The Act of Misdirection, by Callico Harrison AmberShards'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... |
Adventureland, by Scott Adams AmberShards's rating: Average member rating: (45 ratings) 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... |
The Argument, by Harvey Smith AmberShards's rating: Average member rating: (8 ratings) |
The Atomic Heart, by Stefan Blixt AmberShards's rating: Average member rating: (8 ratings) |
Aunts and Butlers, by Robin Johnson Average member rating: (45 ratings) It's 1920, you're a minor aristocrat fallen on hard times, and your wretched Aunt Cedilla is on the warpath. A Wodehousean comedy of manners, manors, mysterious butlers and unfriendly poodles. |
Babel, by Ian Finley AmberShards's rating: Average member rating: (156 ratings) In this game, you play as an amnesiac inside Babel, an abandoned Arctic facility devoted to biological research. You soon discover that you have the unusual ability to witness scenes from the past by... |
Backup, by Gregory Weir Average member rating: (6 ratings) In a desolate outpost, you are the backup program, code of last resort as it were. Communications with the outside world have been severed; encrypted data is flowing across your network; political... |
Baluthar, by Chris Molloy Wischer AmberShards's rating: Average member rating: (20 ratings) In this game of horror, you play as an old man of a tribal culture. For months, you've been weary of life and kept to your bed. But when you learn that your adult son, Rykhard, has foolishly gone into the... |
Blighted Isle, by Eric Eve Average member rating: (43 ratings) Blockade duty in the Bay of Biscay, vile weather, and an unplanned jaunt over the side of the ship into the tossing waves. But instead of drowning, you end up on an island that has no right to be there - and... |
The Blind House, by Amanda Allen AmberShards's rating: Average member rating: (38 ratings) I scarcely know the woman at my side. I don't even know why she was the one I turned to. I can only hope that we haven't been followed, that she won't ask too many questions. The only choice left to me now... |
Building, by Poster AmberShards's rating: Average member rating: (14 ratings) |
The Cellar, by David Whyld AmberShards's rating: Average member rating: (7 ratings) You were always told not to go into the cellar. Told many, many times. But you were never told why. Today you'll find out... |
City of Secrets, by Emily Short AmberShards's rating: Average member rating: (105 ratings) |
Cottage, by Viggo Eriksson, Kimmo Eriksson, Olle E Johansson Average member rating: (1 rating) You're on a jetty by a lake somewhere in Småland. In the distance you can see a red cottage. Around the house there are forests extending for miles and miles, waterfalls, and many strange characters. When... |
Critical Breach, by Grey AmberShards's rating: Average member rating: (9 ratings) A science fiction/horror game, set in an underground laboratory. Something is breaking free... This is my first game, it should be pretty short and easy. |
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... |
De Baron, by Victor Gijsbers Average member rating: (167 ratings) An evil nobleman, a kidnapped daughter and a father who wants to rescue her at any cost--that is not the way life works. Something much darker, something much more human, lies underneath. Een kwaadaardige... |
Divis Mortis, by Lynnea Dally AmberShards's rating: Average member rating: (43 ratings) The infection has spread. They are coming. |
Djibouti Dirigible Discombobulation, by Sam Kabo Ashwell AmberShards's rating: Average member rating: (6 ratings) |
The Dog/House, by Byron Alexander Campbell AmberShards's rating: Average member rating: (9 ratings) A slight revision of the author's first foray into interactive fiction, "The Dog/House" is a dream-like exploration game on a very small scale. Discover the goal for yourself. Release 2 includes improved... |
Down and Out at the Big Creepy House on the Poison Lake, by Shii AmberShards's rating: Average member rating: (3 ratings) Yeah, so it looks like I'm a dope and wrecked my boat at this nasty old house. |
Dr. Kong In: Plan DSDS From Practice Space, by Two Guys From The Other Bar AmberShards's rating: Average member rating: (3 ratings) All you want is to have a good time at the party. But then the people at the club turn out to be less alive and more kicking, the music completely sucks, and to top it all off, someone has kidnapped your... |
Dracula Part 1: The First Night, by El Clérigo Urbatain and DEF and Rod Pike AmberShards's rating: Average member rating: (4 ratings) Dracula, The First Night is a remake of the classic text adventure by Rod Pike from 1986 for 8-bit micros (Spectrum and Commodore 64). This remake has been done by DEF and El Clérigo Urbatain. A young... |
Earth And Sky 3: Luminous Horizon, by Paul O'Brian Average member rating: (43 ratings) |
Ecdysis, by Peter Nepstad AmberShards's rating: Average member rating: (81 ratings) You wake, a pounding headache loud in your inner ear, the back of your head itching and tingling, your mouth full of cotton. The pain drives away your dreams, weird visions of alien landscapes... Ecdysis is... |
The Empty Room, by Matthew Alger AmberShards's rating: Average member rating: (14 ratings) You awake, finding yourself upon a hard, cool, plasticky surface. Placing your hands against the smooth floor you hoist yourself up. There's nothing here. Nothing at all. For you have found yourself in what... |
Enlightenment, by Taro Ogawa AmberShards's rating: 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... |
Episode in the Life of an Artist, by Peter Eastman AmberShards's rating: Average member rating: (27 ratings) |
Escape In The Dark, by Owen Parish AmberShards's rating: Average member rating: (5 ratings) For a thief, being arrested is an occupational hazard. While you can't exactly plan out an entire escape in advance, having the right skills and tools can let you improvise one without too much trouble. |
An Escape To Remember, by Sean Barrett, Tom Blawgus, Roger Carbol, John Cater, Ricardo Dague, Jeremy Douglass, Josh Giesbrecht, N. B. Horvath, Carl Muckenhoupt, Mark Musante, Karl Parakenings, Mordechai Shinefield, Dan Shiovitz, Lucian Smith Average member rating: (1 rating) An Escape To Remember is a collaborative 'Chinese Whispers' / 'Telephone' style interactive fiction piece, written by 14 authors each of whom only saw the preceding section of the the game. |
Fate, by Victor Gijsbers AmberShards'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... |
Flight of the Hummingbird, by Michael Martin Average member rating: (29 ratings) Dr. Sinister is at it again! The Concordance of Powered Response isn't entirely clear on what it is he's planning, but it's big. This is clearly a task for one of the world's mightiest champions! |
Fragile Shells, by Stephen Granade AmberShards's rating: Average member rating: (51 ratings) You don't know how long you've been hammering against the station's wall, but you stop as soon as you realize what you've been doing. |
Galatea, by Emily Short AmberShards's rating: Average member rating: (346 ratings) Emily Short's description: A conversation with a work of art. "47. Galatea. White Thasos marble. Non-commissioned work by the late Pygmalion of Cyprus. (The artist has since committed suicide.) Originally... |
Ghost Town, by Scott Adams Average member rating: (9 ratings) You must explore a once-thriving mining town in search of the 13 hidden treasures. With everything from rattlesnakes to runaway horses, it sure ain't going to be easy! Includes a special bonus scoring system... |
Gigantomania, by Michelle Tirto and Mike Ciul AmberShards's rating: Average member rating: (21 ratings) Living under the Stalin era, in four parts. |
Golden Shadow, by The Technomancer AmberShards's rating: Average member rating: (3 ratings) You awaken from a strange nightmare in a gaudy golden room. Armed with nothing but your unusual top hat, can you escape? |
Gourmet, by Aaron A. Reed and Chad Barb AmberShards's rating: Average member rating: (55 ratings) Missing employees, wily crustaceans, malfunctioning kitchen equipment and a terminal food shortage, all on the night the most important culinary critic in the world has chosen to review your debut... |
Grief, by Simon Christiansen AmberShards's rating: Average member rating: (14 ratings) |
Hallow Eve, by Michael Wayne Phipps Jr. AmberShards's rating: Average member rating: (8 ratings) You are about to drive out to meet some friends for a camping trip on Halloween night. Everything seems to be going according to plan, but the unexpected can always occur. If it did, you would need to rely... |
I-0, by Anonymous AmberShards'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... |
An Informal Time, by Anonymous AmberShards's rating: Average member rating: (8 ratings) A brief experiment into Inform. It probably would help (not that the game is particularly hard, or particularly a game for that matter) if you are aware of IF slightly - but it isn't necessary. If you get... |
Internal Vigilance, by Simon Christiansen AmberShards's rating: Average member rating: (13 ratings) You are informed that a new prisoner was brought in recently. Your job, as usual, is to interrogate him and determine whether he poses a threat to The Union. This should not be a problem. You are a trained... |
Leadlight, by Wade Clarke AmberShards's rating: Average member rating: (34 ratings) 15-year-old Belinda Nettle is studying at Linville Girls High School in Australia's Blue Mountains. After falling asleep in the library one afternoon, she wakes from her mundane existence into a nightmare... |
Lock & Key, by Adam Cadre AmberShards's rating: Average member rating: (78 ratings) |
Lord Bellwater's Secret, by Sam Gordon AmberShards's rating: Average member rating: (71 ratings) |
Lost Pig, by Admiral Jota AmberShards'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 |
The Lurking Horror, by Dave Lebling AmberShards's rating: Average member rating: (94 ratings) A winter night at the G.U.E. tech campus with most students away on vacation serves as the backdrop for this tale of Lovecraftian horror. |
The Manor at Whitby, by L. E. Hall AmberShards's rating: Average member rating: (4 ratings) Visiting your British relations for the first time, you discover the secrets of the strange ancestral manor. |
Masquerade, by Kathleen M. Fischer AmberShards's rating: Average member rating: (36 ratings) "You walk purposefully down the sidewalk, looking neither left nor right. You don't need to look; you can tell you are being watched from whispers overheard as you pass by. "Poor Amelia..." you hear somebody... |
The Mist, by Raymond Benson and Stephen King AmberShards's rating: Average member rating: (6 ratings) Another Saturday. Another stop at the market. And another wait in the checkout line. Until a shadow descends and someone shouts: "The fog! You oughta see it!" And you do: a mist advancing toward Federal... |
Muse: An Autumn Romance, by Christopher Huang AmberShards's rating: Average member rating: (35 ratings) Early September, 1886. Autumn. The Victorian Era. The Rev. Dawson, 59, is off to the Continent and an unexpected Romance... [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue] |
My Name is Jack Mills, by Juhana Leinonen AmberShards's rating: Average member rating: (19 ratings) |
Mystery House Remixedup, by Scott Rettberg The literary peripatations and twitches seen in the famous hypertext novel The Unknown come to inhabit the mostly blank page of the Williams's classic. |
Necron's Keep, by Dan Welch AmberShards's rating: Average member rating: (3 ratings) Bluex the divine king of Surya has decreed for you to locate the Arch Mage Wizard Necron. Necron built an enchanted castle deep within an ancient forest to protect himself and his people. Esentially, you are... |
Ooze - Creepy Nites, by Guido Henkel, Hans-Jürgen Brändle, Markus Henrich, Michael Tschögl, Jon Dean, Elaine Dean AmberShards's rating: Average member rating: (2 ratings) Ooze - an illustrated text adventure: Your uncle Chez Burger left you a house called Carfax Abbey, placed in a little town in the southeast of Salom's Lot. As Ham Burger you are heir to something evil and... |
An Open Field, by Chris Daniels AmberShards's rating: Average member rating: (7 ratings) 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? |
Phantom of the Arcade 2: Shadows, Darkness, and Dread, by Susan Arendt, John Moulton AmberShards's rating: Average member rating: (2 ratings) You're trapped in a terrifying amusement park... can you find the means to escape? |
The Promise, by Sean Huxter Average member rating: (9 ratings) Your village lives a harsh life of perpetual winter and has for as long as you can remember. As a young boy unable to go on the hunt, you may find that, with almost everyone away, you can be of some use to... |
A Quest Only For The Noble, by Jakob Gleby AmberShards's rating: Average member rating: (2 ratings) Finding yourself in your bedroom one day, you decide to do something useful with your life. Having walked around in circles for a couple of hours on the floor, you decide what to do. This is the game about a... |
rendition, by nespresso AmberShards's rating: Average member rating: (38 ratings) They caught Abdul during an insurgency in the east. He tried to take out a regiment with some home-made explosives strapped to his chest. They didn't explode, so pretty soon the coalition had a real live... |
Room 206, by Byron Alexander Campbell AmberShards's rating: Average member rating: (6 ratings) The wedding is over, but the bride is nowhere to be found. You receive a phone call from a mysterious stranger. Things are not always as simple as they seem, and as you pursue the woman of your dreams you... |
Safe, by Benjamin Wochinski AmberShards's rating: Average member rating: (5 ratings) You awake in a strange dark room after being jumped in an alley. It would be best not to wait for those responsible to return. First game of the author, an escape-style puzzle game created to get some basic... |
shadows on the mirror, by Chrysoula Tzavelas AmberShards's rating: Average member rating: (27 ratings) I am falling, I am fading, I am drowning, help me to breathe... |
Snack Time!, by Hardy the Bulldog and Renee Choba AmberShards'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 AmberShards'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... |
Supermarket Robbery, by Mister Nose AmberShards's rating: Average member rating: (5 ratings) You are a disgruntled maniac in a Supermarket filled with Greasy Teenagers. The Market overcharges you all the time, and the Teenagers pickpocket you all the time, and you've had just about enough. Today you... |
The Terrible, Old Manse, by Joe Johnston AmberShards's rating: Average member rating: (3 ratings) Dee Ceased, formerly of that horrible old house on the hill, has died but his Urn has been broken. Unite the pieces of the Urn to put his soul at ease. This game is inspired by the Atari 2600 game /Haunted... |
Textfire Golf, by Adam Cadre Average member rating: (24 ratings) Stand steady at the tee... head down... slow backswing. Now, drive your tee shot 220 yards down the fairway, splitting a pair of sandtraps. Loft a five iron onto the green. And sink a twenty foot putt for a... |
Treasures of a Slaver's Kingdom, by S. John Ross AmberShards's rating: 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... |
A Very Hairy Fish-Mess, by Byron Alexander Campbell AmberShards's rating: Average member rating: (3 ratings) Have you ever wondered what Christmas would be like if it were run by your horrible cat, who also happened to be a timeless Lovecraftian horror? Find out in this bloody festive holiday treat! |
Violet, by Jeremy Freese AmberShards'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] |
A Walk in the Park, by Anonymous AmberShards's rating: Average member rating: (10 ratings) On a walk in the park with your dog, you find a large tree blocking the path.... |
The Warbler's Nest, by Jason McIntosh AmberShards's rating: Average member rating: (92 ratings) Surely the reed bank counts as a wild place. While it gives you so much, you've never tended it, not really, not like you do with your garden. It's something like the forest, then, but much safer to search... |
Weishaupt Scholars, by Michael C. Martin AmberShards's rating: Average member rating: (7 ratings) Take on the roles of Hal, Benj, and Janet -- the three newest members of the shadowy conspiratorial group known only as the Weishaupt Foundation. Vie against rival conspiracies and your own baffling... |
Wetlands, by Clara Raubertas AmberShards's rating: Average member rating: (8 ratings) Wetlands is an interactive quagmire that leads you from the image of a fantastical city to a choice about the actual city's future, via a collection of mechanical puzzles in a watery setting. |
Zegrothenus, by Poster Average member rating: (6 ratings) You are the rather famous, but altogether lazy, wizard Zegrothenus. The Council has imprisoned you in your own lair as a last-ditch effort to cure you of procrastination. Can you create a new potion before... |
Zork I, by Marc Blank and Dave Lebling AmberShards's rating: Average member rating: (222 ratings) Many strange tales have been told of the fabulous treasure, exotic creatures, and diabolical puzzles in the Great Underground Empire. As an aspiring adventurer, you will undoubtedly want to locate these... |