9:05, by Adam Cadre 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. |
Absence of Law, by mathbrush Average member rating: (51 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... |
Analogue: A Hate Story, by Christine Love Average member rating: (10 ratings) Back in the 25th century, Earth launched a generation ship into deep space, with the goal of establishing the first interstellar colony. It dropped out of contact and disappeared, never reaching its... |
Anchorhead, by Michael Gentry Average member rating: (406 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... |
The Ascent of the Gothic Tower, by Ryan Veeder Average member rating: (34 ratings) A story of mild and non-debilitating obsession. |
Augmented Fourth, by Brian Uri! 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... |
Body Bargain, by Amanda Lange Average member rating: (27 ratings) Your surgery went very well. But you couldn't really afford it... Be aware that this is a work of horror. This game involves situations that may be violent, distressing, disturbing, or triggering. This game... |
Bring Me A Head!, by Chandler Groover Average member rating: (32 ratings) Better hope you can hack it. A Grand Guignol entry for ECTOCOMP 2016. |
Bronze, by Emily Short 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 Average member rating: (57 ratings) Your task is simple enough. Just nab the chalice. |
Charming, by Kaylah Facey Average member rating: (18 ratings) Potions shattered on the floor, pages torn out of books, a demolished statue... These are a few of the magical messes you will have to clean up before Enchantress Igmenta arrives for your coming-of-age test... |
Chlorophyll, by Steph Cherrywell Average member rating: (61 ratings) |
Coloratura, by Lynnea Glasser Average member rating: (115 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. |
Counterfeit Monkey, by Emily Short Average member rating: (249 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... |
CYBERQUEEN, by Porpentine Average member rating: (67 ratings) integration necessitates evisceration |
De Baron, by Victor Gijsbers Average member rating: (166 ratings) 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... |
Dead Like Ants, by C.E.J. Pacian 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... |
Deus Ex Ceviche, by Tom Lento, Chandler Groover Average member rating: (16 ratings) Something fishy is happening in the Section B-2 Temple. |
Down, the Serpent and the Sun, by Chandler Groover Average member rating: (30 ratings) The feathered serpent coils before you, greater than any god or any monster. Maimed warriors are crushed beneath its claws. The sun will never rise again. |
Eat Me, by Chandler Groover Average member rating: (107 ratings) In this castle, you'll eat or be eaten. May contain dairy, carnage, puzzles, nuts. |
The Edifice, by Lucian P. Smith 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... |
Endless, Nameless, by Adam Cadre 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... |
Ether, by MathBrush Average member rating: (33 ratings) "For the first time in centuries, something is different. Your tentacles tingle as you float to the east past icebergs and whirlwinds. You skirt a pocket of hot air, bounce through a field of ice, and... |
Fail-Safe, by Jon Ingold Average member rating: (115 ratings) |
Foo Foo, by Buster Hudson 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. |
Galatea, by Emily Short Average member rating: (346 ratings) Emily Short's description: A conversation with a work of art. "47. Galatea. White Thasos marble. Non-commissioned work by the late Pygmalion of Cyprus. (The artist has since committed suicide.) Originally... |
The Gostak, by Carl Muckenhoupt Average member rating: (91 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... |
Grooverland, by Mathbrush Average member rating: (25 ratings) "Magic comes with a price. But on your birthday, all your expenses are paid. Welcome to Grooverland." Grooverland is a large parser game that takes over two hours to complete. It is based on the works of... |
Hadean Lands, by Andrew Plotkin Average member rating: (68 ratings) Marooned in an alien, airless wasteland -- your starship fractured -- your crewmates missing. Can an apprentice alchemist learn how to survive? |
Heaven Will Be Mine, by Aevee Bee and Mia Schwartz Average member rating: (2 ratings) It’s 1981, and the dream of a new home in space for all humanity is dead. After fighting for decades against an intangible and ephemeral existential threat from beyond the solar system, Earth command has... |
HOLY ROBOT EMPIRE, by Caleb Wilson (as Ralph Gide) 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. |
The Horrible Pyramid, by Ryan Veeder Average member rating: (31 ratings) Something weird is going on in this pyramid. |
howling dogs, by Porpentine Average member rating: (128 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. |
Indigo, by Emily Short 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 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... |
Junior Arithmancer, by Mike Spivey Average member rating: (58 ratings) A one-to-many-room puzzler. |
Ka, by Dan Efran Average member rating: (20 ratings) For an Egyptian mummy's soul - or "Ka" - death is but the first step on a puzzling and perilous journey. The second step? Getting out of all those coffins.... |
Lime Ergot, by Caleb Wilson (as Rust Blight) Average member rating: (84 ratings) Now everyone is gone. (Well, almost everyone.) Entry in ECTOCOMP 2014. |
Metamorphoses, by Emily Short 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... |
Mirror and Queen, by Chandler Groover Average member rating: (33 ratings) Your mirror never lies. A puzzleless reflection. Fifteen to forty minutes. |
Photopia, by Adam Cadre Average member rating: (566 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." |
Pytho's Mask, by Emily Short 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 Average member rating: (40 ratings) These beasts won't feed themselves. A puzzleless exhibition. Ten to fifteen minutes. |
Robin & Orchid, by Ryan Veeder and Emily Boegheim Average member rating: (65 ratings) High school journalists spend the night in a church, investigating reports of a ghost. |
A Rope of Chalk, by Ryan Veeder Average member rating: (35 ratings) An account of the disastrous sidewalk chalk tournament of August 27, 2011. |
The Roscovian Palladium, by Ryan Veeder Average member rating: (21 ratings) Humans are constantly appropriating rat culture. King Roscoe thought to use this to his advantage. |
Ryan Veeder's Authentic Fly Fishing, by Ryan Veeder Average member rating: (15 ratings) Relax at the Jewel Pond Recreation Area with Ryan Veeder as your guide. |
Savoir-Faire, by Emily Short Average member rating: (134 ratings) The beautiful life is always damned, they say. As for you, you've overexpended yourself: fifteen years of prominence, champagne, carriage rides in the Tuileries, having your name whispered behind... |
Shade, by Andrew Plotkin Average member rating: (420 ratings) "A one-room game set in your apartment." [--blurb from Competition Aught-Zero] |
Skulljhabit, by Porpentine Average member rating: (19 ratings) kind of like Dampe the gravedigger meets Harvest Moon meets Ligotti. |
Slouching Towards Bedlam, by Star Foster and Daniel Ravipinto Average member rating: (219 ratings) In the beginning was the Word, and it was hungry. ... |
The Soft Rumor of Spreading Weeds, by Porpentine Charity Heartscape Average member rating: (3 ratings) The art of dying properly. In the garden empire, a sovereign's heart is a stubborn weed. (set in the With Those We Love Alive universe) |
Spider and Web, by Andrew Plotkin 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... |
Sub Rosa, by Joey Jones, Melvin Rangasamy Average member rating: (44 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 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 Average member rating: (117 ratings) Taco Fiction is a game about crime. |
Terminal Interface for Models RCM301-303, by Victor Gijsbers Average member rating: (21 ratings) A text terminal interface for interacting with your model RCM301-303 remote controlled mech. |
their angelical understanding, by Porpentine Average member rating: (76 ratings) I train to fight angels in a monastery by the sea. Wear headphones. TW: Suicidal ideation, ableism, abuse, possible epilepsy trigger. |
Toby's Nose, by Chandler Groover Average member rating: (120 ratings) A murder most foul has been committed and Sherlock Holmes is on the case. You are his dog. |
Visit Skuga Lake - Masterpiece Edition, by Ryan Veeder Average member rating: (11 ratings) An unpaid intern learns to cast over forty spells as she skulks around a small town, looking for her boss. "Visit Skuga Lake" originally appeared in Even Some More Tales from Castle Balderstone. This... |
We Know the Devil, by Aevee Bee and Mia Schwartz Average member rating: (17 ratings) Anyone can kill the devil; that's why they always make teens the vampire slayers, the magical girls. But some kids can't even get that right; and that's why meangirl Neptune, tomboy Jupiter, and shy shy... |
Winter Storm Draco, by Ryan Veeder Average member rating: (26 ratings) A chronicle of the events of the winter storm of the same name. |
With Those We Love Alive, by Porpentine and Brenda Neotenomie Average member rating: (117 ratings) no dreams written by porpentine scored by brenda neotenomie |
The Wizard Sniffer, by Buster Hudson 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... |
Wrenlaw, by Ryan Veeder Average member rating: (24 ratings) It would be nice to know what you're looking for. |
Yellow Dog Running, by Sam Kabo Ashwell Average member rating: (10 ratings) |
Zork II, by Dave Lebling, Marc Blank Average member rating: (100 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: (79 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... |