10pm, by litrouke namekuseijin's rating: Average member rating: 10pm, and dinner is still sitting in the oven. The TV is droning. The front door is closed. You look at the clock. You look at the door. You wait. --- Content warnings: profanity, allusions to sex and... |
16 Ways to Kill a Vampire at McDonalds, by Abigail Corfman namekuseijin's rating: Average member rating: You're a vampire hunter on your night off. You're getting a manicure, seeing a movie, and eating fast food. But there's a vampire in this McDonalds. If you don't do something, then in one hour it will eat... |
9:05, by Adam Cadre namekuseijin's rating: Average member rating: 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. |
Absence of Law, by mathbrush namekuseijin's rating: Average member rating: Excuse me, can you help me? Yes, you, browsing IFDB games! I need your assistance, but I don't have long. There's so much going on: remote surveillance, unauthorized cloning, forgotten languages, robots... |
Adventureland, by Scott Adams Average member rating: Wander through an enchanted realm and try to uncover the 13 lost treasures. There are wild animals and magical beings to reckon with as well as many other perils and mysteries. WARNING! The Z-Code conversion... |
Aisle, by Sam Barlow namekuseijin's rating: Average member rating: "Late Thursday night. You've had a hard day and the last thing you need is this: shopping. Luckily, the place is pretty empty and you're progressing rapidly. On to the next aisle... Aisle started out as a... |
Alabaster, by John Cater, Rob Dubbin, Eric Eve, Elizabeth Heller, Jayzee, Kazuki Mishima, Sarah Morayati, Mark Musante, Emily Short, Adam Thornton, Ziv Wities namekuseijin's rating: Average member rating: The Queen has told you to return with her heart in a box. Snow White has made you promise to make other arrangements. Now that you're alone in the forest, it's hard to know which of the two women to trust.... |
All Roads, by Jon Ingold namekuseijin's rating: Average member rating: "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] |
Anchorhead, by Michael Gentry namekuseijin's rating: Average member rating: 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... |
Babel, by Ian Finley namekuseijin's rating: Average member rating: 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... |
Balances, by Graham Nelson namekuseijin's rating: Average member rating: "A homage to Infocom's Enchanter Trilogy, at the same time showing some of the things that Inform is capable of doing." [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue] |
The Bean Stalker, by Jack Welch namekuseijin's rating: Average member rating: Caught in an economic downturn, can Jack leverage his starving cow and climb the economic ladder? ... |
Begscape, by Porpentine namekuseijin's rating: Average member rating: highly randomized fantasy begging sim or bleak slot machine poem |
Black Rock City, by Jim Munroe namekuseijin's rating: Average member rating: You're at Burning Man, with six choices to make before the world goes white. Choose wisely. Or wildly. The dust storm won't care. Zero puzzles, sixty-four endings. Cover: Trish Lamanna |
Cactus Blue Motel, by Astrid Dalmady namekuseijin's rating: Average member rating: Somewhere between New Mexico and Arizona, three friends were driving through a barren desert of red rocks, and wide empty skies. It was the end of summer, the end of high school, the end of so many things.... |
Castle of the Red Prince, by C.E.J. Pacian namekuseijin's rating: Average member rating: 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... |
A Colder Light, by Jon Ingold Average member rating: The last light has gone. The stars are coming out in the black sea above. Many are hidden by ice-fingered winds. My father is still not returned and the fire is almost gone. But this is how life is: always... |
Color the Truth, by mathbrush namekuseijin's rating: Average member rating: 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... |
Colossal Cave Adventure, by William Crowther and Donald Woods namekuseijin's rating: Average member rating: Colossal Cave Adventure (also known as Adventure or ADVENT) is a text-based adventure game, released in 1976 by developer Will Crowther for the PDP-10 mainframe computer. It was expanded upon in 1977 by Don... |
Corvidia, by Anya Johanna DeNiro namekuseijin's rating: Average member rating: A very short game about a man, his daughter, the moon, some birds, and an evergreen. |
Curses, by Graham Nelson namekuseijin's rating: Average member rating: "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... |
CYBERQUEEN, by Porpentine namekuseijin's rating: Average member rating: integration necessitates evisceration |
Cyrano de Bergerac, by Edmond Rostand and IF Classics namekuseijin's rating: Average member rating: Cyrano de Bergerac examines the frustrated love of an idealistic hero who is handicapped by an extraordinarily long nose. A real tearjerker throughout. Our Cyrano de Bergerac visual novel combines the... |
Dad and Chloe, by Romanos Fasoulis namekuseijin's rating: Average member rating: A short story between a man and his daughter. |
Damnatio Memoriae, by Emily Short namekuseijin's rating: Average member rating: 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... |
A Day for Fresh Sushi, by Emily Short namekuseijin's rating: Average member rating: No time for fantasy. Must feed fish. |
Dead Cities, by Jon Ingold namekuseijin's rating: Average member rating: 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... |
Deadline, by Marc Blank namekuseijin's rating: Average member rating: Twelve hours to solve the mystery. One false move, and the killer strikes again. It's been called "part of the latest craze in home computing (TIME magazine), an "amazing feat of programming" (THE NEW YORK... |
Delightful Wallpaper, by Andrew Plotkin ('Edgar O. Weyrd') namekuseijin's rating: Average member rating: |
Ditch Day Drifter, by Michael J. Roberts Average member rating: 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... |
The Dreamhold, by Andrew Plotkin namekuseijin's rating: Average member rating: 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 namekuseijin's rating: Average member rating: 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 namekuseijin's rating: Average member rating: 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... |
Fail-Safe, by Jon Ingold Average member rating: |
The Fire Tower, by Jacqueline A. Lott namekuseijin's rating: Average member rating: |
Galatea, by Emily Short namekuseijin's rating: Average member rating: 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... |
Hallowmoor, by Mike Snyder namekuseijin's rating: Average member rating: 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. |
Hana Feels, by Gavin Inglis namekuseijin's rating: Average member rating: Something is bothering Hana. Can you work out what it is? Take the part of four important people in her life and guide their conversations. After each scene, peek at Hana's journal and find out how she felt... |
Hard Puzzle, by Ade McT namekuseijin's rating: Average member rating: After The Event, there are no easy solutions. A silly little speed-IF puzzler. But can you solve it? Hall of fame: CMG Caleb Wilson Deboriole MaggieMay Doug Orleans Lance Nathan |
Harmonic Time-Bind Ritual Symphony, by Ben Kidwell and Maevele Straw namekuseijin's rating: Average member rating: A musician's manic episode binds fiction and reality into a joyful union. |
Heavenly, by Jim Aikin namekuseijin's rating: Average member rating: You're an angel. You're in Heaven. Everything is perfect. Honestly, it's perfect. It's so nice, so mind-numbingly nice, you'd give anything to get away from here.... |
Hollywood Visionary, by Aaron A. Reed namekuseijin's rating: Average member rating: 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... |
Home, by Benjamin Rivers namekuseijin's rating: Average member rating: Home is a unique horror adventure set in a beautifully-realized pixel world. It’s a murder mystery with a twist—because you decide what ultimately happens. Awakened by an oncoming storm, you open your... |
Hoosegow, by Ben Collins-Sussman, Jack Welch namekuseijin's rating: Average member rating: Muddy's plan done landed you and your partner in the hoosegow. Now you're fixing to rectificate the matter before the marshal introduces you to the business end of a hangin' rope at dawn. Created for the... |
Horse Master, by Tom McHenry namekuseijin's rating: Average member rating: The Game of Horse Mastery |
HOW TO SPEAK ATLANTEAN, by Porpentine namekuseijin's rating: Average member rating: Repair your Body! Find the Subterranean Mall Arcology! Get the Focus Gem! Get the Power Core! |
Investigative Journalism: A Welcome to Night Vale Fan Game, by Astrid Dalmady namekuseijin's rating: Average member rating: In Investigative Journalism, you play as the newest intern at Night Vale Community Radio and you’re tasked with hunting down The News that just escaped. |
Jetbike Gang, by C.E.J. Pacian namekuseijin's rating: Average member rating: You're a member of a jetbike gang. Tiny Twine game for the Twiny Jam. Exactly 300 words. |
Jigsaw, by Graham Nelson namekuseijin's rating: Average member rating: New Year's Eve, 1999, a quarter to midnight and where else to be but Century Park! Fireworks cascade across the sky, your stomach rumbles uneasily, music and lasers howl across the parkland... Not exactly... |
Join This Cult!, by ClickHole namekuseijin's rating: Average member rating: It’s a quiet morning, and you’re sitting alone in your small house. |
Kaged, by Ian Finley Average member rating: ""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... |
Killer Commute, by Jim Munroe namekuseijin's rating: Average member rating: Sometimes it feels like your life is on repeat. (Cover: Aubrey Serr) |
KING OF BEES IN FANTASY LAND, by Brendan Patrick Hennessy namekuseijin's rating: Average member rating: A videogame about space bees. |
The King of Shreds and Patches, by Jimmy Maher namekuseijin's rating: Average member rating: 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... |
Lime Ergot, by Caleb Wilson (as Rust Blight) namekuseijin's rating: Average member rating: Now everyone is gone. (Well, almost everyone.) Entry in ECTOCOMP 2014. |
little mermaids, by Prynnette namekuseijin's rating: Average member rating: Tragic mermaid simulator. Made in 2015 for Twiny Jam. |
Lost Pig, by Admiral Jota namekuseijin's rating: Average member rating: 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. Now Grunk need find pig. -- IFComp 2007 blurb |
Love Forever, by Darla Rosa namekuseijin's rating: Average member rating: She will love him forever, and because of that you are damned. Through every single life your heart has belonged to him. It is a curse that has plagued you across time, and has left scars deeper than anyone... |
Love, Hate and the Mysterious Ocean Tower, by C.E.J. Pacian namekuseijin's rating: Average member rating: |
Lydia's Heart, by Jim Aikin namekuseijin's rating: Average member rating: "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... |
Metamorphoses, by Emily Short namekuseijin's rating: Average member rating: 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 Mouse, by Naomi Z (as Norbez) namekuseijin's rating: Average member rating: Better get home quick if you don't want to get hurt, Evelyn Grey. **This game contains mature language, alcohol, abuse, and a brief scene of violence. Player discretion is advised.** |
My Desk, by Matthias Conrady namekuseijin's rating: Average member rating: Snoop around my desk and check out my personal stuff! You can look at things on my desk, learn about this moment in my life at the fringe of a long-distance-relationship. In a way a documentary-game, heavy... |
The Mysterious Shadows Of Skullshadow Island, by ClickHole namekuseijin's rating: Average member rating: YOU are Eric Coleman! You and your older brother, Brock Coleman, are visiting Hollowport, Maine with your father, who is there to deliver a lecture on criminology. While walking through the sleepy town, you... |
Nautilisia, by Ryan Veeder namekuseijin's rating: Average member rating: Your friend claims to be in a coma. |
Nightfall, by Eric Eve namekuseijin's rating: Average member rating: 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... |
An Open Field, by Chris Daniels namekuseijin's rating: Average member rating: It is a beautiful day to relax and enjoy your surroundings! And yet, it seems something isn't quite right today. What is so disconcerting? |
parasite, by Porpentine namekuseijin's rating: Average member rating: trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9tGJapK-jI made for the new inquiry, to coincide with my interview: http://thenewinquiry.com/essays/beautiful-weapons/ |
Patrick, by michael lutz namekuseijin's rating: Average member rating: A very short game about having an uncomfortable conversation with a vaguely sinister white guy. One ending. Or is there? Ask a friend to play and then compare notes. |
Photopia, by Adam Cadre namekuseijin's rating: Average member rating: "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." |
The Play, by Dietrich Squinkifer (Squinky) namekuseijin's rating: Average member rating: 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... |
Plundered Hearts, by Amy Briggs namekuseijin's rating: Average member rating: 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... |
Pogoman GO!, by Jack Welch and Ben Collins-Sussman namekuseijin's rating: Average member rating: The world is full of Pogomen, and now that you don’t have a job or family to worry about, you might as well get back to it! |
Pytho's Mask, by Emily Short Average member rating: 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 namekuseijin's rating: Average member rating: |
rat chaos, by Winter Lake namekuseijin's rating: Average member rating: |
Risorgimento Represso, by Michael J. Coyne namekuseijin's rating: Average member rating: 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... |
Rogue of the Multiverse, by C.E.J. Pacian namekuseijin's rating: Average member rating: Congratulations, convict 76954! You have been selected for scientific experimentation! You will be matter-transmitted to exotic non-Treaty worlds - where opportunities abound to take in fantastic sights and... |
Savoir-Faire, by Emily Short namekuseijin's rating: Average member rating: 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... |
SCREW YOU, BEAR DAD!, by Xalavier Nelson Jr. namekuseijin's rating: Average member rating: SCREW YOU, BEAR DAD! is a game about puns, rampant drug use, learning to enjoy life despite uncertainty, and elderly women in attack helicopters. Also - bears. [Note: game contains strong language, and brief... |
Shade, by Andrew Plotkin namekuseijin's rating: Average member rating: "A one-room game set in your apartment." [--blurb from Competition Aught-Zero] |
Shades of Gray, by Mark Baker, and Steve Bauman, and Belisana, and Mike Laskey, and Judith Pintar, and Cindy Yans, and Hercules Average member rating: You wake painfully, from a fitful sleep, to find yourself surrounded by three shadowy figures… After a horrible dizzying moment, the shapes come into focus — vampires, they are vampires, and they are... |
Shrapnel, by Adam Cadre Average member rating: |
Spider and Web, by Andrew Plotkin namekuseijin's rating: Average member rating: 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... |
Take, by Katherine Morayati (as Amelia Pinnolla) namekuseijin's rating: Average member rating: You are battle-weary. Your armor is scanty and your countenance is loathsome; you tire of the swords flicking at your neck. But you have a duty. There is nothing you can't take. (Content warning: Violence,... |
Take Over the World, by Marie L. Vibbert namekuseijin's rating: Average member rating: Guess it's time to take over the world. Somebody has to. You live in East Cleveland, Ohio, so your options are limited, but urban-chic. Find the right evil lair, recruit a mad scientist, and foil the East... |
their angelical understanding, by Porpentine namekuseijin's rating: Average member rating: I train to fight angels in a monastery by the sea. Wear headphones. TW: Suicidal ideation, ableism, abuse, possible epilepsy trigger. |
Till Death Makes a Monk-Fish Out of Me, by Mike Sousa and Jon Ingold namekuseijin's rating: Average member rating: Dr. Taylor's looking worried. Dr. Kurner's looking exhausted. Zak is grinning with glee. Today is the big day, and you're about to try out the crowning experiment of your life, and in AtlantisLab's chequered... |
To The Wolves, by Els White namekuseijin's rating: Average member rating: Offered up as sacrifice to the wolf-gods of the forest, hunted by beasts and man alike, Ella must find a way to survive. |
TWEEZER, by Richard Goodness and PaperBlurt namekuseijin's rating: Average member rating: Congratulations! Your essay, "20 Reasons Why I Would Like To Visit Tuisere" has won Triptacular Magazine's "Let's Send You To Tuisere" contest! See the sights during your three day, three night trip to a... |
Unbeknown, by A. DeNiro namekuseijin's rating: Average member rating: You ran from the Z-Mules but they caught you. Took what little you had. Now you're their prisoner. At some point you have to log off. But maybe not quite yet. You'll see. |
Varicella, by Adam Cadre namekuseijin's rating: Average member rating: 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... |
Ventilator, by Peregrine Wade namekuseijin's rating: Average member rating: The heat is stifling, the hotel room is vastly overpriced, and your heart is in pieces. But the worse is yet to come... WARNING: This story contains potentially humorous depictions of Mexican headgear. |
Walker & Silhouette, by C.E.J. Pacian namekuseijin's rating: Average member rating: Team up with a dashing detective and an iconoclastic flapper to solve absurd and unfathomable crimes in this interactive story - where you control the action just by typing or clicking highlighted words in... |
The Wand, by Arthur DiBianca namekuseijin's rating: Average member rating: 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.) |
What Fuwa Bansaku Found, by Chandler Groover namekuseijin's rating: Average member rating: A samurai explores a haunted shrine. |
Yesterday, You Saved the World, by Astrid Dalmady namekuseijin's rating: Average member rating: 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. |
Zork I, by Marc Blank and Dave Lebling namekuseijin's rating: Average member rating: 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... |