9:05, by Adam Cadre trojo'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. |
Ad Verbum, by Nick Montfort trojo'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 trojo's rating: Average member rating: (99 ratings) |
Aisle, by Sam Barlow trojo'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 Hope Abandon, by Eric Eve trojo's rating: Average member rating: (38 ratings) Your day got off to a good enough start when you met that blonde in the breakfast queue, but it's all downhill from there: you may be wishing you could escape a particularly dire lecture, but not by the one... |
Amnesia, by Thomas M. Disch and Kevin Bentley trojo's rating: Average member rating: (13 ratings) |
Andromeda Awakening - The Final Cut, by Marco Innocenti trojo's rating: Average member rating: (43 ratings) 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... |
Babel, by Ian Finley trojo's rating: Average member rating: (156 ratings) 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... |
Beet the Devil, by Carolyn VanEseltine trojo's rating: Average member rating: (35 ratings) Your dog is gone. She must be brought. You have a beet (and some other vegetables). |
Bronze, by Emily Short trojo'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. |
City of Secrets, by Emily Short trojo's rating: Average member rating: (105 ratings) |
The Crystal Palace, by Peter Orme trojo's rating: Average member rating: (6 ratings) 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... |
Curses, by Graham Nelson trojo'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... |
A Day for Fresh Sushi, by Emily Short Average member rating: (99 ratings) No time for fantasy. Must feed fish. |
De Baron, by Victor Gijsbers trojo's rating: Average member rating: (166 ratings) An evil nobleman, a kidnapped daughter and a father who wants to rescue her at any cost--that is not the way life works. Something much darker, something much more human, lies underneath. Een kwaadaardige... |
Dragon Flies Like Labradorite, by Troy Jones III trojo's rating: Average member rating: (6 ratings) "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... |
Enchanter, by Marc Blank, Dave Lebling trojo's rating: Average member rating: (110 ratings) In Enchanter, the first of a spellbinding series in the tradition of Zork, you are a novice magician whom Fate has chosen to do singlehanded combat with a dark and fierce power. But worldly weapons will... |
Escape From Santaland, by Jason Ermer trojo's rating: Average member rating: (22 ratings) Ugh. Christmastime at the mall. The last place you want to be, during the worst time of year to be there. |
Galatea, by Emily Short trojo's rating: Average member rating: (346 ratings) Emily Short's description: A conversation with a work of art. "47. Galatea. White Thasos marble. Non-commissioned work by the late Pygmalion of Cyprus. (The artist has since committed suicide.) Originally... |
The Gostak, by Carl Muckenhoupt trojo's rating: Average member rating: (93 ratings) "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... |
It, by Emily Boegheim trojo's rating: Average member rating: (32 ratings) "The rules of the game are easy. I'm It, so I go and hide. You and the others count to 50, then you have to look for me. If you find me, you have to get into the hiding spot with me. If you're the last... |
Kaged, by Ian Finley trojo's rating: Average member rating: (54 ratings) ""But my madness speaks: It will but skin and film the ulcerous place, Whilst rank corruption, mining all within, Infects unseen." Welcome to the Citadel of Justice. The Inquisitor is waiting." [--blurb from... |
Keepsake, by Savaric trojo's rating: Average member rating: (28 ratings) The planning was easy. Committing the murder was easy. But getting away with it? That's another thing. Keepsake is a short, surreal story about vengeance and its consequences. |
Kerkerkruip, by Victor Gijsbers trojo's rating: Average member rating: (70 ratings) 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... |
The Life (and Deaths) of Doctor M, by Michael D. Hilborn trojo's rating: Average member rating: (30 ratings) 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... |
Lost Pig, by Admiral Jota trojo'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 |
Luster, by Jared Smith trojo's rating: Average member rating: (13 ratings) In the outskirts of a deserted town, the adventurer carefully explores, looking for rare gems. |
The Myothian Falcon, by Andy Joel trojo's rating: Average member rating: (11 ratings) "That day, the 9th of June, 3145, started out like any other, perhaps a little hotter than usual. Then Maisy DeValle entered his office." Vic Gantry, P.I., has a new client. She is wanted for the murder of... |
New Cat, by Poster trojo's rating: Average member rating: (7 ratings) You are the new cat, but you do not have a name. Today, He has left the door to your place open. If you explore the new world, can you get a name? |
Out of Babylon, by Out of Babylon trojo's rating: Average member rating: (9 ratings) The scraping sound you hear is life as you know it grinding to a halt. Welcome to the New World Order. "Out of Babylon" is an online interactive apocalyptic story of the near future. Make the right choices... |
PataNoir, by Simon Christiansen trojo's rating: Average member rating: (58 ratings) The Baron's daughter is missing, and you are the man to find her. No problem. With your inexhaustible arsenal of hard-boiled similes, there is nothing you can't handle. |
Photopia, by Adam Cadre trojo'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 Play, by Dietrich Squinkifer (Squinky) trojo's rating: Average member rating: (66 ratings) Pull yourself together, Ainsley. Just one more rehearsal until the big day, assuming nothing catastrophic happens. But really, all you have to do is get your motley crew of actors to run their parts once... |
Police Bear, by Anna Anthropy trojo's rating: Average member rating: (9 ratings) Across America, scores of the disenfranchised and jobless have flocked to the streets in protest of unchecked corporate and capitalist greed, only to be met with strong police resistance. These are confusing... |
Shade, by Andrew Plotkin trojo's rating: Average member rating: (421 ratings) "A one-room game set in your apartment." [--blurb from Competition Aught-Zero] |
Six, by Wade Clarke trojo's rating: Average member rating: (42 ratings) 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.... |
Snowquest, by Eric Eve trojo'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 trojo'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 trojo'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... |
Squeaky on the Moon, by David Welbourn Average member rating: (4 ratings) 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. |
Suveh Nux, by David Fisher trojo'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. |
Taco Fiction, by Ryan Veeder trojo's rating: Average member rating: (118 ratings) Taco Fiction is a game about crime. |
Ted Paladin And The Case Of The Abandoned House, by Anssi Räisänen trojo's rating: Average member rating: (14 ratings) Known for your text adventure skills, you have been called in for help to reveal the secrets of a locked, abandoned house scheduled to be demolished soon. Can you manage the task bestowed upon you? |
Trinity, by Brian Moriarty Average member rating: (104 ratings) You're neither an adventurer nor a professional thrill-seeker. You're simply an American tourist in London, enjoying a relaxing stroll through the famous Kensington Gardens. When World War III starts and the... |
Tutorial, by Nereare trojo's rating: Average member rating: (3 ratings) You are trapped inside your boat for quite some time now. Silent radio, no sight on the horizon. No hope seems to bloom until you see a strange island on the horizon. |
Vestiges, by Josephine Wynter trojo's rating: Average member rating: (19 ratings) In the absence of reality, perception must suffice... You awake in a grave, with no memory of who you are or what happened to you. Using the items around you, you must escape the entity pursuing you and... |
Whom The Telling Changed, by Aaron A. Reed trojo'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... |