Ballyhoo, by Jeff O'Neill Martin Wrensleather (Boy Genius)'s rating: Average member rating: (45 ratings) 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... |
The Bibliophile, by Marshal Tenner Winter Martin Wrensleather (Boy Genius)'s rating: Average member rating: (10 ratings) “Azathoth is a cosmic horror; a force outside of known physics, Higgins.” Doctor Coffey explains, “It is the embodiment of chaos and destruction and now Dennison has found a way to bring this nightmare... |
Border Zone, by Marc Blank Martin Wrensleather (Boy Genius)'s rating: Average member rating: (27 ratings) Where the Iron Curtain divides East and West, the frontier is a no man's land between freedom and captivity, a place where moments lost or precautions not taken exact a toll in men's lives. In Border Zone,... |
Bureaucracy, by Douglas Adams, The Staff of Infocom Martin Wrensleather (Boy Genius)'s rating: Average member rating: (49 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... |
A Castle of Thread, by Marshal Tenner Winter Martin Wrensleather (Boy Genius)'s rating: Average member rating: (9 ratings) Your family is known to be expert language keepers in your village. Your specialty is an ancient, dead language called Ixteesh. You never thought it would be useful for much of anything, but then you are... |
Castronegro Blues, by Marshal Tenner Winter Martin Wrensleather (Boy Genius)'s rating: Average member rating: (12 ratings) You listen to the dame on the other end of the phone as she finishes her plight. "My brother has gone missing. I want you to find him." You promised yourself a vacation, but this broad sounds a bit dishy.... |
Clusterflux, by Marshal Tenner Winter Martin Wrensleather (Boy Genius)'s rating: Average member rating: (13 ratings) You have a new pet but it happens to be a talking mongoose. You have a new friend but she seems to have come from another place and time. And you have fun housemates but some of them have dropped off the... |
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 JohnsonMartin Wrensleather (Boy Genius)'s rating: Average member rating: (26 ratings) A tribute to Anchorhead. |
Cryptozookeeper, by Robb Sherwin Martin Wrensleather (Boy Genius)'s rating: Average member rating: (24 ratings) Marrow is delicious but that's not why you're here. You're supposed to pick up a single jar of alien bone jelly, which of course can't exist and doesn't exist, so you've convinced yourself that transporting... |
Cutthroats, by Michael Berlyn, Jerry Wolper Martin Wrensleather (Boy Genius)'s rating: Average member rating: (23 ratings) You're about to get yourself into very deep trouble. You're a backwater island's top diver and foremost expert on local shipwrecks. Which makes you perfect for the job a band of the island's shadiest... |
Dark Carnival, by Marshal Tenner Winter Martin Wrensleather (Boy Genius)'s rating: Average member rating: (13 ratings) 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... |
Deadline, by Marc Blank Martin Wrensleather (Boy Genius)'s rating: Average member rating: (60 ratings) Twelve hours to solve the mystery. One false move, and the killer strikes again. It's been called "part of the latest craze in home computing (TIME magazine), an "amazing feat of programming" (THE NEW YORK... |
Enchanter, by Marc Blank, Dave Lebling Martin Wrensleather (Boy Genius)'s rating: Average member rating: (111 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... |
Fallout Shelter, by Marshal Tenner Winter (as Histroy Gloam) Martin Wrensleather (Boy Genius)'s rating: Average member rating: (11 ratings) "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... |
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams and Steve Meretzky Martin Wrensleather (Boy Genius)'s rating: Average member rating: (188 ratings) Don't Panic! Relax, because everything you need to know about playing The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is contained in the pages of this manual. In this story, you will be Arthur Dent, a rather ordinary... |
Hollywood Hijinx, by Dave Anderson, Liz Cyr-Jones Martin Wrensleather (Boy Genius)'s rating: Average member rating: (34 ratings) Vampire Penguins. A Corpse Line. Meltdown on Elm Street. Who could forget these classic Hollywood movies produced by your uncle, Buddy Burbank? But his greatest masterpiece has yet to be experienced...... |
Ill Wind, by Marshal Tenner Winter Martin Wrensleather (Boy Genius)'s rating: Average member rating: (8 ratings) 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... |
Infidel, by Michael Berlyn Martin Wrensleather (Boy Genius)'s rating: Average member rating: (62 ratings) Infidel finds you marooned by your followers in the heart of the deadly Egyptian Desert. A soldier of fortune by trade, you've come hither in search of a great lost pyramid and its untold riches. Now, alone,... |
Jack, by Arlan Wetherminster Martin Wrensleather (Boy Genius)'s rating: Average member rating: (7 ratings) This game was in Ectocomp 2021. A total of 2 people played it. |
Jesse Stavro's Doorway, by Marshal Tenner Winter Martin Wrensleather (Boy Genius)'s rating: Average member rating: (13 ratings) Jordan is looking for his friend, Jesse, who is in hiding from the government. Picking up the trail, he discovers that Jesse is following the Grateful Dead on tour, but as Jordan immerses himself into the... |
Leather Goddesses of Phobos, by Steve Meretzky Martin Wrensleather (Boy Genius)'s rating: Average member rating: (72 ratings) 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... |
The Lurking Horror II: The Lurkening, by Ryan Veeder Martin Wrensleather (Boy Genius)'s rating: Average member rating: (29 ratings) An unauthorized sequel to the Infocom classic, written for the 2018 MIT Mystery Hunt. |
A Mind Forever Voyaging, by Steve Meretzky Martin Wrensleather (Boy Genius)'s rating: Average member rating: (118 ratings) "If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not..." --Shakespeare It's 2031. The world is on the brink of chaos. In the United States of North America, spiraling... |
Moonmist, by Stu Galley, Jim Lawrence Martin Wrensleather (Boy Genius)'s rating: Average member rating: (50 ratings) 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... |
Nord and Bert Couldn't Make Head or Tail of It, by Jeff O'Neill Martin Wrensleather (Boy Genius)'s rating: Average member rating: (60 ratings) 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... |
Planetfall, by Steve Meretzky Martin Wrensleather (Boy Genius)'s rating: Average member rating: (121 ratings) "Join the Patrol, and see the Galaxy!" You took the poster's advice, bait and all, and marched right over to the recruitment station near your home on the backwater planet of Gallium. Images of exotic... |
Plundered Hearts, by Amy Briggs Martin Wrensleather (Boy Genius)'s rating: Average member rating: (67 ratings) 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... |
Risorgimento Represso, by Michael J. Coyne Martin Wrensleather (Boy Genius)'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... |
Scroll Thief, by Daniel M. Stelzer Martin Wrensleather (Boy Genius)'s rating: Average member rating: (17 ratings) 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... |
Sherlock: The Riddle of the Crown Jewels, by Bob Bates Martin Wrensleather (Boy Genius)'s rating: Average member rating: (23 ratings) 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... |
Shogun, by James Clavell, Dave Lebling Martin Wrensleather (Boy Genius)'s rating: Average member rating: (17 ratings) Experience the sweeping drama and power of James Clavell's Shogun. The year is 1600. You are John Blackthorne, Pilot-Major of a privateering merchant ship and the first Englishman to set foot on Japanese... |
Sorcerer, by Steve Meretzky Martin Wrensleather (Boy Genius)'s rating: Average member rating: (68 ratings) 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... |
Spellbreaker, by Dave Lebling Martin Wrensleather (Boy Genius)'s rating: Average member rating: (59 ratings) 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,... |
Stationfall, by Steve Meretzky Martin Wrensleather (Boy Genius)'s rating: Average member rating: (47 ratings) 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 Sueño, by Marshal Tenner Winter Martin Wrensleather (Boy Genius)'s rating: Average member rating: (13 ratings) Low on income, you've signed up for a sleep study to test a new medication; one that supposedly causes lucid dreams. What you'll learn, however, is that much more will be revealed on The Sueño. |
The Surprising Case of Brian Timmons, by Marshal Tenner Winter Martin Wrensleather (Boy Genius)'s rating: Average member rating: (24 ratings) You listen to the old broad on the other end of the phone as she finishes her plight. "Brian has gone insane. I've had to have him committed.", she tells you. You haven't seen Brian Timmons in several years... |
Suspect, by Dave Lebling Martin Wrensleather (Boy Genius)'s rating: Average member rating: (25 ratings) 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... |
The Train To Abaddon, by Marshal Tenner Winter Martin Wrensleather (Boy Genius)'s rating: Average member rating: (6 ratings) A very short steampunk adventure! Try to unlock all 7 achievements! |
Trinity, by Brian Moriarty Martin Wrensleather (Boy Genius)'s rating: Average member rating: (105 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... |
The Vanishing Conjurer, by Marshal Tenner Winter Martin Wrensleather (Boy Genius)'s rating: Average member rating: (7 ratings) 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. . . |
The Voodoo You Do 2, by Marshal Tenner Winter Martin Wrensleather (Boy Genius)'s rating: Average member rating: (10 ratings) The casket opens and the pitch blackness is replaced with the sight of the moon; full in the night sky. Then, someone leans over, facing you and smiling a lunatic grin. He wears a dirty black top hat and... |
The Voodoo You Do 3, by Marshal Tenner Winter Martin Wrensleather (Boy Genius)'s rating: Average member rating: (2 ratings) New Orleans, 1981. You are a neophyte private-eye who gets mixed up in the world of Voodoo. (Any similarities with actual Voodoo is completely coincidental.) |
The Voodoo You Do, by Marshal Tenner Winter Martin Wrensleather (Boy Genius)'s rating: Average member rating: (17 ratings) You've found the crossroads where you were told you would finally meet Papa Legba himself; the intermediary between this world and the next. |
Wishbringer, by Brian Moriarty Martin Wrensleather (Boy Genius)'s rating: Average member rating: (111 ratings) 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 Witness, by Stu Galley Martin Wrensleather (Boy Genius)'s rating: Average member rating: (30 ratings) February 1938, Los Angeles. FDR's New Deal is finally rolling. Hitler's rolling, too; this time through Austria. But as Chief Detective for a quiet burgh on the outskirts of L.A., you've got other fish to... |
Zork I, by Marc Blank and Dave Lebling Martin Wrensleather (Boy Genius)'s rating: Average member rating: (222 ratings) Many strange tales have been told of the fabulous treasure, exotic creatures, and diabolical puzzles in the Great Underground Empire. As an aspiring adventurer, you will undoubtedly want to locate these... |
Zork II, by Dave Lebling, Marc Blank Martin Wrensleather (Boy Genius)'s rating: Average member rating: (100 ratings) The Wizard appears, floating nonchalantly in the air beside you. He grins sideways at you. The Wizard incants "Fantasize," but nothing happens. He shakes his wand. Nothing happens. With a slightly... |
Zork III, by Dave Lebling, Marc Blank Martin Wrensleather (Boy Genius)'s rating: Average member rating: (79 ratings) An old, oddly youthful man turns toward you slowly. His long, silver hair dances about him as a fresh breeze blows. "You have reached the final test, my friend! You are proved clever and powerful, but this... |
Zorkian Stories 1: G.U.E., by Marshal Tenner Winter Martin Wrensleather (Boy Genius)'s rating: Average member rating: (15 ratings) 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... |