Jim Nelson's Played Games

LUNIUM, by Ben Jackson 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...

Marie Waits, by Dee Cooke Jim Nelson's rating: Average member rating: (13 ratings) Three hours. All you can do is wait... or is it?

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...

Meritocracy, by Ronynn ʕ •ᴥ•ʔ Average member rating: (8 ratings) A quest to define merit: A battle of wits, an interactive fiction game. ...

Midnight at Al's Self Storage, Truck Rentals, and Discount Psychic Readings, by Thomas Insel Jim Nelson's rating: Average member rating: (9 ratings) This was supposed to be an easy job to earn some money the summer before college, but Joe has an impossible list of chores for you every evening. He's the owner and only he handles the truck rentals, but...

Milliways: the Restaurant at the End of the Universe, by Max Fog Average member rating: (11 ratings) In Milliways: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, every step you take has an equal probability of sending you over the edge of perilous cliff drops or spinning into the stratosphere. But before that...

No One Else Is Doing This, by Lauren O'Donoghue Jim Nelson's rating: Average member rating: (19 ratings) You are a community organiser. This is your job, four nights out of five; you sell people hope on their doorsteps....

Nose Bleed, by Stanley W. Baxton Jim Nelson's rating: Average member rating: (20 ratings) Please, stop embarassing us....

Of Their Shadows Deep, by Amanda Walker Jim Nelson's rating: Average member rating: (18 ratings) A story about love and disease and loss. Contains graphics and has a screen reader mode for use with text to speech software. Written in Inform 7 for 2022 ParserComp. Play time about one hour. Content...

The Only Possible Prom Dress, by Jim Aikin Jim Nelson's rating: Average member rating: (10 ratings) Ten years ago you had to burgle every store in Stufftown to get your hands on the sought-after doll called Sugar Toes Ballerina so your 7-year-old daughter Samantha wouldn't be heartbroken on Christmas...

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."

Pick Up the Cookie and Sigh, by P.B. Parjeter Average member rating: (9 ratings) I originally meant to announce this as an April Fool’s joke (ie. a lost Douglas Adams game that doesn’t really exist) but I ended up turning it into a straight adaptation of the story. Adapted from Douglas...

Plane Walker, by Jack Comfort Average member rating: (9 ratings) Set out on a dire mission through worlds with nothing but amnesia and intuition. *Requires an interpreter that can display special characters

Planetfall, by Steve Meretzky Jim Nelson'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...

Red Door Yellow Door, by Charm Cochran Jim Nelson's rating: Average member rating: (12 ratings) Guide your sister through a game of visualization, adventure, and danger, and perhaps discover truths about each other along the way. This was originally intended for SeedComp!, but winded up being a bigger...

Repeat the Ending, by Drew Cook Jim Nelson's rating: Average member rating: (22 ratings) Explore an all-new "critical edition" of a 1996 Inform 5 game about mental illness, magic, and the second law of thermodynamics. When D, a psychiatrically disabled chaos wizard, learns that an estranged...

The Sculptor, by Yakoub Mousli Average member rating: (15 ratings) Sways of an artist's delicate spirit. An 82 year old sculptor with no achievements to his name or a penny in his pocket now seeks to make the masterpiece of his dreams before his life fades. ...

The Song of the Mockingbird, by Mike Carletta Jim Nelson's rating: Average member rating: (16 ratings) A ruthless outlaw. A kidnapped dancer. A singing cowboy. A long dance of death in the Texas sun. You're unhorsed and disarmed, but you still have your wits and your guitar. You can only hope they'll be...

Sorcerer, by Steve Meretzky Average member rating: (67 ratings) Sorcerer, the second of a spellbinding fantasy series in the tradition of Zork, takes you on a magical tour through the darker side of Zorkian enchantment. Your journey begins with a cryptic diary - the last...

Spider and Web, by Andrew Plotkin Jim Nelson'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 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...

Sting, by Mike Russo Jim Nelson's rating: Average member rating: (18 ratings) Six bees. Five bags of groceries. A four-pound dumbbell. Three sailboats. One twin. Sting is a puzzleless parser memoir about ordinary days and unexpected interruptions.

The Sun Doesn't Shine Here, by Stanley W. Baxton Average member rating: (5 ratings) You're on an archeological expedition to the Lost City, and the sun doesn't shine here.

Things that Happened in Houghtonbridge, by Dee Cooke Jim Nelson's rating: Average member rating: (14 ratings) On a hot summer weekend, all Olivia Raines wants to do is get on with her studies for her upcoming exams. But her unreliable aunt, Beverly, has gone missing, and Olivia finds herself unwillingly dragged into...

Trenchline, by JJ McC "Mercenaries make easy money," your army buddies said. "It's all scowls and shows of force. It'll never come to real fighting." Well, they're all dead now, and here you are. Stranded deep in a war zone,...

Previous | << 1 2 3 >> | Next | Show All