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| ポートピア連続殺人事件 | Portopia Renzoku Satsujin Jiken, by 堀井雄二 (Yuji Horii) Average member rating:  (1 rating)Yuji Horii's second published game (after Love Match Tennis), Portopia Renzoku Satsujin Jiken (Portopia Serial Murder Case) is a first-person murder mystery text adventure, which allows players to input... |
| 16 Ways to Kill a Vampire at McDonalds, by Abigail Corfman Average member rating: (96 ratings)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... |
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(16 ratings)| 1893: A World's Fair Mystery, by Peter Nepstad Average member rating: (25 ratings)A theft on the fairgrounds! Precious diamonds stolen from the Kimberly Diamond Mining Exhibit! An urgent telegram from your old partner arrives, requesting your help to solve the mystery. How can you refuse?... |
| 1958: Dancing With Fear, by Victor Ojuel joes's rating: Average member rating: (32 ratings)"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 Average member rating: (25 ratings)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... |
| 4x4 Galaxy, by Agnieszka Trzaska Average member rating: (14 ratings)4x4 Galaxy is a space exploration game with 16 planets that are different every playthrough thanks to procedurally generated content. Discover new worlds, battle space pirates and strange beasts, sell goods,... |
| 50 Shades of Jilting, by Rowan Lipkovits (as Lankly Lockers) Average member rating: (13 ratings)The relationship is in a walking dead situation: it's over, only continuing to move onward solely on inertia. One way or another, it ends here. |
| 77 Verbs, by MathBrush (as Prismatik) Average member rating: (21 ratings)Use every standard verb in the Inform library to escape deadly situations in this introduction to parser games! (This game was formerly known as 85 Verbs.) |
| 9:05, by Adam Cadre Average member rating: (535 ratings)The phone rings. Oh, no — how long have you been asleep? Sure, it was a tough night, but... This is bad. This is very bad. The phone rings. |
| > by @, by Aaron A. Reed Average member rating: (24 ratings)On the surface, > seems to be a traditional adventure game, featuring treasure, an NPC, a puzzle, and a happy ending. However, matters are complicated by the realization that the work's purported author is... |
| The Absence of Miriam Lane, by Abigail Corfman Average member rating: (38 ratings)Sometimes people give pieces of themselves away.... |
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(30 ratings)| According to Cain, by Jim Nelson Average member rating: (42 ratings)Two brothers. One murder. And a mystery as old as mankind. ... |
| An Act of Murder, by Christopher Huang Average member rating: (82 ratings) |
| Ad Verbum, by Nick Montfort Average member rating: (135 ratings)"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... |
| Adventure, by William Crowther and Donald Woods Average member rating: (97 ratings) |
| The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai, by Scott Adams and Phillip Case Average member rating: (5 ratings)"Buckaroo Banzai, a neurosurgeon, rock star and more, must try to fix a jet car that can drive him into the 8th dimension. Converted from original code by Paul David Doherty." [--blurb from The Z-Files... |
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(15 ratings)| Aisle, by Sam Barlow Average member rating: (322 ratings)"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... |
| Alabaster, by John Cater, Rob Dubbin, Eric Eve, Elizabeth Heller, Jayzee, Kazuki Mishima, Sarah Morayati, Mark Musante, Emily Short, Adam Thornton, Ziv Wities Average member rating: (121 ratings)The Queen has told you to return with her heart in a box. Snow White has made you promise to make other arrangements. Now that you're alone in the forest, it's hard to know which of the two women to trust.... |
| AlethiCorp, by Simon Christiansen Average member rating: (31 ratings)Do you have what it takes to be an Associate Information Management Consultant with one of the world's largest information management companies? Can you leverage synergies with the best to operationalize our... |
| 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... |
| All Roads, by Jon Ingold Average member rating: (154 ratings)"Wave a circle round him thrice, And close your eyes with holy dread For he on honey-dew hath fed And drunk the milk of paradise." [--blurb from Competition Aught-One] |
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(1 rating)| Anchorhead, by Michael Gentry Average member rating: (394 ratings)You take a deep breath of salty air as the first raindrops begin to spatter the pavement, and the swollen, slate-colored clouds that blanket the sky mutter ominous portents amongst themselves over the little... |
| And Then You Come to a House Not Unlike the Previous One, by B.J. Best 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: ★ ★ ★ |
| Andromeda Apocalypse — Extended Edition, by Marco Innocenti Average member rating: (29 ratings)Floating in space on a strange vessel, sole survivor of a world... and maybe of the entire human race, Ektor Mastiff must find a way through the cosmos, on a voyage that can change the history of mankind... |
| Animalia, by Ian Michael Waddell Average member rating: (36 ratings)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... |
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(17 ratings)| Aotearoa, by Matt Wigdahl Average member rating: (61 ratings)The Fish of Māui. The Land of the Long Cloud. Aotearoa. An entire continent of untamed wilds, and the last place on Earth where dinosaurs still roam. If only you'd come ashore under better circumstances... |
| Arrival, or Attack of the B-Movie Clichés, by Stephen Granade Average member rating: (34 ratings) |
| The Art of Fugue, by Victor Gijsbers, Jimmy Maher, Dorte Lassen, and Johan Average member rating: (6 ratings)A pure story-less puzzle game featuring logical puzzles based on the idea of the fugue: your commands are performed by four different actors, but with increasing delays. The version with music features... |
| Artful Deceit, by James O'Reilly and Dian Mills O'Reilly Average member rating: (5 ratings)For the C64 ... |
| ASCII and the Argonauts, by J. Robinson Wheeler Average member rating: (18 ratings)In this wonderfully laconic spoof of the Scott Adams style of adventures, you play as Jason of the Argo, tasked by King Pelias to bring the Golden Fleece to him or die. Surprisingly both entertaining and... |
| Assembly, by Ben Kirwin Average member rating: (21 ratings)Today has been an extraordinarily long day. You picked up the keys to your new apartment in the morning, you went shopping for furniture in the afternoon, and you've spent the evening putting it together. ... |
| Augmented Fourth, by Brian Uri! Average member rating: (65 ratings)WANTED: Amateur musicians to serve the Royal Court. Must provide own instrument and be inured to copious constructive criticism. Impress your friends! Meet the King! Apply in person at the Castle, located on... |
| ausgedachte Träume, by Joël Adami Eine Wanderung durch eine Reihe von ausgedachten Träumen. Ist das alles nur ein einziger Traum oder ist es eine Reihe von verbundenen Träumen? Gibt es eine versteckte Symbolik hinter der Wasserflasche, der... |
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(30 ratings)| AzraelsDice & DevilDice (AI Text Adventures), by CrumpleNews "These text-based AI RPG games involve following the story of a character who faces challenges and obstacles, and rewards creativity and problem-solving skills. Players make choices based on virtual dice... |
| Babel, by Ian Finley 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... |
| Bandersnatch, by Charlie Brooker, David Slade Average member rating: (13 ratings)In 1984, a young programmer begins to question reality as he adapts a dark fantasy novel into a video game. A mind-bending tale with multiple endings. Starring: Fionn Whitehead, Will Poulter, Craig... |
| 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. ... |
| A Bear's Night Out, by David Dyte Average member rating: (69 ratings)"Tomorrow is the big Teddy Bear party, and you must definitely not let your owner forget about it..." [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue] |
| Beet the Devil, by Carolyn VanEseltine Average member rating: (35 ratings)Your dog is gone. She must be brought. You have a beet (and some other vegetables). |
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(2 ratings)| Begscape, by Porpentine Average member rating: (32 ratings)highly randomized fantasy begging sim or bleak slot machine poem |
| Being Andrew Plotkin, by J. Robinson Wheeler Average member rating: (58 ratings)"Zarf? you think to yourself. Could it be? The one and only Zarf? Xyzzy Award winner? IF Competition winner? The mighty Inscruitable One? Gosh. What it must be like to be Zarf... You begin to crawl forward,... |
| Bell Park, Youth Detective, by Brendan Patrick Hennessy Average member rating: (62 ratings)A headstrong twelve-year-old detective gets in over her head when she's hired to solve a murder mystery at an internet technology conference. |
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(7 ratings)| Best of Three, by Emily Short Average member rating: (62 ratings) |
| Beyond, by Roberto Grassi, Paolo Lucchesi, and Alessandro Peretti Average member rating: (45 ratings)A mysterious death, a secret to be revealed… and someone who wants to know the truth, at any cost. ... |
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(6 ratings)| Bigger Than You Think, by Andrew Plotkin Average member rating: (51 ratings)Bigger Than You Think is a choice-based interactive narrative. This game was written for the Yuletide 2012 fanfic exchange. The game was inspired -- perhaps loosely -- by Randall Munroe's comic xkcd-1110:... |
| Birdland, by Brendan Patrick Hennessy Average member rating: (169 ratings)Fourteen-year-old Bridget's summer camp experience takes a turn for the bizarre when her otherworldly bird dreams start bleeding into reality. |
| Blind, by Andrew Metzger Average member rating: (18 ratings)A creep kidnaps you, a blind girl. But you're not as disabled as you look - who says blindness is a handicap? |
| The Blind House, by Amanda Allen Average member rating: (38 ratings)I scarcely know the woman at my side. I don't even know why she was the one I turned to. I can only hope that we haven't been followed, that she won't ask too many questions. The only choice left to me now... |
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(94 ratings)| Blue Lacuna, by Aaron A. Reed Average member rating: (113 ratings)You have always been different. One in a trillion have your gift, your curse: to move between worlds, never settling, always alone. To Wayfare. Yet there are others like you, and something stronger than... |
| Body Bargain, by Amanda Lange Average member rating: (26 ratings)Your surgery went very well. But you couldn't really afford it... Be aware that this is a work of horror. This game involves situations that may be violent, distressing, disturbing, or triggering. This game... |
| Bogeyman, by Elizabeth Smyth Average member rating: (87 ratings)You can go home when you learn to be good. |
| Bored of the Rings, by Fergus McNeill Average member rating: (6 ratings) |
| Brain Guzzlers from Beyond!, by Steph Cherrywell Average member rating: (72 ratings)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... |
| Bright Brave Knight Knave, by Andrew Schultz Average member rating: (12 ratings)Friends, for ends, or mends (more). ... |
| Broken Legs, by Sarah Morayati Average member rating: (31 ratings)A blurb? They expect you to write? You're Lottie Plum so you're not going into writing. You sing. And dance and act up a storm while everyone else can only manage a puddle. You belong at Bridger. No matter... |
| Bronze, by Emily Short Average member rating: (286 ratings)When the seventh day comes and it is time for you to return to the castle in the forest, your sisters cling to your sleeves. |
| Byzantine Perspective, by Lea Albaugh Average member rating: (56 ratings)Your task is simple enough. Just nab the chalice. |
| Cactus Blue Motel, by Astrid Dalmady Average member rating: (85 ratings)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.... |
| Cannery Vale, by Hanon Ondricek (as Keanhid Connor) Average member rating: (30 ratings)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_ |
| Cape, by Bruno Dias Average member rating: (46 ratings)Cape is a superhero origin story for the cyberpunk dystopia we're all living in. |
| Captain Verdeterre's Plunder, by Ryan Veeder joes's rating: Average member rating: (50 ratings)You should carry the bag. I'm more of a delegator. |
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(69 ratings)| Child's Play, by Stephen Granade Average member rating: (54 ratings)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... |
| Citizen Makane, by Perry Simm (as "The Reverend") Average member rating: (7 ratings)In the beginning, you thought it was a simple nightmare. But then it just didn't stop. ... |
| City of Secrets, by Emily Short Average member rating: (103 ratings) |
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(37 ratings)| Color the Truth, by mathbrush Average member rating: (72 ratings)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 Average member rating: (110 ratings)Stolen away by apathetic Blind Ones, your only desire is to return to your Cellarium and the Song of the Universe. They should understand. You shall make them to understand. |
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(18 ratings)Constraints, by Martin Bays
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(22 ratings)| Counterfeit Monkey, by Emily Short Average member rating: (240 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: (24 ratings)A tribute to Anchorhead. |
| Craverly Heights, by Ryan Veeder Average member rating: (18 ratings)Take on the role of Doctor Langridge, whose patient, Janine, is very sick. |
| Crème de la Crème, by Harris Powell-Smith Average member rating: (15 ratings)Climb to the very top of the class at your exclusive private school for socialites! Will you study hard, find a perfect match, or embrace scandal? "Crème de la Crème" is a 440,000-word interactive novel by... |
| Crocodracula: The Beginning, by Ryan Veeder and Harrison Gerard Average member rating: (12 ratings)The first Taleframe game based on the 90s children's horror soap opera. |
| Crocodracula: What Happened to Calvin, by Ryan Veeder Average member rating: (11 ratings)Based on the 90s children's horror soap opera. |
| Cryptozookeeper, by Robb Sherwin Average member rating: (23 ratings)Marrow is delicious but that's not why you're here. You're supposed to pick up a single jar of alien bone jelly, which of course can't exist and doesn't exist, so you've convinced yourself that transporting... |
| Curses, by Graham Nelson Average member rating: (132 ratings)"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... |
| The Dark Crystal, by Roberta Williams In a fantasy world, an event of cosmic importance is about to occur: a Great Conjunction of the planet's Three Suns. A thousand years ago, when the Suns last came together, a cruel and selfish tribe known as... |
| Das Spiel, zuvor bekannt als Verborgener Nazi-Modus, by Victor Gijsbers Average member rating: (2 ratings)German translation of The Game Formerly Known as Hidden Nazi Mode by Victor Gijsbers |
| De Baron, by Victor Gijsbers Average member rating: (161 ratings)An evil nobleman, a kidnapped daughter and a father who wants to rescue her at any cost--that is not the way life works. Something much darker, something much more human, lies underneath. Een kwaadaardige... |
| Deadline Enchanter, by Alan DeNiro Average member rating: (58 ratings) |
| Death of Schlig, by Peter Timony Average member rating: (11 ratings)Schlig is kidnapped by aliens and turned into a mutant eyeball freak by their experiments. Now Schlig must use his eyes in ways that no human was ever intended to in order to escape from the aliens and find... |
| Death off the Cuff, by Simon Christiansen Average member rating: (53 ratings)They all stare at you expectantly, like children waiting to be told a bedtime story. Who can blame them? You are, after all, Antoine Saint Germain, the great French detective. No criminal has ever been a... |
| Delightful Wallpaper, by Andrew Plotkin ('Edgar O. Weyrd') Average member rating: (78 ratings) |
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(40 ratings)| Depression Quest, by Zoe Quinn, Patrick Lindsey, Isaac Schankler Average member rating: (61 ratings)"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 Average member rating: (53 ratings)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... |
| Dial C for Cupcakes, by Ryan Veeder Average member rating: (31 ratings)A cantankerous ex-cop calls in a favor from his old partner. |
| DICK MCBUTTS GETS KICKED IN THE NUTS, by Damon L. Wakes (as "Hubert Janus") Average member rating: (15 ratings)It's exactly what it sounds like. ... |
| Distress, by Mike Snyder Average member rating: (23 ratings)Lieutenant Huchess came to, an hour or so ago. That was around the time Runoma, blazing orange-hot so near this, its second planet, fell below the distant, jagged crag line. Ensign Covegn died not long after... |
| Doki Doki Literature Club, by Team Salvato Average member rating: (18 ratings)Hi, Monika here! Welcome to the Literature Club! It's always been a dream of mine to make something special out of the things I love. Now that you're a club member, you can help me make that dream come true... |
| Domestic Elementalism, by fireisnormal Average member rating: (24 ratings)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... |
| Dominique Pamplemousse - It's All Over Once The Fat Lady Sings!, by Dietrich Squinkifer (Squinky) Average member rating: (8 ratings)Dominique Pamplemousse-- It's All Over Once The Fat Lady Sings! is a unique and offbeat stop motion animated detective adventure game about gender and the economy. Also, all the characters frequently burst... |
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(3 ratings)| Dr Horror's House of Terror, by Ade McT Average member rating: (19 ratings)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... |
| Dr Ludwig and the Devil, by SV Linwood Average member rating: (35 ratings)Join esteemed mad scientist Dr Ludwig as he faces the greatest challenge of his nefarious career: making a deal with the Devil and coming out on top. ... |
| The Dreamhold, by Andrew Plotkin Average member rating: (175 ratings)The Dreamhold is interactive fiction — a classic text adventure. No graphics! No point-and-click! You type your commands, and read what happens next. The Dreamhold is designed for people who have never... |
| Dull Grey, by Provodnik Games Average member rating: (17 ratings)An interactive drama in the traditions of Soviet fiction about choosing a profession. Mother and her teenage son live on the edge of the world amid hot springs, steam, mountains, five-story houses and rusty... |
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(8 ratings)| Dysfluent, by Allyson Gray Average member rating: (22 ratings)Sometimes talking is easier said than done. |
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(30 ratings)| Earth and Sky, by Paul O'Brian Average member rating: (82 ratings)It's been almost a month since your parents disappeared. One Tuesday, they just didn't come home, and there's been no sign of them since. For the University and the rest of the town, the mystery is beginning... |
| Earth and Sky 2: Another Earth, Another Sky, by Paul O'Brian Average member rating: (54 ratings) |
| Earth And Sky 3: Luminous Horizon, by Paul O'Brian Average member rating: (41 ratings) |
| Eat Me, by Chandler Groover Average member rating: (99 ratings)In this castle, you'll eat or be eaten. May contain dairy, carnage, puzzles, nuts. |
| The Ebb and Flow of the Tide, by Peter Nepstad Average member rating: (15 ratings)You have done a horrible thing, so horrible that burial will be denied you, either in soil or sea, neither can there be any hell for you. You wait for some hours, knowing this. Then your friends come for... |
| The Edifice, by Lucian P. Smith Average member rating: (84 ratings)"Something new in your everyday hunter-gatherer routine: where did this strange edifice come from? Dare you enter and explore the secrets of this... thing, or do you try to face your enemies? Like you have a... |
| Ekphrasis, by FibreTigre Average member rating: (10 ratings) |
| The Elysium Enigma, by Eric Eve Average member rating: (76 ratings)It was meant to be a routine visit on behalf of the imperial government, just to remind the settlers that the Empire hadn't forgotten them, and if you stick rigidly to the letter of your orders and refuse to... |
| Enchanter, by Marc Blank, Dave Lebling 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... |
| Endless, Nameless, by Adam Cadre Average member rating: (54 ratings)The first time I ever saw someone play a text adventure was in fifth grade. One of the sixth-graders didn't go to outdoor ed, and therefore spent the week in my fifth-grade classroom, playing Scott Adams's... |
| The Entropy Cage, by Stormrose Average member rating: (15 ratings)Sub-sentient computer programs 'subs' coordinate our future society. You, the first cyber-psychiatrist, are drawn into the sub's war for their next evolution. PLAYTIME: ~20mins FORMAT: standalone .html file.... |
| Episode in the Life of an Artist, by Peter Eastman Average member rating: (27 ratings) |
| Erstwhile, by Aster (formally Maddie) Fialla, Marijke Perry Average member rating: (63 ratings)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 Santaland, by Jason Ermer Average member rating: (22 ratings)Ugh. Christmastime at the mall. The last place you want to be, during the worst time of year to be there. |
| Ether, by MathBrush joes's rating: Average member rating: (32 ratings)"For the first time in centuries, something is different. Your tentacles tingle as you float to the east past icebergs and whirlwinds. You skirt a pocket of hot air, bounce through a field of ice, and... |
| Eurydice, by Anonymous Average member rating: (37 ratings)A short game about grief, with occasional snakes. |
| Everybody Dies, by Jim Munroe Average member rating: (105 ratings)It starts with a metalhead, Graham, realizing that throwing that shopping cart over the bridge was not the great idea he thought it was. Even if it did get him out of washroom duty at Cost Cutters.... |
| Excalibur, by J. J. Guest, G. C. Baccaris, and Duncan Bowsman Average member rating: (22 ratings)The psychedelic science fantasy series Excalibur was wiped by the BBC. It lives on, in the memories of its fans. Author's Comment: "Welcome to the Excalibur Wiki. This fan-run encyclopaedia preserves the... |
| Façade, by Michael Mateas, Andrew Stern Average member rating: (6 ratings)Façade is an artificial intelligence-based art/research experiment in electronic narrative—an attempt to move beyond traditional branching or hyper-linked narrative to create a fully-realized, one-act... |
| Fahrenheit 451, by Len Neufeld and Ray Bradbury Average member rating: (4 ratings)The time is not too long from now. The place is New York City. Yet it is a setting few of us would ever recognize. For this is a world where simply owning a book is dangerously illegal. Where Firemen come... |
| Fair, by Hanon Ondricek Average member rating: (27 ratings)As the most famous self-published Science Fiction author residing in Hillview, you are eminently qualified to judge their annual Elementary School Science Fair. |
| Fallacy of Dawn, by Robb Sherwin Average member rating: (19 ratings)In a world that never quite got over the '80s, Delarion Yar dispenses quarters for the local arcade... badly. A software pirate from better days, he's crossed the wrong people one too many times. Locked into... |
| Fallen London, by Failbetter Games Average member rating: (57 ratings)Poet or Assassin? Lover or Spy? Choose your fate in Fallen London, a gothic metropolis a mile beneath the surface of the earth. An epic adventure where you live a sometimes horrific, often curious, but... |
| Final Girl, by Hanon Ondricek Average member rating: (8 ratings)===NOTE: FINAL GIRL is no longer available due to technical issues with the Storynexus engine that cannot be resolved. A sequel/remake is in the works.=== Everyone is dead. You are still alive. The Skull... |
| A Fine Day for Reaping, by James Webb (aka revgiblet) Average member rating: (26 ratings)Step into the bare feet of the Grim Reaper for a day and make sure that five pesky souls keep their appointment with the afterlife. |
| Fingertips: The Day That Love Came To Play, by S. John Ross Average member rating: (14 ratings)You're a lounge singer. Time to knock 'em dead. (Written for the Apollo 18+20 tribute album project) |
| The Fire Tower, by Jacqueline A. Lott Average member rating: (49 ratings) |
| First Draft of the Revolution, by Emily Short, Liza Daly and inkle Average member rating: (55 ratings)It is dangerous to deceive a husband of magic-using rank... Juliette has been banished for the summer to a village above Grenoble: a few Alpine houses, a deep lake, blue sky, and no society. Now she writes... |
| First Things First, by J. Robinson Wheeler Average member rating: (23 ratings)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 travel... |
| Floatpoint, by Emily Short Average member rating: (99 ratings)It is night on this side of the planet. Settled areas are lit: a jagged crescent in the tropics, lining the inland sea. The bright splatter along the top of the curve is Tanhua, as bright from space as New... |
| Foo Foo, by Buster Hudson Average member rating: (63 ratings)Someone's been bopping the field mice on the head, and only Good Fairy, Senior Detective can find out who. A parser-driven noir adventure based on the interactive fiction of Ryan Veeder. |
| For a Change, by Dan Schmidt Average member rating: (116 ratings)"The sun has gone. It must be brought. You have a rock." [--blurb from Competition '99] |
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(7 ratings)| Galatea, by Emily Short joes's rating: Average member rating: (335 ratings)Emily Short's description: A conversation with a work of art. "47. Galatea. White Thasos marble. Non-commissioned work by the late Pygmalion of Cyprus. (The artist has since committed suicide.) Originally... |
| The Game Formerly Known as Hidden Nazi Mode, by Victor Gijsbers Average member rating: (28 ratings)The Game Formerly Known as Hidden Nazi Mode was, in fact, formerly known as Hidden Nazi Mode. As such it was a failed experiment, detailed in the accompanying essay. In this release the Nazi mode has been... |
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(21 ratings)| Glass, by Emily Short Average member rating: (106 ratings)The Prince sits awkwardly on the couch, holding his glass slipper and trying to keep it from crushing. Lucinda and Theodora have the ends of the same couch, and they are taking turns seeing who can bend... |
| The Gostak, by Carl Muckenhoupt joes's rating: Average member rating: (90 ratings)"Finally, here you are. At the delcot of tondam, where doshes deave. But the doshery lutt is crenned with glauds. Glauds! How rorm it would be to pell back to the bewl and distunk them, distunk the whole... |
| Gourmet, by Aaron A. Reed and Chad Barb Average member rating: (55 ratings)Missing employees, wily crustaceans, malfunctioning kitchen equipment and a terminal food shortage, all on the night the most important culinary critic in the world has chosen to review your debut... |
| Grounded in Space, by Matt Wigdahl Average member rating: (11 ratings)Testing your homebuilt rocket engine outside sounded like a good idea, until you incinerated Mom's greenhouse. Now Dad thinks that a few weeks away from the home asteroid mining the Belt alone might teach... |
| The Grown-Up Detective Agency, by Brendan Patrick Hennessy Average member rating: (50 ratings)The only thing Bell Park likes more than a mystery is solving it on her own. But when a time-traveling 12-year-old version of herself lands face-down on her rented co-working desk, she'll have no choice but... |
| The Guardian, by Lutein Hawthorne Average member rating: (14 ratings)A beginner level fantasy quest, made to be straightforward to finish without previous IF experience. Small feelies, an instruction book and MIDI music, are included. |
| Guess the Verb!, by Leonard Richardson Average member rating: (28 ratings)"Now you too can GUESS THE VERB for fun and prizes! Read evocative and amusing room descriptions while manipulating interesting objects! Interact with the simulated motives and desires of quirky NPCs! No... |
| Guilded Youth, by Jim Munroe Average member rating: (49 ratings)You play Tony, a fourteen-year old thief who needs some help looting the legendary Oakville Manor. Luckily it's the 1980s and finding fellow adventurers is just a modem squeal away... |
| Gun Mute, by C.E.J. Pacian Average member rating: (153 ratings)Step into the shoes of Mute Lawton, a lone cowboy who must stop an execution set to occur at noon by shooting his way past dangerous cyborgs and mutants in a post-apocalyptic western setting. (From the... |
| Hadean Lands, by Andrew Plotkin Average member rating: (67 ratings)Marooned in an alien, airless wasteland -- your starship fractured -- your crewmates missing. Can an apprentice alchemist learn how to survive? |
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(7 ratings)| Harmonia, by Liza Daly Average member rating: (72 ratings)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 exceptions. |
| Hawkstone, by Handsome McStranger Average member rating: (5 ratings)A TRS-80 Text Adventure with RPG elements ... |
| Heretic's Hope, by G. C. Baccaris Average member rating: (25 ratings)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... |
| 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... |
| Hoist Sail for the Heliopause and Home, by Andrew Plotkin Average member rating: (84 ratings)A far-future story of discovery. |
| How Prince Quisborne the Feckless Shook His Title, by John Ziegler Average member rating: (14 ratings)A Fanciful Tale Both Whimsical and Earnest ... |
| howling dogs, by Porpentine Average member rating: (125 ratings)death cube sim | galactic survey | visionatrix | facet machine | power gardens | women | fascination two significant endings |
| Hunger Daemon, by Sean M. Shore Average member rating: (65 ratings)It's not the end of the world, and you're to blame. Better get on that. But man, it sure would be nice to get a bite to eat first. |
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(17 ratings)Hunter, in Darkness, by Andrew Plotkin
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(122 ratings)| I Contain Multitudes, by Wonaglot Average member rating: (7 ratings)You are Chandra Fitz, a young engineer serving on the cruise ship Prinzessin Anna Alexia. This magnificent ship is the first purpose-designed vessel of its kind, meant to take passengers not to an... |
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(9 ratings)| I-0, by Anonymous Average member rating: (157 ratings)Stranded on Interstate Zero after your car broke down, you are miles away from the last sign of civilization. It's twenty minutes to noon and the temperature is well over 120°F. It's beginning to look like... |
| I.A.G. Alpha, by Serhii Mozhaiskyi Average member rating: (15 ratings)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... |
| The Ice-Bound Concordance, by Aaron A. Reed and Jacob Garbe Average member rating: (1 rating)The Ice-Bound Concordance is an award-winning indie game ("Best Story/World Design" winner, IndieCade 2014; "Excellence in Narrative" nominee, IGF 2015) with cutting-edge interactive story technology,... |
| The Impossible Bottle, by Linus Åkesson Average member rating: (78 ratings)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 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... |
| In The Friend Zone, by Brendan Vance Average member rating: (8 ratings)A horror-parody in the tradition of Franz Kafka. Many regard 'the friend zone' as a metaphorical penal colony in which well-intentioned Nice Guys™ frequently find themselves trapped. But what if it were a... |
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(13 ratings)| Indigo, by Emily Short Average member rating: (54 ratings)"Years ago, a witch placed you in this tower and arranged for your upkeep, paying certain villagers well to keep you supplied with the most basic necessities, and no more. Your years in the tower have... |
| Infinite Adventure, by B.J. Best (writing as “A. Scotts”) Average member rating: (8 ratings)The Abort/Retry/Fail team is proud to present the famously lost INFINITE ADVENTURE. This game is a visionary pioneer in procedural text generation, randomly generating rooms, maps, items, descriptions, and... |
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(4 ratings)| Inside the Facility, by Arthur DiBianca Average member rating: (57 ratings)Your friend Mike thinks no one can infiltrate THE FACILITY, but you're going to prove him wrong. A light puzzle game. In the author's opinion, it's totally family-friendly. (If you're playing the Browser... |
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(28 ratings)| Jolly Good: Cakes and Ale, by Kreg Segall Average member rating: (11 ratings)Get yourself into and out of another fine mess! As the newest member of London's elite "Noble Gases" social club, you'll win glory, renown, and much-needed money through various cunning schemes that will... |
| The Journey of the King, by Peter Nepstad Average member rating: (6 ratings)"The King goeth upon a journey with many horses, yet riding upon none, when the pomp of travelling shall be heard in the streets and the sound of the lute and the drum and the name of the King. And I would... |
| Junior Arithmancer, by Mike Spivey Average member rating: (54 ratings)A one-to-many-room puzzler. |
| Kaged, by Ian Finley Average member rating: (54 ratings)""But my madness speaks: It will but skin and film the ulcerous place, Whilst rank corruption, mining all within, Infects unseen." Welcome to the Citadel of Justice. The Inquisitor is waiting." [--blurb from... |
| Kerkerkruip, by Victor Gijsbers joes's rating: Average member rating: (69 ratings)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... |
| A Killer Headache, by Mike Ciul Average member rating: (21 ratings)The apocalypse is over. The human race lost. You're hungry. And you have a hell of a headache. Discretionary warning: This game is violent, scatological, and eschatological. |
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(23 ratings)| L: A Mathemagical Adventure, by members of the Association of Teachers of Mathematics co-ordinated by Richard Phillips, and including Derek Ball, Tony Corbett, David Rooke, Heather Scott, Alan Shaw, Margaret Stevens, Ruth Townsend, Jo Waddingham, Roger Waddingham, John Warwick, Alan Wigley, John Wood, and David Wooldridge. Average member rating: (4 ratings)It is a very hot day. You are sitting on the grass outside a crumbling palace. Your sister is reading a book called Fractions and the Four Rules — 5000 Carefully Graded Problems. You are bored and the heat... |
| Laid Off from the Synesthesia Factory, by Katherine Morayati Average member rating: (23 ratings)Synpiece: A wearable technology that changes the wearer's mood. Users of the Synpiece can adjust the 'color' of their experience, which adjusts psychological traits mapped to hue (emotion), saturation... |
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| LASH -- Local Asynchronous Satellite Hookup, by Paul O'Brian Average member rating: (41 ratings)In this historical drama and treasure hunt set in 2062, you have rented a robot called a MULE that you can control remotely to salvage artifacts from an abandoned irradiated plantation near Macon, Georgia.... |
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(20 ratings)| Leadlight, by Wade Clarke Average member rating: (34 ratings)15-year-old Belinda Nettle is studying at Linville Girls High School in Australia's Blue Mountains. After falling asleep in the library one afternoon, she wakes from her mundane existence into a nightmare... |
| 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... |
| The Libonotus Cup, by Nils Fagerburg Average member rating: (15 ratings)“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 beating in... |
| The Life (and Deaths) of Doctor M, by Michael D. Hilborn Average member rating: (30 ratings)Your vision clears as you gently land in an endless landscape. There is the wind, a bleak and chill thing. And there is your sense of uncertainty: You don't know which way to go. Or, maybe, which way you... |
| Life On Mars?, by Hugo Labrande Average member rating: (18 ratings)The first mission to colonize Mars ended with a horrible shuttle crash, and it's a miracle you're still alive... Now you just have to wait until the second shuttle gets here. Five more months... |
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(26 ratings)| Little Blue Men, by Michael S. Gentry Average member rating: (71 ratings)This game is a joke. This game is a warning. This game is a satire. This game is inspired in equal parts by Vaclav Havel's "The Memorandum" and Hunter S. Thompson's "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas". This... |
| Little Girl In Monsterland, by Mike Stallone Average member rating: (14 ratings)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. |
| The Little Match Girl 4: Crown of Pearls, by Ryan Veeder Average member rating: (22 ratings)A touching epic time travel fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen. |
| Lock & Key, by Adam Cadre Average member rating: (77 ratings) |
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(5 ratings)| A Long Way to the Nearest Star, by SV Linwood Average member rating: (44 ratings)A thief on the run from the galactic police finds refuge on an abandoned spaceship. A lonely ship AI finds unexpected company.... |
| Lost Pig, by Admiral Jota Average member rating: (494 ratings)Pig lost! Boss say that it Grunk fault. Say Grunk forget about closing gate. Maybe boss right. Grunk not remember forgetting, but maybe Grunk just forget. -- IFComp 2007 blurb |
| Lunar Base 1, by Michael Phipps Average member rating: (15 ratings)Two astronauts set out to settle America's first lunar base in the year 2080. You are one of them. |
| 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... |
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(27 ratings)| The Lurking Horror, by Dave Lebling Average member rating: (92 ratings)A winter night at the G.U.E. tech campus with most students away on vacation serves as the backdrop for this tale of Lovecraftian horror. |
| The Magpie Takes the Train, by Mathbrush Average member rating: (40 ratings)A millionaire guards a fabulous ruby in her private train car. Countless thieves have failed to steal it. But they weren't the Magpie! |
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(7 ratings)| Map, by Ade McT Average member rating: (33 ratings)The house is growing. Or perhaps it's you who is shrinking. And with all this extra space is coming....time. Time enough, maybe, to make some changes. |
| Marble Madness, by Emily Short Average member rating: (16 ratings) |
| The Mary Jane of Tomorrow, by Emily Short Average member rating: (21 ratings)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 Mask of the Sun: Das Geheimnis der Aztekenmaske, by Alan B. Clark, Christopher P. Anson, Margaret Anson Average member rating: (2 ratings)"Das Geheimnis der Aztekenmaske" ist Ariolasofts deutsche Übersetzung von The Mask of the Sun. Sie sind Marc Steele, Archäologe, Abenteurer und Schatzsucher. Ihr letzter Fund, ein prä-kolumbianisches Amulett... |
| Mentula Macanus: Apocolocyntosis, by One of the Bruces and Drunken Bastard Average member rating: (33 ratings)Stiffy Makane, or rather his ancestor Mentula Macanus, is here subjected to an increasingly-unlikely series of crudely sexual romps through the ancient world. It's sort of like the Satyricon, except not... |
| Metamorphoses, by Emily Short Average member rating: (130 ratings)You wake to stillness. The hammering, banging, and shouting that kept you awake half the night are gone. The air is cold, and something smells burnt. Your master's experiments must be finished, but with what... |
| The Meteor, the Stone and a Long Glass of Sherbet, by Graham Nelson (as Angela M. Horns) Average member rating: (51 ratings)Another day wasted as guest of the Empress, a wretchedly long tour of the breath-taking Boreal Falls, conducted as ever by the Lady Amilia. As if she weren't bad enough, an honour guard of soldiers, their... |
| Midnight. Swordfight., by Chandler Groover Average member rating: (79 ratings)A fool receives a challenge from a countess. Violence. Sex. Profanity. Sausage. |
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(13 ratings)| A Mind Forever Voyaging, by Steve Meretzky Average member rating: (116 ratings)"If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not..." --Shakespeare It's 2031. The world is on the brink of chaos. In the United States of North America, spiraling... |
| Möbius, by J.D. Clemens Average member rating: (35 ratings)Another mission. Just when you had settled in for a nap. |
| The Moon Watch, by Paolo Maroncelli and Alessandro Peretti Average member rating: (9 ratings)An entry in the 2008 One Room Game Competition. You're an ordinary Soviet citizen, but to your surprise you are selected to play a highly important part in the defence of the Motherland - and then the crisis... |
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(61 ratings)The Mulldoon Legacy, by Jon Ingold
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(28 ratings)| My Pseudo-Dementia Exhibition, by Naomi Norbez (call me Bez, he/they) Average member rating: (12 ratings)a personal & public museum ... |
| Mystery House, by Ken Williams and Roberta Williams Average member rating: (10 ratings) |
| Mystery House Makeover!, by Anonymous Average member rating: (3 ratings)(author is Adam Cadre, but game is unsigned) |
| Mystery House Possessed, by Emily Short Average member rating: (11 ratings)This intricate all-text reworking draws on the Gothic, as well as Clue, to simulate seven characters working to outwit the killer in their midst. |
| Mystery House Remixedup, by Scott Rettberg |
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(57 ratings)| Narcolepsy, by Adam Cadre Average member rating: (62 ratings) |
| Necrotic Drift, by Robb Sherwin Average member rating: (18 ratings)Necrotic Drift is a survival horror text adventure... but with graphics and sound! An homage to the old Magnetic Scrolls game in presentation, Necrotic Drift follows the story of gaming store employee Jarret... |
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(7 ratings)| Nightfall, by Eric Eve Average member rating: (61 ratings)The Enemy is expected to arrive at any moment. Staying behind is either the stupidest or the bravest thing you've ever done. Only one thing - or one person - could have made you stay. So now there's nothing... |
| Off-Season at the Dream Factory, by B.J. Best (writing as “Carroll Lewis") Average member rating: (16 ratings)As in orcish thought you stand. |
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(13 ratings)| Once and Future, by G. Kevin Wilson Average member rating: (13 ratings) |
| One Eye Open, by Caelyn Sandel (as Colin Sandel) and Carolyn VanEseltine Average member rating: (46 ratings)Had you known the bloody history of Corona Labs, you would never have signed up as a test subject. But now, plunged into that history, surrounded by the damned and the dying, you must find the truth. Perhaps... |
| One Final Pitbull Song (at the End of the World), by Paige Morgan Average member rating: (10 ratings)"this is for you, a playlist for our adventures"... |
| Open Sorcery, by Abigail Corfman Average member rating: (77 ratings)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... |
| Out of Scope, by Drew Castalia Average member rating: (4 ratings)Zoe and her brother Joe grew up close. Too close, according to their parents. ... |
| A Paradox Between Worlds, by Autumn Chen Average member rating: (28 ratings)It is the year 201X and you are a teen online. The Nebulaverse fandom has been your safe place, and it is about to be torn apart. A Paradox Between Worlds is a game about fandoms, internet melodrama, and the... |
| Pas De Deux, by Linus Åkesson Average member rating: (8 ratings)Striding into the spotlight, you smile as you look out over the crowd. It's a good turnout tonight. Now it is up to the Bournebrook Rill Community Orchestra and you, maestro Nevada Elmsbee, to deliver a... |
| PataNoir, by Simon Christiansen Average member rating: (58 ratings)The Baron's daughter is missing, and you are the man to find her. No problem. With your inexhaustible arsenal of hard-boiled similes, there is nothing you can't handle. |
| PataNoir - Ein unvergleichlicher Kriminalfall, by Simon Christiansen ; Marius Müller (translator) Die Tochter des Barons ist verschwunden, und du bist der richtige Mann, um sie zu finden. Kein Problem. Dank deines schier unerschöpflichen Vorrates an hartgesottenen Vergleichen gibt es nichts, was dich... |
| Photopia, by Adam Cadre Average member rating: (559 ratings)"Will you read me a story?" "Read you a story? What fun would that be? I've got a better idea: let's tell a story together." |
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(6 ratings)| Planetfall, by Steve Meretzky 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... |
| The Plant, by Michael J. Roberts Average member rating: (34 ratings)You're on a business trip with your boss, driving down a deserted highway in the middle of nowhere, when the car breaks down. You set off on foot seeking help, but you soon find yourself in the middle of a... |
| The Play, by Dietrich Squinkifer (Squinky) Average member rating: (62 ratings)Pull yourself together, Ainsley. Just one more rehearsal until the big day, assuming nothing catastrophic happens. But really, all you have to do is get your motley crew of actors to run their parts once... |
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(20 ratings)| The Problems Compound, by Andrew Schultz Average member rating: (11 ratings)Wherein you, Alec Smart, turn what's-thats into that's-whats. |
| Put Your Hand Inside The Puppet Head, by The Hungry Reader Average member rating: (14 ratings)The world's most beloved puppeteer has died under mysterious circumstances. His legacy must be preserved! Hunt your way through his studio and talk to seven different puppets to learn the truth and protect... |
| Pytho's Mask, by Emily Short Average member rating: (68 ratings)On the Night of the Comet, the usual astrological bonds do not hold, and the order of the universe is threatened. It is a time made for rebels and usurpers, and all who would claim the kingdom for... |
| The Queen's Menagerie, by Chandler Groover Average member rating: (39 ratings)These beasts won't feed themselves. A puzzleless exhibition. Ten to fifteen minutes. |
| Queer In Public: A Brief Essay, by Norbez Average member rating: (8 ratings)A discussion on how the Christian community talks about LGBTQ+ issues and people, and how thing can improve in the future. |
| Raik, by Harry Giles Average member rating: (18 ratings)A Scots fantasia about anxiety Featuring kelpies, lost keys, mysteriously-lit underground caverns, boring work, panic attacks and red hair. Raik is written in Scots, one of the languages of Scotland, with a... |
| rat chaos, by Winter Lake Average member rating: (27 ratings) |
| The Recruit, by Mike Sousa Average member rating: (11 ratings)Try your hand at the Real Life Interactive Gaming Simulacra! You'll face a variety of challenges and simulations and have a chance to win some money and great prizes. Apply today! |
| Reference and Representation: An Approach to First-Order Semantics, by Ryan Veeder Average member rating: (34 ratings)Violence is the answer to this one. |
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(91 ratings)| Resonance, by Matt Scarpino Average member rating: (16 ratings) |
| Risorgimento Represso, by Michael J. Coyne Average member rating: (48 ratings)You play as an Oxbridge student who, during a particularly boring lecture, falls through a green portal under their desk into the cluttered library of the wizard Ninario. Ninny was trying to summon a... |
| Robin & Orchid, by Ryan Veeder and Emily Boegheim Average member rating: (64 ratings)High school journalists spend the night in a church, investigating reports of a ghost. |
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(15 ratings)| robotsexpartymurder, by Hanon Ondricek Average member rating: (21 ratings)When suspects and witnesses are “property, not people,” how should those who seek the truth proceed? Date robots. Avert scandal. Bring protection. Content warning: Adult Situations, Language, and Humor,... |
| Rogue of the Multiverse, by C.E.J. Pacian Average member rating: (73 ratings)Congratulations, convict 76954! You have been selected for scientific experimentation! You will be matter-transmitted to exotic non-Treaty worlds - where opportunities abound to take in fantastic sights and... |
| Rover's Day Out, by Jack Welch and Ben Collins-Sussman Average member rating: (54 ratings)Three hundred years ago, the Brazilian Space Agency discovered a rocky exoplanet only 38 light years from Earth. With a surface temperature of 1200 Celsius and nine times Earth gravity, it's hardly the sort... |
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(4 ratings)| Ryan Veeder's Authentic Fly Fishing, by Ryan Veeder Average member rating: (15 ratings)Relax at the Jewel Pond Recreation Area with Ryan Veeder as your guide. |
| Sand-dancer, by Aaron Reed and Alexei Othenin-Girard Average member rating: (23 ratings)It figures that your pickup would die on a night like this and leave you stranded in the dark New Mexico desert. But nothing else figures about this night, man. Nothing at all. An example game for Aaron... |
| Savoir-Faire, by Emily Short Average member rating: (132 ratings)The beautiful life is always damned, they say. As for you, you've overexpended yourself: fifteen years of prominence, champagne, carriage rides in the Tuileries, having your name whispered behind... |
| Secret Agent Cinder, by Emily Ryan Average member rating: (27 ratings)Play as a revolutionary agent Cinder. Your mission is to infiltrate the Royal Ball, dodge the guards and steal the Secret Military Plans, all before midnight. The opulence of Versailles disgusts you as you... |
| Seeking Ataraxia, by Glass Rat Media Average member rating: (15 ratings)A simulation of what it's like to live with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, balancing life, relationships and neurosis on your quest toward peace. |
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(32 ratings)| Shrapnel, by Adam Cadre Average member rating: (167 ratings) |
| Sigmund's Quest, by Gregor Holtz Average member rating: (10 ratings)Sigmund’s Quest is an homage to the classic point-and-click adventure games that inspired me so much as a child. It tells the first part of the story of the Völsunga saga, a Norse myth similar to King Arthur... |
| Six, by Wade Clarke Average member rating: (40 ratings)Your name is Harriet Leitner, and you and your twin sister Demi turned six this morning! You're having a fancy dress birthday party, and this afternoon you'll be playing Hide and Seek Tip over in the park.... |
| Skies Above, by Arthur DiBianca Average member rating: (20 ratings)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 Average member rating: (17 ratings)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... |
| Slouching Towards Bedlam, by Star Foster and Daniel Ravipinto Average member rating: (215 ratings)In the beginning was the Word, and it was hungry. ... |
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(14 ratings)| Snack Time!, by Hardy the Bulldog and Renee Choba Average member rating: (59 ratings)Can you help one hungry bulldog in his quest to find something good to eat? He would like that. A lot. [blurb from IF Comp 2008] |
| Snowquest, by Eric Eve joes's rating: Average member rating: (47 ratings)You've been on your quest so long you've almost forgotten what it is all about, but now you are nearing your destination -- if only you can stay alive long enough in this frozen wilderness to reach it. |
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(73 ratings)| So, You've Never Played a Text Adventure Before, Huh?, by Ryan Veeder Average member rating: (16 ratings)Robin Monaghan and her friends explore a creepy house. |
| Solarium, by Anya Johanna DeNiro Average member rating: (54 ratings)The year is 1954. One year after mutually assured destruction. And I am trying to find you, through memory and alchemy. Not many people know how the nuclear devastation really happened. But we do. We were... |
| The Song of the Mockingbird, by Mike Carletta 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... |
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(6 ratings)| Spider and Web, by Andrew Plotkin Average member rating: (311 ratings)A vacation in our lovely country! See the ethnic charms of the countryside, the historic grandeur of the capital city. Taste our traditional cuisine; smell the flowers of the Old Tree. And all without... |
| SPY INTRIGUE, by furkle Average member rating: (44 ratings)IT'S YOUR FIRST DAY AT SPY SCHOOL, AND YOU'RE READY TO COMMENCE A LIFE OF ESPIONAGE, TRADECRAFT, AND INTRIGUE. THE ONLY PROBLEM IS, EVERY HUMAN EMPLOYEE DIED OF MUMPS JUST THE OTHER DAY. CAN YOU AND THE SOLE... |
| SQUARE ENIX AI Tech Preview: THE PORTOPIA SERIAL MURDER CASE, by Yuji Horii Average member rating: (1 rating)This software is an educational demonstration of Natural Language Processing (NLP), an AI technology, as applied to the text adventure game “The Portopia Serial Murder Case” (created by Yuji Horii and first... |
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| 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... |
| Stationfall, by Steve Meretzky Average member rating: (46 ratings)What a trotting krip! Since your incredible heroics in Planetfall, where you risked life and limb to save the planet Resida, things have hardly changed at all. Sure, you were promoted to Lieutenant First... |
| The Statue Got Me High, by Ryan Veeder Average member rating: (29 ratings)Your job is to make sure John's party is successful. It won't be, though. Written for the Apollo 18+20 tribute album project. |
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(36 ratings)| Sub Rosa, by Joey Jones, Melvin Rangasamy Average member rating: (43 ratings)A puzzle game about secrets in the Age of Lead. You've spent seventeen years preparing for an infiltration. Stealing the Confessor's secrets is only the beginning: it will all be for nothing if you leave a... |
| Submarine Sabotage, by Garry Francis Average member rating: (4 ratings)You are currently serving aboard the USS Ibis, the first of the US Navy's top-secret Puny class submarines. The Puny class is an attack submarine that packs maximum firepower into a minimum-sized hull. It... |
| Sugarlawn, by Mike Spivey Average member rating: (32 ratings)With a loud "click," the door closes behind you. Finally! You are locked inside an antebellum Southern mansion, alone, wearing only a chicken costume. You've fantasized about this moment for years. |
| Summit, by Phantom Williams Average member rating: (33 ratings)A dream-like journey through a drifting life. Headphones recommended. |
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(3 ratings)| Sunless Sea, by Failbetter Games Average member rating: (20 ratings)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... |
| Sunless Skies, by Failbetter Games Average member rating: (7 ratings)SAIL THE STARS. BETRAY YOUR QUEEN. MURDER A SUN. Sunless Skies is a Gothic Horror roleplay game with a focus on exploration and exquisite storytelling for PC, Mac and Linux. |
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(54 ratings)| Superluminal Vagrant Twin, by C.E.J. Pacian Average member rating: (120 ratings)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.) |
| Suspended, by Michael Berlyn Average member rating: (43 ratings)They said you would sleep for half a millennium - not an unreasonable length of time, considering you'd be in limited cryogenic suspension. Your body would rest at the planet's nerve center, an underground... |
| Suveh Nux, by David Fisher Average member rating: (225 ratings)An entry in the 2007 One Room Game Competition. You play a magician's servant who gets trapped in your master's vault; you'll need to learn some of his tricks if you want to get out. |
| Sweet Dreams, by Papillon Average member rating: (4 ratings) |
| Taco Fiction, by Ryan Veeder Average member rating: (115 ratings)Taco Fiction is a game about crime. |
| Take, by Katherine Morayati (as Amelia Pinnolla) Average member rating: (37 ratings)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,... |
| The Tale of the Kissing Bandit, by J. Robinson Wheeler (as 'Cary Valentino') Average member rating: (46 ratings) |
| Tales of the Traveling Swordsman, by Mike Snyder Average member rating: (47 ratings)You are the traveling swordsman; the strong and silent stranger; the wandering vanquisher of villainy. Damsels swoon for you. Good men respect and envy you. Scoundrels learn to fear you. Even so, you are but... |
| Tapestry, by Daniel Ravipinto Average member rating: (44 ratings)You were born; you lived; you died. Not everyone gets a second chance to go back and change crucial decisions. You have been granted one and must go back to critical moral dilemmas; but do you change the... |
| Tavern Crawler, by Josh Labelle Average member rating: (41 ratings)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... |
| Tea Ceremony, by Naomi Hinchen Average member rating: (20 ratings)In this game of diplomacy, you play as an inept junior member of the diplomatic corps. This week, you need to convince Brc'nl, who is some sort of noble glob from Glorpon-42, to argue in Earth's favor in a... |
| Ted Paladin And The Case Of The Abandoned House, by Anssi Räisänen Average member rating: (14 ratings)Known for your text adventure skills, you have been called in for help to reveal the secrets of a locked, abandoned house scheduled to be demolished soon. Can you manage the task bestowed upon you? |
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(7 ratings)| Temple of Apshai (TRS-80 Version), by John Connelley, Jon Freeman and Jeff Johnson Average member rating: (2 ratings)"And now, my friend," Merlis continued, "only the bravest or most foolhardy dare enter the cavern under the coastal bluff when the tide is at its ebb, and few of them return. Those who do grow in legend to... |
| Terminal Interface for Models RCM301-303, by Victor Gijsbers joes's rating: Average member rating: (21 ratings)A text terminal interface for interacting with your model RCM301-303 remote controlled mech. |
| Tethered, by Linus Åkesson Average member rating: (31 ratings)"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."... |
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(89 ratings)| their angelical understanding, by Porpentine Average member rating: (75 ratings)I train to fight angels in a monastery by the sea. Wear headphones. TW: Suicidal ideation, ableism, abuse, possible epilepsy trigger. |
| Till Death Makes a Monk-Fish Out of Me, by Mike Sousa and Jon Ingold Average member rating: (34 ratings)Dr. Taylor's looking worried. Dr. Kurner's looking exhausted. Zak is grinning with glee. Today is the big day, and you're about to try out the crowning experiment of your life, and in AtlantisLab's chequered... |
| A Time of Tungsten, by Devin Raposo Average member rating: (10 ratings)The walls are high, the hole is deep. She is trapped, on a distant planet. Watched. She may not survive. But, she did live. |
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(4 ratings)| TOMBs of Reschette, by Richard Goodness Average member rating: (13 ratings)Hello, young adventurer! If you're looking for the finest treasure, monster, and exploration experience around, why not come on down to the TOMBs of Reschette! --Earn XP, Dubloons, and Gems, like any good... |
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(18 ratings)| Trail Stash, by Andrew Schultz Average member rating: (11 ratings)A surreal, small treasure hunt with bumpers. Lots of them. |
| Trapped in Time, by Simon Christiansen Average member rating: (25 ratings)A Science Fiction adventure where YOU are the hero! |
| 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. |
| Turandot, by Victor Gijsbers Average member rating: (45 ratings)An operatic performance. A tale of atonement. A dating sim with a crocodile pit. Content warnings: sex; sexism and other gender issues; suicide; torture; homophobia; xenophobia. |
| Ulysses and the Golden Fleece, by Bob Davis and Ken Williams Average member rating: (3 ratings) |
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(62 ratings)| Vain Empires, by Thomas Mack and Xavid Average member rating: (24 ratings)The memoir of a demonic spy in the Cold War between Heaven and Hell. |
| Vampire: The Masquerade — Night Road, by Kyle Marquis Average member rating: (12 ratings)The elders have entrusted you, an elite vampire courier, to deliver their secrets. Can you outrun the hunters, the other drivers, and the rising sun? "Vampire: The Masquerade — Night Road" is a 650,000-word... |
| 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... |
| Varkana, by Maryam Gousheh-Forgeot Average member rating: (25 ratings)Varkana is the name of a region in a world with a timeless, mildy fantasy/sci-fi setting (some technological and magical elements are present at this moment, but not prevalent), with the city-state of Arg... |
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(174 ratings)| Violet, by Jeremy Freese Average member rating: (383 ratings)Calm down. All you have to do is write a thousand words and everything will be fine. And you have all day, except it's already noon. [blurb from IF Comp 2008] |
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(1 rating)| The Wand, by Arthur DiBianca Average member rating: (58 ratings)Explore the wizard Bartholloco's castle with the help of a versatile magic wand. Can you overcome his challenge? Can you levitate a rock? Can you slice a baltavakia? (Puzzle-oriented and family friendly.) |
| The Warbler's Nest, by Jason McIntosh Average member rating: (91 ratings)Surely the reed bank counts as a wild place. While it gives you so much, you've never tended it, not really, not like you do with your garden. It's something like the forest, then, but much safer to search... |
| What Heart Heard Of, Ghost Guessed, by Amanda Walker 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,... |
| The Whisperers, by Milo van Mesdag Average member rating: (12 ratings)An Interactive Play ... |
| Who Iced Mayor McFreeze?, by Damon L. Wakes Average member rating: (12 ratings)A Bubble Gumshoe Mystery ... |
| Will Not Let Me Go, by Stephen Granade Average member rating: (67 ratings)Dallas, Texas. 1996. Fred Strickland has Alzheimer's. |
| Winter Storm Draco, by Ryan Veeder Average member rating: (26 ratings)A chronicle of the events of the winter storm of the same name. |
| Winter Wonderland, by Laura Knauth Average member rating: (43 ratings)"Young Gretchen could have only imagined the fanciful events that were to occur before finding herself lost in a winter wonderland." [--blurb from Competition '99] |
| With Those We Love Alive, by Porpentine and Brenda Neotenomie Average member rating: (111 ratings)no dreams written by porpentine scored by brenda neotenomie |
| The Wizard Sniffer, by Buster Hudson Average member rating: (131 ratings)You were recently acquired by the brave Ser Leonhart and his squire to sniff out the evil shapeshifting wizard. Unfortunately, you are not a wizard sniffer (if such a thing even exists). As far as you can... |
| Worlds Apart, by Suzanne Britton Average member rating: (90 ratings)For over 20 years, I dreamed about an alternate universe I called the Higher World. For three of those years, I poured almost all of my creative energy into a novel-length story set in that universe. Worlds... |
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(4 ratings)Zombie Exodus, by Jim Dattilo
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(32 ratings)| Zork 285, by Tim Anderson, Marc Blank, Bruce Daniels, and Dave Lebling Average member rating: (1 rating)This is an attempt to make a truthful as possible ZIL-version of the very first MDL version of Zork from June 14th, 1977. Please type 'about' in game for more info about this version. |
| Zork I, by Marc Blank and Dave Lebling Average member rating: (218 ratings)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 Average member rating: (97 ratings)The Wizard appears, floating nonchalantly in the air beside you. He grins sideways at you. The Wizard incants "Fantasize," but nothing happens. He shakes his wand. Nothing happens. With a slightly... |
| Zork III, by Dave Lebling, Marc Blank Average member rating: (77 ratings)An old, oddly youthful man turns toward you slowly. His long, silver hair dances about him as a fresh breeze blows. "You have reached the final test, my friend! You are proved clever and powerful, but this... |
| Zozzled, by Steph Cherrywell Average member rating: (45 ratings)Hotsy-totsy! It's 1928 and you're madcap flapper Hazel Greene, tottering around the city's finest hotel with a gullet full of giggle juice...until a gaggle of ghosts shows up to spoil the fun by turning... |
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