'Mid the Sagebrush and the Cactus, by Victor Gijsbers Zape's rating: Average member rating: They shot you in the leg, the sheriff or one of his men, but you still managed to get away. You always manage to get away. And while they're off pursuing you to, who knows, perhaps Colorado, you have quietly... |
'Steading of the Hill Giant Chief, by Mike Russo Zape's rating: Average member rating: You’ve been going about this all wrong. Instead of bemoaning their giantish constitution, you should be planning a giantish substitution. An entry in 2024's REALLY BAD IF Jam. |
"Adventures in the Tomb of Ilfane" by Willershin Rill, by Richard Goodness writing as The Water Supply writing as Willershin Rill Zape's rating: Average member rating: Millennia ago, the Autarch Ilfane used a magical artifact called The Knot to bring the Teresten people to an era of prosperity. Now, the Nazi archaeologist Doktor Chirlu seeks its power. Get ready, Professor... |
"Do Not Meddle", by Teaspoon Zape's rating: Average member rating: Will you be one of the naughty, meddling boys, or the good one who obeys the dictum "DO NOT MEDDLE"? Done largely as an exercise in third-person coding, this is a verbose adaptation of a 19th century Moral... |
"Incident! Aliens on the Teresten!" by Tarquin Segundo, by Richard Goodness writing as The Water Supply writing as Tarquin Segundo Zape's rating: Average member rating: The scientist Chirlu created The Knot to be a source of peace and prosperity for the galaxy. But a routine training mission turned into terror when the bloodthirsty Ilfane attacked. Get ready, young space... |
"Terror in the Immortal's Atelier" by Gevelle Formicore, by Richard Goodness writing as The Water Supply writing as Gevelle Formicore Zape's rating: Average member rating: Chirlu the Immortal has menaced the Land of Teresten for too long! Locked inside the sorcerer's atelier, inside the Ilfane, is the source of Chirlu's power: The Knot, where all mana connects. Get ready,... |
#VanLife, by Victoria Zape's rating: Average member rating: The first thought is always the same: ‘coffee’. The warm glow of the kettle fills the van as it comes to life at an enviable pace. Suddenly, with a snap, the lights shut off, the kettle dies with... |
> by @, by Aaron A. Reed Zape's rating: Average member rating: 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... |
1-555-trouble, by Julien Zamor Zape's rating: Average member rating: A game made for #inkJam2020. A short puzzle game about dealing with a monster. (Also available in French, as 0-800-DANGER.) |
16 Ways to Kill a Vampire at McDonalds, by Abigail Corfman Zape's rating: Average member rating: You're a vampire hunter on your night off. You're getting a manicure, seeing a movie, and eating fast food. But there's a vampire in this McDonalds. If you don't do something, then in one hour it will eat... |
18 Rooms to Home, by Carolyn VanEseltine Zape's rating: Average member rating: 18 Rooms to Home is an experimental work of interactive fiction. It’s a day in the life of Yesenia Reed, whose life is far from ordinary, no matter what she might prefer. This story takes place over the... |
1893: A World's Fair Mystery, by Peter Nepstad Zape's rating: Average member rating: 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?... |
19 Once, by Yvonne Jeagon, Larissa Jemmy Zape's rating: Average member rating: Your teenage friendship group has split up, each gone their separate ways. Is one last cinema trip out of the question? Cover Art Created Using Columns, Minimise, Restore, Maximise, Close, Laptop, From The... |
1958: Dancing With Fear, by Víctor Ojuel Zape's rating: Average member rating: "Dancing with Fear" (1958, directed by Víctor Ojuel). In this forgotten classic of Golden Age Hollywood, a vedette fallen on hard times (Salomé Vélez) finds herself enmeshed in a tangle of political... |
198BREW, by H. M. Faust (aka DWaM) Zape's rating: Average member rating: 198X. Long after Adin's discovery. After the Night of the Comets. Sometime after she went away. Three days after you buried the cat. You stand in your kitchen. And you find yourself out of coffee. Step into... |
1K Cupid, by Elizabeth Smyth Zape's rating: Average member rating: 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... |
20 Exchange Place, by Sol FC Zape's rating: Average member rating: Sink or swim in the concrete pool. ... |
4x4 Archipelago, by Agnieszka Trzaska Zape's rating: Average member rating: Adventure waits for you in a procedurally generated Archipelago! Discover strange new lands. Make a fortune from trading. Swing a Really Big Sword at a dragon. Fight wild beasts – or turn them into your... |
4x4 Galaxy, by Agnieszka Trzaska Zape's rating: Average member rating: 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,... |
The 5-Second Simulation, by alyshkalia Zape's rating: Average member rating: A one-move parser game where your actions will unlock the clues needed to win. (This game was written in less than two weeks for the 2023 Single-Choice Jam, and is the second game I've ever made with Inform... |
500 Apocalypses, by Phantom Williams Zape's rating: Average member rating: 500 Apocalypses is a web installation memorializing collapsed civilizations from across our universe. This interactive space is designed to allow contemplative engagement with five hundred curated entries... |
the 500 rooms, by manonamora Zape's rating: Average member rating: Try to go through the 500 rooms. Or don't. This was made for the REALLY BAD IF JAM. |
69,105 Keys, by David Welbourn Zape's rating: Average member rating: There's just one room. How hard can it be? Just unlock the door. Oh. There's 69,105 keys. |
77 Verbs, by MathBrush (as Prismatik) Zape's rating: Average member rating: 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 Secret Steps, by mathbrush Zape's rating: Average member rating: A hypertext fiction based on the They Might Be Giants song of the same name. Choose what to sacrifice as you enter a mystic society. Play time less than 15 minutes. Three endings. |
9:05, by Adam Cadre Zape's rating: Average member rating: Zape's time: 15 minutes The phone rings. Oh, no — how long have you been asleep? Sure, it was a tough night, but... This is bad. This is very bad. The phone rings. |
AardVarK Versus the Hype, by Truthcraze Zape's rating: Average member rating: November, 1997, somewhere in the suburbs: Carpenter jeans. Mixtapes. Alt Rock. A mind-controlling vaguely-citrus soda. A beat-up 1989 Toyota Celica. A gas station that sells snacks. And the band whose name... |
Absence of Law, by mathbrush Zape's rating: Average member rating: Excuse me, can you help me? Yes, you, browsing IFDB games! I need your assistance, but I don't have long. There's so much going on: remote surveillance, unauthorized cloning, forgotten languages, robots... |
Academic Pursuits (As Opposed To Regular Pursuits), by ruqiyah Zape's rating: Average member rating: Dear Ms. ████████ We are delighted to offer you a position in our architecture department. After your application and interview we are confident you will really sink your teeth into this... |
Accelerate, by The TAV Institute Zape's rating: Average member rating: A multimedia project about the end of everything. This is not a true story. Everything in it happened, and will. Any resemblance to actual events, or actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.... |
Accidental Character Generator, by caeth Zape's rating: Average member rating: 19 types of creatures you can be! ~50000 different name combinations! 64 hobbies to have! 16+ personality types + 12 zodiac signs! 40+ pointless anecdotes! possibilities that I'm not willing to count! one... |
According to Cain, by Jim Nelson Zape's rating: Average member rating: 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... |
Acid Rain, by Garry Francis Zape's rating: Average member rating: You were driving home from the Second National Conference on Acid Rain when you started getting tired. As it was late at night and you were in the middle of nowhere, you pulled over to the side of the road... |
Across The Stars: The Ralckor Incident, by Dark Star and Peter Mattsson Zape's rating: Average member rating: In the year 5367 IR, humanity is well established throughout the galaxy. It has been over twenty-thousand years since the Zal'tacs passed through our solar system, trading their technology for our food and... |
The Act of Misdirection, by Callico Harrison Zape's rating: Average member rating: 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... |
An Act of Murder, by Christopher Huang Zape's rating: Average member rating: "Frederic Sheppard." Chief Inspector Duffy pulls at his moustache mournfully and stares up at the house through the windshield. "Theatrical sort, usually has a finger in some play or other. He bought up Gull... |
Ad Verbum, by Nick Montfort Zape's rating: Average member rating: "With the cantankerous Wizard of Wordplay evicted from his mansion, the worthless plot can now be redeveloped. The city regulations declare, however, that the rip-down job can't proceed until all the items... |
Additional Tales from Castle Balderstone, by Ryan Veeder Zape's rating: Average member rating: Another anthology of terror, edited by Ryan Veeder, again. Also an ECTOCOMP 2019 entry. |
Admiration Point, by Rachel Helps Zape's rating: Average member rating: You work as a virtual exhibit artist at a digital culture museum. There is a glimmer of attraction to your co-worker. You are married and Mormon. |
An Admirer, by Amanda Walker Zape's rating: Average member rating: Zape's time: 15 minutes Something loves you. |
Advent Door, by Andrew Plotkin Zape's rating: Average member rating: 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 Zape's rating: Average member rating: "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. |
Adventura, by Leighton Swannell Zape's rating: Average member rating: Completely user defined game, made to inspire creativity in player. Many mysteries will force the player to come to their own conclusion as to what actually happens and develop their own backstory. |
After the Accident, by Amanda Walker Zape's rating: Average member rating: Relationships can be disastrous. A puzzle-free text game based on the poem seed After the Accident by Sophia de Augustine, written for SeedComp 2023 in Inform 7. Cover and banner art made with Canva. Content... |
After-Words, by fireisnormal Zape's rating: Average member rating: Resolve problems. Open Gates. Free Skycity. Go home. A game where you explore a surreal floating city, in which all room descriptions, lines of dialogue, item descriptions and action text are a maximum of... |
Aisle, by Sam Barlow Zape's rating: Average member rating: "Late Thursday night. You've had a hard day and the last thing you need is this: shopping. Luckily, the place is pretty empty and you're progressing rapidly. On to the next aisle... Aisle started out as a... |
Alabaster, by John Cater, Rob Dubbin, Eric Eve, Elizabeth Heller, Jayzee, Kazuki Mishima, Sarah Morayati, Mark Musante, Emily Short, Adam Thornton, Ziv Wities Zape's rating: Average member rating: 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 Zape's rating: Average member rating: 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... |
The Algophilists' Penury, by Jon Stall Zape's rating: Average member rating: We were the Algophilists, obdurate in our longueur and waiting for our quietus in the tenebrous of our morbific abode; join us. |
Alice Falling, by Matthias Conrady Zape's rating: Average member rating: An adaptation of the beginning of Alice in Wonderland. Contemplate your little girl life while plummeting through the rabbit-hole. The association-filled writing of Caroll urged me to try an adaption. |
All Hands, by Natasha Ramoutar Zape's rating: Average member rating: The sea is calling you. Its voice is getting louder. ... |
All Hands Abandon Ship, by David Lee Zape's rating: Average member rating: In a race against time, can you escape before it's too late? ... |
All I Am Is This, by letifoxcat Zape's rating: Average member rating: Emotions are hard, and living is hard but necessary. I don't entirely know what this is, but I wrote this while trying to grapple with that. |
All or Nothing (1973), by Autumn Chen Zape's rating: Average member rating: A collection of anecdotes about a troubled Kickstarter production. ~7500 words. Made for the Goncharov Game Jam. |
All Roads, by Jon Ingold Zape's rating: Average member rating: "Wave a circle round him thrice, And close your eyes with holy dread For he on honey-dew hath fed And drunk the milk of paradise." [--blurb from Competition Aught-One] |
All the Troubles Come My Way, by Sam Dunnachie Zape's rating: Average member rating: or; Johnny Montana and His Missing Cowboy Hat ... |
Almost Lover (Jam Version), by Sanadi Zape's rating: Average member rating: You have just found your target in a bar. Break your heart over an old friend who has become a mission. A 500 words linearTwine story about duty and delivering the final death. Even if it hurts. Possible... |
Alone, by Paul Michael Winters Zape's rating: Average member rating: Just you and your car, alone on the open road. You haven't seen another car for weeks. You haven't spoken to another person in months. And if you want to stay alive, you'd better keep it that way. |
Amazing Quest, by Nick Montfort Zape's rating: Average member rating: at last, you now need to get yourself and your fleet back home. Decide as if it all depends on you, trust as if it all depends on the gods, and you will have an amazing quest... |
American Maniac, by MelonPro Zape's rating: Average member rating: You are Charlie. You haven't been invited to your colleague's Halloween Party. You also have a shotgun. |
And Then You Come to a House Not Unlike the Previous One, by B.J. Best Zape's rating: Average member rating: Title: Infinite Adventure Year: 1986 Genre: Adventure Summary: Wander through an apparently infinite number of spooky mansions, solving a basic puzzle in each one. ForgottenGames.com rating: ★ ★ ★ |
Andromeda Awakening - The Final Cut, by Marco Innocenti Zape's rating: Average member rating: The most important discovery in history. And then, the whole world goes crumbling down. Armed with but a computer and an expired railway ticket, how can one expect to save the day when the doomsday clock has... |
Andromeda Chained, by Aster Fialla Zape's rating: Average member rating: You stand on the rocks for an indeterminable amount of time. Waves roar, gulls cry overhead, and your arms are beginning to ache from being held above your head by the chain. There’s nothing to do but wait... |
Andromeda Dreaming, by Joey Jones Zape's rating: Average member rating: Aliss can control her dreams, but will this help her when she's stuck in a galaxy on the brink of destruction? Winner of the Andromeda Legacy competition 2012, Andromeda Dreaming is in the same setting as... |
The Angel Curse, by David Welbourn Zape's rating: Average member rating: Neither the girl in the wheelchair nor the angel pendant she wears are quite what they seem to be. Written for Speed-IF 19. |
Anolelona, by Caleb Wilson Zape's rating: Average member rating: Zape's time: 29 minutes Anolelona was written by Caleb Wilson for ShuffleComp 2024. The songs which inspired it are 'Barrett's Privateers,' by Stan Rogers, 'Slice,' by O. (and more specifically its video by Yevheniia Vynokurova),... |
Another Round, by PetricakeGames-IF Zape's rating: Average member rating: You play as Maddie, a woman in love with a woman named Agnes. Actually, she hates her. Actually, it's complicated. You definitely broke things off with her. And you don't regret it. At least once. Yes. At... |
Antony & Cleopatra: Case IV: The Murder of Marlon Brando, by Travis Moy Zape's rating: Average member rating: The year is 2021. Neo-America is prospering under the stern yet wise direction of President for Life, Gaius Julius Ceasar. 330 million souls live, love, and laugh, all working tirelessly for the glory of the... |
Aotearoa, by Matt Wigdahl Zape's rating: Average member rating: 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... |
The Apothecary's Assistant, by Allyson Gray Zape's rating: Average member rating: OPENING HOURS Monday: 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. Tuesday: 5 a.m. – 9 p.m. Wednesday: CLOSED Thursday: 2 a.m. – 10:10 a.m. Friday: 11 a.m. – 11 p.m. Saturday: 12:30 p.m. – 3:21 p.m. Sunday: 12 a.m. – 11:59... |
Arcadia: a Pastoral Tale, by Jonas Kyratzes Zape's rating: Average member rating: A text-based game without puzzles, challenges or wrong choices. There’s just the path that you take and the things that you see. Think of it as an afternoon stroll through an ancient landscape. You are a... |
The Archivist and the Revolution, by Autumn Chen Zape's rating: Average member rating: The world is ending, and you are still paying rent. Content warning: optional sexual content (non-explicit), illness, death, transphobia, homophobia |
The Argument, by Harvey Smith Zape's rating: Average member rating: |
Ariadne in Aeaea, by Víctor Ojuel Zape's rating: Average member rating: Isle of Aeaea, the eastern Aegean. 3,500 years ago. In the northern wastes, the Achaeans have a new and warlike chieftain. Palace after palace is falling to his armies. On the shores of Crete, the Minoan... |
Arid and Pale, by Michael R. Bacon Zape's rating: Average member rating: A short interactive example poem for the Interactive Poetry extension for Inform 7. Not intended to be appreciated as a game or poem. |
The Arkhill Darkness, by Jason Barrett Zape's rating: Average member rating: The town of Arkhill has been under a mysterious Darkness and strange beasts. You have been hired to dispense of the beasts and investigate the cause of the Darkness. With the help of the remaining townfolk... |
The Art of Fugue, by Victor Gijsbers, Jimmy Maher, Dorte Lassen, and Johan Zape's rating: Average member rating: 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... |
Arthur: The Quest for Excalibur, by Bob Bates Zape's rating: Average member rating: "Whoso pulleth out this sword of this stone, is rightwise king of England." In the days before Camelot, when magic and evil rule England, a sword sheathed in stone appears in a quiet churchyard. Engraved... |
Ascension of Limbs, by AKheon Zape's rating: Average member rating: You are an antique store proprietor trying to make ends meet. Use your wits, manage your resources, play the hand you are dealt. This game features a story with multiple endings, achievements as well as an... |
The Ascent of the Gothic Tower, by Ryan Veeder Zape's rating: Average member rating: A story of mild and non-debilitating obsession. |
ASCII and the Argonauts, by J. Robinson Wheeler Zape's rating: Average member rating: 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... |
The Ascot, by Duncan Bowsman Zape's rating: Average member rating: Anything might happen to you on the way to the convenience store. You might even run into a guy handing out cursed ascots that lead you to lost fortunes guarded by terrible monsters. Can you nab 100% of the... |
An Aside About Everything, by Sasha Zape's rating: Average member rating: A girl has gone missing and He has set out to find her. Join Him on an adventure through fantastical and strange worlds in an effort to find the one closest to Him. |
Assembly, by Ben Kirwin Zape's rating: Average member rating: Zape's time: 45 minutes 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. ... |
At King Arthur's Christmas Feast, by Travis Moy Zape's rating: Average member rating: One Christmas at Camelot in charged a strange fellow, a giant man all green, great axe in hand, and called out a challenge in the court of King Arthur: "Bequeath me one blow, behead me clean, and then, in... |
At Night, by Oscar Martinez Zape's rating: Average member rating: When bedtime comes, you never know what will happen in the course of the next few hours. Dreams can turn into nightmares, you may not distinguish dreams from reality ...Sounds can fool us. |
Atopoesis, by Stephen Lavelle Zape's rating: Average member rating: Seven nouns of eight, with-held unto us sufficed. |
Augmented Fourth, by Brian Uri! Zape's rating: Average member rating: Zape's time: 6 hours 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... |
Aunts and Butlers, by Robin Johnson Zape's rating: Average member rating: It's 1920, you're a minor aristocrat fallen on hard times, and your wretched Aunt Cedilla is on the warpath. A Wodehousean comedy of manners, manors, mysterious butlers and unfriendly poodles. |
Avon, by Jon Thackray and Jonathan Partington Zape's rating: Average member rating: Zape's time: 15 hours |
Awakening of the Tower (Roguelike RPG), by Negative Zape's rating: Average member rating: The Tower has awoken! Fight through an ever changing, randomly-generated Tower! Face many challenges in your quest to defeat the Dragon and conquer the Tower! Create your own character, buy weapons and... |
Azula and Zuko, by WouldntItBeNice Zape's rating: Average member rating: This is a contest entry for End Master's Fanfiction contest. This is an Avatar: the Last Airbender fanfiction that focuses on Azula's life and her relationship with Zuko. |
Babel, by Ian Finley Zape's rating: Average member rating: Zape's time: 3 hours 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... |
Babyface, by Mark Sample Zape's rating: Average member rating: We are haunted by the houses of our childhood. How unfamiliar they are, when we return. Yet you never forget, do you? You never really forget. A Southern Gothic horror story. Remember, of all the masks we... |
Back to the Future: Marty Quest, by George Gipe, Ryan North and Hulk Handsome Zape's rating: Average member rating: 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... |
Bad Beer, by Vivienne Dunstan Zape's rating: Average member rating: A tale of dodgy drinks, things that go bump in the night, and stuff from the past that just ain’t right Content warning: alcohol (the game is set in a British pub selling beer), some spooky stuff and death |
Badland Machine, by Sam Kabo Ashwell Zape's rating: Average member rating: In this tiny game set in the steampunk fantasy western genre, you play as a dew fairy—a dew fairy in leathers with a motorbike. You're tired and in an incredibly bad mood. You have a delivery to make in... |
Baggage, by Katherine Farmar Zape's rating: Average member rating: An exploration of stuckness, change, and the things we can’t let go. |
Balances, by Graham Nelson Zape's rating: Average member rating: "A homage to Infocom's Enchanter Trilogy, at the same time showing some of the things that Inform is capable of doing." [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue] |
Bali B&B, by Felicity Banks Zape's rating: Average member rating: Can you keep a bunch of tourists happy in Paradise? "Bali B&B" is a cosy choice-based tale of running a Bed & Breakfast in Bali, Indonesia. There is peril to humans and animals on Friday but your choices... |
Ballyhoo, by Jeff O'Neill Zape's rating: Average member rating: Spangleland! Sawdust and glitter, buffoons and cotton candy! It's a place where your wildest dreams come true! At least, that's what you think... until you get behind the scenes at the big top. Then you... |
Banana Apocalypse and the Rocket Pants of Destiny, by Emily Short Zape's rating: Average member rating: |
Barcarolle in Yellow, by Víctor Ojuel Zape's rating: Average member rating: Barcarolle in Yellow (1975, released in Italy as "Barcarolla in Giallo"), starring Eva Chantry. ... |
Barroom Brawl, by Mathbrush (as 'One-Eye Jack') Zape's rating: Average member rating: Barroom Brawl is inspired by Super Smash Brothers. Battle multiple NPC's in an all-out brawl! Use PUNCH, KICK, or direction-based smash moves to brawl your way to success! |
The Bat, by Chandler Groover Zape's rating: Average member rating: Zape's time: 3 hours Master Bryce is throwing a party. As his most faithful servant, that means it's your job to make the party run smoothly. But you only have two hands—and far too many duties. You'll have to manage requests... |
Beanstalk the and Jack, by David Welbourn Zape's rating: Average member rating: The story of "Jack and the Beanstalk" - but backwards! |
A Bear's Night Out, by David Dyte Zape's rating: Average member rating: "Tomorrow is the big Teddy Bear party, and you must definitely not let your owner forget about it..." [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue] |
Beat Witch, by Robert Patten Zape's rating: Average member rating: An interactive loneliness ... ... |
Beautiful Dreamer, by S. Woodson Zape's rating: Average member rating: "Outside, the chill wind wails and tears the leaves from their branches. Gusts of wind scour the muddy sidewalks; gusts of wind roar through the alleys between buildings. Before one gust can fade, another... |
A Beauty Cold and Austere, by Mike Spivey Zape's rating: Average member rating: 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.... |
Bedtime story, by Marius Müller Zape's rating: Average member rating: "Daddy, will you tell me a story?" asks your son, Danny. Your wife, Randa, started the story of Prince George and his quest to rescue a princess while you were away for six months. Now it's your turn to... |
Bee, by Emily Short Zape's rating: Average member rating: 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... |
Beet the Devil, by Carolyn VanEseltine Zape's rating: Average member rating: Your dog is gone. She must be brought. You have a beet (and some other vegetables). |
Being Andrew Plotkin, by J. Robinson Wheeler Zape's rating: Average member rating: "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,... |
Beneath Fenwick, by Pete Gardner Zape's rating: Average member rating: Fenwick is a serene, nineteenth-century township located deep within the wetland regions of western New England. Only a short drive from the storied academy known as Ealdian College, you have long been... |
Best Gopher Ever, by Arthur DiBianca Zape's rating: Average member rating: Help the unfortunate residents of Fairview! (Who are all animals, by the way.) A light puzzle game for all ages. |
Best of Three, by Emily Short Zape's rating: Average member rating: |
Beyond the Chiron Gate, by John Ayliff Zape's rating: Average member rating: Explore an endless universe filled with exotic planets, strange life forms, and ancient civilisations. Manage a crew of space explorers and upgrade their ship with new technology. Brave dangerous worlds to... |
Big Trouble in Little Dino Park, by Seth Paxton, Rachel Aubertin Zape's rating: Average member rating: Ever since cloning dinosaurs became the cheap, cool way to build a theme park there have been lots of them cropping up. Luckily, this one still had a position open for your summer job! Little Dino Park is a... |
Bigger Than You Think, by Andrew Plotkin Zape's rating: Average member rating: 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:... |
Bio, by David Linder Zape's rating: Average member rating: In this game, you play as a male live-in janitor for a scientific research facility in a Brazilian jungle. Tonight, the scientists are away at a convention and you're enjoying the peace and quiet.... |
Birding in Pope Lick Park, by Eric Lathrop Zape's rating: Average member rating: You woke up at 7:30am. It’s Saturday. You were hoping to sleep in more, but you peek out your window to see it’s sunny and nice outside. You feel fairly energetic, so you decide to go to your usual park... |
Biscuits and Ghosts, by Mad Hatter’s Daughter Zape's rating: Average member rating: An estranged lover meets an estranged lover, and together they solve a mystery that has been plaguing Blackwood for some time. The stunning conclusion to the Blackwood Chronicles! And while this story does... |
Black Knife Dungeon, by Arthur DiBianca Zape's rating: Average member rating: A miniature RPG. |
Black Marker, by Michael Kielstra Zape's rating: Average member rating: Hidden in the shadows, the Agency works for the safety of the citizens. If your goals or beliefs do not appear to align with those of the Agency, you are liable to find yourself in trouble. There are those... |
BLK MTN, by Laura Paul Zape's rating: Average member rating: A young man named Jackson drives through the southeastern United States in search of someone – or something – he calls “Bluebird” as he experiences visions of the historical past. As you decide who... |
The Blue Death, by Eric Forgeot Zape's rating: Average member rating: |
Blue Lacuna, by Aaron A. Reed Zape's rating: Average member rating: 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... |
The Blue Lettuce, by Caleb Wilson Zape's rating: Average member rating: You are a groundhog who lives in a wizard's magical garden. A text adventure suitable for children and beginners. Made for the Text Adventure Literacy Jam. |
The Blueprint, by Thaidaree Zape's rating: Average member rating: Proclaimed heretic, professor Archibald Foster is taken by the inquisition with proof of researching electricity. |
A boat ride., by Unexpected_Dreams Zape's rating: Average member rating: Embark on a short journey with a somewhat taciturn companion and discover how you came to arrive on the shores. A silly short, inspired by the silly ideas of some friends, based off a flash fiction I wrote... |
Bogeyman, by Elizabeth Smyth Zape's rating: Average member rating: Zape's time: 2 hours You can go home when you learn to be good. |
Boing!, by tumbolia Zape's rating: Average member rating: Do you want a surreal and mysterious text adventure game in which you type commands and silly things happen? >> YES Then this might be the game for you! Do you like games that start in subway stations? > YES... |
The Bones of Rosalinda, by Agnieszka Trzaska Zape's rating: Average member rating: ”Hey, you! Skeleton lady! Can you hear me? You’ve got to pull yourself together and run before the Necromancer turns you into one of his minions!” Rosalinda realised she wasn’t dreaming. She was in a... |
Boogle, by Buster Hudson Zape's rating: Average member rating: |
Book of Mormon Adventures, by Mathbrush Zape's rating: Average member rating: This is a collection of short Twine games for children that are based on stories in the Book of Mormon. These stories use images from the Gospel Art Kit:... |
The Boot-Scraper, by Caleb Wilson (as Lionel Schwob) Zape's rating: Average member rating: On the night of August 14th, 1799, eight days off St. Stellio, the sloop Meleagris was smashed apart by a storm. Most of the crew and passengers alike were crushed by fallen rigging, or drowned, or eaten by... |
the boy who died, alive, by vvvild Zape's rating: Average member rating: Poetry, Dynamic Fiction. The relationship between a child and their brother. An entry for Neo-Twiny Jam 2023. final word count: 394 |
Brain Guzzlers from Beyond!, by Steph Cherrywell Zape's rating: Average member rating: Zape's time: 3 hours 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... |
Breaker, by Mystic Warrior Zape's rating: Average member rating: Beneath the seas, hidden from the Ones Above, our society goes about our normal, routinely lives. I cannot help but feel bored with all that is going on, until I find the letter. A letter that sends me on a... |
Bright Brave Knight Knave, by Andrew Schultz Zape's rating: Average member rating: Friends, for ends, or mends (more). Sixth in my Prime Pro-Rhyme Row series, though it is fully independent of the others. Option to skip one room with an off-color name and bonus puzzle. |
Bring Me A Head!, by Chandler Groover Zape's rating: Average member rating: Better hope you can hack it. A Grand Guignol entry for ECTOCOMP 2016. |
BRITTLE, by ValorsMinion Zape's rating: Average member rating: When I hit 300, I stopped writing. The game knew it was done. A 300-word game made for Twiny Jam. |
Broken Legs, by Sarah Morayati Zape's rating: Average member rating: 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 Zape's rating: Average member rating: When the seventh day comes and it is time for you to return to the castle in the forest, your sisters cling to your sleeves. |
The Brutal Murder of Jenny Lee, by Daniel Gao Zape's rating: Average member rating: You are sent back in time to investigate a 17-year-old mystery. Who murdered Jenny Lee? |
The Bryant Collection, by Gregory Weir Zape's rating: Average member rating: The Bryant Collection is an interactive anthology: a collection of ’story worlds’ by Laura Bryant. They were found at a yard sale in an old strongbox. Five pieces of interactive fiction written by... |
Buck Rockford Heads West, by J. J. Guest Zape's rating: Average member rating: "Bored of his life in the East, Buck Rockford heads West to seek the meaning of man's existence." Buck Rockford Heads West is a short interactive Western. It was made in Ink for Neo-Twiny Jam with a final... |
Buggy, by Mathbrush Zape's rating: Average member rating: Zape's time: 10 minutes This game is buggy. It won't really end unless it crashes. Cover art modified from image by DJTMichel. |
Bureau of Strange Happenings, by Phil Riley Zape's rating: Average member rating: What secrets are concealed in the depths of a crumbling strip mall in the suburbs of Washington, D.C.? How is one supposed to open a desk drawer when the key is locked inside? Are there really such things as... |
Burial, by fisher Zape's rating: Average member rating: Burial is an esoteric text exploration made for ludum dare 28 Burial is based on the short story Dilitriel written by Aliceffekt. It’s themes surround digital existence and life after death. Story source... |
Burn the Koran and Die, by Poster Zape's rating: Average member rating: It is the one sacred cow remaining in American political life. You are a rebellious student at a typically oppressive PC college. What happens next? Whatever you do, don't burn the Koran, or you'll die. |
BYOD, by n-n Zape's rating: Average member rating: You are starting your IT internship. The details you got from the university are scarce: just the address and the date (today). |
BYOD [es], by n-n Zape's rating: Average member rating: Hoy empiezas tus prácticas de informática en una empresa. La compañía que te han asignado es McKenzie & Lloyds, un gigante del sector de la consultoría y los servicios profesionales (sea lo que sea... |
Byzantine Perspective, by Lea Albaugh Zape's rating: Average member rating: Your task is simple enough. Just nab the chalice. |
The Call of Innsmouth, by Tripper McCarthy Zape's rating: Average member rating: People warned me about being a private dick in Arkham, Massachusetts. Sure, I’d heard the stories of monsters, cults, and other bizarre happenings in this old New England town. My take? The world is scary... |
A Calling of Dogs, by Arabella Collins Zape's rating: Average member rating: You don't know where you are, or how you got here, but you do know you've been kidnapped. Trapped in a cage, running out of options. What will you do? |
Calliope, by Jason McIntosh Zape's rating: Average member rating: |
Candle flames in windless air, by Teaspoon Zape's rating: Average member rating: So you've spent the last fortnight hitchhiking around rugged bits of the Nevada desert, and while it's been fun and all, you'd rather like your time machine back now. ... |
Cape, by Bruno Dias Zape's rating: Average member rating: Cape is a superhero origin story for the cyberpunk dystopia we're all living in. |
Captain Cutter's Treasure, by Garry Francis Zape's rating: Average member rating: You wake up in the broom closet of The Red Anchor with a nasty bump on the back of your head. A note is pinned to the wall with a knife. It says, 'Return me treasure by sunset or the girl gets it. - Cutter'.... |
Captain Graybeard's Plunder, by Julian Mortimer Smith Zape's rating: Average member rating: A retired pirate captain cobbles together a ship and crew from the pages of classic works of literature. His goal: revenge! |
Captain Piedaterre's Blunders, by Wade Clarke Zape's rating: Average member rating: "You are Captain Piedaterre, proud rat, scourge of a good number of seas and collector of amazing things that people forget to nail down and don't seem to care about when they go missing." Captain... |
Captain Verdeterre's Plunder, by Ryan Veeder Zape's rating: Average member rating: You should carry the bag. I'm more of a delegator. |
Captivity, by Jim Aikin Zape's rating: Average member rating: Locked in a tower in a castle by an evil duke — how annoying. And you’re not even a princess! Duke Esteban is demanding an outrageous ransom of your well-born and well-meaning but cash-strapped parents,... |
Castle Adventure!, by Ben Chenoweth Zape's rating: Average member rating: Welcome to Castle Adventure! Written and directed by Ben Chenoweth (Copyright 2002 Grinnan Berrit Software). Adapted to Inform 7 by Ben Chenoweth, 2012. You have to rescue a princess of legendary beauty who... |
Castle of the Red Prince, by C.E.J. Pacian Zape's rating: Average member rating: Welcome to Amaranth, foreigner. The Red Prince haunts your dreams, you say? If you want to overthrow our tyrant, you’ll need to consider this whole blighted land at once. (Castle of the Red Prince is a... |
A Catalan Summer, by Neibucrion Zape's rating: Average member rating: It's the summer of 1920. Things are going well in Catalonia for the wealthy Vidal family : the Great War just ended that allowed them to greatly improve their profits. But these are modern times full of... |
The Cave, by Neil Aitken Zape's rating: Average member rating: You wake up in the depths of a dark cave system and must find your way out. Contend with strange creatures. Lost treasures. Forgotten runes. Ancient magic. Faltering light sources. Fear. Loneliness.... |
The Cavity of Time, by Sam Kabo Ashwell Zape's rating: Average member rating: An Undum-fueled CYOA through a surrealistic landscape of intertextuality and logorrhoea, starring Stiffy Makane in his usual pornographic, antiheroic groove. |
Centipede, by J. Robinson Wheeler Zape's rating: Average member rating: |
Cheeseshop, by David Welbourn Zape's rating: Average member rating: An interactive re-creation of Monty Python’s Cheeseshop sketch, where you try to buy some cheese. |
Chemistry and Physics, by Caelyn Sandel (as Colin Sandel) and Carolyn VanEseltine Zape's rating: Average member rating: |
Chinese Family Dinner Moment, by Kastel Zape's rating: Average member rating: Content Warnings: Sexual harassment, racism, transphobia. You haven't even had the chance to tell your parents you've gone vegan... Made for the Single Choice Jam. (Photo credit: Cera) |
Chlorophyll, by Steph Cherrywell Zape's rating: Average member rating: |
Choice of Broadsides, by Adam Strong-Morse, Heather Albano, and Dan Fabulich Zape's rating: Average member rating: A swashbuckling naval adventure, in the spirit of C. S. Forester's Hornblower or Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin books, with a dash of Jane Austen. Choice of Broadsides is a 60,000 word interactive novel,... |
Choice of Magics, by Kevin Gold Zape's rating: Average member rating: Your magic can change the world, but at what cost? Battle dragons, skyships, and evil Inquisitors, as you protect your homeland, conquer it, or destroy it forever. Choice of Magics is a 550,000-word... |
Choice of Robots, by Kevin Gold Zape's rating: Average member rating: The robots you design will change the world! Will you show them the true meaning of love, or conquer Alaska with your robot army? "Choice of Robots" is an epic 300,000-word interactive sci-fi novel by Kevin... |
Choice of the Dragon, by Dan Fabulich and Adam Strong-Morse Zape's rating: Average member rating: Play as a fire-breathing dragon who sleeps on gold and kidnaps princesses for fun! Choice of the Dragon is a free text-based game of multiple choice. Dominate the local kingdom, loot and pillage, and inspire... |
Choose your own end to the viking world, by Declan Taggart Zape's rating: Average member rating: You are a seer. The god Odin is your latest customer. Based on the choices you make about the events of his life, you will decide the way the world ends. Can you avoid Ragnarok? Does Odin deserve to? ---... |
Chorus, by Skarn Zape's rating: Average member rating: Chorus is a non-profit organization with the purpose of improving everyday life in our city. We encourage cooperation between all, regardless of age, gender, mass, volume, morphism, mode of locomotion,... |
Chuk and the Arena, by Agnieszka Trzaska Zape's rating: Average member rating: Fight in the Grand Galactic Tournament to get back your planet's stolen moon! |
Cicatrix, by Amanda Walker Average member rating: Sometimes masks become scars. This is a poem made with Inform code. You could paste this code into Inform 7 and play it*, but the code is the story and the output is incidental and not very interesting to... |
Citizen Makane, by The Reverend Zape's rating: Average member rating: In the beginning, you thought it was a simple nightmare. But then it just didn't stop. ... |
climbing 208 feet up the ruin wall, by Porpentine Zape's rating: Average member rating: -OVER 207 FEET -MORE THAN 1,000,000 PROCEDURALLY GENERATED VINES -REALISTIC WEATHER SYSTEM -LOOKS LIKE WE GOT A “CLIMB”-INAL INVESTIGATION |
Closure, by Sarah Willson Zape's rating: Average member rating: Kira hasn't been the same since the breakup. Now she's done something really reckless, and she's asking for your help to figure out what went wrong with TJ. What else can you say? She's your best friend. |
CODENAME OBSCURA, by Mika Kujala Zape's rating: Average member rating: Zape's time: 2 hours and 3 minutes It's the year 1987. As an undercover operative Sinus for the T.U.R.T.L.E organization, (Tactical Unit for Rapid and Thorough Lethal Espionage), you have recently been assigned to a task in Italy. A few weeks... |
Codex Sadistica: A Heavy-Metal Minigame, by grave snail games Zape's rating: Average member rating: Your band has come to play at the greatest metal venue around: the Blood Furnace’s INFURNAL STAGE. There is only one problem: the act before you is—*shudder*—playing glam metal! And worse yet,... |
Cogito, Ergo Sum, by silverpinesoftware Zape's rating: Average member rating: Written by Jonathan Hays in Evergreen.ink this story is designed to be played on a mobile/phone device. Created as an entry into the the 2023 Single Choice Jam. |
Color the Truth, by mathbrush Zape's rating: Average member rating: Rosalita Morales is dead, and you have to figure out who did it. The four people closest to her had the motive and the means: her partner, her secretary, her ex-husband, and her sister. Re-live their... |
Coloratura, by Lynnea Glasser Zape's rating: Average member rating: Stolen away by apathetic Blind Ones, your only desire is to return to your Cellarium and the Song of the Universe. They should understand. You shall make them to understand. |
Colossal Cave Adventure, by William Crowther and Donald Woods Zape's rating: Average member rating: Colossal Cave Adventure (also known as Adventure or ADVENT) is a text-based adventure game, released in 1976 by developer Will Crowther for the PDP-10 mainframe computer. It was expanded upon in 1977 by Don... |
The Column, by Passerine Zape's rating: Average member rating: Zape's time: 14 minutes Perform the ritual or suffer the curse. |
Common Ground, by Stephen Granade Zape's rating: Average member rating: |
compass, by Elizabeth Smyth Zape's rating: Average member rating: I started working on Compass in 2013 and finished around four years later. Despite this, it is very small and takes only a few minutes to experience. It has an unusual interactive structure and abstract,... |
Computerfriend, by Kit Riemer Zape's rating: Average member rating: The year is 1999. The place is Godfield, Louisiana: the tech capital of the world, where the sky bleeds acid and the mud boils in the bayou. It’s time for your state-mandated digital therapy. |
ConfigurationUploader, by Autumn Chen Zape's rating: Average member rating: ConfigurationUploader is a program for uploading configurations. |
Congee, by Becci Zape's rating: Average member rating: A short story about food, belonging, and seeking home. Text your friend, call your mum, and search for congee on this rainy night. |
Containment, by Kevin Mintmier Zape's rating: Average member rating: In your six months as a night-shift security guard for the RPV-1 reactor station, you've taken several naps on the job without consequence. Apparently your luck just ran out. |
Copper Canyon, by Tony Pisculli Zape's rating: Average member rating: After disaster strikes a small mining town in the Old West, it falls to a handful of brave teens to reclaim their home from bandits. [A 10K-word branching narrative with fifteen endings and no puzzles] |
The Copyright of Silence, by Ola Hansson Zape's rating: Average member rating: A chamber play in a board game. Short play-through time, but victory will require plenty of replaying. You are visiting John Cage, the composer. Use stealth to navigate his apartment as well as his... |
Corrupter of Dreams, by Robert Patten Zape's rating: Average member rating: You are a nightmare in paradise. |
The Corsham Witch Trial, by JC Blair Zape's rating: Average member rating: Headphones blasting in your ears and the bitter taste of stale coffee clinging to your tongue you leaf through the heavy wedge of fraying files on your desk. The rest of your floor long since having... |
Counterfeit Monkey, by Emily Short Zape's rating: Average member rating: 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... |
The Covid Assignment, by Northwind Zape's rating: Average member rating: It is the end of January 2020. You are a network scientist who is asked to advise on possible responses to Covid-19, a new infectious disease that is just emerging. At this early stage much is till... |
Cows vs. Aliens!, by BerkaZerka Zape's rating: Average member rating: Farmer Brown is on vacation and it's up to Fernando El Fantastico the Bull (that's you!) to save his Herd when Aliens come to harvest them! (by playing draw poker against a horde of moronic alien invaders!) |
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 JohnsonZape's rating: Average member rating: Zape's time: 40 hours A tribute to Anchorhead. |
Craverly Heights, by Ryan Veeder Zape's rating: Average member rating: Take on the role of Doctor Langridge, whose patient, Janine, is very sick. |
Creatures of the Snow, by Bill Ingersoll Zape's rating: Average member rating: It is the distant future, and Earth has been ravaged by an ancient war with an alien foe known as the Cryndy. The War of Extermination, as it was called, left the world scarred by flames and littered with... |
Creatures Such As We, by Lynnea Glasser Zape's rating: Average member rating: A dating sim about how humanity connects through art, even out in the vastness of space. |
The Crescent City at the Edge of Disaster, by Emily Short Zape's rating: Average member rating: A Speed-IF featuring New Orleans, Emeril, and armed hamsters. |
Critical Breach, by Grey Zape's rating: Average member rating: A science fiction/horror game, set in an underground laboratory. Something is breaking free... This is my first game, it should be pretty short and easy. |
Crocodracula: The Beginning, by Ryan Veeder and Harrison Gerard Zape's rating: Average member rating: The first Taleframe game based on the 90s children's horror soap opera. |
The Crystal Palace, by Peter Orme Zape's rating: Average member rating: Your decision to spend a quiet weekend in the cabin that belonged to your second cousin (now gone missing) was not so strange. The strange things only started afterwards, when you started poking around the... |
The Cube in the Cavern, by Andrew Schultz Zape's rating: Average member rating: A round world is scientifically ridiculous, of course, but a cube floating in air? You just might find a great scientific secret. Don't be too square to give it a try! |
The Cube, by Eleanor Gang and Simon Smart Zape's rating: Average member rating: A light-hearted journey through space and relative dimensions. |
Curse of the Bat's Tomb, by fsi Zape's rating: Average member rating: Short (498 words) walk in the tomb in the form of a Twine game made for Neo-Twiny Jam. Twee source code is included for perusal. |
Curse of the Garden Isle, by Ryan Veeder Zape's rating: Average member rating: Let's both take a deep breath. |
Curses, by Graham Nelson Zape's rating: Average member rating: "As "Curses" opens, you're hunting about in the attic of your family home, looking for a tatty old map of Paris (you're going on holiday tomorrow) and generally trying to avoid all the packing. Aunt Jemima... |
A D R I F T, by Pinkunz Zape's rating: Average member rating: They always go on about the stars, stunning vistas spanning the heavens. But now you’re here, and you see nothing but the sun in a black void. You don’t know how to turn away, let alone get home, and all... |
Danny Dipstick, by Garry Francis Zape's rating: Average member rating: You need to find a girlfriend, but all the girls think you're a dork. Try to overcome your dorkiness to pick up a girl. |
Danse Nocturne, by Joey Jones Zape's rating: Average member rating: Danse Nocturne is interactive blank verse, based on one of the legends of Charlemagne. It is played by dancing in different ways and has over a dozen different endings and understands over 1200 different... |
Dark and Deep, by Amanda Walker Zape's rating: Average member rating: Secrets, sins, and bones that will not rest. Content warnings: Violence, death, murder, sexual content |
A Dark and Stormy Entry, by Emily Short Zape's rating: Average member rating: |
Dark Carnival, by Marshal Tenner Winter Zape's rating: Average member rating: There have been unexplained murders and disappearances at a seemingly innocent amusement area just north of Providence, Rhode Island. Due to your strange investigations in the past, you are the one called in... |
Dark Communion, by alyshkalia Zape's rating: Average member rating: Two teenage girls. One abandoned church. ??? survivors. |
Dark Nights, by Chris113022 Zape's rating: Average member rating: The Question is back at it again in this sequel to Hard Night! Gotham City was home to a myriad of vigilantes, and, in your personal opinion, the Huntress was the most interesting of them. So when you hear... |
Darkiss! Il bacio del vampiro - Capitolo 1: il risveglio, by Marco Vallarino Zape's rating: Average member rating: The vampire Martin Voigt was slain and supposedly made harmless for good... supposedly! Now he comes back to life to retaliate on those who tried to get rid of him. But first he has to escape from his own... |
Darkiss! Il bacio del vampiro - Capitolo 2: viaggio all'inferno, by Marco Vallarino Zape's rating: Average member rating: The vampire Martin Voigt goes to infernal realm of Ovranilla, a wasteland full of dangers and populated by wicked monsters, where he has to meet the priestesses of Valmar to obtain their help for his war... |
Darkiss! Wrath of the Vampire - Chapter 1: the Awakening, by Marco Vallarino Zape's rating: Average member rating: You're the nightmare from which people can't wake. Dead twice. One by the hand of your maker, the second by the fiend who drove a stake through your heart while you were sleeping defenceless in your coffin.... |
Darkiss! Wrath of the Vampire - Chapter 2: Journey to Hell, by Marco Vallarino Zape's rating: Average member rating: Ovranilla: a gloomy land full of traps. And wicked monsters. Carmilla, Millarca and Mircalla: the priestesses of the god Valmar, waiting for you in the devil's hole. Welcome back, Martin Voigt. Will hell be... |
Das Spiel, zuvor bekannt als Verborgener Nazi-Modus, by Victor Gijsbers Zape's rating: Average member rating: German translation of The Game Formerly Known as Hidden Nazi Mode by Victor Gijsbers |
Dash Slapney, Patrol Leader, by Andrew Schultz Zape's rating: Average member rating: You woke up late for the Klondike Derby you stand no chance of winning...unless you and your ragtag, undersized patrol can pull out a win with luck. And a bunch of items lying around your room. |
The Daughter, by GioBorrows Zape's rating: Average member rating: In the far future everybody is queer, immortal, childless and looks like hot 30 years old. The first daughter born in thousands of years is found killed under mysterious circumstances. As her native... |
A Day for Fresh Sushi, by Emily Short Zape's rating: Average member rating: No time for fantasy. Must feed fish. |
A day in the life of a writer, by Gurpegui Zape's rating: Average member rating: A small interactive fiction about the day of a writer, their routine, their work, their fears, and anxieties... |
Day of the Dead--One Soul's All Souls Procession, by Shadowdrake27 Zape's rating: Average member rating: Matthew Mercia had never believed in the Day of the Dead the way his mother did. He didn't get excited to wake up on November second to celebrate the lives of relatives who had passed--until he was one of... |
De Baron, by Victor Gijsbers Zape's rating: Average member rating: An evil nobleman, a kidnapped daughter and a father who wants to rescue her at any cost--that is not the way life works. Something much darker, something much more human, lies underneath. Een kwaadaardige... |
The Dead Account, by Naomi Norbez Zape's rating: Average member rating: Per Hivekind's 12.3.14 Update, you are required to shut the account of dead users. As it is your first day on this job, you must only close one: Mike Stanvinchi's. How will those closest to him take it? Play... |
Dead Like Ants, by C.E.J. Pacian Zape's rating: Average member rating: 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... |
Deadline, by Marc Blank Zape's rating: Average member rating: Twelve hours to solve the mystery. One false move, and the killer strikes again. It's been called "part of the latest craze in home computing (TIME magazine), an "amazing feat of programming" (THE NEW YORK... |
Deadline Enchanter, by Alan DeNiro Zape's rating: Average member rating: |
A Death in Hyperspace, by Stewart C Baker, Phoebe Barton, James Beamon, Kate Heartfield, Isabel J Kim, Sara Messenger, Naca Rat, Natalia Theodoridou, M. Darusha Wehm, Merc Fenn Wolfmoor Zape's rating: Average member rating: As an embodied ship Intelligence and fugitive former warship, you’ve faced many challenges. But when your captain dies suspiciously halfway through a hyperspace transit, you know you're in trouble. Not... |
Death on the Stormrider, by Daniel M. Stelzer Zape's rating: Average member rating: You'd had such high hopes, starting out. And now you're limping home, tail between your legs, as all your plans for a new life crashed and burned. You barely had enough money to arrange an airship home, an... |
Deelzebub, by Morgan Elrod-Erickson, Skyler Grandel, Jan Kim Zape's rating: Average member rating: Reginald is your average former soap-sniffer: thirty-two, dumped, and unemployed. You are a voice inside his head. Summon demons, bake cookies, and decide the fate of the Hidden Hills Sanctuary. |
Delightful Wallpaper, by Andrew Plotkin ('Edgar O. Weyrd') Zape's rating: Average member rating: |
Deliquescence, by Not-Only But-Also Riley Zape's rating: Average member rating: Your close friend is melting. She doesn't have much time left. How will you be there for her final moments? ... |
Delphina's House, by Alice Grove Zape's rating: Average member rating: A girl must say goodbye to her home. But there's time for one last adventure.... |
Delve!, by BerkaZerka Zape's rating: Average member rating: Slay Monsters and Loot the Bodies! 100 levels of Classic Dungeon-Crawl Hack & Slash! Can you survive all the way to the end? A CYS "Flash Game" Featuring - Weapon Upgrades, Magic Items, NPCs, and more! |
Demon Hatching, by Mxelm Zape's rating: Average member rating: "...a short game converted to Ink for the Single Choice Jam. It was originally published as an interactive snippet on tumblr, and is a side-story connected to a larger WIP" |
Desolation, by Earth Traveler Zape's rating: Average member rating: You barely escaped your pursuers as you ran from the mansion. Now you must survive a vast, trackless desert with no food or water, and escape the grasp of a demonic cult... Written as a sequel to "Two braids... |
Detective Clean, by Stephen Lavelle Zape's rating: Average member rating: |
Detective Osiris, by Adam Burt Zape's rating: Average member rating: Death. Conception. Genesis. Mystery. ... |
The devil tree, by A.I. Wulf Zape's rating: Average member rating: This is just a peek into a land's wet streets and lives. It's the story of a author and his urges and responsibilities. It's the story of his conflicted inspection of the psyche of a land. Don't expect much... |
Dial C for Cupcakes, by Ryan Veeder Zape's rating: Average member rating: 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") Zape's rating: Average member rating: It's exactly what it sounds like. ... |
Diddlebucker!, by J. Michael Zape's rating: Average member rating: Who's the best and brightest Gamer of 'em all? Find out by joining the 27th Annual All-Night Diddlebucker Run! You'll compete against hundreds of other teams in the world's most popular scavenger hunt! Find... |
Dig My Grave, by Ryan Veeder Zape's rating: Average member rating: For reasons which remain obscure, it is your job to dig a grave. Written for the Apollo 18+20 tribute album project. |
Dimensions Guardians: The Typewriter, by Jackson The Bear Zape's rating: Average member rating: After a string of reality-warping disturbances, the Dimensions Council has sent you, a Dimensions Guardian, to figure out the cause and, if possible, return with it. |
Dinner Bell, by Jenni Polodna Zape's rating: Average member rating: You are the involuntary and very hungry test subject of a semi-anthropomorphized dog in a labcoat who wants you to find all sixteen food items mentioned in They Might Be Giants' song Dinner Bell, which have... |
Ditch Day Drifter, by Michael J. Roberts Zape's rating: Average member rating: You're an undergraduate at Caltech, and you wake up to find it's Ditch Day, the traditional event when seniors leave the campus for the day, leaving behind puzzles for the underclassmen to solve in order to... |
Dithyrambic Bastards, by Sam Kabo Ashwell Zape's rating: Average member rating: |
Djinn on the Rocks, by Joshua Wilson Zape's rating: Average member rating: James Merl III is a thrice-cursed pain in your magically imprisoned butt. What are you going to do about it? ... |
The Djinni Chronicles, by J. D. Berry Zape's rating: Average member rating: |
A Dodecapedic Box, by zeno pillan Zape's rating: Average member rating: The story is dreamlike and a bit abstract. it has a bit of exploration and some small puzzle. Not much since the 500 words limit! |
Dogface Finds a Stick, by InkThinks Zape's rating: Average member rating: This game follows Dogface and the pursuit of a stick. It is an initial attempt at game creation. |
Domestic Elementalism, by fireisnormal Zape's rating: Average member rating: The plants that grow out of your bedroom walls are associated with Earth. The fairy lights strung across your kitchen are associated with Fire. Change an object's element, and the object will turn into... |
Don't Mind My Apocalypse Head, by Bruno Dias Zape's rating: Average member rating: A social anxiety body horror short story about surviving a dinner party when you are just a little bit possessed by an entity that wants to bring about the end of the universe. Features nine official endings... |
dontPush, by Filamena Young Zape's rating: Average member rating: This is my first twine game. It is a birth experience. Here’s a few things that are true. this is only a chain of events that are possible. Not for certain. Not even necessarily probable. This is not a... |
Doppeljobs, by Lei Zape's rating: Average member rating: You are a young doppelganger, fresh out of School of Humanity, finally realizing your life-long dream to own a human-centric business. You offer a unique service: imitation on demand, living through... |
Down, the Serpent and the Sun, by Chandler Groover Zape's rating: Average member rating: 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. |
Dr Ego and the egg of Man-Toomba, by Wesley Werner (as 'Special Agent') Zape's rating: Average member rating: You are Dr Ego, purveyor of artifacts, seeker of treasure, and adventurous archeologist. You explore the jungles of Papua New Guinea with hopes to find a mysterious artifact - the golden egg of Man-Toomba. |
Dr Ludwig and the Devil, by SV Linwood Zape's rating: Average member rating: Zape's time: 2 hours and 10 minutes 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. ... |
Dragon Flies Like Labradorite, by Troy Jones III Zape's rating: Average member rating: "You're in a right proper mess now. That blasted dragonfly has gone and disappeared, and what's more, you're down to your last farthing..." This game was released as an entrant in the Thanksgiving Speed-IF... |
A Dream Of Silence: Act 3, by Abigail Corfman Zape's rating: Average member rating: There's a monster made of dreams. It has its teeth in your companions. It builds nightmares out of their worst memories and drinks their pain. One of your companions has a very bad worst memory. But you can... |
A Dream of Silence: Acts 1 and 2, by Abigail Corfman Zape's rating: Average member rating: A monster has its teeth in your companions. It builds nightmares out of their worst memories and drinks their pain. One of your companions has a particularly bad worst memory. But you can interfere. You are... |
The Dream-Trap of Zzar, by S. John Ross Zape's rating: Average member rating: Trapped in a dream-state by a mad scientist bent on galactic domination, you must force yourself awake in the only way known to science. A silly, slightly adult-themed space opera adventure written for... |
The Dreamhold, by Andrew Plotkin Zape's rating: Average member rating: The Dreamhold is interactive fiction — a classic text adventure. No graphics! No point-and-click! You type your commands, and read what happens next. The Dreamhold is designed for people who have never... |
Dreamtruder, by Mystic Warrior Zape's rating: Average member rating: "The delicate balance between the dream world and the real world is disrupted. You intruded and messed up the dream of an innocent. By talking about this with an Unknowing, the possibility of the dreamstage... |
Droll Toll Troll, by N.C. Hunter Hayden Zape's rating: Average member rating: Quims! [NOTE: I am American. To us, 'quim' is meaningless; a nonsense word.] |
Dual Transform, by Andrew Plotkin Zape's rating: Average member rating: This game takes place in a single room — but not always the same one. The room contains just one item, but again, there's more to it than that. Experiment and enjoy. |
Duck Diary, by Mathbrush Zape's rating: Average member rating: Your new rubber friend will help you get through this. |
Dulle Griet and the Antenorian Icebox, by Sam Kabo Ashwell Zape's rating: Average member rating: Storing a war-engine inside Hell was a new tactic; you'll be able to penetrate deeper than ever before and still have a chance of getting out again. The job isn't without its risks, but at least you know the... |
The Dying of the Light, by Amanda Walker Zape's rating: Average member rating: Do not go gentle. Rage, rage. Content Warnings: This game is about dementia and violent psychosis. |
Dynamite Powers vs. the Ray of Night!, by Mike Carletta Zape's rating: Average member rating: Dynamite Powers and Rosalind have escaped the Chinese water torture on Lord Infamy's dirigible. With the help of their new friend, Melcor, they led the revolt of the singing monkeys of Melodion and toppled... |
Dysfluent, by Allyson Gray Zape's rating: Average member rating: Sometimes talking is easier said than done. |
Earth and Sky, by Paul O'Brian Zape's rating: Average member rating: It's been almost a month since your parents disappeared. One Tuesday, they just didn't come home, and there's been no sign of them since. For the University and the rest of the town, the mystery is beginning... |
Earth and Sky 2: Another Earth, Another Sky, by Paul O'Brian Zape's rating: Average member rating: In this sequel game, you play as Austin Colborn, a young man who wears an earthsuit made by your scientist parents. It gives you great strength and invulnerability. You and your sister Emily, who wears the... |
Earth And Sky 3: Luminous Horizon, by Paul O'Brian Zape's rating: Average member rating: |
Easter Egg Hunt 2020, by David Welbourn Zape's rating: Average member rating: In this light-hearted scavenger hunt, it's your task to find twelve colorful Easter eggs hidden inside other works of interactive fiction! But who are the eggs for, and what do they really want? Note: The... |
Eat Me, by Chandler Groover Zape's rating: Average member rating: In this castle, you'll eat or be eaten. May contain dairy, carnage, puzzles, nuts. |
Eat the Eldritch, by Olaf Nowacki Zape's rating: Average member rating: Everybody's got a hungry something. ... |
Edithe Zilonis, by Mad Hatter’s Daughter Zape's rating: Average member rating: An undertaker meets a dead woman who is more alive than most of the living. A (mostly) illustrated story involving a very mysterious murder, ghostly romance and spirits possessing --- the dead? Let's not... |
The Egg and the Newbie, by Robert DeFord Zape's rating: Average member rating: In this first book in The Heartha Saga, an intrepid Newbie has to take over the management of a small egg farm and make it successful. Other books in the series will continue the saga. While each book can be... |
EGYPTIAN WALKING SIMULATOR, by Jason Dyer Zape's rating: Average member rating: Using Greg Hassett's 1978 game King Tut's Tomb as a base, an art experiment of sort is laid upon the same locations and items. |
The Eidolon's Escape, by Mark Clarke Zape's rating: Average member rating: For untold years you have been trapped, a spirit without a body, incarcerated by an evil mage. Finally your chance has come to free yourself and escape. Run wild in a body-swapping, race against time to... |
The eight-headed giant, by zeno pillan Zape's rating: Average member rating: The eight-headed giant is a 499 words text adventure written by Zeno Pillan with Inform 7 in June 2024 for the Neo-Twiny Jam 2024. |
Eldrum - Untold, by Adam Gerthel, Christopher Entzenberg Zape's rating: Average member rating: Untold – an immersive text-based RPG adventure, combining old school CYOA (Choose Your Own Adventure) features with modern twists. FEATURES - Nostalgic table-top RPG style - Many secrets to discover -... |
Electric word, "life", by Lance Nathan Zape's rating: Average member rating: It's 1999, and your roommate has talked you into hosting a Halloween party. It's pretty much going to be all his friends, but you've invited a few of your own who may or may not make it. Here's hoping for... |
The Eleusinian Miseries, by Mike Russo Zape's rating: Average member rating: Well, isn't this a lark! After solid years of going after old Alky to let you in on that Mysteries wheeze of his, at last tonight's the night. He's dragged you from Athens to Eleusis for the to-do, but no... |
Elsegar I: Arrival, by Silas Bryson Zape's rating: Average member rating: After experimenting on a strange object, you are transported to a strange new world. Now you must find a way to get back home. Talk to the locals, fight a monster using a crowbar, listen to the radio, find... |
The Elysium Enigma, by Eric Eve Zape's rating: Average member rating: 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... |
Emily, by MuffiTuffiWuffi Zape's rating: Average member rating: Made for Neo-Twiney Jam 2023. 499 words. |
En Garde, by Jack Welch Zape's rating: Average member rating: A man who has lost his mind. A mouse who has lost his realm. A dog who has lost his family. And the scientist who will save the world. |
Enchanter, by Marc Blank, Dave Lebling Zape's rating: Average member rating: In Enchanter, the first of a spellbinding series in the tradition of Zork, you are a novice magician whom Fate has chosen to do singlehanded combat with a dark and fierce power. But worldly weapons will... |
Endless Sands, by Hamish McIntyre Zape's rating: Average member rating: Exiled to the desert for a crime they didn’t commit, a vampire must find shelter before sunrise. |
Endless, Nameless, by Adam Cadre Zape's rating: Average member rating: 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 Endling Archive, by Kazuki Mishima Zape's rating: Average member rating: Browse the Endling Archive to uncover the purpose of its creation. |
Enigma, by Simon Deimel Zape's rating: Average member rating: Eyes can see, and a mind can think. Insanity is just one step away. You are in a room. That's where you are, and you know exactly what is going on. But the truth is hard to take. The game file includes hints... |
The Enigma of the Old Manor House, by Daniel M. Stelzer Zape's rating: Average member rating: Everyone's heard stories about the old mansion on the hill. Decades ago, they say, old Doctor Black lived up there all alone. Until something happened—nobody knows what—and he vanished without a trace.... |
Enlightenment, by Taro Ogawa Zape's rating: Average member rating: "The intrepid Adventurer has escaped the caverns. Nought remains to block a successful escape but this troll here. Hmmm. A one-room adventure. The author recommends this for people who grew up on Zork II and... |
Entangled, by Dark Star Zape's rating: Average member rating: Caught up in a time-travel experiment gone wrong, the actions you perform in the past will ripple forward in time. Can you find your way back without unraveling the universe? A small town stirs in your wake. |
Enveloping Darkness, by John Muhlhauser, Helen Pluta, and Othniel Aryee Zape's rating: Average member rating: Your brother is dead. Well, that’s what everyone tells you. He was taken by orcs when you were eleven, and since then, you’ve been living on your own. |
Epitaph, by Max Kreminski Zape's rating: Average member rating: idle game about existential risks and the death of civilizations |
Equal-librium, by Ima Zape's rating: Average member rating: Every system, whether the economy or the ecosystem, has an equilibrium. When we keep extracting the resources, exploiting human moral bottom-lines, consuming carelessly, and ignoring small but essential part... |
Erstwhile, by Aster (formerly Maddie) Fialla, Marijke Perry Zape's rating: Average member rating: The neighborhood Thanksgiving party was going pretty well until you keeled over and died. Now you're a ghost, and you're going to figure out who killed you. But you can't exactly interview people or search... |
The Erudition Chamber, by Daniel Freas Zape's rating: Average member rating: |
Escapade!, by Juhana Leinonen Zape's rating: Average member rating: An entry in the 2008 One Room Game Competition. You play the bumbling sidekick of the heroic Captain McBrawn; while trying to carry out a task he's set you, you are captured by the Screaming Communists and... |
Escape From Santaland, by Jason Ermer Zape's rating: Average member rating: Ugh. Christmastime at the mall. The last place you want to be, during the worst time of year to be there. |
Escape from the Crazy Place, by J. J. Guest, Loz Etheridge and friends Zape's rating: Average member rating: You've been locked in a padded cell for no obvious reason with only a deranged hamburger-eating clown for company. The cell doesn't even have a door. So begins an adventure that will take you to many places... |
Escape your psychosis, by Georg Buchrucker Zape's rating: Average member rating: Exit the loop game ... |
Ether, by MathBrush Zape's rating: Average member rating: "For the first time in centuries, something is different. Your tentacles tingle as you float to the east past icebergs and whirlwinds. You skirt a pocket of hot air, bounce through a field of ice, and... |
An Evening at the Ransom Woodingdean Museum House, by Ryan Veeder Zape's rating: Average member rating: Karen Chambers gives tours in a restored Victorian home. |
Everybody Dies, by Jim Munroe Zape's rating: Average member rating: Zape's time: 40 minutes 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.... |
Ex Nihilo, by Juhana Leinonen Zape's rating: Average member rating: In the beginning there was nothing. From nothing light and darkness were born. |
extraordinary_fandoms.exe, by Storysinger Presents Zape's rating: Average member rating: extraordinary_fandoms.exe tells the story of Pinecone, their friendships on Discordant, & how those friendships helped them through difficult times. |
Eyewear Cleaner 2077, by Naomi Norbez Zape's rating: Average member rating: A response game to Cyberpunk 2077. Play as a glasses cleaner as they go on with their daily life, & spark within them feelings of rebellion. (The demo was released as part of Spring Thing 2021. The full... |
Faery: Swapped, by mathbrush Zape's rating: Average member rating: When you discover that your family has been invaded by faeries, there is only one thing to do: take names, and kick...well, actually, just take names. Cover art by Xing. |
Fail-Safe, by Jon Ingold Zape's rating: Average member rating: |
Fairest, by Amanda Walker Zape's rating: Average member rating: “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... |
Faithful Companion, by Matt Weiner Zape's rating: Average member rating: The "Play On-line" link should now go to version 2! |
Fake News, by Mike Sousa Zape's rating: Average member rating: I had enough fake news clouding my head even before remembering the words of Zobra the Seer, that today I would encounter great peril, end up in the news, and discover the fate of my great-grandparents. Get... |
Fall To Hopelessness, by Mystic Warrior Zape's rating: Average member rating: A quest doomed from the start. A man with an unwavering yet unusual moral compass. A daughter in the darkest depths of the night sky. It isn't truly over until all hope is lost. 'Good and evil, heroes and... |
Fallout Shelter, by Marshal Tenner Winter (as Histroy Gloam) Zape's rating: Average member rating: "Screw the world!" you said to yourself as you slammed shut the hatch door. You leave behind a tenure at the local college, an estranged ex-wife, and nothing but contempt for a town that basically shunned... |
Familiar Problems, by Daniel Stelzer, Ada Stelzer, Sarah Stelzer Zape's rating: Average member rating: Zape's time: 1 hour You swivel your eye around, and take in your surroundings. A workshop. The place where your creator imbued you with life. Surrounded by the detritus of dozens of failed experiments. And your creator nowhere... |
Fate, by Victor Gijsbers Zape's rating: Average member rating: You are nine months pregnant, and the contractions have already begun. Trapped in a castle with more enemies than friends, and Queen in name but not in influence, you fear for the future of your child. But... |
Ferryman's Gate, by Daniel Maycock Zape's rating: Average member rating: You punctuation-obsessed uncle has died, leaving your family his house, but leaving you, a mere kid, with his unfinished business. As you follow the clues left by your uncle, you quickly discover that while... |
Fifteen Minutes, by Ade McT Zape's rating: Average member rating: You're in a tight spot. You have fifteen minutes before the Principal expels you from the cosy world of academia and into the cold harsh reality of the real world. You really should do something about it. A... |
Figaro, by Victor Gijsbers Zape's rating: Average member rating: A short example game created to accompany the essay "Co-Authorship and Community". It gives the player a kind of freedom that is not seen in any other interactive fiction: the freedom to determine what the... |
Fight Forever, by Pako Zape's rating: Average member rating: Fighting is all that matters now. |
fin de sickleburg, by Caleb Wilson Zape's rating: Average member rating: It is nearly dawn, and at last you've come back to your chamber. Written for Gothic Novel Jam 2018 (https://itch.io/jam/gothic-novel-jam). |
Final Assault of the Big Green Cliches, by Sam Kabo Ashwell Zape's rating: Average member rating: In this short work, it's last stand time. You're pinned down with your companions, Waptrap, Mindbraid, and Aur in a bad position behind a fallen pillar. The infidels are well within range, but you can't see... |
Final Call, by Emily Stewart, Zoe Danieli Zape's rating: Average member rating: A thriller-like choose-your-own-adventure twine game where you are a crafty con man whose luck has just run out and one of your schemes has gone too far catching the wrong attention. Your choices hold the... |
Final Exam, by Jack Whitham Zape's rating: Average member rating: Final Exam takes place in the near future after an AI revolution has led to the establishment of a new sort of government. You are seeking a job within this government: your performance in the “final... |
A Final Grind, by nrsm_ha Zape's rating: Average member rating: Text-based RPG where your character becomes weaker over time. A game about frustration, regret, and slaying goblins. Use of a calculator is to be considered cheating. |
Final Selection, by Sam Gordon Zape's rating: Average member rating: |
The Finders Commission, by Deborah Sherwood Zape's rating: Average member rating: Episode One: Pharaohs Tombs ... |
Finding Light, by Abigail Jazwiec Zape's rating: Average member rating: You remember fire and smoke when the raiders invaded the town, chasing you until everything went dark, but now you are alone, and Aurel is missing. You have to rescue him, no matter the cost! It's a perilous... |
Fine Felines, by Felicity Banks Zape's rating: Average member rating: You are a twenty-four-year-old who just inherited $10,000. Can you run a successful cat-breeding business? --------------- There is a spoiler-filled Cheat Sheet option at the very beginning of the game for... |
Fingertips: All Alone, by Joey Jones Zape's rating: Average member rating: "So I'm all alone, and I've got a decision to make." (A one move game in the Apollo 18+20: The IF Tribute Album) |
Fingertips: Everything Is Catching On Fire, by Emery Joyce Zape's rating: Average member rating: This may be just one of the job hazards that you have to put up with in your line of work, but still, you're not really a big fan of apartments being set on fire. (Unless you're doing it, which is only when... |
Fingertips: Fingertips (Reprise), by Melvin Rangasamy Zape's rating: Average member rating: A horrifying choice with glorious text-based graphics. A one move judgement for Apollo 18+20: The IF Tribute Album |
Fingertips: Hey Now, Everybody, by Melvin Rangasamy Zape's rating: Average member rating: Some days a person just has to have a McGuffin fetched, and it's integral that it isn't fetched by Nobody. Today is one such day. A one move game for Apollo 18+20: The IF Tribute Album. |
Fingertips: I don't understand you, by Matt Weiner Zape's rating: Average member rating: Type what you want at the command prompt! |
Fingertips: I Found a New Friend, by Adri Zape's rating: Average member rating: You've had a long day. All you want to do is climb into bed. But why is your pillow quivering like that? Written for the Apollo 18+20 tribute album project, and loosely inspired by the They Might Be Giants... |
Fingertips: I Hear the Wind Blow, by Jacqueline A. Lott Zape's rating: Average member rating: |
Fingertips: I Heard a Sound, by Kevin Jackson-Mead Zape's rating: Average member rating: |
Fingertips: I Walk Along Darkened Corridors, by Andrew Schultz Zape's rating: Average member rating: There are 1001 doors in the darkened corridors. Which is right? |
Fingertips: I'm Having a Heart Attack, by Andrew Schultz Zape's rating: Average member rating: It's your time to make a statement. Make sure your nerves don't fail before your heart does. |
Fingertips: Mysterious Whispers, by Peter Nepstad Zape's rating: Average member rating: |
Fingertips: Please Pass the Milk Please, by Adri Zape's rating: Average member rating: Your brother Sam is sitting across from you. He seems to be waiting for something. Written for the Apollo 18+20 tribute album project, and loosely inspired by the They Might Be Giants track of the same name. |
Fingertips: Something Grabbed Ahold of My Hand, by Melvin Rangasamy Zape's rating: Average member rating: You have been imprisoned but your crime can't have been that bad, as they're giving you a chance to escape- if you're smart enough! A one move parole board for Apollo 18+20: The IF Tribute Album. |
Fingertips: The Day That Love Came To Play, by S. John Ross Zape's rating: Average member rating: You're a lounge singer. Time to knock 'em dead. (Written for the Apollo 18+20 tribute album project) |
Fingertips: What's That Blue Thing Doing Here?, by Ruth Alfasso Zape's rating: Average member rating: Each step of this one-move game takes you into an entirely different, very short, story. Often, there's a blue thing. What's it doing here? |
Fingertips: Who's Knockin' On The Wall?, by Melvin Rangasamy Zape's rating: Average member rating: You live in a vibrant international community, in all senses of the word 'vibrant'. But who is that knocking on the wall? A completely randomised logic puzzle for Apollo 18+20: The IF Tribute Album. |
Fingertips: Who's That Standing Out The Window?, by Melvin Rangasamy Zape's rating: Average member rating: It's a question, a puzzle, a mystery. Who is that standing out the window? A strictly one move game for the Apollo 18+20 The IF Tribute Album. |
The Fire Tower, by Jacqueline A. Lott Zape's rating: Average member rating: |
Firebird, by Bonnie Montgomery Zape's rating: Average member rating: "Firebird is based on the Old Russian folk tales that inspired the Stravinsky piece of the same name. You are Prince Ivan, and have been charged by your father, the tsar, to find the Firebird that has been... |
First Things First, by J. Robinson Wheeler Zape's rating: Average member rating: Zape's time: 9 hours 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... |
Fish & Dagger, by grave snail games Zape's rating: Average member rating: You are a secret agent. It’s the end of the world. You are cursed. You came here to rescue your partner, but the mission has taken a turn for the weird. Parody spy thriller. Best played on a computer or... |
Fish!, by John Molloy, Pete Kemp, Phil South, Rob Steggles Zape's rating: Average member rating: Zape's time: 14 hours One nibble and you're hooked. JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT IT WAS SAFE TO GET OUT OF THE WATER: The tide is turning in the teeming metropolis of Fishworld. The oceans and seas are boiling off into space. The Seven... |
Fix Your Mother's Printer, by Geoffrey Golden Zape's rating: Average member rating: Laugh, Cry, Troubleshoot ... |
Flattened London, by Carter X Gwertzman Zape's rating: Average member rating: Unravel the secrets of the third dimension and search for treasure in a wholly bizarre setting — a crossover between the worlds of Fallen London and Flatland. Keep your wits about you in this sprawling... |
Flight of the Hummingbird, by Michael Martin Zape's rating: Average member rating: Dr. Sinister is at it again! The Concordance of Powered Response isn't entirely clear on what it is he's planning, but it's big. This is clearly a task for one of the world's mightiest champions!... |
Floatpoint, by Emily Short Zape's rating: Average member rating: Zape's time: 1 hour and 30 minutes 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 Zape's rating: Average member rating: Someone's been bopping the field mice on the head, and only Good Fairy, Senior Detective can find out who. A parser-driven noir adventure based on the interactive fiction of Ryan Veeder. |
For a Change, by Dan Schmidt Zape's rating: Average member rating: "The sun has gone. It must be brought. You have a rock." [--blurb from Competition '99] |
For a Place by the Putrid Sea, by Arno von Borries Zape's rating: Average member rating: At some point, going back would have been inevitable anyway. And why should I not have been allowed a bit of rest? After all, no one could say I hadn't tried to run. But when you're running, you need to stop... |
Foreign Soil, by Olaf Nowacki Zape's rating: Average member rating: How does it feel to be the only one on a lonely planet? Foreign Soil is part sci-fi, part surreal story about - well, about what, really? Probably you can judge that better than I can. If it were a film, it... |
Forever and Ever, by PetricakeGames-IF Zape's rating: Average member rating: A father will do anything to keep his son safe. |
forever, an echo, by wilderlingdev Zape's rating: Average member rating: two beings out of time, again and again. an entry for neo twiny jam. slightly inspired by destiny 2. if you know, you know. word count: 500 cover image credit: thomas bormans |
Forsaken Denizen, by C.E.J. Pacian Average member rating: Zape's time: 1 hour and 50 minutes THIS GAME CONTAINS SCENES OF IMPLICIT VIOLENCE AND GORE. * * * (A text-only survival horror.) |
Founder's Mercy, by Thomas Insel Zape's rating: Average member rating: You awake. You are lonely, so lonely. It was a thousand days ago today. All alone these thousand days. Your parents were the last. No, your father was the last. He held on for nearly a hundred days longer.... |
Four-In-One Sampler I, by Various Zape's rating: Average member rating: The Four-In-One sampler contains introductory portions of Infidel, Planetfall, and Zork I, together with a session transcript from The Witness, and a scene found in no other Infocom game: Marc Blank's... |
free bird., by Passerine Zape's rating: Average member rating: Zape's time: 30 minutes A minimalist hopepunk avian escape game written for SeedComp! 2023. Seeds used: Feathered Fury by Amanda Walker Room; Closed Door by Charm Cochran This story includes mild descriptions of animal neglect and... |
Fridgetopia, by Mathbrush Zape's rating: Average member rating: Every text is possible on a fridge. Made for the Tiny Utopia Jam. Cover art made with CSS. |
Fugue, by Emily Short Zape's rating: Average member rating: Published by Up Right Down, in response to the following plot prompt: THE PLOT: In a bistro in Paris a young woman (A) tells her three girlfriends (B, C, and D) about the affair she had with an American... |
Future Threads, by Xavid Zape's rating: Average member rating: You see it. Today is the day they will come. Their ship will crash, but the resulting explosion will trouble them not at all. They will emerge, wrapped in shadows and smoke, from the wreckage. Their senses... |
Galatea, by Emily Short Zape's rating: Average member rating: Emily Short's description: A conversation with a work of art. "47. Galatea. White Thasos marble. Non-commissioned work by the late Pygmalion of Cyprus. (The artist has since committed suicide.) Originally... |
The Game Formerly Known as Hidden Nazi Mode, by Victor Gijsbers Zape's rating: Average member rating: 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... |
The Game of Worlds TOURNAMENT!, by Ade McT Zape's rating: Average member rating: It is a long million, this. The Septem Tower, held in the Manifold by the Tagides Rings, grinds on and on - its grey walls pressing close. The only thing to look forward to is the long, cold, endless Waste.... |
The Game That Never Ends, by Earth Traveler Zape's rating: Average member rating: Welcome back my friends, it’s The Game That Never Ends! Or does it? Run through a gauntlet of puzzle rooms and see if you can escape... |
GameCeption, by Ruo Zape's rating: Average member rating: Who is the player? ... |
The Garbage of the Future, by AM Ruf Zape's rating: Average member rating: On a dark and ominous night, two workers drive to the lake to do a job. It's a dirty and difficult job, but somebody has to do it. It's probably best not to think too much about it, or about the strange... |
Gardening for Beginners, by Juhana Leinonen Zape's rating: Average member rating: When the snow melts it's time to make that garden of yours look better than ever. An entry to the 2008 Spring Speed IF. |
Gestures Towards Divinity, by Charm Cochran Zape's rating: Average member rating: Francis Bacon (1909-1992) was a British painter, infamous for his use of brutal imagery and distortions of the human face and body. Well-known for both his violent subject matter and cutting wit, he is... |
Ghost Mountain, by Michael Cox Zape's rating: Average member rating: A short & eerie text adventure for the Commodore 64. Dare you approach Ghost Mountain? Grapple with debilitating dread in this slice of old-school interactive fiction. Made with PunyInform, a library for... |
Ghosts Within, by Kyriakos Athanasopoulos Zape's rating: Average member rating: The smell of damp moss fills the air. Wet grass and dirt surround you while you are lying face down on the cold forest floor. Your clothes are dirty, wet, and slightly torn in places. Your head's left side... |
The Gift of What You Notice More, by Xavid and Zan Zape's rating: Average member rating: If you're gonna get your heart broke, you'd better do it just right... ... |
Glass, by Emily Short Zape's rating: Average member rating: 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 Golden Heist, by George Lockett and Rob Thorman Zape's rating: Average member rating: The domus aurea. The Golden House. Nero built his crowning marvel, the greatest folly of his reign, on the strength of your father's genius. And then he cast him aside. It's time to get your own back. And,... |
Good Bones: A Haunted Housewarming, by Leon Lin Zape's rating: Average member rating: In this haunted house you'll run the gamut of danger from A to Z... |
The Gostak, by Carl Muckenhoupt Zape's rating: Average member rating: "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 Zape's rating: Average member rating: 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... |
Grandma Bethlinda's Remarkable Egg, by Arthur DiBianca Zape's rating: Average member rating: How do you break out of handcuffs when all you've got is an egg? |
Grandma Bethlinda's Variety Box, by Arthur DiBianca Zape's rating: Average member rating: It's the latest model, and it would really like to play with you. |
Grandpa's Ranch, by Kenneth Pedersen Zape's rating: Average member rating: Grandpa's Ranch is a two-word parser game for beginners and kids. By default, a tutorial mode is enabled but can be disabled by typing TUTORIAL OFF. If you are an experienced parser player, I recommend... |
Grooverland, by Mathbrush Zape's rating: Average member rating: "Magic comes with a price. But on your birthday, all your expenses are paid. Welcome to Grooverland." Grooverland is a large parser game that takes over two hours to complete. It is based on the works of... |
Grubbyville, by Andrew Schultz Zape's rating: Average member rating: In this game, you play as a male high school student who wants to be valedictorian. (Your Pop is even more keen on the idea.) Unfortunately, Harley Drotz got into honors Ceramics for his fine art elective... |
Grue, by Charles Mangin Zape's rating: Average member rating: It is pitch black. You are a grue. Can you catch your next meal, or will you succumb to starvation and worse? |
Guilded Youth, by Jim Munroe Zape's rating: Average member rating: 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 Zape's rating: Average member rating: 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... |
Hall of Heads, by Dan Efran, 'Becca Stallings Zape's rating: Average member rating: |
Halloween Dance, by MathBrush Zape's rating: Average member rating: It's Halloween Night at the highschool gym Your costume's ready, you got a trim It might be time to make some friends But we'll see how the story ends. La Petite Mort entry in ECTOCOMP 2015, with a quick... |
Hana Feels, by Gavin Inglis Zape's rating: Average member rating: Zape's time: 31 minutes Something is bothering Hana. Can you work out what it is? Take the part of four important people in her life and guide their conversations. After each scene, peek at Hana's journal and find out how she felt... |
Hand Me Down, by Brett Witty Zape's rating: Average member rating: Ruby Walker takes a hesitant bus ride to the hospital where her father has spent the last nine months. But he has not called her there to discuss his condition. With James, her supportive partner by her... |
Hand of God, by Dana Freitas Zape's rating: Average member rating: Your love for your family is the only thing that keeps you going in your white collar drudgery. Suddenly, the robots revolt, led by a religious fanatic believing a corrupted form of a dead belief system. |
Happyland, by Rob Fitzel Zape's rating: Average member rating: A theme park executive dies on a rollercoaster. Was it an accident? Was it foul play? Grab your crime fighting kit and gather your wits to investigate why all is not happy in Happyland. |
Hard Night, by Chris113022 Zape's rating: Average member rating: Just a regular night. In this game, you play as the Question, Hub City's faceless protector. One night, what appears to be a normal drug bust goes south fast, and you find yourself with only two hours to... |
Harmonic Time-Bind Ritual Symphony, by Ben Kidwell and Maevele Straw Zape's rating: Average member rating: Zape's time: 8 hours A musician's manic episode binds fiction and reality into a joyful union. |
Haunted House, by Pedro Fernández Zape's rating: Average member rating: Haunted House is a remake of a 1979 game made by Device Oriented Games for the TRS-80 computer. Written for the 2011 Indigo speed-comp, it features an original plot over the classic game set-up. Its final,... |
Heading East, by Hugo Labrande (as Alex Davies) Zape's rating: Average member rating: An entry in ShuffleComp: Disc 2. Inspired by "Vacant Night Sky" by Mecca Normal. |
Headless, Hapless, by Geoff Moore Zape's rating: Average member rating: It's happened again. You've had a great night riding around, freaking everyone out with your whole headless horseman thing, and you're about to set off for home when you realise you've lost your head. Well,... |
Hebe, by Marina Diagourta Zape's rating: Average member rating: Your anniversary celebration takes a dark turn when the Titan Kronos strikes Mount Olympus, threatening the very existence of the Olympian gods! Embark on a journey through ancient Greece, where you'll solve... |
Help! I Can't Find My Glasses!, by Lacey Green Zape's rating: Average member rating: (To be updated) ... |
Help! My Vacuum Cleaner Is Broken, by Admiral Jota Zape's rating: Average member rating: |
Her Majesty's Trolley Problem, by Buster Hudson Zape's rating: Average member rating: 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... |
Her Pound of Flesh, by Liz England Zape's rating: Average member rating: Body horror choose-your-own-adventure game about heartache. About 30 minutes of play time, with multiple endings. |
Hercules!, by Leo Weinreb Zape's rating: Average member rating: The man. The myth. The soon-to-be legend. Your cousin has tasked you with twelve impossible Labors, but nothing is impossible for the great hero HERCULES! …so long as you remembered to bring your inhaler... |
Heroes!, by Bellamy Briks Zape's rating: Average member rating: You are given the reins of 3 magical young adults. You could lead them to glory or to their doom...it’s all up to you. This is life in Eltheria! What will people say when you’re gone? |
High Jinnks, by M. Nite Chamberlain Zape's rating: Average member rating: You're a jinni whose only talent is petty magic tricks. And now you're looking for a way home, accompanied by possibly the most infuriating human to have walked this earth, and trying to avoid getting... |
Hildy, by J. Michael Zape's rating: Average member rating: Zape's time: 6 hours You are Hildy, a twenty-year-old apprentice enchantress who is seriously considering a change of vocation. And who can blame you? The Guild Masters don't understand you, the other apprentices think you're a... |
Hoist Sail for the Heliopause and Home, by Andrew Plotkin Zape's rating: Average member rating: A far-future story of discovery. |
Hollywood Visionary, by Aaron A. Reed Zape's rating: Average member rating: Make the movie of your dreams amid the glamor and romance of 1950s Hollywood! "Hollywood Visionary" is a 150,000-word interactive novel by Aaron A. Reed, where your choices control the story. It's entirely... |
HOLY ROBOT EMPIRE, by Caleb Wilson (as Ralph Gide) Zape's rating: Average member rating: You are going to find the Robopope and then kiss its papal ring, or your name isn’t Morgen Santamore. |
Homecoming, by Carolyn VanEseltine Zape's rating: Average member rating: "Homecoming" is a short, twisted comedy about a newly awakened AI. |
Honk!, by Alex Harby Zape's rating: Average member rating: A Fair Game ... |
The Horrible Pyramid, by Ryan Veeder Zape's rating: Average member rating: Something weird is going on in this pyramid. |
The House on Highfield Lane, by Andy Joel Zape's rating: Average member rating: The house at the top of Highfield Lane has always scared Mandy, though she could never say why exactly. Perhaps today is the day she should confront that fear! This is in the style of a classic parser-based... |
A House Without Walls, by Dylan Kinnett Zape's rating: Average member rating: A story, written in the present tense, about self-mutilation. “A House Without Walls” is an allusion to the Orpheus myth. Two young lovers enter a psychological hell of their own making and attempt to... |
How it was then and how it is now, by Pseudavid Zape's rating: Average member rating: Who would be asked to travel to the center of an apocalypse? Two smart people walking to the center of many disasters, including the disaster they made for themselves. |
How The Elephant's Child Who Walked By Himself Got His Wings, by Peter Eastman Zape's rating: Average member rating: This fantasia on Kipling's "Just So Stories" takes you back to the High and Far-Off Times to learn how all things came to be what they are today. Warning: Contains bad poetry. |
How the Little Match Girl Got Her Colt Paterson Revolver, and Taught a Virtue to a Goblin, by Ryan Veeder Zape's rating: Average member rating: Written for Day 13 of #EnigMarch 2023. |
How the Little Match Girl Met the Queen of Vampires, by Ryan Veeder Zape's rating: Average member rating: Written for Day 18 of #EnigMarch 2022. |
How the monsters appeared in the Wasteland, by V Dobranov Zape's rating: Average member rating: “Moog, a new run! Quit fiddling with your irons and charge the batteries!” A printout of the waybill flutters down next to the big magnet I’m lying under. Releasing the wrench, which immediately sticks... |
how to fly a kite / cómo volar una cometa, by rubereaglenest Zape's rating: Average member rating: Zape's time: 10 minutes An interactive tale |
How to Win at Rock Paper Scissors, by Brian Kwak Zape's rating: Average member rating: The disgrace and humiliation of last year's defeat is behind you. This time, with the help of the gods, you'll win this competition for sure. |
howling dogs, by Porpentine Zape's rating: Average member rating: death cube sim | galactic survey | visionatrix | facet machine | power gardens | women | fascination two significant endings |
Hunger Daemon, by Sean M. Shore Zape's rating: Average member rating: 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. |
I Contain Multitudes, by Wonaglot Zape's rating: Average member rating: 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... |
I See Leaf People, by balt77 Zape's rating: Average member rating: Short linear narration by a casual observer of leaf people. 300 words. |
I Too, Drink Alone, by Bruhstin Zape's rating: Average member rating: I Too, Drink Alone is an interactive poem made in Ink for the Single Choice Jam. Note: This game contains music and sfx. Assets: "Woodclick" by Samulis under CC0 License."True Love" by Sergey... |
i've been drinking again, by yuveim Zape's rating: Average member rating: i've been drinking again a 500 word conversation for the neo-twiny jam this story contains audio elements. audio will autoplay after clicking listen. CONTENT WARNINGS: strong language, themes of alcoholism... |
Ice House of Horrors, by Sean M. Shore Zape's rating: Average member rating: In this very short horror story, you play as an injured walleye, lured and caught by monsters who throw you onto a pile of corpses. Your options are extremely limited. You can't breathe. And it's so cold... |
If I Wasn't Shy, by Joey Jones Zape's rating: Average member rating: "I kinda just sit at the checkout, and the place isn't even all that busy. So why'd you want to play a game about my life? I mean, it's not terrible but it would be so much more if I wasn't shy." (Part of... |
IF Tutorial, by Cooper McHatton (German translation by Marco Bakera) Zape's rating: Average member rating: The german version of the introduction into IF gameplay from the playfic.com website. The basic commands and possibilities of interaction with IT games are described interactively. |
If You Had One Shot, by Wade Clarke, Victor Gijsbers, Hanon Ondricek, Brian Rushton Zape's rating: Average member rating: What if you had only one shot? Made for the One Choice Jam by Wade Clarke, Victor Gijsbers, Hanon Ondricek and Brian Rushton. A brief parser game with a single choice. Take your time and read carefully:... |
IFDB Spelunking 2, by Sam Kabo Ashwell Zape's rating: Average member rating: A series of old and obscure parser games, munged together into a loosely-connected pile which I then snark about. |
Ill Wind, by Marshal Tenner Winter Zape's rating: Average member rating: Your friend and fellow private dick, Jack Sullivan, has telegrammed you saying he's onto something big while investigating the Lanzetti murder and desperately needs your help. So here you are, two days... |
Illuminismo Iniziato, by Michael J. Coyne Zape's rating: Average member rating: Lovingly handcrafted in Inform6, this overripe sequel to Risorgimento Represso is full of cheese, gunpowder, chemistry and explosions (well, only a little chemistry). Includes automap, sounds and graphical... |
The Impossible Bottle, by Linus Åkesson Zape's rating: Average member rating: Zape's time: 3 hours 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 Zape's rating: Average member rating: Zape's time: 1 hour and 30 minutes 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 Memory, by Jacqueline A. Lott Zape's rating: Average member rating: Written for the Indigo New Language Speed-IF |
In Search of Velocitas fictus, by Jacqueline A. Lott Zape's rating: Average member rating: |
In The Details, by M.A. Shannon Zape's rating: Average member rating: Tonight's your big night, Mx. Soon-To-Be Superstar and nothing will stand in your way. You've had everything planned out for the last year leading up to now, and with all the big names coming to tonight's... |
In the Service of Mrs. Claus, by Mathbrush Zape's rating: Average member rating: Let me tell you the true secret of Christmas: Santa Claus died centuries ago. You see, in ancient times, as the Gods began to die, Santa Claus married a goddess. She was worshiped as Bast in Egypt, as... |
Indigo, by Emily Short Zape's rating: Average member rating: "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... |
Indistinguishable, by MathBrush (as Prismatik) Zape's rating: Average member rating: |
Infinite Space Battle Simulator, by Autumn Chen Zape's rating: Average member rating: A game for the neo-twiny jam, exactly as the title describes. Approximately 300-400 words of text, not including code. Cover/background image source: NASA/ESA/Wikimedia Commons Content Warnings violence,... |
Inside the Facility, by Arthur DiBianca Zape's rating: Average member rating: Your friend Mike thinks no one can infiltrate THE FACILITY, but you're going to prove him wrong. A light puzzle game. In the author's opinion, it's totally family-friendly. (If you're playing the Browser... |
Into The Lion's Mouth, by Metalflower Zape's rating: Average member rating: The Serengeti, a 30,000 square kilometre Savannah wilderness in Tanzania, Eastern Africa. It's not your natural habitat. Your jeep, a square box with a messed up engine perched dead centre in that wilderness... |
Inventory, by Joey Fu Zape's rating: Average member rating: You're trapped in a dungeon with an inventory full of stuff. Use what you've got to escape... if you can. Made for Twiny Jam. |
Investigative Journalism: A Welcome to Night Vale Fan Game, by Astrid Dalmady Zape's rating: Average member rating: In Investigative Journalism, you play as the newest intern at Night Vale Community Radio and you’re tasked with hunting down The News that just escaped. |
The Invisible Argonaut, by Jacqueline A. Lott Zape's rating: Average member rating: |
Invisible Parties, by Sam Kabo Ashwell (as Psychopup) Zape's rating: Average member rating: Zape's time: 40 minutes You are a walker of the ways between the worlds. It is not an arrangement conducive to straightforward relationships. The Three Rebeccas have created a tangle, a temporary artifice woven from parts of many... |
The Island of Doctor Wooby, by Ryan Veeder Zape's rating: Average member rating: Explore an island populated by tiny felt dinosaurs. |
Ivanna Hitchu III: Where the Sun Don’t Shine, by Filamena Young Zape's rating: Average member rating: |
Jay Schilling's Edge of Chaos, by Robb Sherwin, Mike Sousa Zape's rating: Average member rating: There was an aye-aye behind the bar, staring at me horribly. Or maybe its face just froze that way. I was waiting for my client at ten at night in a dusty, dirty town in the middle of nowhere. Clouds out... |
Jetbike Gang, by C.E.J. Pacian Zape's rating: Average member rating: You're a member of a jetbike gang. Tiny Twine game for the Twiny Jam. Exactly 300 words. |
Jigsaw, by Graham Nelson Zape's rating: Average member rating: New Year's Eve, 1999, a quarter to midnight and where else to be but Century Park! Fireworks cascade across the sky, your stomach rumbles uneasily, music and lasers howl across the parkland... Not exactly... |
Journey to Ultimate Fightdown!, by Havilah "mwahahavilah" McGinnis Average member rating: Right in the middle of the final climactic showdown of Journey to Ultimate Fightdown!, the connection suddenly goes out, stranding the characters in the black. This unexpected break gives the player a chance... |
JUDAS, by vileidol Zape's rating: Average member rating: don't report me to the vatican im scared of the popemobile a rambling reflection on judas, not really about judas. made for the neo-twiny game jam and the anti-romance jam. 499 words tw: blasphemyand... |
June 1998, Sydney, by Kastel Zape's rating: Average member rating: (Cover Photo: Christopher Burns) Your family is moving in, whether you like it or not. Year 1998. 499 words. A double entry for Anti-Romance Jam 2023 and Neo-Twiny Jam. |
Junior Arithmancer, by Mike Spivey Zape's rating: Average member rating: Zape's time: 3 hours A one-to-many-room puzzler. |
Ka, by Dan Efran Zape's rating: Average member rating: For an Egyptian mummy's soul - or "Ka" - death is but the first step on a puzzling and perilous journey. The second step? Getting out of all those coffins.... |
Kaboom, by anonymous, artwork by Vera Pohl Zape's rating: Average member rating: Translated from Russian ... |
Kaged, by Ian Finley Zape's rating: Average member rating: ""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... |
Keepsake, by Savaric Zape's rating: Average member rating: 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. |
Kel Versus the Kitchen, by Tabitha / alyshkalia Zape's rating: Average member rating: Help your chaotic family make dinner... without losing your cool. A tiny social roguelike made for the 2024 Neo-Twiny jam. Four possible endings, ~490 words. |
Kerkerkruip, by Victor Gijsbers Zape's rating: Average member rating: Kerkerkruip is a short-form roguelike in the interactive fiction medium, featuring meaningful tactical and strategic depth, innovative game play, zero grinding, and a sword & sorcery setting that does not... |
Kidney Kwest, by Eric Zinda, and Luka Marceta Zape's rating: Average member rating: Auditions for the play are tomorrow but you've been left behind...without a costume. Oh, and you're having a bit of trouble with your kidneys. You're going to need a little magic to take great care of your... |
Killing Machine Loves Slime Prince, by C.E.J. Pacian Zape's rating: Average member rating: A biomechanical killing machine stalks a strange world. The slime she loves is dying. And the one responsible is out there somewhere. |
KING OF XANADU, by MACHINES UNDERNEATH Zape's rating: Average member rating: And what a lovely place. ... |
The Knot, by Richard Goodness writing as The water Supply writing as Gevelle Formicore, Tarquin Segundo, and Willershin Rill Zape's rating: Average member rating: What do a spaceship under attack, a lost tomb, and an alchemist's laboratory have in common? Absolutely nothing! The three games in The Knot have nothing to do with each other. There is no metapuzzle. The... |
Kobold Crawl, by Aaron Steed Zape's rating: Average member rating: A multiple choice text roguelike where you play a kobold solving a labyrinth. Tone: Terry Pratchett does Fighting Fantasy. Simple dungeon generation - effectively a straight line of rooms but described as... |
Krakatoa Tuna Melt, by David Welbourn Zape's rating: Average member rating: An interactive cookin' disaster. Written far too slowly for SpeedIF 10-9. Twelve locations. |
La Nageuse Écarlate, by Julien Zamor Zape's rating: Average member rating: Embarquez à bord de la Nageuse Écarlate, fière navire portant pavillon pirate. Combattez en pleine mer, collectez des indices et débarquez dans les ports pour subtiliser les trésors de l'Orient. Jeu... |
Labyrinth, by Brandon Smith Zape's rating: Average member rating: Labyrinth is a game about finding a way out. CW: Suicide |
The Labyrinthine Library of Xleksixnrewix, by Daniel Stelzer, Ada Stelzer, and Sarah Stelzer Zape's rating: Average member rating: A Reverse Dungeon Crawl |
Lady Thalia and the Seraskier Sapphires, by Emery Joyce and N. Cormier Zape's rating: Average member rating: Navigate fraught social situations by day and pull off heists by night as Lady Thalia, the not-actually-aristocratic thief bent on making a mockery of British high society. |
Laid Off from the Synesthesia Factory, by Katherine Morayati Zape's rating: Average member rating: 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... |
LAKE Adventure, by B.J. Best Zape's rating: Average member rating: ═════════════════════════════ ... |
The Land Down Under, by The Marino Family Zape's rating: Average member rating: Through a glass in the floor of the Tangerine House, Lin has marveled at the perfect miniature world of The Land Down Under. But when her two foster siblings go missing, Lin must pursue them into this world... |
The Land of Breakfast and Lunch, by Daniel Talsky Zape's rating: Average member rating: A diorama of made-up memories. The Land of Breakfast and Lunch is like a walk through a half-remembered childhood place that mixes up vaguely pleasant memories with half-remembered stories read long ago.... |
lark-mirror, by vileidol Zape's rating: Average member rating: burning. burning. burning. a rambling reflection on inez and queerness from sartre's 'no exit'. made for the neo-twiny game jam. 491 words tw: allusions to death, suicide, murder, infanticide, homophobia |
Last House on the Block, by Jason Olson Zape's rating: Average member rating: Mr. Harrison was a quiet old man who lived in the house at the end of the block. No one really knew him, but everyone said he was rich; anyone who lived like as much like a hermit as he did *had* to be a... |
The Last Notebook, by TrexandDrago Development Zape's rating: Average member rating: a short story as an entry for Single Choice Jam. This short story also served as the continuation of Shadow Realm. It's been two years since the event of Shadow Realm. NBQ noticed the third notebook from his... |
The Last Sonnet of Marie Antoinette, by Emily Short Zape's rating: Average member rating: |
Last Valentine's Day, by Daniel Gao Zape's rating: Average member rating: This Valentine's Day feels an awful lot like Groundhog Day... ... |
Last Vestiges, by thesleuthacademy Zape's rating: Average member rating: Hertfordshire Avenue. A body. ... |
Last-Minute Magic, by Ryan Veeder Zape's rating: Average member rating: Zape's time: 4 hours An optimization tale from Leah Naidu's world of Visit Skuga Lake, featuring the same magic system. |
Le plaisant jeu du Dodéchédron de Fortune, by filiaa Zape's rating: Average member rating: En bon noble du XIIIe siècle, vous et vos amis avez du temps libre et des questions existentielles plein les bras ? Pas de panique ! Le Dodéchédron de Fortune a réponse à (presque) tout, et en vers... |
Leather Goddesses of Phobos, by Steve Meretzky Zape's rating: Average member rating: And now... the next exciting episode of humanoids in space! How did you, a regular at Joe's Bar in Upper Sandusky, Ohio, end up on a Martian moon? Can you prevent the hideous space creature from abducting... |
left/right, by chandler groover Zape's rating: Average member rating: pick one |
The Legend of the Missing Hat, by Adri Zape's rating: Average member rating: A tiny story about four tiny ninjas and a tiny top hat. |
Let's Play: Ancient Greek Punishment: The Text Adventure, by Pippin Barr Zape's rating: Average member rating: You're dead, but you're not on Charon's list. Impersonate mythological Greek figures (and Zeno!) and suffer eternal punishment in Hades in their place, for better or worse. Okay, it's definitely for worse. |
The Library of Knowledge, by Elle Sillitoe Zape's rating: Average member rating: Peruse an ancient library in which all learnt things reside, including Shaanxi - the omniscient spirit of knowledge. Shaanxi offers you three interweaving tales, one of which is yours. Discover where you... |
The Life (and Deaths) of Doctor M, by Michael D. Hilborn Zape's rating: Average member rating: 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 Zape's rating: Average member rating: 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... |
Life On Mars?, by Hugo Labrande Zape's rating: Average member rating: La première mission pour coloniser Mars s'est soldée par un crash horrible, et vous avez miraculeusement survécu... Maintenant, il ne vous reste plus qu'à attendre que la deuxième navette arrive. Plus... |
Life with OCD, by Adri, Rob Pitts and Sin Kim Zape's rating: Average member rating: A text adventure about living with obsessive compulsive disorder. This game was created for the Global Game Jam 2016, and was written in under 48 hours. The theme was "ritual", and we used the diversifier... |
The Lift, by Colin Capurso Zape's rating: Average member rating: You wake up in a room with no memory of who you are or what you're doing there. You need to survive, that's all you know. |
Like a Sky Full of Locusts, by Ryan Veeder Zape's rating: Average member rating: Zape's time: 30 minutes This tale was originally presented by Rattlesnake Yates at the 1969 Convocation at Castle Balderstone. |
Lime Ergot, by Caleb Wilson (as Rust Blight) Zape's rating: Average member rating: Zape's time: 15 minutes Now everyone is gone. (Well, almost everyone.) Entry in ECTOCOMP 2014. |
Limerick Heist, by Pace Smith Zape's rating: Average member rating: Rule 1 is that no one gets iced. Rule 2: the loot's evenly sliced. There's only two rules. Now listen up, fools! We're pulling a... Contains: vulgarity, lies, misanthropes, some drinking, unreasonable hopes,... |
Limerick Night, by Pace Smith Zape's rating: Average member rating: You're cursed! If you don't set it right, your bones turn to dust at first light. That's not too attractive, so let's get proactive! Can you survive... LIMERICK NIGHT??? |
LISEY, by Marco Innocenti Zape's rating: Average member rating: Love has no boundaries. Not even life itself. Entry in EctoComp 2014. |
little, by chandler groover Zape's rating: Average member rating: a tiny yarn for ectocomp |
Little Blue Men, by Michael S. Gentry Zape's rating: Average member rating: 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 Little Match Girl 2: Annus Evertens, by Ryan Veeder Zape's rating: Average member rating: The little match girl is hired to assassinate a disgusting old man. |
The Little Match Girl 3: The Escalus Manifold, by Ryan Veeder Zape's rating: Average member rating: Zape's time: 3 hours "The Snow Queen controls her servants with Shards from the Mirror of Belial," Ebenezer Scrooge explained. |
The Little Match Girl 4: Crown of Pearls, by Ryan Veeder Zape's rating: Average member rating: A touching epic time travel fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen. |
The Little Match Girl 5: The Hunter's Vow, by Ryan Veeder Zape's rating: Average member rating: Zape's time: 4 hours and 30 minutes A few years have passed since the events of The Little Match Girl 4. |
The Little Match Girl against the Universal Sisterhood of Naughty Little Girls, by Ryan Veeder Zape's rating: Average member rating: Zape's time: 1 hour This one takes place very soon after The Little Match Girl 4: Crown of Pearls. |
The Little Match Girl and Her Friend, the Crow, by Ryan Veeder Zape's rating: Average member rating: The little match girl goes on a spooky adventure with her friend (a crow). Written for Day 21 of Drawlloween 2023. |
The Little Match Girl and His Holiness Pope Pius IX, by Ryan Veeder Zape's rating: Average member rating: Zape's time: 1 hour and 30 minutes His Holiness has a favor to ask of the little match girl and her associate. |
The Little Match Girl at the Battle of the Gray Peaks, by Ryan Veeder Zape's rating: Average member rating: The little match girl performs a good deed in the late Cretaceous. |
The Little Match Girl in the Court of Maal Dweb, by Ryan Veeder Zape's rating: Average member rating: Zape's time: 1 hour and 30 minutes A spooky tribute to one of the great authors of weird fiction. |
The Little Match Girl, by Hans Christian Andersen, by Ryan Veeder Zape's rating: Average member rating: Zape's time: 45 minutes A touching short story. |
little mermaids, by Prynnette Zape's rating: Average member rating: Tragic mermaid simulator. Made in 2015 for Twiny Jam. |
The Living Puppet, by Liu Zian Zape's rating: Average member rating: Those puppets made with precious materials are of good quality. But the best ones are born to be puppets rather than selected. |
Lobsters On A Plane, by Ben Collins-Sussman and Jack Welch Zape's rating: Average member rating: A flying tube of riveted aluminum the length of a football field, a swarm of angry carnivorous lobsters, a seething mass of frightened mortal passengers, and a renowned High Wizard who you sworn to protect.... |
Lock & Key, by Adam Cadre Zape's rating: Average member rating: Zape's time: 4 hours |
Locked Door, by Cody Gaisser Zape's rating: Average member rating: Can you... UNLOCK THE DOOR?! |
Locked Door II: Fair Trade, by Cody Gaisser Zape's rating: Average member rating: Can you unlock the door... AGAIN?! |
Locked Door III: Crate Expectations, by Cody Gaisser Zape's rating: Average member rating: Can you... OPEN THE CRATE?! |
Locked Door IV: Safety In Numbers, by Cody Gaisser Zape's rating: Average member rating: Can you... OPEN THE SAFE?! |
Locked Door IX: Under Obstruction, by Cody Gaisser Zape's rating: Average member rating: Can you... RING THE BELL?! |
Locked Door V: Switched On, by Cody Gaisser Zape's rating: Average member rating: Who turned out the lights?! |
Locked Door VI: It Takes Two, by Cody Gaisser Zape's rating: Average member rating: Can you balance the scales?! |
Locked Door VII: Out Of Line, by Cody Gaisser Zape's rating: Average member rating: Can you... CROSS THE BRIDGE?! |
Locked Door VIII: Enemy Mine, by Cody Gaisser Zape's rating: Average member rating: Can you discover the secret of the dwarven ruins?! |
Locked Door X: The Workprint, by Cody Gaisser Zape's rating: Average member rating: Can you polish a turd?! |
Locked Door XI: The US Theatrical Cut, by Cody Gaisser Zape's rating: Average member rating: Can you beta test this thing?! |
Lonehouse, by Ayu Sekarlangit Mokoginta Zape's rating: Average member rating: After your estranged sister's death, you face difficulty sorting through her personal belongings. As you navigate your grief through these objects, you begin to reminisce about old times and learn about her... |
The Lonely Troll, by Amanda Walker Zape's rating: Average member rating: Zape's time: 20 minutes 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... |
The Long Kill, by James Blair Zape's rating: Average member rating: A thought-provoking tale of friendship under fire; The Long Kill is an Interactive Novel that places readers in the shoes of "Mister", a prodigious sniper in the British army. Lying prone in the scorching... |
The Long Nap, by Paul Michael Winters Zape's rating: Average member rating: Sometimes you just need some rest. But don't sleep too deeply! Developed in under four hours for Ectocomp La Petite Mort category. |
A Long Way to the Nearest Star, by SV Linwood Zape's rating: Average member rating: A thief on the run from the galactic police finds refuge on an abandoned spaceship. A lonely ship AI finds unexpected company. Explore the ship, solve puzzles, uncover mysteries, and befriend an AI who... |
Lord Bellwater's Secret, by Sam Gordon Zape's rating: Average member rating: Zape's time: 1 hour and 15 minutes The game takes place on the town house of the fictional Lord Bellwater on the night of 19th June/20th June 1863. The player character is a groom who works in Bellwater's service and wants to discover more... |
The Lord of Hunger, by Karina Popp Zape's rating: Average member rating: A myth and a man meet. No moment has a single meaning. |
Lore Distance Relationship, by Naomi "Bez" Norbez Zape's rating: Average member rating: Follow user StaircaseHaven14 on a Neopets-esque site called Ruffians as she faces life's challenges, RPs with her long-distance BFF (or more than BFF?) Bee, and encounters familial hardship, from age 8 to... |
Losing Track, by Onno Brouwer Zape's rating: Average member rating: Can you make the right choices and get safely home? |
The Lost Artist: Prologue, by Alejandro Ruiz del Sol and Martina Oyhenard Zape's rating: Average member rating: All artists deserve to be free. Don't you agree? This is a narrative driven game made to simulate the experience of being a successful detective solving a strange case. An artist has lost her way, and it's... |
The Lost Islands of Alabaz, by Michael Gentry Zape's rating: Average member rating: Once upon a time, our Kingdom was much larger than it is now, reaching across all ten islands of the Alabaz Archipelago. But then a terrible curse fell upon us. A thick, gray mist covered the sea, hiding... |
The Lost Mountain, by Greg Frost Zape's rating: Average member rating: A single mountain rises from the plain. All around is dusty desolation. A portal brought you here; for any chance to escape Her wrath, another must be found. This puzzle-light exploration game was originally... |
Lost Pig, by Admiral Jota Zape's rating: Average member rating: Pig lost! Boss say that it Grunk fault. Say Grunk forget about closing gate. Maybe boss right. Grunk not remember forgetting, but maybe Grunk just forget. Now Grunk need find pig. -- IFComp 2007 blurb |
Love, Hate and the Mysterious Ocean Tower, by C.E.J. Pacian Zape's rating: Average member rating: |
Lovely Assistant: Magical Girl, by Bitter Karella Zape's rating: Average member rating: A magician's assistant has two very important duties, to point at things and to look good in a form-fitting evening gown. But when Mugwort the Magician is kidnapped by his devious riddle-obsessed... |
LUNIUM, by Ben Jackson Zape's rating: Average member rating: 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... |
Lurid Dreams, by Torgrim Mellum Stene Zape's rating: Average member rating: A musty old tome with a strange text on self-hypnosis sends our protagonist into a lucid dream searching for answers. But the dream has an agenda of its own. |
The Lurking Horror II: The Lurkening, by Ryan Veeder Zape's rating: Average member rating: An unauthorized sequel to the Infocom classic, written for the 2018 MIT Mystery Hunt. |
The Lurking Horror, by Dave Lebling Zape's rating: Average member rating: 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. |
Lux, by Agnieszka Trzaska Zape's rating: Average member rating: You wander around in darkness – even though the lights are on. Sandra is the only one to survive a mysterious attack on a deep space mining station. She is alive, but has lost her vision. Now Sandra must... |
The Magic Word, by B.J. Best Zape's rating: Average member rating: Zape's time: 3 hours "AND LEMME TELL YA, THE MAGIC WORD ISN'T 'PLEASE.'" —The imp. A fiendishly difficult limited-verb puzzle box. Created for SeedComp '23, based on a seed by Rovarsson. |
Magor Investigates..., by Larry Horsfield Zape's rating: Average member rating: Adventures In The World Of Alaric Blackmoon - Episode 4 ... |
The Magpie Takes the Train, by Mathbrush Zape's rating: Average member rating: A millionaire guards a fabulous ruby in her private train car. Countless thieves have failed to steal it. But they weren't the Magpie! |
Mammal, by Joey Jones Zape's rating: Average member rating: The lizards have taken over. You, a lowly human slave, are tasked with eradicating all mammalian traces from the Don Quixote Memorial Museum. (Written for the Apollo 18+20 tribute album project.) |
Manikin Demo, by Rose Behar Zape's rating: Average member rating: When your mom’s friend — an eccentric old man with a ‘manikin’ farm — dies in a fire, she decides to investigate. Advise her via text message as she navigates the sometimes surreal dangers... |
Manna, by Sam Kabo Ashwell Zape's rating: Average member rating: |
Map, by Ade McT Zape's rating: Average member rating: 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 Zape's rating: Average member rating: |
Marla, by mina Zape's rating: Average member rating: A story about a hopeless romantic. CWs: Blood, heartbreak, mention of alcohol use, gore, cheating, skin picking. |
The Mary Jane of Tomorrow, by Emily Short Zape's rating: Average member rating: You, Mary Jane Minsky, have a few things to clear up with your best friend Jenny Yoshida. When your robotic birthday gift doesn't go over as planned, you may need to reset your expectations, for her and... |
Max Blaster and Doris de Lightning Against the Parrot Creatures of Venus, by Dan Shiovitz and Emily Short Zape's rating: Average member rating: Someplace on Venus a secret weapon is being built that threatens Earth with total destruction. You and your comrade must penetrate the Xavian base and save the world -- before it's too late! |
maybe make some change, by Aaron A. Reed Zape's rating: Average member rating: Inspired by the Maywand district killings in Afghanistan, 'maybe make some change' explores a frozen battlefield moment from six violently conflicting perspectives. |
Mean Mother Trucker, by Bitter Karella Zape's rating: Average member rating: Big Ester is a mean mother trucker about to take her big rig down The Devil’s Taint, the most treacherous stretch of mountain road on the whole trucking circuit... but first she’s got to win the heart of... |
Measureless to Man, by Ivan R. Zape's rating: Average member rating: You're on your way home from Cairo, with nothing but a rumpled suit and an apple for lunch. But the plane passes through dark air, over a fathomless sea. Past the heavens, under the deep, there are secrets... |
Medicum Veloctic, by Lawrence M Marable Zape's rating: Average member rating: the city’s hero: Veloctic. A man of great skill and great power who pushes his body to the brink every night to beat criminals. Veloctic’s boyfriend: you, a man who is desperately trying to use your... |
Meritocracy, by Ronynn ʕ •ᴥ•ʔ Zape's rating: Average member rating: A quest to define merit: A battle of wits, an interactive fiction game. ... |
Messages From the Universe Graveyard, by KADW Zape's rating: Average member rating: Zape's time: 2 hours and 30 minutes Explore a dead MMO and leave messages for other players to find. Featuring: - 100+ abandoned and glitchy rooms to discover - 20k+ words, mostly in messages - Social (?) interaction - 0 NPCs, enemies, combat... |
Metallic Red, by Riaz Moola Zape's rating: Average member rating: Wake from uneasy dreams. Float within the mist created by the low flow shower head in the bathroom of your inter system capable Personal Space Vehicle. Tend to the Japanese greens in the hydroponics array.... |
Metamorphoses, by Emily Short Zape's rating: Average member rating: Zape's time: 1 hour and 40 minutes 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) Zape's rating: Average member rating: Zape's time: 5 hours 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... |
Micropuzzle, by Les Howarth, Gavin Lambert Zape's rating: Average member rating: A mostly-faithful (and hence somewhat dated) recreation of the 1984 type-in BASIC game Micro Puzzle, originally published in Weird Computer Games by Usborne. The locations and puzzles are the same, but some... |
Midnight. Swordfight., by Chandler Groover Zape's rating: Average member rating: A fool receives a challenge from a countess. Violence. Sex. Profanity. Sausage. |
The Miller's Garden, by Damon L. Wakes Zape's rating: Average member rating: When the miller died, he left his garden. And when the mill was torn down, the river changed its course. |
A Mind Forever Voyaging, by Steve Meretzky Zape's rating: Average member rating: "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... |
Mind The Gap, by quackoquack Zape's rating: Average member rating: You're in London for a day, and your friends are all unhelpfully scattered across Zone 1. Can you visit them all before your night bus leaves the city? A quick text adventure game made for Game Dev London's... |
Minor Arcana, by Jack Sanderson Thwaite Zape's rating: Average member rating: You have many faces. Your form is multiple. You are the cards. Created many years ago, infused with dark magic, you have seen many things. What secrets do you contain? What visions have you conjured up? How... |
Mirror and Queen, by Chandler Groover Zape's rating: Average member rating: Your mirror never lies. A puzzleless reflection. Fifteen to forty minutes. |
Miss No-Name, by Bellamy Briks Zape's rating: Average member rating: A really popular kid is trying to find out the name of the mysterious girl that sits in the front of the class. Your goal is to help him achieve this! Or risk his life trying... |
Misty Hills, by Giuliano Roverato Martins Pereira Zape's rating: Average member rating: Wait for a tram in a weird fantasy world. |
Möbius, by J.D. Clemens Zape's rating: Average member rating: Another mission. Just when you had settled in for a nap. |
Molly and the Butter Thieves, by Alice Grove (as Cosmic Hamster) Zape's rating: Average member rating: You are Molly Butterfield, dairy farmer extraordinaire. In the past week there have been two mysterious butter disappearances from your own kitchen. There will not be a third. Molly and the Butter Thieves... |
Monday, 16:30, by Alexander "Mordred" Andonov Zape's rating: Average member rating: How long is half an hour when you are bored and miserable? How about when it's Monday, and it's 16:30? How about when you're in love? |
Monsters of Murdac, by Jonathan Partington Zape's rating: Average member rating: The forests of Murdac are some of the oldest, as well as the wildest and most isolated, in the whole land. Also they don't take kindly to intruders -- although living on the outermost fringes of the great... |
The Moon wed Saturn, by Pseudavid Zape's rating: Average member rating: A simple, if peculiar, love story where not much seems to happen. The Moon wed Saturn is a short narrative experiment. Computer or tablet is recommended. |
Moon-Shaped, by Jason Ermer Zape's rating: Average member rating: In this game partly inspired by Little Red Riding Hood, you play as Rosalind Wechsler, a girl on the cusp of her 13th birthday. What begins as a trip to Grandmother's house in the woods leads to disturbing... |
Moonbase Indigo, by J. Robinson Wheeler Zape's rating: Average member rating: |
Moondrop Isle, by Ryan Veeder, Nils Fagerburg, Joey Jones, Zach Hodgens, Jason Love, Mark Marino, Carl Muckenhoupt, Sarah Willson, Caleb Wilson Zape's rating: Average member rating: Zape's time: 15 hours The Third Quadrennial Ryan Veeder Exposition for Good Interactive Fiction invites you to visit Moondrop Isle. |
Moonmist, by Stu Galley, Jim Lawrence Zape's rating: Average member rating: More ghosts haunt the misty sea-coast and stone ramparts of Cornwall than anyplace else on earth. One such soul roams Tresyllian Castle: a pale phantom with flaxen hair and a luminous, flowing gown. It seems... |
More, by Jason Dyer (as Erin Canterbury) Zape's rating: Average member rating: |
Mother Tongue, by Nell Raban Zape's rating: Average member rating: You're sitting at home, minding your business, when your mom texts you. It's a familiar situation. But when the chat turns nostalgic, how do you reconcile her regrets about how she raised you with your own... |
Move On, by Serhii Mozhaiskyi Zape's rating: Average member rating: You are trying to escape with a mysterious briefcase, but your options are limited. Can you survive the chase? Mobile friendly. No sound effects. Keep your eyes on the road. |
Moving (On), by quackoquack Zape's rating: Average member rating: A game about nostalgia, jumping around in time, and clearing out your childhood room. ... |
mr. leg needs some milk, by amelia tsukum Zape's rating: Average member rating: Mr. Leg woke up in the middle of the night. Help him get some milk. One puzzle. Extremely short. This experimental game was made in an hour and a half. The game is in first person and intentionally uses a... |
Mud Warriors, by Ryan Veeder Zape's rating: Average member rating: General Shaquille has a mission for you. |
My Brother; The Parasite, by qrowscant Zape's rating: Average member rating: It is a kind of symbiosis. ... |
My Gender Is a Fish, by Carter X Gwertzman Zape's rating: Average member rating: Magpies from the forbidden woods like to steal things: coins, jewelry, your gender identity. It's starting to get dark, so you'd better find your gender fast. If only you could remember what it looked... |
My Name Is Soda, by Sarah Willson Zape's rating: Average member rating: A short story about memories and metabolism. |
My Pseudo-Dementia Exhibition, by Naomi Norbez (call me Bez, he/they) Zape's rating: Average member rating: a personal & public museum ... |
The Mystery Egg, by Oxnard Industries Zape's rating: Average member rating: A short modern urban fantasy game which begins when you find a large, football-shaped object covered in dark green scales. Your decisions determine which of the four possible endings you will receive. |
Mystery!, by Gene Welborn Zape's rating: Average member rating: A homage to the Parker Brother's game CLUE™. The first half of the game is the 'setup' for the murder, the second half is the search for the murderer. Since the solution is randomly generated, it can be... |
Myth, by Paul Findley Zape's rating: Average member rating: IT'S NOT EASY BEING A GOD... The golden age of Ancient Greece. A time of men and gods. A place of Myths and legends. Where errant Heroes vie with preternatural forces while their gods stand aloof and... |
Napier's Cache, by Vivienne Dunstan Zape's rating: Average member rating: Scotland, 1594: You're used to strange requests in your role as servant to John Napier. He's not just famous as a mathematician, but is also known for his occult skills and knowledge, still valued in these... |
Narcissi, by Teela Brown Zape's rating: Average member rating: Written for the NarraScope 2020 Game Jam. An Elizabethanesque Revery in a Shady Grove. |
Narrow Your Eyes, by Ben Collins-Sussman and Jack Welch Zape's rating: Average member rating: Your wedding rehearsal is hours away, and what do you do but sit on your glasses, crushing them beyond repair? Can you and your stylish cell phone survive the day? |
Nautilisia, by Ryan Veeder Zape's rating: Average member rating: Your friend claims to be in a coma. |
Nemesis Macana, by Herman Schudspeer, Victor Gijsbers Zape's rating: Average member rating: Standing in front of a London brothel with the clear intent to enter, our protagonist's future may seem dark and foreboding. But perhaps an unexpected and life-changing experience is waiting for him. Comes... |
Never Gives Up Her Dead, by Mathbrush Zape's rating: Average member rating: Zape's time: 25 hours Time is running out after a meteor strikes your interstellar starship. While the crew is under full alert, only you seem to notice the strange red portals opening up throughout the ship. Explore ten... |
Nightfall, by Eric Eve Zape's rating: Average member rating: Zape's time: 2 hours and 15 minutes 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... |
No Room, by Ben Heaton Zape's rating: Average member rating: |
Nonverbal Communication, by Allyson Gray Zape's rating: Average member rating: Words fail you — in a literal sense — as you prepare to confront a monster from your past. |
Nord and Bert Couldn't Make Head or Tail of It, by Jeff O'Neill Zape's rating: Average member rating: You are standing at the edge of a barren field. A steady wind, having secreted away the topsoil, is now drifting sandy dirt across the plain. A scant sign of life here is a freshly-burrowed molehill on the... |
The Northnorth Passage., by Caleb Wilson (as Snowball Ice) Zape's rating: Average member rating: Zape's time: 10 minutes Oh no, the old family curse has flared up! This is a short story about limits to action. |
Not All Things Make It Across, by Bruno Dias Zape's rating: Average member rating: All around the city now, parties are taking place. It's been a hell of a year, emphasis on hell. But tonight, there are other things you have to do. The end of the year is a threshold. And like all... |
Not Made With Hands, by Emily Short Zape's rating: Average member rating: |
Not the Same Old Lang Syne, by Jacqueline A. Lott Zape's rating: Average member rating: |
Of Their Shadows Deep, by Amanda Walker Zape's rating: Average member rating: Zape's time: 45 minutes A story about love and disease and loss. Contains graphics and has a screen reader mode for use with text to speech software. Written in Inform 7 for 2022 ParserComp. Play time about one hour. Content... |
Office Goose, by Liz Henry Zape's rating: Average member rating: It's a beautiful day in the tech company office, and you are a horrible goose. |
OK Boomer: The Game, by E.I. Wong Zape's rating: Average member rating: "OK Boomer: The Game" is a text-based, "choose your own adventure" style game. Play as an American Baby Boomer and... *Lecture your kids about the importance of menial jobs on the brink of obsolescence!... |
Old King Nebb, by Caleb Wilson (as Abandoned Pools) Zape's rating: Average member rating: In this work, you play as Absalome Pilcrow, a youth from Panzitoum on a walking tour. On the way to the Redfort, you stop by the palace of Old King Nebb and decide to explore it. |
Olivia's Orphanorium, by Sam Kabo Ashwell Zape's rating: Average member rating: Sparky young entrepreneur Olivia sets out to fulfil her dream of running an orphanage. The beatings will continue until morale improves. |
One Does Not Simply Fry, by Stewart C Baker and James Beamon Zape's rating: Average member rating: One Ring of onion and flour, One Ring that's frying, One Ring to bring them all, and to the menu bind them... ... |
One King to Loot them All, by Onno Brouwer Zape's rating: Average member rating: A tale of High Adventure In the old free days, all you needed was a sharp sword and a straight path to your enemies. Overthrowing the old dynasty was easy enough, but you quickly learned that as a King, no... |
One Knight Stand, by A. Hazard Zape's rating: Average member rating: Part 1: The Beginning of the End ... |
One way out, by Steffen Görzig (story), Oliver Lindau (cover) Zape's rating: Average member rating: On the left side, a man with his heart full of tears. On the right side, a woman with her head full of fears. On both sides, desperate beings seek to break out of spheres. (This game is intended to be... |
Only War - Warhammer 40.000: The Text Adventure, by Simon Christiansen Zape's rating: Average member rating: In the grim darkness of the far future there is only war. April Fool's joke game. The source code consists almost entirely of the W40K tagline. |
Onna Kabuki: A Tale of Theatre and Revenge, by Víctor Ojuel Zape's rating: Average member rating: Japan, 1602. A noble lady, betrayed. A loyal samurai, fallen. A mysterious monk, unmasked. A titillating actress, haunted. A wayward drunkard, redeemed. Take your seat, for the curtain is drawn... (This was... |
Open That Vein, by Chandler Groover Zape's rating: Average member rating: You are going to open that vein. La Petite Mort entry in ECTOCOMP 2015. |
Oppositely Opal, by Buster Hudson Zape's rating: Average member rating: You've practiced long and hard for PotionComp, but Grusilda won't give up her title so easily. UGH! Curse that Grusilda! A one-room potion-brewing spell-casting parser puzzler, where things might go opposite... |
The Origin of Madame Time, by Mathbrush Zape's rating: Average member rating: As an avid fan of superheroes and a harsh critic of villains, the battle over the abandoned amusement park captured your imagination. But when the nuclear airship Mephistopheles exploded above you, it seemed... |
Ostrich, by Jonathan Laury Zape's rating: Average member rating: A new government's coming. A populist government looking to shake up the status quo. Your job in the Advertising Corrections Team is safe enough, but as tensions rise and regulations tighten you know that... |
Out, by Viktor Sobol Zape's rating: Average member rating: It's a wonderful morning, and you're ready to come out. |
The Owl Consults, by Thomas Mack, Nick Mathewson, and Cidney Hamilton Zape's rating: Average member rating: Once you've established yourself as the ruler of the crime world (and, eventually, the literal world), the only challenge left is helping out the next generation of supervillains---for a suitable fee, of... |
Paintball Wizard, by Doug Egan Zape's rating: Average member rating: Sure, I know Quidditch: expensive and impossibly complex game played by fictional wizards at an imaginary boarding academy. The guys in my house (frat house, that is) came from marginal high schools where we... |
Pale Blue Light, by Kazuki Mishima Zape's rating: Average member rating: "Sophie actually enjoyed the festival every year. She enjoyed the lights, the songs, and the crispness of the air. It was only the crowds that made her uneasy and drove her into the solitude she had learned... |
A Papal Summons, or The Church Cat, by Bitter Karella Zape's rating: Average member rating: The pope -- the holy father himself! -- has summoned you to Rome for a personal audience. But the Vatican is a massive, bustling city, full of twisting avenues and winding corridors and so many oubliettes,... |
The Paper Bag Princess, by Adri Zape's rating: Average member rating: Princess Elizabeth is about to marry the love of her life when a dragon attacks the castle and kidnaps her betrothed. Based on a book of the same name by Robert Munsch, with permission. |
The Paper Magician, by Soojung Choi Zape's rating: Average member rating: "The cat leapt for the star." Every time I conjured a cat and a star from the words I penned on paper, I found myself more and more like the cat. Longing for something bright and hopeful, but forever out of... |
A Paper Moon, by Andrew Krywaniuk Zape's rating: Average member rating: |
A Paradox Between Worlds, by Autumn Chen Zape's rating: Average member rating: 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... |
PARANOIA, by Charm Cochran Zape's rating: Average member rating: Paranoia is a short interactive spot-the-difference puzzler. It was created in less than one week for ParserComp 2024, the Locus Jam, and the I'm On Observation Duty Jam. |
Party Foul, by Brooks Reeves Zape's rating: Average member rating: You're cornered, trapped. There seems to be no escape. You aren't in a jail cell. No, you're in the cocktail party from hell and only by using your wits and luck are you going to get out of this suburb... |
The Party Line, by Robin Johnson Zape's rating: Average member rating: A minimalist puzzle game set in a house party. Made for the AdventureX Jam 2020. |
PataNoir, by Simon Christiansen Zape's rating: Average member rating: 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. (Originally entered in the 2011... |
Pegasus, by Michael Kielstra Zape's rating: Average member rating: Pegasus: the best friend of a democracy and the worst enemy of a dictator. Their Agents safeguard the liberty of the people around the world. Trained by and armed with the best humanity has to offer, they... |
The People's Glorious Revolutionary Text Adventure Game, by Taylor Vaughan Zape's rating: Average member rating: Sure, there's only five of you against a world full of reactionaries, but you have Revolutionary Spirit! You can't possibly fail. Nothing can stand in your way! Now if only you could find your Revolutionary... |
Perdition's Flames, by Michael J. Roberts Zape's rating: Average member rating: Zape's time: 8 hours The afterlife isn't what you expected. Explore a strangely modernized and bureaucratic underworld, replete with strip malls, government offices, and science labs, as well as the occasional lake of molten... |
Perihelion, by Tim White Zape's rating: Average member rating: What comets may come |
Phantom, by Peter Eastman Zape's rating: Average member rating: You have recently begun taking lessons from a new voice teacher. Under his expert instruction, your opera career is flourishing. If only he would let you see his face. This work includes music which is an... |
Photopia, by Adam Cadre Zape's rating: Average member rating: Zape's time: 1 hour and 20 minutes "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." |
Pick Up the Cookie and Sigh, by P.B. Parjeter Zape's rating: Average member rating: I originally meant to announce this as an April Fool’s joke (ie. a lost Douglas Adams game that doesn’t really exist) but I ended up turning it into a straight adaptation of the story. Adapted from... |
A Pilgrim, by Caleb Wilson (as Abandoned Pools) Zape's rating: Average member rating: A Pilgrim was written for ECTOCOMP 2020 in four hours. This version was not tested except by me, Abandoned Pools, who also wrote it. |
Pilgrimage, by Víctor Ojuel Zape's rating: Average member rating: Leave Rome in the dead of night. Pursue an hermetic quest throughout Medieval Europe. Find arcane knowledge or utter despair. Blessings of Babylon. |
The Pinecone, by Joseph Pentangelo Zape's rating: Average member rating: A breath born of boredom rises in the wintry sky. Hooves and bells approach. The school bus is late. |
Place and Time, by Stephen Lavelle Zape's rating: Average member rating: there |
The Place, by CynthiaP (as 'Ima') Zape's rating: Average member rating: Although this is an interactive interface, your choices do NOT matter. They really do not. Before you quit, I want you to understand why. I am a believer of absurdity, that our actions in the end have no... |
Planetfall, by Steve Meretzky Zape's rating: Average member rating: "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... |
Please Sign Here, by Michelle Negron (as "Road") Zape's rating: Average member rating: Jackie Parker's life gets turned upside down after getting involved in a fatal car accident with her best friend. Now, Jackie's signature has been showing up at murder sights across the area and she has to... |
Plundered Hearts, by Amy Briggs Zape's rating: Average member rating: In the 17th century, the seas are as wild as the untamed heart of a young woman. But when you set out on the schooner Lafond Deux, bound for the West Indies, your thoughts are only of your ailing father who... |
Pogoman GO!, by Jack Welch and Ben Collins-Sussman Zape's rating: Average member rating: The world is full of Pogomen, and now that you don’t have a job or family to worry about, you might as well get back to it! |
Ponderances, by Roadcrosser Zape's rating: Average member rating: The player finds themself inside a White Cube and has to escape. ----- A short game I made. There's nothing much else to say about it because the game is so short that saying anything might be a spoiler. |
Popstar Idol Survival Game, by CrunchMasterGowon Zape's rating: Average member rating: Compete against other contestants to become star popstar idol! |
POV: You're a Teenage Girl in a Conservative Christian Family, by alyshkalia Zape's rating: Average member rating: A little piece of my religious trauma. |
The Primrose Path, by Nolan Bonvouloir Zape's rating: Average member rating: You've been having a series of nightmares about Leo, standing at the edge of a cliff. No matter what you do, a bell rings and Leo disappears over the edge . . . |
Project Arcmör, by Donald Conrad and Peter M.J. Gross Zape's rating: Average member rating: You still remember the initial thrill of receiving your acceptance message: “Greetings, colonizer! We are excited for you to join the StarQuorp™ family, a top 100 company to work for (based on... |
The Prongleman Job, by Arthur DiBianca Zape's rating: Average member rating: Break into Prongleman's house and steal a few valuables. Try and finish before he gets home. The Thieves' Society is counting on you. |
The Purple Pearl, by Amanda Walker Zape's rating: Average member rating: A stolen treasure. A desperate king. Two valorous volunteers will prove their worth as a team to recover the luck of the kingdom, or die trying. This is a 2-player text adventure. You will need a partner to... |
Put it On, by Filamena Young Zape's rating: Average member rating: this is a very small twine game about putting on makeup. |
Put Your Hand Inside The Puppet Head, by The Hungry Reader Zape's rating: Average member rating: 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... |
Questionnaire, by Stephen Lavelle Zape's rating: Average member rating: hmmm |
Quintessence, by Andrea M. Pawley Zape's rating: Average member rating: The Forever Cat stalks through this universe, collapsing it when the Others come close or shiny objects are too far apart. Will you end the Forever Cat's destructive cycle and help this universe's quanta... |
Quit Your Job Simulator 2014, by Caelyn Sandel (as Colin Sandel) Zape's rating: Average member rating: Exactly 14 hours before the sprint review, Manny from the California office has finally fixed the bug you've been bothering him about for weeks. He kicked a new build, which will take about an hour and a... |
Rainbows and Dance Parties!, by Carolyn VanEseltine Zape's rating: Average member rating: On June 26, 2015, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that same-sex marriage is a constitutional right under the Fourteen Amendment. I dropped all my other plans for the day and wrote this game,... |
Rameses, by Stephen Bond Zape's rating: Average member rating: Zape's time: 30 minutes |
Rape, Pillage, Makane!, by Chandler Groover Zape's rating: Average member rating: No knight was ever more noble than Sir Makane, whose chivalrous code held two tenets above all: SLAY/LAY. Written for Ludum Dare 34. |
Recon, by Carlos Pamies Zape's rating: Average member rating: Baltimore, 2058. Faro controls the city at will. The social and economic gap is widening bigger and bigger because of the imposed regime. It seems like any other day. You, your beer and your faithful... |
The Recruit, by Mike Sousa Zape's rating: Average member rating: 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! |
Red Radish Robotics, by Gibbo Zape's rating: Average member rating: On the seventh floor of HQ, the professor rushed into the games room as people yelled and slammed doors in the corridor outside. He hugged you to sleep. That is your last memory. You wake to discover that... |
Redux, by Shawn Sijnstra Zape's rating: Average member rating: A text adventure exploration into rebuilding yourself. The game is an exploration into the mind of the protagonist, and has a highly unusual gameplay. |
Reference and Representation: An Approach to First-Order Semantics, by Ryan Veeder Zape's rating: Average member rating: Violence is the answer to this one. |
Remedial Witchcraft, by dgtziea Zape's rating: Average member rating: Lina is a first year student studying magic. Lina isn't doing very well at her classes. Lina is apprenticing for the Witch of Howling Woods because no one else would take her. Tonight, Lina has messed up... |
rendition, by nespresso Zape's rating: Average member rating: They caught Abdul during an insurgency in the east. He tried to take out a regiment with some home-made explosives strapped to his chest. They didn't explode, so pretty soon the coalition had a real live... |
Renegade Brainwave, by J. J. Guest Zape's rating: Average member rating: "Beware! Beware! Take care! For you are about take part in an interactive story that will reveal the terrifying truth behind the mysterious Soviet space programme! Revelations of incredible horrors that will... |
Repeat the Ending, by Drew Cook Zape's rating: Average member rating: Explore an all-new "critical edition" of a 1996 Inform 5 game about mental illness, magic, and the second law of thermodynamics. When D, a psychiatrically disabled chaos wizard, learns that an estranged... |
Return to the Stars, by Adrian Welcker Zape's rating: Average member rating: After having been taken captive in battle, you soon settled into a routine: sleep, eat, shower, reconsider your life choices, repeat. Until, one day, there is no more food. Or guards, for that matter. It... |
Ribald Bat Lady Plunder Quest, by Joey Acrimonious Zape's rating: Average member rating: Wherein a bat-themed monster lady goes on a felonious adventure to obtain a special birthday present for her beloved. ... |
Risorgimento Represso, by Michael J. Coyne Zape's rating: Average member rating: You play as an Oxbridge student who, during a particularly boring lecture, falls through a green portal under their desk into the cluttered library of the wizard Ninario. Ninny was trying to summon a... |
Ritus Sacri, by quackoquack Zape's rating: Average member rating: On the desk in front of you: a Latin dictionary, a blank sheet of lined paper, and the photocopied passage you need to translate for class tomorrow. You always leave things too late. |
Robbery Reverie, by Natasha Luna Zape's rating: Average member rating: As a new thief, you might be wet behind the ears, but you're not going to let that stop you from carrying out daring heists! ... |
Robin & Orchid, by Ryan Veeder and Emily Boegheim Zape's rating: Average member rating: High school journalists spend the night in a church, investigating reports of a ghost. |
The Rocket Man From The Sea, by Janos Honkonen Zape's rating: Average member rating: On the old pilot station island, where you live with your parents, the war fought with Earth and Martian rocket-ships and Atomic Heat Rays exist only in the sonorous voice of the newscaster on the radio, and... |
ROD MCSCHLONG GETS PUNCHED IN THE DONG, by Damon L. Wakes (as Hubert Janus) Zape's rating: Average member rating: Once again, it's exactly what it sounds like. Content warning: Flashing images, crude humour, testicular trauma |
Roguelike Goose, by Lizzard Zape's rating: Average member rating: It's a horrible day in the AirDnD dungeon, and you are a beautiful goose. |
Roofed, by Jim Munroe Zape's rating: Average member rating: You and your brother’s job — scouring the city’s highest spots for a rare building material in the year 2040 — is already hard enough. Now Anton’s gone and gotten you trapped on a rooftop. Your... |
Room Serial, by merricart Zape's rating: Average member rating: An escape game where you escape from a series of rooms, gaining new actions on the way. The new actions help you advance. You must also piece together the mystery of why you were there. |
A Rope of Chalk, by Ryan Veeder Zape's rating: Average member rating: Zape's time: 2 hours and 5 minutes An account of the disastrous sidewalk chalk tournament of August 27, 2011. |
The Roscovian Palladium, by Ryan Veeder Zape's rating: Average member rating: Humans are constantly appropriating rat culture. King Roscoe thought to use this to his advantage. |
Rover's Day Out, by Jack Welch and Ben Collins-Sussman Zape's rating: Average member rating: 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... |
Rustjaw, by mathbrush Zape's rating: Average member rating: Zape's time: 10 minutes Inspired by the Wayhaven Chronicles. |
Sage Sanctum Scramble, by Arthur DiBianca Zape's rating: Average member rating: A grab bag of puzzles, mostly word puzzles. Collect keywords and save the Sanctum! |
The Saltcast Adventure, by Beth Carpenter Zape's rating: Average member rating: Deep in Kingthrall caves, monsters dwell. The crown has offered a large reward to anyone who can destroy them. You are probably not the quester anyone had in mind, but you're desperate, and that has made you... |
Santa's Sleigh Ride, by Molly Geene Zape's rating: Average member rating: It's late Christmas Eve, and Santa is on the last house of his ride. Help Santa make this delivery! |
Save the Cheshire Cat!, by Marco Vallarino Zape's rating: Average member rating: English version of Italian comedy text adventure "Salvate lo Stregatto" by Marco Vallarino. It is a very short and simple 'interactive intrigue' about a missing cat. Your aim is to find the feline before... |
Savor, by Ed Nobody Zape's rating: Average member rating: All you remember is that you're cursed. Cursed to spend every night writhing in pain. You've come here, to this desolate farmland, to find a cure. But now that you're here, you might find more than you... |
Scarlet Portrait Parlor, by MathBrush (as Prismatik) Zape's rating: Average member rating: In this minimalist story: Darkness has fallen. There is a loom. You carry a heavy guilt. |
Scavenger, by Quintin Stone Zape's rating: Average member rating: Search a war-shattered world for secrets of the past. |
Scents & Semiosis, by Sam Kabo Ashwell, Cat Manning, Caleb Wilson, Yoon Ha Lee Zape's rating: Average member rating: A perfumer keeps a private collection of scents, each tied to a memory. Decide what they mean. Scents & Semiosis makes heavy use of procedural generation to create strange perfumes, full lives, and potent... |
Scroll Thief, by Daniel M. Stelzer Zape's rating: Average member rating: Not a single spell! After two full years of study! Every Enchanter—every mortal with the power to change very nature of the universe with their words—has a spell book! Filled with words of power... |
The Sculptor, by Yakoub Mousli Zape's rating: Average member rating: Sways of an artist's delicate spirit. An 82 year old sculptor with no achievements to his name or a penny in his pocket now seeks to make the masterpiece of his dreams before his life fades. ... |
Seasonal Apocalypse Disorder, by Zan and Xavid Zape's rating: Average member rating: As cities around the world turn to ash, the Federal Bureau of Druids sends you back in time to the autumnal equinox to stop the Order of the Fiery Doom. Find plants for your mystical cocoon and travel to... |
Seastalker, by Stu Galley, Jim Lawrence Zape's rating: Average member rating: 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... |
Second Wind, by Matthew Warner Zape's rating: Average member rating: Journey across a post-apocalyptic wasteland to get medical help for your pregnant wife. You and Lorraine live in Shelter 5. It's an airtight building in a radioactive desert. It's airtight to prevent... |
The Secret of Nara, by Ralfe Rich Zape's rating: Average member rating: Matters of life from the viewpoint of a deer. |
Secret of the Knights, by Jim Gasperini, SD Separa Zape's rating: Average member rating: IT IS THE YEAR 1340. You have traveled back to the age of knights. A squire has just accused you of being a sorcerer. You must prove yourself in a duel with quarterstaves, but you've never used them before.... |
Secret of the Starry Depths, by Felix Pleșoianu Zape's rating: Average member rating: Secret of the starry depths is a very short game about a wannabe cave explorer who discovers that when things seem too easy, there's usually a reason. It was originally a demo for the experimental authoring... |
Seedship, by John Ayliff Zape's rating: Average member rating: An AI ship full of frozen colonists must find the best planet to be the new home of the human race. |
Sense of Harmony, by Scenario World Zape's rating: Average member rating: Cybernetically enhanced Elizabeth Boldan tries to find herself while working part-time at the Crown Diamond, an erotic massage parlor and brothel in the year 2029. On television and in the movies,... |
Several Other Tales from Castle Balderstone, by Ryan Veeder Zape's rating: Average member rating: Third in a series of anthologies of unbelievable terror, edited by Ryan Veeder, again. Also an ECTOCOMP 2020 entry. |
Shade, by Andrew Plotkin Zape's rating: Average member rating: Zape's time: 1 hour "A one-room game set in your apartment." [--blurb from Competition Aught-Zero] |
The Shadow in the Cathedral, by Ian Finley and Jon Ingold Zape's rating: Average member rating: 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... |
The Shadow In The Snow, by Andrew Brown Zape's rating: Average member rating: A strange and hopefully disturbing little story... |
Shadow Operative, by Michael Lauenstein Zape's rating: Average member rating: Another run. Another dive into the neon sea. A Cyberpunk Heist Game. Parser-based but with a hybrid interface (playable by typing or by links alone). Best played in a desktop browser (or on a tablet in... |
Shadows Out of Time, by Brendon Connelly, Dan Q, Liz McCarthy, Bodleian Libraries Zape's rating: Average member rating: You awake with a start. You're sitting in your favourite seat in the Old Bodleian's Upper Reading Room, and everything seems to be exactly as it should be. There’s the copy of 'Shadows Out of Time' that... |
Shanidar, Safe Return, by Cecilia Dougherty Zape's rating: Average member rating: Eurasia, 40,000 years ago. As the story begins, a band of Cro-Magnons have just invaded a nearby Neanderthal camp, falsely claiming that the Neanderthals (Neanders) were planning to steal meat, skins and... |
Sheep Crossing, by Andrew Geng Zape's rating: Average member rating: Sometimes you get an impulse you know you'd regret--especially in the face of an arbitrary task of questionable value. So when Grandmother asks you to bring her a cabbage, a sheep, and a stinky bear, what... |
Sherlock Indomitable, by mathbrush Zape's rating: Average member rating: Join a dying Sherlock Holmes in a journey through his memories. Sherlock Indomitable is a direct adaptation of two Sherlock Holmes stories into a text adventure. At least 90% of the text is taken directly... |
Sherlock: The Riddle of the Crown Jewels, by Bob Bates Zape's rating: Average member rating: Moriarty has set a deadly trap for Sherlock Holmes. And only you can stop him... Travel back in time to Victorian London, where the city is bustling with preparations for Her Majesty's Golden Jubilee. Crowds... |
The Ship, by Sotiris Niarchos Zape's rating: Average member rating: An interactive novel about reaching out to others and finding oneself ... |
Shrapnel, by Adam Cadre Zape's rating: Average member rating: |
Shuffling Around, by Andrew Schultz (as Ned Yompus) Zape's rating: Average member rating: A weird power to save a weird world. So you just got fired from the best company ever, and it's the best day of your life. New opportunities! New horizons! New ways to look at things! Like calling this... |
The Shyler Project, by Naomi Norbez (call me Bez; e/he) Zape's rating: Average member rating: Meet the latest advancement in AI technology! In times of trouble, Juniper turns to Shyler, a new mental health AI chatbot, for reassurance and help. Watch their relationship develop through the course of... |
Sickness, by Stephen Lavelle Zape's rating: Average member rating: |
Six, by Wade Clarke Zape's rating: Average member rating: 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.... |
Six Gray Rats Crawl Up The Pillow, by Caleb Wilson (as Boswell Cain) Zape's rating: Average member rating: A distressing episode in the life of Rinaldo di Gorgonzola. |
Skies Above, by Arthur DiBianca Zape's rating: Average member rating: Play minigames to get your airship flying, tour the skies, and see what mischief is going on up there. Champion of the Skies: Sarah Adams |
Skybreak!, by William Dooling Zape's rating: Average member rating: Skybreak! is a science-fantasy role-playing game of galactic proportions: explore distant stars, plunder alien ruins, hunt space pirates, collect beetles, slay gods, make out with sorcerers, and punch cosmic... |
Slouching Towards Bedlam, by Star Foster and Daniel Ravipinto Zape's rating: Average member rating: Zape's time: 1 hour and 30 minutes In the beginning was the Word, and it was hungry. ... |
Smart Theory, by AKheon Zape's rating: Average member rating: A strange, new thought system has been spreading like wildfire through schools and institutions - it has even taken over the university that you go to. What could this all mean? Perhaps we'll discover the... |
Snowhaven, by Tristin Grizel Dean Zape's rating: Average member rating: Alone in the cold wilderness, you hunt and forage to make a stew for a friend's return. |
So You Have a Knife at Your Throat, by Natasha Luna Zape's rating: Average member rating: So You Have a Knife at Your Throat is a sapphic mini-thriller created for Neo-Twiny Jam, a game jam for tiny interactive fiction games. You are an assassin whose hard work has been rudely interrupted—by... |
So, You've Never Played a Text Adventure Before, Huh?, by Ryan Veeder Zape's rating: Average member rating: Robin Monaghan and her friends explore a creepy house. |
Social Democracy: An Alternate History, by Autumn Chen Zape's rating: Average member rating: Play as the Social Democratic Party of Germany in 1928, and try to stop the NSDAP from taking power. Guide the party through elections and parliamentary politics, and deal with the Great Depression and the... |
Sohoek Ekalmoe, by Caleb Wilson Zape's rating: Average member rating: Written for the NarraScope 2020 Game Jam. This game is dedicated to all the weeds. |
Some Space, by rittermi Zape's rating: Average member rating: A story about immigrating...in space. |
Someone Keeps Moving My Chair, by Ryan Veeder Zape's rating: Average member rating: Something is amiss in Garry's office. A prequel to The Statue Got Me High. |
Somewhere, by Kazuki Mishima Zape's rating: Average member rating: "Somewhere" is a short, very bare "interactive poem" written partly as a learning exercise in Inform 7. |
Sorcerer, by Steve Meretzky Zape's rating: Average member rating: Sorcerer, the second of a spellbinding fantasy series in the tradition of Zork, takes you on a magical tour through the darker side of Zorkian enchantment. Your journey begins with a cryptic diary - the last... |
Soul Thief, by Mad Hatter’s Daughter Zape's rating: Average member rating: The Gods discover a soul thief among humans. A story about an ethereal romance and an otherworldly mystery. Entrant and winner of EndMaster's IS "Resurrection" Contest! |
SOUND, by CynthiaP Zape's rating: Average member rating: You embark to find that voice You embark to find that voice You embark to find that voice You embark to find that voice You embark to find that voice |
Sovereign Citizens, by Laura Paul and Max Woodring Zape's rating: Average member rating: A transient duo finds an abandoned mansion to camp out in, but comes to find many details of the estate inhospitable. |
Space Suit, by Andrew Schultz Zape's rating: Average member rating: A game with no talking and a canonical puzzle. |
The Space Under the Window, by Andrew Plotkin Zape's rating: Average member rating: A new, experimental game that has no puzzles but uses only words that change your focus on things, thereby adapting the story. [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue] |
Space Wizard Rendezvous, by WizzBizz Zape's rating: Average member rating: A wizard going through a bad breakup gets recruited into a space heist. Based on the song Charlemagne by Blossoms for Shufflecomp 2023 Features - Cast spells - Commit treason - Get over your ex or die trying... |
The Spare Set, by Rob Sherman / Shelter UK Zape's rating: Average member rating: This game was developed by Shelter, the housing and homelessness charity, to highlight the problems facing families in Britain today. For many, due to high costs and stagnating wages, an accident, job loss... |
Sparkle, by Juhana Leinonen (as Karly Di Caprio) Zape's rating: Average member rating: My search for the Pattern has brought me to Mount Shanshan. Now it's just a matter of a short cable car ride up to the top. |
The Spectators, by Amanda Walker Zape's rating: Average member rating: Zape's time: 4 hours It is 1560. There are no secrets in the iron-willed Duke d'Este's marriage to his young bride, a girl unprepared for her new role as Duchess. The Duke's army of servants are always present, always watching,... |
Speed Demons, by Pleroma Zape's rating: Average member rating: A short twine game about loss, disconnection, barriers, and the systematic shattering of all three with those most human of tools: whatever there is to hand. Three paths, 9 endings, and hopefully quite a bit... |
A speedIF O entry, by David Welbourn Zape's rating: Average member rating: Get Neil Gaiman to sign your comic book collection. Very short; one room. |
Spellbound, by Adam Perry Zape's rating: Average member rating: You still remember well the moment that the professor shocked the orthographic community by announcing that there were, somewhere out there, 26 letters in all. Harness the alphabet's power to find the 23... |
Spellbreaker, by Dave Lebling Zape's rating: Average member rating: Spellbreaker, the riveting conclusion to the Enchanter trilogy, explores the mysterious underpinnings of the Zorkian universe. A world founded on sorcery suddenly finds its magic failing, and only you,... |
Spider, by Andrew Schultz Zape's rating: Average member rating: A game about summer camp, government funding, and a physics problem or two. And weird robot spiders. |
Spider and Web, by Andrew Plotkin Zape's rating: Average member rating: A vacation in our lovely country! See the ethnic charms of the countryside, the historic grandeur of the capital city. Taste our traditional cuisine; smell the flowers of the Old Tree. And all without... |
A Spliff in Time, by Sam Kabo Ashwell Zape's rating: Average member rating: In this silly and surreal little game, you play as the anthropomorphic superhero known as Super Skunk. Toking up some choice substances has Unhinged you in Time, so it's time to go on a Mission. |
Spring 2020, by Phillip J Rhoades Zape's rating: Average member rating: All you can do is eat or wait. There are two endings. There are no good endings. Based on a random idea in a Twitter conversation. https://twitter.com/howtophil/status/1250219872019197954 I joked I was... |
Squeaky on the Moon, by David Welbourn Zape's rating: Average member rating: A silly entry in the Pi-Theta-Alpha-Parallax Speed-IF. As Alvin the Chipmunk, rescue your landlady’s cat. Very short; four and a half rooms. |
Stand Up / Stay Silent, by Y Ceffyl Gwyn Zape's rating: Average member rating: The revolution begins with you. |
Standing on the Shoulders of Giants, by Kenneth Pedersen (as Ilmur Eggert) Zape's rating: Average member rating: The Royal Society, Gresham College, London, England, 4th of April 1673: Isaac receives a mysterious letter... |
Star Wars: Escape the flagship, by awsomethingy Zape's rating: Average member rating: You are a Storm Trooper who has been captured during a mission on a rebel flagship. You are currently awaiting execution; can you escape and get to the escape pods? ... |
Starborn, by Juhana Leinonen Zape's rating: Average member rating: The Magellan returned to Earth two weeks ago. I however can never go home. There are two versions of the story: Inform 7 version (2011) that uses a single-keyword parser, and Undum/Vorple version (2012) that... |
Starcross, by Dave Lebling Zape's rating: Average member rating: Starcross, Infocom's science fiction mind-bender, launches you headlong into the year 2186 and the depths of space. And not without good reason, for you are destined to rendezvous with a gargantuan starship... |
Starry Seeksorrow, by Caleb Wilson (as Ayla Rose) Zape's rating: Average member rating: An entry in ShuffleComp: Disc 2. Inspired by "The Violet Hour" by Dolls Come to Life. |
Stationfall, by Steve Meretzky Zape's rating: Average member rating: 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 Zape's rating: Average member rating: 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. |
Stay?, by E. Jade Lomax Zape's rating: Average member rating: STAY? CHOOSE YOUR OWN HAPPY ENDING Welcome to Elaia, a magical city nestled in a high valley. It's the end of your first year at university & time to choose your major. Find yourself among potential friends... |
Staying Put, by verityvirtue Zape's rating: Average member rating: After hell went down over the Grémillet thing, Subramaniam helped you find this place. You'll have to lay low for a while, so that means not getting out of this room — or at least downstairs — until all... |
Sting, by Mike Russo Zape's rating: Average member rating: Six bees. Five bags of groceries. A four-pound dumbbell. Three sailboats. One twin. Sting is a puzzleless parser memoir about ordinary days and unexpected interruptions. |
Stoned Ape Hypothesis, by James Heaton Zape's rating: Average member rating: In the early 1990's, ethnobotanist Terence McKenna published his book "Food of the Gods" in which he presented a theory explaining the cognitive leap forward observed in early homo-sapiens. His theory is... |
The Striding Place, by Gertrude Atherton and sub-Q Zape's rating: Average member rating: Some souls can't be separated. When his friend vanishes during a hunting trip, a young man tracks him down through their unusual connection. |
String Theory, by W Pzinski Zape's rating: Average member rating: Some things in life you can choose, and some things, you're just stuck with... String Theory is an interactive short story about family and finding the courage to love. You play as Jay, a college student... |
Studio, by Charm Cochran Zape's rating: Average member rating: It's been a whirlwind few days, but you’re finally just about settled in. New place, new city, no one here yet for you to lean on. You’ve spent all day getting things set up, running errands, and... |
Stuff of Legend, by Lance Campbell Zape's rating: Average member rating: The only thing worse than being a village idiot is being an unemployed village idiot. Maybe it’s time to change careers. Maybe it’s time to be a knight. |
stupidgame, by Sam Kabo Ashwell Zape's rating: Average member rating: |
The Subtropical Server Room, by Andrew Schultz Zape's rating: Average member rating: It's up to you to help get the old Unix servers replaced. |
A Sugared Pill, by Colin Borland Zape's rating: Average member rating: Zape's time: 4 hours As you wind your merry way home from a night out, a mystery gunman fires the shot which throws you into the world of self-delusion and deadly political intrigue... |
Sugarlawn, by Mike Spivey Zape's rating: Average member rating: 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. |
Sunny-Side Up, by PetricakeGames-IF Zape's rating: Average member rating: a horror interactive fiction Content Warning: this story contains depictions of familial violence and body horror Password to play is: password |
Sunny's Summer Vacation, by Lucas C. Wheeler Zape's rating: Average member rating: You play as a Corgi with your family on vacation. Your girl is having family trouble, and you want to help her navigate a changing dynamic |
Superluminal Vagrant Twin, by C.E.J. Pacian Zape's rating: Average member rating: A text-only space sim. Ply the spaceways. Make five million credits. Buy back your twin. (Superluminal Vagrant Twin is a shallow but broad exploration game.) |
Suspect, by Dave Lebling Zape's rating: Average member rating: You're guilty until proven innocent. You have walked into a hotbed of deceit and trickery. And now they're accusing you of something you couldn't have done. But they have proof that you did it. "You're a... |
Suspended, by Michael Berlyn Zape's rating: Average member rating: 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 Zape's rating: Average member rating: An entry in the 2007 One Room Game Competition. You play a magician's servant who gets trapped in your master's vault; you'll need to learn some of his tricks if you want to get out. |
Swigian, by Mathbrush (as Rainbus North) Zape's rating: Average member rating: I don't like talking. Let's build a fire. Swigian is a minimalist game. It is long, but quickly finished, with few words and few complications. |
Taco Fiction, by Ryan Veeder Zape's rating: Average member rating: Taco Fiction is a game about crime. |
Take, by Katherine Morayati (as Amelia Pinnolla) Zape's rating: Average member rating: You are battle-weary. Your armor is scanty and your countenance is loathsome; you tire of the swords flicking at your neck. But you have a duty. There is nothing you can't take. (Content warning: Violence,... |
Take the Dog Out, by ell Zape's rating: Average member rating: It’s nine A.M., and your (perfect, responsible) girlfriend needs (flighty, distractible) you to take the dog out. Take the Dog Out is a brief game asking you to do one simple task. |
The Tale of The Foolish Princess, by TharaApples Zape's rating: Average member rating: Family must die. With a kingdom in shambles, and a crown too heavy in the weight of both responsibility and sin, someone must acquiesce the throne. But what can one princess do? Author Notes: This story is a... |
The Tale of the Kissing Bandit, by J. Robinson Wheeler (as 'Cary Valentino') Zape's rating: Average member rating: Zape's time: 9 minutes |
Tales from Castle Balderstone, by Ryan Veeder Zape's rating: Average member rating: Zape's time: 35 minutes An anthology of terror, edited by Ryan Veeder. Also an ECTOCOMP 2018 entry. |
Tangled Tower Tales, by Joanne Yuan Zape's rating: Average member rating: You've been trapped in here for a week already. You can't just stay in your tower and wait for your hair to grow out - it's time for you to take action. |
Tapestry, by Daniel Ravipinto Zape's rating: Average member rating: 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 Zape's rating: Average member rating: Most fantasy stories are about slaying the dragon. This one is about what happens after that. When you and your companions are approached by a man in a tavern who offers you more gold than you could spend in... |
The Temple of Shorgil, by Arthur DiBianca Zape's rating: Average member rating: Zape's time: 3 hours One day, travel guides will talk about this "masterpiece of the Pirothian architect Kitral" -- but only if you, the first person to visit it in over 1,000 years, can find out what's inside. (Puzzle-oriented... |
Tentaculon, by Ned Vole Zape's rating: Average member rating: Copepods hate this game. |
The Tenyaka Memorial of Vegreville, by Roger Carbol Zape's rating: Average member rating: In this small game that parodies Teletubbies, Pokemon, and Scientology, you play as a Knight of Xenu, sworn enemy of Thetans. Your quest has led you to the world's largest Easter egg in Vegreville, Alberta.... |
Terminal Interface for Models RCM301-303, by Victor Gijsbers Zape's rating: Average member rating: A text terminal interface for interacting with your model RCM301-303 remote controlled mech. |
The Test is Now READY, by Jim Warrenfeltz Zape's rating: Average member rating: A zombie apocalypse, with one dose of antidote, one bullet and two survivors. A train hurtles towards your son - or five strangers. You're kidnapped and forced to save an innocent life. Is there another way?... |
Tethered, by Linus Åkesson Zape's rating: Average member rating: "I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly, dreaming I am a man."... |
Thanatophobia, by Robert Goodwin Zape's rating: Average member rating: A session with Madeline.... |
Thaumistry: In Charm's Way, by Bob Bates Zape's rating: Average member rating: Thaum: (noun). A unit of magical energy Bodge: (verb). To hack or kludge Eric Knight was a child prodigy who was featured on the cover of Invent! Magazine at the age of 13 for his invention of an anti-stain... |
Theatre of Spud, by D E Haynes Zape's rating: Average member rating: Theatre of Spud ::::::::::::::: February 14th, 1984. Somewhere in the English Midlands, a humble local side will for the second time battle mighty Liverpool in the football cup tie of a lifetime. And across... |
their angelical understanding, by Porpentine Zape's rating: Average member rating: I train to fight angels in a monastery by the sea. Wear headphones. TW: Suicidal ideation, ableism, abuse, possible epilepsy trigger. |
A Thing of Wretchedness, by AKheon Zape's rating: Average member rating: A lonely farmstead... A troubling situation... No easy answers. ... |
Things, by Jacqueline A. Lott and Sam Kabo Ashwell Zape's rating: Average member rating: |
This Is A Real Thing That Happened, by Carolyn VanEseltine Zape's rating: Average member rating: This short game was created for RuinJam 2015. |
This is the game that I wrote, by David Welbourn Zape's rating: Average member rating: Written for SpeedIF Gruff on Jan. 21, 2006; the theme was fractured fairy tales. Vaguely inspired by "This is the house that Jack built." |
This Won't Make You Happy, by Mike Gillis Zape's rating: Average member rating: Trek into the fearsome Caves of Despair in search of the Jewel of Happiness! Encounter grotesques and total weirdos! Collect all the shiny, shiny gems! All this and more in THIS WON'T MAKE YOU HAPPY——a... |
Those Days, by George Larkwright Zape's rating: Average member rating: "Funny how some friendships end in a thunderstorm of insurmountable differences, whilst others slowly dim out of sight." |
Three Days of Night, by spaceflounder Zape's rating: Average member rating: Can you survive first contact with an alien species? The Moon can be a dangerous place... |
Three-Card Trick, by Chandler Groover Zape's rating: Average member rating: You're going to perform a three-card trick or your name isn't Morgan the Magnificent. |
Threediopolis, by Andrew Schultz Zape's rating: Average member rating: Even in the future with GPS, it's how you get there that matters! A wordplay/quasi-maze game. |
Till Death Makes a Monk-Fish Out of Me, by Mike Sousa and Jon Ingold Zape's rating: Average member rating: 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... |
Time Before Memory, by Cecilia Dougherty Zape's rating: Average member rating: This is a story about human life in prehistory. The characters are a band of Neanderthals, led by the woman Haizea, and a band of Cro-Magnons, one of whom is Haizea's lover, Esti. The two groups live in a... |
The Time Machine, by Bill Maya Zape's rating: Average member rating: This eponymous game is a sequel to "The Time Machine," H.G. Wells' Victorian science fiction novella. Can you solve the mystery of your friend’s delusions or will you be confined to the asylum with him? |
To Hell in a Hamper, by J. J. Guest Zape's rating: Average member rating: Professor Pettibone, eminent Victorian balloonist, has a problem. He can't get it up. His balloon that is. If he can't reach an altitude of 20,000 feet, and soon, both he and his mysterious travelling... |
To Let Go, by Max Fog Zape's rating: Average member rating: When the city finds the woods, they do not agree. And sometimes, their rage creates wars. It affects the outcome of important events throughout time. And sometimes, time itself. |
To Sea in a Sieve, by J. J. Guest Zape's rating: Average member rating: Peter Petibon, cabin boy, hath a problem. He be goin' down -- to Davy Jones' locker, by the powers! Lest he seize the booty o' the dread pyrate Booby, and heave it all o'erboard, he and the Cap'n both will... |
Toby's Nose, by Chandler Groover Zape's rating: Average member rating: Zape's time: 1 hour and 30 minutes A murder most foul has been committed and Sherlock Holmes is on the case. You are his dog. |
Toiletworld, by Chet Rocketfrak Zape's rating: Average member rating: ToiletWorld: it's time to enter... the world of toilets. |
Tombs & Mummies, by Matthew Warner Zape's rating: Average member rating: Your arch enemy has trapped you in the underground tomb of the Pharaoh Haputet. To escape, you must solve a puzzle before you run out of matches to reignite your torch. Watch out for snakes, mummies, and... |
Traffic, by D. S. Yu Zape's rating: Average member rating: An adventure at five miles an hour A somewhat "old-school" style text adventure set in modern day. Contains mild puzzles, most of which have multiple solutions (a basic walkthrough will also be provided).... |
Trail Stash, by Andrew Schultz Zape's rating: Average member rating: A surreal, small treasure hunt with bumpers. Lots of them. |
A Train to Piccadilly, by Marco Innocenti Zape's rating: Average member rating: Zape's time: 6 hours A stupid rainy day. Another one, the umpteenth in Soviet Europe. It kindly keeps the dust down, but moving through the rubble is difficult: the risk is that of slipping and breaking a bone. I'm in the right... |
Transparent, by Hanon Ondricek Zape's rating: Average member rating: There is a house. There is a room in the house. There is a door in the room. The door is locked. Some people are in the room. Some people are transparent. An eerie exploration of an abandoned historic house.... |
Trapped in Time, by Simon Christiansen Zape's rating: Average member rating: A Science Fiction adventure where YOU are the hero! |
The Trials and Tribulation of Edward Harcourt, by MelS and manonamora Zape's rating: Average member rating: Friday February 2nd, 1923 My dearest friend, Such good fortune has befallen me, that I scarcely dare write you in case it is merely some joke played on me by fate. Lord knows that Fortuna has not been kind... |
A Trick-or-Treat Adventure, by Adelynn Snyder Zape's rating: Average member rating: |
Tricks of light in the forest, by Pseudavid Zape's rating: Average member rating: Some year not too far, in a foggy morning just before sunrise, a normal girl takes a normal walk in a normal forest. A Gruescript choice-parser hybrid, exploration walking simulator with light puzzles.... |
Trinity, by Brian Moriarty Zape's rating: Average member rating: You're neither an adventurer nor a professional thrill-seeker. You're simply an American tourist in London, enjoying a relaxing stroll through the famous Kensington Gardens. When World War III starts and the... |
The Triskelion Affair, by Al Cline (as Clyde Falsoon) Zape's rating: Average member rating: A medieval detective explores a desolate chapel in search of a powerful magical item. You guide this naive adventurer through the story, but who, unless you explore diligently, gets deeper and deeper into... |
Tristam Island, by Hugo Labrande Zape's rating: Average member rating: After crashing your plane at sea, you end up drifting to a small island, with not much to survive. You explore, and find out the island was inhabited, years ago. But why did the people leave? And why is... |
Trouble in Sector 471, by Arthur DiBianca Zape's rating: Average member rating: The power just went out in Sector 471. You had better go take a look. (The Glulx version was entered in IFComp 2022. A browser-based version was released subsequently, in 2024.) |
Trusting My Mortal Enemy?! What a Disaster!, by Storysinger Presents Zape's rating: Average member rating: When a hero & a villain start planning their battles over coffee, they come to trust each other more than they ever expected. |
The Truth of the Nightmare, by TrexandDrago Development Zape's rating: Average member rating: "Ben has been acted strangely. Not only lack of sleep, he's acted like he always been stalked every night. I'm his best friend, I need to know something. He need my help." A second submission for Neo Twiny... |
Turandot, by Victor Gijsbers Zape's rating: Average member rating: 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. |
Turbo Chest Hair Massacre, by Joey Acrimonious Zape's rating: Average member rating: You are a young woman about to meet your girlfriend for (what you hope will be) a fun and sexy night on the town. But first, you have an important mission: to shave your chest hair. |
Turn Around, by Andrew Schultz Zape's rating: Average member rating: A game that forces you off on tangents as you try to turn around. An experiment in parser, but hopefully not player, abuse. |
The Turnip, by Joseph Pentangelo Zape's rating: Average member rating: A hole-based economy and a venison-based diet. You and your dog. And a turnip. |
Ugly Chapter, by Sam Kabo Ashwell Zape's rating: Average member rating: In this short story, you play as Leti, a rich woman and a patron of the arts, who travels from Hawaii to Mars, as told by an angry and bitter male poet who knew her. What you did in the most ugly chapter of... |
Ultimate Escape Room: IF City, by Mark Stahl Zape's rating: Average member rating: You and your friends have fallen into the escape room craze that has swept the country in recent years. You love the feeling of living out a real life adventure game. You've made plans with your friends to... |
ULYSSES: The Pegasi Incident, by Paul Turner Zape's rating: Average member rating: YOU decide how the story goes! The humans aboard Pegasi Station have fallen strangely ill. This sickness seems only to be affecting humans, and so far none of the other species working aboard the station... |
Under the Cognomen of Edgar Allan Poe, by Jim Nelson Zape's rating: Average member rating: Zape's time: 3 hours and 30 minutes A tale of literary ambition. "There are some secrets that do not permit themselves to be told." In 1849, Edgar Allan Poe disappeared among the back alleys of Baltimore. A week later, he was found delirious... |
Under the Sea, by Heike Borchers Zape's rating: Average member rating: Deep under the sea lies the wreck of the sunken galleon Santa Tortosa. On your quest to find its treasure, you will discover uncharted places, learn new skills, and make scaly friends. But will the honorable... |
Uninteractive Fiction, by Damon L. Wakes (as Leah Thargic) Zape's rating: Average member rating: Zape's time: 1 minute The only winning move is not to play. |
Universal Hologram, by Kit Riemer Zape's rating: Average member rating: Dreams are nothing but organic simulations. In a computer-generated universe, the citizens of a far-future Martian colony begin projecting their consciousnesses out of their bodies using astral projection... |
Untie, by Mathbrush (as Alex Ellis) Zape's rating: Average member rating: A tiny utopia jam game. Can be completed in less than 5 minutes. |
Untitled Relationship Project, by Sophia de Augustine, Charm Cochran, Drew Cook, Matt Devins, Piergiorgio d’Errico, Max Fog, Hanon Ondricek, Hidnook, Joey Jones, Kastel, Manonamora, Mathbrush, Mike Russo, Tabitha Zape's rating: Average member rating: This is a short game about bits and pieces of relationships, written by a group of authors. |
Untold Riches, by Jason Ermer Zape's rating: Average member rating: You were reluctant to undertake another adventure with Professor d'Squarius (especially after the last near-catastrophe, in the Tomb of the Screaming Mummies), and from the moment you agreed to join the... |
Upwards, by Sam Kabo Ashwell Zape's rating: Average member rating: |
Urban Conflict, by Sam Gordon Zape's rating: Average member rating: An entry in the 2007 One Room Game Competition. Your character is a soldier who was dragged into a bombed-out building by an armed NPC after sustaining a serious injury in a bomb blast. |
The Usher Foundation I: The Dark, by Apollosboy Zape's rating: Average member rating: A fan game for Rusty Quill's The Magnus Archives podcast. Life is tough when you're a six-year-old who's afraid of the dark. And it definitely doesn't help that your night light is broken. |
The Usher, by Branden Rishel and Daphne Gabrieli Zape's rating: Average member rating: You are Lalu, a young woman who is buried alive—entombed. Your job is to lead the dead queen to the afterlife in this multi-dimensional tale of escape. |
Uxmulbrufyuz, by Andrew Schultz Zape's rating: Average member rating: EctoComp 2017 entry. Quick weird abstract puzzle. |
Vain Empires, by Thomas Mack and Xavid Zape's rating: Average member rating: Zape's time: 5 hours The memoir of a demonic spy in the Cold War between Heaven and Hell. |
The Vambrace of Destiny, by Arthur DiBianca Zape's rating: Average member rating: A light dungeon crawl. Tap spell gems to defeat monsters! In this game, all your commands are single keystrokes. You don't even have to press the enter key. |
Vampire Gold, by Olaf Nowacki Zape's rating: Average member rating: A minimalist dungeon crawler. |
Vampire Ltd, by Alex Harby Zape's rating: Average member rating: Nero Brashov, vampire and failed businessman, has revenge on his mind. He'll pose as a human, infiltrate his arch-enemy's corporation, and sabotage it from the inside. Just as soon as he's invited in, that... |
The Vanishing Conjurer, by Marshal Tenner Winter Zape's rating: Average member rating: You wish you were doing almost anything else than having dinner with this bloviating douchebag. Still, it's a potential client. Maybe you should hear what he has to say. . . |
vanitas, by sweetfish Zape's rating: Average member rating: VANITAS Conversations about being online, in 495 words. Written in an hour for Neo-Twiny Jam and coded in Twine for a lot longer. Warning for very brief sexual language. Click, tap, or press space/return to... |
Ventilator, by Peregrine Wade Zape's rating: Average member rating: The heat is stifling, the hotel room is vastly overpriced, and your heart is in pieces. But the worse is yet to come... WARNING: This story contains potentially humorous depictions of Mexican headgear. |
A Very Strong Gland, by Arthur DiBianca Zape's rating: Average member rating: Zape's time: 1 hour and 40 minutes You find yourself abducted by space aliens who would like to give you some challenging tests. How will you perform? Note: To reduce wear and tear on your poor fingers, this game uses a patented*... |
Vicious Moles of Nature, by Bill Ingersoll Zape's rating: Average member rating: As evening arrives on Thanksgiving Day, Hammie Dansker is still struggling with the recent death of his father — and the even more recent marriage of his mother to his uncle. After a tense dinner prepared... |
Violet, by Jeremy Freese Zape's rating: Average member rating: Calm down. All you have to do is write a thousand words and everything will be fine. And you have all day, except it's already noon. [blurb from IF Comp 2008] |
Virtue, by Oliver Revolta Zape's rating: Average member rating: A Satire on Indulgence ... |
Voices, by Aris Katsaris Zape's rating: Average member rating: Zape's time: 20 minutes |
Vortex 2305, by Jacqueline A. Lott Zape's rating: Average member rating: Vortex 2305 was a speed IF written in the suite of a Hilton Hotel in Boston, MA during the 2010 PAX East convention. Room 2305, if you must know. It is silly and short. Participants were asked to include:... |
Waiting for the Day Train, by Dee Cooke Zape's rating: Average member rating: It's been a long journey through the night. The last one, you hope. Today is the last chance you have to catch the day train - a train that will take you to a world of eternal daylight, where you will never... |
The Wal*Mart Game, by thatguy Zape's rating: Average member rating: Hey look everybody, it's The Wal*Mart Game! But this isn't your ordinary Wal*Mart game, oh no, terrorists have taken over, and it's up to you to ... well pretty much do whatever you'd like. Please note that... |
A Walk in the Park, by Anonymous Zape's rating: Average member rating: On a walk in the park with your dog, you find a large tree blocking the path.... |
Walker & Silhouette, by C.E.J. Pacian Zape's rating: Average member rating: Team up with a dashing detective and an iconoclastic flapper to solve absurd and unfathomable crimes in this interactive story - where you control the action just by typing or clicking highlighted words in... |
Walking Into It, by Andrew Schultz Zape's rating: Average member rating: How you win or lose matters. Well, how you lose. And how they win. Don't worry--there are only so many ways to let the kid win. It's a simple game. An adult did the same for you once, sort of. Time to pass... |
The War On New Year's, by Sam Kabo Ashwell Zape's rating: Average member rating: |
A Warm Reception, by Joshua Hetzel Zape's rating: Average member rating: You're a reporter assigned to cover the wedding of the princess of the land. When you get there, you find an empty castle and are pulled into the mystery of what happened. Explore a vast castle. Solve... |
The Waterhouse Women, by Jacqueline A. Lott Zape's rating: Average member rating: |
The Wayward Story, by Ralfe Rich (as Cristmo Ibarra) Zape's rating: Average member rating: It starts with you sitting down, eyes glued to your laptop as the credits roll on the penultimate episode of your favorite series. It's 2:00 AM on a weekday, and your bed's looking pretty good, but it's the... |
We All Fall Together, by Camron Gonzalez Zape's rating: Average member rating: You wake up. You're falling. A ceaseless sky and a never ending cyclone greets you. Others fall all around you. No where else to go but down. ... |
we, the remainder, by Charm Cochran Zape's rating: Average member rating: it's been twenty-four days since everyone else floated up. you haven't been out since then; Momma doesn't like you leaving the flat without her, and the effort of getting down the stairs hasn't been worth it... |
Wearing the Claw, by Paul O'Brian Zape's rating: Average member rating: 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 Weight of a Soul, by Chin Kee Yong Zape's rating: Average member rating: In a world of arcane mysteries, a young doctor's apprentice unravels a conspiracy most grim. The Weight of a Soul is a mystery-horror interactive novel inspired by IF classics like Blue Lacuna and... |
Weird City Interloper, by C.E.J. Pacian Zape's rating: Average member rating: 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... |
Weird Grief, by Naomi Norbez Zape's rating: Average member rating: Mike Stanvinchi is dead. Juniper, who was in a polyamorous threeway with Mike and his spouse, Roger, must navigate her relationship with the surviving partner. But grief isn't always easy. . . Help her... |
Weird Texts from an Unknown Number, by Mark Sample Zape's rating: Average member rating: A short horror texting game originally made for the 2023 Neo-Twiny Game Jam, which imposed a 500-word limit on all text in the game (including paths and options not chosen by the player). The 2024 update to... |
The Whale's Keeper, by Ben Parzybok Zape's rating: Average member rating: You appear to have been swallowed by a whale. Expect to find wonders and horrors, mythical and real, inside the cavernous belly of the greatest mammal on Earth. Fortunately, you're a cetologist. ... |
What Heart Heard Of, Ghost Guessed, by Amanda Walker Zape's rating: Average member rating: Zape's time: 1 hour and 30 minutes Margaret, are you grieving Over Goldengrove unleaving… Come home to Goldengrove, a beautiful old house haunted by a lost soul. Uncover the secrets of your tormented past in a tale of unrequited love,... |
What the Bus?, by Emery Joyce Zape's rating: Average member rating: Your commute is simple enough. Or at least, it should be. But today, the entire public transportation system seems to have it out for you--and is it just you, or does the geography keep... shifting? |
When acting as a particle / When acting as a wave, by David T. Marchand Zape's rating: Average member rating: A game with links. The links tell you the story and the consequences of having clicked on previous links. There’s nothing other than links. Can you read that text? Then you can click it! It’s been said... |
Where Nothing Is Ever Named, by Viktor Sobol Zape's rating: Average member rating: Zape's time: 5 minutes A brief escape puzzle inspired by Chapter 3 of "Through the Looking-Glass" by Lewis Carroll. |
The Whisperers, by Milo van Mesdag Zape's rating: Average member rating: An Interactive Play ... |
Who Iced Mayor McFreeze?, by Damon L. Wakes Zape's rating: Average member rating: A Bubble Gumshoe Mystery ... |
Who Shot Gum E. Bear?, by Damon L. Wakes Zape's rating: Average member rating: Gum E. Bear lies dead in a pool of his own liquid centre, and only Bubble Gumshoe - private eye extraordinaire - can deliver sweet justice on the rain-sticky streets of Sugar City. Explore the area, seek out... |
Why Am I Exist?, by TrexandDrago Development Zape's rating: Average member rating: A 470 words story made as an entry for Neo Twiny Jam.Baron Magmawalker is a hybrid of Tyrannosaurus and tiger. His father left him before he was born. |
Why Pout?, by Andrew Schultz Zape's rating: Average member rating: Silence! We GAVE you ice cream. Content advisory: there's a small profanity-themed area with no penalty whatsoever for skipping it. It is clearly signposted. Just so you're forewarned! |
Wikipedia: The Text Adventure, by Kevan Davis Zape's rating: Average member rating: This isn’t Wikipedia as we know it, but Wikipedia in the style of a text adventure. The game is played online and generated from live Wikipedia data, allowing the player to visit any article which has... |
Winter Storm Draco, by Ryan Veeder Zape's rating: Average member rating: A chronicle of the events of the winter storm of the same name. |
Winter Wonderland, by Laura Knauth Zape's rating: Average member rating: "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] |
Wintervale, by Ethan Erh Zape's rating: Average member rating: An ill fate is about to fall upon Wintervale, a city of commerce founded upon the nests of a mighty winter dragon. Experience what might be its final days through the eyes of a local tavern master. |
Wishbringer, by Brian Moriarty Zape's rating: Average member rating: It's an ordinary day in your ordinary little town, and you've been performing your ordinary mail clerk's duties in an altogether ordinary way. But there's something quite extraordinary in today's mail. It's... |
The Witch, by Charles Moore Zape's rating: Average member rating: You’re typically a sober-minded upstanding elf but last night you were out a little too late and had a little too much mead. This morning you woke up wedged in a tree in the woods outside of town with a... |
Within a Wreath of Dewdrops, by Sam Kabo Ashwell and Jacqueline A. Lott Zape's rating: Average member rating: In this small game, you are the only actor onstage in Within a Wreath of Dewdrops, a historical opus which has entered its final act. Using just four pathetic props, can you act as the hero, the heroine, and... |
The Witness, by Stu Galley Zape's rating: Average member rating: 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... |
The Wizard Sniffer, by Buster Hudson Zape's rating: Average member rating: You were recently acquired by the brave Ser Leonhart and his squire to sniff out the evil shapeshifting wizard. Unfortunately, you are not a wizard sniffer (if such a thing even exists). As far as you can... |
Woban Island, by Bill Ingersoll Zape's rating: Average member rating: You have been hired to retrieve the Stone of Vul-Kar, a purple gem located in an ancient temple on Woban Island's highest point. But this mysterious and recently discovered speck of land in the South Pacific... |
Wonderland, by David Bishop, Bob Coles, Paul Findley, Ken Gordon, Richard Huddy, Steve Lacey, Doug Rabson, Anita Sinclair, Hugh Steers and Mark Taylor Zape's rating: Average member rating: Zape's time: 9 hours Dream the dream... EVERYONE HAS READ WONDERLAND...BUT ONLY ONE HAS DREAMED IT... UNTIL NOW! The newest and largest-ever adventure from Magnetic Scrolls draws you into the bizarre logic of Lewis Caroll's... |
The World Turned Upside Down, by Bruno Dias Zape's rating: Average member rating: It's just shy of closing time on the last Saturday before Christmas; only a handful of regulars left in the bar. Peaceful, even, in spite of all of the city's damage. And then he walks in with some messed-up... |
The World's Most Annoying Game, by climbingstars Zape's rating: Average member rating: They say no one can bear to make it through the Great House. But you're not no one. |
Worlds Apart, by Suzanne Britton Zape's rating: Average member rating: Zape's time: 15 hours 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... |
Worldsmith, by Ade McT Zape's rating: Average member rating: The Septem Tower has held steady in the Manifold, the space between time and the Real, for billenia. Populating the Tower are the Anemoi, a race of beings so far advanced that they hold the power of life and... |
Wrenlaw, by Ryan Veeder Zape's rating: Average member rating: It would be nice to know what you're looking for. |
Xanthippe's Last Night with Socrates, by Victor Gijsbers Zape's rating: Average member rating: Zape's time: 30 minutes It's your last night together, for literal fuck's sake, but your husband is 'not in the mood'. Can you convince him to fulfil his marital duties? ... |
Yaan Versus the Party, by Tabitha / alyshkalia Zape's rating: Average member rating: Get out on time... without pissing off your boss. A tiny social roguelike made for the 2024 Neo-Twiny jam. 500 words exactly! Multiple paths to the good ending; many more to the bad. |
Yay Games, by David Welbourn Zape's rating: Average member rating: Relive the 2003 XYZZY Awards ceremony. (Well, okay, only the first half of the ceremony.) Written for SpeedIF Century. One location. |
Yellow Dog Running, by Sam Kabo Ashwell Zape's rating: Average member rating: |
You, by Carter X Gwertzman Zape's rating: Average member rating: Lost in a strange wood, and your YOU isn't YOURS. Solve puzzles, meet strange creatures, and undergo transformations as YOU search for YOUR missing self. |
You Are a Turkey!, by Jacqueline A. Lott Zape's rating: Average member rating: This was written at pretty much the very last second for ClubFloyd's 2011 Thanksgiving Speed-IF session, inspired by Christos Dimitrakakis, who said, "Let's play You Are A Turkey!" during a ClubFloyd session... |
You are SpamZapper 3.1, by Leon Arnott Zape's rating: Average member rating: DISTINGUISH TRUTH AND SCAMS IN OVER 130 UNIQUE EMAILS • PROTECT THE INBOX FROM URBAN LEGENDS • EXCHANGE WITTY REPARTEE WITH YOUR PLUGIN COWORKERS • CROSS SWORDS WITH A DEADLY EMAIL WORM • LEARN WAY... |
You Are Standing, by Aaron A. Reed Average member rating: A bonus text game created specifically for the Ultimate Collector's Edition of 50 Years of Text Games; initially, available exclusively to backers on 3.5" floppy disc and/or as a download. The game was... |
You Bird., by Wandering Basil Zape's rating: Average member rating: A day in the life of a bird. Made for Neo-Twiny Jam, 313 words. Scroll and click on bold text to play. (Make sure to click "I win" instead of restarting the page.) There are eight endings. |
You Can't Save Her, by Sarah Mak Zape's rating: Average member rating: You have three seconds to kill your former friend. The nuns and sacred algorithms have willed it. And no matter how much you want to save her, you can't. *** A 12-minute interactive story, featuring music by... |
You Couldn't Have Done That, by Ann Hugo Zape's rating: Average member rating: Your first day on the job wasn't going to be pleasant. Such was inevitable. It's a big change. And, you are autistic. But this was a different story, far worse than unpleasant. |
you need bones., by prophet curseofcrows Zape's rating: Average member rating: A short Twine game about bones and the need of them. |
You promise, by Aster Fialla and Jake Gardner Zape's rating: Average member rating: Zape's time: 12 minutes What will you give your Honored Guest? What will you get in return? A game about give and take. |
You Will Thank Me as Fast as You Thank a Werewolf, by B.J. Best Zape's rating: Average member rating: It began when my mother's goldfish died on the dining-room table. I was about to tell her how I lived; my girlfriend and I were about to see the Wauwatosa Thunderdivers. We were dancing on the beach; we were... |
You're a Time Agent!, by Tabitha O'Connell Zape's rating: Average member rating: A silly, light-hearted puzzle game in which you play an agent trying to get through a guarded door using your ability to reset time. |
You've Got a Stew Going!, by Ryan Veeder Zape's rating: Average member rating: Your friend has invited you over for stew. He has not bothered to procure most of the ingredients. |
Your Death, in Four Acts, by Amanda Walker Zape's rating: Average member rating: Post-Comp version of my Petite Mort entry for EctoComp 2021. This version adapts all 4 of the Emily Dickinson poems I originally intended to use, but was unable to do in only 4 hours. |
your life, and nothing else, by Lionstooth Zape's rating: Average member rating: Zape's time: 14 minutes Befriend your neighbors. Appreciate the arts. Stay hydrated. |
Zigamus: Zombies at Vigamus, by Marco Vallarino Zape's rating: Average member rating: Vigamus, the Video Game Museum of Rome, has been attacked by zombies. To save it from the monsters, you can only count on your brain and the relics and gadgets exhibited in the building. This game is also... |
ZIT, by Amanda Walker Zape's rating: Average member rating: A freshly divorced mother of two, at age 50 you are preparing for your first job interview in twenty years. There's a problem. A big one. A petite mort game written in 4 hours for Ectocomp 2022. Play time... |
Zork I, by Marc Blank and Dave Lebling Zape's rating: Average member rating: Many strange tales have been told of the fabulous treasure, exotic creatures, and diabolical puzzles in the Great Underground Empire. As an aspiring adventurer, you will undoubtedly want to locate these... |
Zork II, by Dave Lebling, Marc Blank Zape's rating: Average member rating: The Wizard appears, floating nonchalantly in the air beside you. He grins sideways at you. The Wizard incants "Fantasize," but nothing happens. He shakes his wand. Nothing happens. With a slightly... |
Zork III, by Dave Lebling, Marc Blank Zape's rating: Average member rating: An old, oddly youthful man turns toward you slowly. His long, silver hair dances about him as a fresh breeze blows. "You have reached the final test, my friend! You are proved clever and powerful, but this... |
Zork: The Cavern of Doom, by Steve Meretzky and Manfred Pfeiffer Zape's rating: Average member rating: The gamebook was initially published by Tor Books in September 1983 in the US (later by Puffin in the UK) as the third in a Zork gamebook series, part of the fledgling "What-Do-I-Do-Now" gamebooks line. It... |
Zorkian Stories 1: G.U.E., by Marshal Tenner Winter Zape's rating: Average member rating: Finally making it to the Eastlands, you find a shaft leading to the depths of the Great Underground Empire where, supposedly, lost treasures that have been forgotten for centuries are waiting to be found... |
Zozzled, by Steph Cherrywell Zape's rating: Average member rating: 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... |
Zugzwang, by Vanessa Jygon, Eleanor Jimmy Zape's rating: Average member rating: In which our hero, alone and far from his native bone parlours, faces the final forces of the King of Ebony. Every step is a step closer to his end in Zugzwang. Cover Art Created Using Bishop, Knight, Rook,... |
大鱼 | Big Fish, by 海边的taku (a.k.a. Binggang Zhuo) Zape's rating: Average member rating: The stage is set in a lakeside town from the end of the last century, where the protagonist begins to investigate a murder that occurred a year ago for some reason. Content warning: Maybe violence, gore, or... |