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| 9:05, by Adam Cadre Average member rating:  (535 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. |
| Aisle, by Sam Barlow Average member rating: (322 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 strivenword's rating: Average member rating: (37 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... |
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(94 ratings)| Andromeda Awakening - The Final Cut, by Marco Innocenti strivenword's rating: Average member rating: (42 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... |
| Andromeda Dreaming, by Joey Jones Average member rating: (18 ratings)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 Argument, by Harvey Smith Average member rating: (8 ratings) |
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(24 ratings)| The Awakening: Prologue to the Saturn Chronicles, by PKProStudio Average member rating: (1 rating)"One man begins the longest journey of his life in this prologue to the upcoming Saturn Chronicles" ... |
| The Bible Retold: Following a Star, by Justin Morgan strivenword's rating: Average member rating: (13 ratings)You are Balthasar, a magus from Babylon. You and your companions, Gaspar and Melchior, are about to embark on a journey to Judea, a client kingdom of the Roman Empire, to venerate a newborn king. You'll need... |
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(10 ratings)| Blighted Isle, by Eric Eve strivenword's rating: Average member rating: (43 ratings)Blockade duty in the Bay of Biscay, vile weather, and an unplanned jaunt over the side of the ship into the tossing waves. But instead of drowning, you end up on an island that has no right to be there - and... |
| 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... |
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(94 ratings)| 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... |
| Bolivia By Night, by Aidan Doyle strivenword's rating: Average member rating: (19 ratings)A mystery adventure game set in Bolivia. |
| Boxes, by Anastasia Salter strivenword's rating: Average member rating: (2 ratings)An interactive academia metafiction. |
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(3 ratings)| Crossroads, by Cat Manning strivenword's rating: Average member rating: (15 ratings)They say it's death to seek the witch. For you, it's worth the risk. Venture in to the forest in search of relief, but remember that magic is rarely straightforward. A short psychological game about... |
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(7 ratings)| De Baron, by Victor Gijsbers Average member rating: (160 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... |
| 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... |
| Deathbox: 2013, by Tylor Average member rating: (4 ratings)Deathbox 2013 is a post-life destination determination simulation based on a literal interpretation of the Bible. |
| Delicious Breakfast, by Molly G. Average member rating: (9 ratings)This is a re-implementation of the first work I finished in Inform 7. I made it for Glorious Trainwrecks' Pirate Kart 2, then re-released an improved version (along with a bunch of other games) for the IGF... |
| Digital Witnesses, by rosencrantz Average member rating: (17 ratings)You are on the run, but why? A short fiction created in twenty-three Twine passages, prompted by a challenge on Twinery.org. |
| The Dreamhold, by Andrew Plotkin strivenword's rating: 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... |
| Dual Transform, by Andrew Plotkin Average member rating: (109 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. |
| Duel, by piato strivenword's rating: Average member rating: (15 ratings)But you were the one challenged. Custom dictates that you make the first move. |
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(21 ratings)| The Egg and the Newbie, by Robert DeFord Average member rating: (5 ratings)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... |
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(5 ratings)| Fallacy of Dawn, by Robb Sherwin strivenword's rating: Average member rating: (19 ratings)In a world that never quite got over the '80s, Delarion Yar dispenses quarters for the local arcade... badly. A software pirate from better days, he's crossed the wrong people one too many times. Locked into... |
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(3 ratings)| Floatpoint, by Emily Short Average member rating: (98 ratings)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... |
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(12 ratings)| For a Change, by Dan Schmidt Average member rating: (115 ratings)"The sun has gone. It must be brought. You have a rock." [--blurb from Competition '99] |
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(13 ratings)| Galatea, by Emily Short Average member rating: (335 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... |
| Going:Home, by SaintOfPenguins Average member rating: (3 ratings)A hypertext/short film experience. We're all just looking for our home... that slice of 'reality' where we belong. Decide where you belong. |
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(2 ratings)| Grandma Bethlinda's Variety Box, by Arthur DiBianca Average member rating: (36 ratings)It's the latest model, and it would really like to play with you. |
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(3 ratings)| Hoist Sail for the Heliopause and Home, by Andrew Plotkin Average member rating: (84 ratings)A far-future story of discovery. |
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(6 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... |
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(21 ratings)The Lesson of the Tortoise, by G. Kevin Wilson
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(19 ratings)| Lock & Key, by Adam Cadre Average member rating: (77 ratings) |
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(5 ratings)| A Mind Forever Voyaging, by Steve Meretzky Average member rating: (116 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... |
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(1 rating)| Ninja, by Paul Allen Panks Average member rating: (12 ratings)You are a lone ninja, protecting a shinto shrine of Japan. Your goal is to avoid capture by the Evil One, a deft ninja from a rival shrine. He is nearby, but you don't know exactly where. And it is dark... |
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(16 ratings)| 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... |
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(8 ratings)| Oxygen, by Benjamin Sokal Average member rating: (25 ratings)An explosion rattles the Aegis mining station and the oxygen tanks are leaking. Who gets the remaining oxygen and who will perish? The choice is up to you, a lowly technician trapped in an access conduit. |
| Pale Blue Light, by Kazuki Mishima Average member rating: (8 ratings)"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... |
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(19 ratings)| The People's Glorious Revolutionary Text Adventure Game, by Taylor Vaughan 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... |
| 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." |
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(5 ratings)| The Problems Compound, by Andrew Schultz strivenword's rating: Average member rating: (11 ratings)Wherein you, Alec Smart, turn what's-thats into that's-whats. |
| The Promise, by Sean Huxter Average member rating: (9 ratings)Your village lives a harsh life of perpetual winter and has for as long as you can remember. As a young boy unable to go on the hunt, you may find that, with almost everyone away, you can be of some use to... |
| A Quiet Evening at Home, by Anonymous Average member rating: (20 ratings)They say you should write what you know. Sorry. |
| Rainbows and Dance Parties!, by Carolyn VanEseltine Average member rating: (6 ratings)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,... |
| The Reluctant Resurrectee, by David Whyld 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 has... |
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(4 ratings)| Robin & Orchid, by Ryan Veeder and Emily Boegheim strivenword's rating: Average member rating: (64 ratings)High school journalists spend the night in a church, investigating reports of a ghost. |
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(4 ratings)| Rogue of the Multiverse, by C.E.J. Pacian Average member rating: (73 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... |
| A Roiling Original, by Andrew Schultz Average member rating: (6 ratings) |
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(3 ratings)| Shade, by Andrew Plotkin Average member rating: (413 ratings)"A one-room game set in your apartment." [--blurb from Competition Aught-Zero] |
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(18 ratings)| The Space Under the Window, by Andrew Plotkin Average member rating: (98 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 strivenword's rating: 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... |
| Square Circle, by Eric Eve 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? |
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(1 rating)Swineback Ridge, by Eric Eve
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(8 ratings)Teleport Test, by Viridian Development Corporation (Paul Robinson)
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(89 ratings)| Threnody, by John "Doppler" Schiff Average member rating: (6 ratings)A cat o'nine tails; a tale o' nine cats. You are a baby in your mother's womb, about to be born. When you try to leave and the cord starts to strangle you, you must choose the Lion, Dragon, or Ferret to... |
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(3 ratings)| Under, In Erebus, by Brian Rapp Average member rating: (17 ratings)Board that Drain-Bound El for an adventure that could only happen in Erebus. |
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(11 ratings)| Untold Riches, by Jason Ermer strivenword's rating: Average member rating: (22 ratings)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... |
| Úrquel, the black dragon, by David T. Marchand Average member rating: (8 ratings)A short hypertext adventure story about a dragon kidnapping a princess and a hero trying to rescue her. But it's also a joke about how silly the typical "you" character is in most IFs. And a commentary on... |
| Vague, by Richard Otter Average member rating: (3 ratings)With amnesia it is quite possible to have a complete or partial loss of memory, but this isn't like that. It is not that you can't remember who you are or anything about your life, you have no thoughts... |
| Varkana, by Maryam Gousheh-Forgeot Average member rating: (25 ratings)Varkana is the name of a region in a world with a timeless, mildy fantasy/sci-fi setting (some technological and magical elements are present at this moment, but not prevalent), with the city-state of Arg... |
| The Warbler's Nest, by Jason McIntosh Average member rating: (91 ratings)Surely the reed bank counts as a wild place. While it gives you so much, you've never tended it, not really, not like you do with your garden. It's something like the forest, then, but much safer to search... |
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(5 ratings)| Wearing the Claw, by Paul O'Brian Average member rating: (32 ratings)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... |
| Wetlands, by Clara Raubertas strivenword's rating: Average member rating: (8 ratings)Wetlands is an interactive quagmire that leads you from the image of a fantastical city to a choice about the actual city's future, via a collection of mechanical puzzles in a watery setting. |
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(8 ratings)| When in Rome 1: Accounting for Taste, by Emily Short Average member rating: (27 ratings)Manhattan, May, 1954. |
| When in Rome 2: Far from Home, by Emily Short Average member rating: (15 ratings)Manhattan, 1954. |
| The White Bull, by Jim Aikin Average member rating: (6 ratings) |
| Whom The Telling Changed, by Aaron A. Reed strivenword'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... |
| Witch's Girl, by Geoff Moore Average member rating: (19 ratings) |
| Yellow Dog Running, by Sam Kabo Ashwell strivenword's rating: Average member rating: (10 ratings) |
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