9:05, by Adam Cadre elias67's rating: Average member rating: (544 ratings) The phone rings. Oh, no — how long have you been asleep? Sure, it was a tough night, but... This is bad. This is very bad. The phone rings. |
Absence of Law, by mathbrush elias67's rating: Average member rating: (52 ratings) 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... |
The Act of Misdirection, by Callico Harrison elias67's rating: Average member rating: (75 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 elias67's rating: Average member rating: (82 ratings) |
Ad Verbum, by Nick Montfort elias67's rating: Average member rating: (136 ratings) "With the cantankerous Wizard of Wordplay evicted from his mansion, the worthless plot can now be redeveloped. The city regulations declare, however, that the rip-down job can't proceed until all the items... |
Alias 'The Magpie', by J. J. Guest elias67's rating: Average member rating: (74 ratings) Sir Rodney Playfair, gentleman thief, has a simple plan: impersonate a psychiatrist, infiltrate a country house, steal a priceless Egyptian scarab and make it back to London in time for cocktails. All in a... |
All Roads, by Jon Ingold elias67's rating: Average member rating: (156 ratings) "Wave a circle round him thrice, And close your eyes with holy dread For he on honey-dew hath fed And drunk the milk of paradise." [--blurb from Competition Aught-One] |
A Beauty Cold and Austere, by Mike Spivey elias67's rating: Average member rating: (61 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.... |
Blighted Isle, by Eric Eve elias67's rating: Average member rating: (43 ratings) Blockade duty in the Bay of Biscay, vile weather, and an unplanned jaunt over the side of the ship into the tossing waves. But instead of drowning, you end up on an island that has no right to be there - and... |
Bronze, by Emily Short elias67's rating: Average member rating: (290 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. |
Byzantine Perspective, by Lea Albaugh elias67's rating: Average member rating: (57 ratings) Your task is simple enough. Just nab the chalice. |
Color the Truth, by mathbrush elias67's rating: Average member rating: (76 ratings) Rosalita Morales is dead, and you have to figure out who did it. The four people closest to her had the motive and the means: her partner, her secretary, her ex-husband, and her sister. Re-live their... |
Counterfeit Monkey, by Emily Short elias67's rating: Average member rating: (253 ratings) Anglophone Atlantis has been an independent nation since an April day in 1822, when a well-aimed shot from their depluralizing cannon reduced the British colonizing fleet to one ship. Since then, Atlantis... |
Delightful Wallpaper, by Andrew Plotkin ('Edgar O. Weyrd') elias67's rating: Average member rating: (78 ratings) |
Detectiveland, by Robin Johnson elias67's rating: Average member rating: (56 ratings) New Losago, 1929 - a town full of creeps, clowns, mobsters and, if you know where to look, the occasional honest citizen. Guide private investigator Lanson Rose through a series of puzzling cases: solve the... |
The Dreamhold, by Andrew Plotkin elias67's rating: Average member rating: (177 ratings) The Dreamhold is interactive fiction — a classic text adventure. No graphics! No point-and-click! You type your commands, and read what happens next. The Dreamhold is designed for people who have never... |
Dual Transform, by Andrew Plotkin elias67's rating: Average member rating: (110 ratings) This game takes place in a single room — but not always the same one. The room contains just one item, but again, there's more to it than that. Experiment and enjoy. |
Earth and Sky, by Paul O'Brian elias67's rating: Average member rating: (84 ratings) It's been almost a month since your parents disappeared. One Tuesday, they just didn't come home, and there's been no sign of them since. For the University and the rest of the town, the mystery is beginning... |
The Elysium Enigma, by Eric Eve elias67's rating: Average member rating: (78 ratings) It was meant to be a routine visit on behalf of the imperial government, just to remind the settlers that the Empire hadn't forgotten them, and if you stick rigidly to the letter of your orders and refuse to... |
Fail-Safe, by Jon Ingold elias67's rating: Average member rating: (115 ratings) |
Fate, by Victor Gijsbers elias67'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... |
Foo Foo, by Buster Hudson elias67's rating: Average member rating: (65 ratings) Someone's been bopping the field mice on the head, and only Good Fairy, Senior Detective can find out who. A parser-driven noir adventure based on the interactive fiction of Ryan Veeder. |
Grandma Bethlinda's Variety Box, by Arthur DiBianca elias67's rating: Average member rating: (38 ratings) It's the latest model, and it would really like to play with you. |
Gun Mute, by C.E.J. Pacian elias67's rating: Average member rating: (156 ratings) Step into the shoes of Mute Lawton, a lone cowboy who must stop an execution set to occur at noon by shooting his way past dangerous cyborgs and mutants in a post-apocalyptic western setting. (From the... |
Hana Feels, by Gavin Inglis elias67's rating: Average member rating: (64 ratings) 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... |
Hoosegow, by Ben Collins-Sussman, Jack Welch elias67's rating: Average member rating: (40 ratings) Muddy's plan done landed you and your partner in the hoosegow. Now you're fixing to rectificate the matter before the marshal introduces you to the business end of a hangin' rope at dawn. Created for the... |
I-0, by Anonymous elias67's rating: Average member rating: (158 ratings) Stranded on Interstate Zero after your car broke down, you are miles away from the last sign of civilization. It's twenty minutes to noon and the temperature is well over 120°F. It's beginning to look like... |
The Impossible Bottle, by Linus Åkesson elias67's rating: Average member rating: (82 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)... |
Inside the Facility, by Arthur DiBianca elias67's rating: Average member rating: (64 ratings) Your friend Mike thinks no one can infiltrate THE FACILITY, but you're going to prove him wrong. A light puzzle game. In the author's opinion, it's totally family-friendly. (If you're playing the Browser... |
Junior Arithmancer, by Mike Spivey elias67's rating: Average member rating: (58 ratings) A one-to-many-room puzzler. |
Kaged, by Ian Finley elias67's rating: Average member rating: (54 ratings) ""But my madness speaks: It will but skin and film the ulcerous place, Whilst rank corruption, mining all within, Infects unseen." Welcome to the Citadel of Justice. The Inquisitor is waiting." [--blurb from... |
Lord Bellwater's Secret, by Sam Gordon elias67's rating: Average member rating: (71 ratings) |
Lost Pig, by Admiral Jota elias67's rating: Average member rating: (500 ratings) Pig lost! Boss say that it Grunk fault. Say Grunk forget about closing gate. Maybe boss right. Grunk not remember forgetting, but maybe Grunk just forget. -- IFComp 2007 blurb |
Metamorphoses, by Emily Short elias67's rating: Average member rating: (133 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... |
Möbius, by J.D. Clemens elias67's rating: Average member rating: (35 ratings) Another mission. Just when you had settled in for a nap. |
Once and Future, by G. Kevin Wilson elias67's rating: Average member rating: (13 ratings) |
Oppositely Opal, by Buster Hudson elias67's rating: Average member rating: (68 ratings) You've practiced long and hard for PotionComp, but Grusilda won't give up her title so easily. UGH! Curse that Grusilda! A one-room potion-brewing spell-casting parser puzzler, where things might go opposite... |
Photograph: A Portrait of Reflection, by Steve Evans elias67's rating: Average member rating: (27 ratings) Photograph was an entry in the 2002 IFComp, in which it placed 3rd out of 38 entries. It was also nominated for two XYZZY awards, "Best Player Character" & "Best Use Of Medium". It's a story-driven, almost... |
Photopia, by Adam Cadre elias67's rating: Average member rating: (568 ratings) "Will you read me a story?" "Read you a story? What fun would that be? I've got a better idea: let's tell a story together." |
The Primrose Path, by Nolan Bonvouloir elias67's rating: Average member rating: (36 ratings) You've been having a series of nightmares about Leo, standing at the edge of a cliff. No matter what you do, a bell rings and Leo disappears over the edge . . . |
Rameses, by Stephen Bond elias67's rating: Average member rating: (127 ratings) |
Remedial Witchcraft, by dgtziea elias67's rating: Average member rating: (20 ratings) Lina is a first year student studying magic. Lina isn't doing very well at her classes. Lina is apprenticing for the Witch of Howling Woods because no one else would take her. Tonight, Lina has messed up... |
Savoir-Faire, by Emily Short elias67's rating: Average member rating: (134 ratings) The beautiful life is always damned, they say. As for you, you've overexpended yourself: fifteen years of prominence, champagne, carriage rides in the Tuileries, having your name whispered behind... |
Shade, by Andrew Plotkin elias67's rating: Average member rating: (421 ratings) "A one-room game set in your apartment." [--blurb from Competition Aught-Zero] |
Shrapnel, by Adam Cadre elias67's rating: Average member rating: (170 ratings) |
Slouching Towards Bedlam, by Star Foster and Daniel Ravipinto elias67's rating: Average member rating: (219 ratings) In the beginning was the Word, and it was hungry. ... |
Snack Time!, by Hardy the Bulldog and Renee Choba elias67's rating: Average member rating: (61 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] |
Spider and Web, by Andrew Plotkin elias67's rating: Average member rating: (318 ratings) A vacation in our lovely country! See the ethnic charms of the countryside, the historic grandeur of the capital city. Taste our traditional cuisine; smell the flowers of the Old Tree. And all without... |
Suveh Nux, by David Fisher elias67's rating: Average member rating: (228 ratings) An entry in the 2007 One Room Game Competition. You play a magician's servant who gets trapped in your master's vault; you'll need to learn some of his tricks if you want to get out. |
Taco Fiction, by Ryan Veeder elias67's rating: Average member rating: (118 ratings) Taco Fiction is a game about crime. |
Tales of the Traveling Swordsman, by Mike Snyder elias67's rating: Average member rating: (48 ratings) You are the traveling swordsman; the strong and silent stranger; the wandering vanquisher of villainy. Damsels swoon for you. Good men respect and envy you. Scoundrels learn to fear you. Even so, you are but... |
Tethered, by Linus Åkesson elias67's rating: Average member rating: (32 ratings) "I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly, dreaming I am a man."... |
Threediopolis, by Andrew Schultz elias67's rating: Average member rating: (28 ratings) A wordplay/quasi-maze game. |
To Hell in a Hamper, by J. J. Guest elias67's rating: 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... |
Toby's Nose, by Chandler Groover elias67's rating: Average member rating: (120 ratings) A murder most foul has been committed and Sherlock Holmes is on the case. You are his dog. |
Violet, by Jeremy Freese elias67's rating: Average member rating: (389 ratings) Calm down. All you have to do is write a thousand words and everything will be fine. And you have all day, except it's already noon. [blurb from IF Comp 2008] |
The Wand, by Arthur DiBianca elias67's rating: Average member rating: (60 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.) |
Weird City Interloper, by C.E.J. Pacian elias67's rating: Average member rating: (58 ratings) An interactive tale of strange conspiracy. Pull up your hood, lower your gaze and enter the city of Zendon. If you can gather enough information, you may just be able to change the course of history. (Weird... |
The Wizard Sniffer, by Buster Hudson elias67's rating: Average member rating: (138 ratings) You were recently acquired by the brave Ser Leonhart and his squire to sniff out the evil shapeshifting wizard. Unfortunately, you are not a wizard sniffer (if such a thing even exists). As far as you can... |
Zozzled, by Steph Cherrywell elias67's rating: Average member rating: (48 ratings) Hotsy-totsy! It's 1928 and you're madcap flapper Hazel Greene, tottering around the city's finest hotel with a gullet full of giggle juice...until a gaggle of ghosts shows up to spoil the fun by turning... |