9:05, by Adam Cadre Kake's rating: Average member rating: (544 ratings) The phone rings. Oh, no — how long have you been asleep? Sure, it was a tough night, but... This is bad. This is very bad. The phone rings. |
Across The Stars: The Ralckor Incident, by Dark Star and Peter Mattsson Kake's rating: Average member rating: (29 ratings) In the year 5367 IR, humanity is well established throughout the galaxy. It has been over twenty-thousand years since the Zal'tacs passed through our solar system, trading their technology for our food and... |
Aisle, by Sam Barlow Kake's rating: Average member rating: (326 ratings) "Late Thursday night. You've had a hard day and the last thing you need is this: shopping. Luckily, the place is pretty empty and you're progressing rapidly. On to the next aisle... Aisle started out as a... |
Being Andrew Plotkin, by J. Robinson Wheeler Kake's rating: Average member rating: (58 ratings) "Zarf? you think to yourself. Could it be? The one and only Zarf? Xyzzy Award winner? IF Competition winner? The mighty Inscruitable One? Gosh. What it must be like to be Zarf... You begin to crawl forward,... |
Bronze, by Emily Short Kake's rating: Average member rating: (290 ratings) When the seventh day comes and it is time for you to return to the castle in the forest, your sisters cling to your sleeves. |
Byzantine Perspective, by Lea Albaugh Kake's rating: Average member rating: (57 ratings) Your task is simple enough. Just nab the chalice. |
Caroline, by Kristian Kronstrand Average member rating: (16 ratings) Let Caroline take you by the hand. |
Common Ground, by Stephen Granade Kake's rating: Average member rating: (30 ratings) |
The Crescent City at the Edge of Disaster, by Emily Short Kake's rating: Average member rating: (14 ratings) A Speed-IF featuring New Orleans, Emeril, and armed hamsters. |
Damnatio Memoriae, by Emily Short Kake's rating: Average member rating: (58 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... |
A Day for Fresh Sushi, by Emily Short Kake's rating: Average member rating: (99 ratings) No time for fantasy. Must feed fish. |
Deadline Enchanter, by Alan DeNiro Kake's rating: Average member rating: (58 ratings) |
The Ebb and Flow of the Tide, by Peter Nepstad Average member rating: (15 ratings) You have done a horrible thing, so horrible that burial will be denied you, either in soil or sea, neither can there be any hell for you. You wait for some hours, knowing this. Then your friends come for... |
The Edifice, by Lucian P. Smith Kake's rating: Average member rating: (84 ratings) "Something new in your everyday hunter-gatherer routine: where did this strange edifice come from? Dare you enter and explore the secrets of this... thing, or do you try to face your enemies? Like you have a... |
Escapade!, by Juhana Leinonen Kake's rating: Average member rating: (18 ratings) An entry in the 2008 One Room Game Competition. You play the bumbling sidekick of the heroic Captain McBrawn; while trying to carry out a task he's set you, you are captured by the Screaming Communists and... |
Final Selection, by Sam Gordon Kake's rating: Average member rating: (18 ratings) |
Floatpoint, by Emily Short Kake's rating: Average member rating: (101 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... |
For a Change, by Dan Schmidt Kake's rating: Average member rating: (117 ratings) "The sun has gone. It must be brought. You have a rock." [--blurb from Competition '99] |
Galatea, by Emily Short Kake's rating: Average member rating: (346 ratings) Emily Short's description: A conversation with a work of art. "47. Galatea. White Thasos marble. Non-commissioned work by the late Pygmalion of Cyprus. (The artist has since committed suicide.) Originally... |
The Gostak, by Carl Muckenhoupt Kake's rating: Average member rating: (93 ratings) "Finally, here you are. At the delcot of tondam, where doshes deave. But the doshery lutt is crenned with glauds. Glauds! How rorm it would be to pell back to the bewl and distunk them, distunk the whole... |
Gourmet, by Aaron A. Reed and Chad Barb Kake's rating: Average member rating: (55 ratings) Missing employees, wily crustaceans, malfunctioning kitchen equipment and a terminal food shortage, all on the night the most important culinary critic in the world has chosen to review your debut... |
HHH.exe, by Robot Parking Average member rating: (17 ratings) The disk drive uttered a sickening crack as you tried to access it. Somehow, you were able to run the single program installed on it, HHH.exe. It's a game, apparently. By turns unfun and... |
Jesse Stavro's Doorway, by Marshal Tenner Winter Average member rating: (13 ratings) Jordan is looking for his friend, Jesse, who is in hiding from the government. Picking up the trail, he discovers that Jesse is following the Grateful Dead on tour, but as Jordan immerses himself into the... |
Lord Bellwater's Secret, by Sam Gordon Kake's rating: Average member rating: (71 ratings) |
Lost Pig, by Admiral Jota Kake's rating: Average member rating: (500 ratings) Pig lost! Boss say that it Grunk fault. Say Grunk forget about closing gate. Maybe boss right. Grunk not remember forgetting, but maybe Grunk just forget. -- IFComp 2007 blurb |
Marble Madness, by Emily Short Kake's rating: Average member rating: (16 ratings) |
The Moon Watch, by Paolo Maroncelli and Alessandro Peretti Kake's rating: Average member rating: (9 ratings) An entry in the 2008 One Room Game Competition. You're an ordinary Soviet citizen, but to your surprise you are selected to play a highly important part in the defence of the Motherland - and then the crisis... |
Muse: An Autumn Romance, by Christopher Huang Kake's rating: Average member rating: (35 ratings) Early September, 1886. Autumn. The Victorian Era. The Rev. Dawson, 59, is off to the Continent and an unexpected Romance... [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue] |
Photopia, by Adam Cadre Kake's rating: Average member rating: (568 ratings) "Will you read me a story?" "Read you a story? What fun would that be? I've got a better idea: let's tell a story together." |
Rameses, by Stephen Bond Kake's rating: Average member rating: (127 ratings) |
Savoir-Faire, by Emily Short Kake's rating: Average member rating: (134 ratings) The beautiful life is always damned, they say. As for you, you've overexpended yourself: fifteen years of prominence, champagne, carriage rides in the Tuileries, having your name whispered behind... |
Shade, by Andrew Plotkin Kake's rating: Average member rating: (421 ratings) "A one-room game set in your apartment." [--blurb from Competition Aught-Zero] |
Shrapnel, by Adam Cadre Kake's rating: Average member rating: (170 ratings) |
Suveh Nux, by David Fisher Kake's rating: Average member rating: (228 ratings) An entry in the 2007 One Room Game Competition. You play a magician's servant who gets trapped in your master's vault; you'll need to learn some of his tricks if you want to get out. |
Taunting Donut, by Kalev Tait Kake's rating: Average member rating: (21 ratings) One-room game where you need to get an out-of-reach donut tied to the ceiling of your exitless room. |
Urban Conflict, by Sam Gordon Kake's rating: Average member rating: (7 ratings) An entry in the 2007 One Room Game Competition. Your character is a soldier who was dragged into a bombed-out building by an armed NPC after sustaining a serious injury in a bomb blast. |
Venus Meets Venus, by kaleidofish Average member rating: (26 ratings) Two women meet in a bar. This is not a love story. (Mature content warning.) |
Violet, by Jeremy Freese Kake's rating: Average member rating: (389 ratings) Calm down. All you have to do is write a thousand words and everything will be fine. And you have all day, except it's already noon. [blurb from IF Comp 2008] |
Walker & Silhouette, by C.E.J. Pacian Kake's rating: Average member rating: (53 ratings) Team up with a dashing detective and an iconoclastic flapper to solve absurd and unfathomable crimes in this interactive story - where you control the action just by typing or clicking highlighted words in... |