ParadoxRogue's Wish List

Average member rating: (16 ratings)

1893: A World's Fair Mystery, by Peter Nepstad Average member rating: (26 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?...

69,105 Keys, by David Welbourn Average member rating: (80 ratings) There's just one room. How hard can it be? Just unlock the door. Oh. There's 69,105 keys.

80 DAYS, by inkle, Meg Jayanth Average member rating: (100 ratings) 1872, with a steampunk twist. Phileas Fogg has wagered he can circumnavigate the world in just eighty days. Choose your own route around a 3D globe, travelling by airship, submarine, mechanical camel,...

Ad Verbum, by Nick Montfort 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 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...

Advent Mirror, by Andrew Plotkin Average member rating: (7 ratings) "You had no idea where the portal would take you. That's life in the City of Doors. One more step as always." Created for the Confounding Calendar 2022.

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: (123 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....

Alien Abduction?, by Charles Gerlach
Average member rating: (12 ratings)

All Hope Abandon, by Eric Eve Average member rating: (38 ratings) Your day got off to a good enough start when you met that blonde in the breakfast queue, but it's all downhill from there: you may be wishing you could escape a particularly dire lecture, but not by the one...

ALL I WANT IS FOR ALL OF MY FRIENDS TO BECOME INSANELY POWERFUL, by Porpentine
Average member rating: (27 ratings)

Anchorhead, by Michael Gentry Average member rating: (400 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...

Aotearoa, by Matt Wigdahl Average member rating: (63 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...

Ausflug am Wochenende nach München, by Brett Shelton, David Neville, Brian McInnis
Average member rating: (1 rating)

Bad Machine, by Dan Shiovitz Average member rating: (15 ratings)

A Beauty Cold and Austere, by Mike Spivey Average member rating: (60 ratings) That survey course in conceptual mathematics seemed like a good idea at the start of the term - no graded homework, no midterm exams - just an oral final at the end. But now that final is tomorrow morning....

Bee, by Emily Short Average member rating: (89 ratings) The story of a home-schooled girl preparing to compete in the national spelling bee, dealing with various small crises with family and friends, and gradually coming to terms with the clash of subcultures...

Beyond the Tesseract, by David Lo
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

Bigger Than You Think, by Andrew Plotkin Average member rating: (52 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:...

Byzantine Perspective, by Lea Albaugh Average member rating: (57 ratings) Your task is simple enough. Just nab the chalice.

The Chinese Room, by Harry Josephine Giles and Joey Jones
Average member rating: (34 ratings)

Choice: Texas, by Carly Kocurek, Allyson Whipple Average member rating: (3 ratings) Choice: Texas is an educational interactive fiction game addressing reproductive healthcare access in the state of Texas. Play as one of five Texas women attempting to navigate the state's reproductive...

Constraints, by Martin Bays
Average member rating: (23 ratings)

Counterfeit Monkey, by Emily Short Average member rating: (247 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...

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...

De Baron, by Victor Gijsbers Average member rating: (164 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...

Delightful Wallpaper, by Andrew Plotkin ('Edgar O. Weyrd') Average member rating: (78 ratings)

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...

Eat Me, by Chandler Groover Average member rating: (105 ratings) In this castle, you'll eat or be eaten. May contain dairy, carnage, puzzles, nuts.

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...

The End Means Escape, by Steve Kodat
Average member rating: (11 ratings)

Ferryman's Gate, by Daniel Maycock Average member rating: (19 ratings) You punctuation-obsessed uncle has died, leaving your family his house, but leaving you, a mere kid, with his unfinished business. As you follow the clues left by your uncle, you quickly discover that while...

Friendly Foe, by Mike Sousa
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

GiantKiller, by Peter D. Killworth Average member rating: (2 ratings) From the Topologika website (retrieved September 2012): 'GiantKiller' is a classic (i.e. text-only) and tongue-in-cheek Maths adventure game based on Jack and the Beanstalk. It's aimed at 8 to 14 year olds -...

Hoist Sail for the Heliopause and Home, by Andrew Plotkin Average member rating: (86 ratings) A far-future story of discovery.

IFDB Spelunking, by Joey Jones Average member rating: (21 ratings) In the depths of the interactive fiction database strange games lurk! This is an emulation of ten random works found on the IFDB, in which inventory carries over between games for unique effect.

Keepsake, by Savaric Average member rating: (28 ratings) The planning was easy. Committing the murder was easy. But getting away with it? That's another thing. Keepsake is a short, surreal story about vengeance and its consequences.

The Kuolema, by Ben Jackson Average member rating: (22 ratings) This game has now been entirely 'remastered' in Twine. An abandoned ship is found adrift in the South China Sea. Its radio is silent and there's no sign of anyone on board. As a lone operative, you are...

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...

Letters from Home, by Roger Firth Average member rating: (20 ratings) "Centuries of ancestry, decades of memories, years of decline; now, barely two hours in which to reflect on the glorious past, that bygone golden age when nostalgia really meant something... " [--blurb from...

Lists and Lists, by Andrew Plotkin
Average member rating: (27 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...

Lost Pig, by Admiral Jota Average member rating: (496 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

A Mind Forever Voyaging, by Steve Meretzky Average member rating: (117 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...

My Very Own Train Station, by Niklas Gløsen Average member rating: (2 ratings) The player is stuck at a train station, and the player has to make a choice about which train they should take.

MythTale, by Temari Seikaiha
Average member rating: (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...

Not Quite a Sunset - a hypertext opera, by Kyle Rowan Average member rating: (3 ratings) On an orbital space station in a distant star system, Dr. Sara Reyes leads a small team tasked with surveying a planet for potential settlement. A science-fiction story set to an original musical score....

One King to Loot them All, by Onno Brouwer Average member rating: (15 ratings) A tale of High Adventure ...

Open Sorcery, by Abigail Corfman Average member rating: (79 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...

Oppositely Opal, by Buster Hudson 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...

Photopia, by Adam Cadre Average member rating: (565 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."

Praser 5, by Andrew Plotkin
Average member rating: (9 ratings)

Rameses, by Stephen Bond Average member rating: (127 ratings)

Rematch, by Andrew D. Pontious
Average member rating: (92 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...

The Sea Eternal, by Lynnea Glasser Average member rating: (8 ratings) In the enchanted underwater City of Glass, what will you sacrifice for immortality? Love, memories, freedom? Will you take freedom from others to win your heart's desire? Dive into a world of mermaids,...

Shade, by Andrew Plotkin Average member rating: (420 ratings) "A one-room game set in your apartment." [--blurb from Competition Aught-Zero]

The Shadow in the Cathedral, by Ian Finley and Jon Ingold Average member rating: (32 ratings) When the monks took me, aged six months, into their care, they named me Wren. Maybe because I was small, insignificant, and happy to eat any crumbs they threw my way. But these days I'm Wren, 2nd Assistant...

Shrapnel, by Adam Cadre Average member rating: (169 ratings)

Strange Geometries, by Phillip Chambers
Average member rating: (19 ratings)

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...

Taghairm, by Chandler Groover Average member rating: (26 ratings) "Perhaps the most horrible of all recorded magical spells." Cruelty. Violence. Sounds. Headphones recommended.

The Tale of the Kissing Bandit, by J. Robinson Wheeler (as 'Cary Valentino') Average member rating: (46 ratings)

Trapped in Time, by Simon Christiansen Average member rating: (25 ratings) A Science Fiction adventure where YOU are the hero!

Trinity, by Brian Moriarty Average member rating: (102 ratings) You're neither an adventurer nor a professional thrill-seeker. You're simply an American tourist in London, enjoying a relaxing stroll through the famous Kensington Gardens. When World War III starts and the...

Turandot, by Victor Gijsbers Average member rating: (49 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.

Varicella, by Adam Cadre Average member rating: (132 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...

Voices of Spoon River, by Jon Scoresby, Tim Stowell, Tom Caswell, Jared Bernotski, Marie Duncan, Marian Jensen, Jennifer Jorgensen, and Brett Shelton Average member rating: (1 rating) "Every cemetery has a plot, a series of secrets that some would prefer stayed buried. This graveyard is haunted. It wouldn’t be, except that unresolved issues torment Spoon River’s former inhabitants and...

Weird City Interloper, by C.E.J. Pacian Average member rating: (58 ratings) An interactive tale of strange conspiracy. Pull up your hood, lower your gaze and enter the city of Zendon. If you can gather enough information, you may just be able to change the course of history. (Weird...

Whom The Telling Changed, by Aaron A. Reed Average member rating: (64 ratings) The people had always gathered on moonless nights to hear the stories, since the time of their ancestors' ancestors. The heat of the fire and the glow in the storyteller's eyes made the past present, and the...

The Wizard Sniffer, by Buster Hudson Average member rating: (136 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: (91 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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