9:05, by Adam Cadre Karlok'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. |
Aisle, by Sam Barlow Karlok'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 Karlok'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] |
Anchorhead, by Michael Gentry Karlok's rating: Average member rating: (409 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... |
Ballyhoo, by Jeff O'Neill Karlok'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... |
Beyond Zork, by Brian Moriarty Karlok's rating: Average member rating: (52 ratings) Dread times have befallen the Kingdom of Quendor. The wizards have mysteriously disappeared. The Enchanter's Guild Hall lies in ruins. Villages are abandoned, drunken men mutter strange tales, and vicious... |
Border Zone, by Marc Blank Karlok'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,... |
Bronze, by Emily Short Karlok'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. |
Bureaucracy, by Douglas Adams, The Staff of Infocom Karlok'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... |
Corruption, by Rob Steggles, Hugh Steers Karlok's rating: Average member rating: (21 ratings) In the real world the good guys rarely win. CAN YOU COPE WITH CORRUPTION? The City of London. Deals and chicanery, Porsches and profit, wild animals in handmade suits. And you. Outwardly, you're on the fast... |
Counterfeit Monkey, by Emily Short Karlok's rating: Average member rating: (253 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 Karlok'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... |
The Dreamhold, by Andrew Plotkin Karlok'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... |
Enchanter, by Marc Blank, Dave Lebling Karlok'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... |
Endless, Nameless, by Adam Cadre Karlok's rating: Average member rating: (56 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... |
Eric the Unready, by Bob Bates Karlok's rating: Average member rating: (42 ratings) A tongue-in-cheek graphic text adventure/point and click adventure hybrid. You are a chivalrous knight attempting to save a princess; your quest takes you through a mad-cap Douglas Adams-style world. |
Fail-Safe, by Jon Ingold Karlok's rating: Average member rating: (115 ratings) |
Fish!, by John Molloy, Pete Kemp, Phil South, Rob Steggles Karlok's rating: Average member rating: (18 ratings) One nibble and you're hooked. JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT IT WAS SAFE TO GET OUT OF THE WATER: The tide is turning in the teeming metropolis of Fishworld. The oceans and seas are boiling off into space. The Seven... |
Foo Foo, by Buster Hudson Karlok's rating: Average member rating: (65 ratings) Someone's been bopping the field mice on the head, and only Good Fairy, Senior Detective can find out who. A parser-driven noir adventure based on the interactive fiction of Ryan Veeder. |
Future Boy!, by Kent Tessman, Derek Lo, Dan Langan, and Nate Laguzza Karlok's rating: Average member rating: (10 ratings) |
Galatea, by Emily Short Karlok'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... |
Gateway, by Mike Verdu, Michael Lindner, and Glen Dahlgren Karlok's rating: Average member rating: (36 ratings) In the early twenty-second century, adventurous citizens of Earth can travel to a place called "Gateway": a long-abandoned alien space station, now rediscovered by humans and turned into a jumping-off point... |
Glass, by Emily Short Karlok'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... |
The Guild of Thieves, by Rob Steggles Karlok's rating: Average member rating: (26 ratings) Steal yourself a world of fantasy WHY BUY THIS GAME WHEN YOU CAN STEAL IT ? Except you can't. Not yet. An amateur like you? Come off it! Now, if you were a fully paid-up member of the notorious Guild of... |
Hoosegow, by Ben Collins-Sussman, Jack Welch Karlok's rating: 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... |
The Impossible Bottle, by Linus Åkesson Karlok's rating: Average member rating: (82 ratings) Housework is only as dull as your imagination. Join Emma, six years old, on a playful adventure of peculiar proportions. Merciful puzzlefest. Parser or point-and-click, as you please. Web (including mobile)... |
Indigo, by Emily Short Karlok's rating: Average member rating: (55 ratings) "Years ago, a witch placed you in this tower and arranged for your upkeep, paying certain villagers well to keep you supplied with the most basic necessities, and no more. Your years in the tower have... |
Insight, by Jon Ingold Karlok's rating: Average member rating: (27 ratings) |
Jigsaw, by Graham Nelson Karlok's rating: Average member rating: (84 ratings) New Year's Eve, 1999, a quarter to midnight and where else to be but Century Park! Fireworks cascade across the sky, your stomach rumbles uneasily, music and lasers howl across the parkland... Not exactly... |
Jinxter, by Georgina Sinclair, Michael Bywater Karlok's rating: Average member rating: (14 ratings) Every silver lining has a cloud... JUST WHEN A MAN THINKS HIS LUCK IS RUNNING OUT... ... things start getting even worse. He gets run over by a bus. Sprayed with cheese sandwich by a supernatural being.... |
Leather Goddesses of Phobos, by Steve Meretzky Karlok'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... |
Lime Ergot, by Caleb Wilson (as Rust Blight) Karlok's rating: Average member rating: (85 ratings) Now everyone is gone. (Well, almost everyone.) Entry in ECTOCOMP 2014. |
Little Blue Men, by Michael S. Gentry Karlok's rating: Average member rating: (71 ratings) This game is a joke. This game is a warning. This game is a satire. This game is inspired in equal parts by Vaclav Havel's "The Memorandum" and Hunter S. Thompson's "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas". This... |
Lock & Key, by Adam Cadre Karlok's rating: Average member rating: (78 ratings) |
Lost Pig, by Admiral Jota Karlok'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 |
The Lurking Horror, by Dave Lebling Karlok's rating: Average member rating: (94 ratings) A winter night at the G.U.E. tech campus with most students away on vacation serves as the backdrop for this tale of Lovecraftian horror. |
Make It Good, by Jon Ingold Karlok's rating: Average member rating: (86 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 Karlok's rating: 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. |
A Mind Forever Voyaging, by Steve Meretzky Karlok'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 Karlok'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... |
Oppositely Opal, by Buster Hudson Karlok's rating: Average member rating: (68 ratings) You've practiced long and hard for PotionComp, but Grusilda won't give up her title so easily. UGH! Curse that Grusilda! A one-room potion-brewing spell-casting parser puzzler, where things might go opposite... |
Overboard!, by inkle Karlok's rating: Average member rating: (10 ratings) Overboard! is a whodunnit where you’re the one whodunnit. You have just eight hours to cover the evidence, mislead the witnesses, frame another suspect and escape ... if you can! The Story July, 1935.... |
The Pawn, by Rob Steggles, Peter Kemp, Hugh Steers, Ken Gordon, and Geoff Quilley Karlok's rating: Average member rating: (29 ratings) The Pawn is an adventure game set in the magical world of Kerovnia during a period of tremendous social upheaval. Recently, King Erik, the present ruler of the land, has started to lose his hold on the... |
Photopia, by Adam Cadre Karlok'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." |
Plundered Hearts, by Amy Briggs Karlok'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... |
Shade, by Andrew Plotkin Karlok's rating: Average member rating: (421 ratings) "A one-room game set in your apartment." [--blurb from Competition Aught-Zero] |
The Shadow in the Cathedral, by Ian Finley and Jon Ingold Karlok's rating: Average member rating: (32 ratings) When the monks took me, aged six months, into their care, they named me Wren. Maybe because I was small, insignificant, and happy to eat any crumbs they threw my way. But these days I'm Wren, 2nd Assistant... |
Shrapnel, by Adam Cadre Karlok's rating: Average member rating: (170 ratings) |
Slouching Towards Bedlam, by Star Foster and Daniel Ravipinto Karlok's rating: Average member rating: (219 ratings) In the beginning was the Word, and it was hungry. ... |
Spellcasting 101 - Sorcerers Get All The Girls, by Steve Meretzky Karlok's rating: Average member rating: (25 ratings) From MobyGames: Spellcasting 101 is the first in a series of risque adventures from the mind of Steve Meretzky of Leather Goddesses of Phobos fame. This textual liaison pits you as Ernie Eaglebeak, a student... |
Spellcasting 301: Spring Break, by Steve Meretzky Karlok's rating: Average member rating: (8 ratings) Sorcerer University: Dangerously close to a real education! Follow the sun to Fort Naughtytail and party hardy with Ernie and his fraternity brothers. They're hoping to find sand in all the wrong places but... |
Spider and Web, by Andrew Plotkin Karlok'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... |
Sting, by Mike Russo Karlok's rating: Average member rating: (20 ratings) Six bees. Five bags of groceries. A four-pound dumbbell. Three sailboats. One twin. Sting is a puzzleless parser memoir about ordinary days and unexpected interruptions. |
Suveh Nux, by David Fisher Karlok'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. |
Thaumistry: In Charm's Way, by Bob Bates Karlok's rating: Average member rating: (17 ratings) Thaum: (noun). A unit of magical energy Bodge: (verb). To hack or kludge Eric Knight was a child prodigy who was featured on the cover of Invent! Magazine at the age of 13 for his invention of an anti-stain... |
TimeQuest, by Bob Bates Karlok's rating: Average member rating: (11 ratings) You are a private in an organization called the Temporal Corps. As the game begins, a general calls you into his office, explaining that a Corps lieutenant has apparently conceived the insane notion of going... |
Toby's Nose, by Chandler Groover Karlok's rating: Average member rating: (120 ratings) A murder most foul has been committed and Sherlock Holmes is on the case. You are his dog. |
Trinity, by Brian Moriarty Karlok's rating: 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... |
unmemory, by Daniel Calabuig Average member rating: (1 rating) A game you can read. A book you can play. |
Varicella, by Adam Cadre Karlok'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 Karlok'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] |
The Wand, by Arthur DiBianca Karlok's rating: Average member rating: (60 ratings) Explore the wizard Bartholloco's castle with the help of a versatile magic wand. Can you overcome his challenge? Can you levitate a rock? Can you slice a baltavakia? (Puzzle-oriented and family friendly.) |
The Warbler's Nest, by Jason McIntosh Karlok's rating: Average member rating: (92 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... |
Wishbringer, by Brian Moriarty Karlok'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... |
Wonderland, by David Bishop, Bob Coles, Paul Findley, Ken Gordon, Richard Huddy, Steve Lacey, Doug Rabson, Anita Sinclair, Hugh Steers and Mark Taylor Karlok's rating: Average member rating: (16 ratings) Dream the dream... EVERYONE HAS READ WONDERLAND...BUT ONLY ONE HAS DREAMED IT... UNTIL NOW! The newest and largest-ever adventure from Magnetic Scrolls draws you into the bizarre logic of Lewis Caroll's... |
Zork I, by Marc Blank and Dave Lebling Karlok'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 Karlok'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 Zero: The Revenge of Megaboz, by Steve Meretzky Karlok's rating: Average member rating: (61 ratings) The Great Underground Empire is in its heyday. Upscale condos crowd the massive caverns. Subterranean highways stretch from Aragain to the Fublio Valley. And no adventurer has yet set foot in the open field... |