> 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... |
9:05, by Adam Cadre Average member rating: (545 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. |
Anchorhead, by Michael Gentry Jonathan Blask's rating: Average member rating: (409 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... |
Aotearoa, by Matt Wigdahl Jonathan Blask's rating: Average member rating: (63 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... |
Arthur: The Quest for Excalibur, by Bob Bates Jonathan Blask's rating: Average member rating: (30 ratings) "Whoso pulleth out this sword of this stone, is rightwise king of England." In the days before Camelot, when magic and evil rule England, a sword sheathed in stone appears in a quiet churchyard. Engraved... |
ASCII and the Argonauts, by J. Robinson Wheeler Jonathan Blask's rating: Average member rating: (19 ratings) In this wonderfully laconic spoof of the Scott Adams style of adventures, you play as Jason of the Argo, tasked by King Pelias to bring the Golden Fleece to him or die. Surprisingly both entertaining and... |
Augmented Fourth, by Brian Uri! Average member rating: (67 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... |
Babel, by Ian Finley Jonathan Blask's rating: Average member rating: (156 ratings) In this game, you play as an amnesiac inside Babel, an abandoned Arctic facility devoted to biological research. You soon discover that you have the unusual ability to witness scenes from the past by... |
A Bear's Night Out, by David Dyte Jonathan Blask's rating: Average member rating: (69 ratings) "Tomorrow is the big Teddy Bear party, and you must definitely not let your owner forget about it..." [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue] |
The Blind House, by Amanda Allen Average member rating: (38 ratings) I scarcely know the woman at my side. I don't even know why she was the one I turned to. I can only hope that we haven't been followed, that she won't ask too many questions. The only choice left to me now... |
Book and Volume, by Nick Montfort Jonathan Blask's rating: Average member rating: (13 ratings) Your pager tickles you awake. Upstairs in the house of your childhood, in your room, and it must be time for school because -- no, it's the weekend, you remember, but your alarm is going off anyway. You... |
Broken Legs, by Sarah Morayati Average member rating: (31 ratings) A blurb? They expect you to write? You're Lottie Plum so you're not going into writing. You sing. And dance and act up a storm while everyone else can only manage a puddle. You belong at Bridger. No matter... |
Cabin Fever, by Dr. Froth Jonathan Blask's rating: Average member rating: (9 ratings) An entry in the 2007 One Room Game competition. You are on vacation in a cabin far from anywhere, snowed in, unable to reach civilization for several hours at least. You are bored. |
Countdown to Doom, by Peter D. Killworth Jonathan Blask's rating: Average member rating: (3 ratings) |
A Crimson Spring, by Robb Sherwin Jonathan Blask's rating: Average member rating: (10 ratings) "Red Cloud meant more to me than anyone else on the planet. Sometime between one and three in the morning, on March 26th, 2015, she was brutally slain. Nobody knows why. I am going to find out if it means... |
CRY$TAL WARRIOR KE$HA, by Porpentine Average member rating: (34 ratings) THIS GAME IS CANON SPREAD MY GAME SO I CAN GET ON STAGE WITH KE$HA SAVE MUSIC MUSIC IS REAL EVEN IF YOU DONT CARE ABOUT MUSIC OR BELIEVE MUSIC EXISTS, HELP ME GET ONSTAGE WITH MY BIGGEST #IDOL #KESHA A GIRL... |
Dead Like Ants, by C.E.J. Pacian Jonathan Blask's rating: Average member rating: (60 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... |
Degeneracy, by Leonard Richardson Average member rating: (19 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... |
The Edifice, by Lucian P. Smith Average member rating: (85 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... |
Eric the Unready, by Bob Bates Average member rating: (42 ratings) A tongue-in-cheek graphic text adventure/point and click adventure hybrid. You are a chivalrous knight attempting to save a princess; your quest takes you through a mad-cap Douglas Adams-style world. |
Everybody Dies, by Jim Munroe Jonathan Blask's rating: Average member rating: (107 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.... |
Fail-Safe, by Jon Ingold Jonathan Blask's rating: Average member rating: (115 ratings) |
Fallacy of Dawn, by Robb Sherwin Jonathan Blask's rating: Average member rating: (19 ratings) In a world that never quite got over the '80s, Delarion Yar dispenses quarters for the local arcade... badly. A software pirate from better days, he's crossed the wrong people one too many times. Locked into... |
Fine-Tuned, by Dennis Jerz Jonathan Blask's rating: 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... |
Firebird, by Bonnie Montgomery Jonathan Blask's rating: Average member rating: (32 ratings) "Firebird is based on the Old Russian folk tales that inspired the Stravinsky piece of the same name. You are Prince Ivan, and have been charged by your father, the tsar, to find the Firebird that has been... |
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... |
A Fleeting Case of Self-Possession, or, Memento Moratori, by Lea Albaugh Average member rating: (8 ratings) |
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! |
For a Change, by Dan Schmidt Average member rating: (117 ratings) "The sun has gone. It must be brought. You have a rock." [--blurb from Competition '99] |
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. |
Future Boy!, by Kent Tessman, Derek Lo, Dan Langan, and Nate Laguzza Average member rating: (10 ratings) |
Hallow Eve, by Michael Wayne Phipps Jr. Jonathan Blask's rating: Average member rating: (8 ratings) You are about to drive out to meet some friends for a camping trip on Halloween night. Everything seems to be going according to plan, but the unexpected can always occur. If it did, you would need to rely... |
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams and Steve Meretzky Average member rating: (188 ratings) Don't Panic! Relax, because everything you need to know about playing The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is contained in the pages of this manual. In this story, you will be Arthur Dent, a rather ordinary... |
Hoist Sail for the Heliopause and Home, by Andrew Plotkin Jonathan Blask's rating: Average member rating: (86 ratings) A far-future story of discovery. |
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... |
In The House of Professor Evil: The HAM HOUSE, by S. John Ross Average member rating: (6 ratings) A sci-fi/pulp satire, extremely brief and slight (it can be beaten in 12 turns) beginning in a cell beneath the house of a mad scientist. The scientist lay dead at your feet, and now you must answer the... |
Infidel, by Michael Berlyn Jonathan Blask's rating: Average member rating: (62 ratings) Infidel finds you marooned by your followers in the heart of the deadly Egyptian Desert. A soldier of fortune by trade, you've come hither in search of a great lost pyramid and its untold riches. Now, alone,... |
Jinxter, by Georgina Sinclair, Michael Bywater Average member rating: (14 ratings) Every silver lining has a cloud... JUST WHEN A MAN THINKS HIS LUCK IS RUNNING OUT... ... things start getting even worse. He gets run over by a bus. Sprayed with cheese sandwich by a supernatural being.... |
The King of Shreds and Patches, by Jimmy Maher Jonathan Blask's rating: Average member rating: (81 ratings) January 14th Dear friend. My sojourn in parts foreign is at an ende. I am at lodgings in Southwark not far from the bridge at Stoney Street, come dine with me two days hence to ring in the newe year. I have... |
Krakatoa Tuna Melt, by David Welbourn Average member rating: (4 ratings) An interactive cookin' disaster. Written far too slowly for SpeedIF 10-9. Twelve locations. |
Last Days of Doom, by Peter D. Killworth Jonathan Blask's rating: Average member rating: (1 rating) |
Little Blue Men, by Michael S. Gentry Jonathan Blask's rating: Average member rating: (71 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... |
Lost Pig, by Admiral Jota Average member rating: (500 ratings) Pig lost! Boss say that it Grunk fault. Say Grunk forget about closing gate. Maybe boss right. Grunk not remember forgetting, but maybe Grunk just forget. -- IFComp 2007 blurb |
The Lurking Horror, by Dave Lebling Jonathan Blask's rating: Average member rating: (95 ratings) A winter night at the G.U.E. tech campus with most students away on vacation serves as the backdrop for this tale of Lovecraftian horror. |
A Mind Forever Voyaging, by Steve Meretzky Jonathan Blask's rating: Average member rating: (118 ratings) "If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not..." --Shakespeare It's 2031. The world is on the brink of chaos. In the United States of North America, spiraling... |
The Mist, by Raymond Benson and Stephen King Jonathan Blask's rating: Average member rating: (7 ratings) Another Saturday. Another stop at the market. And another wait in the checkout line. Until a shadow descends and someone shouts: "The fog! You oughta see it!" And you do: a mist advancing toward Federal... |
Muggle Studies, by M. Flourish Klink Jonathan Blask's rating: Average member rating: (19 ratings) You play as Alice Armstrong, the new Professor of Muggle Studies at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in Scotland, even though you've never heard of "muggles" before and never knew magic was real... |
Necrotic Drift, by Robb Sherwin Jonathan Blask's rating: Average member rating: (18 ratings) Necrotic Drift is a survival horror text adventure... but with graphics and sound! An homage to the old Magnetic Scrolls game in presentation, Necrotic Drift follows the story of gaming store employee Jarret... |
Pantomime, by Robb Sherwin Jonathan Blask's rating: Average member rating: (11 ratings) Pantomime takes place on the Martian moon of Phobos, in the year 2044. Mankind has developed colonies on Mars, Titan, Ganymede and installed a life bubble on the closer, larger Martian satellite. Mankind has... |
Photopia, by Adam Cadre Average member rating: (568 ratings) "Will you read me a story?" "Read you a story? What fun would that be? I've got a better idea: let's tell a story together." |
Planetfall, by Steve Meretzky Average member rating: (121 ratings) "Join the Patrol, and see the Galaxy!" You took the poster's advice, bait and all, and marched right over to the recruitment station near your home on the backwater planet of Gallium. Images of exotic... |
Plundered Hearts, by Amy Briggs Jonathan Blask's rating: Average member rating: (67 ratings) In the 17th century, the seas are as wild as the untamed heart of a young woman. But when you set out on the schooner Lafond Deux, bound for the West Indies, your thoughts are only of your ailing father who... |
Questprobe Featuring The Hulk, by Scott Adams, John Romita Sr., Mark Gruenwald, and Kem NcNair Average member rating: (8 ratings) Questprobe adventure number 1. Author Note: Originally the last of the 2 word (Verb/Noun) SAGA based games. Spiderman was next written using SAGA+, a mutli-word parser engine. The Hulk gets taken to a... |
Rameses, by Stephen Bond Jonathan Blask's rating: Average member rating: (127 ratings) |
Return to Doom, by Peter D. Killworth Jonathan Blask's rating: Average member rating: (1 rating) |
Rogue of the Multiverse, by C.E.J. Pacian Average member rating: (75 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... |
Roofed, by Jim Munroe Jonathan Blask's rating: Average member rating: (16 ratings) You and your brother’s job — scouring the city’s highest spots for a rare building material in the year 2040 — is already hard enough. Now Anton’s gone and gotten you trapped on a rooftop. Your... |
Rover's Day Out, by Jack Welch and Ben Collins-Sussman Average member rating: (56 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... |
Shade, by Andrew Plotkin Jonathan Blask's rating: Average member rating: (421 ratings) "A one-room game set in your apartment." [--blurb from Competition Aught-Zero] |
Sherlock: The Riddle of the Crown Jewels, by Bob Bates Jonathan Blask's rating: Average member rating: (23 ratings) Moriarty has set a deadly trap for Sherlock Holmes. And only you can stop him... Travel back in time to Victorian London, where the city is bustling with preparations for Her Majesty's Golden Jubilee. Crowds... |
Shrapnel, by Adam Cadre Jonathan Blask's rating: Average member rating: (170 ratings) |
Spider and Web, by Andrew Plotkin Jonathan Blask's rating: Average member rating: (318 ratings) A vacation in our lovely country! See the ethnic charms of the countryside, the historic grandeur of the capital city. Taste our traditional cuisine; smell the flowers of the Old Tree. And all without... |
Stationfall, by Steve Meretzky Average member rating: (47 ratings) What a trotting krip! Since your incredible heroics in Planetfall, where you risked life and limb to save the planet Resida, things have hardly changed at all. Sure, you were promoted to Lieutenant First... |
Tales of the Traveling Swordsman, by Mike Snyder Average member rating: (48 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... |
Trading Punches, by Mike Snyder Jonathan Blask's rating: Average member rating: (13 ratings) |
Violet, by Jeremy Freese Jonathan Blask's rating: Average member rating: (389 ratings) Calm down. All you have to do is write a thousand words and everything will be fine. And you have all day, except it's already noon. [blurb from IF Comp 2008] |
Waker, by Kevin Jackson-Mead Average member rating: (2 ratings) You were never much of a history buff. You've always preferred learning how things work to learning useless facts about the past. But when your friend returned from the capital with tales of the moving... |
The Weapon, by Sean Barrett Average member rating: (38 ratings) |
Wishbringer, by Brian Moriarty Jonathan Blask's rating: Average member rating: (111 ratings) It's an ordinary day in your ordinary little town, and you've been performing your ordinary mail clerk's duties in an altogether ordinary way. But there's something quite extraordinary in today's mail. It's... |