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| 9:05, by Adam Cadre Linnau's rating:  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. |
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(30 ratings)| An Act of Murder, by Christopher Huang Linnau's rating: Average member rating: (82 ratings) |
| Aisle, by Sam Barlow Linnau's rating: 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... |
| All Roads, by Jon Ingold Linnau's rating: 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] |
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(17 ratings)| Aunts and Butlers, by Robin Johnson Linnau's rating: Average member rating: (44 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. |
| Ballyhoo, by Jeff O'Neill Linnau's rating: Average member rating: (44 ratings)Spangleland! Sawdust and glitter, buffoons and cotton candy! It's a place where your wildest dreams come true! At least, that's what you think... until you get behind the scenes at the big top. Then you... |
| Beyond Zork, by Brian Moriarty Linnau's rating: Average member rating: (50 ratings)Dread times have befallen the Kingdom of Quendor. The wizards have mysteriously disappeared. The Enchanter's Guild Hall lies in ruins. Villages are abandoned, drunken men mutter strange tales, and vicious... |
| Bolivia By Night, by Aidan Doyle Linnau's rating: Average member rating: (19 ratings)A mystery adventure game set in Bolivia. |
| Bronze, by Emily Short Linnau's rating: 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. |
| Bureaucracy, by Douglas Adams, The Staff of Infocom Linnau's rating: Average member rating: (48 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... |
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(88 ratings)| City of Secrets, by Emily Short Linnau's rating: Average member rating: (103 ratings) |
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(22 ratings)Constraints, by Stephen Granade
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(2 ratings)| Curses, by Graham Nelson Linnau's rating: 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... |
| Damnatio Memoriae, by Emily Short Linnau's rating: 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... |
| De Baron, by Victor Gijsbers Linnau's rating: 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... |
| Delightful Wallpaper, by Andrew Plotkin ('Edgar O. Weyrd') Linnau's rating: Average member rating: (78 ratings) |
| Earth and Sky 2: Another Earth, Another Sky, by Paul O'Brian Linnau's rating: Average member rating: (54 ratings) |
| Earth And Sky 3: Luminous Horizon, by Paul O'Brian Linnau's rating: Average member rating: (41 ratings) |
| Enchanter, by Marc Blank, Dave Lebling Linnau's rating: Average member rating: (109 ratings)In Enchanter, the first of a spellbinding series in the tradition of Zork, you are a novice magician whom Fate has chosen to do singlehanded combat with a dark and fierce power. But worldly weapons will... |
| Fate, by Victor Gijsbers Linnau's rating: 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... |
| Ferrous Ring, by Justin Morgan ('Carma Ferris') Linnau's rating: Average member rating: (11 ratings) |
| Fish!, by John Molloy, Pete Kemp, Phil South, Rob Steggles Linnau's rating: Average member rating: (17 ratings)One nibble and you're hooked. JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT IT WAS SAFE TO GET OUT OF THE WATER: The tide is turning in the teeming metropolis of Fishworld. The oceans and seas are boiling off into space. The Seven... |
| Floatpoint, by Emily Short Linnau's rating: 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... |
| For a Change, by Dan Schmidt Linnau's rating: Average member rating: (115 ratings)"The sun has gone. It must be brought. You have a rock." [--blurb from Competition '99] |
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(3 ratings)| Future Boy!, by Kent Tessman, Derek Lo, Dan Langan, and Nate Laguzza Linnau's rating: Average member rating: (10 ratings) |
| Galatea, by Emily Short Linnau's rating: 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... |
| Gardening for Beginners, by Juhana Leinonen Linnau's rating: Average member rating: (18 ratings)When the snow melts it's time to make that garden of yours look better than ever. An entry to the 2008 Spring Speed IF. |
| Gateway, by Mike Verdu, Michael Lindner, and Glen Dahlgren Linnau's rating: 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 Linnau's rating: 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... |
| Glass, by Emily Short Linnau's rating: 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... |
| The Guild of Thieves, by Rob Steggles Linnau's rating: Average member rating: (24 ratings)Steal yourself a world of fantasy WHY BUY THIS GAME WHEN YOU CAN STEAL IT ? Except you can't. Not yet. An amateur like you? Come off it! Now, if you were a fully paid-up member of the notorious Guild of... |
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(8 ratings)Heroes, by Sean Barrett
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(16 ratings)| The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams and Steve Meretzky Linnau's rating: Average member rating: (185 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... |
| The Hobbit, by Philip Mitchell and Veronika Megler Linnau's rating: Average member rating: (28 ratings) |
| I-0, by Anonymous Linnau's rating: 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... |
| Infidel, by Michael Berlyn Linnau's rating: Average member rating: (61 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,... |
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(17 ratings)Koan, by Esa Peuha
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(11 ratings)Labyrinth, by Samantha Casanova Preuninger
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(12 ratings)| Lawn of Love, by Santoonie Corporation Linnau's rating: Average member rating: (10 ratings)Santoonie's first romantic adventure. |
| Leather Goddesses of Phobos, by Steve Meretzky Linnau's rating: Average member rating: (70 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... |
| Lock & Key, by Adam Cadre Linnau's rating: Average member rating: (77 ratings) |
| Lord Bellwater's Secret, by Sam Gordon Linnau's rating: Average member rating: (71 ratings) |
| Losing Your Grip, by Stephen Granade Linnau's rating: Average member rating: (22 ratings) |
| Lost Pig, by Admiral Jota Linnau's rating: 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 Lurking Horror, by Dave Lebling Linnau's rating: Average member rating: (92 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. |
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(38 ratings)MANALIVE, A Mystery of Madness - I, by Bill Powell
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(5 ratings)| Metamorphoses, by Emily Short Linnau's rating: 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... |
| A Mind Forever Voyaging, by Steve Meretzky Linnau's rating: Average member rating: (116 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... |
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(15 ratings)| Moon-Shaped, by Jason Ermer Linnau's rating: 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... |
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(61 ratings)| Moonmist, by Stu Galley, Jim Lawrence Linnau's rating: Average member rating: (48 ratings)More ghosts haunt the misty sea-coast and stone ramparts of Cornwall than anyplace else on earth. One such soul roams Tresyllian Castle: a pale phantom with flaxen hair and a luminous, flowing gown. It seems... |
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(45 ratings)| Muse: An Autumn Romance, by Christopher Huang Linnau's rating: Average member rating: (35 ratings)Early September, 1886. Autumn. The Victorian Era. The Rev. Dawson, 59, is off to the Continent and an unexpected Romance... [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue] |
| My Name is Jack Mills, by Juhana Leinonen Linnau's rating: Average member rating: (20 ratings) |
| Narcolepsy, by Adam Cadre Linnau's rating: Average member rating: (62 ratings) |
| Not Just an Ordinary Ballerina, by Jim Aikin Linnau's rating: Average member rating: (30 ratings) |
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(7 ratings)| The Pawn, by Rob Steggles, Peter Kemp, Hugh Steers, Ken Gordon, and Geoff Quilley Linnau's rating: Average member rating: (28 ratings)The Pawn is an adventure game set in the magical world of Kerovnia during a period of tremendous social upheaval. Recently, King Erik, the present ruler of the land, has started to lose his hold on the... |
| Photopia, by Adam Cadre Linnau's rating: Average member rating: (558 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." |
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(28 ratings)| Planetfall, by Steve Meretzky Linnau's rating: 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... |
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(8 ratings)| Pytho's Mask, by Emily Short Linnau's rating: 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... |
| Rameses, by Stephen Bond Linnau's rating: Average member rating: (125 ratings) |
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(9 ratings)Ritual of Purification, by Jarek Sobolewski
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(16 ratings)| Savoir-Faire, by Emily Short Linnau's rating: 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... |
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(13 ratings)| Shade, by Andrew Plotkin Linnau's rating: Average member rating: (413 ratings)"A one-room game set in your apartment." [--blurb from Competition Aught-Zero] |
| Shrapnel, by Adam Cadre Linnau's rating: Average member rating: (166 ratings) |
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(13 ratings)| Slouching Towards Bedlam, by Star Foster and Daniel Ravipinto Linnau's rating: Average member rating: (215 ratings)In the beginning was the Word, and it was hungry. ... |
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(73 ratings)| Sorcerer, by Steve Meretzky Linnau's rating: Average member rating: (67 ratings)Sorcerer, the second of a spellbinding fantasy series in the tradition of Zork, takes you on a magical tour through the darker side of Zorkian enchantment. Your journey begins with a cryptic diary - the last... |
| Spellbreaker, by Dave Lebling Linnau's rating: Average member rating: (58 ratings)Spellbreaker, the riveting conclusion to the Enchanter trilogy, explores the mysterious underpinnings of the Zorkian universe. A world founded on sorcery suddenly finds its magic failing, and only you,... |
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(12 ratings)| Starcross, by Dave Lebling Linnau's rating: Average member rating: (50 ratings)Starcross, Infocom's science fiction mind-bender, launches you headlong into the year 2186 and the depths of space. And not without good reason, for you are destined to rendezvous with a gargantuan starship... |
| Stationfall, by Steve Meretzky Linnau's rating: Average member rating: (46 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... |
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(3 ratings)| Suspended, by Michael Berlyn Linnau's rating: Average member rating: (43 ratings)They said you would sleep for half a millennium - not an unreasonable length of time, considering you'd be in limited cryogenic suspension. Your body would rest at the planet's nerve center, an underground... |
| Tales of the Traveling Swordsman, by Mike Snyder Linnau's rating: 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... |
| Tapestry, by Daniel Ravipinto Linnau's rating: 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... |
| Threnody, by John "Doppler" Schiff Linnau's rating: Average member rating: (6 ratings)A cat o'nine tails; a tale o' nine cats. You are a baby in your mother's womb, about to be born. When you try to leave and the cord starts to strangle you, you must choose the Lion, Dragon, or Ferret to... |
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(21 ratings)| Trinity, by Brian Moriarty Linnau's rating: Average member rating: (101 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 Linnau's rating: 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... |
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(7 ratings)| Varicella, by Adam Cadre Linnau's rating: Average member rating: (131 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... |
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(174 ratings)| Whom The Telling Changed, by Aaron A. Reed Linnau's rating: 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... |
| Winter Wonderland, by Laura Knauth Linnau's rating: Average member rating: (43 ratings)"Young Gretchen could have only imagined the fanciful events that were to occur before finding herself lost in a winter wonderland." [--blurb from Competition '99] |
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(12 ratings)| Wishbringer, by Brian Moriarty Linnau's rating: Average member rating: (109 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... |
| Zork I, by Marc Blank and Dave Lebling Average member rating: (218 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... |
| Zork II, by Dave Lebling, Marc Blank Linnau's rating: Average member rating: (97 ratings)The Wizard appears, floating nonchalantly in the air beside you. He grins sideways at you. The Wizard incants "Fantasize," but nothing happens. He shakes his wand. Nothing happens. With a slightly... |
| Zork III, by Dave Lebling, Marc Blank Linnau's rating: Average member rating: (77 ratings)An old, oddly youthful man turns toward you slowly. His long, silver hair dances about him as a fresh breeze blows. "You have reached the final test, my friend! You are proved clever and powerful, but this... |
| Zork Zero, by Steve Meretzky Linnau's rating: Average member rating: (59 ratings)The Great Underground Empire is in its heyday. Upscale condos crowd the massive caverns. Subterranean highways stretch from Aragain to the Fublio Valley. And no adventurer has yet set foot in the open field... |
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