The 12:54 to Asgard, by J. Robinson Wheeler Bernie's rating: Average member rating: (17 ratings) Your mood is foul as you drive down to the studio in the middle of the night to fix a leak that's threatening to short circuit the entire studio. A chilling feeling haunts you tonight, and you feel pushed to... |
69,105 Keys, by David Welbourn Bernie's rating: Average member rating: (80 ratings) There's just one room. How hard can it be? Just unlock the door. Oh. There's 69,105 keys. |
9:05, by Adam Cadre Bernie'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 Bernie'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... |
Adventurer's Consumer Guide, by Øyvind Thorsby Bernie's rating: Average member rating: (32 ratings) |
Anchorhead, by Michael Gentry Bernie'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... |
Aotearoa, by Matt Wigdahl Bernie's rating: Average member rating: (63 ratings) The Fish of Māui. The Land of the Long Cloud. Aotearoa. An entire continent of untamed wilds, and the last place on Earth where dinosaurs still roam. If only you'd come ashore under better circumstances... |
The Art of Fugue, by Victor Gijsbers, Jimmy Maher, Dorte Lassen, and Johan Bernie's rating: Average member rating: (6 ratings) A pure story-less puzzle game featuring logical puzzles based on the idea of the fugue: your commands are performed by four different actors, but with increasing delays. The version with music features... |
At Wit's End, by Mike Sousa Bernie's rating: Average member rating: (15 ratings) "A case study of Murphy's Law in action. In-game hints available." [--blurb from Competition Aught-Zero] |
Blizzard Pass, by Alan Cox Bernie's rating: Average member rating: (1 rating) |
Common Ground, by Stephen Granade Bernie's rating: Average member rating: (30 ratings) |
Death off the Cuff, by Simon Christiansen Bernie's rating: Average member rating: (54 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... |
Ecdysis, by Peter Nepstad Bernie's rating: Average member rating: (81 ratings) You wake, a pounding headache loud in your inner ear, the back of your head itching and tingling, your mouth full of cotton. The pain drives away your dreams, weird visions of alien landscapes... Ecdysis is... |
The Elysium Enigma, by Eric Eve Bernie's rating: Average member rating: (78 ratings) It was meant to be a routine visit on behalf of the imperial government, just to remind the settlers that the Empire hadn't forgotten them, and if you stick rigidly to the letter of your orders and refuse to... |
Escape In The Dark, by Owen Parish Bernie's rating: Average member rating: (5 ratings) For a thief, being arrested is an occupational hazard. While you can't exactly plan out an entire escape in advance, having the right skills and tools can let you improvise one without too much trouble. |
Eureka!, by Ian Livingstone Bernie's rating: Average member rating: (1 rating) |
Flight of the Hummingbird, by Michael Martin Bernie's rating: Average member rating: (29 ratings) Dr. Sinister is at it again! The Concordance of Powered Response isn't entirely clear on what it is he's planning, but it's big. This is clearly a task for one of the world's mightiest champions! |
Indigo, by Emily Short Bernie'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... |
The King of Shreds and Patches, by Jimmy Maher Bernie's rating: Average member rating: (81 ratings) January 14th Dear friend. My sojourn in parts foreign is at an ende. I am at lodgings in Southwark not far from the bridge at Stoney Street, come dine with me two days hence to ring in the newe year. I have... |
Lost Pig, by Admiral Jota 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 |
Lydia's Heart, by Jim Aikin Bernie's rating: Average member rating: (32 ratings) "Lydia's Heart" is a large, complex game with a serious tone and seven or eight NPCs you can converse with. The genre is low-key horror: There's almost no actual blood, but there are several ways to die in a... |
Monday, 16:30, by Alexander "Mordred" Andonov Bernie's rating: Average member rating: (10 ratings) How long is half an hour when you are bored and miserable? How about when it's Monday, and it's 16:30? How about when you're in love? |
Mystery House Kracked, by Nick Montfort (as "the Flippy Disk") Bernie's rating: Average member rating: (6 ratings) The Flippy Disk's crack works "liberated" digital art into Mystery House in a deft demonstration of what the hackers of the home computer era called "skillz." |
Pantomime, by Robb Sherwin Bernie's rating: Average member rating: (11 ratings) Pantomime takes place on the Martian moon of Phobos, in the year 2044. Mankind has developed colonies on Mars, Titan, Ganymede and installed a life bubble on the closer, larger Martian satellite. Mankind has... |
The People's Glorious Revolutionary Text Adventure Game, by Taylor Vaughan Bernie's rating: 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... |
Pytho's Mask, by Emily Short Bernie's rating: Average member rating: (71 ratings) On the Night of the Comet, the usual astrological bonds do not hold, and the order of the universe is threatened. It is a time made for rebels and usurpers, and all who would claim the kingdom for... |
A Quiet Evening at Home, by Anonymous Bernie's rating: Average member rating: (20 ratings) They say you should write what you know. Sorry. |
R (Pron: Arrr...), by therealeasterbunny Bernie's rating: Average member rating: (11 ratings) Ye be the Dread (but handsome n' quite nice on occasion) Pirate Goattybeard. Ye quest? Why, it be t'get the treasure and rescue ye wench o'course! There be sharks, grog, caves, bones, an' all manner o'... |
Revenger, by Robb Sherwin Bernie's rating: Average member rating: (4 ratings) "Jalen McKeon had it all figured out. Post-graduate work in the lovely desert over work he could attend to with his eyes closed. Another eleven months and voila! Another degree for this professional student.... |
Risorgimento Represso, by Michael J. Coyne Bernie'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... |
Rogue of the Multiverse, by C.E.J. Pacian Bernie's rating: Average member rating: (75 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... |
Savoir-Faire, by Emily Short Bernie's rating: Average member rating: (134 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... |
Slouching Towards Bedlam, by Star Foster and Daniel Ravipinto Bernie's rating: Average member rating: (219 ratings) In the beginning was the Word, and it was hungry. ... |
Spider and Web, by Andrew Plotkin Bernie'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... |
Suveh Nux, by David Fisher Bernie'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. |
Vestiges, by Josephine Wynter Bernie'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... |
Violet, by Jeremy Freese Bernie'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 Warbler's Nest, by Jason McIntosh Bernie'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... |