9:05, by Adam Cadre Grey's rating: 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. |
Adoo's Stinky Story, by B. Perry Grey's rating: Average member rating: In this game, you play as a university student named Adoo, back home for an extended break. But your childhood home is in danger! Your parents have put their house up for sale! To stop any possible sale, you... |
Aisle, by Sam Barlow Grey's rating: 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... |
Amissville II, by William A. Tilli Grey's rating: Average member rating: "The long awaited sequel and finale to Amissville." |
Amnesia, by Dustin Rhodes Grey's rating: Average member rating: In this poorly-written game, you play as someone who washed ashore onto an island. You were supposed to have amnesia, but you don't, so the author will make up a new story where you just need to solve a few... |
The Atomic Heart, by Stefan Blixt Grey's rating: Average member rating: Playback starts. It seems you were just getting ready to recuperate after many labouring hours (the amount of strange tasks that Mrs. Go could find for you was amazing). As you plugged in the charger cable... |
Aunts and Butlers, by Robin Johnson Grey's rating: Average member rating: It's 1920, you're a minor aristocrat fallen on hard times, and your wretched Aunt Cedilla is on the warpath. A Wodehousean comedy of manners, manors, mysterious butlers and unfriendly poodles. |
Babel, by Ian Finley Grey's rating: 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... |
Baluthar, by Chris Molloy Wischer Grey's rating: Average member rating: In this game of horror, you play as an old man of a tribal culture. For months, you've been weary of life and kept to your bed. But when you learn that your adult son, Rykhard, has foolishly gone into the... |
Bio, by David Linder Grey's rating: Average member rating: In this game, you play as a male live-in janitor for a scientific research facility in a Brazilian jungle. Tonight, the scientists are away at a convention and you're enjoying the peace and quiet.... |
Blue Sky, by Hans Fugal Grey's rating: Average member rating: You play as a tourist in Santa Fe, New Mexico. You've overslept your first morning here and your tour group has already left the hotel without you. You'd better hurry up and find them! |
CaffeiNation, by Michael Loegering Grey's rating: Average member rating: A text only adventure of a pathetic office drone's search for a cup of coffee. Starting in a cubicle at "Data Entry & Diagnosics", the player must escape the clutches of Mr. Norom, the manager, and make his... |
Carmen Devine: Supernatural Troubleshooter, by Rob Myall Grey's rating: Average member rating: The jet lands smoothly in Harbin. The stink of the city and the bite of the ice-cold air assaults you as you disembark, but your destination is a long jeep ride north, so you'll have to suffer through the... |
Cerulean Stowaway, by Roger Descheneaux Grey's rating: Average member rating: A stowaway gets more of a ride than he bargained for. |
Common Ground, by Stephen Granade Grey's rating: Average member rating: |
Critical Breach, by Grey Grey's rating: Average member rating: A science fiction/horror game, set in an underground laboratory. Something is breaking free... This is my first game, it should be pretty short and easy. |
CYBERQUEEN, by Porpentine Grey's rating: Average member rating: integration necessitates evisceration |
Deadline Enchanter, by Alan DeNiro Grey's rating: Average member rating: |
Delightful Wallpaper, by Andrew Plotkin ('Edgar O. Weyrd') Grey's rating: Average member rating: Delightful Wallpaper is a ghoulishly humorous take on the mannerly (or manorly) murder mystery. You do not play the detective, however. Your point of view is part of the mystery; but don't worry, it will all... |
Delvyn, by William A. Tilli Grey's rating: Average member rating: Citizens of Newberry, South Carolina, will never forget the day, May 5, 1979. A day in which thousands of curious souls, onlookers, news agencies and world reporters flocked to the small hommlet of Newberry,... |
Distress, by Mike Snyder Grey's rating: Average member rating: Lieutenant Huchess came to, an hour or so ago. That was around the time Runoma, blazing orange-hot so near this, its second planet, fell below the distant, jagged crag line. Ensign Covegn died not long after... |
Domicile, by John Evans Grey's rating: Average member rating: After inheriting a house from a strange relative, you find that things are not what they seem. It is only a house...but perhaps it is a truer house than any you have visited before... |
The Elysium Enigma, by Eric Eve Grey's rating: Average member rating: 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... |
Episode in the Life of an Artist, by Peter Eastman Grey's rating: Average member rating: |
The Erudition Chamber, by Daniel Freas Grey's rating: Average member rating: Step into the Erudition Chamber, where the solution to a puzzle is not half so important as the way you choose to solve it. Multiple solutions, multiple endings, and a generally good time all around - at... |
Fail-Safe, by Jon Ingold Grey's rating: Average member rating: |
The Fat Lardo and the Rubber Ducky, by Anonymous Grey's rating: Average member rating: |
Floatpoint, by Emily Short Grey's rating: Average member rating: 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... |
Goose, Egg, Badger, by Brian Rapp Grey's rating: Average member rating: A violently surreal tragicomic slice of life with a twist. |
Gourmet, by Aaron A. Reed and Chad Barb Grey's rating: Average member rating: Missing employees, wily crustaceans, malfunctioning kitchen equipment and a terminal food shortage, all on the night the most important culinary critic in the world has chosen to review your debut... |
Hercules First Labor, by Robert Carl Brown Grey's rating: Average member rating: |
I-0, by Anonymous Grey's rating: Average member rating: Stranded on Interstate Zero after your car broke down, you are miles away from the last sign of civilization. It's twenty minutes to noon and the temperature is well over 120°F. It's beginning to look like... |
Internal Documents, by Tom Lechner Grey's rating: Average member rating: In this odd, large, and sparsely-implemented game, you play as a civil servant sent by the incumbent governor to the tiny township of Sebastian to examine the records of the John B. Holden estate. There's... |
Internal Vigilance, by Simon Christiansen Grey's rating: Average member rating: You are informed that a new prisoner was brought in recently. Your job, as usual, is to interrogate him and determine whether he poses a threat to The Union. This should not be a problem. You are a trained... |
LASH -- Local Asynchronous Satellite Hookup, by Paul O'Brian Grey's rating: Average member rating: In this historical drama and treasure hunt set in 2062, you have rented a robot called a MULE that you can control remotely to salvage artifacts from an abandoned irradiated plantation near Macon, Georgia.... |
Lawn of Love, by Santoonie Corporation Grey's rating: Average member rating: Santoonie's first romantic adventure. |
Little Blue Men, by Michael S. Gentry Grey's rating: Average member rating: 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... |
Little girl in the big world, by Peter Wendrich Grey's rating: Average member rating: Help a little girl called Alice to deal with the hard world outside. Special in the sense that there are two main characters which can be controlled at the same time. Both a windows executable and javascript... |
Lost Pig, by Admiral Jota Grey's rating: 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 |
Mingsheng, by Deane Saunders Grey's rating: Average member rating: Explore the mythical beginnings of one of China's internal martial arts. |
Möbius, by J.D. Clemens Grey's rating: Average member rating: Another mission. Just when you had settled in for a nap. |
Moon-Shaped, by Jason Ermer Grey's rating: Average member rating: In this game partly inspired by Little Red Riding Hood, you play as Rosalind Wechsler, a girl on the cusp of her 13th birthday. What begins as a trip to Grandmother's house in the woods leads to disturbing... |
Ninja, by Paul Allen Panks Grey's rating: Average member rating: 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... |
No Room, by Ben Heaton Grey's rating: Average member rating: No Room is a game with zero rooms. It is therefore superior to all games which have rooms. Given a sufficiently odd definition of "superior", anyway. |
A Paper Moon, by Andrew Krywaniuk Grey's rating: Average member rating: You are Sam Haversham, notorious slacker and beer drinker extraordinaire. Thrust into unfamiliar surroundings, you must use your wits, your imagination, and your long-forgotten passion for origami to... |
Photograph: A Portrait of Reflection, by Steve Evans Grey's rating: Average member rating: Photograph was an entry in the 2002 IFComp, in which it placed 3rd out of 38 entries. It was also nominated for two XYZZY awards, "Best Player Character" & "Best Use Of Medium". It's a story-driven, almost... |
Photopia, by Adam Cadre Grey's rating: Average member rating: "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." |
The Primrose Path, by Nolan Bonvouloir Grey's rating: Average member rating: You've been having a series of nightmares about Leo, standing at the edge of a cliff. No matter what you do, a bell rings and Leo disappears over the edge . . . You've led a fairly uneventful life, perhaps;... |
Rape, Pillage, Galore!, by Kristian Kirsfeldt Grey's rating: Average member rating: 'A brilliant analysis of the mind of a professional knight' -Chivalry Daily 'Haven't seen a greater variety of creatures in one place except for that time at a party in Q'nghen' -Fantasy Geographic 'The bit... |
The Recruit, by Mike Sousa, J. D. Berry, Jon Ingold, and Robb Sherwin Grey's rating: Average member rating: Try your hand at the Real Life Interactive Gaming Simulacra! You'll face a variety of challenges and simulations and have a chance to win some money and great prizes. Apply today! |
Risorgimento Represso, by Michael J. Coyne Grey's rating: Average member rating: You play as a 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 wizardly... |
Scavenger, by Quintin Stone Grey's rating: Average member rating: Search a war-shattered world for secrets of the past. |
Shade, by Andrew Plotkin Grey's rating: Average member rating: "A one-room game set in your apartment." [--blurb from Competition Aught-Zero] |
Shades of Gray, by Mark Baker, and Steve Bauman, and Belisana, and Mike Laskey, and Judith Pintar, and Cindy Yans, and Hercules Grey's rating: Average member rating: You wake painfully, from a fitful sleep, to find yourself surrounded by three shadowy figures… After a horrible dizzying moment, the shapes come into focus — vampires, they are vampires, and they are... |
Shrapnel, by Adam Cadre Grey's rating: Average member rating: |
Slouching Towards Bedlam, by Star C. Foster and Daniel Ravipinto Grey's rating: Average member rating: In the beginning was the Word, and it was hungry. Enter a steampunk adventure set in a London that might have been. The year is 1885. Bedlam Hospital still stands in Moorsfield, a decaying shell used to... |
Spider and Web, by Andrew Plotkin Grey's rating: Average member rating: 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... |
Splashdown, by Paul J. Furio Grey's rating: Average member rating: Thirty-six years in cryosleep seemed like a short nap, but instead of waking up to your new homeworld, you find your colony ship has crash-landed slightly off target. Only you can rescue the other colonists... |
Sweet Dreams, by Papillon Grey's rating: Average member rating: A simple friendship, an innocent request, a mysterious secret... an all-graphical adventure! |
Tales of the Traveling Swordsman, by Mike Snyder Grey's rating: Average member rating: You are the traveling swordsman; the strong and silent stranger; the wandering vanquisher of villainy. Damsels swoon for you. Good men respect and envy you. Scoundrels learn to fear you. Even so, you are but... |
Temple of Kaos, by Peter Gambles Grey's rating: Average member rating: A temple, a poem, out of time; a searcher, a believer, chaotic rhyme. |
Unauthorized Termination, by Richard Otter Grey's rating: Average member rating: NB: Do not play with the ADRIFT 5 Runner as the game will appear to work but can't be completed. Play online or use the Adrift 4 interpreter instead as this is an Adrift 4 game. You are a senior investigator... |
Violet, by Jeremy Freese Grey's rating: 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] |
Worlds Apart, by Suzanne Britton Grey's rating: Average member rating: For over 20 years, I dreamed about an alternate universe I called the Higher World. For three of those years, I poured almost all of my creative energy into a novel-length story set in that universe. Worlds... |
Zero, by William A. Tilli Grey's rating: Average member rating: Santoonie Corporation's 4th installment of interactive fiction and 2nd IFComp entry. Santoonie Corporation creates a story in a mythical world once again, this time turning the tables as you play the role of... |