Janice M. Eisen's Played Games
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| 9:05, by Adam Cadre Janice M. Eisen's rating:  Average member rating: (535 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. |
| Alabaster, by John Cater, Rob Dubbin, Eric Eve, Elizabeth Heller, Jayzee, Kazuki Mishima, Sarah Morayati, Mark Musante, Emily Short, Adam Thornton, Ziv Wities Janice M. Eisen's rating: Average member rating: (121 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.... |
| Anchorhead, by Michael Gentry Janice M. Eisen's rating: Average member rating: (394 ratings)You take a deep breath of salty air as the first raindrops begin to spatter the pavement, and the swollen, slate-colored clouds that blanket the sky mutter ominous portents amongst themselves over the little... |
| Ballyhoo, by Jeff O'Neill Average member rating: (44 ratings)Spangleland! Sawdust and glitter, buffoons and cotton candy! It's a place where your wildest dreams come true! At least, that's what you think... until you get behind the scenes at the big top. Then you... |
| Blue Lacuna, by Aaron A. Reed Janice M. Eisen's rating: Average member rating: (112 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... |
| Bronze, by Emily Short Janice M. Eisen's rating: Average member rating: (286 ratings)When the seventh day comes and it is time for you to return to the castle in the forest, your sisters cling to your sleeves. |
| Bureaucracy, by Douglas Adams, The Staff of Infocom Average member rating: (48 ratings)IMPORTANT! Our records show that you do not have a license to operate this software. Normally, you would be required to complete a License Application Form and mail it (with proof of purchase) to our... |
| Cape, by Bruno Dias Average member rating: (46 ratings)Cape is a superhero origin story for the cyberpunk dystopia we're all living in. |
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(4 ratings)| Choice of the Deathless, by Max Gladstone Janice M. Eisen's rating: Average member rating: (30 ratings)Battle demons and undead attorneys, and win souls to pay back your student loans! At the elite demonic-law firm of Varkath Nebuchadnezzar Stone, you'll depose a fallen god, find romance, and maybe even make... |
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(22 ratings)| Counterfeit Monkey, by Emily Short Janice M. Eisen's rating: Average member rating: (240 ratings)Anglophone Atlantis has been an independent nation since an April day in 1822, when a well-aimed shot from their depluralizing cannon reduced the British colonizing fleet to one ship. Since then, Atlantis... |
| Curses, by Graham Nelson Janice M. Eisen's rating: Average member rating: (132 ratings)"As "Curses" opens, you're hunting about in the attic of your family home, looking for a tatty old map of Paris (you're going on holiday tomorrow) and generally trying to avoid all the packing. Aunt Jemima... |
| Cutthroats, by Michael Berlyn, Jerry Wolper Average member rating: (22 ratings)You're about to get yourself into very deep trouble. You're a backwater island's top diver and foremost expert on local shipwrecks. Which makes you perfect for the job a band of the island's shadiest... |
| Deadline, by Marc Blank Average member rating: (58 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) |
| Delightful Wallpaper, by Andrew Plotkin ('Edgar O. Weyrd') Janice M. Eisen's rating: Average member rating: (78 ratings) |
| Distress, by Mike Snyder Janice M. Eisen's rating: Average member rating: (23 ratings)Lieutenant Huchess came to, an hour or so ago. That was around the time Runoma, blazing orange-hot so near this, its second planet, fell below the distant, jagged crag line. Ensign Covegn died not long after... |
| Dreadwine, by Eric Eve Average member rating: (6 ratings)An entry into the MCDream minicomp, this game tries to capture the essence of a vivid dream its author remembers having many decades ago. |
| The Dreamhold, by Andrew Plotkin Janice M. Eisen's rating: Average member rating: (175 ratings)The Dreamhold is interactive fiction — a classic text adventure. No graphics! No point-and-click! You type your commands, and read what happens next. The Dreamhold is designed for people who have never... |
| Earth and Sky, by Paul O'Brian Average member rating: (82 ratings)It's been almost a month since your parents disappeared. One Tuesday, they just didn't come home, and there's been no sign of them since. For the University and the rest of the town, the mystery is beginning... |
| Earth and Sky 2: Another Earth, Another Sky, by Paul O'Brian Janice M. Eisen's rating: Average member rating: (54 ratings) |
| Earth And Sky 3: Luminous Horizon, by Paul O'Brian Janice M. Eisen's rating: Average member rating: (41 ratings) |
| Enchanter, by Marc Blank, Dave Lebling Average member rating: (109 ratings)In Enchanter, the first of a spellbinding series in the tradition of Zork, you are a novice magician whom Fate has chosen to do singlehanded combat with a dark and fierce power. But worldly weapons will... |
| An Evening at the Ransom Woodingdean Museum House, by Ryan Veeder Janice M. Eisen's rating: Average member rating: (24 ratings)Karen Chambers gives tours in a restored Victorian home. |
| Fail-Safe, by Jon Ingold Janice M. Eisen's rating: Average member rating: (112 ratings) |
| Fallen London, by Failbetter Games Janice M. Eisen's rating: Average member rating: (57 ratings)Poet or Assassin? Lover or Spy? Choose your fate in Fallen London, a gothic metropolis a mile beneath the surface of the earth. An epic adventure where you live a sometimes horrific, often curious, but... |
| Finding Martin, by G.K. Wennstrom Janice M. Eisen's rating: Average member rating: (10 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... |
| First Draft of the Revolution, by Emily Short, Liza Daly and inkle Janice M. Eisen's rating: Average member rating: (55 ratings)It is dangerous to deceive a husband of magic-using rank... Juliette has been banished for the summer to a village above Grenoble: a few Alpine houses, a deep lake, blue sky, and no society. Now she writes... |
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(5 ratings)| Galatea, by Emily Short Average member rating: (335 ratings)Emily Short's description: A conversation with a work of art. "47. Galatea. White Thasos marble. Non-commissioned work by the late Pygmalion of Cyprus. (The artist has since committed suicide.) Originally... |
| Glass, by Emily Short Janice M. Eisen's rating: Average member rating: (106 ratings)The Prince sits awkwardly on the couch, holding his glass slipper and trying to keep it from crushing. Lucinda and Theodora have the ends of the same couch, and they are taking turns seeing who can bend... |
| The Gostak, by Carl Muckenhoupt Janice M. Eisen's rating: Average member rating: (90 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... |
| Hadean Lands, by Andrew Plotkin Janice M. Eisen's rating: Average member rating: (67 ratings)Marooned in an alien, airless wasteland -- your starship fractured -- your crewmates missing. Can an apprentice alchemist learn how to survive? |
| The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams and Steve Meretzky Janice M. Eisen's rating: Average member rating: (185 ratings)Don't Panic! Relax, because everything you need to know about playing The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is contained in the pages of this manual. In this story, you will be Arthur Dent, a rather ordinary... |
| Hoist Sail for the Heliopause and Home, by Andrew Plotkin Janice M. Eisen's rating: Average member rating: (84 ratings)A far-future story of discovery. |
| Hollywood Hijinx, by Dave Anderson, Liz Cyr-Jones Average member rating: (32 ratings)Vampire Penguins. A Corpse Line. Meltdown on Elm Street. Who could forget these classic Hollywood movies produced by your uncle, Buddy Burbank? But his greatest masterpiece has yet to be experienced...... |
| I-0, by Anonymous Average member rating: (157 ratings)Stranded on Interstate Zero after your car broke down, you are miles away from the last sign of civilization. It's twenty minutes to noon and the temperature is well over 120°F. It's beginning to look like... |
| Infidel, by Michael Berlyn Average member rating: (61 ratings)Infidel finds you marooned by your followers in the heart of the deadly Egyptian Desert. A soldier of fortune by trade, you've come hither in search of a great lost pyramid and its untold riches. Now, alone,... |
| Leather Goddesses of Phobos, by Steve Meretzky Janice M. Eisen's rating: Average member rating: (70 ratings)And now... the next exciting episode of humanoids in space! How did you, a regular at Joe's Bar in Upper Sandusky, Ohio, end up on a Martian moon? Can you prevent the hideous space creature from abducting... |
| Losing Your Grip, by Stephen Granade Janice M. Eisen's rating: Average member rating: (22 ratings) |
| The Lurking Horror, by Dave Lebling Janice M. Eisen's rating: Average member rating: (92 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. |
| A Mind Forever Voyaging, by Steve Meretzky Janice M. Eisen's rating: Average member rating: (116 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... |
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(25 ratings)| Nord and Bert Couldn't Make Head or Tail of It, by Jeff O'Neill Average member rating: (59 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... |
| Photopia, by Adam Cadre Janice M. Eisen's rating: Average member rating: (559 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." |
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(110 ratings)| Planetfall, by Steve Meretzky Janice M. Eisen's rating: Average member rating: (121 ratings)"Join the Patrol, and see the Galaxy!" You took the poster's advice, bait and all, and marched right over to the recruitment station near your home on the backwater planet of Gallium. Images of exotic... |
| Risorgimento Represso, by Michael J. Coyne Janice M. Eisen's rating: Average member rating: (48 ratings)You play as an Oxbridge student who, during a particularly boring lecture, falls through a green portal under their desk into the cluttered library of the wizard Ninario. Ninny was trying to summon a... |
| Savoir-Faire, by Emily Short Janice M. Eisen's rating: Average member rating: (132 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... |
| Seastalker, by Stu Galley, Jim Lawrence Janice M. Eisen's rating: Average member rating: (28 ratings)There's something down there in the ocean, something terrifying. And you have to face it - because only you can save the Aquadome, the world's first undersea research station. The alarm sounds and your... |
| Shade, by Andrew Plotkin Janice M. Eisen's rating: Average member rating: (413 ratings)"A one-room game set in your apartment." [--blurb from Competition Aught-Zero] |
| Sorcerer, by Steve Meretzky Average member rating: (67 ratings)Sorcerer, the second of a spellbinding fantasy series in the tradition of Zork, takes you on a magical tour through the darker side of Zorkian enchantment. Your journey begins with a cryptic diary - the last... |
| The Space Under the Window, by Andrew Plotkin Janice M. Eisen's rating: Average member rating: (98 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] |
| Spellbreaker, by Dave Lebling Average member rating: (58 ratings)Spellbreaker, the riveting conclusion to the Enchanter trilogy, explores the mysterious underpinnings of the Zorkian universe. A world founded on sorcery suddenly finds its magic failing, and only you,... |
| Starcross, by Dave Lebling Average member rating: (50 ratings)Starcross, Infocom's science fiction mind-bender, launches you headlong into the year 2186 and the depths of space. And not without good reason, for you are destined to rendezvous with a gargantuan starship... |
| Stationfall, by Steve Meretzky Average member rating: (46 ratings)What a trotting krip! Since your incredible heroics in Planetfall, where you risked life and limb to save the planet Resida, things have hardly changed at all. Sure, you were promoted to Lieutenant First... |
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(36 ratings)| Suspect, by Dave Lebling Average member rating: (23 ratings)You're guilty until proven innocent. You have walked into a hotbed of deceit and trickery. And now they're accusing you of something you couldn't have done. But they have proof that you did it. "You're a... |
| Suspended, by Michael Berlyn Janice M. Eisen's rating: Average member rating: (43 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... |
| Suveh Nux, by David Fisher Janice M. Eisen's rating: Average member rating: (225 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. |
| Transparent, by Hanon Ondricek Janice M. Eisen's rating: 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.... |
| Trinity, by Brian Moriarty Janice M. Eisen's rating: Average member rating: (102 ratings)You're neither an adventurer nor a professional thrill-seeker. You're simply an American tourist in London, enjoying a relaxing stroll through the famous Kensington Gardens. When World War III starts and the... |
| Varicella, by Adam Cadre Janice M. Eisen's rating: Average member rating: (131 ratings)You are Primo Varicella, Palace Minister at the Palazzo del Piemonte. This title is unlikely to impress anyone. Piedmont is the laughingstock of the Carolingian League, and the Palace Ministry has devolved... |
| Winter Storm Draco, by Ryan Veeder Average member rating: (26 ratings)A chronicle of the events of the winter storm of the same name. |
| Wishbringer, by Brian Moriarty Average member rating: (109 ratings)It's an ordinary day in your ordinary little town, and you've been performing your ordinary mail clerk's duties in an altogether ordinary way. But there's something quite extraordinary in today's mail. It's... |
| The Witness, by Stu Galley Average member rating: (28 ratings)February 1938, Los Angeles. FDR's New Deal is finally rolling. Hitler's rolling, too; this time through Austria. But as Chief Detective for a quiet burgh on the outskirts of L.A., you've got other fish to... |
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(32 ratings)| Zork I, by Marc Blank and Dave Lebling Janice M. Eisen's rating: Average member rating: (218 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... |
| Zork II, by Dave Lebling, Marc Blank Average member rating: (97 ratings)The Wizard appears, floating nonchalantly in the air beside you. He grins sideways at you. The Wizard incants "Fantasize," but nothing happens. He shakes his wand. Nothing happens. With a slightly... |
| Zork III, by Dave Lebling, Marc Blank Average member rating: (77 ratings)An old, oddly youthful man turns toward you slowly. His long, silver hair dances about him as a fresh breeze blows. "You have reached the final test, my friend! You are proved clever and powerful, but this... |
| Zork Zero, by Steve Meretzky Average member rating: (59 ratings)The Great Underground Empire is in its heyday. Upscale condos crowd the massive caverns. Subterranean highways stretch from Aragain to the Fublio Valley. And no adventurer has yet set foot in the open field... |
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