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| (s)wordsmyth, by Tristan Jacobs Spike's rating:   Average member rating:  Built upon the intention of combining a choose-your-own-adventure game with a beat-em up, (s)wordsmyth is an unconventional, samurai-inspired, revenge story that includes sentient swords and yokai warriors.... |
| #VanLife, by Victoria Spike's rating: Average member rating: The first thought is always the same: ‘coffee’. The warm glow of the kettle fills the van as it comes to life at an enviable pace. Suddenly, with a snap, the lights shut off, the kettle dies with... |
| + = x, by Chandler Groover Spike's rating: Average member rating: An equation is a language, which is a road to move information. All matter is information. Even a crust trimmed from a sandwich. Even a planet's crust, adrift in space, with its core blown. Those lights are... |
| 10pm, by litrouke Spike's rating: Average member rating: 10pm, and dinner is still sitting in the oven. The TV is droning. The front door is closed. You look at the clock. You look at the door. You wait. --- Content warnings: profanity, allusions to sex and... |
| 16 Ways to Kill a Vampire at McDonalds, by Abigail Corfman Spike's rating: Average member rating: You're a vampire hunter on your night off. You're getting a manicure, seeing a movie, and eating fast food. But there's a vampire in this McDonalds. If you don't do something, then in one hour it will eat... |
| 1958: Dancing With Fear, by Victor Ojuel Spike's rating: 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... |
| 4x4 Archipelago, by Agnieszka Trzaska Spike's rating: Average member rating: Adventure waits for you in a procedurally generated Archipelago! Discover strange new lands. Make a fortune from trading. Swing a Really Big Sword at a dragon. Fight wild beasts – or turn them into your... |
| 69,105 Keys, by David Welbourn Spike's rating: 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 Spike'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 Spike'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. |
| AardVarK Versus the Hype, by Truthcraze Spike's rating: Average member rating: November, 1997, somewhere in the suburbs: Carpenter jeans. Mixtapes. Alt Rock. A mind-controlling vaguely-citrus soda. A beat-up 1989 Toyota Celica. A gas station that sells snacks. And the band whose name... |
| Abbess Otilia's Life and Death, by Arno von Borries (as A.B.) Spike's rating: Average member rating: In English, on parchment, written in 13th century textualis. Quarto, 14 leaves, in double columns, with rubrication and miniatures. Marginalia in several hands of the 14th and 17th century. |
| Absence of Law, by mathbrush Spike's rating: Average member rating: 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... |
| Academic Pursuits (As Opposed To Regular Pursuits), by ruqiyah Spike's rating: Average member rating: Dear Ms. ████████ We are delighted to offer you a position in our architecture department. After your application and interview we are confident you will really sink your teeth into this... |
| An Act of Murder, by Christopher Huang Spike's rating: Average member rating: |
| Ad Verbum, by Nick Montfort Spike'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... |
| The Addicott Manor, by Intudia Spike's rating: Average member rating: You thought the abandoned manor would be easy to rob. But you were dead wrong. Its many rooms and corridors are filled with evil. You need to be lucky to make it out alive! The Addicott Manor is constructed... |
| Adventure, by William Crowther and Donald Woods Spike's rating: Average member rating: |
| Adventures with Fido, by Lucas C. Wheeler Spike's rating: Average member rating: "You are a Corgi in a sunny backyard." ... |
| Ailihphilia, by Andrew Schultz (as N. Y. Llewellyn) Spike's rating: Average member rating: No need for aibohphobia. It's polite on the Zarfian cruelty scale -and- will let you jump to the exciting conclusion if your 2-hour judging period is almost up! |
| Aisle, by Sam Barlow Spike'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... |
| Alias 'The Magpie', by J. J. Guest Spike's rating: Average member rating: 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... |
| All Hope Abandon, by Eric Eve Spike's rating: Average member rating: Your day got off to a good enough start when you met that blonde in the breakfast queue, but it's all downhill from there: you may be wishing you could escape a particularly dire lecture, but not by the one... |
| All Roads, by Jon Ingold Spike's rating: 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] |
| Alone, by Paul Michael Winters Spike's rating: Average member rating: Just you and your car, alone on the open road. You haven't seen another car for weeks. You haven't spoken to another person in months. And if you want to stay alive, you'd better keep it that way. |
| Amazing Quest, by Nick Montfort Average member rating: at last, you now need to get yourself and your fleet back home. Decide as if it all depends on you, trust as if it all depends on the gods, and you will have an amazing quest... |
| Anchorhead, by Michael Gentry Spike's rating: Average member rating: 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... |
| And Then You Come to a House Not Unlike the Previous One, by B.J. Best Spike's rating: Average member rating: 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: ★ ★ ★ |
| And You May Find Yourself, by VPC Spike's rating: Average member rating: You awake one morning with a beautiful house, and a beautiful wife, and no idea how you got there. |
| Animalia, by Ian Michael Waddell Spike's rating: Average member rating: This is the story of Charlie Stewart, nine-year-old Human child. Inside this ordinary nine-year-old Human child are four animals from the Forest, working tirelessly to keep YOUR Taiga Federation safe from... |
| Anno 1700, by Finn Rosenløv Spike's rating: Average member rating: You have taken a job as receptionist at an old hotel on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, hoping to rekindle your interest in history before the final exam at college. Little do you know that you will get... |
| The Arkhill Darkness, by Jason Barrett Spike's rating: Average member rating: The town of Arkhill has been under a mysterious Darkness and strange beasts. You have been hired to dispense of the beasts and investigate the cause of the Darkness. With the help of the remaining townfolk... |
| Ascension of Limbs, by AKheon Spike's rating: Average member rating: You are an antique store proprietor trying to make ends meet. Use your wits, manage your resources, play the hand you are dealt. This game features a story with multiple endings, achievements as well as an... |
| At King Arthur's Christmas Feast, by Travis Moy Spike's rating: Average member rating: One Christmas at Camelot in charged a strange fellow, a giant man all green, great axe in hand, and called out a challenge in the court of King Arthur: "Bequeath me one blow, behead me clean, and then, in... |
| Awake, by Soham Sevak Spike's rating: Average member rating: Set in the near future, you play as William, Lead Scientist, an instrumental part of the Project team. You are woken up in the middle of the night by an urgent summons to work. A test subject managed to... |
| The Ballroom, by Liza Daly Spike's rating: Average member rating: You arrived at the ballroom well after midnight. The End. |
| Basilica de Sangre, by Bitter Karella Spike's rating: Average member rating: What's a demon to do? Your mother has been missing for weeks. Rumor has it that she's being held prisoner in the infamous convent Basilica de Sangre. They say no demon has ever escaped from Basilica de... |
| Best Gopher Ever, by Arthur DiBianca Spike's rating: Average member rating: Help the unfortunate residents of Fairview! (Who are all animals, by the way.) A light puzzle game for all ages. |
| The Best Man, by Stephen Bond Spike's rating: Average member rating: |
| Beyond Zork, by Brian Moriarty Spike's rating: Average member rating: Dread times have befallen the Kingdom of Quendor. The wizards have mysteriously disappeared. The Enchanter's Guild Hall lies in ruins. Villages are abandoned, drunken men mutter strange tales, and vicious... |
| Bi Lines, by Naomi Z (as Norbez) Spike's rating: Average member rating: So what if you're unsure? What if you're falling apart? Forget about yourself and worry about them. That's what she'd want. (Note: This game poured out of me during the Brett Kavanaugh hearings in America,... |
| Big Trouble in Little Dino Park, by Seth Paxton, Rachel Aubertin Spike's rating: Average member rating: Ever since cloning dinosaurs became the cheap, cool way to build a theme park there have been lots of them cropping up. Luckily, this one still had a position open for your summer job! Little Dino Park is a... |
| Birdland, by Brendan Patrick Hennessy Spike's rating: Average member rating: Fourteen-year-old Bridget's summer camp experience takes a turn for the bizarre when her otherworldly bird dreams start bleeding into reality. |
| Birmingham IV, by Peter Emery Spike's rating: Average member rating: A solitary scholar, his purpose and presence in the world a mystery even to himself, ventures abroad in a dream state. He finds a land of sunny lanes and dark forests, steeped in the blood of Celt, Saxon,... |
| Black Knife Dungeon, by Arthur DiBianca Spike's rating: Average member rating: A miniature RPG. |
| Bogeyman, by Elizabeth Smyth Spike's rating: Average member rating: You can go home when you learn to be good. |
| Border Reivers, by Vivienne Dunstan Spike's rating: Average member rating: It's late fifteenth century Scotland, and the dangerous world of the Anglo-Scottish Border Reivers. A murder has been committed, and it's your task as the Warden's son to try to find out who was responsible.... |
| Brain Guzzlers from Beyond!, by Steph Cherrywell Spike's rating: Average member rating: You are Bonnie Noodleman, Ordinary Well-Adjusted Teen-Ager, on an ordinary well-adjusted drive up Make-Out Mountain--until some gooey monstrosity from beyond the stars guzzles your boyfriend's brains clean... |
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| The Broken Bottle, by The Affinity Forge team, Josh Irvin Spike's rating: Average member rating: Orphaned and outcast in medieval Romania, Florin’s life takes a turn for the worse when his sister, Nadia, disappears from the neighboring gypsy circus. He and his faithful wolf companion, Zana, need your... |
| Bronze, by Emily Short Spike'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. |
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| Bullhockey!, by B F Lindsay Spike's rating: Average member rating: Your girlfriend has left you, leaving disturbing notes. And she--oops--lost your laundry. In various places. Around town. You can't have her back. But you can try to get your laundry. |
| BYOD, by n-n Spike's rating: Average member rating: You are starting your IT internship. The details you got from the university are scarce: just the address and the date (today). |
| Byzantine Perspective, by Lea Albaugh Spike's rating: Average member rating: Your task is simple enough. Just nab the chalice. |
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| Cactus Blue Motel, by Astrid Dalmady Spike'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.... |
| Campfire Tales, by Matthew Deline Spike's rating: Average member rating: Campfire Tales is an experimental storytelling game that uses procedural generation to change elements of the story each time you play! Gather your friends to play together, with one player reading the story... |
| Cannery Vale, by Hanon Ondricek (as Keanhid Connor) Spike's rating: Average member rating: Hell, even a seagull would hit the spot right now, roasted crispy over a flame-- He immediately put all thoughts of food out of his head because at the moment it was just torture_ |
| Captain Graybeard's Plunder, by Julian Mortimer Smith Spike's rating: Average member rating: A retired pirate captain cobbles together a ship and crew from the pages of classic works of literature. His goal: revenge! |
| Captain Verdeterre's Plunder, by Ryan Veeder Spike's rating: Average member rating: You should carry the bag. I'm more of a delegator. |
| Captivity, by Jim Aikin Spike's rating: Average member rating: Locked in a tower in a castle by an evil duke — how annoying. And you’re not even a princess! Duke Esteban is demanding an outrageous ransom of your well-born and well-meaning but cash-strapped parents,... |
| Careless Talk, by Diana Rider Spike's rating: Average member rating: "You pace the deck anxiously as you wait for the chaplain to finish his current appointment. The skies above are a gloomy grey--not foreboding enough for a storm, too grim to be considered cheery. The... |
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| A Catalan Summer, by Neibucrion Spike's rating: Average member rating: It's the summer of 1920. Things are going well in Catalonia for the wealthy Vidal family : the Great War just ended that allowed them to greatly improve their profits. But these are modern times full of... |
| Charming, by Kaylah Facey Spike's rating: Average member rating: 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... |
| The Chieftain, by LeSUTHU Spike's rating: Average member rating: In the middle of endless prairies, and dynamic mysteries that await you, you are a chieftain of a village you created. You control everything about the village from obtaining food, encounters with the... |
| Child's Play, by Stephen Granade Spike's rating: 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... |
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| CIA Adventure, by Hugh Lampert Spike's rating: Average member rating: "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... |
| Color the Truth, by mathbrush Spike's rating: Average member rating: Rosalita Morales is dead, and you have to figure out who did it. The four people closest to her had the motive and the means: her partner, her secretary, her ex-husband, and her sister. Re-live their... |
| Coloratura, by Lynnea Glasser Spike's rating: 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. |
| The Copyright of Silence, by Ola Hansson Spike's rating: Average member rating: A chamber play in a board game. Short play-through time, but victory will require plenty of replaying. You are visiting John Cage, the composer. Use stealth to navigate his apartment as well as his... |
| Counterfeit Monkey, by Emily Short Spike's rating: Average member rating: (254 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... |
Cragne Manor, by Ryan Veeder, Jenni Polodna et al.Show other authorsAdam Whybray, Adri, Andrew Plotkin, Andy Holloway, Austin Auclair, Baldur Brückner, Ben Collins-Sussman, Bill Maya, Brian Rushton, Buster Hudson, Caleb Wilson, Carl Muckenhoupt, Chandler Groover, Chris Jones, Christopher Conley, Damon L. Wakes, Daniel Ravipinto, Daniel Stelzer, David Jose, David Petrocco, David Sturgis, Drew Mochak, Edward B, Emily Short, Erica Newman, Feneric, Finn Rosenløv, Gary Butterfield, Gavin Inglis, Greg Frost, Hanon Ondricek, Harkness Munt, Harrison Gerard, Ian Holmes, Ivan Roth, Jack Welch, Jacqueline Ashwell, James Eagle, Jason Dyer, Jason Lautzenheiser, Jason Love, Jeremy Freese, Joey Jones, Joshua Porch, Justin de Vesine, Justin Melvin, Katherine Morayati, Kenneth Pedersen, Lane Puetz, Llew Mason, Lucian Smith, Marco Innocenti, Marius Müller, Mark Britton, Mark Sample, Marshal Tenner Winter, Matt Schneider, Matt Weiner, Matthew Korson, Michael Fessler, Michael Gentry, Michael Hilborn, Michael Lin, Mike Spivey, Molly Ying, Monique Padelis, Naomi Hinchen, Nate Edwards, Petter Sjölund, Q Pheevr, Rachel Spitler, Reed Lockwood, Reina Adair, Riff Conner, Roberto Colnaghi, Rowan Lipkovits, Sam Kabo Ashwell, Scott Hammack, Sean M. Shore, Shin, Wade Clarke, Zach Hodgens, Zack JohnsonAverage member rating: A tribute to Anchorhead. |
| Creatures, by Andreas Hagelin Spike's rating: Average member rating: As this dark adventure begins you find yourself bereft of both clothes and food in a cold prison cell. Will you solve the mysteries, slay the monsters and see the light of another day? |
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| Curse of the Garden Isle, by Ryan Veeder Spike's rating: Average member rating: Let's both take a deep breath. |
| The Curse of the Scarab, by Nils Fagerburg Spike's rating: Average member rating: Archeology licenses are for suckers, not for Rhoda Tarcrew. But now the authorities are closing in and there's only time for one last dig before you have to flee the country. Better make it count. |
| The Cursèd Pickle of Shireton, by Hanon Ondricek Spike's rating: Average member rating: Evil, sealed away for Aeons, has been released. |
| Curses, by Graham Nelson Spike's rating: 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... |
| Cygnet Committee, by P.B. Parjeter Spike's rating: Average member rating: The year is 2049. Your mission is to take down a military cult that has formed around Joan of Arc. |
| De Baron, by Victor Gijsbers Spike'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... |
| Dead Man's Fiesta, by Ed Sibley Spike's rating: Average member rating: Summer was coming to an end, and all you wanted to do was finish grieving in peace before you had to go back to work. And because it had been a rough couple of months you bought yourself a car, you know, as... |
| Deadline, by Marc Blank Spike's rating: Average member rating: Twelve hours to solve the mystery. One false move, and the killer strikes again. It's been called "part of the latest craze in home computing (TIME magazine), an "amazing feat of programming" (THE NEW YORK... |
| Deelzebub, by Morgan Elrod-Erickson, Skyler Grandel, Jan Kim Spike's rating: Average member rating: Reginald is your average former soap-sniffer: thirty-two, dumped, and unemployed. You are a voice inside his head. Summon demons, bake cookies, and decide the fate of the Hidden Hills Sanctuary. |
| Delightful Wallpaper, by Andrew Plotkin ('Edgar O. Weyrd') Spike's rating: Average member rating: |
| Depression Quest, by Zoe Quinn, Patrick Lindsey, Isaac Schankler Spike's rating: Average member rating: "An interactive (non)fiction about living with depression." The player of this multimedia hypertext game is given a series of everyday life events, and has to attempt to manage their illness, relationships,... |
| Detectiveland, by Robin Johnson Spike's rating: Average member rating: New Losago, 1929 - a town full of creeps, clowns, mobsters and, if you know where to look, the occasional honest citizen. Guide private investigator Lanson Rose through a series of puzzling cases: solve the... |
| Deus Ex Ceviche, by Tom Lento, Chandler Groover Spike's rating: Average member rating: Something fishy is happening in the Section B-2 Temple. |
| DEVOTIONALIA, by G.C. "Grim" Baccaris (as G. Grimoire) Spike's rating: Average member rating: The high priest of an obscure cult is preparing a ritual. Don the priest’s sacred mantle, for these holy labors are yours to direct. You may carve a votive, lead a prayer, or make a sacrifice — but you... |
| Diddlebucker!, by J. Michael Spike's rating: Average member rating: Who's the best and brightest Gamer of 'em all? Find out by joining the 27th Annual All-Night Diddlebucker Run! You'll compete against hundreds of other teams in the world's most popular scavenger hunt! Find... |
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| Domestic Elementalism, by fireisnormal Spike's rating: Average member rating: The plants that grow out of your bedroom walls are associated with Earth. The fairy lights strung across your kitchen are associated with Fire. Change an object's element, and the object will turn into... |
| Doppeljobs, by Lei Spike's rating: Average member rating: You are a young doppelganger, fresh out of School of Humanity, finally realizing your life-long dream to own a human-centric business. You offer a unique service: imitation on demand, living through... |
| Dr Ego and the egg of Man-Toomba, by Wesley Werner (as 'Special Agent') Spike's rating: Average member rating: You are Dr Ego, purveyor of artifacts, seeker of treasure, and adventurous archeologist. You explore the jungles of Papua New Guinea with hopes to find a mysterious artifact - the golden egg of Man-Toomba. |
| Dr Horror's House of Terror, by Ade McT Spike's rating: Average member rating: The Grave cannot hold them...Nothing human can stop them...Torn from their tombs to terrify the world, the cravings of their undead blood made them kill...kill...KILL! Feel the chill of the crypt in your... |
| Draculaland, by Robin Johnson Spike's rating: Average member rating: A terse, comic horror puzzle game based loosely on Dracula, faithfully reimagining several characters and ignoring most of the original plot. Guide Jonathan Harker on a trip through Transylvania, interacting... |
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| Dream Pieces 2, by Iam Curio Spike's rating: Average member rating: You got trapped in a dream again before your birthday. Now you are a figurine toy and everything is made of lego! Escape a series of rooms with puzzles by playing with pieces of words. |
| The Dreamhold, by Andrew Plotkin Spike's rating: 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... |
| Dreamland, by Tatiana Statsenko (as eejitlikeme) Spike's rating: Average member rating: Dreams are fascinating, illogical, colourful, and some people just cannot live without them. Are you sleeping to remember or are you sleeping to forget? Credits to testers: Uliana Sirotina, Matt Nicolls |
| Dual Transform, by Andrew Plotkin Spike's rating: Average member rating: This game takes place in a single room — but not always the same one. The room contains just one item, but again, there's more to it than that. Experiment and enjoy. |
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| Dungeon Detective, by Wonaglot, Caitlin Mulvihill Spike's rating: Average member rating: You're a gnoll. Whether that's a blessing or a curse is up to you. Unlike other gnolls, you're trying to eke out a simple existence by plying your trade - that of the world's first Dungeon Detective. Amass... |
| Dungeon Detective 2: Devils and Details, by Wonaglot Spike's rating: Average member rating: The life of the world's first Dungeon Detective isn't exactly glamorous. You've spent many nights hungry, sleeping in the woods. But word is getting out, and the newest case has showed up at the foot of your... |
| Dynamite Powers vs. the Ray of Night!, by Mike Carletta Spike's rating: Average member rating: Dynamite Powers and Rosalind have escaped the Chinese water torture on Lord Infamy's dirigible. With the help of their new friend, Melcor, they led the revolt of the singing monkeys of Melodion and toppled... |
| Earth and Sky, by Paul O'Brian Spike's rating: Average member rating: 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... |
| Eat Me, by Chandler Groover Spike's rating: Average member rating: In this castle, you'll eat or be eaten. May contain dairy, carnage, puzzles, nuts. |
| The Eidolon's Escape, by Mark Clarke Spike's rating: Average member rating: For untold years you have been trapped, a spirit without a body, incarcerated by an evil mage. Finally your chance has come to free yourself and escape. Run wild in a body-swapping, race against time to... |
| Electric word, "life", by Lance Nathan Spike's rating: Average member rating: It's 1999, and your roommate has talked you into hosting a Halloween party. It's pretty much going to be all his friends, but you've invited a few of your own who may or may not make it. Here's hoping for... |
| The Eleusinian Miseries, by Mike Russo Spike's rating: Average member rating: Well, isn't this a lark! After solid years of going after old Alky to let you in on that Mysteries wheeze of his, at last tonight's the night. He's dragged you from Athens to Eleusis for the to-do, but no... |
| The Empty Chamber: A Celia Swift Mystery, by Tom Sykes Spike's rating: Average member rating: A game of observation, conversation, and deduction, set inside a run-down terrace flat in post-war Essex. |
| En Garde, by Jack Welch Spike's rating: Average member rating: A man who has lost his mind. A mouse who has lost his realm. A dog who has lost his family. And the scientist who will save the world. |
| Enchanter, by Marc Blank, Dave Lebling Spike's rating: Average member rating: 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... |
| Endless Sands, by Hamish McIntyre Spike's rating: Average member rating: Exiled to the desert for a crime they didn’t commit, a vampire must find shelter before sunrise. |
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| Erstwhile, by Aster (formally Maddie) Fialla, Marijke Perry Spike's rating: Average member rating: The neighborhood Thanksgiving party was going pretty well until you keeled over and died. Now you're a ghost, and you're going to figure out who killed you. But you can't exactly interview people or search... |
| Escape from Dinosaur Island, by Richard Pettigrew Spike's rating: Average member rating: Escape from Dinosaur Island, is an IF text based adventure based very loosely on 'The Lost World' by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. After enduring a hurricane, your hot air balloon has crashed on an a mysterious... |
| Ether, by MathBrush Spike's rating: Average member rating: "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... |
| Eunice, by Gita Ryaboy Spike's rating: Average member rating: Eunice is a shadow of its former glory. Hope is lost, just a faint mem-ory Whatever might have brought you here, That Eunice needs you, it is clear. Type out simple commands, and Notice the changes in Eunice... |
| Fair, by Hanon Ondricek Spike's rating: Average member rating: As the most famous self-published Science Fiction author residing in Hillview, you are eminently qualified to judge their annual Elementary School Science Fair. |
| Ferryman's Gate, by Daniel Maycock Spike's rating: Average member rating: You punctuation-obsessed uncle has died, leaving your family his house, but leaving you, a mere kid, with his unfinished business. As you follow the clues left by your uncle, you quickly discover that while... |
| A Final Grind, by nrsm_ha Spike's rating: Average member rating: Text-based RPG where your character becomes weaker over time. A game about frustration, regret, and slaying goblins. Use of a calculator is to be considered cheating. |
| Fingertips: I Walk Along Darkened Corridors, by Andrew Schultz Spike's rating: Average member rating: There are 1001 doors in the darkened corridors. Which is right? |
| Fingertips: Something Grabbed Ahold of My Hand, by Melvin Rangasamy Spike's rating: Average member rating: You have been imprisoned but your crime can't have been that bad, as they're giving you a chance to escape- if you're smart enough! A one move parole board for Apollo 18+20: The IF Tribute Album. |
| First Things First, by J. Robinson Wheeler Spike's rating: Average member rating: You’ve just arrived at home from your nightly visit to the science and invention section of the local public library, where you spend each night dreaming your dreamy dreams of one day inventing a time... |
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| Flattened London, by Carter X Gwertzman Spike's rating: Average member rating: Unravel the secrets of the third dimension and search for treasure in a wholly bizarre setting — a crossover between the worlds of Fallen London and Flatland. Keep your wits about you in this sprawling... |
| Flowers of Mysteria, by David Sweeney Spike's rating: Average member rating: Your quest is to cure the Fisher King of his illness. When he fell ill, the once fertile land became barren. You must collect the four legendary flowers of Mysteria and make from them a herbal remedy. |
| Foo Foo, by Buster Hudson Spike's rating: Average member rating: 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. |
| For a Place by the Putrid Sea, by Arno von Borries Spike's rating: Average member rating: At some point, going back would have been inevitable anyway. And why should I not have been allowed a bit of rest? After all, no one could say I hadn't tried to run. But when you're running, you need to stop... |
| The Forgotten Tavern, by Peter M.J. Gross Spike's rating: Average member rating: Max and Diana need your help, although Diana might be reluctant to admit that. You should visit their humble establishment. If you help them with their problems, they can help you with yours. You remember... |
| Founder's Mercy, by Thomas Insel Spike's rating: Average member rating: You awake. You are lonely, so lonely. It was a thousand days ago today. All alone these thousand days. Your parents were the last. No, your father was the last. He held on for nearly a hundred days longer.... |
| Future Threads, by Xavid Spike's rating: Average member rating: You see it. Today is the day they will come. Their ship will crash, but the resulting explosion will trouble them not at all. They will emerge, wrapped in shadows and smoke, from the wreckage. Their senses... |
| Galatea, by Emily Short Spike'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... |
| Ghostfinder: Shift, by Han-Joo Kim Spike's rating: Average member rating: In a world where magic is real and mind-bending nightmares lie waiting in the least expected places, the Fraternal Order of Ghostfinders, an international society of elite occult investigators, is humanity's... |
| GiantKiller, by Peter D. Killworth Spike's rating: Average member rating: From the Topologika website (retrieved September 2012): 'GiantKiller' is a classic (i.e. text-only) and tongue-in-cheek Maths adventure game based on Jack and the Beanstalk. It's aimed at 8 to 14 year olds -... |
| Girth Loinhammer and the Quest for the Unsee Elixir, by Damon L. Wakes Spike's rating: Average member rating: You are Girth Loinhammer, Dungeon Lord! It's a pretty sweet gig, with a gigantic trap-filled underground dungeon and a vast collection of torture devices with which to torment those who venture within your... |
| Grandma Bethlinda's Remarkable Egg, by Arthur DiBianca Spike's rating: Average member rating: How do you break out of handcuffs when all you've got is an egg? |
| Grandma Bethlinda's Variety Box, by Arthur DiBianca Spike's rating: Average member rating: It's the latest model, and it would really like to play with you. |
| Grimnoir, by ProP Spike's rating: Average member rating: It's his biggest selling point and it's a cold, hard fact: occult detective Jacob Morris has never lost a case, and he's been in this business a long time. Join him and his singularly skilled colleague... |
| Grooverland, by Mathbrush Spike's rating: Average member rating: "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... |
| Gruesome, by Robin Johnson Spike's rating: Average member rating: As a grue, it's your duty to keep the underground kingdom safe from vandalism by sorcerers, swordspeople, and other ugly monsters who keep invading the dungeon in hopes of stealing a sackful of your friends'... |
| Guttersnipe: St. Hesper's Asylum for the Criminally Mischievous, by Bitter Karella Spike's rating: Average member rating: The year is 1929. You are Lil' Ragamuffin, the roughest toughest urchin in all of Garbagetown DC and the surrounding wastes of Montgomery County, but somehow the constabulary has managed to capture you and... |
| H.E.LLC, by Lynda Clark Spike's rating: Average member rating: A multiple-choice interactive fiction in which you are an intern in Hell, tasked with sending souls to damnation. |
| H.M.S. Spaceman, by Nat Quayle Nelson, Diane Cai Spike's rating: Average member rating: On the H.M.S. Spaceman, the first anatomically complete human-shaped space ship, the crewmen are genetically engineered to fulfill one purpose: intergalactic domination. Their latest conquest: the alien... |
| Hallowmoor, by Mike Snyder Spike's rating: Average member rating: Your quest: infiltrate Castle Hallowmoor, find the potion, and make it out alive. This is a Halloween-themed adventure -- hypertext interactive fiction playable in most modern web browsers. |
| Happyland, by Rob Fitzel Spike's rating: Average member rating: A theme park executive dies on a rollercoaster. Was it an accident? Was it foul play? Grab your crime fighting kit and gather your wits to investigate why all is not happy in Happyland. |
| Harmonia, by Liza Daly Spike'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... |
| Haywire, by Peregrine Wade Spike's rating: Average member rating: Yet another day is ending. Yet another day of dazzling bystanders with your spectacular illusions, all for a fistful of coins. Now it's time to grab a bite and find a place to sleep, all alone in the big... |
| Heretic's Hope, by G. C. Baccaris Spike's rating: Average member rating: Eser is the only human left alive. Gods and monsters, blessings and curses, an island ruled by giant insects — and in their midst: a reluctant human priest. Grief-stricken and bound by oath to obey the... |
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| High Jinnks, by M. Nite Chamberlain Spike's rating: Average member rating: You're a jinni whose only talent is petty magic tricks. And now you're looking for a way home, accompanied by possibly the most infuriating human to have walked this earth, and trying to avoid getting... |
| Hill Ridge Lost & Found, by Jeremy Pflasterer Spike's rating: Average member rating: When he fears that a reclusive neighbor’s weird ministrations are leading the locals astray, an old cowboy takes it upon himself to amble back up to Hill Ridge and set things a-right. Note: This game was... |
| The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams and Steve Meretzky Spike's rating: Average member rating: 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... |
| Hollywood Hijinx, by Dave Anderson, Liz Cyr-Jones Spike's rating: Average member rating: Vampire Penguins. A Corpse Line. Meltdown on Elm Street. Who could forget these classic Hollywood movies produced by your uncle, Buddy Burbank? But his greatest masterpiece has yet to be experienced...... |
| I Should Have Been That I Am, by E. K. Wagner Spike's rating: Average member rating: You're a bot, dealing cards in Vegas casinos. You live in a black and white world, an either-or world. Until now. |
| I.A.G. Alpha, by Serhii Mozhaiskyi Spike's rating: Average member rating: You may think this game is about a post-Soviet Research Institute. About an experiment that went out of control. You may think that the initials "I.A.G." are somehow related to the Institute. You may think... |
| Illuminismo Iniziato, by Michael J. Coyne Spike's rating: Average member rating: 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... |
| The Impossible Bottle, by Linus Åkesson Spike's rating: Average member rating: Housework is only as dull as your imagination. Join Emma, six years old, on a playful adventure of peculiar proportions. Merciful puzzlefest. Parser or point-and-click, as you please. Web (including mobile)... |
| The Impossible Stairs, by Mathbrush Spike's rating: Average member rating: 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... |
| In the Service of Mrs. Claus, by Mathbrush Spike's rating: Average member rating: Let me tell you the true secret of Christmas: Santa Claus died centuries ago. You see, in ancient times, as the Gods began to die, Santa Claus married a goddess. She was worshiped as Bast in Egypt, as... |
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| Infidel, by Michael Berlyn Spike's rating: Average member rating: Infidel finds you marooned by your followers in the heart of the deadly Egyptian Desert. A soldier of fortune by trade, you've come hither in search of a great lost pyramid and its untold riches. Now, alone,... |
| Inside the Facility, by Arthur DiBianca Spike's rating: Average member rating: 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... |
| Instruction Set, by Jared Jackson Spike's rating: Average member rating: How do you run a mind that cannot run itself? Enter the mind of Nora Atwood and with the help of a little science, you may be able to puzzle out her situation. |
| Intelmission, by Martyna "Lisza" Wasiluk Spike's rating: Average member rating: What do you do when you get stuck in a cell with that annoying rival agent of yours who's been the bane of your existence for years? In the world where words are weapons and secrets are worth more than gold,... |
| Into the Lair, by Kenna Spike's rating: Average member rating: You're standing in the silent graveyard, by the entrance to the crypt Wil pulled you out of when she rescued you. The sky grows brighter and brighter behind you; soon, it'll be too light outside for you to... |
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| Jay Schilling's Edge of Chaos, by Robb Sherwin, Mike Sousa Spike's rating: Average member rating: There was an aye-aye behind the bar, staring at me horribly. Or maybe its face just froze that way. I was waiting for my client at ten at night in a dusty, dirty town in the middle of nowhere. Clouds out... |
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| Kerkerkruip, by Victor Gijsbers Spike's rating: Average member rating: Kerkerkruip is a short-form roguelike in the interactive fiction medium, featuring meaningful tactical and strategic depth, innovative game play, zero grinding, and a sword & sorcery setting that does not... |
| Kidney Kwest, by Eric Zinda, and Luka Marceta Spike's rating: Average member rating: Auditions for the play are tomorrow but you've been left behind...without a costume. Oh, and you're having a bit of trouble with your kidneys. You're going to need a little magic to take great care of your... |
| The King of the World, by G.A. Millsteed Spike's rating: Average member rating: In this fantasy adventure, a boy discovers his destiny to become the legendary King of the World. |
| The Land Down Under, by The Marino Family Spike's rating: Average member rating: Through a glass in the floor of the Tangerine House, Lin has marveled at the perfect miniature world of The Land Down Under. But when her two foster siblings go missing, Lin must pursue them into this world... |
| Language Arts, by Jared Jackson Spike's rating: Average member rating: Are you a creative problem solver looking for career in an exciting and fast growing field? Do you seek out intellectual challenges that others are scared to face? Crystal Clear Communications, the world's... |
| Leather Goddesses of Phobos, by Steve Meretzky Spike's rating: Average member rating: 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... |
| Let's Explore Geography! Canadian Commodities Trader Simulation Exercise, by Carter Sande Spike's rating: Average member rating: Have you ever wondered what life is like for commodities traders? Why not hop in a truck, drive around Canada, and find out? Tourism research and writing by Kyra Sande. Powered by the Desmos® Computation... |
| LET'S ROB A BANK, by Bethany Nolan Spike's rating: Average member rating: Hey there, potential bank robber, today's your lucky day. Richman's Circle Bank is ready, waiting, and unsuspecting. All you have to do is choose a team and try not to get caught (or die - dying is... |
| The Libonotus Cup, by Nils Fagerburg Spike's rating: Average member rating: “You? Win the Libonotus Cup?” Sammy scoffs. “I'd be impressed if your ship even makes it to the starting line tomorrow morning, let alone Portobello.” “Aye,” you say, “me ship may have taken a... |
| Limerick Heist, by Pace Smith Spike's rating: Average member rating: Rule 1 is that no one gets iced. Rule 2: the loot's evenly sliced. There's only two rules. Now listen up, fools! We're pulling a... |
| Limerick Quest, by Pace Smith Spike's rating: Average member rating: "To Russia!" you boldly suggest. "This riddle has got me obsessed. We'll search 'till we're blind, and loot what we find! Let's go on a... |
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| Little Girl In Monsterland, by Maurizio Colucci (as 'Mike Stallone') Spike's rating: Average member rating: Follow the adventures of two six-year-old girls with too much time on their hands as they go on a mission to defeat dangerous monsters, extremely competitive bodybuilders, and hyperinflation. |
| Lock & Key, by Adam Cadre Spike's rating: Average member rating: |
| Lost Pig, by Admiral Jota Spike's rating: 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 |
| Lovely Assistant: Magical Girl, by Bitter Karella Spike's rating: Average member rating: A magician's assistant has two very important duties, to point at things and to look good in a form-fitting evening gown. But when Mugwort the Magician is kidnapped by his devious riddle-obsessed... |
| The Lurking Horror II: The Lurkening, by Ryan Veeder Spike's rating: Average member rating: An unauthorized sequel to the Infocom classic, written for the 2018 MIT Mystery Hunt. |
| Lux, by Agnieszka Trzaska Spike's rating: Average member rating: You wander around in darkness – even though the lights are on. Sandra is the only one to survive a mysterious attack on a deep space mining station. She is alive, but has lost her vision. Now Sandra must... |
| The Magpie Takes the Train, by Mathbrush Spike's rating: Average member rating: A millionaire guards a fabulous ruby in her private train car. Countless thieves have failed to steal it. But they weren't the Magpie! |
| The Mary Jane of Tomorrow, by Emily Short Spike's rating: Average member rating: You, Mary Jane Minsky, have a few things to clear up with your best friend Jenny Yoshida. When your robotic birthday gift doesn't go over as planned, you may need to reset your expectations, for her and... |
| The Master of the Land, by Pseudavid Spike's rating: Average member rating: > An interactive fiction intrigue in an immersive and dynamic world. A world that changes with every action. Freedom to explore. Radically different playthroughs. Lots of dancing. People wearing skulls. > A... |
| Mermaids of Ganymede, by Seth Paxton Spike's rating: Average member rating: Trapped at the bottom of Ganymede's ocean, beneath a thick layer of ice, your survey ship has crash landed. Your crew has begun to see things swimming out there in the dark, and no one has ever made if off... |
| The Missing Ring, by Felicity Drake Spike's rating: Average member rating: Sadie Goldberg-Lawson is celebrating Christmas with her whole dysfunctional family at her Gran's house in Vermont. When Gran's heirloom diamond ring goes missing, can Sadie solve the mystery of the missing... |
| Moonmist, by Stu Galley, Jim Lawrence Spike's rating: Average member rating: More ghosts haunt the misty sea-coast and stone ramparts of Cornwall than anyplace else on earth. One such soul roams Tresyllian Castle: a pale phantom with flaxen hair and a luminous, flowing gown. It seems... |
| Mother Tongue, by Nell Raban Spike's rating: Average member rating: You're sitting at home, minding your business, when your mom texts you. It's a familiar situation. But when the chat turns nostalgic, how do you reconcile her regrets about how she raised you with your own... |
| The Mouse Who Woke Up For Christmas, by Luke A. Jones Spike's rating: Average member rating: 'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse... Well, that's not quite true, there was a mouse stirring, not in the house, but in the shed at the... |
| Move On, by Serhii Mozhaiskyi Spike's rating: Average member rating: You are trying to escape with a mysterious briefcase, but your options are limited. Can you survive the chase? Mobile friendly. No sound effects. Keep your eyes on the road. |
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| Murder at the Manor, by Obter9 Spike's rating: Average member rating: The year is 1936 and the murder of Lord Stagwood is your first big case as an Inspector of the Metropolitan Police, London. You play the part of Inspector Percival Pike, tasked with investigating the murder... |
| A Murder in Fairyland, by Abigail Corfman Spike's rating: Average member rating: Prince Blacktree is dead. All of the other fairy nobles are trying to claim credit. You're a traveling Open Sorcerer, and a convenient neutral party who just wants to get out of Fairyland. A whodunit where... |
| Nightmare Adventure, by Laurence Emms, Vibha Laljani Spike's rating: Average member rating: A clock, a wizard and a delicious secret. Solve the riddle to restore life to a town that has all but disappeared. |
| One Night Stand, by Giannis G. Georgiou Spike's rating: Average member rating: After a night of vodka and vague acquaintances, Sandy wakes up in an unknown bedroom, unable to remember the name of the man sleeping next to her. Too proud to leave without a proper goodbye, she will get... |
| Open Sorcery, by Abigail Corfman Spike's rating: Average member rating: You are online. You are fire and order. You are here to protect. ---- "Open Sorcery" is a game about technology, magic and becoming a person. It follows the development of an Elemental Firewall--a creature... |
| Oppositely Opal, by Buster Hudson Spike's rating: Average member rating: You've practiced long and hard for PotionComp, but Grusilda won't give up her title so easily. UGH! Curse that Grusilda! A one-room potion-brewing spell-casting parser puzzler, where things might go opposite... |
| The Origin of Madame Time, by Mathbrush Spike's rating: Average member rating: As an avid fan of superheroes and a harsh critic of villains, the battle over the abandoned amusement park captured your imagination. But when the nuclear airship Mephistopheles exploded above you, it seemed... |
| Ostrich, by Jonathan Laury Spike's rating: Average member rating: A new government's coming. A populist government looking to shake up the status quo. Your job in the Advertising Corrections Team is safe enough, but as tensions rise and regulations tighten you know that... |
| Out, by Viktor Sobol Spike's rating: Average member rating: It's a wonderful morning, and you're ready to come out. |
| The Owl Consults, by Thomas Mack, Nick Mathewson, and Cidney Hamilton Spike's rating: Average member rating: Once you've established yourself as the ruler of the crime world (and, eventually, the literal world), the only challenge left is helping out the next generation of supervillains---for a suitable fee, of... |
| Pegasus, by Michael Kielstra Spike's rating: Average member rating: Pegasus: the best friend of a democracy and the worst enemy of a dictator. Their Agents safeguard the liberty of the people around the world. Trained by and armed with the best humanity has to offer, they... |
| Phantom, by Peter Eastman Spike's rating: Average member rating: You have recently begun taking lessons from a new voice teacher. Under his expert instruction, your opera career is flourishing. If only he would let you see his face. This work includes music which is an... |
| Photopia, by Adam Cadre Spike'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." |
| Pirateship, by Robin Johnson Spike's rating: Average member rating: Who doesn't love pirates? Who, that is, apart from the British, the Spanish, the French, the Dutch, innkeepers, crocodiles, flying children, other pirates, merchant seamen with valuable cargoes of gold and... |
| Polish the Glass , by Keltie Wright Spike's rating: Average member rating: An odd story about a child, a bar, and something hiding in the glass. Does contain sound, recommend checking settings and using headphones for best experience. Mature content. There is only one ending. |
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| Portcullis, by Robin Johnson Spike's rating: Average member rating: Your home town, Portcullis, has been taken over by an evil sorcerer (because that's what evil sorcerers do) and a party of adventurers has arrived to overthrow him (because that's what adventurers do.) An... |
| The Prongleman Job, by Arthur DiBianca Spike's rating: Average member rating: Break into Prongleman's house and steal a few valuables. Try and finish before he gets home. The Thieves' Society is counting on you. |
| Radicofani, by Rob Spike's rating: Average member rating: "Why are you never here for me?" The usual obsessive question that never leaves my mind. I thought that our "part-time" story before your archeology degreee was the embryonic state of something more... |
| Railways of Love, by Provodnik Games Spike's rating: Average member rating: They have feelings for each other. They are doomed to part. Train wheels click-clack monotonously. The ring of existence remains intact. Only you can break it giving the protagonists a chance for happiness.... |
| Rameses, by Stephen Bond Spike's rating: Average member rating: |
| Re: Dragon, by Jack Welch Spike's rating: Average member rating: Something went dreadfully wrong in last year's IFFComp. Now a diabolical lawyer representing a cabal of angry dragons threatens to sue the Interactive Fiction Technological Freedom Foundation into oblivion... |
| Red Radish Robotics, by Gibbo Spike's rating: Average member rating: On the seventh floor of HQ, the professor rushed into the games room as people yelled and slammed doors in the corridor outside. He hugged you to sleep. That is your last memory. You wake to discover that... |
| The Reliques of Tolti-Aph, by Graham Nelson Spike's rating: Average member rating: "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... |
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| Remedial Witchcraft, by dgtziea Spike's rating: Average member rating: Lina is a first year student studying magic. Lina isn't doing very well at her classes. Lina is apprenticing for the Witch of Howling Woods because no one else would take her. Tonight, Lina has messed up... |
| Renegade Brainwave, by J. J. Guest Spike's rating: Average member rating: "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... |
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| Return to Ditch Day, by M.J. Roberts Spike's rating: Average member rating: It's been a decade since you graduated, but now it looks like you're going to have to solve one more Ditch Day stack. |
| Risorgimento Represso, by Michael J. Coyne Spike's rating: 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... |
| Rogue of the Multiverse, by C.E.J. Pacian Spike's rating: Average member rating: 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... |
| A Rope of Chalk, by Ryan Veeder Spike's rating: Average member rating: An account of the disastrous sidewalk chalk tournament of August 27, 2011. |
| Sage Sanctum Scramble, by Arthur DiBianca Spike's rating: Average member rating: A grab bag of puzzles, mostly word puzzles. Collect keywords and save the Sanctum! |
| Saint Simon's Saw, by Samuel Thomson Spike's rating: Average member rating: Saint-Simon’s Saw synthesizes different methods of splitting and reforming a narrated situation. It is named after the 18th Century social reformer, Claude Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-Simon, a minor... |
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| Savoir-Faire, by Emily Short Spike's rating: 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... |
| Scroll Thief, by Daniel M. Stelzer Spike's rating: Average member rating: 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... |
| Seasonal Apocalypse Disorder, by Zan and Xavid Spike's rating: Average member rating: As cities around the world turn to ash, the Federal Bureau of Druids sends you back in time to the autumnal equinox to stop the Order of the Fiery Doom. Find plants for your mystical cocoon and travel to... |
| Sense of Harmony, by Scenario World Spike's rating: Average member rating: Cybernetically enhanced Elizabeth Boldan tries to find herself while working part-time at the Crown Diamond, an erotic massage parlor and brothel in the year 2029. On television and in the movies,... |
| Shackles of Control, by Sly Merc Spike's rating: Average member rating: It was a normal day at school, but then that was gone. Teachers? Gone. Students? Also gone. You? Not gone. |
| Shade, by Andrew Plotkin Spike's rating: Average member rating: "A one-room game set in your apartment." [--blurb from Competition Aught-Zero] |
| Shades of Gray, by Mark Baker, and Steve Bauman, and Belisana, and Mike Laskey, and Judith Pintar, and Cindy Yans, and Hercules Spike's rating: Average member rating: You wake painfully, from a fitful sleep, to find yourself surrounded by three shadowy figures… After a horrible dizzying moment, the shapes come into focus — vampires, they are vampires, and they are... |
| Shadow Operative, by Michael Lauenstein Spike's rating: Average member rating: Another run. Another dive into the neon sea. A Cyberpunk Heist Game. Parser-based but with a hybrid interface (playable by typing or by links alone). Best played in a desktop browser (or on a tablet in... |
| Sheep Crossing, by Andrew Geng Spike's rating: Average member rating: Sometimes you get an impulse you know you'd regret--especially in the face of an arbitrary task of questionable value. So when Grandmother asks you to bring her a cabbage, a sheep, and a stinky bear, what... |
| Silicon and Cells, by Nic Barkdull and Matthew Borgard Spike's rating: Average member rating: Jaya Koto's plan was perfect: One big VR heist, and she'd be set for life. Too bad the city’s psychotically devout cybercops chose that exact day to screw with her. With no big score and the city’s... |
| Six Silver Bullets, by William Dooling Spike's rating: Average member rating: You are the Silver Agent, a spy who has lost their mind. You are alone in the city, without your memories...but you do have a mission, and it changes every time you play. You also have your silver gun. It... |
| Skies Above, by Arthur DiBianca Average member rating: Play minigames to get your airship flying, tour the skies, and see what mischief is going on up there. Champion of the Skies: Sarah Adams |
| Skybreak!, by William Dooling Spike's rating: Average member rating: Skybreak! is a science-fantasy role-playing game of galactic proportions: explore distant stars, plunder alien ruins, hunt space pirates, collect beetles, slay gods, make out with sorcerers, and punch cosmic... |
| Smart Theory, by AKheon Spike's rating: Average member rating: A strange, new thought system has been spreading like wildfire through schools and institutions - it has even taken over the university that you go to. What could this all mean? Perhaps we'll discover the... |
| smooch.click, by Devon Guinn Spike's rating: Average member rating: Is a kiss about the kiss itself—or the moments leading up to it? Explore all sorts of smooch-moments in this experimental interactive story. **Not optimized for mobile, and not suitable for children** |
| The Song of the Mockingbird, by Mike Carletta Spike's rating: Average member rating: 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 Spike's rating: Average member rating: 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... |
| Sorcery!, by Steve Jackson and inkle Spike'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... |
| Sorcery! 2, by Steve Jackson and inkle Spike's rating: Average member rating: Per the first game in this series, this is 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 (this time of... |
| SOUND, by CynthiaP Spike's rating: Average member rating: You embark to find that voice You embark to find that voice You embark to find that voice You embark to find that voice You embark to find that voice |
| Space Punk Moon Tour, by J_J Spike's rating: Average member rating: You are nineteen-year-old Tina Tessler: missing father, dead mother, and plagued by nightmares of things you can’t quite remember. You just won a ticket to see your favorite band. So, pack your bags and... |
| Spellbreaker, by Dave Lebling Spike's rating: Average member rating: Spellbreaker, the riveting conclusion to the Enchanter trilogy, explores the mysterious underpinnings of the Zorkian universe. A world founded on sorcery suddenly finds its magic failing, and only you,... |
| Spider and Web, by Andrew Plotkin Spike'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... |
| Stand Up / Stay Silent, by Y Ceffyl Gwyn Spike's rating: Average member rating: The revolution begins with you. |
| Standing on the Shoulders of Giants, by Kenneth Pedersen (as Ilmur Eggert) Spike's rating: Average member rating: The Royal Society, Gresham College, London, England, 4th of April 1673: Isaac receives a mysterious letter... |
| Starcross, by Dave Lebling Spike's rating: Average member rating: 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 Spike's rating: Average member rating: 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. |
| Stone of Wisdom, by Kenneth Pedersen Spike's rating: Average member rating: Once again queen Drana has a task for you. Can you obtain the Stone of Wisdom and will you ever be free? Play as the warrior Bash on your quest to obtain the Stone of Wisdom. You will start out equipped with... |
| Stuff of Legend, by Lance Campbell Spike's rating: Average member rating: The only thing worse than being a village idiot is being an unemployed village idiot. Maybe it’s time to change careers. Maybe it’s time to be a knight. |
| StupidRPG, by Steven Richards Spike's rating: Average member rating: A guided role-playing experience with some light puzzles, semi-optional combat, an extremely inexperienced GM and an imminent apocalypse. SRPG is a browser-based parser game with some hyperlinking for... |
| Sub Rosa, by Joey Jones, Melvin Rangasamy Spike's rating: Average member rating: 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... |
| Sunless Sea, by Failbetter Games Average member rating: LOSE YOUR MIND. EAT YOUR CREW. Take the helm of your steamship and set sail for the unknown! Sunless Sea is a game of discovery, loneliness and frequent death, set in the award-winning Victorian Gothic... |
| Superluminal Vagrant Twin, by C.E.J. Pacian Spike's rating: Average member rating: A text-only space sim. Ply the spaceways. Make five million credits. Buy back your twin. (Superluminal Vagrant Twin is a shallow but broad exploration game.) |
| Suspect, by Dave Lebling Spike's rating: Average member rating: You're guilty until proven innocent. You have walked into a hotbed of deceit and trickery. And now they're accusing you of something you couldn't have done. But they have proof that you did it. "You're a... |
| Suveh Nux, by David Fisher Spike's rating: 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. |
| Swigian, by Mathbrush (as Rainbus North) Spike's rating: Average member rating: I don't like talking. Let's build a fire. Swigian is a minimalist game. It is long, but quickly finished, with few words and few complications. |
| Taco Fiction, by Ryan Veeder Spike's rating: Average member rating: Taco Fiction is a game about crime. |
| Take, by Katherine Morayati (as Amelia Pinnolla) Spike's rating: Average member rating: You are battle-weary. Your armor is scanty and your countenance is loathsome; you tire of the swords flicking at your neck. But you have a duty. There is nothing you can't take. (Content warning: Violence,... |
| Tangled Tales, by Dave Hawkins Spike's rating: Average member rating: Well, that must have been one hell of a party, at least that's what your body is telling you. Your memories of events are a little hazy at best, and exactly where you are and how you got here is a mystery.... |
| Taste of Fingers, by V Dobranov Spike's rating: Average member rating: Xianggang. Mere 20 years have passed and they don’t call the city its normal name anymore. Never was a fan of flying here. Still, here I am: left alone in a foreign country, in the middle of a sprawling... |
| Tavern Crawler, by Josh Labelle Spike's rating: Average member rating: Most fantasy stories are about slaying the dragon. This one is about what happens after that. When you and your companions are approached by a man in a tavern who offers you more gold than you could spend in... |
| The Temple of Shorgil, by Arthur DiBianca Spike's rating: Average member rating: One day, travel guides will talk about this "masterpiece of the Pirothian architect Kitral" -- but only if you, the first person to visit it in over 1,000 years, can find out what's inside. (Puzzle-oriented... |
| Terminal Interface for Models RCM301-303, by Victor Gijsbers Spike's rating: Average member rating: A text terminal interface for interacting with your model RCM301-303 remote controlled mech. |
| Tethered, by Linus Åkesson Spike's rating: Average member rating: "I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly, dreaming I am a man."... |
| Thaumistry: In Charm's Way, by Bob Bates Spike's rating: Average member rating: Thaum: (noun). A unit of magical energy Bodge: (verb). To hack or kludge Eric Knight was a child prodigy who was featured on the cover of Invent! Magazine at the age of 13 for his invention of an anti-stain... |
| They Will Not Return, by John Ayliff Spike's rating: Average member rating: A post-apocalyptic tale of lonely robots. |
| Threediopolis, by Andrew Schultz Spike's rating: Average member rating: A wordplay/quasi-maze game. |
| Time Passed, by Davis G. See Spike's rating: Average member rating: All these years later and I still think about you. A game about memory and middle school. |
| To Hell in a Hamper, by J. J. Guest Spike'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 Spike's rating: Average member rating: A murder most foul has been committed and Sherlock Holmes is on the case. You are his dog. |
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| Tombs & Mummies, by Matthew Warner Spike's rating: Average member rating: Your arch enemy has trapped you in the underground tomb of the Pharaoh Haputet. To escape, you must solve a puzzle before you run out of matches to reignite your torch. Watch out for snakes, mummies, and... |
| Tower, by Ryan Tan Spike's rating: Average member rating: "And at last I resolved to scale that tower, fall though I might; since it were better to glimpse the sky and perish, than to live without ever beholding day." ― H.P. Lovecraft, The Outsider A game about... |
| Tragic, by Jared Jackson Spike's rating: Average member rating: It's a game within a game within a game. Come see what the cards hold in store for you. |
| Trinity, by Brian Moriarty Spike's rating: Average member rating: You're neither an adventurer nor a professional thrill-seeker. You're simply an American tourist in London, enjoying a relaxing stroll through the famous Kensington Gardens. When World War III starts and the... |
| Trouble in Sector 471, by Arthur DiBianca Spike's rating: Average member rating: The power just went out in Sector 471. You had better go take a look. (The Glulx version was entered in IFComp 2022. A browser-based version was released subsequently, in 2024.) |
| Tuuli, by Daurmith and Ruber Eaglenest Spike's rating: Average member rating: "The old witch, your teacher Mákke, is dead. If you want to save your village you'll have to destroy the raiding fleet that's coming. Can you do it, young Lenne-who-would-be-the-witch?" ---------- Mákke,... |
| Ultimate Escape Room: IF City, by Mark Stahl Spike's rating: Average member rating: You and your friends have fallen into the escape room craze that has swept the country in recent years. You love the feeling of living out a real life adventure game. You've made plans with your friends to... |
| Unit 322 (Disambiguation), by Jonny Muir Spike's rating: Average member rating: A mystery told entirely through the pages of an online encyclopedia. |
| Ürs, by Christopher Hayes, Daniel Talsky Spike's rating: Average member rating: You're a regular rabbit who's lived in the same warren your entire life. You have no reason to leave, but the THUD threatens to destroy all the baby kittens. Maybe something in the ancient places of the Ürs... |
| Vain Empires, by Thomas Mack and Xavid Spike's rating: Average member rating: The memoir of a demonic spy in the Cold War between Heaven and Hell. |
| Vampire Ltd, by Alex Harby Spike's rating: Average member rating: Nero Brashov, vampire and failed businessman, has revenge on his mind. He'll pose as a human, infiltrate his arch-enemy's corporation, and sabotage it from the inside. Just as soon as he's invited in, that... |
| The Vaults, by Daniel Duarte Spike's rating: Average member rating: Enter the world of Alexandria where some say is the center of all existence. Traverse through the world to find scrolls and unlock abilities, gather items and equip them onto your followers to try and save... |
| Violet, by Jeremy Freese Spike'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] |
| VR Gambler, by Robert DeFord Spike's rating: Average member rating: You start at the entrance to the Gold Coast Casino's new Virtual Reality Gaming Room. There is a neon sign over the doorway that says: GO ON A VR ADVENTURE! WIN BIG! This parser-based game features puzzles,... |
| The Wand, by Arthur DiBianca Spike's rating: Average member rating: 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.) |
| What Heart Heard Of, Ghost Guessed, by Amanda Walker Spike's rating: Average member rating: 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,... |
| What the Bus?, by Emery Joyce Spike's rating: Average member rating: Your commute is simple enough. Or at least, it should be. But today, the entire public transportation system seems to have it out for you--and is it just you, or does the geography keep... shifting? |
| Where the Wind Once Blew Free, by No Sell Out Productions Spike's rating: Average member rating: The War of Ten Dogs is over. Jueyuan and his ten mongrel generals have been defeated. The veterans have returned home. Many return to the city of Mythicus at the heart of the World Tree. Others return to the... |
| Will Not Let Me Go, by Stephen Granade Spike's rating: Average member rating: Dallas, Texas. 1996. Fred Strickland has Alzheimer's. |
| Wishbringer, by Brian Moriarty Spike's rating: Average member rating: 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... |
| Within a circle of water and sand, by Romain Spike's rating: Average member rating: A tropical archipelago with countless islands, a young woman on a quest with no clear goal, a strange tribe living on an isolated atoll, a race... Is your journey merely beginning or is it already about to... |
| The Wizard Sniffer, by Buster Hudson Spike's rating: 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... |
| Wolfsmoon, by Marco Innocenti Spike's rating: Average member rating: It is the fifteenth corpse. Among those they found. More than twenty people have disappeared in the last few months. Some say it's a wild animal, stalking the outskirts of town. Some say it's a killer, a new... |
| A Woman's Choice, by Katie Benson Spike's rating: Average member rating: To breed or not to breed, that is the question. So what'll it be, Jennifer? Join Jennifer on her journey through life. The choices you make in her early years will resonate for years to come, sometimes with... |
| Writers Are Not Strangers, by Lynda Clark Spike's rating: Average member rating: The meteorite could hit tomorrow, or in an hour, or six months from now. No-one seems to know, and so life goes on as normal. Although, for Alix, normal is relative. Please click the 'Show Stats' button for... |
| Yak Shaving for Kicks and Giggles!, by J. J. Guest Spike's rating: Average member rating: You are Steve Goodwin. You're a regular guy, young, successful, dynamic. But a nagging question gnaws at your soul, undermines your joy at your success and interferes with the very business of living. For... |
| You Couldn't Have Done That, by Ann Hugo Spike's rating: Average member rating: Your first day on the job wasn't going to be pleasant. Such was inevitable. It's a big change. And, you are autistic. But this was a different story, far worse than unpleasant. |
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| Zork I, by Marc Blank and Dave Lebling Spike's rating: Average member rating: Many strange tales have been told of the fabulous treasure, exotic creatures, and diabolical puzzles in the Great Underground Empire. As an aspiring adventurer, you will undoubtedly want to locate these... |
| Zork II, by Dave Lebling, Marc Blank Spike's rating: Average member rating: 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 Spike's rating: Average member rating: 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... |
| Zork Zero: The Revenge of Megaboz, by Steve Meretzky Spike's rating: Average member rating: The Great Underground Empire is in its heyday. Upscale condos crowd the massive caverns. Subterranean highways stretch from Aragain to the Fublio Valley. And no adventurer has yet set foot in the open field... |
| Zyll, by Marshal Linder and Scott Edwards (IBM) Spike's rating: Average member rating: You have been transported by magic to the castle Mitain to challenge the evil sorcerer Zyll. Zyll has stolen the Great Treasures of your homeland and used the mystical Black Orb to transform your beautiful... |
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