9:05, by Adam Cadre 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 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... |
Amnesia, by Thomas M. Disch and Kevin Bentley Average member rating: (13 ratings) |
Anonymous Connection, by moniker ersatz Average member rating: (5 ratings) Imagine, if you can, a world where you can't safety meet with other people, and where a computer screen is your only tenuous connection to the outside world. This is a short sort-of-romance set against a... |
Babel, by Ian Finley Average member rating: (156 ratings) In this game, you play as an amnesiac inside Babel, an abandoned Arctic facility devoted to biological research. You soon discover that you have the unusual ability to witness scenes from the past by... |
Breakers, by Rodney Smith, Joe Vierra, William Mataga Average member rating: (3 ratings) They're expecting the Messiah any day now. If you're not him, you'd better have a real good story. The realm of the Breakers wait for their Messiah to come to them the same day you arrive. How to convince... |
Choice of Magics, by Kevin Gold Average member rating: (9 ratings) Your magic can change the world, but at what cost? Battle dragons, skyships, and evil Inquisitors, as you protect your homeland, conquer it, or destroy it forever. Choice of Magics is a 550,000-word... |
Cyborg, by Michael Berlyn Average member rating: (1 rating) When NASA 11 told you that becoming a cyborg was a painless experience, you believed them, didn't you?-and you volunteered. The operation was painless. Until you woke up. |
Eat Me, by Chandler Groover Average member rating: (109 ratings) In this castle, you'll eat or be eaten. May contain dairy, carnage, puzzles, nuts. |
Everything We Do Is Games, by Doug Orleans Average member rating: (9 ratings) A null game, inspired by John Cage's 4′33″. |
Fairest, by Amanda Walker Average member rating: (29 ratings) “Mirror, mirror, on the wall,” you say dreamily, gazing into its sparkling surface… “You know,” replies the mirror, “I can do a lot more than just reflect fair faces. O, how I long to leap off... |
Fall On Your Knees, by Jon Sorce, Z. Zandbergen How long has it been since you were here? Your name is D. You moved away from home. It's not going well. Tonight, on Christmas Eve, your family has asked you to come to church in the town where you were... |
Feasibility Experiment, by Brian Howarth and Wherner Barnes A human guinea-pig for a race of super intelligent beings that have no bodily form. Plucked from your bed in order to satisfy their craving for life force that will sustain them. A warrior that can live up... |
Feathery Christmas, by OK Feather Average member rating: (4 ratings) A text adventure to save Christmas with the help of your feathery friends. |
Fish!, by John Molloy, Pete Kemp, Phil South, Rob Steggles 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... |
FooM, by Piers Johnson Average member rating: (2 ratings) "The shoot-'em up text adventure." Excellent parody of the famous Shareware game DOOM.... |
JELLY, by Tom Lento, Chandler Groover Average member rating: (17 ratings) Young love in the Lonely Valley. |
Lost Coastlines, by William Dooling Average member rating: (11 ratings) > SHARE all your stories > RECORD all your secrets > ANSWER all your questions > RENOUNCE all your possessions > WAKE UP... (For a *slightly* less surreal mapping experience, improved fonts, and a manual,... |
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 |
Ma Tiger's Terrible Trip, by Travis Moy Average member rating: (5 ratings) The last time Ma Tiger’s children spoke was thirteen years ago. Now, with nowhere else to turn, she asks for their aid. Requires two players. |
A Mind Forever Voyaging, by Steve Meretzky 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... |
Mindshadow, by Brian Fargo Average member rating: (11 ratings) You find yourself lost in the middle of nowhere. In the middle of a mystery. Who are you? Where will you go? What will you do? London. Luxembourg. Across oceans and continents. You struggle for answers. For... |
Mindwheel, by Robert Pinsky, William Mataga, Steve Hales Average member rating: (5 ratings) Travel into the minds of four important people to collect the Wheel of Wisdom and save the world: BOBBY CLEMON, assassinated rock star, once called 'half John Lennon and half Janis Joplin'. This charismatic,... |
The Mouse Who Woke Up For Christmas, by Luke A. Jones Average member rating: (8 ratings) 'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse... Well, that's not quite true, there was a mouse stirring, not in the house, but in the shed at the... |
Necrotic Drift, by Robb Sherwin Average member rating: (18 ratings) Necrotic Drift is a survival horror text adventure... but with graphics and sound! An homage to the old Magnetic Scrolls game in presentation, Necrotic Drift follows the story of gaming store employee Jarret... |
The Nine Dancers, by Geoff. H. Larsen The numerous Megalithic monuments which are scattered across these islands are the subjects of countless legends and folktales. One story common to many of the great standing stones is that of petrification... |
Perdition's Flames, by Michael J. Roberts Average member rating: (24 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... |
Plundered Hearts, by Amy Briggs 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... |
SANTAPUNK 2076, by Gymcrash Average member rating: (3 ratings) Xmas 8-bit illustrated cyberpunk Text Adventure Short story |
Shade, by Andrew Plotkin Average member rating: (421 ratings) "A one-room game set in your apartment." [--blurb from Competition Aught-Zero] |
The Sound of One Hand Clapping, by Erica Sadun Average member rating: (5 ratings) |
Superluminal Vagrant Twin, by C.E.J. Pacian Average member rating: (131 ratings) A text-only space sim. Ply the spaceways. Make five million credits. Buy back your twin. (Superluminal Vagrant Twin is a shallow but broad exploration game.) |
Suspended, by Michael Berlyn Average member rating: (44 ratings) They said you would sleep for half a millennium - not an unreasonable length of time, considering you'd be in limited cryogenic suspension. Your body would rest at the planet's nerve center, an underground... |
Thy Dungeonman, by Videlectrix Average member rating: (9 ratings) |
Toby's Nose, by Chandler Groover Average member rating: (120 ratings) A murder most foul has been committed and Sherlock Holmes is on the case. You are his dog. |
Violet, by Jeremy Freese 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 Weight of a Soul, by Chin Kee Yong Average member rating: (27 ratings) In a world of arcane mysteries, a young doctor's apprentice unravels a conspiracy most grim. The Weight of a Soul is a mystery-horror interactive novel inspired by IF classics like Blue Lacuna and... |
Wychwood, by Geoffrey Hans Larsen Average member rating: (1 rating) You have served your six months' sentence for burglary and now you hope to benefit from what you have learned. Old Jones was a good mate to you. Mind you, Jonesy doesn't realise how much information was... |