Jim Nelson's Played Games

Admiration Point, by Rachel Helps Jim Nelson's rating: Average member rating: (22 ratings) You work as a virtual exhibit artist at a digital culture museum. There is a glimmer of attraction to your co-worker. You are married and Mormon.

Alias 'The Magpie', by J. J. Guest Average member rating: (69 ratings) Sir Rodney Playfair, gentleman thief, has a simple plan: impersonate a psychiatrist, infiltrate a country house, steal a priceless Egyptian scarab and make it back to London in time for cocktails. All in a...

And Then You Come to a House Not Unlike the Previous One, by B.J. Best Jim Nelson's rating: Average member rating: (66 ratings) Title: Infinite Adventure Year: 1986 Genre: Adventure Summary: Wander through an apparently infinite number of spooky mansions, solving a basic puzzle in each one. ForgottenGames.com rating: ★ ★ ★

The Archivist and the Revolution, by Autumn Chen Jim Nelson's rating: Average member rating: (35 ratings) The world is ending, and you are still paying rent....

Babel, by Ian Finley Jim Nelson's rating: Average member rating: (155 ratings) 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...

Barcarolle in Yellow, by Víctor Ojuel Average member rating: (12 ratings) Barcarolle in Yellow (1975, released in Italy as "Barcarolla in Giallo"), starring Eva Chantry. ...

Beat Me Up Scotty, by Jkj Yuio Jim Nelson's rating: Average member rating: (10 ratings) A bizarre catchphrase word enigma.

Bureaucracy, by Douglas Adams, The Staff of Infocom Average member rating: (48 ratings) IMPORTANT! Our records show that you do not have a license to operate this software. Normally, you would be required to complete a License Application Form and mail it (with proof of purchase) to our...

A Chinese Room, by Milo van Mesdag Jim Nelson's rating: Average member rating: (12 ratings) A one or two reader experience, A Chinese Room is one story in two. A story of power, control, inhumanity, and love....

Closure, by Sarah Willson Jim Nelson's rating: Average member rating: (28 ratings) Kira hasn't been the same since the breakup. Now she's done something really reckless, and she's asking for your help to figure out what went wrong with TJ. What else can you say? She's your best friend.

Death by Lightning, by Chase Capener
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Defrosted, by Riyadth Jim Nelson's rating: Average member rating: (6 ratings) submission for #ECTOCOMP2022 learn random bengali phrases and survive in a world where antarctica is an arboretum of plant monsters based on this weird dream i had. there are three endings. credit to...

Desrosier's Discovery, by Ben Ehrlich and Isabel Stewart Jim Nelson's rating: Average member rating: (6 ratings) Go to the far north and see what the professor's great discovery is! This game was created by Ben Ehrlich and Isabel Stewart for ParserComp 2022. This was made using a custom engine called PLUGH.js that I...

Ditch Day Drifter, by Michael J. Roberts Jim Nelson's rating: Average member rating: (23 ratings) 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...

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. ...

Enchanter, by Marc Blank, Dave Lebling Jim Nelson's rating: Average member rating: (109 ratings) In Enchanter, the first of a spellbinding series in the tradition of Zork, you are a novice magician whom Fate has chosen to do singlehanded combat with a dark and fierce power. But worldly weapons will...

Gent Stickman vs Evil Meat Hand, by AZ / ParserCommander Jim Nelson's rating: Average member rating: (11 ratings) Interactive Fiction Parser Game WITHOUT TEXT, just hand drawing graphics. Short, minimalist, difficult puzzles, full of help. Gent Stickman, the drawing in the door of the gentleman toilets must go to save...

Ghosts Within, by Kyriakos Athanasopoulos Jim Nelson's rating: Average member rating: (12 ratings) The smell of damp moss fills the air. Wet grass and dirt surround you while you are lying face down on the cold forest floor. Your clothes are dirty, wet, and slightly torn in places. Your head's left side...

Headlights, by Jordan White and Eric Zinda Average member rating: (9 ratings) You’ve made some poor decisions and they’ve brought you to this place. The clock is ticking but you still have time. Time to make some better choices. Time to turn things around. Time to get on the right...

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams and Steve Meretzky Average member rating: (185 ratings) Don't Panic! Relax, because everything you need to know about playing The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is contained in the pages of this manual. In this story, you will be Arthur Dent, a rather ordinary...

The Impossible Stairs, by Mathbrush Jim Nelson's rating: Average member rating: (26 ratings) Getting ready for a party can take a lot of time. Help CJ navigate a text adventure of temporal trials. Merciful puzzlefest. Parser or point-and-click, as you please. Authorized sequel to The Impossible...

Improv: Origins, by Neil deMause Jim Nelson'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...

Janitor, by Peter Seebach and Kevin Lynn
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The Kuolema, by Ben Jackson Jim Nelson'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...

Leather Goddesses of Phobos, by Steve Meretzky Average member rating: (70 ratings) And now... the next exciting episode of humanoids in space! How did you, a regular at Joe's Bar in Upper Sandusky, Ohio, end up on a Martian moon? Can you prevent the hideous space creature from abducting...

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: (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 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: (310 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,...

Trouble in Sector 471, by Arthur DiBianca Average member rating: (30 ratings) The power just went out in Sector 471. You had better go take a look.

Unfortunate, by Anonymous Average member rating: (5 ratings) Just because you aren't the most inherently talented fortune teller doesn't mean that you can't give fate a little push in the right direction.

Use Your Psychic Powers at Applebee's, by Geoffrey Golden Jim Nelson's rating: Average member rating: (36 ratings) You are a Psychic Brand Ambassador for Schtupmeister Beer. Listen to the thoughts of customers at the local Applebee's and convince them to try your syrupy ale. But will being in these peoples' heads...

Varicella, by Adam Cadre Average member rating: (131 ratings) 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...

What Heart Heard Of, Ghost Guessed, by Amanda Walker Jim Nelson's rating: Average member rating: (38 ratings) Margaret, are you grieving Over Goldengrove unleaving… Come home to Goldengrove, a beautiful old house haunted by a lost soul. Uncover the secrets of your tormented past in a tale of unrequited love,...

Who Shot Gum E. Bear?, by Damon L. Wakes Jim Nelson's rating: Average member rating: (24 ratings) Gum E. Bear lies dead in a pool of his own liquid centre, and only Bubble Gumshoe - private eye extraordinaire - can deliver sweet justice on the rain-sticky streets of Sugar City. Explore the area, seek out...

Xanthippe's Last Night with Socrates, by Victor Gijsbers 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? ...

Cost of Living, by Anonymous Jim Nelson's rating: Average member rating: (4 ratings) If easy payment plans were to be really efficient, patrons' lifetimes had to be extended!

You May Not Escape!, by Charm Cochran Jim Nelson's rating: Average member rating: (10 ratings) You are one of the unlucky many to enter the maze. Will you be one of the lucky few to escape?...

Zero Sum Game, by Cody Sandifer
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