9:05, by Adam Cadre Average member rating: 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. |
abyssopelagic cable anomaly, by ✧.* hellodri *✲☆ Average member rating: ABYSSOPELAGIC CABLE ANOMALY for shufflecomp 2024-25! you maintain deep sea internet cables. you go investigate a network anomaly. Fullscreen recommended. songs used: Solar Flare by Oceanator, Fifteen Men by... |
Aisle, by Sam Barlow Average member rating: "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: |
Anolelona, by Caleb Wilson Average member rating: Anolelona was written by Caleb Wilson for ShuffleComp 2024. The songs which inspired it are 'Barrett's Privateers,' by Stan Rogers, 'Slice,' by O. (and more specifically its video by Yevheniia Vynokurova),... |
Anonymous Connection, by moniker ersatz Average member rating: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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. |
a diner for the end of the world, by KA Tan Average member rating: Even at the end of the world, we must find ways to make life worth living. A story-heavy piece of interactive fiction where you run a diner at the end of the world, catering to many versions of yourself.... |
Eat Me, by Chandler Groover Average member rating: 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: A null game, inspired by John Cage's 4′33″. |
Fairest, by Amanda Walker Average member rating: “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: 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: 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: "The shoot-'em up text adventure." Excellent parody of the famous Shareware game DOOM.... |
Forsaken Denizen, by C.E.J. Pacian Average member rating: THIS GAME CONTAINS SCENES OF IMPLICIT VIOLENCE AND GORE. * * * (A text-only survival horror.) |
The Garbage of the Future, by AM Ruf Average member rating: On a dark and ominous night, two workers drive to the lake to do a job. It's a dirty and difficult job, but somebody has to do it. It's probably best not to think too much about it, or about the strange... |
hideous, fabulous, by Lionstooth Average member rating: Entry for ShuffleComp 2024, inspired by these songs from my assigned playlist: Scattered Pearls - Casiotone for the Painfully Alone Sugar Water Cyanide - Rebecca Black Candelabra Cadaver - The Slow Poisoner... |
JELLY, by Tom Lento, Chandler Groover Average member rating: Young love in the Lonely Valley. |
KillerTuneKillsMe, by Nicky Syst3m Average member rating: A short story for ShuffleComp about holographic universe theory. |
KING OF XANADU, by MACHINES UNDERNEATH Average member rating: And what a lovely place. ... |
Lost Coastlines, by William Dooling Average member rating: > 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: 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. Now Grunk need find pig. -- IFComp 2007 blurb |
Ma Tiger's Terrible Trip, by Travis Moy Average member rating: 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. |
Man, Unlidded, by Joey Jones Average member rating: Jack Jefferson hasn't made much of his life. But he'll always have his memories of his time with the love of life. Won't he? A link-driven text adventure through scent and memories. |
The Maze Gallery, by Cryptic Conservatory, Paxton et al.Show other authorsRachel Aubertin, Chrys Pine, Ed Lu, Toni Owen-Blue, Christi Kerr, Sean Song, Joshua Campbell, Dawn Sueoka, Randy Hayes, Allyson Gray, Shana E. Hadi, Dominique Nelson, Orane Defiolle, An Artist's Ode, Sisi Peng, Kazu Lupo, Robin Scott, Sarah Barker, Alex Parker, Mia Parker, J Isaac Gadient, Charm Cochran, Ghost Clown, and IFcoltransG and divineshadow777 and TavernKeepAverage member rating: The Maze Gallery was created over the course of 6 months by 34 contributors, 27 of them authors. It is a choice-based interactive fiction game about a surreal art museum that is intent on keeping its patrons... |
A Mind Forever Voyaging, by Steve Meretzky Average member rating: "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: 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: 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: '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: 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... |
nothing but me and you, by Nick Gelling Average member rating: A cosmic story about enduring love and true conclusions. Created for ShuffleComp 2024. Inspired by a random crowd-sourced playlist: El-P - Nothing But Me and You Magdalena Bay - Image Cults - Gilded Lily... |
Perdition's Flames, by Michael J. Roberts Average member rating: 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: 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... |
Raven & Cardinal, by Norbez Jones (call me Bez) Average member rating: After a successful mission, two transmasculine confidence men have a conversation on the phone. This is the last of the games I made for Shufflecomp 2024 (you can play the 1st one here and the 2nd one... |
A Rope of Chalk, by Ryan Veeder Average member rating: An account of the disastrous sidewalk chalk tournament of August 27, 2011. |
SANTAPUNK 2076, by Gymcrash Average member rating: Xmas 8-bit illustrated cyberpunk Text Adventure Short story |
Shade, by Andrew Plotkin Average member rating: "A one-room game set in your apartment." [--blurb from Competition Aught-Zero] |
Silverwolf, by Anonymous |
Sophomore Slump, by Galvan Average member rating: Created for ShuffleComp 2024 by Galvan, with Twine Inspired by the song "The Group Who Couldn't Say" by Grandaddy (lyrics here) Fullscreen recommended. Thank you for playing! |
The Sound of One Hand Clapping, by Erica Sadun Average member rating: |
stare directly at the sun, by ferkung Average member rating: What does it mean to be a pilot, stripped of their cockpit by simply following the plan? Maybe they can be worth something to someone. (EP version is just short of half the length of the planned full... |
Stay?, by E. Jade Lomax Average member rating: STAY? CHOOSE YOUR OWN HAPPY ENDING Welcome to Elaia, a magical city nestled in a high valley. It's the end of your first year at university & time to choose your major. Find yourself among potential friends... |
Superluminal Vagrant Twin, by C.E.J. Pacian Average member rating: 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: 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: |
Toby's Nose, by Chandler Groover Average member rating: A murder most foul has been committed and Sherlock Holmes is on the case. You are his dog. |
Turn Right, by Dee Cooke Average member rating: Long day done, groceries bought and you're so nearly home! Unfortunately it's rush hour, and getting out of this supermarket car park is a difficult job at the best of times. Will you ever get out of this... |
Violet, by Jeremy Freese Average member rating: 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: 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: 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... |
You Can't Save Her, by Sarah Mak Average member rating: You have three seconds to kill your former friend. The nuns and sacred algorithms have willed it. And no matter how much you want to save her, you can't. *** A 12-minute interactive story, featuring music by... |