An Act of Murder, by Christopher Huang Wendymoon's rating: Average member rating: (82 ratings) |
Aisle, by Sam Barlow Average member rating: (328 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... |
The Atomic Heart, by Stefan Blixt Wendymoon's rating: Average member rating: (8 ratings) |
Aunts and Butlers, by Robin Johnson Wendymoon's rating: Average member rating: (45 ratings) 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. |
A Bear's Night Out, by David Dyte Wendymoon's rating: Average member rating: (69 ratings) "Tomorrow is the big Teddy Bear party, and you must definitely not let your owner forget about it..." [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue] |
Best of Three, by Emily Short Average member rating: (62 ratings) |
Bureaucracy, by Douglas Adams, The Staff of Infocom Wendymoon'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... |
Child's Play, by Stephen Granade Wendymoon's rating: Average member rating: (54 ratings) It is playgroup day and playgroup day is normally a good day but ever since that little red-haired girl started coming she always wants your toys. She shouldn't get your toys. You tried telling the mom this... |
A Day for Soft Food, by Tod Levi Wendymoon's rating: Average member rating: (30 ratings) "Ever since the provider's sickness began, he's been all hisses and growls. Even the slightest misstep seems to annoy him. Perhaps that's why your bowl has held nothing but hard food lately. And not much of... |
Death off the Cuff, by Simon Christiansen Wendymoon'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... |
Distress, by Mike Snyder Wendymoon's rating: Average member rating: (23 ratings) 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... |
Dreadwine, by Eric Eve Wendymoon's rating: Average member rating: (6 ratings) An entry into the MCDream minicomp, this game tries to capture the essence of a vivid dream its author remembers having many decades ago. |
The Elysium Enigma, by Eric Eve Wendymoon'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... |
Floatpoint, by Emily Short Wendymoon's rating: Average member rating: (102 ratings) 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... |
For a Change, by Dan Schmidt Wendymoon's rating: Average member rating: (117 ratings) "The sun has gone. It must be brought. You have a rock." [--blurb from Competition '99] |
Galatea, by Emily Short Wendymoon's rating: Average member rating: (347 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... |
Gigantomania, by Michelle Tirto and Mike Ciul Wendymoon's rating: Average member rating: (21 ratings) Living under the Stalin era, in four parts. |
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams and Steve Meretzky Wendymoon's rating: Average member rating: (189 ratings) Don't Panic! Relax, because everything you need to know about playing The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is contained in the pages of this manual. In this story, you will be Arthur Dent, a rather ordinary... |
Jigsaw, by Graham Nelson Wendymoon's rating: Average member rating: (85 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... |
Letters from Home, by Roger Firth Wendymoon's rating: Average member rating: (20 ratings) "Centuries of ancestry, decades of memories, years of decline; now, barely two hours in which to reflect on the glorious past, that bygone golden age when nostalgia really meant something... " [--blurb from... |
Lord Bellwater's Secret, by Sam Gordon Wendymoon's rating: Average member rating: (72 ratings) |
Lost Pig, by Admiral Jota Wendymoon's rating: Average member rating: (501 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 |
Masquerade, by Kathleen M. Fischer Wendymoon's rating: Average member rating: (36 ratings) "You walk purposefully down the sidewalk, looking neither left nor right. You don't need to look; you can tell you are being watched from whispers overheard as you pass by. "Poor Amelia..." you hear somebody... |
Möbius, by J.D. Clemens Wendymoon's rating: Average member rating: (35 ratings) Another mission. Just when you had settled in for a nap. |
Muse: An Autumn Romance, by Christopher Huang Wendymoon's rating: Average member rating: (35 ratings) Early September, 1886. Autumn. The Victorian Era. The Rev. Dawson, 59, is off to the Continent and an unexpected Romance... [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue] |
Nightfall, by Eric Eve Wendymoon's rating: Average member rating: (62 ratings) The Enemy is expected to arrive at any moment. Staying behind is either the stupidest or the bravest thing you've ever done. Only one thing - or one person - could have made you stay. So now there's nothing... |
Nord and Bert Couldn't Make Head or Tail of It, by Jeff O'Neill Wendymoon's rating: Average member rating: (60 ratings) You are standing at the edge of a barren field. A steady wind, having secreted away the topsoil, is now drifting sandy dirt across the plain. A scant sign of life here is a freshly-burrowed molehill on the... |
Orevore Courier, by Brian Rapp Wendymoon's rating: Average member rating: (17 ratings) |
Oxygen, by Benjamin Sokal Wendymoon's rating: Average member rating: (25 ratings) An explosion rattles the Aegis mining station and the oxygen tanks are leaking. Who gets the remaining oxygen and who will perish? The choice is up to you, a lowly technician trapped in an access conduit. |
Pantomime, by Robb Sherwin Wendymoon'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 Wendymoon'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... |
Photopia, by Adam Cadre Wendymoon'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." |
Planetfall, by Steve Meretzky Wendymoon's rating: Average member rating: (122 ratings) "Join the Patrol, and see the Galaxy!" You took the poster's advice, bait and all, and marched right over to the recruitment station near your home on the backwater planet of Gallium. Images of exotic... |
The Primrose Path, by Nolan Bonvouloir Wendymoon's rating: Average member rating: (36 ratings) 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 . . . |
A Quiet Evening at Home, by Anonymous Wendymoon's rating: Average member rating: (20 ratings) They say you should write what you know. Sorry. |
Shade, by Andrew Plotkin Wendymoon's rating: Average member rating: (423 ratings) "A one-room game set in your apartment." [--blurb from Competition Aught-Zero] |
Snack Time!, by Hardy the Bulldog and Renee Choba Wendymoon's rating: Average member rating: (61 ratings) Can you help one hungry bulldog in his quest to find something good to eat? He would like that. A lot. [blurb from IF Comp 2008] |
Snowblind Aces, by C.E.J. Pacian Wendymoon's rating: Average member rating: (33 ratings) Two aces shelter from a snowstorm under the wing of a biplane. They've duelled and played in the air for years. Love is inevitable. But what kind of relationship will they end up in? |
The Space Under the Window, by Andrew Plotkin Wendymoon's rating: Average member rating: (100 ratings) A new, experimental game that has no puzzles but uses only words that change your focus on things, thereby adapting the story. [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue] |
Spider and Web, by Andrew Plotkin Wendymoon's rating: Average member rating: (319 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... |
Stationfall, by Steve Meretzky Wendymoon's rating: Average member rating: (48 ratings) What a trotting krip! Since your incredible heroics in Planetfall, where you risked life and limb to save the planet Resida, things have hardly changed at all. Sure, you were promoted to Lieutenant First... |
Suspended, by Michael Berlyn Wendymoon's rating: 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... |
The Tale of the Kissing Bandit, by J. Robinson Wheeler (as 'Cary Valentino') Wendymoon's rating: Average member rating: (48 ratings) |
Trinity, by Brian Moriarty Wendymoon's rating: Average member rating: (106 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... |
Violet, by Jeremy Freese Wendymoon's rating: Average member rating: (390 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] |
When in Rome 1: Accounting for Taste, by Emily Short Wendymoon's rating: Average member rating: (28 ratings) Manhattan, May, 1954. |
When in Rome 2: Far from Home, by Emily Short Wendymoon's rating: Average member rating: (15 ratings) Manhattan, 1954. |
Whom The Telling Changed, by Aaron A. Reed Wendymoon's rating: Average member rating: (65 ratings) The people had always gathered on moonless nights to hear the stories, since the time of their ancestors' ancestors. The heat of the fire and the glow in the storyteller's eyes made the past present, and the... |
Will Not Let Me Go, by Stephen Granade Wendymoon's rating: Average member rating: (76 ratings) Dallas, Texas. 1996. Fred Strickland has Alzheimer's. |