
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It is nearly dawn, and at last you've come back to your chamber. Written for Gothic Novel Jam 2018 (https://itch.io/jam/gothic-novel-jam).

Final Exam, by Jack Whitham
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Final Exam takes place in the near future after an AI revolution has led to the establishment of a new sort of government. You are seeking a job within this government: your performance in the “final...

Final Girl 2.0, by Hanon Ondricek

Remake of Final Girl (which see) following the demise of the Storynexus platform. Author's notes on IntroComp 2021 version: This game has not been optimized for mobile play, sorry! This was actually made as...

Finding Martin, by G.K. Wennstrom
Average member rating: (11 ratings)

Venture past the limits of ordinary reality as you investigate the mysterious disappearance of an old friend. In order to solve the most challenging of these puzzles, you will need to cooperate with yourself...

Fingertips: I Hear the Wind Blow, by Jacqueline A. Lott
Average member rating: (26 ratings)

Fingertips: I'm Having a Heart Attack, by Andrew Schultz
Average member rating: (13 ratings)

It's your time to make a statement. Make sure your nerves don't fail before your heart does.

The Fire Tower, by Jacqueline A. Lott
Average member rating: (52 ratings)

Five Candles in the Meadow, by Harley D.

Five Candles in the Meadow is a game about sending letters to your best friend who lives on the other side of known space, with a growing conflict among the stars between you and them. This project was...

Floatpoint, by Emily Short
Average member rating: (103 ratings)

It is night on this side of the planet. Settled areas are lit: a jagged crescent in the tropics, lining the inland sea. The bright splatter along the top of the curve is Tanhua, as bright from space as New...

Florence, by Anamika
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

Florence lies in bed, cold and still. You watch over her and wait.

Foo Foo, by Buster Hudson
Average member rating: (66 ratings)

Someone's been bopping the field mice on the head, and only Good Fairy, Senior Detective can find out who. A parser-driven noir adventure based on the interactive fiction of Ryan Veeder.

For Rent: Haunted House, by Gavin Inglis
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In For Rent: Haunted House, it's your job to rent out a haunted house before your tyrannical boss has you fired. How will you screw over your tenants? Will you ignore inconvenient supernatural phenomena, or...

Four Days of Summer, by David Welbourn
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In this pleasant and silly game, spend the first four days of July with your friend David, a shameless author insertion character who seems inordinately fond of making interactive fiction references.

Friar Bacon's Secret, by Carl Muckenhoupt
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

The mystery begins when Friar Bungay asks you to fetch Friar Bacon. But instead of finding him, you discover strange unnatural objects that must be of demonic origin.

Fugue, by Emily Short
Average member rating: (12 ratings)

Published by Up Right Down, in response to the following plot prompt: THE PLOT: In a bistro in Paris a young woman (A) tells her three girlfriends (B, C, and D) about the affair she had with an American...

Future Threads, by Xavid
Average member rating: (16 ratings)

You see it. Today is the day they will come. Their ship will crash, but the resulting explosion will trouble them not at all. They will emerge, wrapped in shadows and smoke, from the wreckage. Their senses...

Get Lost!, by S. Woodson
Average member rating: (21 ratings)

You're a suburban teen, sick of the suburbs. You run away to the land of the fairies, prepared for thrills and danger. Absolutely nothing happens the way you expect. A short Twine game with nine endings,...

Get Seen Tonight, by Harris Powell-Smith
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

A cop falls for her torch singer informant. What's gone wrong tonight? Author's Comment: "This game was inspired by a number of songs by Dessa, notably Dixon's Girl and Alibi. Many thanks to Irina Goodwin...

Get Your Gun, Dragonfly, by Palimrya
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A sack of stolen guavas. A death drive jammed in reverse. Two brainfucked trans women, an American genocide, and a body to love. Get Your Gun, Dragonfly is an interactive, semipoetical, cyberpunk love story...

Ghosts Within, by Kyriakos Athanasopoulos
Average member rating: (13 ratings)

The smell of damp moss fills the air. Wet grass and dirt surround you while you are lying face down on the cold forest floor. Your clothes are dirty, wet, and slightly torn in places. Your head's left side...

The Gilded, by Faedrian (Dry Cappuccino Games)
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Your younger brother, Leo, went missing three days ago. Your parents called the police, and they started investigating quickly. They were too late. Leo had already disappeared into the deepest part of the...

Goblet of Mercy, by S. A. Welland
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Goblet of Mercy is a short dark fantasy visual novel about your encounter with a woman whose ego is so big she made her own perfect world to contain it. It began with Halloween, a time when the veil between...

The good people, by Pseudavid
Average member rating: (16 ratings)

Explore the weird, until the sunken things come for you. A narration-focused interactive fiction focused on conversation and exploration of a haunted landscape. Playable on mobile, but a computer or tablet...

goodbye.monster, by Eugene An, Rook Liu, Beckett Rowan, Matt Wang
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goodbye.monster is a text-based adventure game for web browsers. Travel with and care for small creatures, exploring an alienating, nostalgic world until the inevitable end of those creatures’ lives. Play...

The Great Aussie Adventure, by Dorothy Millard
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PART 1 CANBERRA To raise money for charity you go to the Australia Capital, Canberra, to take photographs of the local area – although things aren't as simple as they first appear. PART 2 TREASURE HUNT Not...

Grooverland, by Mathbrush
Average member rating: (28 ratings)

"Magic comes with a price. But on your birthday, all your expenses are paid. Welcome to Grooverland." Grooverland is a large parser game that takes over two hours to complete. It is based on the works of...

Gun Mute, by C.E.J. Pacian
Average member rating: (159 ratings)

Step into the shoes of Mute Lawton, a lone cowboy who must stop an execution set to occur at noon by shooting his way past dangerous cyborgs and mutants in a post-apocalyptic western setting. (From the...

Hadean Lands, by Andrew Plotkin
Average member rating: (71 ratings)

Marooned in an alien, airless wasteland -- your starship fractured -- your crewmates missing. Can an apprentice alchemist learn how to survive?

Hallowmoor, by Mike Snyder
Average member rating: (19 ratings)

Your quest: infiltrate Castle Hallowmoor, find the potion, and make it out alive. This is a Halloween-themed adventure -- hypertext interactive fiction playable in most modern web browsers.

The Haunted Help Desk, by Deborah Sherwood
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Survive a maze of oddly themed offices to get IT support. Get help from characters whose unique personalities define the bizarre day you're about to have. One wrong move could mean spending eternity trapped...

Heart of the House, by Nissa Campbell
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Destroy the evil at the heart of a haunted manor! As an orphan, you discovered your ability to commune with the spirit world and ghosts. When your uncle Kent mysteriously disappears, you'll embark on a...

Her Majesty's Trolley Problem, by Buster Hudson
Average member rating: (27 ratings)

No one said life in Her Majesty's Service would be easy. Fortunately, you've got everything you need: your officer's handbook, a harpoon cannon, and the indefatigable command of Captain Lionetta herself. If...

Heretic Dreams, by Harris Powell-Smith
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They would call what you did heresy. No one knows you swallowed the power of a god, but it will break you apart.

Heretic's Hope, by G. C. Baccaris
Average member rating: (27 ratings)

Eser is the only human left alive. Gods and monsters, blessings and curses, an island ruled by giant insects — and in their midst: a reluctant human priest. Grief-stricken and bound by oath to obey the...

Heroes, by Sean Barrett
Average member rating: (29 ratings)

"A most traditional CRPG experience." [--blurb from Competition Aught-One]

His Majesty's Royal Space Navy Service Handbook, by Austin Auclair
Average member rating: (9 ratings)

A text adventure of paperwork, office politics, and sci-fi space battles. It's Friday night and Sheryl hasn't yet left the office. That isn't unusual; she's a dedicated service member of His Majesty Smurg...

The Horror of Rylvania, by D. A. Leary
Average member rating: (11 ratings)

"What you expected would be a fun outing in scenic Rylvania turns into a gruesome nightmare, with *you* playing the starring role. Find out what it's like to be alternately the source and challenger of evil...
House, by Karona
Average member rating: (5 ratings)
"My hand trembled while I reached for the door knob of the house. After having fled without notice it was only natural that my life would be upset, so I came prepared to reassure her. But I suspected she...

The House on Highfield Lane, by Andy Joel
Average member rating: (13 ratings)

The house at the top of Highfield Lane has always scared Mandy, though she could never say why exactly. Perhaps today is the day she should confront that fear! This is in the style of a classic parser-based...

How to Win at Rock Paper Scissors, by Brian Kwak
Average member rating: (27 ratings)

The disgrace and humiliation of last year's defeat is behind you. This time, with the help of the gods, you'll win this competition for sure.

Howled House, by B Minus Seven
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

A Petite Mort entry for ECTOCOMP 2016.

HUNTING UNICORN, by Chandler Groover
Average member rating: (39 ratings)

A maiden leads a unicorn hunt. Sixteen narrative variants. Choose-your-own-adventure style. Mature thematic elements.

I Contain Multitudes, by Wonaglot
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

You are Chandra Fitz, a young engineer serving on the cruise ship Prinzessin Anna Alexia. This magnificent ship is the first purpose-designed vessel of its kind, meant to take passengers not to an...

I Told You This Was A Bad Idea, by Jessica Padkin
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

The Terminal seems to be frustrated with you, but you don't remember a thing. Despite the Terminal's limited ability to understand you, you must attempt to ask the right questions in an effort to find out...

I.A.G. Alpha, by Serhii Mozhaiskyi
Average member rating: (16 ratings)

You may think this game is about a post-Soviet Research Institute. About an experiment that went out of control. You may think that the initials "I.A.G." are somehow related to the Institute. You may think...

I'm Fine, by Rokashi
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

The game is about a young man who is trying to cope with depression, sexual frustration and friendship.

IF Whispers 5, by Chris Conley, Joey Jones, Marius Müller, Tom Blawgus
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

Travel down into an abandoned Antarctic Base and unveil the mysteries within. A game made in the paper-telephone style, with each person only having access to the section before, with a co-ordinated ending...

If You're Here, by Serene Sherman and Emil Ingemansson
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

When a romance starts to blacken, is it your place to intervene? Lindy navigates her tense relationship with her stepbrother and her strong friendship with her teammate as she watches their relationship grow...

IFDB Spelunking 2, by Sam Kabo Ashwell
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

A series of old and obscure parser games, munged together into a loosely-connected pile which I then snark about.

The Imposter, by Enrique Henestroza Anguiano
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

A man wanders the streets of Paris after a personal tragedy.

Improv: Origins, by Neil deMause
Average member rating: (9 ratings)

In the long-awaited (by someone, surely, maybe) prequel to the Frenetic Five trilogy, your new employer SuperTemps has sent you out into the field with nothing more than your wits and your freshly minted...

In a dream I told my mother, by Milo van Mesdag
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

An oil platform worker takes a journey to the bottom of the ocean, where he loses everything but his past. Content warning in game. A game for Seedcomp! 2023
In a Manor of Speaking, by Hulk Handsome
Average member rating: (27 ratings)
In a Manor of Speaking is a punny adventure set in the surreal world of Calembour. Journey through the bizarre Outlands, the bustling streets of Rudeville, and eventually find your way to the manor itself as...
In the End, by Joe Mason
Average member rating: (18 ratings)
Your best friend has just died, and life drags on miserably. Would death be better than this? [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue]

In Wake of Betrayal, by IchorOfRuin
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Where once there was faith, now lie the ashes of love turned false. Written for the Single Choice Jam 2024. Thank you The Sloth and Naarel for beta-reading this!

Indigo, by Emily Short
Average member rating: (55 ratings)

"Years ago, a witch placed you in this tower and arranged for your upkeep, paying certain villagers well to keep you supplied with the most basic necessities, and no more. Your years in the tower have...

Inevitable, by Kathleen M. Fischer as Timothy Lawrence Heinrich
Average member rating: (10 ratings)

Invisible Parties, by Sam Kabo Ashwell (as Psychopup)
Average member rating: (21 ratings)

You are a walker of the ways between the worlds. It is not an arrangement conducive to straightforward relationships. The Three Rebeccas have created a tangle, a temporary artifice woven from parts of many...

It Is Pitch Black, by Caelyn Sandel
Average member rating: (27 ratings)

Trapped alone in a darkened antique store with a man-eating grue, can you keep a light going long enough to survive? (contains sound, but no jumpscares.) 2nd place, EctoComp 2014.

Italianate, by Andy McDermott

Plot Just married! And I'm still not used to being Cally Baker rather than Marks. Mike and I bonded over our love of Italianate architecture. So for our honeymoon, where else to come but Italy to see the...

January, by litrouke
Average member rating: (11 ratings)

A year in the life of a man after the end of the world. Dynamic fiction, story-based, heavy themes. Content warning: Suicide, trauma, violence, gore, strong language

Jigsaw, by Graham Nelson
Average member rating: (85 ratings)

New Year's Eve, 1999, a quarter to midnight and where else to be but Century Park! Fireworks cascade across the sky, your stomach rumbles uneasily, music and lasers howl across the parkland... Not exactly...

Jolly Good: Cakes and Ale, by Kreg Segall
Average member rating: (13 ratings)

Get yourself into and out of another fine mess! As the newest member of London's elite "Noble Gases" social club, you'll win glory, renown, and much-needed money through various cunning schemes that will...

Junior Arithmancer, by Mike Spivey
Average member rating: (59 ratings)

A one-to-many-room puzzler.

Killing Machine Loves Slime Prince, by C.E.J. Pacian
Average member rating: (14 ratings)

A biomechanical killing machine stalks a strange world. The slime she loves is dying. And the one responsible is out there somewhere.

The King of Shreds and Patches, by Jimmy Maher
Average member rating: (86 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...

Kitty and the Sea, by Felix Pleșoianu
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Take two old areas from a text-based virtual world. Stitch them together with new content; flesh out and brush up the old. Add a handful of minimal, abstract illustrations for good measure. ...

Laid Off from the Synesthesia Factory, by Katherine Morayati
Average member rating: (23 ratings)

Synpiece: A wearable technology that changes the wearer's mood. Users of the Synpiece can adjust the 'color' of their experience, which adjusts psychological traits mapped to hue (emotion), saturation...

Language Arts, by Jared Jackson
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

Are you a creative problem solver looking for career in an exciting and fast growing field? Do you seek out intellectual challenges that others are scared to face? Crystal Clear Communications, the world's...

The Last Night of Alexisgrad, by Milo van Mesdag
Average member rating: (10 ratings)

The sky is dark. It is a time of mystery, change and struggle. It is a time of opportunity. In this asymmetric, two-player piece of interactive fiction, you and your partner each take on the role of a leader...

Leechcraft, by Ainsley Sunday
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As a plague spreads through the isolated village you call home, balance your needs as a newly-turned vampire with your duties as a healer. Leechcraft is interactive fiction with a healthy dose of...

The Legend of Horse Girl, by Bitter Karella
Average member rating: (13 ratings)

Welcome to Santa Diablo, Texas, a tiny desert town held in the grip of fear by a corrupt judge and his gang of outlaws. No one dares to stand against these rustlers. No one, that is, until the fateful day...

Letters from Home, by Roger Firth
Average member rating: (20 ratings)

"Centuries of ancestry, decades of memories, years of decline; now, barely two hours in which to reflect on the glorious past, that bygone golden age when nostalgia really meant something... " [--blurb from...

LIDO, by Elizabeth Smyth
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

DO NOT DRINK THE WATER
Life on Beal Street, by Ian Finley
Average member rating: (8 ratings)
"This is not a game, but rather an experiment in telling a story using a dynamic and interactive medium. Leave your expectations at the curb side and take a walk down Beal Street." [--blurb from Competition...
The Light in the Forest, by Emily Worm
Average member rating: (6 ratings)
A lesbian, haunted by an otherworldly light, tries to find people who will support her, while dealing with quite a lot, really.
Light into Darkness, by Christina Nordlander
Average member rating: (9 ratings)
An ordinary woman faces an inexplicable event while staying at her summer house with her family. Fantasy/horror. Content warnings: domestic violence; some gore. A Petite Mort entry for ECTOCOMP 2016....

Light My Way Home, by Caelyn Sandel (as Venus Hart)
Average member rating: (19 ratings)

Lights out, Please, by Kaitlin Tremblay
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

little, by chandler groover
Average member rating: (10 ratings)

a tiny yarn for ectocomp

The Little Match Girl 3: The Escalus Manifold, by Ryan Veeder
Average member rating: (14 ratings)

"The Snow Queen controls her servants with Shards from the Mirror of Belial," Ebenezer Scrooge explained.

The Little Match Girl and His Holiness Pope Pius IX, by Ryan Veeder
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

His Holiness has a favor to ask of the little match girl and her associate.

Loadstone, by rosetinted

The Crystal Valleys, land of myth: you, diplomat, are among the first of your people to see it in the flesh. You've spent most of your visit caught up in meetings and briefings, but today, the last day of...

Lock & Key, by Adam Cadre
Average member rating: (78 ratings)

You are locked in a cell. This in and of itself is not a new thing: spending a little time behind bars every now and again is one of the hazards of the job.  But up until now it’s been for little...

A Long Way to the Nearest Star, by SV Linwood
Average member rating: (56 ratings)

A thief on the run from the galactic police finds refuge on an abandoned spaceship. A lonely ship AI finds unexpected company. Explore the ship, solve puzzles, uncover mysteries, and befriend an AI who...

Lore Distance Relationship, by Naomi "Bez" Norbez
Average member rating: (12 ratings)

Follow user StaircaseHaven14 on a Neopets-esque site called Ruffians as she faces life's challenges, RPs with her long-distance BFF (or more than BFF?) Bee, and encounters familial hardship, from age 8 to...

Lost New York, by Neil deMause
Average member rating: (20 ratings)

"They say you can never get to know the true New York as a tourist -- but this is going to turn out to be no ordinary vacation. What you thought would be a quick jaunt to the usual tourist traps instead...

Love Undying: A Kiss Before Dawn, by Lauren O'Donoghue

Hunt your prey as a vampire on windswept Victorian moors! Who will capture your unbeating heart? After an angry mob forced you from your European home, you fled to England in search of a fresh start. The...

Love, Hate and the Mysterious Ocean Tower, by C.E.J. Pacian
Average member rating: (44 ratings)

The Lurking Horror, by Dave Lebling
Average member rating: (95 ratings)

A winter night at the G.U.E. tech campus with most students away on vacation serves as the backdrop for this tale of Lovecraftian horror.

Lux, by Agnieszka Trzaska
Average member rating: (21 ratings)

You wander around in darkness – even though the lights are on. Sandra is the only one to survive a mysterious attack on a deep space mining station. She is alive, but has lost her vision. Now Sandra must...

Lydia's Heart, by Jim Aikin
Average member rating: (34 ratings)

"Lydia's Heart" is a large, complex game with a serious tone and seven or eight NPCs you can converse with. The genre is low-key horror: There's almost no actual blood, but there are several ways to die in a...

Magician's Voyage, by A.E. Elm
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

It's your first job as a full-fledged Green Magician! The Magicians Order has hired you to transport magical artifacts across Midland, where they will be studied and their true natures revealed. You must...

The Magpie Takes the Train, by Mathbrush
Average member rating: (43 ratings)

A millionaire guards a fabulous ruby in her private train car. Countless thieves have failed to steal it. But they weren't the Magpie!

Mainframe, by Liz England, Jurie Horneman
Average member rating: (9 ratings)

Mainframe is a procedurally generated game about a spaceship. Something has gone wrong and it needs help. This was developed for Procjam 2015. Content Warning: This game is a piece of horror interactive...

Make It Good, by Jon Ingold
Average member rating: (89 ratings)

The call comes through. Of all the dicks; you get the call, sitting in the front seat of your car, hands shaking on the steering wheel. An urgent call; but all you were thinking of was the bottle in the...

Manifest No, by Kaemi Velatet
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

Interactive novel. Weird, confusing, icy.

Map, by Ade McT
Average member rating: (33 ratings)

The house is growing. Or perhaps it's you who is shrinking. And with all this extra space is coming....time. Time enough, maybe, to make some changes.

Marika the Offering, by revgiblet
Average member rating: (23 ratings)

An entry in the 2007 One Room Game Competition. You play a young girl, trapped in a tower room and in fear for her life.

Masks, by Mark Sample
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

You’re a courier for the resistance, trapped on a university campus under siege. The environment around you is coming apart, fast. Made for subQjam 2019, where works are limited to 1000 words and the...

Masquerade, by Kathleen M. Fischer
Average member rating: (36 ratings)

"You walk purposefully down the sidewalk, looking neither left nor right. You don't need to look; you can tell you are being watched from whispers overheard as you pass by. "Poor Amelia..." you hear somebody...

The Master of the Land, by Pseudavid
Average member rating: (31 ratings)

> An interactive fiction intrigue in an immersive and dynamic world. A world that changes with every action. Freedom to explore. Radically different playthroughs. Lots of dancing. People wearing skulls. > A...

Metamorphoses, by Emily Short
Average member rating: (136 ratings)

You wake to stillness. The hammering, banging, and shouting that kept you awake half the night are gone. The air is cold, and something smells burnt. Your master's experiments must be finished, but with what...

A Midsummer Night's Choice, by Kreg Segall
Average member rating: (13 ratings)

In this Shakespearean comedy adventure, can forbidden love conquer adorable fairy outlaws? "A Midsummer Night's Choice" is a 190,000-word interactive fantasy novel by Kreg Segall, where your choices control...

The Miller's Garden, by Damon L. Wakes
Average member rating: (15 ratings)

When the miller died, he left his garden. And when the mill was torn down, the river changed its course.

A Mind Forever Voyaging, by Steve Meretzky
Average member rating: (123 ratings)

"If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not..." --Shakespeare It's 2031. The world is on the brink of chaos. In the United States of North America, spiraling...

The Missing Ring, by Felicity Drake
Average member rating: (23 ratings)

Sadie Goldberg-Lawson is celebrating Christmas with her whole dysfunctional family at her Gran's house in Vermont. When Gran's heirloom diamond ring goes missing, can Sadie solve the mystery of the missing...

Mission Unknown, by Carl Muckenhoupt

Misty Hills, by Giuliano Roverato Martins Pereira
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

Wait for a tram in a weird fantasy world.

Moments Out of Time, by L. Ross Raszewski
Average member rating: (16 ratings)

"Note: requires a Z6-capable interpreter, preferably with Blorb sound support." [--blurb from Competition Aught-One]

The Moon wed Saturn, by Pseudavid
Average member rating: (19 ratings)

A simple, if peculiar, love story where not much seems to happen. The Moon wed Saturn is a short narrative experiment. Computer or tablet is recommended.

Moondrop Isle, by Ryan Veeder, Nils Fagerburg, Joey Jones, Zach Hodgens, Jason Love, Mark Marino, Carl Muckenhoupt, Sarah Willson, Caleb Wilson
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

The Third Quadrennial Ryan Veeder Exposition for Good Interactive Fiction invites you to visit Moondrop Isle.

The Moonlit Tower, by Yoon Ha Lee
Average member rating: (64 ratings)

Moquette, by Alex Warren
Average member rating: (20 ratings)

Tuesday morning. London Underground. Hangover. Journey begins.

More a Haunting than a History, by E. Jade Lomax
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

MORE A HAUNTING THAN A HISTORY an interactive fiction game from E. Jade Lomax (ink-splotch / dirgewithoutmusic), the writer who brought you Beanstalk, Second Star to the Left podcast, and Stay?. Return to...

Morris, by Dee Cooke
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

The bells. The bells! You left it too late to leave the pub... and now THEY are here. How are you going to escape them this time? You are in the pub... but you've stayed too long. It's the Pokey End Folk...

Moving (On), by quackoquack
Average member rating: (9 ratings)

A game about nostalgia, jumping around in time, and clearing out your childhood room. ...

Ms. Lojka or: In Despair to Will to Be Oneself, by Jordan Magnuson
Average member rating: (10 ratings)

A short game about ignorance, defiance, and freedom—or: self-knowledge, acquiescence, and fate. Takes about 15 minutes to play. There are two significantly-divergent endings, but replays are intentionally...

A Murder in Fairyland, by Abigail Corfman
Average member rating: (23 ratings)

Prince Blacktree is dead. All of the other fairy nobles are trying to claim credit. You're a traveling Open Sorcerer, and a convenient neutral party who just wants to get out of Fairyland. A whodunit where...

My Angel, by Jon Ingold
Average member rating: (28 ratings)

"I wake peacefully, and already she is there." [--blurb from Competition Aught-Zero]
Ned Nelson Really Needs a Job, by Eric Crepeau
Average member rating: (9 ratings)
Bluff your way through a job interview with the the weird CEO of a mysterious company. There’s just one problem: you have no idea what job you’re applying for.
Neurocracy, by Joannes Truyens and Matei Stanca
Average member rating: (2 ratings)
Neurocracy is a browser-based video game developed by Joannes Truyens and Matei Stanca under the label Playthroughline, released in ten weekly episodes from July to September 2021. Players explore Omnipedia,...
A New Life, by Alexandre Owen Muñiz
Average member rating: (7 ratings)
War and drought ravaged your hometown and forced you to abandon it. You have traveled hundreds of miles, faced indignities, and found kindness. Now you have only a little farther to go.

Night Guard / Morning Star, by Astrid Dalmady
Average member rating: (22 ratings)

My mother made a deal. So here I am, working the night shift, alone with her work.

Night House, by Bitter Karella
Average member rating: (19 ratings)

It looks different in the dark. You're eight years old. You wake up in the middle of the night to use the bathroom, but you soon realize that not everything is as it seems in the house tonight. Where has...

Nineteen, by kiran
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

Nineteen is an auto-biographical game I created, detailing vignettes from my life. Please enjoy this story of gender identity, living in the closet, abuse, and rising above all the odds. Trigger Warnings:...

Niney, by Daniel Spitz
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

Explore the nature of relationships and identity on a weird train. Author's Comment: "We all ask ourselves, "Who am I?" One of the ways we try to answer this question is by examining the effects we have on...

No One Else Is Doing This, by Lauren O'Donoghue
Average member rating: (19 ratings)

You are a community organiser. This is your job, four nights out of five; you sell people hope on their doorsteps. But your passion for the work is waning, and you're struggling to hit your targets. Can you...

Noblesse Oblige, by Harris Powell-Smith
Average member rating: (12 ratings)

Spark romance amid secrets in a crumbling mansion! What will you sacrifice for love? Can you trust your own heart? Noblesse Oblige: a Crème de la Crème Adventure is a 140,000-word interactive Gothic...

Nord and Bert Couldn't Make Head or Tail of It, by Jeff O'Neill
Average member rating: (60 ratings)

You are standing at the edge of a barren field. A steady wind, having secreted away the topsoil, is now drifting sandy dirt across the plain. A scant sign of life here is a freshly-burrowed molehill on the...

Nowhere Near Single, by kaleidofish
Average member rating: (20 ratings)

A young woman in the entertainment industry struggles with harmonizing her public pop star persona and her private polyamorous life. Warning for mildly graphic content.

Once upon a winter night, the ragman came singing under your window, by Expio
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

"Maybe it was the cold or the sensation of emptiness to my side, but I was fully awake. I didn't dare to move, so I just lay there, very still, looking at the ceiling with my hands hidden under the sheets. I...

One Night Stand, by Kinmoku
Average member rating: (1 rating)

After a night of fun, passion, and one too many drinks, you wake up the next morning to find a complete stranger lying naked beside you in bed. What do you do? In One Night Stand, explore the unknown bedroom...

One Way Ticket, by Vitalii Blinov
Average member rating: (13 ratings)

I was heading for a new life and my train brought me here. Nice town: friendly people, corn cuisine, mysterious architecture... So why am I sure that I need to get out of here as fast as possible?

One Week, by Papillon
Average member rating: (13 ratings)

The Only Possible Prom Dress, by Jim Aikin
Average member rating: (11 ratings)

Ten years ago you had to burgle every store in Stufftown to get your hands on the sought-after doll called Sugar Toes Ballerina so your 7-year-old daughter Samantha wouldn't be heartbroken on Christmas...

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.

Open Up!, by Brendan Patrick Hennessy
Average member rating: (27 ratings)

Trin Park's only job while her parents are out of town is to make sure her little sister stays out of trouble. Should be easy enough. The kid usually keeps to herself anyway... (A post-Birdland microgame)

Opening Night, by David Batterham
Average member rating: (28 ratings)

You stepped off the streetcar moments ago, halting before the grand facade of the Marquis Theatre. You have come to see your idol, the Broadway star Miranda Lily, performing in all her dizzying glory. [blurb...

Oppositely Opal, by Buster Hudson
Average member rating: (71 ratings)

You've practiced long and hard for PotionComp, but Grusilda won't give up her title so easily. UGH! Curse that Grusilda! A one-room potion-brewing spell-casting parser puzzler, where things might go opposite...

Out of the Study, by Anssi Räisänen
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

Overboard!, by inkle
Average member rating: (12 ratings)

Overboard! is a whodunnit where you’re the one whodunnit. You have just eight hours to cover the evidence, mislead the witnesses, frame another suspect and escape ... if you can! The Story July, 1935....

The Owl Consults, by Thomas Mack, Nick Mathewson, and Cidney Hamilton
Average member rating: (21 ratings)

Once you've established yourself as the ruler of the crime world (and, eventually, the literal world), the only challenge left is helping out the next generation of supervillains---for a suitable fee, of...

A Paradox Between Worlds, by Autumn Chen
Average member rating: (30 ratings)

It is the year 201X and you are a teen online. The Nebulaverse fandom has been your safe place, and it is about to be torn apart. A Paradox Between Worlds is a game about fandoms, internet melodrama, and the...

Perdition's Flames, by Michael J. Roberts
Average member rating: (26 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...

Phenomena, by Dawn Sueoka
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

Shifting stories about UFOs. An interactive poem.

Photopia, by Adam Cadre
Average member rating: (580 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."

Pilgrimage, by Víctor Ojuel
Average member rating: (12 ratings)

Leave Rome in the dead of night. Pursue an hermetic quest throughout Medieval Europe. Find arcane knowledge or utter despair. Blessings of Babylon.

Plasmorphosis, by Agnieszka Trzaska
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

Help a plucky rover complete its planetary research mission by studying alien lifeforms... and morphing them into brand new shapes and forms! "Plasmorphosis" is a short game about exploration, with light...

The Play, by Dietrich Squinkifer (Squinky)
Average member rating: (66 ratings)

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
Average member rating: (69 ratings)

In the 17th century, the seas are as wild as the untamed heart of a young woman. But when you set out on the schooner Lafond Deux, bound for the West Indies, your thoughts are only of your ailing father who...

The Prairie House, by Chris Hay (a.k.a. Eldritch Renaissance Cake)
Average member rating: (12 ratings)

A student finishes their prairie field work but has to spend the night alone at an old house. Follow the story from dark evening to mysterious morning and get all the achievements to think up your best...

The Primrose Path, by Nolan Bonvouloir
Average member rating: (36 ratings)

You've been having a series of nightmares about Leo, standing at the edge of a cliff. No matter what you do, a bell rings and Leo disappears over the edge . . . You've led a fairly uneventful life, perhaps;...

The Princess of Vestria, by K Paulo
Average member rating: (16 ratings)

‘Be brave, listen to the voice inside that guides you…’...

The Problems Compound, by Andrew Schultz
Average member rating: (11 ratings)

Wherein you, Alec Smart, turn what's-thats into that's-whats.

Project Arcmör, by Donald Conrad and Peter M.J. Gross
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

You still remember the initial thrill of receiving your acceptance message: “Greetings, colonizer! We are excited for you to join the StarQuorp™ family, a top 100 company to work for (based on...

Pushing Loyal People, by Bitterly Indifferent
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

This is a hyper-realistic employee engagement exercise where you work at a highly selective global corporation. See how quickly you can rise to claim the corner office, and do your best to survive the next...

Queen of Swords, by Jessica Knoch
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

In this one-room art piece, you play as a woman in a reserved room at the local library where you and your husband, David, will practise using electric fencing equipment. There's quite a lot of it, and...
Queenlash, by Kaemi Velatet
Average member rating: (5 ratings)
Queenlash is an interactive novel about the life of Cleopatra told from the perspectives of eight women.

Quintessence, by Lapin Lunaire Games
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

Galina has always been Good. How could she not be? Beloved daughter of the town blacksmith, sweetheart of the farmer's most charming son, and envy of her peers—Galina's life is as close to ideal as it can...

Reclamation, by groggydog
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

Corporate Space, the Year 21XX. You awaken from a month of cryosleep to discover that a missing research vessel has suddenly surfaced in the deep. There are no signs of life. You are now tasked with...

Redemption, by Kathleen M. Fischer
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

Reference and Representation: An Approach to First-Order Semantics, by Ryan Veeder
Average member rating: (37 ratings)

Violence is the answer to this one.

Reigns: Her Majesty, by Leigh Alexander, Devolver Digital, François Alliot, Nerial
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

Reigns: Her Majesty is the revolutionary follow-up to the smash swipe ‘em up hit Reigns. A cultural renaissance has bestowed the world with a new era of knowledge and enlightenment but greed and jealousy...

Restless, by Emily Short
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

You've been haunting old Mrs Fagles for decades. Now she's sold the house, and the new owner's moved in. Sylvie's broke, bad at plumbing, and anxious about everything. And with a living, breathing, fretting...

Restore, Reflect, Retry, by Natalia Theodoridou
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

This is a haunted game about a haunted game. You've played this game before. You may not remember, but the game does.

Robin & Orchid, by Ryan Veeder and Emily Boegheim
Average member rating: (68 ratings)

High school journalists spend the night in a church, investigating reports of a ghost.

robotsexpartymurder, by Hanon Ondricek
Average member rating: (27 ratings)

When suspects and witnesses are “property, not people,” how should those who seek the truth proceed? Date robots. Avert scandal. Bring protection. Content warning: Adult Situations, Language, and Humor,...

A Rope of Chalk, by Ryan Veeder
Average member rating: (39 ratings)

An account of the disastrous sidewalk chalk tournament of August 27, 2011.

A Rose by Another Name, by Tris Perrillon

A short interactive story based on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, but with a queer twist. In A Rose by Another Name, you play as Tybalt, a trans man devoted to his family, during the events leading up to...

Rougi, by Lapin Lunaire Games
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

The Palais Garnier, home to the renowned Paris Opéra Ballet, is set to premiere Les Souliers Rouges, a ballet whose very name is rumored to carry a formidable curse. As the premiere draws ever nearer, a...

A row of chairs abandoned on the beach, by laughingpineapple
Average member rating: (1 rating)

The protagonist finds a row of verloren monobloc chairs on the beach, waiting for the flood to come. You might decide at any time to leave them and return to your warm home; but you can also decide to sit on...

Ryan Veeder's Authentic Fly Fishing, by Ryan Veeder
Average member rating: (17 ratings)

Relax at the Jewel Pond Recreation Area with Ryan Veeder as your guide.

The Rye in the Dark City, by manonamora
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

Entry to the SeedComp! Play Detective Rye, a down-on-the-luck detective about to delve into a strange case... Based on the names, locations, or plot points from following seeds: The Witch's Bakery by Ramona...

Sage Sanctum Scramble, by Arthur DiBianca
Average member rating: (23 ratings)

A grab bag of puzzles, mostly word puzzles. Collect keywords and save the Sanctum!

Samsara, by Meg Jayanth

India, 1757. You have won a grand position in the Nawab of Bengal's court because of your rare and powerful talent: you can walk in dreams. But your Kingdom is threatened on all sides. The warlike Afghans...

Scarlet Portrait Parlor, by MathBrush (as Prismatik)
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

In this minimalist story: Darkness has fallen. There is a loom. You carry a heavy guilt.

Scarlet Sails, by Felicity Banks
Average member rating: (22 ratings)

Hoist the Jolly Roger and set sail to find the legendary Titan’s Treasure! Do you fight with a cutlass, or with your magical skill? Are you biding your time until you can shoot your captain in the back, or...

Scary House Amulet!, by Ricardo Dague
Average member rating: (13 ratings)

You have green hair! Your name is Britney!! Legend says there is a valuable, powerful Amulet in the house, which may be retrieved by anyone who is daring! Do you dare?

SCREW YOU, BEAR DAD!, by Xalavier Nelson Jr.
Average member rating: (25 ratings)

SCREW YOU, BEAR DAD! is a game about puns, rampant drug use, learning to enjoy life despite uncertainty, and elderly women in attack helicopters. Also - bears. [Note: game contains strong language, and brief...

The Second Floor, by litrouke
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

A survivor scrounges for supplies in a zombie apocalypse. --- Content warnings: lots of corpses, allusions to death and suicide. No real jumpscares. Contains sound.

Secret Agent Cinder, by Emily Ryan
Average member rating: (28 ratings)

Play as a revolutionary agent Cinder. Your mission is to infiltrate the Royal Ball, dodge the guards and steal the Secret Military Plans, all before midnight. The opulence of Versailles disgusts you as you...

The Secret of St. Brides, by Priscilla Langridge
Average member rating: (1 rating)

St. Brides is a real school. As a matter of fact, I'm sitting at a desk in St. Brides right now, writing this. But it isn't an ordinary school. Even though it exists today, it's just like a girls boarding...

Seedship, by John Ayliff
Average member rating: (59 ratings)

An AI ship full of frozen colonists must find the best planet to be the new home of the human race.

The Shadow in the Cathedral, by Ian Finley and Jon Ingold
Average member rating: (32 ratings)

When the monks took me, aged six months, into their care, they named me Wren. Maybe because I was small, insignificant, and happy to eat any crumbs they threw my way. But these days I'm Wren, 2nd Assistant...

The Shape You Make When You Want Your Bones To Be Closest to the Surface, by Porpentine
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

Autobiographical game made for MCA Chicago. Twine + Bitsy.

Sherlock Indomitable, by mathbrush
Average member rating: (13 ratings)

Join a dying Sherlock Holmes in a journey through his memories. Sherlock Indomitable is a direct adaptation of two Sherlock Holmes stories into a text adventure. At least 90% of the text is taken directly...

Shuffling Around, by Andrew Schultz (as Ned Yompus)
Average member rating: (26 ratings)

A weird power to save a weird world. So you just got fired from the best company ever, and it's the best day of your life. New opportunities! New horizons! New ways to look at things! Like calling this...

Sidetrack, by Andi C. Buchanan
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

In Sidetrack you're a teenager who stumbles on an urban railway network that shouldn't be there. Explore at your own pace, changing lines, choosing which stations to stop at, and gathering items which can...

Silverwolf, by Anonymous

Six, by Wade Clarke
Average member rating: (46 ratings)

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 Gray Rats Crawl Up The Pillow, by Caleb Wilson (as Boswell Cain)
Average member rating: (21 ratings)

A distressing episode in the life of Rinaldo di Gorgonzola.

Six Shots, by Conor Walsh
Average member rating: (1 rating)

Six Shots is a Twine-based text-adventure game with a focus on player choice and branching narrative paths. Your cowboy or cowgirl comes equipped with a revolver that can be fired on almost any screen in the...

Skillick's Bride, by Rachel Helps
Average member rating: (1 rating)

This is a Mormon feminine horror game inspired by Magpie Games's Bluebeard's Bride. You play as a newlywed to a mysterious and rich Mormon man. You decide if your (shady) husband is to be trusted based on...

Skulljhabit, by Porpentine
Average member rating: (19 ratings)

kind of like Dampe the gravedigger meets Harvest Moon meets Ligotti.

Sleepless in the Sapphire City, by Coral Nulla

A lonely young vampire becomes self-aware while hunting for life in a city of symbols. No graphics nor choices, just links between words—from inside and outside.

A Small Talk at the Back of Beyond, by scriptwelder
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

You wake up. Alone, in a dark room. Alone? No, there is someone talking to you through a console. Will you respond?
Snatches, by Gregory Weir
Average member rating: (15 ratings)
"Stay in a piece of history: The Manor Bed and Breakfast. Located in lush forest, the Manor is a building rich in history, built as a home in 1876 and still owned by the Groom family. Enjoy your stay!" (May...
So Far, by Andrew Plotkin
Average member rating: (77 ratings)
Sitting in a cramped theatre, irritated that your partner apparently hasn't turned up, you are strangely intrigued by a current of air. It will lead you to a place very different from your own familiar...

So, You've Never Played a Text Adventure Before, Huh?, by Ryan Veeder
Average member rating: (17 ratings)

Robin Monaghan and her friends explore a creepy house.

Social Democracy: Petrograd 1917, by Autumn Chen
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

It is March 1917, and the Russian Empire is entering a whirlwind of change. Play as the Menshevik, Socialist-Revolutionary, Kadet, or Bolshevik parties, and decide the future of democracy and socialism in...

Solarium, by Anya Johanna DeNiro
Average member rating: (57 ratings)

The year is 1954. One year after mutually assured destruction. And I am trying to find you, through memory and alchemy. Not many people know how the nuclear devastation really happened. But we do. We were...

Solitary Stars, by Stephane F.
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

First autumn after the war. You received the letter two weeks ago. Hartmann... "... sensational discovery... couldn't tell you earlier... not a word to the papers or anyone else... I've contacted all the...

The Song of the Mockingbird, by Mike Carletta
Average member rating: (17 ratings)

A ruthless outlaw. A kidnapped dancer. A singing cowboy. A long dance of death in the Texas sun. You're unhorsed and disarmed, but you still have your wits and your guitar. You can only hope they'll be...

The Space Under the Window, by Andrew Plotkin
Average member rating: (101 ratings)

A new, experimental game that has no puzzles but uses only words that change your focus on things, thereby adapting the story. [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue]

Sparkle, by Juhana Leinonen (as Karly Di Caprio)
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

My search for the Pattern has brought me to Mount Shanshan. Now it's just a matter of a short cable car ride up to the top.

The Spectators, by Amanda Walker
Average member rating: (23 ratings)

It is 1560. There are no secrets in the iron-willed Duke d'Este's marriage to his young bride, a girl unprepared for her new role as Duchess. The Duke's army of servants are always present, always watching,...

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.

spondre, by Jay Nabonne
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

Who is the mysterious old man? More importantly, who are you? Thrust into a tiny cell with a stranger, the future looks bleak. But things are not always what they seem.

Starlight Shadows, by Autumn Chen
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

Lyra Leblanc has a mission: to save her city from the infiltrating nanotech entities. Help her gather allies to fight the demons that threaten her home. Made in 4 hours for La Petite Morte, Ectocomp 2022.

Stick it to the man, by Brendan Barnwell
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

"I'm looking at this blank wall. What the fuck? Man, I wake up in the funkiest places. Oh, yeah, it's this bedroom. We're squatting this house -- right, right. Sheesh, crowded, man. Whoa, I'm groggy....

Sting, by Mike Russo
Average member rating: (21 ratings)

Six bees. Five bags of groceries. A four-pound dumbbell. Three sailboats. One twin. Sting is a puzzleless parser memoir about ordinary days and unexpected interruptions.

Stone Harbor, by Liza Daly
Average member rating: (39 ratings)

You're good at what you do: tell tourists pretty lies about love, money, and life after death. That's what people want from a boardwalk psychic, and you deliver. It's not the future you imagined for...

Sub Rosa, by Joey Jones, Melvin Rangasamy
Average member rating: (47 ratings)

A puzzle game about secrets in the Age of Lead. You've spent seventeen years preparing for an infiltration. Stealing the Confessor's secrets is only the beginning: it will all be for nothing if you leave a...

Sunset Over Savannah, by Ivan Cockrum
Average member rating: (57 ratings)

In this game, you play as an office worker on vacation on a beach in Savannah. This is your last day of a very blissful vacation, and you realize you really really hate your job. You could quit, but should...

Suspended, by Michael Berlyn
Average member rating: (49 ratings)

They said you would sleep for half a millennium - not an unreasonable length of time, considering you'd be in limited cryogenic suspension. Your body would rest at the planet's nerve center, an underground...

Swan Hill, by Laura Michet
Average member rating: (23 ratings)

Swan Hill is an interactive story about brothers who have grown apart. It has multiple endings.

Sweet Magnolias, by Cressida St. Claire

A hypertext game where you play as a vampire who discovers the dark secrets of the temple in which she lives. The game aims to illustrate the effects of anxiety and gaslighting—especially in educational,...

swept up, by Harris Powell-Smith
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

and she's drumming her fingers on the wheel and watching you sideways, gaze flickering back-forth-back like she doesn't know if she wants to punch you or kiss you or eat you swept up is a game about blood,...

T-Zero, by Dennis Cunningham
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

PROLOGUE A dream came to you as you tossed uneasily upon an unfamiliar bed. In your dream, a time-worn figure waved a scythe in slow arcs across your sky-blue field of vision and picked, out of thin air,...

Take, by Katherine Morayati (as Amelia Pinnolla)
Average member rating: (37 ratings)

You are battle-weary. Your armor is scanty and your countenance is loathsome; you tire of the swords flicking at your neck. But you have a duty. There is nothing you can't take. (Content warning: Violence,...

Tangaroa Deep, by Astrid Dalmady
Average member rating: (48 ratings)

We know more about space than we do about the ocean. Isn’t it time to start changing that? Released for the 2016 Spring Thing

Tavern Crawler, by Josh Labelle
Average member rating: (45 ratings)

Most fantasy stories are about slaying the dragon. This one is about what happens after that. When you and your companions are approached by a man in a tavern who offers you more gold than you could spend in...

Tethered, by Linus Åkesson
Average member rating: (34 ratings)

"I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly, dreaming I am a man."...

Thanksgiving, by Harris Powell-Smith
Average member rating: (20 ratings)

You're twenty-one. It's dark in here. Thanksgiving is a story game about being an anxious student with secrets, meeting your boyfriend's folks for the first time. And being Judged. Play in your browser on...

Theatre, by Brendon Wyber
Average member rating: (89 ratings)

Your job as a real estate agent brings you into contact with many old buildings, but none are quite like the old theatre that has stood deserted for almost thirty years. After visiting it with some...

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.

Their Time in This World, by Kastel
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

GOOD AT KEEPING TIME? Since the time dislocation phenomena began a few years ago, people all over the universe have been frozen in time. We don't know where the sands of time came from, but we do know that...

The Thick Table Tavern, by manonamora
Average member rating: (21 ratings)

One dream. Fourteen days. Serve drinks and gather enough tips to make it happen in time. Or choose chaos and mix whatever you feel like, damned the consequences.

  • Story Mode with 6 endings, 3 difficulty...

Thin Walls, by Wynter
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

I wonder how long it will take this room to feel like mine, this house to feel like home. I wonder when I will actually get to meet Eddie, the landlord. It's almost as if the house itself is pulsating, its...

Things that Happened in Houghtonbridge, by Dee Cooke
Average member rating: (14 ratings)

On a hot summer weekend, all Olivia Raines wants to do is get on with her studies for her upcoming exams. But her unreliable aunt, Beverly, has gone missing, and Olivia finds herself unwillingly dragged into...

The Thirty Nine Steps, by Graham Walmsley
Average member rating: (17 ratings)

The man on the floor was quite dead, a knife through his heart skewering him to the floorboards. At a quarter to eight, the train would take me from London, where people would be searching for me, into the...

This is the game that I wrote, by David Welbourn
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

Written for SpeedIF Gruff on Jan. 21, 2006; the theme was fractured fairy tales. Vaguely inspired by "This is the house that Jack built."

To Be You, by Sandeep Singh, Celestia De Roza, Cheng Him, Crispin Rodrigues, Don Shiau, Izyanti Asa'ari, Jennifer Anne Champion, Pamela Seong Koon, Praval Visvanath, Sarah Mak, Shivram Gopinath, tysha khan, Ummi Tasfia, Valen Lim

An award-winning Singaporean interactive fiction game that lets you experience life as someone else. What choices would you make, if you were them?

To Spring Open, by Peter Berman and Yoon Ha Lee (as Two-Bit Chip)
Average member rating: (19 ratings)

An entry in ShuffleComp: Disc 2. Inspired by "Paper Planes" by MIA and "Tragic Kingdom" by No Doubt.
Tohu wa Bohu, by alice alexandra moore
Average member rating: (4 ratings)
Tough Beans, by Sara Dee
Average member rating: (21 ratings)

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....

Trenchline, by JJ McC

"Mercenaries make easy money," your army buddies said. "It's all scowls and shows of force. It'll never come to real fighting." Well, they're all dead now, and here you are. Stranded deep in a war zone,...

A Trial, by B Minus Seven
Average member rating: (11 ratings)

A funny thing happens on your way to the Center for Nominal Reassignment. "A Trial" is a chimera of prose, poetry and ???.

The Trials and Tribulation of Edward Harcourt, by MelS and manonamora
Average member rating: (23 ratings)

Friday February 2nd, 1923 My dearest friend, Such good fortune has befallen me, that I scarcely dare write you in case it is merely some joke played on me by fate. Lord knows that Fortuna has not been kind...

Trigaea, by Adam Ipsen (RynGM)
Average member rating: (12 ratings)

Could you survive an alien world? Change your genetics and wander the wasteland for answers, all the while aided by your AI companion. Trigaea is an epic 200,000-word piece of interactive fiction. It's a...

Tristam Island, by Hugo Labrande
Average member rating: (10 ratings)

After crashing your plane at sea, you end up drifting to a small island, with not much to survive. You explore, and find out the island was inhabited, years ago. But why did the people leave? And why is...

Triune, by Papillon
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

"What are little girls Made of? Sugar and spice And everything nice That's what little girls Are made of." [--blurb from Competition Aught-One]
Truth, by Carl Muckenhoupt (as John Earthling)
Average member rating: (8 ratings)
Somebody asked you what it really means to be true. Uncertain of how to respond, you have embarked on a quest to find truth!
Tryst of Fate, by G. M. Zagurski
Average member rating: (9 ratings)
Your last trip up the stairs before you can relax in a nice hot bath brings you into rather unfortunate contact with a toy car left carelessly on a stair, and your head connects with the wooden banner near...

TUNDRA, by PaperBlurt
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

You wake up. Walking. On a tundra. You're cold. Where are you? How did you end up here?

TWO, by Chris Ainsley
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

TWO is a treasure-hunt style TEXT ADVENTURE game in which every location description, object description, incidental message & response message consists of a maximum of TWO words. It is also a (very) loose...

ULTRA BUSINESS TYCOON III, by Porpentine
Average member rating: (62 ratings)

I’ve finally finished porting and cracking an old edutainment game from the 90′s. Please enjoy.

Under They Thunder, by Andrew Schultz
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

Save OkayCo from the Flame-Lame Fey and Ed Spray-Spread! With thanks to my imaginary friends Amos and Abel Fay.

Under, In Erebus, by Brian Rapp
Average member rating: (17 ratings)

Board that Drain-Bound El for an adventure that could only happen in Erebus.

Underneath the Same Moon, by IchorOfRuin
Average member rating: (1 rating)

Why would anyone want to meet high school acquaintances, anyway? (In which going to the reunion is a very bad idea.) Written for the Single Choice Jam 2024.

The Unofficial Sea-Monkey(R) Simulation, by B.J. Best
Average member rating: (13 ratings)

Sometime during 1987, your father comes home from work--late, as usual. He tosses a small box onto the kitchen counter. "Here," he says, "you wanted fish. You get these. Let's see how you do first, and then...

Vain Empires, by Thomas Mack and Xavid
Average member rating: (24 ratings)

The memoir of a demonic spy in the Cold War between Heaven and Hell.

Vampire Ltd, by Alex Harby
Average member rating: (26 ratings)

Nero Brashov, vampire and failed businessman, has revenge on his mind. He'll pose as a human, infiltrate his arch-enemy's corporation, and sabotage it from the inside. Just as soon as he's invited in, that...

VantaQuest, by vantablack

thrust into an unfamiliar world, you form an uneasy alliance with a small cactus in order to find the realm's caretaker and return peace to the multiverse... but not before getting baked, of course

Varronis Museum, by David Garcia
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

Well! It seemed that the house of Marcus Terentius Varro would be just a brief first stop in your joyful stroll through the city of Rome. But now it is clear that you will have to kill time in the courtyard...

Venus Meets Venus, by kaleidofish
Average member rating: (27 ratings)

Two women meet in a bar. This is not a love story. (Mature content warning.)

The Very Old Witch and the Turnip Girl, by Megan Stevens
Average member rating: (9 ratings)

The witch on the hill outside of town is retired. She threw in the towel long ago, when it became obvious that the humans don't need her help blighting and smiting each other. But the world isn't quite done...

Vesp, by Porpentine
Average member rating: (16 ratings)

Vesp: A History of Sapphic Scaphism by porpentine
Vespers, by Jason Devlin
Average member rating: (183 ratings)
It has been five days, now. Five days since I made the choice. Five days since I closed the gate. Really, there was no choice. Rovato was damned when the first spot appeared: when the first bloody cough...

Visit Skuga Lake - Masterpiece Edition, by Ryan Veeder
Average member rating: (15 ratings)

An unpaid intern learns to cast over forty spells as she skulks around a small town, looking for her boss. "Visit Skuga Lake" originally appeared in Even Some More Tales from Castle Balderstone. This...

Voices, by Aris Katsaris
Average member rating: (27 ratings)

Waiting for the Day Train, by Dee Cooke
Average member rating: (13 ratings)

It's been a long journey through the night. The last one, you hope. Today is the last chance you have to catch the day train - a train that will take you to a world of eternal daylight, where you will never...

The Warbler's Nest, by Jason McIntosh
Average member rating: (92 ratings)

Surely the reed bank counts as a wild place. While it gives you so much, you've never tended it, not really, not like you do with your garden. It's something like the forest, then, but much safer to search...

we, the remainder, by Charm Cochran
Average member rating: (10 ratings)

it's been twenty-four days since everyone else floated up. you haven't been out since then; Momma doesn't like you leaving the flat without her, and the effort of getting down the stairs hasn't been worth it...

The Weight of a Soul, by Chin Kee Yong
Average member rating: (31 ratings)

In a world of arcane mysteries, a young doctor's apprentice unravels a conspiracy most grim. The Weight of a Soul is a mystery-horror interactive novel inspired by IF classics like Blue Lacuna and...

Weird City Interloper, by C.E.J. Pacian
Average member rating: (60 ratings)

An interactive tale of strange conspiracy. Pull up your hood, lower your gaze and enter the city of Zendon. If you can gather enough information, you may just be able to change the course of history. (Weird...

What Heart Heard Of, Ghost Guessed, by Amanda Walker
Average member rating: (47 ratings)

Margaret, are you grieving Over Goldengrove unleaving… Come home to Goldengrove, a beautiful old house haunted by a lost soul. Uncover the secrets of your tormented past in a tale of unrequited love,...

What Isn't Saved (will be lost), by Cat Manning
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

Zoe is a neuroscientist who's researching methods of resurrecting the dead… by rebuilding them from their memories. When her girlfriend Sara dies, Zoe uses her experimental technology to save her--but...

What the Bus?, by Emery Joyce
Average member rating: (21 ratings)

Your commute is simple enough. Or at least, it should be. But today, the entire public transportation system seems to have it out for you--and is it just you, or does the geography keep... shifting?

Whoah Cubs Woe, by Andrew Schultz
Average member rating: (1 rating)

EctoComp petite mort entry. No baseball knowledge necessary.

Whom The Telling Changed, by Aaron A. Reed
Average member rating: (65 ratings)

The people had always gathered on moonless nights to hear the stories, since the time of their ancestors' ancestors. The heat of the fire and the glow in the storyteller's eyes made the past present, and the...

Will Not Let Me Go, by Stephen Granade
Average member rating: (76 ratings)

Dallas, Texas. 1996. Fred Strickland has Alzheimer's.

Winter, by communistsister, Elliot Herriman
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

There's something about yourself that you can't live with. Some part you think abhorrent, to be hidden away from sight. It's not a good absence. You've told yourself you feel better. But you don't really...

Winter Storm Draco, by Ryan Veeder
Average member rating: (30 ratings)

A chronicle of the events of the winter storm of the same name.

Winter Wonderland, by Laura Knauth
Average member rating: (46 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]

Witch's Girl, by Geoff Moore
Average member rating: (19 ratings)

With Those We Love Alive, by Porpentine and Brenda Neotenomie
Average member rating: (119 ratings)

no dreams written by porpentine scored by brenda neotenomie

The Wolf and Wheel, by Milo van Mesdag
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

A collection of interactive vignettes from a town in the grip of darkness, mystery, and horror. As a demo for The Last Night of Lotosk, The Wolf and Wheel introduces you to the rural village of Lotosk two...

Words of Power, by Stark Springs
Average member rating: (9 ratings)

In this fantasy game, you play as Thea Armstrong, a physics major who touched the wrong lever and got herself transported to the Kingdom of Ard in another world. You soon learn about magical Words of Power,...

Worlds Apart, by Suzanne Britton
Average member rating: (92 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...

Writers Are Not Strangers, by Lynda Clark
Average member rating: (12 ratings)

The meteorite could hit tomorrow, or in an hour, or six months from now. No-one seems to know, and so life goes on as normal. Although, for Alix, normal is relative. Please click the 'Show Stats' button for...

Yesterday, You Saved the World, by Astrid Dalmady
Average member rating: (17 ratings)

Today you are only Lucy Newman, eighth grader, C student, nobody. But yesterday, you were cosmic. Yesterday, you were a magical girl. Yesterday, you saved the world.

You Are Standing, by Aaron A. Reed
Average member rating: (15 ratings)

A bonus text game created specifically for the Ultimate Collector's Edition of 50 Years of Text Games; initially, available exclusively to backers on 3.5" floppy disc and/or as a download. The game was...

You Gen #9, by Mark Sample
Average member rating: (1 rating)

This is Chapter 1 of You Gen #9, a counterfactual game that imagines the invention of gene-editing technology in the 1920s. It was the height of the eugenics movement in the United States and your bloodline...

You May Not Escape!, by Charm Cochran
Average member rating: (10 ratings)

You are one of the unlucky many to enter the maze. Will you be one of the lucky few to escape? Contains brief strong language and some mature themes.

You Won't Get Her Back, by Andrew Schultz
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

You, Me and Coffee, by Florencia Minuzzi
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

Catch up with an old friend over coffee, discovering layers to your relationship that would otherwise be forgotten.

Your Death, in Four Acts, by Amanda Walker
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

Post-Comp version of my Petite Mort entry for EctoComp 2021. This version adapts all 4 of the Emily Dickinson poems I originally intended to use, but was unable to do in only 4 hours.

Your Prince Has Drowned, by S.L. Dove Cooper

Once upon a time... there was a young mermaid princess who wanted to become human. Or did she? You soon learn that things aren't, quite, what they seem in this short interactive meta-fictional CYOA game....

Zest, by Fear of Twine: Richard Goodness, lectronice, PaperBlurt
Average member rating: (19 ratings)

Hello young Limonista! It's the hottest week of the year, and ordinarily this would be a problem! But you work at the most popular lemonadery in Sufferette City, and the citizens depend on you to keep cool!

Zork I, by Marc Blank and Dave Lebling
Average member rating: (228 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...

Zozzled, by Steph Cherrywell
Average member rating: (49 ratings)

Hotsy-totsy! It's 1928 and you're madcap flapper Hazel Greene, tottering around the city's finest hotel with a gullet full of giggle juice...until a gaggle of ghosts shows up to spoil the fun by turning...

差异 // Disconnect, by Kelly Weng
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

One morning, your mother invites you to lunch. At first, you look forward to catching up with her. But what should be the simple act of communication only serves to remind you of the disconnect that exists.


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