18 Rooms to Home, by Carolyn VanEseltine Average member rating: (6 ratings) 18 Rooms to Home is an experimental work of interactive fiction. It’s a day in the life of Yesenia Reed, whose life is far from ordinary, no matter what she might prefer. This story takes place over the... |
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... |
50 Shades of Jilting, by Rowan Lipkovits (as Lankly Lockers) Average member rating: (13 ratings) The relationship is in a walking dead situation: it's over, only continuing to move onward solely on inertia. One way or another, it ends here. |
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... |
An Act of Murder, by Christopher Huang Average member rating: (82 ratings) |
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... |
AlethiCorp, by Simon Christiansen Average member rating: (31 ratings) Do you have what it takes to be an Associate Information Management Consultant with one of the world's largest information management companies? Can you leverage synergies with the best to operationalize our... |
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. |
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... |
Arrival, or Attack of the B-Movie Clichés, by Stephen Granade Average member rating: (34 ratings) |
The Ascent of the Gothic Tower, by Ryan Veeder Average member rating: (31 ratings) A story of mild and non-debilitating obsession. |
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... |
The Baker of Shireton, by Hanon Ondricek Average member rating: (20 ratings) You are the Baker of Shireton. The bread you bake is delicious. Raiders are coming. |
Baking with Lizzie, by Adri Average member rating: (5 ratings) Your friends are arriving soon, and you need to bake a batch of cookies! Now where is that recipe card...? This game was created for the Short & Sweet Jam. |
Bandersnatch, by Charlie Brooker, David Slade Doug Orleans's rating: Average member rating: (13 ratings) In 1984, a young programmer begins to question reality as he adapts a dark fantasy novel into a video game. A mind-bending tale with multiple endings. Starring: Fionn Whitehead, Will Poulter, Craig... |
Beautiful Frog, by Porpentine Average member rating: (14 ratings) Please enjoy this frog. |
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.... |
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). |
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:... |
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... |
Boogle, by Buster Hudson Average member rating: (15 ratings) |
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... |
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. |
Buck Rockford Heads West, by J. J. Guest Average member rating: (6 ratings) "Bored of his life in the East, Buck Rockford heads West to seek the meaning of man's existence." Buck Rockford Heads West is a short interactive Western. It was made in Ink for Neo-Twiny Jam with a final... |
Byzantine Perspective, by Lea Albaugh Average member rating: (56 ratings) Your task is simple enough. Just nab the chalice. |
Calliope, by Jason McIntosh Average member rating: (10 ratings) |
Calm, by Joey Jones and Melvin Rangasamy Average member rating: (17 ratings) Since the spores came life has been happier. How could it not be? For now stress is fatal and all who remain alive must remain calm... |
Cancel Cable Or Die Trying, by Tony Smith Average member rating: (9 ratings) The year is 2020. All of the nation's cable companies have merged into a single conglomerate. Your monthly cable bill has soared while the quality of service has deteriorated. You've concluded that your only... |
Candle flames in windless air, by Teaspoon Average member rating: (3 ratings) So you've spent the last fortnight hitchhiking around rugged bits of the Nevada desert, and while it's been fun and all, you'd rather like your time machine back now. ... |
Cannonfire Concerto, by Caleb Wilson Average member rating: (10 ratings) In an 18th century symphony of intrigue, your supernatural virtuoso performance begins an overture to war! "Cannonfire Concerto" is a 190,000-word interactive novel by Caleb Wilson, where your choices... |
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... |
Charlie The Robot, by Fernando Contreras Average member rating: (15 ratings) Earth is overpopulated and low on resources: the puppies, the kitties, and the fishies are all gone. There are not enough jobs, yet Hiremy & Hirschl has employed robots as middle management staff, which... |
Charming, by Kaylah Facey Average member rating: (17 ratings) Potions shattered on the floor, pages torn out of books, a demolished statue... These are a few of the magical messes you will have to clean up before Enchantress Igmenta arrives for your coming-of-age test... |
Choice of Alexandria, by Kevin Gold Average member rating: (7 ratings) Change the course of history! Can your scientific discoveries save the ancient Library of Alexandria? Will you defend the empire's legacy, or your own? "Choice of Alexandria" is an interactive novella by... |
Choice of Magics, by Kevin Gold Average member rating: (9 ratings) Your magic can change the world, but at what cost? Battle dragons, skyships, and evil Inquisitors, as you protect your homeland, conquer it, or destroy it forever. Choice of Magics is a 550,000-word... |
A Cock and Bull Story, by Theodore "Ted" C. Lim Average member rating: (2 ratings) This game is still in its beta-stages. Any volunteers willing to donate their time for beta-testing would be greatly appreciated. |
Code Name Silver Steel, by SpecialAgent Average member rating: (8 ratings) A freelance spy is a great job. It pays well and you get to travel to new and interesting places. Unless you get caught, that part is not so great. You open the unmarked envelope and unfold the mission... |
Confessions of an NPC, by Charles Hans Huang Average member rating: (8 ratings) Interview characters in a kingdom not unlike our own who face the problems of our generation. |
Counterfeit Monkey, by Emily Short Average member rating: (239 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... |
Cragne Manor, by Ryan Veeder, Jenni Polodna et al.Show other authorsAdam Whybray, Adri, Andrew Plotkin, Andy Holloway, Austin Auclair, Baldur Brückner, Ben Collins-Sussman, Bill Maya, Brian Rushton, Buster Hudson, Caleb Wilson, Carl Muckenhoupt, Chandler Groover, Chris Jones, Christopher Conley, Damon L. Wakes, Daniel Ravipinto, Daniel Stelzer, David Jose, David Petrocco, David Sturgis, Drew Mochak, Edward B, Emily Short, Erica Newman, Feneric, Finn Rosenløv, Gary Butterfield, Gavin Inglis, Greg Frost, Hanon Ondricek, Harkness Munt, Harrison Gerard, Ian Holmes, Ivan Roth, Jack Welch, Jacqueline Ashwell, James Eagle, Jason Dyer, Jason Lautzenheiser, Jason Love, Jeremy Freese, Joey Jones, Joshua Porch, Justin de Vesine, Justin Melvin, Katherine Morayati, Kenneth Pedersen, Lane Puetz, Llew Mason, Lucian Smith, Marco Innocenti, Marius Müller, Mark Britton, Mark Sample, Marshal Tenner Winter, Matt Schneider, Matt Weiner, Matthew Korson, Michael Fessler, Michael Gentry, Michael Hilborn, Michael Lin, Mike Spivey, Molly Ying, Monique Padelis, Naomi Hinchen, Nate Edwards, Petter Sjölund, Q Pheevr, Rachel Spitler, Reed Lockwood, Reina Adair, Riff Conner, Roberto Colnaghi, Rowan Lipkovits, Sam Kabo Ashwell, Scott Hammack, Sean M. Shore, Shin, Wade Clarke, Zach Hodgens, Zack JohnsonAverage member rating: (24 ratings) A tribute to Anchorhead. |
Craverly Heights, by Ryan Veeder Average member rating: (18 ratings) Take on the role of Doctor Langridge, whose patient, Janine, is very sick. |
Crocodracula: The Beginning, by Ryan Veeder and Harrison Gerard Average member rating: (12 ratings) The first Taleframe game based on the 90s children's horror soap opera. |
Cryptozookeeper, by Robb Sherwin Average member rating: (23 ratings) Marrow is delicious but that's not why you're here. You're supposed to pick up a single jar of alien bone jelly, which of course can't exist and doesn't exist, so you've convinced yourself that transporting... |
The Curious Incident at Blackrock Township, by Bitter Karella Average member rating: (8 ratings) The incident began in 1705 at Blackrock Township in the Province of Massachusetts Bay in the house of the Rev. Steadfast Hopkins. After evenmeal, the reverend's daughter fell into a violent fit. When Ezola... |
Curse of the Garden Isle, by Ryan Veeder Average member rating: (12 ratings) Let's both take a deep breath. |
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... |
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... |
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... |
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) |
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. |
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... |
The Dragon Will Tell You Your Future Now, by Newsreparter Average member rating: (14 ratings) The things they say about dragons can't really be true right? Maybe it was a bad idea to come here, maybe the only future the dragon holds is the one that ends with you in it's jaws tonight! Ridiculous,... |
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... |
Dungeon Detective 2: Devils and Details, by Wonaglot Average member rating: (9 ratings) The life of the world's first Dungeon Detective isn't exactly glamorous. You've spent many nights hungry, sleeping in the woods. But word is getting out, and the newest case has showed up at the foot of your... |
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. |
Emoji game, by Enola Interactive fiction expressed in 5 emoji languages. All game without any words. A few minutes to pass the game to one of six possible endings. Small funny story about one knight, who was caught in a bad... |
Endless, Nameless, by Adam Cadre Average member rating: (53 ratings) The first time I ever saw someone play a text adventure was in fifth grade. One of the sixth-graders didn't go to outdoor ed, and therefore spent the week in my fifth-grade classroom, playing Scott Adams's... |
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... |
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... |
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 Santaland, by Jason Ermer Average member rating: (22 ratings) Ugh. Christmastime at the mall. The last place you want to be, during the worst time of year to be there. |
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... |
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. |
Excalibur, by J. J. Guest, G. C. Baccaris, and Duncan Bowsman Average member rating: (22 ratings) The psychedelic science fantasy series Excalibur was wiped by the BBC. It lives on, in the memories of its fans. Author's Comment: "Welcome to the Excalibur Wiki. This fan-run encyclopaedia preserves the... |
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. |
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... |
Fan Interference, by Andrew Schultz Average member rating: (7 ratings) The 2003 Cubs are on the brink of the World Series. It's game 6, and they're even going to take a late 3-0 lead in the clinching game. They won't keep it. Unless you, who just got kicked off the bus near... |
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... |
fin de sickleburg, by Caleb Wilson Average member rating: (6 ratings) It is nearly dawn, and at last you've come back to your chamber. Written for Gothic Novel Jam 2018 (https://itch.io/jam/gothic-novel-jam). |
Final Girl, by Hanon Ondricek Average member rating: (8 ratings) ===NOTE: FINAL GIRL is no longer available due to technical issues with the Storynexus engine that cannot be resolved. A sequel/remake is in the works.=== Everyone is dead. You are still alive. The Skull... |
Final Selection, by Sam Gordon Average member rating: (18 ratings) |
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... |
The Four Eccentrics, by Tim Wolfe and Caleb Wilson as Mild Cat Bean Average member rating: (3 ratings) This dream took an odd turn, somewhere. Why can't you wake up? And so much seems awry here: lost dreams are abandoned in the park, the local poetry trade is drying up, and nobody seems able to get into Night... |
Four Sittings in a Sinking House, by Bruno Dias Average member rating: (17 ratings) The thing about sinking is: the sea is not a void. If you're sinking, you're displacing something. A Grand Guignol entry for ECTOCOMP 2016 |
free bird., by Passerine Average member rating: (16 ratings) A minimalist hopepunk avian escape game written for SeedComp! 2023. Seeds used: Feathered Fury by Amanda Walker Room; Closed Door by Charm Cochran This story includes mild descriptions of animal neglect and... |
Future Boy!, by Kent Tessman, Derek Lo, Dan Langan, and Nate Laguzza Average member rating: (10 ratings) |
Gaia's Web, by Nigel Jayne Average member rating: (2 ratings) Correcting bugs in video games wasn't supposed to be like this. Then again, S.hip of Theseus isn't a typical game. As a titan, you maintain the real-world experience of the game players. When you lose... |
Galaxy's Edge, by Graham Nelson The Discovery (Part 1 of Galaxy’s Edge), is a conventional but well-constructed adventure in which you roam the stars in the Scout Ship Orion and unravel an intergalactic mystery. The second part, Escape... |
Gaucho - An Interactive Geek Western, by Dave Bernazzani, Steven Robert, Jason Hanks Average member rating: (6 ratings) Gaucho was written for the RPG Geek / BoardGameGeek site-wide adventure project. Nearly 500 players worked their way through this game in the first full week of August, 2012. Gaucho was written by Dave... |
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... |
Goat Game, by Kathryn Li Average member rating: (14 ratings) Empathy, entanglement, and an ethical dilemma. Oh, and everyone is a goat. One year after you land a research assistant position at Yobel Laboratories, a prominent biotech company in Aegis-Liora, the city... |
The Good Ghost, by Sarah Willson, Kirk Damato Average member rating: (18 ratings) A wholesome haunt in five acts. |
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... |
Grooverland, by Mathbrush Average member rating: (25 ratings) "Magic comes with a price. But on your birthday, all your expenses are paid. Welcome to Grooverland." Grooverland is a large parser game that takes over two hours to complete. It is based on the works of... |
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... |
Guttersnipe: Carnival of Regrets, by Bitter Karella Average member rating: (7 ratings) Guttersnipe: Carnival of Regrets is a humorously grotesque (or grotesquely humorous) game about a circa 1929 street urchin and her pet sewer rat trying to survive a trip through a dark carnival full of sin,... |
Guttersnipe: The Baleful Backwash, by Bitter Karella Average member rating: (3 ratings) It's 1929. Incorrigible street urchin Lil' Ragamuffin and her sewer rat pal Percy have been imprisoned in the cellar of the Baleful Backwash speakeasy by dastardly gangsters. Save Percy and evade... |
Hadean Lands, by Andrew Plotkin Average member rating: (67 ratings) Marooned in an alien, airless wasteland -- your starship fractured -- your crewmates missing. Can an apprentice alchemist learn how to survive? |
Hallowmoor, by Mike Snyder Average member rating: (18 ratings) Your quest: infiltrate Castle Hallowmoor, find the potion, and make it out alive. This is a Halloween-themed adventure -- hypertext interactive fiction playable in most modern web browsers. |
Hard Puzzle 2 : The Cow, The Stool and Other Animals, by Ade McT Average member rating: (6 ratings) On the farm, after The Event, things have gotten more complicated than they ought to be. A silly little Speed-IF. But can you solve it? Hall of Fame: CMG Deboriole |
Hard Puzzle 3 : Origins, by Ade McT Average member rating: (3 ratings) It's not fair. First day on the new job, and it looks like the end of the world is happening. A silly little Speed-IF. But can you solve it? Hall of Fame: CMG Deboriole |
Harrison Squared Dies Early, by Daryl Gregory Average member rating: (9 ratings) A Lovecraftian choose-your-own-adventure through a creepy school. There's a monster on the loose, and the only one who can track it down is you, Harrison Harrison, teenage monster detective. This is a... |
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... |
The Hero of Kendrickstone, by Paul Wang Average member rating: (2 ratings) Can a wanna-be hero like you rescue the city of Kendrickstone, held hostage by an evil wizard and his troop of black-clad soldiers? Face down fierce foes with spell, sword, or silver tongue. Outwit cunning... |
The Hero Unmasked!, by Christopher Huang Average member rating: (3 ratings) What's this? Front and center on the main shelf of your local comic store sits the full series of the "Hero Unmasked!" storyline from The Swashbuckler! The first three issues are even free to read! You know... |
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... |
Homecoming, by Carolyn VanEseltine Average member rating: (13 ratings) "Homecoming" is a short, twisted comedy about a newly awakened AI. |
How the Little Match Girl Got Her Colt Paterson Revolver, and Taught a Virtue to a Goblin, by Ryan Veeder Average member rating: (7 ratings) Written for Day 13 of #EnigMarch 2023. |
How the Little Match Girl Met the Queen of Vampires, by Ryan Veeder Average member rating: (5 ratings) Written for Day 18 of #EnigMarch 2022. |
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 Errors, by Katherine Morayati Average member rating: (19 ratings) A contractor assigned to handle bug reports for a wearable mood-regulation device becomes unwitting witness to trauma and crime. |
I am a math teacher and I am about to die, by George Smolik Average member rating: (1 rating) Last math test made students very angry. In fact, they are so angry they are about to break into your office and rip you a new one. Yes, you are a math teacher and you are about to die! You must act quickly.... |
I Am Prey, by Joey Tanden Average member rating: (11 ratings) A horror-lite science fiction game of evasion. (Experimental game: Reading the included survival guide before playing is highly recommended.) Inspired by the casual and round-based designs of visual indie... |
The Ice-Bound Concordance, by Aaron A. Reed and Jacob Garbe Average member rating: (1 rating) The Ice-Bound Concordance is an award-winning indie game ("Best Story/World Design" winner, IndieCade 2014; "Excellence in Narrative" nominee, IGF 2015) with cutting-edge interactive story technology,... |
If I Wasn't Shy, by Joey Jones Average member rating: (11 ratings) "I kinda just sit at the checkout, and the place isn't even all that busy. So why'd you want to play a game about my life? I mean, it's not terrible but it would be so much more if I wasn't shy." (Part of... |
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. |
Illuminismo Iniziato, by Michael J. Coyne Average member rating: (24 ratings) Lovingly handcrafted in Inform6, this overripe sequel to Risorgimento Represso is full of cheese, gunpowder, chemistry and explosions (well, only a little chemistry). Includes automap, sounds and graphical... |
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)... |
Instruction Set, by Jared Jackson Average member rating: (5 ratings) How do you run a mind that cannot run itself? Enter the mind of Nora Atwood and with the help of a little science, you may be able to puzzle out her situation. |
It, by Emily Boegheim Average member rating: (32 ratings) "The rules of the game are easy. I'm It, so I go and hide. You and the others count to 50, then you have to look for me. If you find me, you have to get into the hiding spot with me. If you're the last... |
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. |
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. |
The Kuolema, by Ben Jackson Average member rating: (17 ratings) This game has now been entirely 'remastered' and released as part of the Spring Thing 2024 competition. An abandoned ship is found adrift in the South China Sea. Its radio is silent and there's no sign of... |
Labyrinth of Loci, by anbrewk Average member rating: (8 ratings) “What distinguishes a memory palace from a memory labyrinth is that each place of memory in a palace is intended to be found, while in a labyrinth the structure is more than a means of storage: it is a way... |
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. |
Ladykiller in a Bind, by Christine Love Average member rating: (5 ratings) My Twin Brother Made Me Crossdress As Him And Now I Have To Deal With A Geeky Stalker And A Domme Beauty Who Want Me In A Bind!! or, Ladykiller in a Bind Can you survive seven days trapped on a cruise ship... |
The Last Night of Alexisgrad, by Milo van Mesdag Average member rating: (10 ratings) The sky is dark. It is a time of mystery, change and struggle. It is a time of opportunity. In this asymmetric, two-player piece of interactive fiction, you and your partner each take on the role of a leader... |
The Legend of the Missing Hat, by Adri Average member rating: (31 ratings) A tiny story about four tiny ninjas and a tiny top hat. |
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 Libonotus Cup, by Nils Fagerburg Average member rating: (15 ratings) “You? Win the Libonotus Cup?” Sammy scoffs. “I'd be impressed if your ship even makes it to the starting line tomorrow morning, let alone Portobello.” “Aye,” you say, “me ship may have taken a beating in... |
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 Match Girl 3: The Escalus Manifold, by Ryan Veeder Average member rating: (11 ratings) "The Snow Queen controls her servants with Shards from the Mirror of Belial," Ebenezer Scrooge explained. |
The Little Match Girl 4: Crown of Pearls, by Ryan Veeder Average member rating: (22 ratings) A touching epic time travel fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen. |
The Little Match Girl and Her Friend, the Crow, by Ryan Veeder Average member rating: (6 ratings) The little match girl goes on a spooky adventure with her friend (a crow). Written for Day 21 of Drawlloween 2023. |
Lord Bellwater's Secret, by Sam Gordon Average member rating: (71 ratings) |
Lost in time, by Gerardo Adesso Average member rating: (8 ratings) Knock Knock. Knock Knock. A journey through memory lane. |
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... |
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... |
Max Blaster and Doris de Lightning Against the Parrot Creatures of Venus, by Dan Shiovitz and Emily Short Average member rating: (15 ratings) Someplace on Venus a secret weapon is being built that threatens Earth with total destruction. You and your comrade must penetrate the Xavian base and save the world -- before it's too late! |
Maze of Madness, by Lurkio/Ant Average member rating: (3 ratings) A solvable demo of a rather cruel puzzle idea. Playable online. Written for the 8-bit BBC Micro computer. |
The McFarlane Job, by Jason McIntosh The McFarlane Job is a new, short interactive caper story. It is built with Massively, a new platform for creating and distributing games and other interactive text works that resemble SMS conversations:... |
Mentula Macanus: Apocolocyntosis, by One of the Bruces and Drunken Bastard Average member rating: (33 ratings) Stiffy Makane, or rather his ancestor Mentula Macanus, is here subjected to an increasingly-unlikely series of crudely sexual romps through the ancient world. It's sort of like the Satyricon, except not... |
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... |
The Meteor, the Stone and a Long Glass of Sherbet, by Graham Nelson (as Angela M. Horns) Average member rating: (51 ratings) Another day wasted as guest of the Empress, a wretchedly long tour of the breath-taking Boreal Falls, conducted as ever by the Lady Amilia. As if she weren't bad enough, an honour guard of soldiers, their... |
A Mind Forever Voyaging, by Steve Meretzky 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... |
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... |
Moving (On), by quackoquack Average member rating: (8 ratings) A game about nostalgia, jumping around in time, and clearing out your childhood room. ... |
Muggle Studies, by M. Flourish Klink 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... |
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... |
Muse: An Autumn Romance, by Christopher Huang 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] |
Mustard, Music, and Murder, by Christopher Huang Average member rating: (3 ratings) "Daniel Hopkins, investment broker, has been murdered. The police are on their way, and meanwhile you are locked in with the other suspects.... "Can you piece together the clues, apply a little logic, and... |
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. |
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, by Ryan Veeder and Edgar Allan Poe Average member rating: (5 ratings) A Real Novel by Edgar Allan Poe. |
Natural Pressure, by ocdunlap A girl leaves her childhood home hoping to find something better, but she can't seem to escape her roots. Nina Fish is from a rural town in the Ozark mountains. She eventually realizes that she isn't... |
Necrotic Drift, by Robb Sherwin 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... |
Never Gives Up Her Dead, by Mathbrush Average member rating: (13 ratings) Time is running out after a meteor strikes your interstellar starship. While the crew is under full alert, only you seem to notice the strange red portals opening up throughout the ship. Explore ten... |
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... |
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. |
Nothing But Mazes, by Greg Boettcher Average member rating: (7 ratings) In this large game, you play as Gary Randall, a man who had a heart attack in 2026, was frozen in a cryogenic tube, then revived in 2189 by green aliens from Oo. Humanity bombed itself back to the Iron Age... |
Office Goose, by Liz Henry Average member rating: (4 ratings) It's a beautiful day in the tech company office, and you are a horrible goose. |
Old fogey, by Simon Deimel Average member rating: (3 ratings) The strange painting on the wall of the living room has always bothered you. A tiny diversion with different endings, limited to some essential elements. |
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 and Future, by G. Kevin Wilson Average member rating: (13 ratings) |
Open Sorcery: Sea++, by Abigail Corfman Average member rating: (1 rating) There is an ocean beneath our world. You can sail it on currents of emotion. Worlds hang in it like bubbles--ephemeral as thought or indelible as memory. You wake up at the bottom of this ocean. Your... |
Orevore Courier, by Brian Rapp Average member rating: (17 ratings) |
Origins, by Vincent Zeng and Chris Martens Average member rating: (11 ratings) "Origins" is a story of the individual, potentially convergent paths of two people making their way through Pittsburgh. There are two available modes, a "myopic" view wherein the player controls a single... |
Oxygen, by Benjamin Sokal Average member rating: (25 ratings) An explosion rattles the Aegis mining station and the oxygen tanks are leaking. Who gets the remaining oxygen and who will perish? The choice is up to you, a lowly technician trapped in an access conduit. |
Party Foul, by Brooks Reeves Average member rating: (33 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... |
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 Peccary Myth, by Gerardo Aerssens (as Pergola Cavendish) Average member rating: (5 ratings) Please to visit Guillermo, New Mexico USA, home of Trendly's Cyber Trends the makers of Cliikus. Scenic wonders, hip neighborhoods, and the more viral memes are there. Grunk Zork Opp Meep! Guillermo Tourist... |
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 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... |
POET The Game, by Glenn Shaheen Average member rating: (2 ratings) A game about being an MFA poetry student. It's a hand-rolled Javascript game published in issue 4 of the Better online magazine. |
Portcullis, by Robin Johnson Average member rating: (14 ratings) Your home town, Portcullis, has been taken over by an evil sorcerer (because that's what evil sorcerers do) and a party of adventurers has arrived to overthrow him (because that's what adventurers do.) An... |
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... |
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... |
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. |
Remembrance, by E. Joyce Average member rating: (2 ratings) Your mother's ashes are going back to Earth, and you are going with them. You only have room to take one small keepsake. How will you choose to remember your relationship? |
Renegade Brainwave, by J. J. Guest Average member rating: (13 ratings) "Beware! Beware! Take care! For you are about take part in an interactive story that will reveal the terrifying truth behind the mysterious Soviet space programme! Revelations of incredible horrors that will... |
Repeat the Ending, by Drew Cook Average member rating: (22 ratings) Explore an all-new "critical edition" of a 1996 Inform 5 game about mental illness, magic, and the second law of thermodynamics. When D, a psychiatrically disabled chaos wizard, learns that an estranged... |
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... |
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... |
Roofed, by Jim Munroe 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 acrobat... |
Room Serial, by merricart Average member rating: (13 ratings) An escape game where you escape from a series of rooms, gaining new actions on the way. The new actions help you advance. You must also piece together the mystery of why you were there. |
Santa Carcossa Nights, by Bitter Karella Average member rating: (2 ratings) |
Sex on the Beach, by Hanon Ondricek Average member rating: (7 ratings) NSFW - An Adults-Only Sex Comedy. Exactly what it says on the tin. Write an interactive letter to an adult magazine describing your Spring Break escapades. Contains explicit descriptions of sexual activity... |
Shrapnel, by Adam Cadre Average member rating: (166 ratings) |
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 |
Sirens in the Distance, by Astrid Dalmady Average member rating: (8 ratings) You're sitting on a boat a few miles off shore when, suddenly, you hear sirens in the distance. An interactive short story for #mermay2019. |
Six, by Wade Clarke Average member rating: (40 ratings) Your name is Harriet Leitner, and you and your twin sister Demi turned six this morning! You're having a fancy dress birthday party, and this afternoon you'll be playing Hide and Seek Tip over in the park.... |
Six Silver Bullets, by William Dooling Average member rating: (8 ratings) You are the Silver Agent, a spy who has lost their mind. You are alone in the city, without your memories...but you do have a mission, and it changes every time you play. You also have your silver gun. It... |
Smitten Kittens, by Jacqueline A. Lott Average member rating: (2 ratings) Ensigns Anne Blackwell and John Jemison have known each other most of their lives, but are they prepared for the changes that lie ahead after they're stationed together aboard the USS Enterprise? This is a... |
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] |
So, You've Never Played a Text Adventure Before, Huh?, by Ryan Veeder Average member rating: (16 ratings) Robin Monaghan and her friends explore a creepy house. |
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... |
Someone Else's Story, by E. Joyce Average member rating: (1 rating) Naples, 1973. The local Camorra are embroiled in a struggle against Russian mobsters trying to horn in on their territory. The boss thinks Katya Goncharova knows something, and Sofia has been ordered to find... |
Someone Keeps Moving My Chair, by Ryan Veeder Average member rating: (9 ratings) Something is amiss in Garry's office. A prequel to The Statue Got Me High. |
Sorcery!, by Steve Jackson and inkle Average member rating: (38 ratings) An adaptation of a print-based game book originally published in 1983, updated for modern touch-screen devices. The player quests across a fantasy map, dealing with all sorts of encounters using a text-based... |
Sorcery! 3, by Steve Jackson and inkle Average member rating: (11 ratings) The land of Kakhabad is a wilderness - a ruined desert, a tangled forest, cruel mountains and fissures, all guarded by seven fearsome serpents. But you must cross this land if you are to reach Mampang and... |
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... |
The Statue Got Me High, by Ryan Veeder Average member rating: (29 ratings) Your job is to make sure John's party is successful. It won't be, though. Written for the Apollo 18+20 tribute album project. |
Staying Put, by verityvirtue Average member rating: (5 ratings) After hell went down over the Grémillet thing, Subramaniam helped you find this place. You'll have to lay low for a while, so that means not getting out of this room — or at least downstairs — until all this... |
Sting, by Mike Russo Average member rating: (18 ratings) Six bees. Five bags of groceries. A four-pound dumbbell. Three sailboats. One twin. Sting is a puzzleless parser memoir about ordinary days and unexpected interruptions. |
A Study in Steampunk: Choice by Gaslight, by Heather Albano Average member rating: (21 ratings) Steam-powered mechs meet forbidden sorcery! Inspired by Sherlock Holmes, Dracula, Jekyll & Hyde, and Jack the Ripper, "A Study in Steampunk: Choice by Gaslight" is an epic 277,000-word interactive mystery... |
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... |
T-Zero, by Dennis Cunningham Average member rating: (8 ratings) PROLOGUE A dream came to you as you tossed uneasily upon an unfamiliar bed. In your dream, a time-worn figure waved a scythe in slow arcs across your sky-blue field of vision and picked, out of thin air,... |
Taco Fiction, by Ryan Veeder Average member rating: (115 ratings) Taco Fiction is a game about crime. |
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... |
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... |
The Temple of No, by Dominik Johann, William Pugh, Crows Crows Crows Average member rating: (13 ratings) The Best Game Ever Made (but in twine form). Author website - http://crowscrowscrows.com/ Hey! We’re a new studio directed by William Pugh (Designer behind The Stanley Parable) creating experimental things.... |
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. |
That Sinister Self, by Astrid Dalmady Average member rating: (14 ratings) You look in to a mirror. Your reflection does not look back. That Sinister Self is a short Twine game about a young girl and how she sees herself in the mirror. |
Thaumistry: In Charm's Way, by Bob Bates Average member rating: (16 ratings) Thaum: (noun). A unit of magical energy Bodge: (verb). To hack or kludge Eric Knight was a child prodigy who was featured on the cover of Invent! Magazine at the age of 13 for his invention of an anti-stain... |
They Perished, by Bret Sepulveda Average member rating: (2 ratings) Pursued, you enter a dead city. You can explore remnants of its past and talk to ghosts, but you are unable to change its fate. All the while, an enigmatic spire looms above you. Twine fiction, with some... |
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... |
Transparent, by Hanon Ondricek Average member rating: (20 ratings) There is a house. There is a room in the house. There is a door in the room. The door is locked. Some people are in the room. Some people are transparent. An eerie exploration of an abandoned historic house.... |
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: (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... |
Tristam Island, by Hugo Labrande Average member rating: (9 ratings) After crashing your plane at sea, you end up drifting to a small island, with not much to survive. You explore, and find out the island was inhabited, years ago. But why did the people leave? And why is... |
Unicorn Story, by Conrad Cook Average member rating: (6 ratings) "The unicorn, through its intemperance and not knowing how to control itself, for the love it bears to fair maidens forgets its ferocity and wildness; and laying aside all fear it will go up to a seated... |
The Unstoppable Vengeance of Doctor Bonesaw, by Caleb Wilson (as Lewis Blanco) Average member rating: (8 ratings) A Petite Mort entry for ECTOCOMP 2016. |
The Veeder, by Christopher Brent Average member rating: (10 ratings) All the audience are wearing masks, hoods, veils, vizards, or vestments in order to preserve anonymity. Without anonymity, the entertainments would not be possible. Of all the beings in the arena, only The... |
Visit Skuga Lake - Masterpiece Edition, by Ryan Veeder Average member rating: (11 ratings) An unpaid intern learns to cast over forty spells as she skulks around a small town, looking for her boss. "Visit Skuga Lake" originally appeared in Even Some More Tales from Castle Balderstone. This... |
Walk Among Us, by Roberto Colnaghi Average member rating: (4 ratings) A tribute to the Misfits. Written for EctoComp 2018. Version 2: fixed typos and minor bugs, and a potentially unwinnable state. |
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 Weapon, by Sean Barrett Average member rating: (35 ratings) |
The Weight of a Soul, by Chin Kee Yong Average member rating: (24 ratings) In a world of arcane mysteries, a young doctor's apprentice unravels a conspiracy most grim. The Weight of a Soul is a mystery-horror interactive novel inspired by IF classics like Blue Lacuna and... |
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... |
Where the Water Tastes Like Wine, by Dim Bulb Games Average member rating: (1 rating) Where the Water Tastes Like Wine is a game about traveling, sharing stories, and surviving manifest destiny. Featuring gorgeous illustration by Kellan Jett, Where the Water Tastes Like Wine combines 2D... |
Whitefield Academy of Witchcraft, by Steph Cherrywell Average member rating: (19 ratings) The year is 1957, and the place is lush, storm-tossed Stinglash Island, just off the north coast of Washington's Olympic Peninsula. You are Page LeBlanc, witch in training, and you've returned for another... |
Wisher, Theurgist, Fatalist, by Xavid Average member rating: (11 ratings) From the ranks of the people you have been raised up as a Wisher— ... |
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... |
Wrenlaw, by Ryan Veeder Average member rating: (24 ratings) It would be nice to know what you're looking for. |
The Writer Will Do Something, by Matthew Burns, Tom Bissell Average member rating: (24 ratings) The year is 2012. You are the head writer for the third game in the wildly popular ShatterGate™ franchise. Expectations are through the roof: fans of the series are waiting for the biggest, most bad-ass... |
Xanthippe's Last Night with Socrates, by Victor Gijsbers Average member rating: (23 ratings) It's your last night together, for literal fuck's sake, but your husband is 'not in the mood'. Can you convince him to fulfil his marital duties? ... |
Yesterday, You Saved the World, by Astrid Dalmady Average member rating: (17 ratings) Today you are only Lucy Newman, eighth grader, C student, nobody. But yesterday, you were cosmic. Yesterday, you were a magical girl. Yesterday, you saved the world. |
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 Are Standing, by Aaron A. Reed Average member rating: (13 ratings) A bonus text game created specifically for the Ultimate Collector's Edition of 50 Years of Text Games; initially, available exclusively to backers on 3.5" floppy disc and/or as a download. The game was... |
You are Standing at a Crossroads, by Astrid Dalmady Average member rating: (29 ratings) You are Standing at a Crossroads is a short Twine story about being lost, being changed, and being stagnant. |
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. |
Zeppelin Adventure, by Robin Johnson Average member rating: (12 ratings) Piloting a tea-zeppelin on Mars is a lonely job, but this run is nearly over and then you're due for a holiday. That's unless you get sucked into a puzzly adventure involving pterodactyls, robots,... |
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... |