pieartsy's Played Games

View this member's profile

Showing All | Show by Page


♥Magical Makeover♥, by S. Woodson
Average member rating: (61 ratings)

"You hold in your hand a pink, heart-shaped card daubed in rosewater and oil of jasmine — an invitation to the Princess Philantha's Grand Equinox Ball. In gilded, sweeping, sweet-smelling calligraphy, the...

16 Ways to Kill a Vampire at McDonalds, by Abigail Corfman
Average member rating: (96 ratings)

You're a vampire hunter on your night off. You're getting a manicure, seeing a movie, and eating fast food. But there's a vampire in this McDonalds. If you don't do something, then in one hour it will eat...

9:05, by Adam Cadre
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.

Absence of Law, by mathbrush
pieartsy's rating:
Average member rating: (47 ratings)

Excuse me, can you help me? Yes, you, browsing IFDB games! I need your assistance, but I don't have long. There's so much going on: remote surveillance, unauthorized cloning, forgotten languages, robots...

Affairs of the Court: Choice of Romance, by Heather Albano and Adam Strong-Morse
pieartsy's rating:
Average member rating: (9 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...

After the Accident, by Amanda Walker
pieartsy's rating:
Average member rating: (18 ratings)

Relationships can be disastrous. A puzzle-free text game based on the poem seed After the Accident by Sophia de Augustine, written for SeedComp 2023 in Inform 7. Cover and banner art made with Canva. Content...

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: (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....

Animalia, by Ian Michael Waddell
Average member rating: (36 ratings)

This is the story of Charlie Stewart, nine-year-old Human child. Inside this ordinary nine-year-old Human child are four animals from the Forest, working tirelessly to keep YOUR Taiga Federation safe from...

Birdland, by Brendan Patrick Hennessy
Average member rating: (168 ratings)

Fourteen-year-old Bridget's summer camp experience takes a turn for the bizarre when her otherworldly bird dreams start bleeding into reality.

Blue Lacuna, by Aaron A. Reed
Average member rating: (111 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...

Brain Guzzlers from Beyond!, by Steph Cherrywell
Average member rating: (72 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...

Bring Me A Head!, by Chandler Groover
Average member rating: (28 ratings)

Better hope you can hack it. A Grand Guignol entry for ECTOCOMP 2016.

Bronze, by Emily Short
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.

Child's Play, by Stephen Granade
Average member rating: (54 ratings)

It is playgroup day and playgroup day is normally a good day but ever since that little red-haired girl started coming she always wants your toys. She shouldn't get your toys. You tried telling the mom this...

Chlorophyll, by Steph Cherrywell
Average member rating: (58 ratings)

ChoiceScript Interactive Tutorial, by Lynnea Glasser
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

ChoiceScript is a game-writing tool that creates choice and variable-based games, but like any game-writing tool, it can be intimidating for new authors, and perhaps have some nuance that even old hands...

Color the Truth, by mathbrush
pieartsy's rating:
Average member rating: (72 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...

Coloratura, by Lynnea Glasser
pieartsy's rating:
Average member rating: (110 ratings)

Stolen away by apathetic Blind Ones, your only desire is to return to your Cellarium and the Song of the Universe. They should understand. You shall make them to understand.

Conduit of the Crypt, by Grim Baccaris
pieartsy's rating:
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

A tiny text-based dungeon made in Twine for the Neo Twiny Jam. I pared this idea way down to make it playable within 500 words, and I had a lot of fun getting it there. 

  • ⏳ 500 words, ~5 minutes to play
  • ⚔️...

Counterfeit Monkey, by Emily Short
Average member rating: (239 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...

Creatures Such As We, by Lynnea Glasser
Average member rating: (91 ratings)

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

Death on the Stormrider, by Daniel M. Stelzer
pieartsy's rating:
Average member rating: (11 ratings)

You'd had such high hopes, starting out. And now you're limping home, tail between your legs, as all your plans for a new life crashed and burned. You barely had enough money to arrange an airship home, an...

Detective Osiris, by Adam Burt
pieartsy's rating:
Average member rating: (16 ratings)

Death. Conception. Genesis. Mystery. ...

Detectiveland, by Robin Johnson
Average member rating: (53 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...

DEVOTIONALIA, by G.C. "Grim" Baccaris (as G. Grimoire)
Average member rating: (24 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 must...

Dual Transform, by Andrew Plotkin
Average member rating: (109 ratings)

This game takes place in a single room — but not always the same one. The room contains just one item, but again, there's more to it than that. Experiment and enjoy.

Dysfluent, by Allyson Gray
pieartsy's rating:
Average member rating: (22 ratings)

Sometimes talking is easier said than done.

Eat Me, by Chandler Groover
Average member rating: (97 ratings)

In this castle, you'll eat or be eaten. May contain dairy, carnage, puzzles, nuts.

The Edifice, by Lucian P. Smith
pieartsy'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...

El Fin de la Historia, by n-n
pieartsy's rating:
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

Una ficción interactiva interdimensional.

Eurydice, by Anonymous
Average member rating: (37 ratings)

A short game about grief, with occasional snakes.

Even Cowgirls Bleed, by Christine Love
pieartsy's rating:
Average member rating: (29 ratings)

For a Change, by Dan Schmidt
Average member rating: (115 ratings)

"The sun has gone. It must be brought. You have a rock." [--blurb from Competition '99]

Fragile Shells, by Stephen Granade
Average member rating: (51 ratings)

You don't know how long you've been hammering against the station's wall, but you stop as soon as you realize what you've been doing.

free bird., by Passerine
pieartsy's rating:
Average member rating: (16 ratings)

A minimalist hopepunk avian escape game written for SeedComp! 2023. Seeds used: Feathered Fury by Amanda Walker Room; Closed Door by Charm Cochran This story includes mild descriptions of animal neglect and...

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...

GET CORN, by Joey Tanden
Average member rating: (1 rating)

"Last month, I had a weird day and cranked out an extremely short game in about 12 hours. Part of it was catharsis, and part of it was to test my reusable code module. One of my friends managed to get...

The Gostak, by Carl Muckenhoupt
pieartsy's rating:
Average member rating: (88 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...

Gun Mute, by C.E.J. Pacian
Average member rating: (153 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...

Hidden Gems, Hidden Secrets, by Naomi Norbez, Josh Grams
pieartsy's rating:
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

The members of the Hidden Gems Of Poetry Group are close. Even the move from internet forum to web server can't break their bond. But heartbreaking news could mean the end of things as they know it. A short...

His Majesty's Royal Space Navy Service Handbook, by Austin Auclair
pieartsy's rating:
Average member rating: (8 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...

howling dogs, by Porpentine
Average member rating: (125 ratings)

death cube sim | galactic survey | visionatrix | facet machine | power gardens | women | fascination two significant endings

Hunger Daemon, by Sean M. Shore
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.

HUNTING UNICORN, by Chandler Groover
Average member rating: (32 ratings)

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

I Am Prey, by Joey Tanden
pieartsy's rating:
Average member rating: (11 ratings)

A horror-lite science fiction game of evasion. (Experimental game: Reading the included survival guide before playing is highly recommended.) Inspired by the casual and round-based designs of visual indie...

The Impossible Bottle, by Linus Åkesson
Average member rating: (78 ratings)

Housework is only as dull as your imagination. Join Emma, six years old, on a playful adventure of peculiar proportions. Merciful puzzlefest. Parser or point-and-click, as you please. Web (including mobile)...

In a Tomb with a Donkey, by Dee Cooke
pieartsy's rating:
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

Evidence Sweet has been defeated in battle during the Annual Spellcasting Competition... again. Blasted into ancient Egypt with her spells seemingly scattered to the winds, she finds herself chased down by...

Indigo, by Emily Short
Average member rating: (54 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...

The Kuolema, by Ben Jackson
pieartsy's rating:
Average member rating: (17 ratings)

This game has now been entirely 'remastered' and released as part of the Spring Thing 2024 competition. An abandoned ship is found adrift in the South China Sea. Its radio is silent and there's no sign of...

The Little Match Girl 4: Crown of Pearls, by Ryan Veeder
pieartsy's rating:
Average member rating: (22 ratings)

A touching epic time travel fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen.

Lost Pig, by Admiral Jota
Average member rating: (492 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

LUNIUM, by Ben Jackson
pieartsy's rating:
Average member rating: (18 ratings)

Can you escape your chains before the killer strikes again? You wake to find yourself trapped in a room filled with locks and strange contraptions. Someone has locked you in here and identifying them may...

The Magic Word, by B.J. Best
pieartsy's rating:
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

"AND LEMME TELL YA, THE MAGIC WORD ISN'T 'PLEASE.'" —The imp. A fiendishly difficult limited-verb puzzle box. Created for SeedComp '23, based on a seed by Rovarsson.

The Magpie Takes the Train, by Mathbrush
Average member rating: (40 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!

Metamorphoses, by Emily Short
Average member rating: (130 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...

Midnight. Swordfight., by Chandler Groover
Average member rating: (79 ratings)

A fool receives a challenge from a countess. Violence. Sex. Profanity. Sausage.

my father's long, long legs, by michael lutz
pieartsy's rating:
Average member rating: (143 ratings)

A weird tale. Some parts make use of sound, so this game is best played with headphones. One ending.

My Mail Carrier is Always on the Phone, by Austin Auclair
pieartsy's rating:
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

An interactive essay in which I interrogate a question I've had for years. Not meant to be played on phones (images get squished). Contains some curse words. Built in Twine for the 2023 Neo Twiny Jam.

Nightmares Within Nightmares, by Grahamw
pieartsy's rating:
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

Every night, the dream is the same. I am running through my hometown, with a vast fleshy mass pursuing me, and I know I will die. Then I wake up. And then the nightmare continues. This is a short game...

Open Sorcery, by Abigail Corfman
Average member rating: (77 ratings)

You are online. You are fire and order. You are here to protect. ---- "Open Sorcery" is a game about technology, magic and becoming a person. It follows the development of an Elemental Firewall--a creature...

Open Sorcery: Sea++, by Abigail Corfman
Average member rating: (1 rating)

There is an ocean beneath our world. You can sail it on currents of emotion. Worlds hang in it like bubbles--ephemeral as thought or indelible as memory. You wake up at the bottom of this ocean. Your...

Oppositely Opal, by Buster Hudson
Average member rating: (64 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...

Photopia, by Adam Cadre
Average member rating: (557 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."

Pick Up the Phone Booth and Aisle, by David Dyte, Steve Bernard, Dan Shiovitz, Iain Merrick, Liza Daly, John Cater, Ola Sverre Bauge, J. Robinson Wheeler, Jon Blask, Dan Schmidt, Stephen Granade, Rob Noyes, and Emily Short
Average member rating: (107 ratings)

prepare for return, by Travis Moy
pieartsy's rating:
Average member rating: (10 ratings)

Entry for SeedComp 2023, sprouting stage. The seed is "other thing" by slugzuki: https://slugzuki.itch.io/seedcomp2

Reference and Representation: An Approach to First-Order Semantics, by Ryan Veeder
Average member rating: (34 ratings)

Violence is the answer to this one.

The Roads not Taken, by manonamora
pieartsy's rating:
Average member rating: (9 ratings)

The Ritual awaits... Are you ready to make your choice? The one that will shape the rest of your life? Or will regret the roads not taken? This game was submitted to the 2023 Edition of the SpringThing, an...

A Rope of Chalk, by Ryan Veeder
pieartsy's rating:
Average member rating: (35 ratings)

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

Rover's Day Out, by Jack Welch and Ben Collins-Sussman
Average member rating: (54 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...

SCLERA, by MeiZi
pieartsy's rating:
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

Hong Kong, 19XX. You're stuck in a nightclub where dream and memory intertwine. You're a strange thing in a stranger land, with no place to go. Might as well dance. • Part Text ADV, part fever dream, and...

Shade, by Andrew Plotkin
Average member rating: (413 ratings)

"A one-room game set in your apartment." [--blurb from Competition Aught-Zero]

The Shadow in the Cathedral, by Ian Finley and Jon Ingold
pieartsy's rating:
Average member rating: (31 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...

Shrapnel, by Adam Cadre
Average member rating: (166 ratings)

Slouching Towards Bedlam, by Star Foster and Daniel Ravipinto
pieartsy's rating:
Average member rating: (215 ratings)

In the beginning was the Word, and it was hungry. ...

Snowquest, by Eric Eve
Average member rating: (47 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.

Something Blue, by E. Joyce
pieartsy's rating:
Average member rating: (9 ratings)

A young bride writes letters to her sister.

Stone Harbor, by Liza Daly
Average member rating: (38 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...

A Study in Steampunk: Choice by Gaslight, by Heather Albano
pieartsy's rating:
Average member rating: (21 ratings)

Steam-powered mechs meet forbidden sorcery! Inspired by Sherlock Holmes, Dracula, Jekyll & Hyde, and Jack the Ripper, "A Study in Steampunk: Choice by Gaslight" is an epic 277,000-word interactive mystery...

Sub Rosa, by Joey Jones, Melvin Rangasamy
Average member rating: (42 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...

Superluminal Vagrant Twin, by C.E.J. Pacian
Average member rating: (120 ratings)

A text-only space sim. Ply the spaceways. Make five million credits. Buy back your twin. (Superluminal Vagrant Twin is a shallow but broad exploration game.)

Suveh Nux, by David Fisher
pieartsy'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.

Taco Fiction, by Ryan Veeder
Average member rating: (114 ratings)

Taco Fiction is a game about crime.

THROW. MARIA. OVERBOARD., by Travis Moy
pieartsy's rating:
Average member rating: (9 ratings)

A story of the sea. Made in four hours for the La Petite Mort category of EctoComp 2022. Story adapted from the Byzantium and Friends, episode 40, "Byzantine tales of horror and the macabre." Cover image...

To Sea in a Sieve, by J. J. Guest
pieartsy's rating:
Average member rating: (18 ratings)

Peter Petibon, cabin boy, hath a problem. He be goin' down -- to Davy Jones' locker, by the powers! Lest he seize the booty o' the dread pyrate Booby, and heave it all o'erboard, he and the Cap'n both will...

Toby's Nose, by Chandler Groover
pieartsy's rating:
Average member rating: (109 ratings)

A murder most foul has been committed and Sherlock Holmes is on the case. You are his dog.

Tricks of light in the forest, by Pseudavid
pieartsy's rating:
Average member rating: (13 ratings)

Some year not too far, in a foggy morning just before sunrise, a normal girl takes a normal walk in a normal forest. A Gruescript choice-parser hybrid, exploration walking simulator with light puzzles....

Vespers, by Jason Devlin
Average member rating: (174 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...

Violet, by Jeremy Freese
pieartsy's rating:
Average member rating: (383 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]

The Warbler's Nest, by Jason McIntosh
pieartsy's rating:
Average member rating: (91 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...

The Whale's Keeper, by Ben Parzybok
pieartsy's rating:
Average member rating: (16 ratings)

You appear to have been swallowed by a whale. Expect to find wonders and horrors, mythical and real, inside the cavernous belly of the greatest mammal on Earth. Fortunately, you're a cetologist. ...

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 there...

Will Not Let Me Go, by Stephen Granade
pieartsy's rating:
Average member rating: (66 ratings)

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

The Wizard Sniffer, by Buster Hudson
Average member rating: (128 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...

Xanthippe's Last Night with Socrates, by Victor Gijsbers
pieartsy's rating:
Average member rating: (23 ratings)

It's your last night together, for literal fuck's sake, but your husband is 'not in the mood'. Can you convince him to fulfil his marital duties? ...


Showing All | Show by Page