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1-2-3..., by Chris Mudd
Average member rating: (12 ratings)

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: (100 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,...

9:05, by Adam Cadre
Average member rating: (544 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.

Across The Stars: The Ralckor Incident, by Dark Star and Peter Mattsson
Average member rating: (29 ratings)

In the year 5367 IR, humanity is well established throughout the galaxy. It has been over twenty-thousand years since the Zal'tacs passed through our solar system, trading their technology for our food and...

An Act of Murder, by Christopher Huang
Average member rating: (82 ratings)

Ad Verbum, by Nick Montfort
Average member rating: (136 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...

Adventure, by William Crowther and Donald Woods
Average member rating: (99 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...
Agency, by Ricardo Signes
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

Aisle, by Sam Barlow
Average member rating: (326 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...

All Alone, by Ian Finley
Average member rating: (70 ratings)

All Quiet on the Library Front, by Michael S. Phillips
Average member rating: (15 ratings)
As a student with an IF assignment looming, you need to get a biography out of the library - however, it is a very rare book, and surely you won't be allowed to take it with you... [--blurb from The Z-Files...

All Roads, by Jon Ingold
Average member rating: (156 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]

Amazon, by Michael Crichton
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

The Amazon jungle. Volcanic, dangerous, still unexplored. Home of the jaguar. The alligator. Two hundred species of poisonous snakes. And nataives whose culinary habits, while only rumored, make you very...

Amnesia, by Thomas M. Disch and Kevin Bentley
Average member rating: (13 ratings)

Analogue: A Hate Story, by Christine Love
Average member rating: (10 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: (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...

And the Waves Choke the Wind, by Gunther Schmidl
Average member rating: (10 ratings)

"some thing inside of me has opened up its eyes why did you put it there? did you not realize?" [--blurb from Competition Aught-Zero]

Another Lifeless Planet and Me With No Beer, by Dennis Drew
Average member rating: (1 rating)

Arrival, or Attack of the B-Movie Clichés, by Stephen Granade
Average member rating: (34 ratings)

ASCII and the Argonauts, by J. Robinson Wheeler
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...

The Atomic Heart, by Stefan Blixt
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

Aunt Nancy's House, by Nate Schwartzman
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

"This is an interactive tour of the author's aunt's soon-to-be former home." [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue]

Aunts and Butlers, by Robin Johnson
Average member rating: (45 ratings)

It's 1920, you're a minor aristocrat fallen on hard times, and your wretched Aunt Cedilla is on the warpath. A Wodehousean comedy of manners, manors, mysterious butlers and unfriendly poodles.

Authority, by Eva Vikström
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

Authority - Life in a Central Government Authority; the game depicts life, objectives, events and language in a contemporary central government authority. It's localized to a west European country, probably...

Babel, by Ian Finley
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...

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

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,...

Being There, by Jordan Magnuson
Average member rating: (14 ratings)

Being There is an extremely experimental little work of interactive fiction with pictures, about existence and Korea. Only requires a few minutes to play through, but you are encouraged to take your time.

Black Marker, by Michael Kielstra
Average member rating: (21 ratings)

Hidden in the shadows, the Agency works for the safety of the citizens. If your goals or beliefs do not appear to align with those of the Agency, you are liable to find yourself in trouble. There are those...

The Black Phone, by Oreolek
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

A walk through someone else's apartment.

Blast, by Richard Otter
Average member rating: (1 rating)

Your day starts with a headless receptionist and then just goes from bad to worse; don't you just hate Monday mornings.

Blighted Isle, by Eric Eve
Average member rating: (43 ratings)

Blockade duty in the Bay of Biscay, vile weather, and an unplanned jaunt over the side of the ship into the tossing waves. But instead of drowning, you end up on an island that has no right to be there - and...

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...

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

Blue Lacuna, by Aaron A. Reed
Average member rating: (114 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...

Body Bargain, by Amanda Lange
Average member rating: (27 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...

The Book of Living Magic, by Jonas Kyratzes
Average member rating: (9 ratings)

The Book of Living Magic is an adventure game set in the Lands of Dream. It is the story of a girl with the terrible name of Raven Locks Smith, who travels to the faraway Mountains of Oddness to find the...

The Boot-Scraper, by Caleb Wilson (as Lionel Schwob)
Average member rating: (9 ratings)

On the night of August 14th, 1799, eight days off St. Stellio, the sloop Meleagris was smashed apart by a storm. Most of the crew and passengers alike were crushed by fallen rigging, or drowned, or eaten by...

Border Zone, by Marc Blank
Average member rating: (27 ratings)

Where the Iron Curtain divides East and West, the frontier is a no man's land between freedom and captivity, a place where moments lost or precautions not taken exact a toll in men's lives. In Border Zone,...

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...

BSE, by Chris Smith
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

Strange Things have been happening in Skebdale - and not just the BSE crisis, either. Rumours about devil-worshipping and all manner of strange happenings. Can you, as the unfortunate soul dispatched by the...

Building, by Poster
Average member rating: (14 ratings)

Bureaucracy, by Douglas Adams, The Staff of Infocom
Average member rating: (49 ratings)

IMPORTANT! Our records show that you do not have a license to operate this software. Normally, you would be required to complete a License Application Form and mail it (with proof of purchase) to our...

The Case of Samuel Gregor, by Stephen Hilderbrand
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

Cattus Atrox, by David Cornelson
Average member rating: (17 ratings)
"A promising date devolves into violence, sex, more violence." [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue]

The Cellar, by David Whyld
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

You were always told not to go into the cellar. Told many, many times. But you were never told why. Today you'll find out...

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

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

Chancellor, by Kevin Venzke
Average member rating: (16 ratings)

Maturity attained, the daughter is unfurled upon the world, embarked upon a mysterious quest by her father.
A Change in the Weather, by Andrew Plotkin
Average member rating: (70 ratings)
"Walking away from a picnic, you are suddenly caught in a country storm. You must protect a bridge from being destroyed. An ultra-linear game." [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue]

Child's Play, by Stephen Granade
Average member rating: (54 ratings)

It is playgroup day and playgroup day is normally a good day but ever since that little red-haired girl started coming she always wants your toys. She shouldn't get your toys. You tried telling the mom this...

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...

City of Secrets, by Emily Short
Average member rating: (105 ratings)

The Coast House, by Stephen Newton and Dan Newton
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

"The mystery, for you, started two years ago. "Come here, there's something I want to tell you," your old grandfather had said, "Quick, before your mother comes back in the room." The smell of antiseptic and...
Coke Is It!, by Lucian P. Smith, Adam Thornton, J. Robinson Wheeler, Michael Fessler, Dan Shiovitz, David Dyte
Average member rating: (19 ratings)
"Ahhhh! Another can of refreshing Coca-Cola! You sigh in contentment as you partake of the sweet carbonated beverage, so recently purchased. But what's this? The dispenser light is still on! You can select...

Color the Truth, by mathbrush
Average member rating: (76 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...

Coming Home, by Andrew Katz
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

Expect no more than what the title says. No plot, but lots of strange or time-dependent puzzles. [--blurb for "A Simple Home Adventure" from The Z-Files Catalogue]

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

CosmoServe: an Adventure Game for the BBS-Enslaved, by Judith Pintar
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

Countdown 1: The Body, by Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw
Average member rating: (2 ratings)
"In the runup to the release of [6 Days A Sacrifice], I wrote and realised a trilogy of brief text adventures to foreshadow the plot of the eventual game." - Yahtzee
Countdown 2: The Soul, by Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw
Average member rating: (2 ratings)
"In the runup to the release of [6 Days A Sacrifice], I wrote and realised a trilogy of brief text adventures to foreshadow the plot of the eventual game." - Yahtzee
Countdown 3: The Mind, by Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw
Average member rating: (2 ratings)
"In the runup to the release of [6 Days A Sacrifice], I wrote and realised a trilogy of brief text adventures to foreshadow the plot of the eventual game. " - Yahtzee

Counterfeit Monkey, by Emily Short
Average member rating: (253 ratings)

Anglophone Atlantis has been an independent nation since an April day in 1822, when a well-aimed shot from their depluralizing cannon reduced the British colonizing fleet to one ship. Since then, Atlantis...

The Crescent City at the Edge of Disaster, by Emily Short
Average member rating: (14 ratings)

A Speed-IF featuring New Orleans, Emeril, and armed hamsters.

Curses, by Graham Nelson
Average member rating: (132 ratings)

"As "Curses" opens, you're hunting about in the attic of your family home, looking for a tatty old map of Paris (you're going on holiday tomorrow) and generally trying to avoid all the packing. Aunt Jemima...

Dancing Even Him?, by Richard Otter
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

You enjoyed the party at your friends last night, good food, plenty to drink and loads of chat. You can't remember what fool suggested they get the quija board out and then if that wasn't bad enough it moved...

Dangerous Curves, by Irene Callaci
Average member rating: (23 ratings)

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

Darkness, by Richard Otter
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

For the first time in living memory the lighthouse on the Croxton Rock was in darkness. You have been the harbour master at Tolleth for over 10 years and have never seen anything like this; the light did not...

A Day for Fresh Sushi, by Emily Short
Average member rating: (99 ratings)

No time for fantasy. Must feed fish.

De Baron, by Victor Gijsbers
Average member rating: (167 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 Cities, by Jon Ingold
Average member rating: (32 ratings)

The letter you received from Arkwright's nephew Carter was clear enough: when the old man dies the inheritance tax will be too great. It's certain ruin, much like the estate itself. To raise some capital the...

Deep Space Drifter, by Michael J. Roberts and Steve McAdams
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

Stranded in deep space after running out of fuel, you luck upon a nearby space station. When you get there, though, the place is abandoned, and strange things seem to have been happening lately. And if you...

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

Delusions, by C. E. Forman
Average member rating: (41 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...

Depression Quest, by Zoe Quinn, Patrick Lindsey, Isaac Schankler
Average member rating: (61 ratings)

"An interactive (non)fiction about living with depression." The player of this multimedia hypertext game is given a series of everyday life events, and has to attempt to manage their illness, relationships,...

Digital: A Love Story, by Christine Love
Average member rating: (25 ratings)

A computer mystery/romance set five minutes into the future of 1988.

Ditch Day Drifter, by Michael J. Roberts
Average member rating: (23 ratings)

You're an undergraduate at Caltech, and you wake up to find it's Ditch Day, the traditional event when seniors leave the campus for the day, leaving behind puzzles for the underclassmen to solve in order to...

Divis Mortis, by Lynnea Dally
Average member rating: (43 ratings)

The infection has spread. They are coming.

Don't Take It Personally, Babe, It Just Ain't Your Story, by Christine Love
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

A spiritual sequel of sorts to Digital: A Love Story, set in a prestigious private high school, and on the social networks of 2027. Seven students, three endings, one eavesdropping teacher. A full length...

Dreadwine, by Eric Eve
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

An entry into the MCDream minicomp, this game tries to capture the essence of a vivid dream its author remembers having many decades ago.

The Dreamhold, by Andrew Plotkin
Average member rating: (177 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: (110 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.

Ecdysis, by Peter Nepstad
Average member rating: (81 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...

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...

The Elysium Enigma, by Eric Eve
Average member rating: (78 ratings)

It was meant to be a routine visit on behalf of the imperial government, just to remind the settlers that the Empire hadn't forgotten them, and if you stick rigidly to the letter of your orders and refuse to...

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

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

Episode in the Life of an Artist, by Peter Eastman
Average member rating: (27 ratings)

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.

Escape to New York, by Richard Otter
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

Your name is Jack Thompson and you are, for want of a better word, a thief. On your latest adventure you have managed to acquire Johnson's 'The Willow Tree', which is worth more than you will be able to...

An Evening at the Ransom Woodingdean Museum House, by Ryan Veeder
Average member rating: (24 ratings)

Karen Chambers gives tours in a restored Victorian home.

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]

Façade, by Michael Mateas, Andrew Stern
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

Façade is an artificial intelligence-based art/research experiment in electronic narrative—an attempt to move beyond traditional branching or hyper-linked narrative to create a fully-realized, one-act...

Fail-Safe, by Jon Ingold
Average member rating: (115 ratings)

Fallacy of Dawn, by Robb Sherwin
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...

Fear, by Chuan-Tze Teo
Average member rating: (11 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...
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...
Fire in the Blood, by Richard Otter
Average member rating: (1 rating)
Since that night your life has seemed like a living dream or to be more accurate a living nightmare. Coming home and finding her like that, her still form lying in your lounge. Even now, two months later,...

First Draft of the Revolution, by Emily Short, Liza Daly and inkle
Average member rating: (56 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...

Flat, by Peter Seebach

A new car. A flat tire. Luckily, the owner's manual is said to be the most comprehensive in the industry. Your mission (and you really have no choice about this) is to replace the flat tire with the spare,...

Floatpoint, by Emily Short
Average member rating: (101 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...

The Fog Knows Your Name, by Clio Yun-su Davis
Average member rating: (9 ratings)

Step into the fog to confront your terror: the evil that hides within. The Fog Knows Your Name is a 300,000 word interactive teen horror novel by Clio Yun-su Davis, where your choices control the story. It's...

Galatea, by Emily Short
Average member rating: (346 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 Formerly Known as Hidden Nazi Mode, by Victor Gijsbers
Average member rating: (29 ratings)

The Game Formerly Known as Hidden Nazi Mode was, in fact, formerly known as Hidden Nazi Mode. As such it was a failed experiment, detailed in the accompanying essay. In this release the Nazi mode has been...

Gateway, by Mike Verdu, Michael Lindner, and Glen Dahlgren
Average member rating: (36 ratings)

In the early twenty-second century, adventurous citizens of Earth can travel to a place called "Gateway": a long-abandoned alien space station, now rediscovered by humans and turned into a jumping-off point...

Gateway 2: Homeworld, by Mike Verdu and Glen Dahlgren
Average member rating: (18 ratings)

In the early twenty-second century, an immense alien spacecraft, dubbed the "Artifact," arrives in the Earth's solar system. The Artifact ignores all attempts at communication; no one knows whether its...

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

Living under the Stalin era, in four parts.

Glowgrass, by Nate Cull
Average member rating: (100 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...

Guess the Verb!, by Leonard Richardson
Average member rating: (29 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...

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...

Hollywood Visionary, by Aaron A. Reed
Average member rating: (19 ratings)

Make the movie of your dreams amid the glamor and romance of 1950s Hollywood! "Hollywood Visionary" is a 150,000-word interactive novel by Aaron A. Reed, where your choices control the story. It's entirely...

The Horror of Rylvania, by D. A. Leary
Average member rating: (11 ratings)

"What you expected would be a fun outing in scenic Rylvania turns into a gruesome nightmare, with *you* playing the starring role. Find out what it's like to be alternately the source and challenger of evil...

I-0, by Anonymous
Average member rating: (158 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...

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

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

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...

The King of Shreds and Patches, by Jimmy Maher
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...

Kissing the Buddha's Feet, by Leon Lin
Average member rating: (24 ratings)

Klaustrophobia, by Carol Hovick
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

LASH -- Local Asynchronous Satellite Hookup, by Paul O'Brian
Average member rating: (42 ratings)

In this historical drama and treasure hunt set in 2062, you have rented a robot called a MULE that you can control remotely to salvage artifacts from an abandoned irradiated plantation near Macon, Georgia....

Leather Goddesses of Phobos, by Steve Meretzky
Average member rating: (72 ratings)

And now... the next exciting episode of humanoids in space! How did you, a regular at Joe's Bar in Upper Sandusky, Ohio, end up on a Martian moon? Can you prevent the hideous space creature from abducting...

The Legend Lives!, by David Baggett
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

"A new chapter in the history of Unnkulia and the Valley unfolds. Find out what life is like on planet Tode (home to Unnkulia and the Valley) and the rest of the Unnkulian Universe 500 years after UU1....

The Lift, by Colin Capurso
Average member rating: (28 ratings)

You wake up in a room with no memory of who you are or what you're doing there. You need to survive, that's all you know.

Little Blue Men, by Michael S. Gentry
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...

Little Falls, by Alessandro Schillaci, Roberto Grassi, Simonato Enrico
Average member rating: (12 ratings)

Minnesota, September 2005. A serial killer hunting young women. A policeman with nightmares in his past. “To all units near Little Falls, there’s a 5150 code. A woman called 911, saying she’s in...

Lock & Key, by Adam Cadre
Average member rating: (78 ratings)

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

Losing Your Grip, by Stephen Granade
Average member rating: (22 ratings)

Lost New York, by Neil deMause
Average member rating: (20 ratings)

"They say you can never get to know the true New York as a tourist -- but this is going to turn out to be no ordinary vacation. What you thought would be a quick jaunt to the usual tourist traps instead...

The Lurking Horror, by Dave Lebling
Average member rating: (94 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.

Lydia's Heart, by Jim Aikin
Average member rating: (32 ratings)

"Lydia's Heart" is a large, complex game with a serious tone and seven or eight NPCs you can converse with. The genre is low-key horror: There's almost no actual blood, but there are several ways to die in a...

The Mage Wars: Statue, by Jim Fisher
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

In this lengthy unfinished game divided into chapters, you'll be playing as various characters, but mostly as Dr. Marcus Philbrook, a man who petrifies himself into a statue in 1997 and wakes up in a museum...

Make It Good, by Jon Ingold
Average member rating: (86 ratings)

The call comes through. Of all the dicks; you get the call, sitting in the front seat of your car, hands shaking on the steering wheel. An urgent call; but all you were thinking of was the bottle in the...

Marooned Again, by Dennis Drew

A Mind Forever Voyaging, by Steve Meretzky
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...

Missive, by Joey Fu
Average member rating: (14 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...

Monday, 16:30, by Alexander "Mordred" Andonov
Average member rating: (10 ratings)

How long is half an hour when you are bored and miserable? How about when it's Monday, and it's 16:30? How about when you're in love?

The Moon Watch, by Paolo Maroncelli and Alessandro Peretti
Average member rating: (9 ratings)

An entry in the 2008 One Room Game Competition. You're an ordinary Soviet citizen, but to your surprise you are selected to play a highly important part in the defence of the Motherland - and then the crisis...

Mystery Science Theater 3000 Presents "A Fable", by Graeme Cree
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

"A character assassination of an apparently not-very-good AGT game in the style of Mystery Science Theatre 3000." [-- blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue]
Mystery Science Theater 3000 Presents "Detective", by C. E. Forman, Matt Barringer, Graeme Cree, and Stuart Moore
Average member rating: (58 ratings)
"A rewrite of Matt Barringer's incredibly bad game "Detective", this game was ported to Inform and subjected to treatment with Mystery Science Theater 3000 sarcasm. This version is the Silver Screen edition...

Narcolepsy, by Adam Cadre
Average member rating: (63 ratings)

Night House, by Bitter Karella
Average member rating: (18 ratings)

It looks different in the dark. You're eight years old. You wake up in the middle of the night to use the bathroom, but you soon realize that not everything is as it seems in the house tonight. Where has...

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...

Nord and Bert Couldn't Make Head or Tail of It, by Jeff O'Neill
Average member rating: (60 ratings)

You are standing at the edge of a barren field. A steady wind, having secreted away the topsoil, is now drifting sandy dirt across the plain. A scant sign of life here is a freshly-burrowed molehill on the...

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

One Eye Open, by Caelyn Sandel (as Colin Sandel) and Carolyn VanEseltine
Average member rating: (47 ratings)

Had you known the bloody history of Corona Labs, you would never have signed up as a test subject. But now, plunged into that history, surrounded by the damned and the dying, you must find the truth. Perhaps...

The Orion Agenda, by Ryan Weisenberger
Average member rating: (16 ratings)

In this sci-fi story, you play as Capt. Jon Stark of SciCorps. You're monitoring a promising alien species on Orion 3 from orbit on Station One when the General gives you your first field assignment. Outpost...

Ostrich, by Jonathan Laury
Average member rating: (19 ratings)

A new government's coming. A populist government looking to shake up the status quo. Your job in the Advertising Corrections Team is safe enough, but as tensions rise and regulations tighten you know that...

Overboard!, by inkle
Average member rating: (10 ratings)

Overboard! is a whodunnit where you’re the one whodunnit. You have just eight hours to cover the evidence, mislead the witnesses, frame another suspect and escape ... if you can! The Story July, 1935....

Party Foul, by Brooks Reeves
Average member rating: (34 ratings)

You're cornered, trapped. There seems to be no escape. You aren't in a jail cell. No, you're in the cocktail party from hell and only by using your wits and luck are you going to get out of this suburb...

Pathway to Destruction, by Richard Otter
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

You have worked at the Institute of Transportation for nearly five years. As one of the engineering team in the Research and Development section, it is considered a highly respected position and is...

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: (24 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...

Pestilence, by Richard Otter

Before all this started you worked selling poorly built, but extremely overpriced housing to the unsuspecting. You have always hated the job but you have to do something. Recently divorced from your wife of...

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."

Pick Up The Phone Booth And Die, by Rob Noyes
Average member rating: (114 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]
Pintown, by Stefan Blixt
Average member rating: (4 ratings)
As you are leaving your home, you must return the keys to your small home to the janitor. First, however, you must transform yourself into a human being again, and clean up a bit. [--blurb from The Z-Files...

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...

The Plant, by Michael J. Roberts
Average member rating: (34 ratings)

You're on a business trip with your boss, driving down a deserted highway in the middle of nowhere, when the car breaks down. You set off on foot seeking help, but you soon find yourself in the middle of a...

Plundered Hearts, by Amy Briggs
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...

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...

Punkirita Quest 1: Liquid, by Ryan Stevens
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

A wizard has done fiendish things to a village, and you have to find a way to stop him... [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue]
Purple, by Stefan Blixt
Average member rating: (4 ratings)
Another Earth, another time. War. Disaster. Death. Air travel. [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue]

Pytho's Mask, by Emily Short
Average member rating: (71 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...

Rameses, by Stephen Bond
Average member rating: (127 ratings)

Redactor, by Austin Auclair, Katie Atkinson, Laura Buda, Teddy Rodger, Catherine Shook, Brent Stansell
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

Redactor was created as the author's excuse to incorporate interactive fiction into his day job. It was created to promote the Shakespeare Theatre Company's presentation of "1984" in early 2016. You play as...

rendition, by nespresso
Average member rating: (38 ratings)

They caught Abdul during an insurgency in the east. He tried to take out a regiment with some home-made explosives strapped to his chest. They didn't explode, so pretty soon the coalition had a real live...

Rent-A-Spy, by John Eriksson
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

You are Jane O'Connor, a professional spy employed by Rent-A-Spy. Your boss, Mr. Graham Darcy, has assigned you a new mission: secretly infiltrate Meramax's research facility and return with hard evidence...

Return to Ditch Day, by M.J. Roberts
Average member rating: (31 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.

Rippled Flesh, by Ryan Stevens
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

You wake, as a balding, plump middle aged man, in what appears to be a house of horrors. How did you get here? What is going on? [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue]
Rolling the Dough, by Richard Otter
Average member rating: (1 rating)
Just one more drink they said, just one more. If only it had been only one more! If only it had been only one more bar. Hopefully your wife is asleep, so can you get into bed without waking her?

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...

Savoir-Faire, by Emily Short
Average member rating: (134 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...

Scavenger, by Quintin Stone
Average member rating: (31 ratings)

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

Shade, by Andrew Plotkin
Average member rating: (421 ratings)

"A one-room game set in your apartment." [--blurb from Competition Aught-Zero]

She's Got a Thing for a Spring, by Brent VanFossen
Average member rating: (32 ratings)

It's been a hectic year, and it's time to get away. He told you that, and you agreed. Now you're here, in a grove of aspen, and long for a good, long bath in the nearby hot spring. [--blurb from The Z-Files...

Shelter from the Storm, by Eric Eve
Average member rating: (23 ratings)

It is set in October 1940. Jack is a newly-commissioned sapper officer on his way to his first posting somewhere on Salisbury Plain (in southern England) when his car breaks down. The weather is starting to...

Shrapnel, by Adam Cadre
Average member rating: (170 ratings)

The Sisters, by revgiblet
Average member rating: (14 ratings)

After crashing your car to avoid hitting a mysterious young girl you awake to find yourself drawn to an abandoned mansion.
Skullduggery, by David Jewett
Average member rating: (1 rating)

Slouching Towards Bedlam, by Star Foster and Daniel Ravipinto
Average member rating: (219 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?

Snowquest, by Eric Eve
Average member rating: (48 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...

The Space Under the Window, by Andrew Plotkin
Average member rating: (100 ratings)

A new, experimental game that has no puzzles but uses only words that change your focus on things, thereby adapting the story. [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue]

Spider and Web, by Andrew Plotkin
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...

Stiffy Makane: Mystery Science Theater 3000, by Anonymous
Average member rating: (16 ratings)

"A MiSTing of one of the worst IF games ever, your mission as Stiffy Makane is to... umm... (among others) "do" Public Pussy Pamela." [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue]

A Sugared Pill, by Colin Borland
Average member rating: (1 rating)

As you wind your merry way home from a night out, a mystery gunman fires the shot which throws you into the world of self-delusion and deadly political intrigue...

Sunday Afternoon, by Christopher Huang (as Virgil Hilts)
Average member rating: (20 ratings)

It's gloriously sunny outside, and you can smell the grass from in here. It's not fair. All the servants have the day off, and you can bet they're not cooped up indoors in their Sunday best. If only there...

Suveh Nux, by David Fisher
Average member rating: (228 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.

Sylenius Mysterium, by C. E. Forman
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

You are Sylenius Mysterium, video game player par excellence. At a mall, you discover a long-lost arcade game, and excitedly start to play. But nothing could have prepared you for what happens... [--blurb...
Symetry, by Ryan Stevens
Average member rating: (10 ratings)
This new mirror you bought really is something. But in the night, it has a life of it's own... [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue]
Target, by Richard Otter
Average member rating: (3 ratings)
Some people are happy working in an office, some become taxi cab drivers and some people will even teach. You are none of those; you are a 'lone-wolf gunmen who likes to maintain a low profile' or...

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.

Theatre, by Brendon Wyber
Average member rating: (89 ratings)

Your job as a real estate agent brings you into contact with many old buildings, but none are quite like the old theatre that has stood deserted for almost thirty years. After visiting it with some...
Ticket to No Where, by Richard Otter
Average member rating: (1 rating)
Late again with the most important meeting our your life. Arriving late at the train station and missing your train, you must now, somehow, get to your meeting on time.
Toho Academy, by Simon Barber

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...

Trinity, by Brian Moriarty
Average member rating: (104 ratings)

You're neither an adventurer nor a professional thrill-seeker. You're simply an American tourist in London, enjoying a relaxing stroll through the famous Kensington Gardens. When World War III starts and the...

Unauthorized Termination, by Richard Otter
Average member rating: (16 ratings)

NB: Do not play with the ADRIFT 5 Runner as the game will appear to work but can't be completed. Play online or use the Adrift 4 interpreter instead as this is an Adrift 4 game. You are a senior investigator...

Undertow, by Stephen Granade
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

Go sailing on a yacht with three friends, and a corpse....

Unnkulia One-Half: The Salesman Triumphant, by D. A. Leary
Average member rating: (10 ratings)

"You play the role of a down-and-out Acme salesman, forced to work out of the Golden Dragon Inn, dangerously near Dread Unnkulia. Will you accumulate enough loot in this frightful backwater berg to turn your...

The Unofficial Sea-Monkey(R) Simulation, by B.J. Best
Average member rating: (13 ratings)

Sometime during 1987, your father comes home from work--late, as usual. He tosses a small box onto the kitchen counter. "Here," he says, "you wanted fish. You get these. Let's see how you do first, and then...

Vacation Gone Awry, by Johan Berntsson, Fredrik Ramsberg, and Staffan Friberg

Waking up at your holiday cabin in Germany, you discover that your entire family is missing. You must figure out what happened to them.

Varicella, by Adam Cadre
Average member rating: (132 ratings)

You are Primo Varicella, Palace Minister at the Palazzo del Piemonte. This title is unlikely to impress anyone. Piedmont is the laughingstock of the Carolingian League, and the Palace Ministry has devolved...

Vespers, by Jason Devlin
Average member rating: (179 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...

Violet, by Jeremy Freese
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]

Waystation, by Stephen Granade
Average member rating: (1 rating)

"While driving home one night, your car mysteriously dies. You get out, pop the hood, and wham! that's the last you remember...until you wake up trapped in a cell. With no idea of how you got there and no...

We are coming to get you!, by Richard Otter
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

It really is so much fun being a germ. Not only do you travel the world from one flesh-sack to another, you get to meet your millions of relatives and breed. You have never been that sure what infection you...

The Weapon, by Sean Barrett
Average member rating: (38 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...

The Wedding, by Neil James Brown
Average member rating: (10 ratings)

What should have been a simple task, watching your old flatmate Malcolm get married, becomes an awful lot more complicated when it transpires that Malcolm has disappeared mere hours before the service. You...

What Fuwa Bansaku Found, by Chandler Groover
Average member rating: (31 ratings)

A samurai explores a haunted shrine.

Where Are My Keys?, by Richard Otter

You play the part of Colin Thompson who after a drunken night in with his friend Mark, has lost his car keys. You must now begin an epic journey to retrieve your keys so you can once again return home to...
The Worst Game in the World... Ever!!!, by David Whyld
Average member rating: (7 ratings)
U find urself inn a small roome. here their is a tabul an a chur. on 1 wall iz a leva. There dont luk tobe anee exits;

Wretch!, by Josh Labelle
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

You awaken in a lab. Your head is filled with memories not wholly your own. The mysterious doctor regards you from the doorway. Will you try to earn his favor? Or escape his ramshackle house? Can you make a...

You are a Chef!, by Dan Shiovitz
Average member rating: (50 ratings)

Zork I, by Marc Blank and Dave Lebling
Average member rating: (222 ratings)

Many strange tales have been told of the fabulous treasure, exotic creatures, and diabolical puzzles in the Great Underground Empire. As an aspiring adventurer, you will undoubtedly want to locate these...


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