DustyCypress's Played Games
View this member's profileShowing All | Show by Page
| 1958: Dancing With Fear, by Victor Ojuel Average member rating:    "Dancing with Fear" (1958, directed by Víctor Ojuel). In this forgotten classic of Golden Age Hollywood, a vedette fallen on hard times (Salomé Vélez) finds herself enmeshed in a tangle of political... |
| 69,105 Keys, by David Welbourn Average member rating: There's just one room. How hard can it be? Just unlock the door. Oh. There's 69,105 keys. |
| 80 DAYS, by inkle, Meg Jayanth DustyCypress's rating: Average member rating: 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,... |
| 9:05, by Adam Cadre DustyCypress's rating: Average member rating: 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. |
Average member rating:
| An Act of Murder, by Christopher Huang Average member rating: |
| Ad Verbum, by Nick Montfort DustyCypress's rating: Average member rating: "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... |
| Aisle, by Sam Barlow DustyCypress's rating: Average member rating: "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 DustyCypress's rating: Average member rating: 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.... |
Average member rating:
All Quiet on the Library Front, by Michael S. Phillips
Average member rating:
| All Roads, by Jon Ingold Average member rating: "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] |
Average member rating:
Average member rating:
Average member rating:
| The Ascent of the Gothic Tower, by Ryan Veeder Average member rating: A story of mild and non-debilitating obsession. |
Average member rating:
| The Axolotl Project, by Samantha Vick DustyCypress's rating: Average member rating: 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 DustyCypress's rating: Average member rating: 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... |
| A Bear's Night Out, by David Dyte Average member rating: "Tomorrow is the big Teddy Bear party, and you must definitely not let your owner forget about it..." [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue] |
Average member rating:
| Bee, by Emily Short Average member rating: The story of a home-schooled girl preparing to compete in the national spelling bee, dealing with various small crises with family and friends, and gradually coming to terms with the clash of subcultures... |
| Best of Three, by Emily Short Average member rating: |
| Bigger Than You Think, by Andrew Plotkin Average member rating: 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:... |
Average member rating:
| Bring Me A Head!, by Chandler Groover Average member rating: Better hope you can hack it. A Grand Guignol entry for ECTOCOMP 2016. |
| Bronze, by Emily Short DustyCypress's rating: Average member rating: 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. |
| Cactus Blue Motel, by Astrid Dalmady DustyCypress's rating: Average member rating: Somewhere between New Mexico and Arizona, three friends were driving through a barren desert of red rocks, and wide empty skies. It was the end of summer, the end of high school, the end of so many things.... |
| Child's Play, by Stephen Granade Average member rating: 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... |
Average member rating:
Average member rating:
Average member rating:
| Coloratura, by Lynnea Glasser Average member rating: 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. |
Average member rating:
| Counterfeit Monkey, by Emily Short DustyCypress'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... |
| The Cove, by Kathleen M. Fischer Average member rating: |
| Curses, by Graham Nelson Average member rating: "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... |
| Damnatio Memoriae, by Emily Short DustyCypress's rating: Average member rating: 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 Dark and Stormy Entry, by Emily Short Average member rating: |
| A Day for Fresh Sushi, by Emily Short DustyCypress's rating: Average member rating: No time for fantasy. Must feed fish. |
| De Baron, by Victor Gijsbers DustyCypress's rating: Average member rating: 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... |
| Desert Heat, by Papillon Average member rating: "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... |
Average member rating:
| Ditch Day Drifter, by Michael J. Roberts Average member rating: You're an undergraduate at Caltech, and you wake up to find it's Ditch Day, the traditional event when seniors leave the campus for the day, leaving behind puzzles for the underclassmen to solve in order to... |
| The Dreamhold, by Andrew Plotkin Average member rating: 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... |
Average member rating:
| Eat Me, by Chandler Groover DustyCypress's rating: Average member rating: In this castle, you'll eat or be eaten. May contain dairy, carnage, puzzles, nuts. |
| The Edifice, by Lucian P. Smith Average member rating: "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... |
Average member rating:
| Endless, Nameless, by Adam Cadre Average member rating: 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... |
| Episode in the Life of an Artist, by Peter Eastman Average member rating: |
| Eurydice, by Anonymous Average member rating: A short game about grief, with occasional snakes. |
Average member rating:
| Exhibition, by Ian Finley Average member rating: "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] |
| Fail-Safe, by Jon Ingold DustyCypress's rating: Average member rating: |
| Fingertips: Everything Is Catching On Fire, by Emery Joyce DustyCypress's rating: Average member rating: This may be just one of the job hazards that you have to put up with in your line of work, but still, you're not really a big fan of apartments being set on fire. (Unless you're doing it, which is only when... |
| Fingertips: I'm Having a Heart Attack, by Andrew Schultz Average member rating: It's your time to make a statement. Make sure your nerves don't fail before your heart does. |
| Fingertips: Please Pass the Milk Please, by Adri Average member rating: Your brother Sam is sitting across from you. He seems to be waiting for something. Written for the Apollo 18+20 tribute album project, and loosely inspired by the They Might Be Giants track of the same name. |
| The Fire Tower, by Jacqueline A. Lott Average member rating: |
| First Draft of the Revolution, by Emily Short, Liza Daly and inkle Average member rating: 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... |
| For a Change, by Dan Schmidt Average member rating: "The sun has gone. It must be brought. You have a rock." [--blurb from Competition '99] |
Average member rating:
| Galatea, by Emily Short DustyCypress's rating: Average member rating: 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... |
Average member rating:
| Glass, by Emily Short Average member rating: 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... |
| Goose, Egg, Badger, by Brian Rapp DustyCypress's rating: Average member rating: |
Average member rating:
| Gourmet, by Aaron A. Reed and Chad Barb Average member rating: 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... |
Average member rating:
| Guess the Verb!, by Leonard Richardson Average member rating: "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... |
| Harmonia, by Liza Daly DustyCypress's rating: Average member rating: Fuller, A. (b. 1966, d.?) 12 chapters, edited by E. Merchant. 091 Manuscripts—096 Illustrated—098 Prohibited works, forgeries, and hoaxes Signed permission from the Dean required for viewing. No... |
Average member rating:
| I-0, by Anonymous Average member rating: 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... |
| Indigo, by Emily Short Average member rating: "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... |
DustyCypress's rating:
Average member rating:
Average member rating:
| Jigsaw, by Graham Nelson DustyCypress's rating: Average member rating: 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... |
Average member rating:
Average member rating:
Large Machine, by Jon Ingold
Average member rating:
| The Last Sonnet of Marie Antoinette, by Emily Short Average member rating: |
Average member rating:
| Letters from Home, by Roger Firth Average member rating: "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... |
| Losing Your Grip, by Stephen Granade Average member rating: |
Average member rating:
| Lost Pig, by Admiral Jota Average member rating: 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 |
Average member rating:
Average member rating:
| Make It Good, by Jon Ingold Average member rating: 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... |
| Map, by Ade McT Average member rating: 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. |
| Masquerade, by Kathleen M. Fischer Average member rating: "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... |
| Metamorphoses, by Emily Short DustyCypress's rating: Average member rating: 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... |
| Mingsheng, by Deane Saunders Average member rating: |
Average member rating:
| Muse: An Autumn Romance, by Christopher Huang Average member rating: 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] |
Average member rating:
| Mystery House Possessed, by Emily Short Average member rating: This intricate all-text reworking draws on the Gothic, as well as Clue, to simulate seven characters working to outwit the killer in their midst. |
Average member rating:
| Narcolepsy, by Adam Cadre Average member rating: |
| Narrow Your Eyes, by Ben Collins-Sussman and Jack Welch Average member rating: Your wedding rehearsal is hours away, and what do you do but sit on your glasses, crushing them beyond repair? Can you and your stylish cell phone survive the day? |
| No Time To Squeal, by Mike Sousa and Robb Sherwin Average member rating: "He thought he saw a pantomime That queried his own deal: He looked again, and found it was A ticket to a meal. He thought he saw infanticide Per chance to make it real. 'I have but one regret,' he said:... |
| Not Just an Ordinary Ballerina, by Jim Aikin Average member rating: |
| On the Farm, by Lenny Pitts Average member rating: "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... |
Average member rating:
| PataNoir, by Simon Christiansen DustyCypress's rating: Average member rating: 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. |
| Perdition's Flames, by Michael J. Roberts Average member rating: 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... |
| Photopia, by Adam Cadre DustyCypress's rating: Average member rating: "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." |
DustyCypress's rating:
Average member rating:
Pick Up The Phone Booth And Die, by Rob Noyes
DustyCypress's rating:
Average member rating:
Average member rating:
| Pytho's Mask, by Emily Short Average member rating: 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... |
| Rameses, by Stephen Bond DustyCypress's rating: Average member rating: |
Average member rating:
Rematch, by Andrew D. Pontious
DustyCypress's rating:
Average member rating:
| Risorgimento Represso, by Michael J. Coyne Average member rating: 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... |
Average member rating:
| Savoir-Faire, by Emily Short Average member rating: 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... |
| Scavenger, by Quintin Stone Average member rating: Search a war-shattered world for secrets of the past. |
| Sequitur, by Nigel Jayne (as Tin Foil Jenny) Average member rating: The only person who can explain what happened in a long-forgotten house with four dead people inside is comatose and clinging to her life in hospital. Detective Stephen Cochone of the New Orleans Police... |
| Shade, by Andrew Plotkin DustyCypress's rating: Average member rating: "A one-room game set in your apartment." [--blurb from Competition Aught-Zero] |
| shadows on the mirror, by Chrysoula Tzavelas Average member rating: I am falling, I am fading, I am drowning, help me to breathe... |
Average member rating:
| Shrapnel, by Adam Cadre DustyCypress's rating: Average member rating: |
| Shuffling Around, by Andrew Schultz (as Ned Yompus) Average member rating: 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 Stories, by Neil K. Guy Average member rating: 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... |
| Slouching Towards Bedlam, by Star Foster and Daniel Ravipinto DustyCypress's rating: Average member rating: In the beginning was the Word, and it was hungry. ... |
Average member rating:
| Snack Time!, by Hardy the Bulldog and Renee Choba Average member rating: Can you help one hungry bulldog in his quest to find something good to eat? He would like that. A lot. [blurb from IF Comp 2008] |
Average member rating:
| Sorcery!, by Steve Jackson and inkle DustyCypress's rating: Average member rating: An adaptation of a print-based game book originally published in 1983, updated for modern touch-screen devices. The player quests across a fantasy map, dealing with all sorts of encounters using a text-based... |
| The Space Under the Window, by Andrew Plotkin DustyCypress's rating: Average member rating: 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] |
| Spider and Web, by Andrew Plotkin DustyCypress's rating: Average member rating: 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... |
Average member rating:
Sting of the Wasp, by Jason Devlin
Average member rating:
Suicide, by Dan Doyle III
Average member rating:
Average member rating:
Average member rating:
| Suveh Nux, by David Fisher Average member rating: 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. |
| The Tale of the Kissing Bandit, by J. Robinson Wheeler (as 'Cary Valentino') Average member rating: |
| Tapestry, by Daniel Ravipinto Average member rating: You were born; you lived; you died. Not everyone gets a second chance to go back and change crucial decisions. You have been granted one and must go back to critical moral dilemmas; but do you change the... |
| The Tarot Reading, by Michael Penman Average member rating: |
| Tenth Plague, by Lynnea Dally Average member rating: You are thrust into earthly existence to fulfill the tenth and final plague. |
Average member rating:
| Three-Card Trick, by Chandler Groover DustyCypress's rating: Average member rating: You're going to perform a three-card trick or your name isn't Morgan the Magnificent. |
| Threediopolis, by Andrew Schultz Average member rating: A wordplay/quasi-maze game. |
| To Hell in a Hamper, by J. J. Guest DustyCypress's rating: Average member rating: Professor Pettibone, eminent Victorian balloonist, has a problem. He can't get it up. His balloon that is. If he can't reach an altitude of 20,000 feet, and soon, both he and his mysterious travelling... |
| Toby's Nose, by Chandler Groover DustyCypress's rating: Average member rating: A murder most foul has been committed and Sherlock Holmes is on the case. You are his dog. |
Average member rating:
Average member rating:
Average member rating:
Uncle Zebulon's Will, by Magnus Olsson
Average member rating:
Average member rating:
| Varicella, by Adam Cadre DustyCypress's rating: Average member rating: 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... |
Average member rating:
| Violet, by Jeremy Freese DustyCypress's rating: Average member rating: 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] |
Average member rating:
| Wearing the Claw, by Paul O'Brian Average member rating: A traditional fantasy quest in which you and your village have been cursed with a slow transformation into various animals. The only way to stop the curse is to retrieve the Pendant of Elinor from the... |
Average member rating:
| When in Rome 1: Accounting for Taste, by Emily Short Average member rating: Manhattan, May, 1954. |
| When in Rome 2: Far from Home, by Emily Short Average member rating: Manhattan, 1954. |
| The Wizard Sniffer, by Buster Hudson Average member rating: 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 Average member rating: 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... |
Average member rating:
Zero Sum Game, by Cody Sandifer
Average member rating:
Showing All | Show by Page
