69,105 Keys, by David Welbourn OtisTDog'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. |
80 DAYS, by inkle, Meg Jayanth OtisTDog's rating: Average member rating: (95 ratings) 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 OtisTDog's rating: Average member rating: (535 ratings) The phone rings. Oh, no — how long have you been asleep? Sure, it was a tough night, but... This is bad. This is very bad. The phone rings. |
Absence of Law, by mathbrush 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... |
Across The Stars: The Ralckor Incident, by Dark Star and Peter Mattsson OtisTDog's rating: Average member rating: (29 ratings) In the year 5367 IR, humanity is well established throughout the galaxy. It has been over twenty-thousand years since the Zal'tacs passed through our solar system, trading their technology for our food and... |
The Act of Misdirection, by Callico Harrison OtisTDog's rating: Average member rating: (70 ratings) The curtain lifts to a torrent of applause, as the city's gents and ladies lose their decorum for a just few moments in anticipation of something magical. The spotlights drown the glitter of sequins and... |
An Act of Murder, by Christopher Huang OtisTDog's rating: Average member rating: (82 ratings) |
All Roads, by Jon Ingold OtisTDog's rating: Average member rating: (154 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] |
Anchorhead, by Michael Gentry OtisTDog's rating: Average member rating: (393 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... |
Aotearoa, by Matt Wigdahl Average member rating: (61 ratings) The Fish of Māui. The Land of the Long Cloud. Aotearoa. An entire continent of untamed wilds, and the last place on Earth where dinosaurs still roam. If only you'd come ashore under better circumstances... |
The Argument, by Harvey Smith OtisTDog's rating: Average member rating: (8 ratings) |
Augmented Fourth, by Brian Uri! OtisTDog's rating: Average member rating: (65 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... |
A Bear's Night Out, by David Dyte OtisTDog'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] |
Bronze, by Emily Short OtisTDog's rating: Average member rating: (286 ratings) When the seventh day comes and it is time for you to return to the castle in the forest, your sisters cling to your sleeves. |
Cheeseshop, by David Welbourn OtisTDog's rating: Average member rating: (24 ratings) An interactive re-creation of Monty Python’s Cheeseshop sketch, where you try to buy some cheese. |
CIA Adventure, by Hugh Lampert OtisTDog's rating: Average member rating: (6 ratings) "As this game is ported directly from the TRS-80, it is very uncomfortable to play. Your mission is to find a ruby used in a laser projector that has been stolen by a spy ring named CHAOS." [--blurb from The... |
Coloratura, by Lynnea Glasser OtisTDog'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. |
Common Ground, by Stephen Granade OtisTDog's rating: Average member rating: (30 ratings) |
Crash, by Phil Riley OtisTDog's rating: Average member rating: (10 ratings) Space Station Omicron-5 in the Deneb system is the biggest Space Authority outpost for many light years. You have the honor of being a member of the Repair Corps, repairing appliances and the like on Space... |
Damnatio Memoriae, by Emily Short OtisTDog's rating: Average member rating: (58 ratings) 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... |
Deep Space Drifter, by Michael J. Roberts and Steve McAdams OtisTDog's rating: Average member rating: (8 ratings) Stranded in deep space after running out of fuel, you luck upon a nearby space station. When you get there, though, the place is abandoned, and strange things seem to have been happening lately. And if you... |
Dial C for Cupcakes, by Ryan Veeder OtisTDog's rating: Average member rating: (31 ratings) A cantankerous ex-cop calls in a favor from his old partner. |
Divis Mortis, by Lynnea Dally Average member rating: (42 ratings) The infection has spread. They are coming. |
The Djinni Chronicles, by J. D. Berry OtisTDog's rating: Average member rating: (33 ratings) |
Dr Ludwig and the Devil, by SV Linwood Average member rating: (34 ratings) Join esteemed mad scientist Dr Ludwig as he faces the greatest challenge of his nefarious career: making a deal with the Devil and coming out on top. ... |
The Dreamhold, by Andrew Plotkin OtisTDog's rating: Average member rating: (175 ratings) The Dreamhold is interactive fiction — a classic text adventure. No graphics! No point-and-click! You type your commands, and read what happens next. The Dreamhold is designed for people who have never... |
Earth and Sky, by Paul O'Brian OtisTDog's rating: Average member rating: (82 ratings) It's been almost a month since your parents disappeared. One Tuesday, they just didn't come home, and there's been no sign of them since. For the University and the rest of the town, the mystery is beginning... |
Earth and Sky 2: Another Earth, Another Sky, by Paul O'Brian OtisTDog's rating: Average member rating: (54 ratings) |
Enigma, by Simon Deimel OtisTDog's rating: Average member rating: (20 ratings) Eyes can see, and a mind can think. Insanity is just one step away. You are in a room. That's where you are, and you know exactly what is going on. But the truth is hard to take. The game file includes hints... |
Enlightenment, by Taro Ogawa OtisTDog'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... |
Everybody Dies, by Jim Munroe OtisTDog's rating: Average member rating: (105 ratings) It starts with a metalhead, Graham, realizing that throwing that shopping cart over the bridge was not the great idea he thought it was. Even if it did get him out of washroom duty at Cost Cutters.... |
Fail-Safe, by Jon Ingold Average member rating: (112 ratings) |
Final Assault of the Big Green Cliches, by Sam Kabo Ashwell OtisTDog's rating: Average member rating: (4 ratings) In this short work, it's last stand time. You're pinned down with your companions, Waptrap, Mindbraid, and Aur in a bad position behind a fallen pillar. The infidels are well within range, but you can't see... |
Firebird, by Bonnie Montgomery 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... |
Flight of the Hummingbird, by Michael Martin OtisTDog's rating: Average member rating: (29 ratings) Dr. Sinister is at it again! The Concordance of Powered Response isn't entirely clear on what it is he's planning, but it's big. This is clearly a task for one of the world's mightiest champions! |
Floatpoint, by Emily Short OtisTDog's rating: Average member rating: (99 ratings) It is night on this side of the planet. Settled areas are lit: a jagged crescent in the tropics, lining the inland sea. The bright splatter along the top of the curve is Tanhua, as bright from space as New... |
Fragile Shells, by Stephen Granade OtisTDog's rating: 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. |
Guess the Verb!, by Leonard Richardson OtisTDog's rating: Average member rating: (28 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 OtisTDog'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... |
Hadean Lands, by Andrew Plotkin OtisTDog's rating: Average member rating: (67 ratings) Marooned in an alien, airless wasteland -- your starship fractured -- your crewmates missing. Can an apprentice alchemist learn how to survive? |
Hunger Daemon, by Sean M. Shore OtisTDog'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. |
Illuminismo Iniziato, by Michael J. Coyne OtisTDog's rating: Average member rating: (24 ratings) Lovingly handcrafted in Inform6, this overripe sequel to Risorgimento Represso is full of cheese, gunpowder, chemistry and explosions (well, only a little chemistry). Includes automap, sounds and graphical... |
Improv: Origins, by Neil deMause OtisTDog's rating: Average member rating: (9 ratings) In the long-awaited (by someone, surely, maybe) prequel to the Frenetic Five trilogy, your new employer SuperTemps has sent you out into the field with nothing more than your wits and your freshly minted... |
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... |
Keepsake, by Savaric OtisTDog's rating: Average member rating: (26 ratings) The planning was easy. Committing the murder was easy. But getting away with it? That's another thing. Keepsake is a short, surreal story about vengeance and its consequences. |
LASH -- Local Asynchronous Satellite Hookup, by Paul O'Brian OtisTDog's rating: Average member rating: (41 ratings) In this historical drama and treasure hunt set in 2062, you have rented a robot called a MULE that you can control remotely to salvage artifacts from an abandoned irradiated plantation near Macon, Georgia.... |
Little Blue Men, by Michael S. Gentry OtisTDog's rating: Average member rating: (70 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 Match Girl, by Hans Christian Andersen, by Ryan Veeder Average member rating: (19 ratings) A touching short story. |
The Lost Islands of Alabaz, by Michael Gentry OtisTDog'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 OtisTDog's rating: Average member rating: (493 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 |
A Matter of Heist Urgency, by FLACRabbit Average member rating: (16 ratings) "CROWN JEWELS STOLEN!" scream the headlines of the Meighsalot newspapers. Anastasia the Power Pony is no ordinary horse, and she's not going to let the Smashy Llamas get away with their latest villainous... |
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... |
The Meteor, the Stone and a Long Glass of Sherbet, by Graham Nelson (as Angela M. Horns) OtisTDog'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... |
Mother Loose, by Irene Callaci OtisTDog's rating: Average member rating: (12 ratings) It's been one of those days. It started out bad and just got worse: You're seven years old and in trouble a lot. You try to be good and to do as you ought, but nothing, it seems, goes exactly as planned. For... |
Pathway to Destruction, by Richard Otter OtisTDog's rating: Average member rating: (8 ratings) You have worked at the Institute of Transportation for nearly five years. As one of the engineering team in the Research and Development section, it is considered a highly respected position and is... |
The People's Glorious Revolutionary Text Adventure Game, by Taylor Vaughan OtisTDog'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... |
Photopia, by Adam Cadre Average member rating: (559 ratings) "Will you read me a story?" "Read you a story? What fun would that be? I've got a better idea: let's tell a story together." |
Planetfall, by Steve Meretzky OtisTDog'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... |
Plundered Hearts, by Amy Briggs Average member rating: (66 ratings) In the 17th century, the seas are as wild as the untamed heart of a young woman. But when you set out on the schooner Lafond Deux, bound for the West Indies, your thoughts are only of your ailing father who... |
The Recruit, by Mike Sousa OtisTDog's rating: Average member rating: (11 ratings) Try your hand at the Real Life Interactive Gaming Simulacra! You'll face a variety of challenges and simulations and have a chance to win some money and great prizes. Apply today! |
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 Reliques of Tolti-Aph, by Graham Nelson OtisTDog's rating: Average member rating: (15 ratings) "It used to be said that there are two kinds of magic-user: those who have been to Tolti-Aph, and charlatans. It used to be generally understood that the attempt to prove oneself in the unforgiving society... |
Renegade Brainwave, by J. J. Guest OtisTDog's rating: Average member rating: (13 ratings) "Beware! Beware! Take care! For you are about take part in an interactive story that will reveal the terrifying truth behind the mysterious Soviet space programme! Revelations of incredible horrors that will... |
Risorgimento Represso, by Michael J. Coyne OtisTDog's rating: Average member rating: (48 ratings) You play as an Oxbridge student who, during a particularly boring lecture, falls through a green portal under their desk into the cluttered library of the wizard Ninario. Ninny was trying to summon a... |
Rogue of the Multiverse, by C.E.J. Pacian Average member rating: (73 ratings) Congratulations, convict 76954! You have been selected for scientific experimentation! You will be matter-transmitted to exotic non-Treaty worlds - where opportunities abound to take in fantastic sights and... |
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... |
Savoir-Faire, by Emily Short OtisTDog's rating: Average member rating: (132 ratings) The beautiful life is always damned, they say. As for you, you've overexpended yourself: fifteen years of prominence, champagne, carriage rides in the Tuileries, having your name whispered behind... |
Scavenger, by Quintin Stone OtisTDog's rating: Average member rating: (30 ratings) Search a war-shattered world for secrets of the past. |
Scroll Thief, by Daniel M. Stelzer Average member rating: (16 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 collected... |
Shade, by Andrew Plotkin OtisTDog's rating: 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 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 OtisTDog's rating: Average member rating: (167 ratings) |
Slouching Towards Bedlam, by Star Foster and Daniel Ravipinto OtisTDog's rating: Average member rating: (215 ratings) In the beginning was the Word, and it was hungry. ... |
Snack Time!, by Hardy the Bulldog and Renee Choba OtisTDog's rating: Average member rating: (59 ratings) 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] |
Speculative Fiction, by Diane Christoforo and Thomas Mack OtisTDog'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 OtisTDog's rating: Average member rating: (311 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... |
Starcross, by Dave Lebling OtisTDog's rating: Average member rating: (50 ratings) Starcross, Infocom's science fiction mind-bender, launches you headlong into the year 2186 and the depths of space. And not without good reason, for you are destined to rendezvous with a gargantuan starship... |
Strike Force, by Christopher Drum OtisTDog's rating: Average member rating: (4 ratings) Strike Force is a homage to the after-school cartoons of the 80s, most especially G.I. Joe. In this game, you'll lead two elite agents of Strike Force against the forces of HAVOC as they infiltrate a secret... |
Suveh Nux, by David Fisher OtisTDog'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 OtisTDog's rating: Average member rating: (115 ratings) Taco Fiction is a game about crime. |
The Tale of the Kissing Bandit, by J. Robinson Wheeler (as 'Cary Valentino') OtisTDog's rating: Average member rating: (46 ratings) |
Tales of the Traveling Swordsman, by Mike Snyder OtisTDog's rating: Average member rating: (47 ratings) You are the traveling swordsman; the strong and silent stranger; the wandering vanquisher of villainy. Damsels swoon for you. Good men respect and envy you. Scoundrels learn to fear you. Even so, you are but... |
Tapestry, by Daniel Ravipinto OtisTDog's rating: Average member rating: (44 ratings) 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... |
Tea Ceremony, by Naomi Hinchen OtisTDog'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... |
To Hell in a Hamper, by J. J. Guest OtisTDog's rating: Average member rating: (112 ratings) 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... |
To Sea in a Sieve, by J. J. Guest 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 Average member rating: (109 ratings) A murder most foul has been committed and Sherlock Holmes is on the case. You are his dog. |
Trading Punches, by Mike Snyder OtisTDog's rating: Average member rating: (13 ratings) |
Treasures of a Slaver's Kingdom, by S. John Ross OtisTDog's rating: Average member rating: (48 ratings) In the cruel kingdoms north of the Viraxian Empire, a barbarian seeks treasure - and vengeance! Having escaped the clutches of the Slaver King, he has vowed to pillage the wealth of the kingdom ... then... |
Ugly Chapter, by Sam Kabo Ashwell OtisTDog's rating: Average member rating: (12 ratings) In this short story, you play as Leti, a rich woman and a patron of the arts, who travels from Hawaii to Mars, as told by an angry and bitter male poet who knew her. What you did in the most ugly chapter of... |
Untold Riches, by Jason Ermer OtisTDog's rating: Average member rating: (22 ratings) You were reluctant to undertake another adventure with Professor d'Squarius (especially after the last near-catastrophe, in the Tomb of the Screaming Mummies), and from the moment you agreed to join the... |
Violet, by Jeremy Freese OtisTDog'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 Wand, by Arthur DiBianca OtisTDog's rating: Average member rating: (58 ratings) Explore the wizard Bartholloco's castle with the help of a versatile magic wand. Can you overcome his challenge? Can you levitate a rock? Can you slice a baltavakia? (Puzzle-oriented and family friendly.) |
The Weapon, by Sean Barrett OtisTDog's rating: Average member rating: (35 ratings) |
Winter Wonderland, by Laura Knauth OtisTDog'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] |
Wishbringer, by Brian Moriarty OtisTDog's rating: Average member rating: (109 ratings) It's an ordinary day in your ordinary little town, and you've been performing your ordinary mail clerk's duties in an altogether ordinary way. But there's something quite extraordinary in today's mail. It's... |
Wisher, Theurgist, Fatalist, by Xavid OtisTDog's rating: Average member rating: (11 ratings) From the ranks of the people you have been raised up as a Wisher— ... |
Wry, by Olaf Nowacki Average member rating: (13 ratings) A one and a half room slapstick miniature about subconscious erotic desires with three quite different endings. |
Yay Games, by David Welbourn OtisTDog's rating: Average member rating: (3 ratings) Relive the 2003 XYZZY Awards ceremony. (Well, okay, only the first half of the ceremony.) Written for SpeedIF Century. One location. |
Zorkian Stories 1: G.U.E., by Marshal Tenner Winter OtisTDog's rating: Average member rating: (15 ratings) Finally making it to the Eastlands, you find a shaft leading to the depths of the Great Underground Empire where, supposedly, lost treasures that have been forgotten for centuries are waiting to be found... |