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9:05, by Adam Cadre
Average member rating: (544 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.

All Alone, by Ian Finley
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Average member rating: (70 ratings)

Back to the Future: Marty Quest, by George Gipe, Ryan North and Hulk Handsome
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

You are Marty McFly, 80s teen! You are stuck in a detention room after school. You need to escape the room otherwise you can’t play in your band for tryouts tonight! The YMCA is counting on you! Inspired...

Baking with Lizzie, by Adri
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

Your friends are arriving soon, and you need to bake a batch of cookies! Now where is that recipe card...? This game was created for the Short & Sweet Jam.

Best Gopher Ever, by Arthur DiBianca
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Average member rating: (23 ratings)

Help the unfortunate residents of Fairview! (Who are all animals, by the way.) A light puzzle game for all ages.

Brain Guzzlers from Beyond!, by Steph Cherrywell
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Average member rating: (74 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...

Chlorophyll, by Steph Cherrywell
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Average member rating: (61 ratings)

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...

Deadline, by Marc Blank
Average member rating: (60 ratings)

Twelve hours to solve the mystery. One false move, and the killer strikes again. It's been called "part of the latest craze in home computing (TIME magazine), an "amazing feat of programming" (THE NEW YORK...

Earl Grey, by Rob Dubbin and Allison Parrish
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Average member rating: (30 ratings)

A game about a tea party, a monarchy, and the unpredictability of language.

Enchanter, by Marc Blank, Dave Lebling
Average member rating: (110 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...

Fail-Safe, by Jon Ingold
Average member rating: (115 ratings)

For a Change, by Dan Schmidt
Average member rating: (117 ratings)

"The sun has gone. It must be brought. You have a rock." [--blurb from Competition '99]

Gateway, by Mike Verdu, Michael Lindner, and Glen Dahlgren
Average member rating: (36 ratings)

In the early twenty-second century, adventurous citizens of Earth can travel to a place called "Gateway": a long-abandoned alien space station, now rediscovered by humans and turned into a jumping-off point...

Gateway 2: Homeworld, by Mike Verdu and Glen Dahlgren
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Average member rating: (18 ratings)

In the early twenty-second century, an immense alien spacecraft, dubbed the "Artifact," arrives in the Earth's solar system. The Artifact ignores all attempts at communication; no one knows whether its...

Hippo on Elm Street, by Adri ("Erin Gigglecreek")
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Average member rating: (4 ratings)

Baby, it's cold outside. All you want to do is snuggle up in a warm sock and take a nap. But something seems to be going on in the house, and you're determined to find out what it is. This game is based in...

Hoist Sail for the Heliopause and Home, by Andrew Plotkin
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Average member rating: (86 ratings)

A far-future story of discovery.

Home Open, by Emily Boegheim
Average member rating: (10 ratings)

That long-vacant house is up for sale and open for inspection today. Maybe it's just the fixer-upper you've been looking for.

I-0, by Anonymous
Average member rating: (158 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...

Infidel, by Michael Berlyn
Average member rating: (62 ratings)

Infidel finds you marooned by your followers in the heart of the deadly Egyptian Desert. A soldier of fortune by trade, you've come hither in search of a great lost pyramid and its untold riches. Now, alone,...

It, by Emily Boegheim
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Average member rating: (32 ratings)

"The rules of the game are easy. I'm It, so I go and hide. You and the others count to 50, then you have to look for me. If you find me, you have to get into the hiding spot with me. If you're the last...

Kii!Wii!, by Adri
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Average member rating: (4 ratings)

This experience was created in order to impart a bit of happiness and sweetness into your life.

Lord Bellwater's Secret, by Sam Gordon
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Average member rating: (71 ratings)

Marco Polo, by Baltasar el arquero
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Average member rating: (2 ratings)

Marco Polo retorna de su viaje a oriente, siendo portador de una importante misiva del Khan en persona para el Duce de Venecia.

Metamorphoses, by Emily Short
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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...

A Mind Forever Voyaging, by Steve Meretzky
Average member rating: (118 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...

More, by Jason Dyer (as Erin Canterbury)
Average member rating: (12 ratings)

Photopia, by Adam Cadre
Average member rating: (568 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."

Planetfall, by Steve Meretzky
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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...

Seastalker, by Stu Galley, Jim Lawrence
Average member rating: (29 ratings)

There's something down there in the ocean, something terrifying. And you have to face it - because only you can save the Aquadome, the world's first undersea research station. The alarm sounds and your...

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...

Shade, by Andrew Plotkin
Average member rating: (421 ratings)

"A one-room game set in your apartment." [--blurb from Competition Aught-Zero]

Shrapnel, by Adam Cadre
Average member rating: (170 ratings)

Starcross, by Dave Lebling
Average member rating: (51 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...

Stars, by Zoe H
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

Hello, an welcome to my very first game. As I am just trying this out, this game won't be very good or interesting. It's really just me having fun and playing around with stuff.

Superluminal Vagrant Twin, by C.E.J. Pacian
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Average member rating: (131 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: (44 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...

Theatre, by Brendon Wyber
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Average member rating: (89 ratings)

Your job as a real estate agent brings you into contact with many old buildings, but none are quite like the old theatre that has stood deserted for almost thirty years. After visiting it with some...

Wearing the Claw, by Paul O'Brian
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Average member rating: (32 ratings)

A traditional fantasy quest in which you and your village have been cursed with a slow transformation into various animals. The only way to stop the curse is to retrieve the Pendant of Elinor from the...

The Witness, by Stu Galley
Average member rating: (30 ratings)

February 1938, Los Angeles. FDR's New Deal is finally rolling. Hitler's rolling, too; this time through Austria. But as Chief Detective for a quiet burgh on the outskirts of L.A., you've got other fish to...

Zork I, by Marc Blank and Dave Lebling
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Average member rating: (222 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
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Average member rating: (100 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: (79 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...


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