♥Magical Makeover♥, by S. Woodson egostat's rating: Average member rating: (67 ratings) "You hold in your hand a pink, heart-shaped card daubed in rosewater and oil of jasmine — an invitation to the Princess Philantha's Grand Equinox Ball. In gilded, sweeping, sweet-smelling calligraphy, the... |
1 4 the $, by Charm Cochran egostat's rating: Average member rating: (8 ratings) A story of consumption. 1 4 the $ ("One For the Money") was written in three days as an entry to the SeedComp! 2024 sprouting round. It is intended for mature audiences. |
16 Ways to Kill a Vampire at McDonalds, by Abigail Corfman egostat's rating: Average member rating: (101 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... |
1K Cupid, by Elizabeth Smyth egostat's rating: Average member rating: (4 ratings) Perhaps you spread a little too much love in the wrong places. Don't worry about it. Point is, the king overreacted, and now you're here. A simple one-room parser game in one thousand words for sub-Q... |
Absence of Law, by mathbrush egostat's rating: Average member rating: (52 ratings) Excuse me, can you help me? Yes, you, browsing IFDB games! I need your assistance, but I don't have long. There's so much going on: remote surveillance, unauthorized cloning, forgotten languages, robots... |
According to Cain, by Jim Nelson egostat's rating: Average member rating: (48 ratings) Two brothers. One murder. And a mystery as old as mankind. You are a medieval investigator sent back in time to learn the secrets behind mankind's first murder. Using a novel alchemy system, observation, and... |
The Act of Misdirection, by Callico Harrison egostat's rating: Average member rating: (75 ratings) The curtain lifts to a torrent of applause, as the city's gents and ladies lose their decorum for a just few moments in anticipation of something magical. The spotlights drown the glitter of sequins and... |
Ad Verbum, by Nick Montfort egostat's rating: Average member rating: (136 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... |
Advent Door, by Andrew Plotkin egostat's rating: Average member rating: (16 ratings) Where’s that door? This game was written for a collaborative 2019 Advent Calendar project. The theme was "The City of Doors" from the Planescape roleplaying setting. That project was never completed, so I... |
Aisle, by Sam Barlow egostat's rating: Average member rating: (326 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 egostat's rating: Average member rating: (124 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.... |
Alias 'The Magpie', by J. J. Guest egostat's rating: Average member rating: (74 ratings) Sir Rodney Playfair, gentleman thief, has a simple plan: impersonate a psychiatrist, infiltrate a country house, steal a priceless Egyptian scarab and make it back to London in time for cocktails. All in a... |
And Then You Come to a House Not Unlike the Previous One, by B.J. Best egostat's rating: Average member rating: (69 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: ★ ★ ★ |
Animalia, by Ian Michael Waddell egostat's rating: Average member rating: (37 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... |
The Ascent of the Gothic Tower, by Ryan Veeder egostat's rating: Average member rating: (34 ratings) A story of mild and non-debilitating obsession. |
The Ballroom, by Liza Daly egostat's rating: Average member rating: (27 ratings) You arrived at the ballroom well after midnight. The End. |
Beware The Faerie Food You Eat, by Astrid Dalmady egostat's rating: Average member rating: (29 ratings) They say that some of the faerie folk can grant wishes, that they can give gifts to that who gain their favor. Now, you’ve found a portal into their world and you’re ready to step through and claim that... |
Bloody Raoul, by Caleb Wilson (as Ian Cowsbell) egostat's rating: Average member rating: (9 ratings) Summer in Saturnine. What a night for knife punks! |
Bogeyman, by Elizabeth Smyth egostat's rating: Average member rating: (89 ratings) You can go home when you learn to be good. |
Bring Me A Head!, by Chandler Groover egostat's rating: Average member rating: (33 ratings) Better hope you can hack it. A Grand Guignol entry for ECTOCOMP 2016. |
Castle, Forest, Island, Sea, by Hide&Seek egostat's rating: Average member rating: (18 ratings) 'Castle, Forest, Island, Sea' is a choose-your-own-adventure story that explores key questions in philosophy. Where will your chosen path lead you? From bickering birds to scary monsters, choose your quest... |
Color the Truth, by mathbrush egostat's rating: Average member rating: (76 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... |
creak, creak, by chandler groover Average member rating: (36 ratings) "You have to look." 111 words. Made for Porpentine's Twiny Jam. |
Creatures Such As We, by Lynnea Glasser egostat's rating: Average member rating: (96 ratings) A dating sim about how humanity connects through art, even out in the vastness of space. |
CYBERQUEEN, by Porpentine egostat's rating: Average member rating: (67 ratings) integration necessitates evisceration |
De Baron, by Victor Gijsbers egostat's rating: Average member rating: (166 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... |
Dead Like Ants, by C.E.J. Pacian egostat's rating: Average member rating: (60 ratings) You play as a young woman in red overalls, a red worker ant. Every spring, five dangerous creatures visit the tree and threaten the village, and every spring, the Queen sends one of her daughters to... |
DICK MCBUTTS GETS KICKED IN THE NUTS, by Damon L. Wakes (as "Hubert Janus") egostat's rating: Average member rating: (18 ratings) It's exactly what it sounds like. ... |
Down, the Serpent and the Sun, by Chandler Groover egostat's rating: Average member rating: (30 ratings) The feathered serpent coils before you, greater than any god or any monster. Maimed warriors are crushed beneath its claws. The sun will never rise again. |
The Dreamhold, by Andrew Plotkin egostat's rating: Average member rating: (177 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... |
Dual Transform, by Andrew Plotkin egostat's rating: Average member rating: (110 ratings) 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. |
Eat Me, by Chandler Groover egostat's rating: Average member rating: (109 ratings) In this castle, you'll eat or be eaten. May contain dairy, carnage, puzzles, nuts. |
Ecdysis, by Peter Nepstad egostat's rating: Average member rating: (81 ratings) You wake, a pounding headache loud in your inner ear, the back of your head itching and tingling, your mouth full of cotton. The pain drives away your dreams, weird visions of alien landscapes... Ecdysis is... |
Enough, by Harris Powell-Smith egostat's rating: Average member rating: (6 ratings) You're doing OK. A tiny game about comfort. Made for the TinyUtopias jam. |
Erstwhile, by Aster (formally Maddie) Fialla, Marijke Perry egostat's rating: Average member rating: (66 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... |
Everybody Dies, by Jim Munroe egostat's rating: Average member rating: (107 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.... |
Fairest, by Amanda Walker egostat's rating: Average member rating: (29 ratings) “Mirror, mirror, on the wall,” you say dreamily, gazing into its sparkling surface… “You know,” replies the mirror, “I can do a lot more than just reflect fair faces. O, how I long to leap off... |
Fingertips: I Hear the Wind Blow, by Jacqueline A. Lott egostat's rating: Average member rating: (24 ratings) |
Foo Foo, by Buster Hudson egostat's rating: Average member rating: (65 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. |
Founder's Mercy, by Thomas Insel egostat's rating: Average member rating: (14 ratings) 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.... |
Galatea, by Emily Short egostat's rating: Average member rating: (346 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... |
Glass, by Emily Short egostat's rating: Average member rating: (108 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 Griffin and the Minor Canon, by Frank Stockton, Chandler Groover egostat's rating: Average member rating: (16 ratings) A griffin pays an unwanted visit to a town. Adapted from Frank Stockton's classic short story. |
Grooverland, by Mathbrush egostat's rating: Average member rating: (26 ratings) "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... |
Gun Mute, by C.E.J. Pacian egostat's rating: Average member rating: (156 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... |
Her Majesty's Trolley Problem, by Buster Hudson egostat's rating: Average member rating: (27 ratings) No one said life in Her Majesty's Service would be easy. Fortunately, you've got everything you need: your officer's handbook, a harpoon cannon, and the indefatigable command of Captain Lionetta herself. If... |
HUNTING UNICORN, by Chandler Groover egostat's rating: Average member rating: (37 ratings) A maiden leads a unicorn hunt. Sixteen narrative variants. Choose-your-own-adventure style. Mature thematic elements. |
The Impossible Bottle, by Linus Åkesson egostat's rating: Average member rating: (82 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 egostat's rating: Average member rating: (29 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... |
Inward Narrow Crooked Lanes, by B Minus Seven egostat's rating: Average member rating: (15 ratings) Before we begin, we have a sharp-- I mean short intake form for you to fill out. |
Junior Arithmancer, by Mike Spivey egostat's rating: Average member rating: (58 ratings) A one-to-many-room puzzler. |
Kaged, by Ian Finley egostat's rating: 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... |
little, by chandler groover egostat's rating: Average member rating: (10 ratings) a tiny yarn for ectocomp |
Little Blue Men, by Michael S. Gentry egostat's rating: 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... |
The Lonely Troll, by Amanda Walker egostat's rating: Average member rating: (17 ratings) Meet a cast of mythological characters in a text adventure about making friends. This game is suitable for children as well as adults and has an extensive tutorial for first-time players. A walkthrough, or... |
Lost Pig, by Admiral Jota egostat's rating: Average member rating: (500 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 |
The Magpie Takes the Train, by Mathbrush egostat's rating: Average member rating: (41 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! |
Make It Good, by Jon Ingold egostat's rating: Average member rating: (86 ratings) The call comes through. Of all the dicks; you get the call, sitting in the front seat of your car, hands shaking on the steering wheel. An urgent call; but all you were thinking of was the bottle in the... |
Metamorphoses, by Emily Short egostat's rating: Average member rating: (133 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... |
Midnight. Swordfight., by Chandler Groover egostat's rating: Average member rating: (87 ratings) A fool receives a challenge from a countess. Violence. Sex. Profanity. Sausage. |
Mirror and Queen, by Chandler Groover egostat's rating: Average member rating: (33 ratings) Your mirror never lies. A puzzleless reflection. Fifteen to forty minutes. |
my father's long, long legs, by michael lutz egostat's rating: Average member rating: (148 ratings) A weird tale. Some parts make use of sound, so this game is best played with headphones. One ending. |
Open That Vein, by Chandler Groover egostat's rating: Average member rating: (21 ratings) You are going to open that vein. La Petite Mort entry in ECTOCOMP 2015. |
Oppositely Opal, by Buster Hudson egostat's rating: Average member rating: (68 ratings) 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... |
PataNoir, by Simon Christiansen egostat's rating: 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. |
The Queen's Menagerie, by Chandler Groover egostat's rating: Average member rating: (40 ratings) These beasts won't feed themselves. A puzzleless exhibition. Ten to fifteen minutes. |
Rape, Pillage, Makane!, by Chandler Groover egostat's rating: Average member rating: (13 ratings) No knight was ever more noble than Sir Makane, whose chivalrous code held two tenets above all: SLAY/LAY. Written for Ludum Dare 34. |
Seedship, by John Ayliff egostat's rating: Average member rating: (53 ratings) An AI ship full of frozen colonists must find the best planet to be the new home of the human race. |
Shade, by Andrew Plotkin egostat's rating: Average member rating: (421 ratings) "A one-room game set in your apartment." [--blurb from Competition Aught-Zero] |
Skull-Scraper, by chandler groover egostat's rating: Average member rating: (18 ratings) "Scrape into a skull." Made for the Tiny Utopias Jam. |
The Storm, by Stephane F. egostat's rating: Average member rating: (7 ratings) At home, safe and warm. Everywhere : the night. Outside, the storm. « The Storm » is the english version of « La Tempête » released for the French comp 2018. Translation by Stéphane F. and Jack Welch. |
Taghairm, by Chandler Groover egostat's rating: Average member rating: (27 ratings) "Perhaps the most horrible of all recorded magical spells." Cruelty. Violence. Sounds. Headphones recommended. |
The Tailgator, by NegSec egostat's rating: Average member rating: (5 ratings) A little game I made about somewhat tailgating you, and how things can go horribly wrong. I came up with the idea during a driver's ed course. You are a normal person, who is driving and has to deal with an... |
Three-Card Trick, by Chandler Groover egostat's rating: Average member rating: (69 ratings) You're going to perform a three-card trick or your name isn't Morgan the Magnificent. |
To Hell in a Hamper, by J. J. Guest egostat's rating: Average member rating: (112 ratings) Professor Pettibone, eminent Victorian balloonist, has a problem. He can't get it up. His balloon that is. If he can't reach an altitude of 20,000 feet, and soon, both he and his mysterious travelling... |
Toby's Nose, by Chandler Groover egostat's rating: Average member rating: (120 ratings) A murder most foul has been committed and Sherlock Holmes is on the case. You are his dog. |
the uncle who works for nintendo, by michael lutz egostat's rating: Average member rating: (110 ratings) You are 11 years old. You are sleeping over at your best friend's house. You and your friend like videogames. Your friend has a lot of cool games. And, believe it or not, an uncle who works for Nintendo. And... |
Ürs, by Christopher Hayes, Daniel Talsky egostat's rating: Average member rating: (23 ratings) 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... |
Violet, by Jeremy Freese egostat's rating: Average member rating: (389 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] |
A Witch's Word, by RainbowStarbird egostat's rating: Average member rating: (6 ratings) Years ago, you sold your first born to a witch. But with your recent dating history, it doesn't look like she'll be getting her end of the bargain any time soon. So the witch has offered to help you find a... |
The Wizard Sniffer, by Buster Hudson egostat's rating: Average member rating: (138 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... |
The World Ends Today, I Think..., by Diego Lucano (broadwaydude) egostat's rating: Average member rating: (2 ratings) You're waiting for the bus with your good ol' mate, Jeb. And in an instant, Jeb ends your life and you start again. And now you have to make more choices for some reason. And the world keeps ending, too. And... |