Absence of Law, by mathbrush Average member rating: (47 ratings) 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... |
Adventure, by William Crowther and Donald Woods Average member rating: (97 ratings) |
Anchorhead, by Michael Gentry Average member rating: (393 ratings) You take a deep breath of salty air as the first raindrops begin to spatter the pavement, and the swollen, slate-colored clouds that blanket the sky mutter ominous portents amongst themselves over the little... |
Blue Lacuna, by Aaron A. Reed Average member rating: (111 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... |
Bureaucracy, by Douglas Adams, The Staff of Infocom Average member rating: (48 ratings) IMPORTANT! Our records show that you do not have a license to operate this software. Normally, you would be required to complete a License Application Form and mail it (with proof of purchase) to our... |
City of Secrets, by Emily Short Average member rating: (103 ratings) |
Counterfeit Monkey, by Emily Short Average member rating: (239 ratings) Anglophone Atlantis has been an independent nation since an April day in 1822, when a well-aimed shot from their depluralizing cannon reduced the British colonizing fleet to one ship. Since then, Atlantis... |
Curses, by Graham Nelson Average member rating: (132 ratings) "As "Curses" opens, you're hunting about in the attic of your family home, looking for a tatty old map of Paris (you're going on holiday tomorrow) and generally trying to avoid all the packing. Aunt Jemima... |
Death off the Cuff, by Simon Christiansen Average member rating: (53 ratings) They all stare at you expectantly, like children waiting to be told a bedtime story. Who can blame them? You are, after all, Antoine Saint Germain, the great French detective. No criminal has ever been a... |
The Dreamhold, by Andrew Plotkin Average member rating: (175 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... |
Endless, Nameless, by Adam Cadre Average member rating: (53 ratings) 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... |
Fail-Safe, by Jon Ingold Average member rating: (112 ratings) |
Goose, Egg, Badger, by Brian Rapp Average member rating: (21 ratings) |
Guess the Verb!, by Leonard Richardson Average member rating: (28 ratings) "Now you too can GUESS THE VERB for fun and prizes! Read evocative and amusing room descriptions while manipulating interesting objects! Interact with the simulated motives and desires of quirky NPCs! No... |
Hoosegow, by Ben Collins-Sussman, Jack Welch Average member rating: (40 ratings) Muddy's plan done landed you and your partner in the hoosegow. Now you're fixing to rectificate the matter before the marshal introduces you to the business end of a hangin' rope at dawn. Created for the... |
I.A.G. Alpha, by Serhii Mozhaiskyi Average member rating: (15 ratings) You may think this game is about a post-Soviet Research Institute. About an experiment that went out of control. You may think that the initials "I.A.G." are somehow related to the Institute. You may think... |
Insight, by Jon Ingold Average member rating: (27 ratings) |
LASH -- Local Asynchronous Satellite Hookup, by Paul O'Brian Average member rating: (41 ratings) In this historical drama and treasure hunt set in 2062, you have rented a robot called a MULE that you can control remotely to salvage artifacts from an abandoned irradiated plantation near Macon, Georgia.... |
Lost Pig, by Admiral Jota Average member rating: (492 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 |
Make It Good, by Jon Ingold Average member rating: (84 ratings) The call comes through. Of all the dicks; you get the call, sitting in the front seat of your car, hands shaking on the steering wheel. An urgent call; but all you were thinking of was the bottle in the... |
Map, by Ade McT Average member rating: (33 ratings) 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. |
Metamorphoses, by Emily Short Average member rating: (130 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 Average member rating: (35 ratings) Another mission. Just when you had settled in for a nap. |
One Eye Open, by Caelyn Sandel (as Colin Sandel) and Carolyn VanEseltine Average member rating: (46 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... |
Perdition's Flames, by Michael J. Roberts Average member rating: (23 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 Average member rating: (558 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." |
Portcullis, by Robin Johnson Average member rating: (14 ratings) Your home town, Portcullis, has been taken over by an evil sorcerer (because that's what evil sorcerers do) and a party of adventurers has arrived to overthrow him (because that's what adventurers do.) An... |
The Primrose Path, by Nolan Bonvouloir Average member rating: (36 ratings) 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 . . . |
Rover's Day Out, by Jack Welch and Ben Collins-Sussman Average member rating: (54 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 Average member rating: (131 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... |
Shrapnel, by Adam Cadre Average member rating: (166 ratings) |
Speculative Fiction, by Diane Christoforo and Thomas Mack Average member rating: (13 ratings) A puzzle game about committing acts of financial skulduggery and exploiting ridiculous magical items. This game is the complete version of the one that appeared in IntroComp 2011, where it won second place. |
Spider and Web, by Andrew Plotkin Average member rating: (310 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... |
Terminal Interface for Models RCM301-303, by Victor Gijsbers Average member rating: (21 ratings) A text terminal interface for interacting with your model RCM301-303 remote controlled mech. |
Toby's Nose, by Chandler Groover Average member rating: (109 ratings) A murder most foul has been committed and Sherlock Holmes is on the case. You are his dog. |
Transparent, by Hanon Ondricek Average member rating: (20 ratings) 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 Average member rating: (25 ratings) A Science Fiction adventure where YOU are the hero! |
Varicella, by Adam Cadre Average member rating: (131 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... |
Whitefield Academy of Witchcraft, by Steph Cherrywell Average member rating: (19 ratings) The year is 1957, and the place is lush, storm-tossed Stinglash Island, just off the north coast of Washington's Olympic Peninsula. You are Page LeBlanc, witch in training, and you've returned for another... |
Worlds Apart, by Suzanne Britton Average member rating: (90 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... |