500 Apocalypses, by Phantom Williams Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (24 ratings) 500 Apocalypses is a web installation memorializing collapsed civilizations from across our universe. This interactive space is designed to allow contemplative engagement with five hundred curated entries... |
69,105 Keys, by David Welbourn Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (80 ratings) There's just one room. How hard can it be? Just unlock the door. Oh. There's 69,105 keys. |
9:05, by Adam Cadre Audiart'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. |
Ad Verbum, by Nick Montfort Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (136 ratings) "With the cantankerous Wizard of Wordplay evicted from his mansion, the worthless plot can now be redeveloped. The city regulations declare, however, that the rip-down job can't proceed until all the items... |
Adventure, by William Crowther and Donald Woods Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (99 ratings) |
Adventureland, by Scott Adams Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (45 ratings) Wander through an enchanted realm and try to uncover the 13 lost treasures. There are wild animals and magical beings to reckon with as well as many other perils and mysteries. WARNING! The Z-Code conversion... |
Adventurer's Consumer Guide, by Øyvind Thorsby Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (32 ratings) |
Aether Apeiron: The Zephyra Chronicles, by Hippodamus & Company Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (10 ratings) To understand the life of Zephyra, my Parthenos and protector, I have to take you back many years. We need to return to Kyzikos, the heavily-wooded little moon that orbits Arctonnesus, the giant... |
Aisle, by Sam Barlow Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (326 ratings) "Late Thursday night. You've had a hard day and the last thing you need is this: shopping. Luckily, the place is pretty empty and you're progressing rapidly. On to the next aisle... Aisle started out as a... |
Alabaster, by John Cater, Rob Dubbin, Eric Eve, Elizabeth Heller, Jayzee, Kazuki Mishima, Sarah Morayati, Mark Musante, Emily Short, Adam Thornton, Ziv Wities Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (124 ratings) The Queen has told you to return with her heart in a box. Snow White has made you promise to make other arrangements. Now that you're alone in the forest, it's hard to know which of the two women to trust.... |
All I Do is Dream, by Megan Stevens Audiart's rating: 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 Roads, by Jon Ingold Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (156 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] |
Amazon, by Michael Crichton Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (5 ratings) The Amazon jungle. Volcanic, dangerous, still unexplored. Home of the jaguar. The alligator. Two hundred species of poisonous snakes. And nataives whose culinary habits, while only rumored, make you very... |
Anchorhead, by Michael Gentry Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (409 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... |
Ariadne in Aeaea, by Víctor Ojuel Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (25 ratings) Isle of Aeaea, the eastern Aegean. 3,500 years ago. In the northern wastes, the Achaeans have a new and warlike chieftain. Palace after palace is falling to his armies. On the shores of Crete, the Minoan... |
Arrival, or Attack of the B-Movie Clichés, by Stephen Granade Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (34 ratings) |
Arthur: The Quest for Excalibur, by Bob Bates Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (30 ratings) "Whoso pulleth out this sword of this stone, is rightwise king of England." In the days before Camelot, when magic and evil rule England, a sword sheathed in stone appears in a quiet churchyard. Engraved... |
The Ascent of the Gothic Tower, by Ryan Veeder Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (34 ratings) A story of mild and non-debilitating obsession. |
Asylum, by cpuguy89 Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (18 ratings) A simple "Escape the room" style game. It is the first of my games that is actually worth publishing. It is not intended to be difficult, and was created for those who are just getting into interactive... |
Augmented Fourth, by Brian Uri! Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (67 ratings) WANTED: Amateur musicians to serve the Royal Court. Must provide own instrument and be inured to copious constructive criticism. Impress your friends! Meet the King! Apply in person at the Castle, located on... |
Aunts and Butlers, by Robin Johnson Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (45 ratings) It's 1920, you're a minor aristocrat fallen on hard times, and your wretched Aunt Cedilla is on the warpath. A Wodehousean comedy of manners, manors, mysterious butlers and unfriendly poodles. |
Babel, by Ian Finley Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (156 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... |
Back to the Future: Marty Quest, by George Gipe, Ryan North and Hulk Handsome Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (6 ratings) You are Marty McFly, 80s teen! You are stuck in a detention room after school. You need to escape the room otherwise you can’t play in your band for tryouts tonight! The YMCA is counting on you! Inspired... |
Backup, by Gregory Weir Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (6 ratings) In a desolate outpost, you are the backup program, code of last resort as it were. Communications with the outside world have been severed; encrypted data is flowing across your network; political... |
Bad Machine, by Dan Shiovitz Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (15 ratings) |
The Baker of Shireton, by Hanon Ondricek Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (20 ratings) You are the Baker of Shireton. The bread you bake is delicious. Raiders are coming. |
Bear Creek, Part 1, by Wes Modes Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (7 ratings) Bear Creek, August 1975. Looking back, it was that summer, or maybe just that one day that changed everything. KC and the Sunshine Band was on the radio and you were eight years old. A curious daydreamer, on... |
A Bear's Night Out, by David Dyte Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (69 ratings) "Tomorrow is the big Teddy Bear party, and you must definitely not let your owner forget about it..." [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue] |
Beet the Devil, by Carolyn VanEseltine Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (35 ratings) Your dog is gone. She must be brought. You have a beet (and some other vegetables). |
Bell Park, Youth Detective, by Brendan Patrick Hennessy Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (61 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. |
The Bibliophile, by Marshal Tenner Winter Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (10 ratings) “Azathoth is a cosmic horror; a force outside of known physics, Higgins.” Doctor Coffey explains, “It is the embodiment of chaos and destruction and now Dennison has found a way to bring this nightmare... |
Bigger Than You Think, by Andrew Plotkin Audiart's rating: 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:... |
Birdland, by Brendan Patrick Hennessy Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (173 ratings) Fourteen-year-old Bridget's summer camp experience takes a turn for the bizarre when her otherworldly bird dreams start bleeding into reality. |
Black Rock City, by Jim Munroe Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (18 ratings) You're at Burning Man, with six choices to make before the world goes white. Choose wisely. Or wildly. The dust storm won't care. Zero puzzles, sixty-four endings. Cover: Trish Lamanna |
Bobby and Bonnie, by Xavid Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (16 ratings) A light children's-story-ish adventure inexplicably starring rabbits. |
Bonehead, by Sean M. Shore Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (15 ratings) September 23, 1908. Win this game, and your Giants will have the National League pennant almost within reach. You've done your part. You've just made a base hit, putting McCormick on third with the winning... |
Bronze, by Emily Short Audiart'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 Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (57 ratings) Your task is simple enough. Just nab the chalice. |
Captain Verdeterre's Plunder, by Ryan Veeder Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (51 ratings) You should carry the bag. I'm more of a delegator. |
Castle Adventure!, by Ben Chenoweth Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (16 ratings) Welcome to Castle Adventure! Written and directed by Ben Chenoweth (Copyright 2002 Grinnan Berrit Software). Adapted to Inform 7 by Ben Chenoweth, 2012. You have to rescue a princess of legendary beauty who... |
Chlorophyll, by Steph Cherrywell Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (61 ratings) |
Color the Truth, by mathbrush Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (76 ratings) Rosalita Morales is dead, and you have to figure out who did it. The four people closest to her had the motive and the means: her partner, her secretary, her ex-husband, and her sister. Re-live their... |
Counterfeit Monkey, by Emily Short Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (253 ratings) Anglophone Atlantis has been an independent nation since an April day in 1822, when a well-aimed shot from their depluralizing cannon reduced the British colonizing fleet to one ship. Since then, Atlantis... |
Dash Slapney, Patrol Leader , by Andrew Schultz Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (4 ratings) You woke up late for the Klondike Derby you stand no chance of winning...unless you and your ragtag, undersized patrol can pull out a win with luck. And a bunch of items lying around your room. |
A Day for Soft Food, by Tod Levi Audiart's rating: 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... |
Dead Like Ants, by C.E.J. Pacian Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (60 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... |
Delphina's House, by Alice Grove Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (13 ratings) A girl must say goodbye to her home. But there's time for one last adventure.... |
Detectiveland, by Robin Johnson Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (56 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... |
Dial C for Cupcakes, by Ryan Veeder Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (33 ratings) A cantankerous ex-cop calls in a favor from his old partner. |
Endless, Nameless, by Adam Cadre Audiart's rating: 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... |
Enlightenment, by Taro Ogawa Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (42 ratings) "The intrepid Adventurer has escaped the caverns. Nought remains to block a successful escape but this troll here. Hmmm. A one-room adventure. The author recommends this for people who grew up on Zork II and... |
Escape From Santaland, by Jason Ermer Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (22 ratings) Ugh. Christmastime at the mall. The last place you want to be, during the worst time of year to be there. |
Eurydice, by Anonymous Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (37 ratings) A short game about grief, with occasional snakes. |
Fair, by Hanon Ondricek Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (28 ratings) As the most famous self-published Science Fiction author residing in Hillview, you are eminently qualified to judge their annual Elementary School Science Fair. |
Fallout Shelter, by Marshal Tenner Winter (as Histroy Gloam) Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (11 ratings) "Screw the world!" you said to yourself as you slammed shut the hatch door. You leave behind a tenure at the local college, an estranged ex-wife, and nothing but contempt for a town that basically shunned... |
Final Selection, by Sam Gordon Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (18 ratings) |
Fine-Tuned, by Dennis Jerz Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (23 ratings) "Can Troy, the handsome daredevil autoist, live up to his "sterling" reputation? What secret threatens the career of the talented singer, Miss Melody Sweet? With the help of the mechanical genius Aloysius... |
The Fire Tower, by Jacqueline A. Lott Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (50 ratings) |
Firebird, by Bonnie Montgomery Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (32 ratings) "Firebird is based on the Old Russian folk tales that inspired the Stravinsky piece of the same name. You are Prince Ivan, and have been charged by your father, the tsar, to find the Firebird that has been... |
Fish Bowl, by Ethan Rupp and Joshua Rupp Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (30 ratings) You are a beachcomber living by the shore. Today, you wake to find an empty fish bowl in your home, and don't remember how it got there. You try to piece your memory back together, but soon learn what the... |
Foo Foo, by Buster Hudson Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (65 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 a Change, by Dan Schmidt Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (117 ratings) "The sun has gone. It must be brought. You have a rock." [--blurb from Competition '99] |
Forever Meow, by Moe Zilla Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (14 ratings) You're a warm cat who's about to have a very bad day... |
Four in One, by J. Robinson Wheeler Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (9 ratings) "Do you realize how behind schedule and over budget this picture is?" "Look, Mr. Thalberg," you say. "All I've gotta do is get the master shot in the can. So, maybe it'll take twenty takes. But when I get... |
Glass, by Emily Short Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (108 ratings) The Prince sits awkwardly on the couch, holding his glass slipper and trying to keep it from crushing. Lucinda and Theodora have the ends of the same couch, and they are taking turns seeing who can bend... |
The Gostak, by Carl Muckenhoupt Audiart'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... |
Groove Billygoat, by Hanon Ondricek (as Efrain Finnell) Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (6 ratings) The commissioner usually takes a blind eye to the burnouts who writhe at the feet of Muse Terpsichore, but when something happens it's always you. You are the one who knows your way around the parquet floors... |
Guess the Verb!, by Leonard Richardson Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (29 ratings) "Now you too can GUESS THE VERB for fun and prizes! Read evocative and amusing room descriptions while manipulating interesting objects! Interact with the simulated motives and desires of quirky NPCs! No... |
Guilded Youth, by Jim Munroe Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (49 ratings) You play Tony, a fourteen-year old thief who needs some help looting the legendary Oakville Manor. Luckily it's the 1980s and finding fellow adventurers is just a modem squeal away... |
Hallow Eve, by Michael Wayne Phipps Jr. Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (8 ratings) You are about to drive out to meet some friends for a camping trip on Halloween night. Everything seems to be going according to plan, but the unexpected can always occur. If it did, you would need to rely... |
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams and Steve Meretzky Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (188 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... |
HOLY ROBOT EMPIRE, by Caleb Wilson (as Ralph Gide) Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (16 ratings) You are going to find the Robopope and then kiss its papal ring, or your name isn’t Morgen Santamore. |
How to Win at Rock Paper Scissors, by Brian Kwak Audiart's rating: 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. |
Hunger Daemon, by Sean M. Shore Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (65 ratings) It's not the end of the world, and you're to blame. Better get on that. But man, it sure would be nice to get a bite to eat first. |
Indigo, by Emily Short Audiart's rating: 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... |
Inside the Facility, by Arthur DiBianca Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (64 ratings) Your friend Mike thinks no one can infiltrate THE FACILITY, but you're going to prove him wrong. A light puzzle game. In the author's opinion, it's totally family-friendly. (If you're playing the Browser... |
Jesse Stavro's Doorway, by Marshal Tenner Winter Audiart's rating: 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... |
The Life (and Deaths) of Doctor M, by Michael D. Hilborn Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (30 ratings) Your vision clears as you gently land in an endless landscape. There is the wind, a bleak and chill thing. And there is your sense of uncertainty: You don't know which way to go. Or, maybe, which way you... |
Little Blue Men, by Michael S. Gentry Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (71 ratings) This game is a joke. This game is a warning. This game is a satire. This game is inspired in equal parts by Vaclav Havel's "The Memorandum" and Hunter S. Thompson's "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas". This... |
The Little Lifeform That Could, by Fade Manley Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (22 ratings) A little microbe in the primordial ooze has grand dreams! Dreams of survival, by and large, but small goals lead to large ones. Can you climb your way out of the ooze onto the land, into civilization, and up... |
The Lost Islands of Alabaz, by Michael Gentry Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (12 ratings) Once upon a time, our Kingdom was much larger than it is now, reaching across all ten islands of the Alabaz Archipelago. But then a terrible curse fell upon us. A thick, gray mist covered the sea, hiding... |
Lost Pig, by Admiral Jota Audiart'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 |
Make It Good, by Jon Ingold Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (86 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... |
Mammal, by Joey Jones Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (20 ratings) The lizards have taken over. You, a lowly human slave, are tasked with eradicating all mammalian traces from the Don Quixote Memorial Museum. (Written for the Apollo 18+20 tribute album project.) |
Manlandia, by Rob Chateau Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (14 ratings) Manlandia is a utopian interactive fiction that describes an isolated society composed entirely of men, who reproduce via parthenogenesis (asexual reproduction). The result is an ideal social order: free of... |
Map, by Ade McT Audiart's rating: 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. |
Max Blaster and Doris de Lightning Against the Parrot Creatures of Venus, by Dan Shiovitz and Emily Short Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (15 ratings) Someplace on Venus a secret weapon is being built that threatens Earth with total destruction. You and your comrade must penetrate the Xavian base and save the world -- before it's too late! |
Mentula Macanus: Apocolocyntosis, by One of the Bruces and Drunken Bastard Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (33 ratings) Stiffy Makane, or rather his ancestor Mentula Macanus, is here subjected to an increasingly-unlikely series of crudely sexual romps through the ancient world. It's sort of like the Satyricon, except not... |
Metamorphoses, by Emily Short Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (133 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... |
The Meteor, the Stone and a Long Glass of Sherbet, by Graham Nelson (as Angela M. Horns) Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (51 ratings) Another day wasted as guest of the Empress, a wretchedly long tour of the breath-taking Boreal Falls, conducted as ever by the Lady Amilia. As if she weren't bad enough, an honour guard of soldiers, their... |
Möbius, by J.D. Clemens Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (35 ratings) Another mission. Just when you had settled in for a nap. |
Muse: An Autumn Romance, by Christopher Huang Audiart'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] |
Nautilisia, by Ryan Veeder Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (41 ratings) Your friend claims to be in a coma. |
Niney, by Daniel Spitz Audiart's rating: 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... |
Nord and Bert Couldn't Make Head or Tail of It, by Jeff O'Neill Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (60 ratings) You are standing at the edge of a barren field. A steady wind, having secreted away the topsoil, is now drifting sandy dirt across the plain. A scant sign of life here is a freshly-burrowed molehill on the... |
On the Farm, by Lenny Pitts Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (18 ratings) "Visiting Grandma and Grandpa on the farm for the weekend is not your idea of a good time. Mom has told you countless stories about the great adventures she had growing up there. Days spent feeding the... |
PataNoir, by Simon Christiansen Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (58 ratings) The Baron's daughter is missing, and you are the man to find her. No problem. With your inexhaustible arsenal of hard-boiled similes, there is nothing you can't handle. |
The People's Glorious Revolutionary Text Adventure Game, by Taylor Vaughan Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (56 ratings) Sure, there's only five of you against a world full of reactionaries, but you have Revolutionary Spirit! You can't possibly fail. Nothing can stand in your way! Now if only you could find your Revolutionary... |
Persistence of Memory, by Jason Dyer Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (7 ratings) |
Photopia, by Adam Cadre Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (568 ratings) "Will you read me a story?" "Read you a story? What fun would that be? I've got a better idea: let's tell a story together." |
Planetfall, by Steve Meretzky Audiart'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... |
The Plant, by Michael J. Roberts Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (34 ratings) You're on a business trip with your boss, driving down a deserted highway in the middle of nowhere, when the car breaks down. You set off on foot seeking help, but you soon find yourself in the middle of a... |
The Play, by Dietrich Squinkifer (Squinky) Audiart's rating: 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... |
Pogoman GO!, by Jack Welch and Ben Collins-Sussman Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (25 ratings) The world is full of Pogomen, and now that you don’t have a job or family to worry about, you might as well get back to it! |
Portcullis, by Robin Johnson Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (14 ratings) Your home town, Portcullis, has been taken over by an evil sorcerer (because that's what evil sorcerers do) and a party of adventurers has arrived to overthrow him (because that's what adventurers do.) An... |
The Promise, by Sean Huxter Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (9 ratings) Your village lives a harsh life of perpetual winter and has for as long as you can remember. As a young boy unable to go on the hunt, you may find that, with almost everyone away, you can be of some use to... |
Pytho's Mask, by Emily Short Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (71 ratings) On the Night of the Comet, the usual astrological bonds do not hold, and the order of the universe is threatened. It is a time made for rebels and usurpers, and all who would claim the kingdom for... |
The Queen's Menagerie, by Chandler Groover Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (40 ratings) These beasts won't feed themselves. A puzzleless exhibition. Ten to fifteen minutes. |
Ralph, by Miron Schmidt Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (16 ratings) In this short excourse you play a dog. It doesn't matter what race, though it's probably a male dog (hence the name 'Ralph'). What matters is that you know you have buried a bone last year, which you now... |
Robin & Orchid, by Ryan Veeder and Emily Boegheim Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (65 ratings) High school journalists spend the night in a church, investigating reports of a ghost. |
The Roscovian Palladium, by Ryan Veeder Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (21 ratings) Humans are constantly appropriating rat culture. King Roscoe thought to use this to his advantage. |
Rover's Day Out, by Jack Welch and Ben Collins-Sussman Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (56 ratings) Three hundred years ago, the Brazilian Space Agency discovered a rocky exoplanet only 38 light years from Earth. With a surface temperature of 1200 Celsius and nine times Earth gravity, it's hardly the sort... |
Savoir-Faire, by Emily Short Audiart'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... |
Scroll Thief, by Daniel M. Stelzer Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (17 ratings) Not a single spell! After two full years of study! Every Enchanter—every mortal with the power to change very nature of the universe with their words—has a spell book! Filled with words of power... |
The Shoe Dept., by Aquanet Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (11 ratings) What has two tongues but can't talk and follows us everywhere we go? Our lovely, leathery shoes, of course, the absolute last thing any person would ever expect to harbor a terrible secret. Fifteen-year-old... |
Shuffling Around, by Andrew Schultz (as Ned Yompus) Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (25 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... |
Six, by Wade Clarke Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (42 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 Stories, by Neil K. Guy Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (25 ratings) After losing control of your car during a blizzard in the mountains of British Columbia, you make your way to a rundown shack and sleep. You wake up elsewhere and soon encounter a mouse, a pair of drawing... |
Snowquest, by Eric Eve Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (48 ratings) You've been on your quest so long you've almost forgotten what it is all about, but now you are nearing your destination -- if only you can stay alive long enough in this frozen wilderness to reach it. |
Sparkle, by Juhana Leinonen (as Karly Di Caprio) Audiart's rating: 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. |
Speculative Fiction, by Diane Christoforo and Thomas Mack Audiart's rating: 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. |
Spider and Web, by Andrew Plotkin Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (318 ratings) A vacation in our lovely country! See the ethnic charms of the countryside, the historic grandeur of the capital city. Taste our traditional cuisine; smell the flowers of the Old Tree. And all without... |
Stationfall, by Steve Meretzky Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (47 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... |
The Statue Got Me High, by Ryan Veeder Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (29 ratings) Your job is to make sure John's party is successful. It won't be, though. Written for the Apollo 18+20 tribute album project. |
The Story of Mr. P, by Hannes Schueller Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (7 ratings) One morning, when P. woke from peaceful dreams, he found himself in his bed – still his old self. A translation of Die Geschichte des Herrn P. from German to English. |
Sub Rosa, by Joey Jones, Melvin Rangasamy Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (45 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... |
Suveh Nux, by David Fisher Audiart'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. |
Taco Fiction, by Ryan Veeder Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (118 ratings) Taco Fiction is a game about crime. |
Take Over the World, by Marie L. Vibbert Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (12 ratings) Guess it's time to take over the world. Somebody has to. You live in East Cleveland, Ohio, so your options are limited, but urban-chic. Find the right evil lair, recruit a mad scientist, and foil the East... |
Tea Ceremony, by Naomi Hinchen Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (20 ratings) In this game of diplomacy, you play as an inept junior member of the diplomatic corps. This week, you need to convince Brc'nl, who is some sort of noble glob from Glorpon-42, to argue in Earth's favor in a... |
Terminal, by C. Everett Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (5 ratings) As an A.I., you are trapped in the facility you are housed in. When everyone leaves, you are all alone. Fashion yourself an actual body! |
Theatre People, by Michael Kielstra Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (12 ratings) The dazzle of the theatre: the footlights, the bows, the adoring crowd! It's your job, as a tech crew member, to make sure that the actors and, especially, the actresses, get enough of that. Not for you the... |
Toiletworld, by Chet Rocketfrak Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (20 ratings) ToiletWorld: it's time to enter... the world of toilets. |
the uncle who works for nintendo, by michael lutz Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (110 ratings) You are 11 years old. You are sleeping over at your best friend's house. You and your friend like videogames. Your friend has a lot of cool games. And, believe it or not, an uncle who works for Nintendo. And... |
Ventilator, by Peregrine Wade Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (19 ratings) The heat is stifling, the hotel room is vastly overpriced, and your heart is in pieces. But the worse is yet to come... WARNING: This story contains potentially humorous depictions of Mexican headgear. |
Violet, by Jeremy Freese Audiart'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] |
Wetlands, by Clara Raubertas Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (8 ratings) Wetlands is an interactive quagmire that leads you from the image of a fantastical city to a choice about the actual city's future, via a collection of mechanical puzzles in a watery setting. |
White Houses, by Jason Lautzenheiser (as Mr. Stamp) Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (5 ratings) Jenny called you late and asked to meet you out here in the middle of nowhere. You've never been this far in the forest before and you never knew this white house was out here. She said she had something... |
Winter Wonderland, by Laura Knauth Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (43 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] |
The Wizard Sniffer, by Buster Hudson Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (138 ratings) You were recently acquired by the brave Ser Leonhart and his squire to sniff out the evil shapeshifting wizard. Unfortunately, you are not a wizard sniffer (if such a thing even exists). As far as you can... |
Worlds Apart, by Suzanne Britton Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (91 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... |
Wrenlaw, by Ryan Veeder Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (24 ratings) It would be nice to know what you're looking for. |
The Xylophoniad, by Robin Johnson Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (17 ratings) The King of Anachronopolis has ordered you to end the Trojan War, slay the dreaded Bicyclops, and rescue a couple of inmates from Hades. A comic adventure set in Greek mythology. |
You are standing in a cave..., by Caroline Berg Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (15 ratings) ... you do not know how you got here. The last thing you remember is going out to eat at a fancy restaurant. Perhaps you were drugged. Perhaps you had a bad case of food poisoning and wandered off, feverish,... |
You've Got a Stew Going!, by Ryan Veeder Audiart's rating: Average member rating: (37 ratings) Your friend has invited you over for stew. He has not bothered to procure most of the ingredients. |