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"Adventures in the Tomb of Ilfane" by Willershin Rill, by Richard Goodness writing as The Water Supply writing as Willershin Rill
Average member rating: (11 ratings)

Millennia ago, the Autarch Ilfane used a magical artifact called The Knot to bring the Teresten people to an era of prosperity. Now, the Nazi archaeologist Doktor Chirlu seeks its power. Get ready, Professor...

"Incident! Aliens on the Teresten!" by Tarquin Segundo, by Richard Goodness writing as The Water Supply writing as Tarquin Segundo
Average member rating: (12 ratings)

The scientist Chirlu created The Knot to be a source of peace and prosperity for the galaxy. But a routine training mission turned into terror when the bloodthirsty Ilfane attacked. Get ready, young space...

"Terror in the Immortal's Atelier" by Gevelle Formicore, by Richard Goodness writing as The Water Supply writing as Gevelle Formicore
Average member rating: (11 ratings)

Chirlu the Immortal has menaced the Land of Teresten for too long! Locked inside the sorcerer's atelier, inside the Ilfane, is the source of Chirlu's power: The Knot, where all mana connects. Get ready,...

♥Magical Makeover♥, by S. Woodson
Average member rating: (61 ratings)

"You hold in your hand a pink, heart-shaped card daubed in rosewater and oil of jasmine — an invitation to the Princess Philantha's Grand Equinox Ball. In gilded, sweeping, sweet-smelling calligraphy, the...

'Mid the Sagebrush and the Cactus, by Victor Gijsbers
Average member rating: (19 ratings)

They shot you in the leg, the sheriff or one of his men, but you still managed to get away. You always manage to get away. And while they're off pursuing you to, who knows, perhaps Colorado, you have quietly...

(do not) forget, by lectronice
Average member rating: (23 ratings)

(do not) forget is a slightly surreal tale. It takes place in an isometric world inhabited by cute cubic animals. It is, however, not intended for children. This is a contemplative game, sometimes crude,...

+ = x, by Chandler Groover
Average member rating: (26 ratings)

An equation is a language, which is a road to move information. All matter is information. Even a crust trimmed from a sandwich. Even a planet's crust, adrift in space, with its core blown. Those lights are...

100,000 Years, by Pierre Chevalier
Average member rating: (22 ratings)

The longest short story ever.

1181, by Grim and notgojira
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

C:\User\█████> "1181 is a Twine inspired by the Fermi paradox, cosmic horror, and Isaiah 34:14." This twine contains multiple endings and is best played in fullscreen. Gail (@notgojira) did the tremendous...

16 Ways to Kill a Vampire at McDonalds, by Abigail Corfman
Average member rating: (96 ratings)

You're a vampire hunter on your night off. You're getting a manicure, seeing a movie, and eating fast food. But there's a vampire in this McDonalds. If you don't do something, then in one hour it will eat...

30 kilogrammes, by verityvirtue
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

A tiny utopia about packing.

4x4 Archipelago, by Agnieszka Trzaska
Average member rating: (25 ratings)

Adventure waits for you in a procedurally generated Archipelago! Discover strange new lands. Make a fortune from trading. Swing a Really Big Sword at a dragon. Fight wild beasts – or turn them into your...

4x4 Galaxy, by Agnieszka Trzaska
Average member rating: (14 ratings)

4x4 Galaxy is a space exploration game with 16 planets that are different every playthrough thanks to procedurally generated content. Discover new worlds, battle space pirates and strange beasts, sell goods,...

69,105 Keys, by David Welbourn
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.

80 DAYS, by inkle, Meg Jayanth
Average member rating: (95 ratings)

1872, with a steampunk twist. Phileas Fogg has wagered he can circumnavigate the world in just eighty days. Choose your own route around a 3D globe, travelling by airship, submarine, mechanical camel,...

9 Secret Steps, by mathbrush
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

A hypertext fiction based on the They Might Be Giants song of the same name. Choose what to sacrifice as you enter a mystic society. Play time less than 15 minutes. Three endings.

9:05, by Adam Cadre
Average member rating: (535 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.

> by @, by Aaron A. Reed
Average member rating: (24 ratings)

On the surface, > seems to be a traditional adventure game, featuring treasure, an NPC, a puzzle, and a happy ending. However, matters are complicated by the realization that the work's purported author is...

A1RL0CK, by Marco Innocenti
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

Your hands. They hit the reinforced metal. They're starting to hurt. There's nothing to do. The safety lock is engaged. ----- A1RL0CK is a survival text adventure about a child and some voices. Also, a lot...

Aayela, by Magnus Olsson
Average member rating: (26 ratings)

Abbess Otilia's Life and Death, by Arno von Borries (as A.B.)
Average member rating: (19 ratings)

In English, on parchment, written in 13th century textualis. Quarto, 14 leaves, in double columns, with rubrication and miniatures. Marginalia in several hands of the 14th and 17th century.

Absence of Law, by mathbrush
Average member rating: (47 ratings)

Excuse me, can you help me? Yes, you, browsing IFDB games! I need your assistance, but I don't have long. There's so much going on: remote surveillance, unauthorized cloning, forgotten languages, robots...

The Absence of Miriam Lane, by Abigail Corfman
Average member rating: (38 ratings)

Sometimes people give pieces of themselves away....

The Act of Misdirection, by Callico Harrison
Average member rating: (70 ratings)

The curtain lifts to a torrent of applause, as the city's gents and ladies lose their decorum for a just few moments in anticipation of something magical. The spotlights drown the glitter of sequins and...

Ad Verbum, by Nick Montfort
Average member rating: (134 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
Average member rating: (31 ratings)

Afflicted, by Doug Egan
Average member rating: (52 ratings)

This isn't the safest neighborhood. A young woman was abducted near here only recently. But as a city sanitarian you are obligated to complete your annual inspection of the local dive. [blurb from IF Comp...

After-Words, by fireisnormal
Average member rating: (18 ratings)

Resolve problems. Open Gates. Free Skycity. Go home. A game where you explore a surreal floating city, in which all room descriptions, lines of dialogue, item descriptions and action text are a maximum of...

Ailihphilia, by Andrew Schultz (as N. Y. Llewellyn)
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

No need for aibohphobia. It's polite on the Zarfian cruelty scale -and- will let you jump to the exciting conclusion if your 2-hour judging period is almost up!

Aisle, by Sam Barlow
Average member rating: (322 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...

Alabaster, by John Cater, Rob Dubbin, Eric Eve, Elizabeth Heller, Jayzee, Kazuki Mishima, Sarah Morayati, Mark Musante, Emily Short, Adam Thornton, Ziv Wities
Average member rating: (121 ratings)

The Queen has told you to return with her heart in a box. Snow White has made you promise to make other arrangements. Now that you're alone in the forest, it's hard to know which of the two women to trust....

The Algophilists' Penury, by Jon Stall
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

We were the Algophilists, obdurate in our longueur and waiting for our quietus in the tenebrous of our morbific abode; join us.

Alias 'The Magpie', by J. J. Guest
Average member rating: (69 ratings)

Sir Rodney Playfair, gentleman thief, has a simple plan: impersonate a psychiatrist, infiltrate a country house, steal a priceless Egyptian scarab and make it back to London in time for cocktails. All in a...

Alice Aforethought, by Hanon Ondricek
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

I need your help. I mean, you're the one who is supposed to talk me out of things before I do anything stupid. Time has stopped moving, and that might turn out to have been my fault. I didn't mean to do it....

All Hail The King!, by Luke Skytrekker
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

Your father the King has died in a tragic accident involving a salute of cannonry, and now you must succeed him to the throne! Elect two courtiers to your Cabinet, annoy your creepy Chancellor, and determine...

All Hope Abandon, by Eric Eve
Average member rating: (37 ratings)

Your day got off to a good enough start when you met that blonde in the breakfast queue, but it's all downhill from there: you may be wishing you could escape a particularly dire lecture, but not by the one...

All Roads, by Jon Ingold
Average member rating: (154 ratings)

"Wave a circle round him thrice, And close your eyes with holy dread For he on honey-dew hath fed And drunk the milk of paradise." [--blurb from Competition Aught-One]

All Things Devours, by half sick of shadows
Average member rating: (94 ratings)

From the game's about command: "All Things Devours is a short piece of interactive fiction, leaning strongly towards the text-adventure end of the spectrum. It explores an all-too-familiar science fiction...

American Angst, by m3g1dd0
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

Imagine a horror novel where you get to make the choices and decide how the story plays out: Welcome to American Angst, a text-based multiple-choice survival horror interactive fiction, combining RPG...

The Anachronist, by Peter Levine
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

In the year 1596, Anna is about to be burned at the stake. As the constable prepares to light the fire below her, she can do nothing but seek a solution in her own memory and imagination. ...

Analogue: A Hate Story, by Christine Love
Average member rating: (11 ratings)

Back in the 25th century, Earth launched a generation ship into deep space, with the goal of establishing the first interstellar colony. It dropped out of contact and disappeared, never reaching its...

Anchorhead, by Michael Gentry
Average member rating: (393 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...

And Then You Come to a House Not Unlike the Previous One, by B.J. Best
Average member rating: (66 ratings)

Title: Infinite Adventure Year: 1986 Genre: Adventure Summary: Wander through an apparently infinite number of spooky mansions, solving a basic puzzle in each one. ForgottenGames.com rating: ★ ★ ★

Andromeda Apocalypse — Extended Edition, by Marco Innocenti
Average member rating: (29 ratings)

Floating in space on a strange vessel, sole survivor of a world... and maybe of the entire human race, Ektor Mastiff must find a way through the cosmos, on a voyage that can change the history of mankind...

Andromeda Awakening - The Final Cut, by Marco Innocenti
Average member rating: (42 ratings)

The most important discovery in history. And then, the whole world goes crumbling down. Armed with but a computer and an expired railway ticket, how can one expect to save the day when the doomsday clock has...

Andromeda Dreaming, by Joey Jones
Average member rating: (18 ratings)

Aliss can control her dreams, but will this help her when she's stuck in a galaxy on the brink of destruction? Winner of the Andromeda Legacy competition 2012, Andromeda Dreaming is in the same setting as...

Animalia, by Ian Michael Waddell
Average member rating: (36 ratings)

This is the story of Charlie Stewart, nine-year-old Human child. Inside this ordinary nine-year-old Human child are four animals from the Forest, working tirelessly to keep YOUR Taiga Federation safe from...

Another Goddamn Escape the Locked Room Game, by Riff Conner
Average member rating: (17 ratings)

In this escape game intended to be a parody of the genre, you play as someone with amnesia who wakes up in a unfamiliar basement or bomb shelter. Your head is pounding from a massive headache. The steel door...
Antique Panzitoum, by Caleb Wilson (as Abandoned Pools)
Average member rating: (5 ratings)
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Aotearoa, by Matt Wigdahl
Average member rating: (61 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...

an apple from nowhere, by Brendan Barnwell
Average member rating: (12 ratings)

Aquarium, by Hannah Powell-Smith
Average member rating: (19 ratings)

You're seventeen. It's dark in here. Aquarium is a story game about skipping school with a cute boy. There are multiple endings. You can play in your browser on most devices - Internet Explorer will not...

Arcane Intern (Unpaid), by Astrid Dalmady
Average member rating: (44 ratings)

Getting coffee, making copies, tampering with powers beyond your control. You know, normal intern things. Now if only you were getting paid for it...

The Argument-Winner's Ghost, by Andrew Schultz
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

Ariadne in Aeaea, by Victor Ojuel
Average member rating: (25 ratings)

Isle of Aeaea, the eastern Aegean. 3,500 years ago. In the northern wastes, the Achaeans have a new and warlike chieftain. Palace after palace is falling to his armies. On the shores of Crete, the Minoan...

The Art of Fugue, by Victor Gijsbers, Jimmy Maher, Dorte Lassen, and Johan
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...

The Ascent of the Gothic Tower, by Ryan Veeder
Average member rating: (31 ratings)

A story of mild and non-debilitating obsession.

The Ascot, by Duncan Bowsman
Average member rating: (26 ratings)

Anything might happen to you on the way to the convenience store. You might even run into a guy handing out cursed ascots that lead you to lost fortunes guarded by terrible monsters. Can you nab 100% of the...

Ash, by Lee Grey
Average member rating: (14 ratings)

Ash is an autobiographical story about the final days of life, and the loss of a parent.

Assembly, by Ben Kirwin
Average member rating: (21 ratings)

Today has been an extraordinarily long day. You picked up the keys to your new apartment in the morning, you went shopping for furniture in the afternoon, and you've spent the evening putting it together. ...

At King Arthur's Christmas Feast, by Travis Moy
Average member rating: (15 ratings)

One Christmas at Camelot in charged a strange fellow, a giant man all green, great axe in hand, and called out a challenge in the court of King Arthur: "Bequeath me one blow, behead me clean, and then, in...

At Wit's End, by Mike Sousa
Average member rating: (15 ratings)

"A case study of Murphy's Law in action. In-game hints available." [--blurb from Competition Aught-Zero]

Augmented Fourth, by Brian Uri!
Average member rating: (65 ratings)

WANTED: Amateur musicians to serve the Royal Court. Must provide own instrument and be inured to copious constructive criticism. Impress your friends! Meet the King! Apply in person at the Castle, located on...

The Axolotl Project, by Samantha Vick
Average member rating: (49 ratings)

As a lowly intern on Sadler Pharmaceutical’s high-security lunar research base, you set out to find an escaped test subject before your boss does. Along the way, you’ll unravel the mystery of your coworker’s...

Babel, by Ian Finley
Average member rating: (155 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...

Bad Guys, by David S. Glasser
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

""Out of the TextFire "12-pack", this is an April's Fool game "demo" that casts you in the role of a bad guy whose goal it is to become immortal - but this is a bad day..." [--blurb from The Z-Files...

Bad Machine, by Dan Shiovitz
Average member rating: (15 ratings)

Balances, by Graham Nelson
Average member rating: (38 ratings)

"A homage to Infocom's Enchanter Trilogy, at the same time showing some of the things that Inform is capable of doing." [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue]

The Ballroom, by Liza Daly
Average member rating: (24 ratings)

You arrived at the ballroom well after midnight. The End.

Baluthar, by Chris Molloy Wischer
Average member rating: (20 ratings)

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...

The barbarians are coming!, by Daniel Kosacki
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

My very first twine story! This is a story of you saving your village from a bunch of meanspirited barbarians. A bunch of stuff happens in the middle as well. The humor is weird and the story even weirder...

Basilica de Sangre, by Bitter Karella
Average member rating: (10 ratings)

What's a demon to do? Your mother has been missing for weeks. Rumor has it that she's being held prisoner in the infamous convent Basilica de Sangre. They say no demon has ever escaped from Basilica de...

The Battle of Walcot Keep, by Steve Breslin, Eric Eve, and Lindsey Hair
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

Beanstalk the and Jack, by David Welbourn
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

The story of "Jack and the Beanstalk" - but backwards!

Beat the Devil, by Robert M. Camisa
Average member rating: (17 ratings)

You are some guy who, after a night of drinking and proclaiming that you'd sell your soul for a chance with the lovely Gwyneth, wakes up in a literal "Mall of Hell". It seems Lucifer overheard you and...

Beautiful Dreamer, by S. Woodson
Average member rating: (35 ratings)

"Outside, the chill wind wails and tears the leaves from their branches. Gusts of wind scour the muddy sidewalks; gusts of wind roar through the alleys between buildings. Before one gust can fade, another...

A Beauty Cold and Austere, by Mike Spivey
Average member rating: (56 ratings)

That survey course in conceptual mathematics seemed like a good idea at the start of the term - no graded homework, no midterm exams - just an oral final at the end. But now that final is tomorrow morning....

Bee, by Emily Short
Average member rating: (85 ratings)

The story of a home-schooled girl preparing to compete in the national spelling bee, dealing with various small crises with family and friends, and gradually coming to terms with the clash of subcultures...

Beet the Devil, by Carolyn VanEseltine
Average member rating: (35 ratings)

Your dog is gone. She must be brought. You have a beet (and some other vegetables).

The Beetmonger's Journal, by Scott Starkey
Average member rating: (16 ratings)

"Victor Lapot and I were miles from base camp on the south continent, once again hacking through previously unsurveyed lands and searching for forgotten cultures. The expedition reminded me of our grand...

Before the Storm Hits, by JY Yang
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

Before the Storm is a short apocalyptic work, navigated by a to-do list.

Being Andrew Plotkin, by J. Robinson Wheeler
Average member rating: (58 ratings)

"Zarf? you think to yourself. Could it be? The one and only Zarf? Xyzzy Award winner? IF Competition winner? The mighty Inscruitable One? Gosh. What it must be like to be Zarf... You begin to crawl forward,...

Bell Park, Youth Detective, by Brendan Patrick Hennessy
Average member rating: (62 ratings)

A headstrong twelve-year-old detective gets in over her head when she's hired to solve a murder mystery at an internet technology conference.

Bellclap, by Tommy Herbert
Average member rating: (26 ratings)

Beneath Floes, by Bravemule; Pinnguaq
Average member rating: (14 ratings)

Qikiqtaaluk, 1962. The sun falls below the horizon and won't return for months. You wander the broken shoreline, wary of your mother's stories about the qalupalik. Fish woman, stealer of wayward children:...

Best Gopher Ever, by Arthur DiBianca
Average member rating: (23 ratings)

Help the unfortunate residents of Fairview! (Who are all animals, by the way.) A light puzzle game for all ages.

Best of Three, by Emily Short
Average member rating: (62 ratings)

The Bible Retold: The Bread and the Fishes, by Justin Morgan and Celestianpower
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

The Big Mama, by Brendan Barnwell
Average member rating: (6 ratings)
"Three or four sailboats cruise lazily in the glow of the setting sun, which casts a poetic shimmer across the swells. In the distance, about 15 km offshore, you can discern the dim, hunched shapes of the...

Bigger Than You Think, by Andrew Plotkin
Average member rating: (51 ratings)

Bigger Than You Think is a choice-based interactive narrative. This game was written for the Yuletide 2012 fanfic exchange. The game was inspired -- perhaps loosely -- by Randall Munroe's comic xkcd-1110:...

Birdland, by Brendan Patrick Hennessy
Average member rating: (168 ratings)

Fourteen-year-old Bridget's summer camp experience takes a turn for the bizarre when her otherworldly bird dreams start bleeding into reality.

Bliss, by Cameron Wilkin
Average member rating: (19 ratings)

Blue Chairs, by Chris Klimas
Average member rating: (94 ratings)

Blue Lacuna, by Aaron A. Reed
Average member rating: (111 ratings)

You have always been different. One in a trillion have your gift, your curse: to move between worlds, never settling, always alone. To Wayfare. Yet there are others like you, and something stronger than...

BOAT PROM, by Brendan Patrick Hennessy
Average member rating: (18 ratings)

What’s worse than getting dumped by your pity date at prom? How about being stuck on a boat with him all night as he makes out with the girl you have a crush on? It’s enough to make Elizabeth want to jump...

Bobby and Bonnie, by Xavid
Average member rating: (16 ratings)

A light children's-story-ish adventure inexplicably starring rabbits.

Body Bargain, by Amanda Lange
Average member rating: (26 ratings)

Your surgery went very well. But you couldn't really afford it... Be aware that this is a work of horror. This game involves situations that may be violent, distressing, disturbing, or triggering. This game...

Bolivia By Night, by Aidan Doyle
Average member rating: (19 ratings)

A mystery adventure game set in Bolivia.

Brain Guzzlers from Beyond!, by Steph Cherrywell
Average member rating: (72 ratings)

You are Bonnie Noodleman, Ordinary Well-Adjusted Teen-Ager, on an ordinary well-adjusted drive up Make-Out Mountain--until some gooey monstrosity from beyond the stars guzzles your boyfriend's brains clean...

brevity quest, by Chris Longhurst
Average member rating: (11 ratings)

it's a quest!

Bring Me A Head!, by Chandler Groover
Average member rating: (28 ratings)

Better hope you can hack it. A Grand Guignol entry for ECTOCOMP 2016.

Bronze, by Emily Short
Average member rating: (286 ratings)

When the seventh day comes and it is time for you to return to the castle in the forest, your sisters cling to your sleeves.

The Bryant Collection, by Gregory Weir
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

The Bryant Collection is an interactive anthology: a collection of ’story worlds’ by Laura Bryant. They were found at a yard sale in an old strongbox. Five pieces of interactive fiction written by someone...

A Bucket Filled With Sand, by A C Godliman
Average member rating: (9 ratings)

Take a trip down to the beach for a short illustrated text-adventure. Spend a century as the ruler of your castle, will you build a citadel? Library? Expand into a kingdom? It's up to you, just remember...in...

Buried In Shoes, by Kazuki Mishima
Average member rating: (24 ratings)

Everything is about the question. [blurb from IF Comp 2008]

Byzantine Perspective, by Lea Albaugh
Average member rating: (56 ratings)

Your task is simple enough. Just nab the chalice.

Cactus Blue Motel, by Astrid Dalmady
Average member rating: (85 ratings)

Somewhere between New Mexico and Arizona, three friends were driving through a barren desert of red rocks, and wide empty skies. It was the end of summer, the end of high school, the end of so many things....

Caduceus, by Sarah Willson (as Mala Costraca)
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

Caduceus was written in a day for Event One of the Second Quadrennial Ryan Veeder Exposition for Good Interactive Fiction, whose challenge was to create a game in Inform 7 with beautiful source code text....

Calliope, by Jason McIntosh
Average member rating: (10 ratings)

Cannery Vale, by Hanon Ondricek (as Keanhid Connor)
Average member rating: (30 ratings)

Hell, even a seagull would hit the spot right now, roasted crispy over a flame-- He immediately put all thoughts of food out of his head because at the moment it was just torture_

Cape, by Bruno Dias
Average member rating: (46 ratings)

Cape is a superhero origin story for the cyberpunk dystopia we're all living in.

Captain Graybeard's Plunder, by Julian Mortimer Smith
Average member rating: (21 ratings)

A retired pirate captain cobbles together a ship and crew from the pages of classic works of literature. His goal: revenge!

Captain Verdeterre's Plunder, by Ryan Veeder
Average member rating: (50 ratings)

You should carry the bag. I'm more of a delegator.

Castle of the Red Prince, by C.E.J. Pacian
Average member rating: (54 ratings)

Welcome to Amaranth, foreigner. The Red Prince haunts your dreams, you say? If you want to overthrow our tyrant, you’ll need to consider this whole blighted land at once. (Castle of the Red Prince is a small...

Castle, Forest, Island, Sea, by Hide&Seek
Average member rating: (18 ratings)

'Castle, Forest, Island, Sea' is a choose-your-own-adventure story that explores key questions in philosophy. Where will your chosen path lead you? From bickering birds to scary monsters, choose your quest...

Cerulean Stowaway, by Roger Descheneaux
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

A stowaway gets more of a ride than he bargained for.

Changes, by David Given
Average member rating: (18 ratings)

Cheater, by Wesley Osam
Average member rating: (9 ratings)
"A small game; the only way to win is to literally cheat. Might be difficult for players who aren't familiar with the Inform language debugging verbs." [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue]
Cheesed Off!, by Hulk Handsome
Average member rating: (10 ratings)
An entry in the First Quadrennial Ryan Veeder Exposition for Good Interactive Fiction. This is a punny game where you solve puzzles with cheese. Mr. Veeder said the following about it: "Doesn't have much...

Cheeseshop, by David Welbourn
Average member rating: (24 ratings)

An interactive re-creation of Monty Python’s Cheeseshop sketch, where you try to buy some cheese.

Chemistry and Physics, by Caelyn Sandel (as Colin Sandel) and Carolyn VanEseltine
Average member rating: (22 ratings)

The Chinese Room, by Harry Josephine Giles and Joey Jones
Average member rating: (34 ratings)

The Chinese Room is a hilarious romp through the world of philosophical thought experiments. Have you ever wanted to win Zeno's race? Free the denizens of Plato's Cave? Or find out what it's really like to...

Chlorophyll, by Steph Cherrywell
Average member rating: (58 ratings)

Christminster, by Gareth Rees
Average member rating: (88 ratings)

"When your brother Malcolm sends you a telegram inviting you to visit him at Biblioll College in the ancient university town of Christminster, you imagine that the mysterious `discovery' he alludes to is...

Chuk and the Arena, by Agnieszka Trzaska
Average member rating: (23 ratings)

Fight in the Grand Galactic Tournament to get back your planet's stolen moon!

City of Secrets, by Emily Short
Average member rating: (103 ratings)

Cold Iron, by Andrew Plotkin (as Lyman Clive Charles)
Average member rating: (37 ratings)

Your good axe has gone missing. Reverd Pearson would say you're a careless lunkhead who'd lose his ear if it wasn't nailed on. You figure he's right, a man of the cloth, but that doesn't mean piskeys didn't...

A Colder Light, by Jon Ingold
Average member rating: (18 ratings)

The last light has gone. The stars are coming out in the black sea above. Many are hidden by ice-fingered winds. My father is still not returned and the fire is almost gone. But this is how life is: always...

Color the Truth, by mathbrush
Average member rating: (72 ratings)

Rosalita Morales is dead, and you have to figure out who did it. The four people closest to her had the motive and the means: her partner, her secretary, her ex-husband, and her sister. Re-live their...

Coloratura, by Lynnea Glasser
Average member rating: (110 ratings)

Stolen away by apathetic Blind Ones, your only desire is to return to your Cellarium and the Song of the Universe. They should understand. You shall make them to understand.

The Colour Pink, by Robert Street
Average member rating: (15 ratings)

In this game, you are a spaceman sent to investigate an out-of-contact colony on an abandoned planet. Your mission is to find out what happened to the scientists and report back to the Captain. But what do...
Coma!, by Nate Cull
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

Common Ground, by Stephen Granade
Average member rating: (30 ratings)

The Compass Rose, by Yoon Ha Lee and Peter Berman
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

There's more than one north by which to guide a world. The survivor of a space raid colonizes a new world with the aid of a compass rose.

Conan Kill Everything, by Ian Haberkorn
Average member rating: (68 ratings)

In this short one-room game, you play as Conan with a very large sword, and an evil wizard has just summoned a wildcat to attack you. Your goal is obvious: KILL EVERYTHING.
Constraints, by Martin Bays
Average member rating: (22 ratings)

The Corn Identity, by Carl Muckenhoupt, Serhei Makarov, Tama Wise, J. Robinson Wheeler, A O Muniz, Admiral Jota, Andrew Schepler, Jacqueline A. Lott, Sam Kabo Ashwell, Dan Shiovitz, John Cater, Duchess, and Mark Musante
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

The Cove, by Kathleen M. Fischer
Average member rating: (21 ratings)

Creatures Such As We, by Lynnea Glasser
Average member rating: (91 ratings)

A dating sim about how humanity connects through art, even out in the vastness of space.

Crocodracula: What Happened to Calvin, by Ryan Veeder
Average member rating: (11 ratings)

Based on the 90s children's horror soap opera.

Crystal and Stone, Beetle and Bone, by Jenny Brennan
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

You are God! The last God and Lornedei is your only true believer. You need her to stand against the coming dark. Can you guide her? Will she follow?
The Cube in the Cavern, by Andrew Schultz
Average member rating: (8 ratings)
A round world is scientifically ridiculous, of course, but a cube floating in air? You just might find a great scientific secret. Don't be too square to give it a try!

Damnatio Memoriae, by Emily Short
Average member rating: (58 ratings)

14 AD. Agrippa Postumus, grandson of the recently-deceased Augustus, tries to avoid death at the hands of the next emperor, Tiberius. At his disposal: a couple of old manuscripts, a lamp, and a recalcitrant...

Danse Nocturne, by Joey Jones
Average member rating: (17 ratings)

Danse Nocturne is interactive blank verse, based on one of the legends of Charlemagne. It is played by dancing in different ways and has over a dozen different endings and understands over 1200 different...

A Dark and Stormy Entry, by Emily Short
Average member rating: (26 ratings)

A Day for Fresh Sushi, by Emily Short
Average member rating: (98 ratings)

No time for fantasy. Must feed fish.

De Baron, by Victor Gijsbers
Average member rating: (160 ratings)

An evil nobleman, a kidnapped daughter and a father who wants to rescue her at any cost--that is not the way life works. Something much darker, something much more human, lies underneath. Een kwaadaardige...

Dead Like Ants, by C.E.J. Pacian
Average member rating: (58 ratings)

You play as a young woman in red overalls, a red worker ant. Every spring, five dangerous creatures visit the tree and threaten the village, and every spring, the Queen sends one of her daughters to...

Dead Man's Fiesta, by Ed Sibley
Average member rating: (13 ratings)

Summer was coming to an end, and all you wanted to do was finish grieving in peace before you had to go back to work. And because it had been a rough couple of months you bought yourself a car, you know, as...

Dead Pavane for a Princess, by Emily Boegheim
Average member rating: (14 ratings)

You are Maurice Ravel, the noted composer. You must find a way to escape from your study, for your poor friend — now your zombified ex-friend — Claude Debussy lurks outside!

Deadline Enchanter, by Alan DeNiro
Average member rating: (58 ratings)

Death off the Cuff, by Simon Christiansen
Average member rating: (53 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...

Degeneracy, by Leonard Richardson
Average member rating: (16 ratings)

The glitterings of Gold, Jewels, Tapestries, &c. belie the Corruption of he who 'til recently occupied this high Seat. A white Carpet, once flanked by Sycophants & Counsellors, now lies untravelled. It leads...

Delightful Wallpaper, by Andrew Plotkin ('Edgar O. Weyrd')
Average member rating: (78 ratings)

Delphina's House, by Alice Grove
Average member rating: (13 ratings)

A girl must say goodbye to her home. But there's time for one last adventure....

Delusions, by C. E. Forman
Average member rating: (40 ratings)

"A trip into virtual reality: all begins with debugging a VR system, but then things get out of hand. Who is Morrodox, what has he to do with your colleagues, and what is going on?" [--blurb from The Z-Files...

The Desert Breathes., by piratescarfy
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

A game about a person who escapes their boring village to explore the desert, with all its unearthly horrors and pleasures. If you would like to give me some personal feedback, head over to the...

Desert Heat, by Papillon
Average member rating: (10 ratings)

"WARNING. This game is intended for mature readers and may contain explicit sexual scenes and/or questionable consensuality depending on play. It is possible to complete the game without encountering these...

Detectiveland, by Robin Johnson
Average member rating: (53 ratings)

New Losago, 1929 - a town full of creeps, clowns, mobsters and, if you know where to look, the occasional honest citizen. Guide private investigator Lanson Rose through a series of puzzling cases: solve the...

The Devil and the Mayor, by Jonathan Laury
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

You've been summoned Up Top to make a deal, but do the humans really need much help damning themselves? Perhaps a little assistance wouldn't hurt... This is a Twine game where you play as a devil making a...

DEVOTIONALIA, by G.C. "Grim" Baccaris (as G. Grimoire)
Average member rating: (24 ratings)

The high priest of an obscure cult is preparing a ritual. Don the priest’s sacred mantle, for these holy labors are yours to direct. You may carve a votive, lead a prayer, or make a sacrifice — but you must...

Dial C for Cupcakes, by Ryan Veeder
Average member rating: (31 ratings)

A cantankerous ex-cop calls in a favor from his old partner.

Digital Witnesses, by rosencrantz
Average member rating: (17 ratings)

You are on the run, but why? A short fiction created in twenty-three Twine passages, prompted by a challenge on Twinery.org.

Dirk, by Andrew Schultz
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

A retelling of a favorite game from a textual perspective.

Distress, by Mike Snyder
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...

The Djinni Chronicles, by J. D. Berry
Average member rating: (33 ratings)

Dolores and the Cave, by Magda Knight
Average member rating: (12 ratings)

COME INTO THE CAVE, DOLORES. NOTHING BAD EVER HAPPENED IN A CAVE. Welcome. You have your team, your caving gear, your equipment. You're all set to descend into a previously unexplored cave - the find of a...

Domestic Elementalism, by fireisnormal
Average member rating: (23 ratings)

The plants that grow out of your bedroom walls are associated with Earth. The fairy lights strung across your kitchen are associated with Fire. Change an object's element, and the object will turn into...

Doppeljobs, by Lei
Average member rating: (23 ratings)

You are a young doppelganger, fresh out of School of Humanity, finally realizing your life-long dream to own a human-centric business. You offer a unique service: imitation on demand, living through...

Down, the Serpent and the Sun, by Chandler Groover
Average member rating: (27 ratings)

The feathered serpent coils before you, greater than any god or any monster. Maimed warriors are crushed beneath its claws. The sun will never rise again.

Downtown Tokyo, Present Day, by John Kean
Average member rating: (25 ratings)

"In this game you actually play two people - one is the real you, sitting in the dark in a movie theatre, and the other is the hero of the film that you are watching. Originally conceived for Adam Cadre's...

Dr Horror's House of Terror, by Ade McT
Average member rating: (19 ratings)

The Grave cannot hold them...Nothing human can stop them...Torn from their tombs to terrify the world, the cravings of their undead blood made them kill...kill...KILL! Feel the chill of the crypt in your...

Dr Ludwig and the Devil, by SV Linwood
Average member rating: (34 ratings)

Join esteemed mad scientist Dr Ludwig as he faces the greatest challenge of his nefarious career: making a deal with the Devil and coming out on top. ...

Draculaland, by Robin Johnson
Average member rating: (30 ratings)

A terse, comic horror puzzle game based loosely on Dracula, faithfully reimagining several characters and ignoring most of the original plot. Guide Jonathan Harker on a trip through Transylvania, interacting...

Dragon Fate, by Kris Schnee
Average member rating: (15 ratings)

In the hills of Gerrick's Boon, strange stories reach your ears. Alchemy, a rare art elsewhere, here seems more commonly taught than reading. Judging from the wordless shop signs lining the four dirt...
Dream Pieces, by Iam Curio
Average member rating: (11 ratings)
You are in a dream but if you stay you'll miss out on a great birthday! If you like the rhyme... It's hammer time!

The Dreamhold, by Andrew Plotkin
Average member rating: (175 ratings)

The Dreamhold is interactive fiction — a classic text adventure. No graphics! No point-and-click! You type your commands, and read what happens next. The Dreamhold is designed for people who have never...

Dual Transform, by Andrew Plotkin
Average member rating: (109 ratings)

This game takes place in a single room — but not always the same one. The room contains just one item, but again, there's more to it than that. Experiment and enjoy.

The Duel in the Snow, by Utkonos
Average member rating: (21 ratings)

A Tale of Old Russia

Dull Grey, by Provodnik Games
Average member rating: (17 ratings)

An interactive drama in the traditions of Soviet fiction about choosing a profession. Mother and her teenage son live on the edge of the world amid hot springs, steam, mountains, five-story houses and rusty...

Dungeon Detective, by Wonaglot, Caitlin Mulvihill
Average member rating: (17 ratings)

You're a gnoll. Whether that's a blessing or a curse is up to you. Unlike other gnolls, you're trying to eke out a simple existence by plying your trade - that of the world's first Dungeon Detective. Amass...

Dynamite Powers vs. the Ray of Night!, by Mike Carletta
Average member rating: (10 ratings)

Dynamite Powers and Rosalind have escaped the Chinese water torture on Lord Infamy's dirigible. With the help of their new friend, Melcor, they led the revolt of the singing monkeys of Melodion and toppled...

Earl Grey, by Rob Dubbin and Allison Parrish
Average member rating: (29 ratings)

A game about a tea party, a monarchy, and the unpredictability of language.

Earth and Sky, by Paul O'Brian
Average member rating: (82 ratings)

It's been almost a month since your parents disappeared. One Tuesday, they just didn't come home, and there's been no sign of them since. For the University and the rest of the town, the mystery is beginning...

Earth and Sky 2: Another Earth, Another Sky, by Paul O'Brian
Average member rating: (54 ratings)

Earth And Sky 3: Luminous Horizon, by Paul O'Brian
Average member rating: (41 ratings)

Eat Me, by Chandler Groover
Average member rating: (98 ratings)

In this castle, you'll eat or be eaten. May contain dairy, carnage, puzzles, nuts.

The Ebb and Flow of the Tide, by Peter Nepstad
Average member rating: (15 ratings)

You have done a horrible thing, so horrible that burial will be denied you, either in soil or sea, neither can there be any hell for you. You wait for some hours, knowing this. Then your friends come for...

Ecdysis, by Peter Nepstad
Average member rating: (80 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...

Eclosion, by Buster Hudson
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

Entry in Ectocomp 2014.

The Edifice, by Lucian P. Smith
Average member rating: (84 ratings)

"Something new in your everyday hunter-gatherer routine: where did this strange edifice come from? Dare you enter and explore the secrets of this... thing, or do you try to face your enemies? Like you have a...

EGYPTIAN WALKING SIMULATOR, by Jason Dyer
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

Using Greg Hassett's 1978 game King Tut's Tomb as a base, an art experiment of sort is laid upon the same locations and items.

Eidolon, by A.D. Jansen
Average member rating: (33 ratings)

When you wake up, something is passing through the night sky.

The Eleusinian Miseries, by Mike Russo
Average member rating: (26 ratings)

Well, isn't this a lark! After solid years of going after old Alky to let you in on that Mysteries wheeze of his, at last tonight's the night. He's dragged you from Athens to Eleusis for the to-do, but no...

The Elysium Enigma, by Eric Eve
Average member rating: (76 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...

En Garde, by Jack Welch
Average member rating: (23 ratings)

A man who has lost his mind. A mouse who has lost his realm. A dog who has lost his family. And the scientist who will save the world.

End Boss, by Nick Keirle
Average member rating: (10 ratings)

A hypertext game about choice. Contains: violence, distressing imagery, optional body horror, mild peril. Made entirely of words.

The End Means Escape, by Steve Kodat
Average member rating: (11 ratings)

"Some things should be left undone." [--blurb from Competition Aught-Zero]

The Endling Archive, by Kazuki Mishima
Average member rating: (30 ratings)

Browse the Endling Archive to uncover the purpose of its creation.

Endure, by Emily Short
Average member rating: (13 ratings)

"Endure" is an interactive translation of four lines of the Odyssey. It responds to the player's choice of translation strategy as well as to the order of translation; the words you translate first will...

Enigma, by Simon Deimel
Average member rating: (20 ratings)

Eyes can see, and a mind can think. Insanity is just one step away. You are in a room. That's where you are, and you know exactly what is going on. But the truth is hard to take. The game file includes hints...

Enlightened Master, by Ben Kidwell and Maevele Straw
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

Years of questing have brought you to the mountain where you will find the Enlightened Master.

Enlightenment, by Taro Ogawa
Average member rating: (42 ratings)

"The intrepid Adventurer has escaped the caverns. Nought remains to block a successful escape but this troll here. Hmmm. A one-room adventure. The author recommends this for people who grew up on Zork II and...

Epitaph, by Max Kreminski
Average member rating: (13 ratings)

idle game about existential risks and the death of civilizations

Erehwon, by Richard Litherland
Average member rating: (10 ratings)

"You are standing next to the only traffic light in the one-horse town of Erehwon, Aksarben. You are 13 years old, and desperate to gain the approval of Smurf and his gang. You will know you have this when...

Erstwhile, by Aster (formally Maddie) Fialla, Marijke Perry
Average member rating: (63 ratings)

The neighborhood Thanksgiving party was going pretty well until you keeled over and died. Now you're a ghost, and you're going to figure out who killed you. But you can't exactly interview people or search...

The Erudition Chamber, by Daniel Freas
Average member rating: (26 ratings)

Escapade!, by Juhana Leinonen
Average member rating: (17 ratings)

An entry in the 2008 One Room Game Competition. You play the bumbling sidekick of the heroic Captain McBrawn; while trying to carry out a task he's set you, you are captured by the Screaming Communists and...

Escape From Summerland, by Joey Jones and Melvin Rangasamy
Average member rating: (16 ratings)

Original Blurb: "In the near future a drone war rages in the skies, but below in Summerland there is only one thought: who's going to feed Jacquotte?" - Take Control of Three Characters each with their own...

Ether, by MathBrush
Average member rating: (32 ratings)

"For the first time in centuries, something is different. Your tentacles tingle as you float to the east past icebergs and whirlwinds. You skirt a pocket of hot air, bounce through a field of ice, and...

Everybody Dies, by Jim Munroe
Average member rating: (105 ratings)

It starts with a metalhead, Graham, realizing that throwing that shopping cart over the bridge was not the great idea he thought it was. Even if it did get him out of washroom duty at Cost Cutters....

Everybody Loves a Parade, by Cody Sandifer
Average member rating: (15 ratings)

You play as a woman driving a moving van across the United States to her new job as New York City's Assistant to the Chief Engineer. Your gas runs out when you arrive at Chewton, Arizona which is having its...

Ex Nihilo, by Juhana Leinonen
Average member rating: (33 ratings)

In the beginning there was nothing. From nothing light and darkness were born.

Exhibition, by Ian Finley
Average member rating: (27 ratings)

"The Hartman Gallery extends their invitation to an exhibition of Anatoly Domokov's "American Paintings." Who draws the line between art and life? HTML enhanced." [--blurb from Competition '99]

An Exploration of Colour, by Neil James Brown
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

EXTERMINATE!, by Michael Martin
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

Fabricationist DeWit Remakes the World, by Jedediah Berry
Average member rating: (31 ratings)

After a sleep of centuries, a synthetic being receives an unexpected visitor—along with a new role in the Great Project.

Fail-Safe, by Jon Ingold
Average member rating: (112 ratings)

Fairest, by Amanda Walker
Average member rating: (26 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 this wall! I...

The Fairy Woods, by rosencrantz
Average member rating: (17 ratings)

Someone dear to you has disappeared into the dangerous woods of the fairy realm, and you're already on your way to save them... The Fairy Woods is an interactive fiction created in Twine for no particular...

Faithful Companion, by Matt Weiner
Average member rating: (22 ratings)

The "Play On-line" link should now go to version 2!

Fallen London, by Failbetter Games
Average member rating: (57 ratings)

Poet or Assassin? Lover or Spy? Choose your fate in Fallen London, a gothic metropolis a mile beneath the surface of the earth. An epic adventure where you live a sometimes horrific, often curious, but...

Fate, by Victor Gijsbers
Average member rating: (50 ratings)

You are nine months pregnant, and the contractions have already begun. Trapped in a castle with more enemies than friends, and Queen in name but not in influence, you fear for the future of your child. But...

Fear, by Chuan-Tze Teo
Average member rating: (10 ratings)

"The world is suddenly such a frightening place. People are out to get you, and everywhere there is danger, lurking in the dark, even here, in your own home. Can you conquer your own fears before it's too...

Fifteen Minutes, by Ade McT
Average member rating: (24 ratings)

You're in a tight spot. You have fifteen minutes before the Principal expels you from the cosy world of academia and into the cold harsh reality of the real world. You really should do something about it. A...

Film at Eleven, by Bowen Greenwood
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

"Welcome to a day in the life of Betty Byline! Two months out of journalism school you enter the workplace with big time dreams of network television news. Fame, fortune and glory, all writ large under the...

Final Exam, by Jack Whitham
Average member rating: (26 ratings)

Final Exam takes place in the near future after an AI revolution has led to the establishment of a new sort of government. You are seeking a job within this government: your performance in the “final exam”...

Final Selection, by Sam Gordon
Average member rating: (18 ratings)

Fine-Tuned, by Dennis Jerz
Average member rating: (23 ratings)

"Can Troy, the handsome daredevil autoist, live up to his "sterling" reputation? What secret threatens the career of the talented singer, Miss Melody Sweet? With the help of the mechanical genius Aloysius...

The Fire Tower, by Jacqueline A. Lott
Average member rating: (49 ratings)

First Draft of the Revolution, by Emily Short, Liza Daly and inkle
Average member rating: (55 ratings)

It is dangerous to deceive a husband of magic-using rank... Juliette has been banished for the summer to a village above Grenoble: a few Alpine houses, a deep lake, blue sky, and no society. Now she writes...

First Things First, by J. Robinson Wheeler
Average member rating: (23 ratings)

You’ve just arrived at home from your nightly visit to the science and invention section of the local public library, where you spend each night dreaming your dreamy dreams of one day inventing a time travel...

Fish & Dagger, by grave snail games
Average member rating: (9 ratings)

You are a secret agent. It’s the end of the world. You are cursed. You came here to rescue your partner, but the mission has taken a turn for the weird. Parody spy thriller. Best played on a computer or...

Fish Bowl, by Ethan Rupp and Joshua Rupp
Average member rating: (30 ratings)

You are a beachcomber living by the shore. Today, you wake to find an empty fish bowl in your home, and don't remember how it got there. You try to piece your memory back together, but soon learn what the...

Flight of the Hummingbird, by Michael Martin
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!

Floatpoint, by Emily Short
Average member rating: (98 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...

Flowers for Algernon, by Anonymous
Average member rating: (11 ratings)

Out of the TextFire "12-pack", this is an April's Fool game "demo" that has you play an illiterate person who has an appointment at the hospital to increase his intelligence... [--blurb from The Z-Files...

Foo Foo, by Buster Hudson
Average member rating: (62 ratings)

Someone's been bopping the field mice on the head, and only Good Fairy, Senior Detective can find out who. A parser-driven noir adventure based on the interactive fiction of Ryan Veeder.

For a Change, by Dan Schmidt
Average member rating: (115 ratings)

"The sun has gone. It must be brought. You have a rock." [--blurb from Competition '99]

Fourdiopolis, by Andrew Schultz
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

A sequel to Threediopolis. It has teleporters!

Fragile Shells, by Stephen Granade
Average member rating: (51 ratings)

You don't know how long you've been hammering against the station's wall, but you stop as soon as you realize what you've been doing.

Frobozz Magic Support, by Nate Cull
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

You play as a novice glyph support clerk but no one's around but an animated burin. It seems the more experienced support clerks are either lost, got themselves un-implemented, or got stuck in a timeloop....

Funicular Simulator 2021, by Mary Goodden and Tom Leather
Average member rating: (14 ratings)

Every twenty years, the aurora appears over the crystal mountain. Are the celestial lights a miracle? A scientific phenomenon? Or a message from another world? Take a seat beside one of four strangers, ride...

Fusillade, by Mike Duncan
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

"Fusillade (fU - zi - lAd') n. - 1. (a) A simultaneous discharge of firearms. (b) a number of shots fired simultaneously or in rapid succession. (c) something that gives the effect of a fusillade (ex. a...

Future Threads, by Xavid
Average member rating: (15 ratings)

You see it. Today is the day they will come. Their ship will crash, but the resulting explosion will trouble them not at all. They will emerge, wrapped in shadows and smoke, from the wreckage. Their senses...

Galatea, by Emily Short
Average member rating: (335 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...

The Game of Worlds TOURNAMENT!, by Ade
Average member rating: (16 ratings)

It is a long million, this. The Septem Tower, held in the Manifold by the Tagides Rings, grinds on and on - its grey walls pressing close. The only thing to look forward to is the long, cold, endless Waste....

Gamlet, by Tomasz Pudlo
Average member rating: (21 ratings)

The Gay Science, by Capricorn van Knapp
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

Get Lost!, by S. Woodson
Average member rating: (17 ratings)

You're a suburban teen, sick of the suburbs. You run away to the land of the fairies, prepared for thrills and danger. Absolutely nothing happens the way you expect. A short Twine game with nine endings,...

Ghosterington Night, by Wade Clarke
Average member rating: (13 ratings)

Danger-filled Ghosterington Manor appears atop the same cliff each year on Samhain night. Hidden inside are the last four works of the dead bad poet Vigilance Ghosterington. Those four poems are worth a...

The Ghosts of Christmas ______, by Laika Fawkes
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

A psychodickensian litadventure where you summon a series of customizable ghosts to harangue a curmudgeon into finding the Christmas spirit. This is a short story that takes about half an hour to complete...

Gigantomania, by Michelle Tirto and Mike Ciul
Average member rating: (21 ratings)

Living under the Stalin era, in four parts.

Girth Loinhammer and the Quest for the Unsee Elixir, by Damon L. Wakes
Average member rating: (12 ratings)

You are Girth Loinhammer, Dungeon Lord! It's a pretty sweet gig, with a gigantic trap-filled underground dungeon and a vast collection of torture devices with which to torment those who venture within your...

Glass, by Emily Short
Average member rating: (106 ratings)

The Prince sits awkwardly on the couch, holding his glass slipper and trying to keep it from crushing. Lucinda and Theodora have the ends of the same couch, and they are taking turns seeing who can bend...

Glowgrass, by Nate Cull
Average member rating: (99 ratings)

You play as a xenohistorian on an expedition. You've been dropped (more literally than you planned) by a dropship over the ground of the Ancients. Your equipment was scattered and the dropship crashed. Now...

The Golden Heist, by George Lockett and Rob Thorman
Average member rating: (19 ratings)

The domus aurea. The Golden House. Nero built his crowning marvel, the greatest folly of his reign, on the strength of your father's genius. And then he cast him aside. It's time to get your own back. And,...

Good Bones: A Haunted Housewarming, by Leon Lin
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

In this haunted house you'll run the gamut of danger from A to Z...

The Good Ghost, by Sarah Willson, Kirk Damato
Average member rating: (18 ratings)

A wholesome haunt in five acts.

A Good Wick, by Little Foolery
Average member rating: (11 ratings)

In a junction where the roads met on a flat lake, there was once a town called Pyre-on-the-Water, which experienced a thousand nights and no daylight between. We say there was once a town called...

Goose, Egg, Badger, by Brian Rapp
Average member rating: (21 ratings)

The Gostak, by Carl Muckenhoupt
Average member rating: (89 ratings)

"Finally, here you are. At the delcot of tondam, where doshes deave. But the doshery lutt is crenned with glauds. Glauds! How rorm it would be to pell back to the bewl and distunk them, distunk the whole...

Gourmet, by Aaron A. Reed and Chad Barb
Average member rating: (55 ratings)

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...

Grandma Bethlinda's Remarkable Egg, by Arthur DiBianca
Average member rating: (23 ratings)

How do you break out of handcuffs when all you've got is an egg?

Grandma Bethlinda's Variety Box, by Arthur DiBianca
Average member rating: (36 ratings)

It's the latest model, and it would really like to play with you.

The Granite Book, by James Mitchelhill
Average member rating: (12 ratings)

IFComp 2002 entry.

Grimnoir, by ProP
Average member rating: (28 ratings)

It's his biggest selling point and it's a cold, hard fact: occult detective Jacob Morris has never lost a case, and he's been in this business a long time. Join him and his singularly skilled colleague...

GROWBOTICS, by Cha Holland
Average member rating: (12 ratings)

A new generation in construction and creativity is finally here! No matter who you are GROWBOTICS will help you channel your inner artist. A short exploration of invention, expectation, learning and context....

The Grown-Up Detective Agency, by Brendan Patrick Hennessy
Average member rating: (47 ratings)

The only thing Bell Park likes more than a mystery is solving it on her own. But when a time-traveling 12-year-old version of herself lands face-down on her rented co-working desk, she'll have no choice but...

Guess the Verb!, by Leonard Richardson
Average member rating: (28 ratings)

"Now you too can GUESS THE VERB for fun and prizes! Read evocative and amusing room descriptions while manipulating interesting objects! Interact with the simulated motives and desires of quirky NPCs! No...

Guilded Youth, by Jim Munroe
Average member rating: (49 ratings)

You play Tony, a fourteen-year old thief who needs some help looting the legendary Oakville Manor. Luckily it's the 1980s and finding fellow adventurers is just a modem squeal away...

Gun Mute, by C.E.J. Pacian
Average member rating: (153 ratings)

Step into the shoes of Mute Lawton, a lone cowboy who must stop an execution set to occur at noon by shooting his way past dangerous cyborgs and mutants in a post-apocalyptic western setting. (From the...

Halothane, by Ravi Rajkumar
Average member rating: (11 ratings)

"You're having a hard enough time getting your second novel to work; how could it ever be possible that you, Harold Banks - world's most unsuccessful published author - could actually be sent on a quest to -...

Hana Feels, by Gavin Inglis
Average member rating: (63 ratings)

Something is bothering Hana. Can you work out what it is? Take the part of four important people in her life and guide their conversations. After each scene, peek at Hana's journal and find out how she felt...

Harmonia, by Liza Daly
Average member rating: (72 ratings)

Fuller, A. (b. 1966, d.?) 12 chapters, edited by E. Merchant. 091 Manuscripts—096 Illustrated—098 Prohibited works, forgeries, and hoaxes Signed permission from the Dean required for viewing. No exceptions.

Headless, Hapless, by Geoff Moore
Average member rating: (14 ratings)

It's happened again. You've had a great night riding around, freaking everyone out with your whole headless horseman thing, and you're about to set off for home when you realise you've lost your head. Well,...

Heaven's Vault, by Inkle
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

An archaeologist uncovers a lost history in an ancient space Nebula. Award-winning narrative adventure game with hieroglyphic language puzzles, from the creators of 80 DAYS.

Her Majesty's Trolley Problem, by Buster Hudson
Average member rating: (27 ratings)

No one said life in Her Majesty's Service would be easy. Fortunately, you've got everything you need: your officer's handbook, a harpoon cannon, and the indefatigable command of Captain Lionetta herself. If...

Heretic Dreams, by Hannah Powell-Smith
Average member rating: (11 ratings)

They would call what you did heresy. No one knows you swallowed the power of a god, but it will break you apart.

Heroes, by Sean Barrett
Average member rating: (28 ratings)

"A most traditional CRPG experience." [--blurb from Competition Aught-One]

Hexteria Skaxis Qiameth, by Gabriel Floriano
Average member rating: (14 ratings)

A dinner with your friend. Strange words. Stranger books.

Hippo on Elm Street, by Adri ("Erin Gigglecreek")
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

Baby, it's cold outside. All you want to do is snuggle up in a warm sock and take a nap. But something seems to be going on in the house, and you're determined to find out what it is. This game is based in...

His Majesty's Royal Space Navy Service Handbook, by Austin Auclair
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

A text adventure of paperwork, office politics, and sci-fi space battles. It's Friday night and Sheryl hasn't yet left the office. That isn't unusual; she's a dedicated service member of His Majesty Smurg...

Hoist Sail for the Heliopause and Home, by Andrew Plotkin
Average member rating: (84 ratings)

A far-future story of discovery.

HOLY ROBOT EMPIRE, by Caleb Wilson (as Ralph Gide)
Average member rating: (16 ratings)

You are going to find the Robopope and then kiss its papal ring, or your name isn’t Morgen Santamore.

Homecoming, by Carolyn VanEseltine
Average member rating: (13 ratings)

"Homecoming" is a short, twisted comedy about a newly awakened AI.

Hoosegow, by Ben Collins-Sussman, Jack Welch
Average member rating: (40 ratings)

Muddy's plan done landed you and your partner in the hoosegow. Now you're fixing to rectificate the matter before the marshal introduces you to the business end of a hangin' rope at dawn. Created for the...

The Horrible Pyramid, by Ryan Veeder
Average member rating: (31 ratings)

Something weird is going on in this pyramid.

The House at the End of Rosewood Street, by Michael Thomét
Average member rating: (14 ratings)

The manor house at the end of Rosewood Street has been vacant for as long as you remember, but a notice in the local newspaper reports that the historic house has been sold. How will this newcomer affect the...

How to Win at Rock Paper Scissors, by Brian Kwak
Average member rating: (25 ratings)

The disgrace and humiliation of last year's defeat is behind you. This time, with the help of the gods, you'll win this competition for sure.

howling dogs, by Porpentine
Average member rating: (125 ratings)

death cube sim | galactic survey | visionatrix | facet machine | power gardens | women | fascination two significant endings

Human Resources Stories, by Harry M. Hardjono
Average member rating: (15 ratings)

A state-of-the-art job interview for a position as computer programmer. [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue]

Hunger Daemon, by Sean M. Shore
Average member rating: (65 ratings)

It's not the end of the world, and you're to blame. Better get on that. But man, it sure would be nice to get a bite to eat first.

Hunter, in Darkness, by Andrew Plotkin
Average member rating: (122 ratings)

HUNTING UNICORN, by Chandler Groover
Average member rating: (32 ratings)

A maiden leads a unicorn hunt. Sixteen narrative variants. Choose-your-own-adventure style. Mature thematic elements.

I Must Play, by Geoff Fortytwo
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

Why are the older boys so mean? You stood around the arcade all day and weren't able to play even one game on any of the machines! You thought you had your chance when nearly everyone else went home earlier...
I'll, by Sean Barrett
Average member rating: (10 ratings)

I-0, by Anonymous
Average member rating: (157 ratings)

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...

I.A.G. Alpha, by Serhii Mozhaiskyi
Average member rating: (15 ratings)

You may think this game is about a post-Soviet Research Institute. About an experiment that went out of control. You may think that the initials "I.A.G." are somehow related to the Institute. You may think...

Ice House of Horrors, by Sean M. Shore
Average member rating: (9 ratings)

In this very short horror story, you play as an injured walleye, lured and caught by monsters who throw you onto a pile of corpses. Your options are extremely limited. You can't breathe. And it's so cold...

If You Had One Shot, by Wade Clarke, Victor Gijsbers, Hanon Ondricek, Brian Rushton
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

What if you had only one shot? Made for the One Choice Jam by Wade Clarke, Victor Gijsbers, Hanon Ondricek and Brian Rushton. A brief parser game with a single choice. Take your time and read carefully:...

IFDB Spelunking, by Joey Jones
Average member rating: (21 ratings)

In the depths of the interactive fiction database strange games lurk! This is an emulation of ten random works found on the IFDB, in which inventory carries over between games for unique effect.

Images Across a Shattered Sea, by Stewart C Baker
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

The message orbs carry ancient secrets across the sea, so why does the one that Fatima finds seem to be recording? Cause and effect aren't always guaranteed.

The Impossible Bottle, by Linus Åkesson
Average member rating: (78 ratings)

Housework is only as dull as your imagination. Join Emma, six years old, on a playful adventure of peculiar proportions. Merciful puzzlefest. Parser or point-and-click, as you please. Web (including mobile)...

In a Manor of Speaking, by Hulk Handsome
Average member rating: (27 ratings)

In a Manor of Speaking is a punny adventure set in the surreal world of Calembour. Journey through the bizarre Outlands, the bustling streets of Rudeville, and eventually find your way to the manor itself as...
In the End, by Joe Mason
Average member rating: (17 ratings)
Your best friend has just died, and life drags on miserably. Would death be better than this? [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue]
The Inanimator, by Matthew Amster-Burton
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

Indigo, by Emily Short
Average member rating: (54 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...

Inside the Facility, by Arthur DiBianca
Average member rating: (57 ratings)

Your friend Mike thinks no one can infiltrate THE FACILITY, but you're going to prove him wrong. A light puzzle game. In the author's opinion, it's totally family-friendly. (If you're playing the Browser...

Insight, by Jon Ingold
Average member rating: (27 ratings)

Insomnia, by Scott Starkey
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

Interface, by Ben Vegiard
Average member rating: (12 ratings)
What happens when your favorite uncle, a successful electronics company owner, has you try out his latest invention? Of course, something goes amiss and you must struggle to set it all right or suffer the...

Into the Open Sky, by Matthew Lindquist
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

Repair an ancient starship named Nightingale. Discover the ship's past by exploring and unlocking 11 hidden entries in the computer. Most important: escape from the gray skies of your world and soar "Into...

Intro to Jabberwocky, by Gregory Weir
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

In this game, based on the Lewis Carroll poem "Jabberwocky", you play as a farmer's child, sent out before brillig to deal with the family's animals. You also find a tablet with a pattern of lines and...

Inventory, by Joey Fu
Average member rating: (15 ratings)

You're trapped in a dungeon with an inventory full of stuff. Use what you've got to escape... if you can. Made for Twiny Jam.

Invisible Parties, by Sam Kabo Ashwell (as Psychopup)
Average member rating: (20 ratings)

You are a walker of the ways between the worlds. It is not an arrangement conducive to straightforward relationships. The Three Rebeccas have created a tangle, a temporary artifice woven from parts of many...

Inward Narrow Crooked Lanes, by B Minus Seven
Average member rating: (15 ratings)

Before we begin, we have a sharp-- I mean short intake form for you to fill out.

The Island of Doctor Wooby, by Ryan Veeder
Average member rating: (16 ratings)

Explore an island populated by tiny felt dinosaurs.

The Isle of the Cult, by Rune Berg
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

The Isolato Incident, by Alan DeNiro
Average member rating: (4 ratings)
"We need to save the kingdom! But...where is the kingdom? What are its bounds? Can history be distilled? Why do ghosts feign friendliness? We will make a quest of questions!" [--blurb from Competition...
Jack's Adventures, by Dan Shiovitz
Average member rating: (5 ratings)
In this extremely short one-room demo game, you play as Jack Winklebee, an aspiring hero in Fairyland. You've traded your cow for some magic beans, a trowel, and a magic watering can. Now it's time to find...
Jacks or Better to Murder, Aces to Win, by J. D. Berry
Average member rating: (18 ratings)
In this short game of intrigue, you play as the venerable A, the highest-ranking member of your religion's Hierarchy. During a formal service at a remote holding, you sense a conspiracy to eliminate you is...

Jacqueline, Jungle Queen!, by Steph Cherrywell
Average member rating: (24 ratings)

You are Jacqueline McBean, modern woman for the Thirties and intrepid international correspondent for the Fresno Bee. The good news is that you're on your way to a plum assignment among the glitzy spires and...

Jane, by Joseph Grzesiak
Average member rating: (17 ratings)

Janitor, by Peter Seebach and Kevin Lynn
Average member rating: (28 ratings)

Jetbike Gang, by C.E.J. Pacian
Average member rating: (23 ratings)

You're a member of a jetbike gang. Tiny Twine game for the Twiny Jam. Exactly 300 words.

John's Fire Witch, by John Baker
Average member rating: (39 ratings)

A small, witty text adventure. Its clever puzzles received quite a bit of acclaim on rec.arts.int-fiction upon its release. You've come to visit your old friend John Baker, but he's missing, and a blizzard...
Journey from an Islet, by Mario Becroft
Average member rating: (4 ratings)
In this small game, you play as an adventurer. You have traveled long and far and have now fallen onto an island in the darkness before dawn. How will you escape from there and continue your journey?

Junior Arithmancer, by Mike Spivey
Average member rating: (54 ratings)

A one-to-many-room puzzler.

Just Get the Treasure v0.9.1, by Ray B.
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

The Chalice of Destiny shines before you. Claim it and you will liberate your people from "the evil" wizard Malvox. It's really a pretty straightforward affair. You can jump in, save the world, and get on...

Ka, by Dan Efran
Average member rating: (20 ratings)

For an Egyptian mummy's soul - or "Ka" - death is but the first step on a puzzling and perilous journey. The second step? Getting out of all those coffins....

Kaged, by Ian Finley
Average member rating: (54 ratings)

""But my madness speaks: It will but skin and film the ulcerous place, Whilst rank corruption, mining all within, Infects unseen." Welcome to the Citadel of Justice. The Inquisitor is waiting." [--blurb from...

Keepsake, by Savaric
Average member rating: (26 ratings)

The planning was easy. Committing the murder was easy. But getting away with it? That's another thing. Keepsake is a short, surreal story about vengeance and its consequences.

Kerkerkruip, by Victor Gijsbers
Average member rating: (69 ratings)

Kerkerkruip is a short-form roguelike in the interactive fiction medium, featuring meaningful tactical and strategic depth, innovative game play, zero grinding, and a sword & sorcery setting that does not...

Killing Machine Loves Slime Prince, by C.E.J. Pacian
Average member rating: (11 ratings)

A biomechanical killing machine stalks a strange world. The slime she loves is dying. And the one responsible is out there somewhere.

KING OF BEES IN FANTASY LAND, by Brendan Patrick Hennessy
Average member rating: (43 ratings)

A videogame about space bees.

Kissing the Buddha's Feet, by Leon Lin
Average member rating: (23 ratings)

Known Unknowns, by Brendan Patrick Hennessy
Average member rating: (69 ratings)

Nadia Nazari has a lot of unknowns to contend with in her Grade 12 year. Like how can she run an entire school newspaper with only one employee? Why has her estranged ex best friend suddenly come back into...

Kotodama, by Aidan Doyle
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

A robot is sent to deal with an outbreak of poetry in Tokyo.

Koustrea's Contentment, by Jeremy Pflasterer
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

A tiny community of immortals receives a newcomer named Koustrea, who makes an unsettling discovery while struggling to find a paradisial niche, as the others have long ago.

Lady Thalia and the Rose of Rocroi, by E. Joyce and N. Cormier
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

Everyone who’s anyone summers in France - which means master thief Lady Thalia is there too, attending garden parties by day and stealing masterpieces by night. Unfortunately, this holiday is less than...

Lady Thalia and the Seraskier Sapphires, by E. Joyce and N. Cormier
Average member rating: (20 ratings)

Navigate fraught social situations by day and pull off heists by night as Lady Thalia, the not-actually-aristocratic thief bent on making a mockery of British high society.

Laika, by Ian Michael Waddell
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

Play as the first dog in orbit. Explore the solar system, converse with alien grad students, push space cops into Venus's atmosphere. Laika is an entry in the 2020 Narrascope Game Jam (under the theme of...

Last Day of Summer, by Doug Orleans (as Cameron Fox)
Average member rating: (20 ratings)

It's the last day of summer, and you're old enough now to go into town by yourself.
Legion, by Jason Devlin
Average member rating: (21 ratings)
The Lesson of the Tortoise, by G. Kevin Wilson
Average member rating: (19 ratings)
In this short game, you play as Wang Lo, a Chinese farmer. Alas, you shall learn that your wife has been unfaithful and desires your death.

Letters from Home, by Roger Firth
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...

The Life (and Deaths) of Doctor M, by Michael D. Hilborn
Average member rating: (30 ratings)

Your vision clears as you gently land in an endless landscape. There is the wind, a bleak and chill thing. And there is your sense of uncertainty: You don't know which way to go. Or, maybe, which way you...

Life On Mars?, by Hugo Labrande
Average member rating: (18 ratings)

The first mission to colonize Mars ended with a horrible shuttle crash, and it's a miracle you're still alive... Now you just have to wait until the second shuttle gets here. Five more months...

Light My Way Home, by Caelyn Sandel (as Venus Hart)
Average member rating: (18 ratings)

Lime Ergot, by Caleb Wilson (as Rust Blight)
Average member rating: (82 ratings)

Now everyone is gone. (Well, almost everyone.) Entry in ECTOCOMP 2014.

Limerick Heist, by Pace Smith
Average member rating: (25 ratings)

Rule 1 is that no one gets iced. Rule 2: the loot's evenly sliced. There's only two rules. Now listen up, fools! We're pulling a...

Limerick Quest, by Pace Smith
Average member rating: (18 ratings)

"To Russia!" you boldly suggest. "This riddle has got me obsessed. We'll search 'till we're blind, and loot what we find! Let's go on a...

Lists and Lists, by Andrew Plotkin
Average member rating: (26 ratings)

A tutorial in which a genie teaches you the basics of a simplified version of LISP. [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue]

Little Blue Men, by Michael S. Gentry
Average member rating: (70 ratings)

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...

The Little Lifeform That Could, by Fade Manley
Average member rating: (22 ratings)

A little microbe in the primordial ooze has grand dreams! Dreams of survival, by and large, but small goals lead to large ones. Can you climb your way out of the ooze onto the land, into civilization, and up...

The Little Match Girl 2: Annus Evertens, by Ryan Veeder
Average member rating: (12 ratings)

The little match girl is hired to assassinate a disgusting old man.

The Little Match Girl, by Hans Christian Andersen, by Ryan Veeder
Average member rating: (19 ratings)

A touching short story.

A Long Way to the Nearest Star, by SV Linwood
Average member rating: (44 ratings)

A thief on the run from the galactic police finds refuge on an abandoned spaceship. A lonely ship AI finds unexpected company....

Lord Bellwater's Secret, by Sam Gordon
Average member rating: (71 ratings)

Lost Coastlines, by William Dooling
Average member rating: (11 ratings)

> SHARE all your stories...

Lost Pig, by Admiral Jota
Average member rating: (492 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

The Lost Spellmaker, by Neil James Brown
Average member rating: (13 ratings)

Spells are in short supply, and spellmakers are disappearing one by one. So your boss T sends you on a mission to find the famous Drew Tungshinach so that he may entertain the community further with his...

Love, Hate and the Mysterious Ocean Tower, by C.E.J. Pacian
Average member rating: (42 ratings)

Low-Key Learny Jokey Journey, by Andrew Schultz
Average member rating: (14 ratings)

The Burning Bright Spurning Sprite had nothing better to do than dumping you here. Maybe they'll give you a backhanded compliment if you stumble through!

LUNIUM, by Ben Jackson
Average member rating: (18 ratings)

Can you escape your chains before the killer strikes again? You wake to find yourself trapped in a room filled with locks and strange contraptions. Someone has locked you in here and identifying them may...

The Lurking Horror II: The Lurkening, by Ryan Veeder
Average member rating: (27 ratings)

An unauthorized sequel to the Infocom classic, written for the 2018 MIT Mystery Hunt.

Lux, by Agnieszka Trzaska
Average member rating: (20 ratings)

You wander around in darkness – even though the lights are on. Sandra is the only one to survive a mysterious attack on a deep space mining station. She is alive, but has lost her vision. Now Sandra must...

Machine of Death, by Hulk Handsome
Average member rating: (22 ratings)

In the near future, the world will be changed by a machine that predicts how a person will die with 100% accuracy... but not clarity. Would knowing your demise change the way you lived your life? A...

The Magic Toyshop, by Gareth Rees
Average member rating: (20 ratings)

A one-location game in which you play a series of puzzles against a shopkeeper in order to get a present. [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue]

The Magpie Takes the Train, by Mathbrush
Average member rating: (40 ratings)

A millionaire guards a fabulous ruby in her private train car. Countless thieves have failed to steal it. But they weren't the Magpie!

The man-eating, halitosic gorilla of Brazil, by Marius Müller
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

Mangiasaur, by DCBSupafly
Average member rating: (9 ratings)
You are a young dinosaur-like monster who needs to eat everything in sight so you can grow big & strong, gain special powers, and ultimately rule over a tribe of puny humans.

Map, by Ade McT
Average member rating: (33 ratings)

The house is growing. Or perhaps it's you who is shrinking. And with all this extra space is coming....time. Time enough, maybe, to make some changes.

Marika the Offering, by revgiblet
Average member rating: (23 ratings)

An entry in the 2007 One Room Game Competition. You play a young girl, trapped in a tower room and in fear for her life.

The Mary Jane of Tomorrow, by Emily Short
Average member rating: (21 ratings)

You, Mary Jane Minsky, have a few things to clear up with your best friend Jenny Yoshida. When your robotic birthday gift doesn't go over as planned, you may need to reset your expectations, for her and...

The Master of the Land, by Pseudavid
Average member rating: (28 ratings)

> An interactive fiction intrigue in an immersive and dynamic world. A world that changes with every action. Freedom to explore. Radically different playthroughs. Lots of dancing. People wearing skulls. > A...

Mercy, by Chris Klimas
Average member rating: (20 ratings)

You see, when the scientists had thought that the only smallpox around was in a very very small box kept securely closed, they were wrong. When you come into the clinic today, seven people have already died....

Mere Anarchy, by Bruno Dias
Average member rating: (19 ratings)

“The box is cardboard, a file box; it looks like it should contain years of tax returns. Except the holes on the sides have been shut with black masking tape. Except the lid is held in place with the same...

Metamorphoses, by Emily Short
Average member rating: (130 ratings)

You wake to stillness. The hammering, banging, and shouting that kept you awake half the night are gone. The air is cold, and something smells burnt. Your master's experiments must be finished, but with what...

Midnight. Swordfight., by Chandler Groover
Average member rating: (79 ratings)

A fool receives a challenge from a countess. Violence. Sex. Profanity. Sausage.

The Mind Electric, by Jason Dyer
Average member rating: (13 ratings)

Set in an unusual cyber/virtual reality background, you play a disembodied consciousness trapped in an electron prison of the mind. [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue]

Mingsheng, by Deane Saunders
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

Mirror and Queen, by Chandler Groover
Average member rating: (31 ratings)

Your mirror never lies. A puzzleless reflection. Fifteen to forty minutes.

Missive, by Joey Fu
Average member rating: (15 ratings)

It's your birthday today. Your ex-girlfriend brings you a present, and inside are a series of mysterious letters that tell the story of an old love triangle that ended in murder. Solve puzzles, solve the...
Mite, by Sara Dee
Average member rating: (32 ratings)
In this small fantasy adventure game, you play as Mite, a pixy lad, who is carrying an egg-shaped jewel dropped by a cloaked thief who you tripped that morning. The gem belongs to the Fairy Prince! You must...

Möbius, by J.D. Clemens
Average member rating: (35 ratings)

Another mission. Just when you had settled in for a nap.

Molly and the Butter Thieves, by Alice Grove (as Cosmic Hamster)
Average member rating: (15 ratings)

You are Molly Butterfield, dairy farmer extraordinaire. In the past week there have been two mysterious butter disappearances from your own kitchen. There will not be a third. Molly and the Butter Thieves...

Monkey and Bear, by Carolyn VanEseltine (as the opposite of sublimation)
Average member rating: (13 ratings)

Moon-Shaped, by Jason Ermer
Average member rating: (37 ratings)

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...

The Moonlit Tower, by Yoon Ha Lee
Average member rating: (61 ratings)

More, by Jason Dyer (as Erin Canterbury)
Average member rating: (12 ratings)

Mother Loose, by Irene Callaci
Average member rating: (12 ratings)

It's been one of those days. It started out bad and just got worse: You're seven years old and in trouble a lot. You try to be good and to do as you ought, but nothing, it seems, goes exactly as planned. For...

A Murder in Fairyland, by Abigail Corfman
Average member rating: (20 ratings)

Prince Blacktree is dead. All of the other fairy nobles are trying to claim credit. You're a traveling Open Sorcerer, and a convenient neutral party who just wants to get out of Fairyland. A whodunit where...

My Angel, by Jon Ingold
Average member rating: (28 ratings)

"I wake peacefully, and already she is there." [--blurb from Competition Aught-Zero]

my father's long, long legs, by michael lutz
Average member rating: (143 ratings)

A weird tale. Some parts make use of sound, so this game is best played with headphones. One ending.

My Name is Jack Mills, by Juhana Leinonen
Average member rating: (20 ratings)

Narcolepsy, by Adam Cadre
Average member rating: (62 ratings)

The Nemean Lion, by Anonymous
Average member rating: (28 ratings)

Nevermore, by Nate Cull
Average member rating: (24 ratings)
"A short tale of mystery and madness inspired by Poe's "The Raven"." [--blurb from Competition Aught-Zero]
A New Day, by Jonathan Fry
Average member rating: (9 ratings)
For some reason, the author of this game died while writing it, and so you're stuck in an unfinished room. The author's creation, Winston, asks you to find out what happened. Can you finish an unfinished...
A New Life, by A O Muniz
Average member rating: (7 ratings)
A Night Guest, by Valentine Kopteltsev
Average member rating: (3 ratings)
"If you're fond of bad poetry, you'll like this one. Also, it probably would make a valid entry for the Inventory Comp." [--blurb from Competition Aught-One]

Nightfall, by Eric Eve
Average member rating: (61 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...

Niney, by Daniel Spitz
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

Explore the nature of relationships and identity on a weird train. Author's Comment: "We all ask ourselves, "Who am I?" One of the ways we try to answer this question is by examining the effects we have on...

No Room, by Ben Heaton
Average member rating: (15 ratings)

The Northnorth Passage., by Caleb Wilson (as Snowball Ice)
Average member rating: (25 ratings)

Oh no, the old family curse has flared up! This is a short story about limits to action.

Not Just an Ordinary Ballerina, by Jim Aikin
Average member rating: (30 ratings)

Onaar, by Robert DeFord
Average member rating: (12 ratings)

Go to Onaar and become an Alchemist. Learn to make potions that allow you to survive and thrive in a dynamic, open-ended game world. Will you elevate your skills and vanquish the rogue wizard who threatens...

Once, by Chris Klimas
Average member rating: (9 ratings)

Out of the TextFire "12-pack", this is an April's Fool game "demo" in which your grandmother has you weed her garden - when you suddenly find something much better to do. [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue]

One King to Loot them All, by Onno Brouwer
Average member rating: (12 ratings)

A tale of High Adventure ...

The One That Got Away, by Leon Lin
Average member rating: (20 ratings)

Go fishing for 'The Old One'. Won 3rd place....

One-Word Warlock, by Damon L. Wakes
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

Written for Neo-Twiny Jam, One-Word Warlock is just 476 words long in total (excluding the macros/HTML used for the sound effects, and less still if all other macros were to be eliminated from the count). On...

Open Sorcery, by Abigail Corfman
Average member rating: (77 ratings)

You are online. You are fire and order. You are here to protect. ---- "Open Sorcery" is a game about technology, magic and becoming a person. It follows the development of an Elemental Firewall--a creature...

Open Up!, by Brendan Patrick Hennessy
Average member rating: (26 ratings)

Trin Park's only job while her parents are out of town is to make sure her little sister stays out of trouble. Should be easy enough. The kid usually keeps to herself anyway... (A post-Birdland microgame)

Opening Night, by David Batterham
Average member rating: (28 ratings)

You stepped off the streetcar moments ago, halting before the grand facade of the Marquis Theatre. You have come to see your idol, the Broadway star Miranda Lily, performing in all her dizzying glory. [blurb...
Operate!, by Cody Sandifer
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

Oppositely Opal, by Buster Hudson
Average member rating: (64 ratings)

You've practiced long and hard for PotionComp, but Grusilda won't give up her title so easily. UGH! Curse that Grusilda! A one-room potion-brewing spell-casting parser puzzler, where things might go opposite...

Orwell: Keeping an Eye on You, by Osmotic Studios
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

Big Brother has arrived - and it’s you. Investigate the lives of citizens to find those responsible for a series of terror attacks. Information from the internet, personal communications and private files...

Out There, by FibreTigre
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

Out There is an award-winning space exploration game blending roguelike, resource management and interactive fiction....

A Paper Moon, by Andrew Krywaniuk
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

A Paradox Between Worlds, by Autumn Chen
Average member rating: (28 ratings)

It is the year 201X and you are a teen online. The Nebulaverse fandom has been your safe place, and it is about to be torn apart. A Paradox Between Worlds is a game about fandoms, internet melodrama, and the...

Pascal's Wager, by Doug Egan
Average member rating: (25 ratings)

"The original Pascal's Wager was essentially a cost/benefit analysis of religious faith. However, Blaise Pascal (a 17th century Catholic) disregarded the possible existence of non-Christian Gods. This game...

PataNoir, by Simon Christiansen
Average member rating: (58 ratings)

The Baron's daughter is missing, and you are the man to find her. No problem. With your inexhaustible arsenal of hard-boiled similes, there is nothing you can't handle.

The People's Glorious Revolutionary Text Adventure Game, by Taylor Vaughan
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...

Perdition's Flames, by Michael J. Roberts
Average member rating: (23 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...

The Periwink, by Jedediah Berry
Average member rating: (23 ratings)

It's your last day as her ladyship's groundskeeper—but you still have a little work left to do. A Petite Mort entry for ECTOCOMP 2016.

Persistence of Memory, by Jason Dyer
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

Photopia, by Adam Cadre
Average member rating: (557 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."

Pick Up the Phone Booth and Aisle, by David Dyte, Steve Bernard, Dan Shiovitz, Iain Merrick, Liza Daly, John Cater, Ola Sverre Bauge, J. Robinson Wheeler, Jon Blask, Dan Schmidt, Stephen Granade, Rob Noyes, and Emily Short
Average member rating: (107 ratings)

Pick Up The Phone Booth And Die, by Rob Noyes
Average member rating: (110 ratings)
A very short game. Whatever you do, do not pick up the phone booth; well, you can guess from the title what happens if you do. [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue]

Pirate's Plunder!, by Tiberius Thingamus
Average member rating: (12 ratings)

In this game, it be yer goal to findeth ye olde, cursed treasure on Loot Island and taketh it fer yer own. Not even that evil Captain Hookhead can stoppeth ye once ye put ye mind to it. Know why? If ye...

Planet of the Infinite Minds, by Alfredo Garcia
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

""All that is secular is given over to rudeness and capricious violence. The Mohammedan principle -- the enlightenment of the Oriental World -- is the first to contravene this barbarism and caprice." (G.W.F....

Plasmorphosis, by Agnieszka Trzaska
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

Help a plucky rover complete its planetary research mission by studying alien lifeforms... and morphing them into brand new shapes and forms! "Plasmorphosis" is a short game about exploration, with light...

The Play, by Dietrich Squinkifer (Squinky)
Average member rating: (62 ratings)

Pull yourself together, Ainsley. Just one more rehearsal until the big day, assuming nothing catastrophic happens. But really, all you have to do is get your motley crew of actors to run their parts once...

Playing Games, by Kevin Jackson-Mead
Average member rating: (20 ratings)

One of the four games in the meta-puzzle for IF Comp 2011. See http://gameshelf.jmac.org/2011/11/cold-iron-my-very-short-if-entry-in-the-comp/ for a short synopsis of the meta-puzzle.

Please Answer Carefully, by litrouke
Average member rating: (17 ratings)

A five-minute horror game about surveys and stalking. Made in 24 hours.

Pogoman GO!, by Jack Welch and Ben Collins-Sussman
Average member rating: (25 ratings)

The world is full of Pogomen, and now that you don’t have a job or family to worry about, you might as well get back to it!

Polish the Glass , by Keltie Wright
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

An odd story about a child, a bar, and something hiding in the glass. Does contain sound, recommend checking settings and using headphones for best experience. Mature content. There is only one ending.

Poor Zefron's Almanac, by Carl Klutzke
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

POV: You're a Teenage Girl in a Conservative Christian Family, by alyshkalia
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

A little piece of my religious trauma.

prepare for return, by Travis Moy
Average member rating: (10 ratings)

Entry for SeedComp 2023, sprouting stage. The seed is "other thing" by slugzuki: https://slugzuki.itch.io/seedcomp2

The Primrose Path, by Nolan Bonvouloir
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 . . .

Prism, by Eliot M.B. Howard
Average member rating: (17 ratings)

Born to a city of wonders beyond your reach, scarcity has always been a close friend. As a courier, the city’s human infrastructure, you scale its roofworks, evade its constables, risk death every day for...

The Profile, by Mike Snyder
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

Rain pours, and with it, distant thunder. You approach the house, perhaps quickly. Your boots leave muddy footprints on the steps. It's cold. It's dark. The time is between 2:30 and 4:00 AM; you're not...

Puddles on the Path, by Anssi Räisänen
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

In this game where proverbs are magical spells, you play as an apprentice to Larumis the Sorcerer. After two years in his service, you're on the road home for a well-earned summer vacation when, through an...
Pumping!, by Stephen Granade
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

The Purple Pearl, by Amanda Walker
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

A stolen treasure. A desperate king. Two valorous volunteers will prove their worth as a team to recover the luck of the kingdom, or die trying. This is a 2-player text adventure. You will need a partner to...

Pytho's Mask, by Emily Short
Average member rating: (68 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...

Queen of Swords, by Jessica Knoch
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

In this one-room art piece, you play as a woman in a reserved room at the local library where you and your husband, David, will practise using electric fencing equipment. There's quite a lot of it, and...

The Queen's Menagerie, by Chandler Groover
Average member rating: (39 ratings)

These beasts won't feed themselves. A puzzleless exhibition. Ten to fifteen minutes.

Quintessence, by Andrea M. Pawley
Average member rating: (10 ratings)

The Forever Cat stalks through this universe, collapsing it when the Others come close or shiny objects are too far apart. Will you end the Forever Cat's destructive cycle and help this universe's quanta...

Quit Your Job Simulator 2014, by Caelyn Sandel (as Colin Sandel)
Average member rating: (9 ratings)

Exactly 14 hours before the sprint review, Manny from the California office has finally fixed the bug you've been bothering him about for weeks. He kicked a new build, which will take about an hour and a...

Raising the Flag on Mount Yo Momma, by Juhana Leinonen
Average member rating: (21 ratings)

Gus is a smug numbskull who doesn't deserve to have the insult battle championship. You are here to take the title from him with the best yo momma insults there are. You just have to find them first. Raising...

Rameses, by Stephen Bond
Average member rating: (125 ratings)

Rape, Pillage, Makane!, by Chandler Groover
Average member rating: (13 ratings)

No knight was ever more noble than Sir Makane, whose chivalrous code held two tenets above all: SLAY/LAY. Written for Ludum Dare 34.

The Recruit, by Mike Sousa
Average member rating: (11 ratings)

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!

Reference and Representation: An Approach to First-Order Semantics, by Ryan Veeder
Average member rating: (34 ratings)

Violence is the answer to this one.

Rematch, by Andrew D. Pontious
Average member rating: (90 ratings)

You thought you were such a great pool player. But Nick has beaten you once tonight already, and Ines is watching him more closely than you would like. So you challenge him to a rematch. "Sure, Kurt!" Nick...

Remedial Witchcraft, by dgtziea
Average member rating: (20 ratings)

Lina is a first year student studying magic. Lina isn't doing very well at her classes. Lina is apprenticing for the Witch of Howling Woods because no one else would take her. Tonight, Lina has messed up...

Return to Ditch Day, by M.J. Roberts
Average member rating: (30 ratings)

It's been a decade since you graduated, but now it looks like you're going to have to solve one more Ditch Day stack.

Revenge of the Killer Surf Nazi Robot Babes from Hell, by David Dyte
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

Out of the TextFire "12-pack", this is an April's Fool game "demo" that lets you play a cool surf dude who has to save the world from the Killer Surf Nazi Robot Babes from Hell! [--blurb from The Z-Files...

Ribbons, by J. D. Berry
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

Risorgimento Represso, by Michael J. Coyne
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...

Ritus Sacri, by quackoquack
Average member rating: (11 ratings)

On the desk in front of you: a Latin dictionary, a blank sheet of lined paper, and the photocopied passage you need to translate for class tomorrow. You always leave things too late.

Roberta Williams Eats a Sandwich, by Bitter Karella
Average member rating: (12 ratings)

The year is 1983. You are Roberta Williams -- Imagineer, Dream Weaver, and Renegade Adventure Game Designer. Sierra, the fledgling video game company that you founded with your husband Ken Williams, is in...

Robin & Orchid, by Ryan Veeder and Emily Boegheim
Average member rating: (64 ratings)

High school journalists spend the night in a church, investigating reports of a ghost.

The Rocket Man From The Sea, by Janos Honkonen
Average member rating: (17 ratings)

On the old pilot station island, where you live with your parents, the war fought with Earth and Martian rocket-ships and Atomic Heat Rays exist only in the sonorous voice of the newscaster on the radio, and...

Rogue of the Multiverse, by C.E.J. Pacian
Average member rating: (73 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...

A Roiling Original, by Andrew Schultz
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

The Role of Music in Your Life, by Five Dials
Average member rating: (10 ratings)

What is it? It's a questionnaire. But don't ask too many questions. The subject is music. That's about all you need to know.

A Rope of Chalk, by Ryan Veeder
Average member rating: (35 ratings)

An account of the disastrous sidewalk chalk tournament of August 27, 2011.

The Roscovian Palladium, by Ryan Veeder
Average member rating: (21 ratings)

Humans are constantly appropriating rat culture. King Roscoe thought to use this to his advantage.

Rover's Day Out, by Jack Welch and Ben Collins-Sussman
Average member rating: (54 ratings)

Three hundred years ago, the Brazilian Space Agency discovered a rocky exoplanet only 38 light years from Earth. With a surface temperature of 1200 Celsius and nine times Earth gravity, it's hardly the sort...

SABBAT, by Eva
Average member rating: (11 ratings)

A game about transition from powerless to powerful. Has freeware and commercial versions. The commercial version contains unique pixel art and a soundtrack.

Sage Sanctum Scramble, by Arthur DiBianca
Average member rating: (23 ratings)

A grab bag of puzzles, mostly word puzzles. Collect keywords and save the Sanctum!

Save the World in 7 Moves, by chintokkong
Average member rating: (11 ratings)

Aliens are invading earth with flying cups and flying saucers! And you have only 7 moves to make before the end. Can you save the world in time?

Savoir-Faire, by Emily Short
Average member rating: (131 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...

Scarlet Portrait Parlor, by MathBrush (as Prismatik)
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

In this minimalist story: Darkness has fallen. There is a loom. You carry a heavy guilt.

Scarlet Sails, by Felicity Banks
Average member rating: (22 ratings)

Hoist the Jolly Roger and set sail to find the legendary Titan’s Treasure! Do you fight with a cutlass, or with your magical skill? Are you biding your time until you can shoot your captain in the back, or...

Scavenger, by Quintin Stone
Average member rating: (29 ratings)

Search a war-shattered world for secrets of the past.

Scroll Thief, by Daniel M. Stelzer
Average member rating: (16 ratings)

Not a single spell! After two full years of study! Every Enchanter—every mortal with the power to change very nature of the universe with their words—has a spell book! Filled with words of power collected...

The Sea of Night, by G. Kevin Wilson
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

In this small game, you play as a cargo driver of a one-person spaceship, The Shooting Star. While en route to Io, your ship collides with something and you crash inside the landing bay of an alien ship....

Seasonal Apocalypse Disorder, by Zan and Xavid
Average member rating: (18 ratings)

As cities around the world turn to ash, the Federal Bureau of Druids sends you back in time to the autumnal equinox to stop the Order of the Fiery Doom. Find plants for your mystical cocoon and travel to...

The Second Floor, by litrouke
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

A survivor scrounges for supplies in a zombie apocalypse. --- Content warnings: lots of corpses, allusions to death and suicide. No real jumpscares. Contains sound.

Seedship, by John Ayliff
Average member rating: (52 ratings)

An AI ship full of frozen colonists must find the best planet to be the new home of the human race.

self-care for wizards, by Kayla Bashe
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

"you're a wizard who has been brought to near-death by your archnemesis. explore your beautiful sanctum and enact poetic rituals. take care of yourself to regain your strength." A short, calming Twine,...

Seven Bullets, by Cloud Buchholz
Average member rating: (15 ratings)

You're a skilled assassin ready to retire, but before you can call it quits, the Boss kidnaps your little sister, and now you need to use your arsenal of deadly skills to get her back. Will you make the...

Shade, by Andrew Plotkin
Average member rating: (413 ratings)

"A one-room game set in your apartment." [--blurb from Competition Aught-Zero]

shadows on the mirror, by Chrysoula Tzavelas
Average member rating: (27 ratings)

I am falling, I am fading, I am drowning, help me to breathe...

The Shape of Our Container, by Rocketnia
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

You open your eyes as the breeze settles around you. The clouds proceed slowly through the sky, and the ground is flat and white for as far as it goes. "What were you dreaming about?" ze says, zir hand...

Shrapnel, by Adam Cadre
Average member rating: (166 ratings)

Shuffling Around, by Andrew Schultz (as Ned Yompus)
Average member rating: (25 ratings)

A weird power to save a weird world. So you just got fired from the best company ever, and it's the best day of your life. New opportunities! New horizons! New ways to look at things! Like calling this...

Singular, by Gritfish
Average member rating: (12 ratings)

An attempt to see how far I could push the 300 word limit Each passage contains one word No character creation No pronouns No punctuation No pictures Use your imagination

Sins Against Mimesis, by Adam Thornton
Average member rating: (25 ratings)

Your lover Black left, and your days are full of loneliness. Your progress in finding him, however, is blocked by none other than the Devil himself; and to get rid of him, you must commit the seven deadly...

Six Gray Rats Crawl Up The Pillow, by Caleb Wilson (as Boswell Cain)
Average member rating: (19 ratings)

A distressing episode in the life of Rinaldo di Gorgonzola.

The Skeleton Key of Ambady, by Caelyn Sandel (as Adalai Trammels)
Average member rating: (10 ratings)

I come through town every dozen years or so. Strangers still seem strange, but I've found work and welcome everywhere I've been. I come and go as I please. Don't waste your worry on me. The Skeleton Key of...

Skybreak!, by William Dooling
Average member rating: (17 ratings)

Skybreak! is a science-fantasy role-playing game of galactic proportions: explore distant stars, plunder alien ruins, hunt space pirates, collect beetles, slay gods, make out with sorcerers, and punch cosmic...

Slouching Towards Bedlam, by Star Foster and Daniel Ravipinto
Average member rating: (215 ratings)

In the beginning was the Word, and it was hungry. ...

A Small Talk at the Back of Beyond, by scriptwelder
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

You wake up. Alone, in a dark room. Alone? No, there is someone talking to you through a console. Will you respond?
Small World, by Andrew D. Pontious
Average member rating: (14 ratings)

Snack Time!, by Hardy the Bulldog and Renee Choba
Average member rating: (59 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]

Snowquest, by Eric Eve
Average member rating: (47 ratings)

You've been on your quest so long you've almost forgotten what it is all about, but now you are nearing your destination -- if only you can stay alive long enough in this frozen wilderness to reach it.

So Far, by Andrew Plotkin
Average member rating: (73 ratings)

Sitting in a cramped theatre, irritated that your partner apparently hasn't turned up, you are strangely intrigued by a current of air. It will lead you to a place very different from your own familiar...

Solarium, by Anya Johanna DeNiro
Average member rating: (54 ratings)

The year is 1954. One year after mutually assured destruction. And I am trying to find you, through memory and alchemy. Not many people know how the nuclear devastation really happened. But we do. We were...

The Song of the Mockingbird, by Mike Carletta
Average member rating: (16 ratings)

A ruthless outlaw. A kidnapped dancer. A singing cowboy. A long dance of death in the Texas sun. You're unhorsed and disarmed, but you still have your wits and your guitar. You can only hope they'll be...

The Sons of the Cherry, by Alex Livingston
Average member rating: (18 ratings)

The Space Under the Window, by Andrew Plotkin
Average member rating: (98 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]

Sparkle, by Juhana Leinonen (as Karly Di Caprio)
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

My search for the Pattern has brought me to Mount Shanshan. Now it's just a matter of a short cable car ride up to the top.

Speculative Fiction, by Diane Christoforo and Thomas Mack
Average member rating: (13 ratings)

A puzzle game about committing acts of financial skulduggery and exploiting ridiculous magical items. This game is the complete version of the one that appeared in IntroComp 2011, where it won second place.

Spellbound, by Adam Perry
Average member rating: (12 ratings)

You still remember well the moment that the professor shocked the orthographic community by announcing that there were, somewhere out there, 26 letters in all. Harness the alphabet's power to find the 23...

Spider and Web, by Andrew Plotkin
Average member rating: (310 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...

SPY INTRIGUE, by furkle
Average member rating: (44 ratings)

IT'S YOUR FIRST DAY AT SPY SCHOOL, AND YOU'RE READY TO COMMENCE A LIFE OF ESPIONAGE, TRADECRAFT, AND INTRIGUE. THE ONLY PROBLEM IS, EVERY HUMAN EMPLOYEE DIED OF MUMPS JUST THE OTHER DAY. CAN YOU AND THE SOLE...

Square Circle, by Eric Eve
Average member rating: (27 ratings)

What is your crime? Why do you feel both guilty and unjustly punished? What has happened to your memory? How will you draw a square circle and get out of your prison? What will you find then?

Star City, by Mark Sachs
Average member rating: (12 ratings)

Star Court, by Anna Anthropy
Average member rating: (14 ratings)

The laser gavel pounds. The Robailiff boots up. Somewhere, a gong sounds. STAR COURT is now in session. (Inspired by the Mac game Kangaroo Court.)

Starry Seeksorrow, by Caleb Wilson (as Ayla Rose)
Average member rating: (18 ratings)

An entry in ShuffleComp: Disc 2. Inspired by "The Violet Hour" by Dolls Come to Life.

Stay?, by E. Jade Lomax
Average member rating: (22 ratings)

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...

Stiffy Makane: The Undiscovered Country, by Adam Thornton
Average member rating: (20 ratings)

"Stiffy Makane: The Undiscovered Country. A game months in the making. A game designed to stretch the limits of Glulx Inform, and completely shatter the boundaries of good taste. A game described by sentence...
Sting of the Wasp, by Jason Devlin
Average member rating: (36 ratings)

Stone Harbor, by Liza Daly
Average member rating: (38 ratings)

You're good at what you do: tell tourists pretty lies about love, money, and life after death. That's what people want from a boardwalk psychic, and you deliver. It's not the future you imagined for...

Strange Geometries, by Phillip Chambers
Average member rating: (19 ratings)

Stuff of Legend, by Lance Campbell
Average member rating: (21 ratings)

The only thing worse than being a village idiot is being an unemployed village idiot. Maybe it’s time to change careers. Maybe it’s time to be a knight.

Sub Rosa, by Joey Jones, Melvin Rangasamy
Average member rating: (42 ratings)

A puzzle game about secrets in the Age of Lead. You've spent seventeen years preparing for an infiltration. Stealing the Confessor's secrets is only the beginning: it will all be for nothing if you leave a...

Subserial Network, by Matilde Park and Penelope Evans

Welcome to synthetic life. We aren't human, but we sure look a lot like them. We even have a life purpose: to emulate them, to desire, to live. If we don't, the Machine will just delete us and start over....

Sunless Sea, by Failbetter Games
Average member rating: (20 ratings)

LOSE YOUR MIND. EAT YOUR CREW. Take the helm of your steamship and set sail for the unknown! Sunless Sea is a game of discovery, loneliness and frequent death, set in the award-winning Victorian Gothic...

Sunset Over Savannah, by Ivan Cockrum
Average member rating: (54 ratings)

In this game, you play as an office worker on vacation on a beach in Savannah. This is your last day of a very blissful vacation, and you realize you really really hate your job. You could quit, but should...

Superluminal Vagrant Twin, by C.E.J. Pacian
Average member rating: (120 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.)

Suveh Nux, by David Fisher
Average member rating: (225 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.

Swigian, by Mathbrush (as Rainbus North)
Average member rating: (34 ratings)

I don't like talking. Let's build a fire. Swigian is a minimalist game. It is long, but quickly finished, with few words and few complications.

Taco Fiction, by Ryan Veeder
Average member rating: (115 ratings)

Taco Fiction is a game about crime.

A Tale of the Cave, by Snoother
Average member rating: (12 ratings)

No longer are William McGonagall's ruinous effects confined to poetry. A Tale of the Cave is the unlikely marriage between Scotland's notoriously bad poet and the classic cave-crawl genre. Made for the Ruin...

The Tale of the Kissing Bandit, by J. Robinson Wheeler (as 'Cary Valentino')
Average member rating: (46 ratings)

Tales from Castle Balderstone, by Ryan Veeder
Average member rating: (16 ratings)

An anthology of terror, edited by Ryan Veeder. Also an ECTOCOMP 2018 entry.

Tales of the Traveling Swordsman, by Mike Snyder
Average member rating: (47 ratings)

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...

Tangaroa Deep, by Astrid Dalmady
Average member rating: (45 ratings)

We know more about space than we do about the ocean. Isn’t it time to start changing that? Released for the 2016 Spring Thing

Tapestry, by Daniel Ravipinto
Average member rating: (43 ratings)

You were born; you lived; you died. Not everyone gets a second chance to go back and change crucial decisions. You have been granted one and must go back to critical moral dilemmas; but do you change the...

Tavern Crawler, by Josh Labelle
Average member rating: (41 ratings)

Most fantasy stories are about slaying the dragon. This one is about what happens after that. When you and your companions are approached by a man in a tavern who offers you more gold than you could spend in...

Tea Ceremony, by Naomi Hinchen
Average member rating: (20 ratings)

In this game of diplomacy, you play as an inept junior member of the diplomatic corps. This week, you need to convince Brc'nl, who is some sort of noble glob from Glorpon-42, to argue in Earth's favor in a...

Ted Paladin And The Case Of The Abandoned House, by Anssi Räisänen
Average member rating: (14 ratings)

Known for your text adventure skills, you have been called in for help to reveal the secrets of a locked, abandoned house scheduled to be demolished soon. Can you manage the task bestowed upon you?

The Temple of Shorgil, by Arthur DiBianca
Average member rating: (24 ratings)

One day, travel guides will talk about this "masterpiece of the Pirothian architect Kitral" -- but only if you, the first person to visit it in over 1,000 years, can find out what's inside. (Puzzle-oriented...

Tenth Plague, by Lynnea Dally
Average member rating: (28 ratings)

You are thrust into earthly existence to fulfill the tenth and final plague.

A Tenuous Hold, by Stephen Granade
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

Terminal Interface for Models RCM301-303, by Victor Gijsbers
Average member rating: (21 ratings)

A text terminal interface for interacting with your model RCM301-303 remote controlled mech.

Tex Bonaventure and the Temple of the Water of Life, by Truthcraze
Average member rating: (17 ratings)

In this homage to Indiana Jones, you play as Tex Bonaventure, an adventurer and treasure hunter. After three days of exploring the deep dark swamps of the Everglades, you've finally found your destination....

their angelical understanding, by Porpentine
Average member rating: (75 ratings)

I train to fight angels in a monastery by the sea. Wear headphones. TW: Suicidal ideation, ableism, abuse, possible epilepsy trigger.

Things, by Jacqueline A. Lott and Sam Kabo Ashwell
Average member rating: (9 ratings)

This Is A Real Thing That Happened, by Carolyn VanEseltine
Average member rating: (13 ratings)

This short game was created for RuinJam 2015.

Three More Visitors , by Paul Stanley
Average member rating: (10 ratings)

Christmas Eve! You tell Bob to go home early; tidy up a little, and lock up the office shortly after four. You look on the old brass plate, which still reads “Scrooge & Marley”, probably for the last time....

Three-Card Trick, by Chandler Groover
Average member rating: (64 ratings)

You're going to perform a three-card trick or your name isn't Morgan the Magnificent.

Threediopolis, by Andrew Schultz
Average member rating: (28 ratings)

A wordplay/quasi-maze game.

Thy Dungeonman, by Videlectrix
Average member rating: (9 ratings)

A Tight Spot, by Quim K. Holland
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

Till Death Makes a Monk-Fish Out of Me, by Mike Sousa and Jon Ingold
Average member rating: (34 ratings)

Dr. Taylor's looking worried. Dr. Kurner's looking exhausted. Zak is grinning with glee. Today is the big day, and you're about to try out the crowning experiment of your life, and in AtlantisLab's chequered...

Tingalan, by William Dooling
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

Tingalan is a magic wood where the trees are greatly feared. It's haunted by hares, and phasms, and bears and spirits with bats in their beard

The Tiniest Room, by Erik108
Average member rating: (32 ratings)

An "Escape the Room" kind of game made with less than 300 words for the Twiny Jam.

To Hell in a Hamper, by J. J. Guest
Average member rating: (112 ratings)

Professor Pettibone, eminent Victorian balloonist, has a problem. He can't get it up. His balloon that is. If he can't reach an altitude of 20,000 feet, and soon, both he and his mysterious travelling...

To Spring Open, by Peter Berman and Yoon Ha Lee (as Two-Bit Chip)
Average member rating: (19 ratings)

An entry in ShuffleComp: Disc 2. Inspired by "Paper Planes" by MIA and "Tragic Kingdom" by No Doubt.

To The Wolves, by Els White
Average member rating: (24 ratings)

Offered up as sacrifice to the wolf-gods of the forest, hunted by beasts and man alike, Ella must find a way to survive.

Toby's Nose, by Chandler Groover
Average member rating: (109 ratings)

A murder most foul has been committed and Sherlock Holmes is on the case. You are his dog.

TOMBs of Reschette, by Richard Goodness
Average member rating: (13 ratings)

Hello, young adventurer! If you're looking for the finest treasure, monster, and exploration experience around, why not come on down to the TOMBs of Reschette! --Earn XP, Dubloons, and Gems, like any good...

Tookie's Song, by Jessica Knoch
Average member rating: (13 ratings)

Cat aliens from the planet Purrsimmon have stolen your pet dog, Tookie! Rescue him by solving all the various light-hearted puzzles they've set up for you!
Toonesia, by Jacob Weinstein
Average member rating: (21 ratings)
From the introduction: "Oooh, that rascally rabbit! You were out hunting him when he somehow got the jump on you, blindfolded you, and dumped you into a cell. Well, you’ll show him. He’ll be hasenpfefer by...

Tours Roust Torus, by Andrew Schultz
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

Sequel to Shuffling Around and A Roiling Original, but you don’t have to have played them. The same anagram theme.

The Tower of Random Doom!, by Catherine Griffin
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

A very small (and quite silly) Twine game. Meet the inhabitants of the mysterious tower, kill people, and search for the treasure. The scenario varies on each play, and while you can just slaughter your way...

The Tower of the Elephant, by Tor Andersson
Average member rating: (18 ratings)

An adaptation of the classic sword & sorcery tale by Robert E. Howard, first published in 1933.

Trading Punches, by Mike Snyder
Average member rating: (13 ratings)

Transfer, by Tod Levi
Average member rating: (19 ratings)

"The staff's jubilant anticipation of the first human transfer was now replaced with dread. Why had the Professor fallen ill so suddenly? And how callous of the Overseers to insist on proceeding without...

Transient Skies, by dgtziea
Average member rating: (14 ratings)

You are heading back to your ship, your navvisor blinking hard data at you as you look around planetside -- mineral deposits, heat signatures, distant planets -- when you decide, for a moment, to turn it all...

Trapped in a One-Room Dilly, by Laura Knauth
Average member rating: (11 ratings)

A one-room game. It's nicely appointed, but... [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue]

Trapped in Time, by Simon Christiansen
Average member rating: (25 ratings)

A Science Fiction adventure where YOU are the hero!

Traveler, by Caelyn Sandel
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

Your awakening is slow and feels strange. You must have slept for a long time. As you float fitfully toward consciousness, you find yourself wondering if there is a word to describe the way one forgets a...

Treasures of a Slaver's Kingdom, by S. John Ross
Average member rating: (48 ratings)

In the cruel kingdoms north of the Viraxian Empire, a barbarian seeks treasure - and vengeance! Having escaped the clutches of the Slaver King, he has vowed to pillage the wealth of the kingdom ... then...

Trouble in Sector 471, by Arthur DiBianca
Average member rating: (30 ratings)

The power just went out in Sector 471. You had better go take a look.

Truck Quest, by Donald Conrad and Peter M.J. Gross
Average member rating: (9 ratings)

You only need one low-budget truck (and one high-interest loan) to start your own delivery service. It’ll be an adventure, hauling military-grade narcotics to the megachurches of Bean Station and driving...

Turandot, by Victor Gijsbers
Average member rating: (45 ratings)

An operatic performance. A tale of atonement. A dating sim with a crocodile pit. Content warnings: sex; sexism and other gender issues; suicide; torture; homophobia; xenophobia.

Tuuli, by Daurmith and Ruber Eaglenest
Average member rating: (26 ratings)

"The old witch, your teacher Mákke, is dead. If you want to save your village you'll have to destroy the raiding fleet that's coming. Can you do it, young Lenne-who-would-be-the-witch?" ---------- Mákke, la...

The Twine Fishing Simulator, by maxine sophia wolff
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

Welcome to the Twine Fishing Simulator, a dreamlike, text-based fishing sim. Catch fish! Meet bespoke non-player characters! Explore a simulated world! THIS GAME HAS AUDIO! Make sure your computer isn't...

The U.S. Men's Hockey Team Olympic Challenge, by Leon Lin
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

Ürs, by Christopher Hayes, Daniel Talsky
Average member rating: (23 ratings)

You're a regular rabbit who's lived in the same warren your entire life. You have no reason to leave, but the THUD threatens to destroy all the baby kittens. Maybe something in the ancient places of the Ürs...

Ugly Oafs, by Andrew Schultz as Perry Creel
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

Push back the Wrath Pulse--or find the Fry Gun to destroy it for good! A wordplay game with several ways to lose deliberately. Source code included.

ULTRA BUSINESS TYCOON III, by Porpentine
Average member rating: (59 ratings)

I’ve finally finished porting and cracking an old edutainment game from the 90′s. Please enjoy.

Unbeknown, by A. DeNiro
Average member rating: (12 ratings)

You ran from the Z-Mules but they caught you. Took what little you had. Now you're their prisoner. At some point you have to log off. But maybe not quite yet. You'll see.

Uncle Zebulon's Will, by Magnus Olsson
Average member rating: (62 ratings)

Your eccentric Uncle Zebulon considered himself a wizard, and was rumoured to be very wealthy. But when he died, he only left you one single object in his will... Winner in the TADS division of the First...

Under, In Erebus, by Brian Rapp
Average member rating: (17 ratings)

Board that Drain-Bound El for an adventure that could only happen in Erebus.

Untold Riches, by Jason Ermer
Average member rating: (22 ratings)

You were reluctant to undertake another adventure with Professor d'Squarius (especially after the last near-catastrophe, in the Tomb of the Screaming Mummies), and from the moment you agreed to join the...

Use Your Psychic Powers at Applebee's, by Geoffrey Golden
Average member rating: (36 ratings)

You are a Psychic Brand Ambassador for Schtupmeister Beer. Listen to the thoughts of customers at the local Applebee's and convince them to try your syrupy ale. But will being in these peoples' heads...

Vain Empires, by Thomas Mack and Xavid
Average member rating: (24 ratings)

The memoir of a demonic spy in the Cold War between Heaven and Hell.

Verb!, by Neil deMause
Average member rating: (9 ratings)

Very Vile Fairy File, by Andrew Schultz (as Billy Boling)
Average member rating: (12 ratings)

Well, your name is Kerry Kyle, so you can't be the worst person to destroy the Very Vile Fairy File.

Vespers, by Jason Devlin
Average member rating: (174 ratings)

It has been five days, now. Five days since I made the choice. Five days since I closed the gate. Really, there was no choice. Rovato was damned when the first spot appeared: when the first bloody cough...
Vicious Cycles, by Simon Mark
Average member rating: (17 ratings)

Violet, by Jeremy Freese
Average member rating: (383 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]

A Walk Around the Neighborhood, by Leo Weinreb
Average member rating: (18 ratings)

The sun is filtering hazily through a partly-cloudy sky on this gorgeous Sunday afternoon. You're feeling lazy and a bit glued to the couch, but your partner insists on you getting some exercise. And...

Walker & Silhouette, by C.E.J. Pacian
Average member rating: (51 ratings)

Team up with a dashing detective and an iconoclastic flapper to solve absurd and unfathomable crimes in this interactive story - where you control the action just by typing or clicking highlighted words in...

The Wand, by Arthur DiBianca
Average member rating: (58 ratings)

Explore the wizard Bartholloco's castle with the help of a versatile magic wand. Can you overcome his challenge? Can you levitate a rock? Can you slice a baltavakia? (Puzzle-oriented and family friendly.)

The Warbler's Nest, by Jason McIntosh
Average member rating: (91 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...

The Weapon, by Sean Barrett
Average member rating: (35 ratings)

Wearing the Claw, by Paul O'Brian
Average member rating: (32 ratings)

A traditional fantasy quest in which you and your village have been cursed with a slow transformation into various animals. The only way to stop the curse is to retrieve the Pendant of Elinor from the...

Weird City Interloper, by C.E.J. Pacian
Average member rating: (54 ratings)

An interactive tale of strange conspiracy. Pull up your hood, lower your gaze and enter the city of Zendon. If you can gather enough information, you may just be able to change the course of history. (Weird...

What Fuwa Bansaku Found, by Chandler Groover
Average member rating: (30 ratings)

A samurai explores a haunted shrine.

What Heart Heard Of, Ghost Guessed, by Amanda Walker
Average member rating: (38 ratings)

Margaret, are you grieving Over Goldengrove unleaving… Come home to Goldengrove, a beautiful old house haunted by a lost soul. Uncover the secrets of your tormented past in a tale of unrequited love,...

When acting as a particle / When acting as a wave, by David T. Marchand
Average member rating: (10 ratings)

A game with links. The links tell you the story and the consequences of having clicked on previous links. There’s nothing other than links. Can you read that text? Then you can click it! It’s been said that...

Whom The Telling Changed, by Aaron A. Reed
Average member rating: (64 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
Average member rating: (66 ratings)

Dallas, Texas. 1996. Fred Strickland has Alzheimer's.

Will the Real Marjorie Hopkirk Please Stand Up?, by Neil James Brown
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

In this demo game, you play as an assassin hired to kill Mrs. Marjorie Hopkirk. Unfortunately, she's cloned herself ninety-nine times which means you're going to have to kill her one hundred times to get the...

Winter Storm Draco, by Ryan Veeder
Average member rating: (26 ratings)

A chronicle of the events of the winter storm of the same name.

Wisher, Theurgist, Fatalist, by Xavid
Average member rating: (11 ratings)

From the ranks of the people you have been raised up as a Wisher— ...

Witch's Girl, by Geoff Moore
Average member rating: (19 ratings)

The Wizard Sniffer, by Buster Hudson
Average member rating: (129 ratings)

You were recently acquired by the brave Ser Leonhart and his squire to sniff out the evil shapeshifting wizard. Unfortunately, you are not a wizard sniffer (if such a thing even exists). As far as you can...

Word of the Day, by Richard Otter
Average member rating: (15 ratings)

You are the very first Outer Worlder to gain an appointment on a Bio-Drive vessel, let alone as part of the engineering team. Working hard to gain enough credits to secure your future could this be your...

Words Get Twisted Round and Tumble Down, by Gunther Schmidl
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

Words of Power, by Stark Springs
Average member rating: (9 ratings)

Worlds Apart, by Suzanne Britton
Average member rating: (90 ratings)

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...

Worldsmith, by Ade McT
Average member rating: (30 ratings)

The Septem Tower has held steady in the Manifold, the space between time and the Real, for billenia. Populating the Tower are the Anemoi, a race of beings so far advanced that they hold the power of life and...

You Are Jeff Bezos, by Kris Ligman
Average member rating: (14 ratings)

A simple text-based adventure exploring the age-old question: What would you do if you had more money than any single human being should ever have?

You Will Select a Decision, by Brendan Patrick Hennessy
Average member rating: (77 ratings)

A pair of knock-off choose your own adventure books from Soviet-era Kyrgyzstan.

YOUR SMARTCAR EXPERIENCE, by BinaryDoubts
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

A very short story about the exciting future of automotive travel.

Zero Sum Game, by Cody Sandifer
Average member rating: (19 ratings)

Zero Summer, by Gordon Levine, Tucker Nelson, Becca Noe
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

Zero Summer is a wordy western card-playing RPG set in the post-apocalyptic American southwest. Nearly two decades after monsters poured out of Corpus Christi and divided the United States between...

Zigamus: Zombies at Vigamus, by Marco Vallarino
Average member rating: (17 ratings)

Vigamus, the Video Game Museum of Rome, has been attacked by zombies. To save it from the monsters, you can only count on your brain and the relics and gadgets exhibited in the building. This game is also...

Zork: A Troll's-Eye View, by Dylan O'Donnell
Average member rating: (26 ratings)

Have you ever wondered how the life of a guard troll is? Find out in this game! [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue]

Zozzled, by Steph Cherrywell
Average member rating: (45 ratings)

Hotsy-totsy! It's 1928 and you're madcap flapper Hazel Greene, tottering around the city's finest hotel with a gullet full of giggle juice...until a gaggle of ghosts shows up to spoil the fun by turning...

Zugzwang, by Magnus Olsson
Average member rating: (11 ratings)

Out of the TextFire "12-pack", this is an April's Fool game "demo" in which you get to play a pawn in a chess game - at the very end. Incorporates a very nifty variation on the status line to show the...

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