9:05, by Adam Cadre Shigosei's rating: Average member rating: (544 ratings) The phone rings. Oh, no — how long have you been asleep? Sure, it was a tough night, but... This is bad. This is very bad. The phone rings. |
Across The Stars: The Ralckor Incident, by Dark Star and Peter Mattsson Shigosei's rating: Average member rating: (29 ratings) 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... |
An Act of Murder, by Christopher Huang Shigosei's rating: Average member rating: (82 ratings) |
Ad Verbum, by Nick Montfort Shigosei's rating: Average member rating: (136 ratings) "With the cantankerous Wizard of Wordplay evicted from his mansion, the worthless plot can now be redeveloped. The city regulations declare, however, that the rip-down job can't proceed until all the items... |
Adventure, by William Crowther and Donald Woods Shigosei's rating: Average member rating: (99 ratings) |
Adventurer's Consumer Guide, by Øyvind Thorsby Shigosei's rating: Average member rating: (32 ratings) |
Aisle, by Sam Barlow Shigosei's rating: Average member rating: (326 ratings) "Late Thursday night. You've had a hard day and the last thing you need is this: shopping. Luckily, the place is pretty empty and you're progressing rapidly. On to the next aisle... Aisle started out as a... |
All Roads, by Jon Ingold Shigosei's rating: Average member rating: (156 ratings) "Wave a circle round him thrice, And close your eyes with holy dread For he on honey-dew hath fed And drunk the milk of paradise." [--blurb from Competition Aught-One] |
Augmented Fourth, by Brian Uri! Shigosei's rating: Average member rating: (67 ratings) WANTED: Amateur musicians to serve the Royal Court. Must provide own instrument and be inured to copious constructive criticism. Impress your friends! Meet the King! Apply in person at the Castle, located on... |
Best of Three, by Emily Short Shigosei's rating: Average member rating: (62 ratings) |
Beyond, by Roberto Grassi, Paolo Lucchesi, and Alessandro Peretti Shigosei's rating: Average member rating: (45 ratings) A mysterious death, a secret to be revealed… and someone who wants to know the truth, at any cost. ... |
The Blind House, by Amanda Allen Average member rating: (38 ratings) I scarcely know the woman at my side. I don't even know why she was the one I turned to. I can only hope that we haven't been followed, that she won't ask too many questions. The only choice left to me now... |
Blue Lacuna, by Aaron A. Reed Shigosei's rating: Average member rating: (114 ratings) You have always been different. One in a trillion have your gift, your curse: to move between worlds, never settling, always alone. To Wayfare. Yet there are others like you, and something stronger than... |
Broken Legs, by Sarah Morayati Shigosei's rating: Average member rating: (31 ratings) A blurb? They expect you to write? You're Lottie Plum so you're not going into writing. You sing. And dance and act up a storm while everyone else can only manage a puddle. You belong at Bridger. No matter... |
Bronze, by Emily Short Shigosei's rating: Average member rating: (290 ratings) When the seventh day comes and it is time for you to return to the castle in the forest, your sisters cling to your sleeves. |
Child's Play, by Stephen Granade Shigosei's rating: Average member rating: (54 ratings) It is playgroup day and playgroup day is normally a good day but ever since that little red-haired girl started coming she always wants your toys. She shouldn't get your toys. You tried telling the mom this... |
City of Secrets, by Emily Short Shigosei's rating: Average member rating: (105 ratings) |
Containment, by Kevin Mintmier Shigosei's rating: Average member rating: (3 ratings) 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. |
The Crescent City at the Edge of Disaster, by Emily Short Shigosei's rating: Average member rating: (14 ratings) A Speed-IF featuring New Orleans, Emeril, and armed hamsters. |
Curses, by Graham Nelson Shigosei's rating: Average member rating: (132 ratings) "As "Curses" opens, you're hunting about in the attic of your family home, looking for a tatty old map of Paris (you're going on holiday tomorrow) and generally trying to avoid all the packing. Aunt Jemima... |
Damnatio Memoriae, by Emily Short Shigosei's rating: Average member rating: (58 ratings) 14 AD. Agrippa Postumus, grandson of the recently-deceased Augustus, tries to avoid death at the hands of the next emperor, Tiberius. At his disposal: a couple of old manuscripts, a lamp, and a recalcitrant... |
De Baron, by Victor Gijsbers Shigosei's rating: Average member rating: (167 ratings) An evil nobleman, a kidnapped daughter and a father who wants to rescue her at any cost--that is not the way life works. Something much darker, something much more human, lies underneath. Een kwaadaardige... |
Dead Cities, by Jon Ingold Shigosei's rating: Average member rating: (32 ratings) The letter you received from Arkwright's nephew Carter was clear enough: when the old man dies the inheritance tax will be too great. It's certain ruin, much like the estate itself. To raise some capital the... |
Deadline Enchanter, by Alan DeNiro Shigosei's rating: Average member rating: (58 ratings) |
Delightful Wallpaper, by Andrew Plotkin ('Edgar O. Weyrd') Shigosei's rating: Average member rating: (78 ratings) |
Distress, by Mike Snyder Shigosei's rating: Average member rating: (23 ratings) Lieutenant Huchess came to, an hour or so ago. That was around the time Runoma, blazing orange-hot so near this, its second planet, fell below the distant, jagged crag line. Ensign Covegn died not long after... |
The Djinni Chronicles, by J. D. Berry Shigosei's rating: Average member rating: (33 ratings) |
The Dreamhold, by Andrew Plotkin Shigosei's rating: Average member rating: (177 ratings) The Dreamhold is interactive fiction — a classic text adventure. No graphics! No point-and-click! You type your commands, and read what happens next. The Dreamhold is designed for people who have never... |
Dual Transform, by Andrew Plotkin Shigosei's rating: Average member rating: (110 ratings) This game takes place in a single room — but not always the same one. The room contains just one item, but again, there's more to it than that. Experiment and enjoy. |
Earth and Sky, by Paul O'Brian Shigosei's rating: Average member rating: (84 ratings) It's been almost a month since your parents disappeared. One Tuesday, they just didn't come home, and there's been no sign of them since. For the University and the rest of the town, the mystery is beginning... |
Earth and Sky 2: Another Earth, Another Sky, by Paul O'Brian Shigosei's rating: Average member rating: (55 ratings) |
Earth And Sky 3: Luminous Horizon, by Paul O'Brian Shigosei's rating: Average member rating: (43 ratings) |
Ecdysis, by Peter Nepstad Shigosei's rating: Average member rating: (81 ratings) You wake, a pounding headache loud in your inner ear, the back of your head itching and tingling, your mouth full of cotton. The pain drives away your dreams, weird visions of alien landscapes... Ecdysis is... |
The Edifice, by Lucian P. Smith Shigosei's rating: Average member rating: (84 ratings) "Something new in your everyday hunter-gatherer routine: where did this strange edifice come from? Dare you enter and explore the secrets of this... thing, or do you try to face your enemies? Like you have a... |
Fail-Safe, by Jon Ingold Shigosei's rating: Average member rating: (115 ratings) |
Fang Vs. Claw, by Oliver Ullmann Shigosei's rating: Average member rating: (4 ratings) In a starlit age... ...a defeated warrior faces a world of blood and rust... ...an ancient guardian has nothing to protect but his own rage... ...a four-armed acolyte sacrifices his soul for vengeance...... |
Fate, by Victor Gijsbers Shigosei's rating: Average member rating: (50 ratings) 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... |
Final Selection, by Sam Gordon Shigosei's rating: Average member rating: (18 ratings) |
A Fine Day for Reaping, by James Webb (aka revgiblet) Shigosei's rating: Average member rating: (27 ratings) Step into the bare feet of the Grim Reaper for a day and make sure that five pesky souls keep their appointment with the afterlife. |
Firebird, by Bonnie Montgomery Shigosei's rating: Average member rating: (32 ratings) "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... |
For a Change, by Dan Schmidt Shigosei's rating: Average member rating: (117 ratings) "The sun has gone. It must be brought. You have a rock." [--blurb from Competition '99] |
Glass, by Emily Short Shigosei's rating: Average member rating: (108 ratings) The Prince sits awkwardly on the couch, holding his glass slipper and trying to keep it from crushing. Lucinda and Theodora have the ends of the same couch, and they are taking turns seeing who can bend... |
Goose, Egg, Badger, by Brian Rapp Shigosei's rating: Average member rating: (21 ratings) |
Gun Mute, by C.E.J. Pacian Shigosei's rating: Average member rating: (156 ratings) Step into the shoes of Mute Lawton, a lone cowboy who must stop an execution set to occur at noon by shooting his way past dangerous cyborgs and mutants in a post-apocalyptic western setting. (From the... |
Hoist Sail for the Heliopause and Home, by Andrew Plotkin Average member rating: (86 ratings) A far-future story of discovery. |
Insight, by Jon Ingold Shigosei's rating: Average member rating: (27 ratings) |
Leadlight, by Wade Clarke Average member rating: (34 ratings) 15-year-old Belinda Nettle is studying at Linville Girls High School in Australia's Blue Mountains. After falling asleep in the library one afternoon, she wakes from her mundane existence into a nightmare... |
Letters from Home, by Roger Firth Shigosei's rating: Average member rating: (20 ratings) "Centuries of ancestry, decades of memories, years of decline; now, barely two hours in which to reflect on the glorious past, that bygone golden age when nostalgia really meant something... " [--blurb from... |
Lord Bellwater's Secret, by Sam Gordon Shigosei's rating: Average member rating: (71 ratings) |
Lost Pig, by Admiral Jota Shigosei's rating: Average member rating: (500 ratings) Pig lost! Boss say that it Grunk fault. Say Grunk forget about closing gate. Maybe boss right. Grunk not remember forgetting, but maybe Grunk just forget. -- IFComp 2007 blurb |
Macrocosm, by Shaun W. Donaldson Shigosei's rating: Average member rating: (5 ratings) |
Metamorphoses, by Emily Short Shigosei's rating: Average member rating: (133 ratings) You wake to stillness. The hammering, banging, and shouting that kept you awake half the night are gone. The air is cold, and something smells burnt. Your master's experiments must be finished, but with what... |
Möbius, by J.D. Clemens Shigosei's rating: Average member rating: (35 ratings) Another mission. Just when you had settled in for a nap. |
Narcolepsy, by Adam Cadre Shigosei's rating: Average member rating: (63 ratings) |
Necrotic Drift, by Robb Sherwin Shigosei's rating: Average member rating: (18 ratings) Necrotic Drift is a survival horror text adventure... but with graphics and sound! An homage to the old Magnetic Scrolls game in presentation, Necrotic Drift follows the story of gaming store employee Jarret... |
Nightfall, by Eric Eve Shigosei's rating: Average member rating: (61 ratings) The Enemy is expected to arrive at any moment. Staying behind is either the stupidest or the bravest thing you've ever done. Only one thing - or one person - could have made you stay. So now there's nothing... |
One Eye Open, by Caelyn Sandel (as Colin Sandel) and Carolyn VanEseltine Shigosei's rating: Average member rating: (47 ratings) Had you known the bloody history of Corona Labs, you would never have signed up as a test subject. But now, plunged into that history, surrounded by the damned and the dying, you must find the truth. Perhaps... |
The People's Glorious Revolutionary Text Adventure Game, by Taylor Vaughan Shigosei's rating: Average member rating: (56 ratings) 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 Shigosei's rating: Average member rating: (24 ratings) 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... |
Photopia, by Adam Cadre Shigosei's rating: Average member rating: (568 ratings) "Will you read me a story?" "Read you a story? What fun would that be? I've got a better idea: let's tell a story together." |
The Plant, by Michael J. Roberts Shigosei's rating: Average member rating: (34 ratings) You're on a business trip with your boss, driving down a deserted highway in the middle of nowhere, when the car breaks down. You set off on foot seeking help, but you soon find yourself in the middle of a... |
Pytho's Mask, by Emily Short Shigosei's rating: Average member rating: (71 ratings) On the Night of the Comet, the usual astrological bonds do not hold, and the order of the universe is threatened. It is a time made for rebels and usurpers, and all who would claim the kingdom for... |
The Reluctant Resurrectee, by David Whyld Shigosei's rating: Average member rating: (7 ratings) The Further Adventures Of The King Who Wanted To Die But Whose Subjects Just Weren't Ready To Let Him Go… You’re alive. Again. And not too happy about it. During your current period of deadness, your son... |
Return to Ditch Day, by M.J. Roberts Shigosei's rating: Average member rating: (31 ratings) It's been a decade since you graduated, but now it looks like you're going to have to solve one more Ditch Day stack. |
Risorgimento Represso, by Michael J. Coyne Shigosei's rating: Average member rating: (48 ratings) You play as an Oxbridge student who, during a particularly boring lecture, falls through a green portal under their desk into the cluttered library of the wizard Ninario. Ninny was trying to summon a... |
Rogue of the Multiverse, by C.E.J. Pacian Shigosei's rating: Average member rating: (75 ratings) Congratulations, convict 76954! You have been selected for scientific experimentation! You will be matter-transmitted to exotic non-Treaty worlds - where opportunities abound to take in fantastic sights and... |
Rover's Day Out, by Jack Welch and Ben Collins-Sussman Shigosei's rating: Average member rating: (56 ratings) Three hundred years ago, the Brazilian Space Agency discovered a rocky exoplanet only 38 light years from Earth. With a surface temperature of 1200 Celsius and nine times Earth gravity, it's hardly the sort... |
Savoir-Faire, by Emily Short Shigosei's rating: Average member rating: (134 ratings) The beautiful life is always damned, they say. As for you, you've overexpended yourself: fifteen years of prominence, champagne, carriage rides in the Tuileries, having your name whispered behind... |
Scavenger, by Quintin Stone Shigosei's rating: Average member rating: (31 ratings) Search a war-shattered world for secrets of the past. |
Shade, by Andrew Plotkin Shigosei's rating: Average member rating: (421 ratings) "A one-room game set in your apartment." [--blurb from Competition Aught-Zero] |
Six Stories, by Neil K. Guy Shigosei's rating: Average member rating: (25 ratings) After losing control of your car during a blizzard in the mountains of British Columbia, you make your way to a rundown shack and sleep. You wake up elsewhere and soon encounter a mouse, a pair of drawing... |
Slap That Fish, by Peter Nepstad Shigosei's rating: Average member rating: (32 ratings) This time, those fishy bastards are finally going to get what's coming to them. |
Slouching Towards Bedlam, by Star Foster and Daniel Ravipinto Shigosei's rating: Average member rating: (219 ratings) In the beginning was the Word, and it was hungry. ... |
Snowquest, by Eric Eve Shigosei's rating: Average member rating: (48 ratings) You've been on your quest so long you've almost forgotten what it is all about, but now you are nearing your destination -- if only you can stay alive long enough in this frozen wilderness to reach it. |
The Space Under the Window, by Andrew Plotkin Shigosei's rating: Average member rating: (100 ratings) 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] |
Spider and Web, by Andrew Plotkin Shigosei's rating: Average member rating: (318 ratings) A vacation in our lovely country! See the ethnic charms of the countryside, the historic grandeur of the capital city. Taste our traditional cuisine; smell the flowers of the Old Tree. And all without... |
Square Circle, by Eric Eve Shigosei's rating: Average member rating: (27 ratings) What is your crime? Why do you feel both guilty and unjustly punished? What has happened to your memory? How will you draw a square circle and get out of your prison? What will you find then? |
Suveh Nux, by David Fisher Shigosei's rating: Average member rating: (228 ratings) An entry in the 2007 One Room Game Competition. You play a magician's servant who gets trapped in your master's vault; you'll need to learn some of his tricks if you want to get out. |
Tapestry, by Daniel Ravipinto Shigosei's rating: Average member rating: (44 ratings) You were born; you lived; you died. Not everyone gets a second chance to go back and change crucial decisions. You have been granted one and must go back to critical moral dilemmas; but do you change the... |
Till Death Makes a Monk-Fish Out of Me, by Mike Sousa and Jon Ingold Shigosei's rating: Average member rating: (35 ratings) Dr. Taylor's looking worried. Dr. Kurner's looking exhausted. Zak is grinning with glee. Today is the big day, and you're about to try out the crowning experiment of your life, and in AtlantisLab's chequered... |
To Hell in a Hamper, by J. J. Guest Shigosei's rating: Average member rating: (112 ratings) Professor Pettibone, eminent Victorian balloonist, has a problem. He can't get it up. His balloon that is. If he can't reach an altitude of 20,000 feet, and soon, both he and his mysterious travelling... |
Varicella, by Adam Cadre Shigosei's rating: Average member rating: (132 ratings) You are Primo Varicella, Palace Minister at the Palazzo del Piemonte. This title is unlikely to impress anyone. Piedmont is the laughingstock of the Carolingian League, and the Palace Ministry has devolved... |
Violet, by Jeremy Freese Shigosei's rating: Average member rating: (389 ratings) Calm down. All you have to do is write a thousand words and everything will be fine. And you have all day, except it's already noon. [blurb from IF Comp 2008] |
Whom The Telling Changed, by Aaron A. Reed Shigosei's rating: Average member rating: (64 ratings) The people had always gathered on moonless nights to hear the stories, since the time of their ancestors' ancestors. The heat of the fire and the glow in the storyteller's eyes made the past present, and the... |
Worlds Apart, by Suzanne Britton Shigosei's rating: Average member rating: (91 ratings) For over 20 years, I dreamed about an alternate universe I called the Higher World. For three of those years, I poured almost all of my creative energy into a novel-length story set in that universe. Worlds... |