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'Mid the Sagebrush and the Cactus, by Victor Gijsbers
Average member rating: (19 ratings)

They shot you in the leg, the sheriff or one of his men, but you still managed to get away. You always manage to get away. And while they're off pursuing you to, who knows, perhaps Colorado, you have quietly...

An Act of Murder, by Christopher Huang
Average member rating: (82 ratings)

Adventureland, by Scott Adams
Average member rating: (44 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...

Akbarr PC, by Andrés Viedma Peláez, Adriano Viedma Peláez, and Mojon

Adapted from a 1993 original. You seek to study under the famed wizard Akbarr. Your first test will be to find him.

Alabaster, by John Cater, Rob Dubbin, Eric Eve, Elizabeth Heller, Jayzee, Kazuki Mishima, Sarah Morayati, Mark Musante, Emily Short, Adam Thornton, Ziv Wities
Average member rating: (121 ratings)

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
Average member rating: (154 ratings)

"Wave a circle round him thrice, And close your eyes with holy dread For he on honey-dew hath fed And drunk the milk of paradise." [--blurb from Competition Aught-One]

All Things Devours, by half sick of shadows
Average member rating: (95 ratings)

From the game's about command: "All Things Devours is a short piece of interactive fiction, leaning strongly towards the text-adventure end of the spectrum. It explores an all-too-familiar science fiction...

Anchorhead, by Michael Gentry
Average member rating: (394 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...

The Art of Fugue, by Victor Gijsbers, Jimmy Maher, Dorte Lassen, and Johan
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

A pure story-less puzzle game featuring logical puzzles based on the idea of the fugue: your commands are performed by four different actors, but with increasing delays. The version with music features...

ASCII and the Argonauts, by J. Robinson Wheeler
Average member rating: (18 ratings)

In this wonderfully laconic spoof of the Scott Adams style of adventures, you play as Jason of the Argo, tasked by King Pelias to bring the Golden Fleece to him or die. Surprisingly both entertaining and...

At the Bottom of the Garden, by Adam Biltcliffe
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

In this small charming game, you play as a retired homeowner trying to protect your wife Martha's prize rosebush from an increasing horde of dragons before she and her horticulturally-minded friends arrive...
Attack of the Yeti Robot Zombies, by Řyvind Thorsby
Average member rating: (31 ratings)

Bad Machine, by Dan Shiovitz
Average member rating: (15 ratings)

Being There, by Jordan Magnuson
Average member rating: (14 ratings)

Being There is an extremely experimental little work of interactive fiction with pictures, about existence and Korea. Only requires a few minutes to play through, but you are encouraged to take your time.

Best of Three, by Emily Short
Average member rating: (62 ratings)

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...

Blue Lacuna, by Aaron A. Reed
Average member rating: (112 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...

Border Zone, by Marc Blank
Average member rating: (26 ratings)

Where the Iron Curtain divides East and West, the frontier is a no man's land between freedom and captivity, a place where moments lost or precautions not taken exact a toll in men's lives. In Border Zone,...

Buried In Shoes, by Kazuki Mishima
Average member rating: (24 ratings)

Everything is about the question. [blurb from IF Comp 2008]
The Cabal, by Stephen Bond
Average member rating: (27 ratings)
In this satire, you play as a young American man who loves old puzzle-based IF. You are also racist, sexist, and prone to believe in conspiracies. While playing Infidel, you learn that a secret society...
Carma, by Marnie Parker
Average member rating: (11 ratings)
"A Glulx Inform romp (with graphics and music)." [--blurb from Competition Aught-One]
A Change in the Weather, by Andrew Plotkin
Average member rating: (69 ratings)
"Walking away from a picnic, you are suddenly caught in a country storm. You must protect a bridge from being destroyed. An ultra-linear game." [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue]
Conan Kill Everything, by Ian Haberkorn
Average member rating: (68 ratings)
In this short one-room game, you play as Conan with a very large sword, and an evil wizard has just summoned a wildcat to attack you. Your goal is obvious: KILL EVERYTHING.
Crystal and Stone, Beetle and Bone, by Jenny Brennan
Average member rating: (7 ratings)
You are God! The last God and Lornedei is your only true believer. You need her to stand against the coming dark. Can you guide her? Will she follow?

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...

Custard, by Evin Robertson
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

A Day for Fresh Sushi, by Emily Short
Average member rating: (98 ratings)

No time for fantasy. Must feed fish.

Deadline, by Marc Blank
Average member rating: (58 ratings)

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...

Deadline Enchanter, by Alan DeNiro
Average member rating: (58 ratings)

Death Waif, by Anonymous
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

The Djinni Chronicles, by J. D. Berry
Average member rating: (33 ratings)

The Dog/House, by Byron Alexander Campbell
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...

The Duel in the Snow, by Utkonos
Average member rating: (21 ratings)

A Tale of Old Russia

Ecdysis, by Peter Nepstad
Average member rating: (80 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 Elysium Enigma, by Eric Eve
Average member rating: (76 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...

Emerald Isle, by Shaun D. Abbott and James Horsler
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

Emerald Isle lies in the Bermuda Triangle, hidden by fogs and treacherous waters and peopled by remnants of a strange civilisation. You play the part of an aircraft pilot, employed to ferry urgent...

Empty Rooms, by Kevin Lovegreen
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

A combined Maze and tutorial, first game I did. Has some spelling errors, but the technical stuff works fine :) Was originally posted at www.ifiction.tk

Enchanter, by Marc Blank, Dave Lebling
Average member rating: (109 ratings)

In Enchanter, the first of a spellbinding series in the tradition of Zork, you are a novice magician whom Fate has chosen to do singlehanded combat with a dark and fierce power. But worldly weapons will...

The End Means Escape, by Steve Kodat
Average member rating: (11 ratings)

"Some things should be left undone." [--blurb from Competition Aught-Zero]
The Enterprise Incidents, by Brian Desilets
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

Exhibition, by Ian Finley
Average member rating: (27 ratings)

"The Hartman Gallery extends their invitation to an exhibition of Anatoly Domokov's "American Paintings." Who draws the line between art and life? HTML enhanced." [--blurb from Competition '99]

An Exploration of Colour, by Neil James Brown
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

Fate, by Victor Gijsbers
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...

Fear, by Chuan-Tze Teo
Average member rating: (10 ratings)

"The world is suddenly such a frightening place. People are out to get you, and everywhere there is danger, lurking in the dark, even here, in your own home. Can you conquer your own fears before it's too...
The Final Question, by David Whyld
Fire in the Blood, by Richard Otter
Average member rating: (1 rating)
Since that night your life has seemed like a living dream or to be more accurate a living nightmare. Coming home and finding her like that, her still form lying in your lounge. Even now, two months later,...

Floatpoint, by Emily Short
Average member rating: (99 ratings)

It is night on this side of the planet. Settled areas are lit: a jagged crescent in the tropics, lining the inland sea. The bright splatter along the top of the curve is Tanhua, as bright from space as New...

Flotsam, by Jamie Murray

For a Change, by Dan Schmidt
Average member rating: (115 ratings)

"The sun has gone. It must be brought. You have a rock." [--blurb from Competition '99]

Fusillade, by Mike Duncan
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

"Fusillade (fU - zi - lAd') n. - 1. (a) A simultaneous discharge of firearms. (b) a number of shots fired simultaneously or in rapid succession. (c) something that gives the effect of a fusillade (ex. a...

The Gostak, by Carl Muckenhoupt
Average member rating: (90 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...

Hoist Sail for the Heliopause and Home, by Andrew Plotkin
Average member rating: (84 ratings)

A far-future story of discovery.

The House that Jack Built, by Robert Parker
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

You are a fighter that: * Found the infant that cried insistent * Saved Sammy Jo fair, with the really nice pair * Fought skeletons, five, and barely survived * And found the treasure beyond measure * All in...
Hunter, in Darkness, by Andrew Plotkin
Average member rating: (122 ratings)

I'm Gonna Take You To The Video Bar!, by James Mitchelhill
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

In the End, by Joe Mason
Average member rating: (17 ratings)

Your best friend has just died, and life drags on miserably. Would death be better than this? [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue]

Jigsaw, by Graham Nelson
Average member rating: (84 ratings)

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...

Kaged, by Ian Finley
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...

Kidnapped, by Peter Kirsch

Kidnapped, by Jack Lockerby
The year is 1751, some 25 years after the Battle of Culloden and there is still a very strong feeling of passion for "BONNIE PRINCE CHARLIE" in the Highlands. However, having lived all your life in the...

The King of Shreds and Patches, by Jimmy Maher
Average member rating: (77 ratings)

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...

Little Falls, by Alessandro Schillaci, Roberto Grassi, Simonato Enrico
Average member rating: (12 ratings)

Minnesota, September 2005. A serial killer hunting young women. A policeman with nightmares in his past. “To all units near Little Falls, there’s a 5150 code. A woman called 911, saying she’s in trouble....

Lost Pig, by Admiral Jota
Average member rating: (493 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
Average member rating: (92 ratings)

A winter night at the G.U.E. tech campus with most students away on vacation serves as the backdrop for this tale of Lovecraftian horror.

Macrocosm, by Shaun W. Donaldson
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

Make It Good, by Jon Ingold
Average member rating: (84 ratings)

The call comes through. Of all the dicks; you get the call, sitting in the front seat of your car, hands shaking on the steering wheel. An urgent call; but all you were thinking of was the bottle in the...

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...

Mite, by Sara Dee
Average member rating: (32 ratings)

In this small fantasy adventure game, you play as Mite, a pixy lad, who is carrying an egg-shaped jewel dropped by a cloaked thief who you tripped that morning. The gem belongs to the Fairy Prince! You must...

Möbius, by J.D. Clemens
Average member rating: (35 ratings)

Another mission. Just when you had settled in for a nap.

The Moonlit Tower, by Yoon Ha Lee
Average member rating: (61 ratings)

No Famous, by Erik Wennstrom
Average member rating: (3 ratings)
A dream simulation based on the author's actual dreams.

Nord and Bert Couldn't Make Head or Tail of It, by Jeff O'Neill
Average member rating: (59 ratings)

You are standing at the edge of a barren field. A steady wind, having secreted away the topsoil, is now drifting sandy dirt across the plain. A scant sign of life here is a freshly-burrowed molehill on the...

One Girl, by dr khel
Average member rating: (13 ratings)

A pornographic game written in Inform 6, compiled to Z-Code. One Girl won three Erins at the first Adult Interactive Fiction Awards, in 2002.

Orevore Courier, by Brian Rapp
Average member rating: (17 ratings)

Pick Up the Phone Booth and Aisle, by David Dyte, Steve Bernard, Dan Shiovitz, Iain Merrick, Liza Daly, John Cater, Ola Sverre Bauge, J. Robinson Wheeler, Jon Blask, Dan Schmidt, Stephen Granade, Rob Noyes, and Emily Short
Average member rating: (107 ratings)

Piece of Mind, by Giles Boutel
Average member rating: (8 ratings)
Piece of Mind is a short, humorous work which uses the first person "puppet" concept from Scott Adams and other early games and examines the possible causes and consequences of being so controlled by the...
The PK Girl, by Robert Goodwin, Helen Trevillion, Nanami Nekono, and Oya-G
Average member rating: (28 ratings)
NB: On some interpreters you will have to work around an interpreter bug by typing GLK ABBREVIATIONS OFF. Otherwise, you may have trouble with single-letter commands The tires of your motorcycle roll to a...

Plundered Hearts, by Amy Briggs
Average member rating: (66 ratings)

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...

The Quest for the Lost Sheep, by Sneeze
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

Little Bo-Peep has lost her sheep! Can you find all ten of them? You'll meet plenty of nursery rhyme and fairytale characters ranging from Jack to Gretel, and watch out for the Big Bad Wolf! ...

Rameses, by Stephen Bond
Average member rating: (125 ratings)

The Recruit, by Mike Sousa
Average member rating: (11 ratings)

Try your hand at the Real Life Interactive Gaming Simulacra! You'll face a variety of challenges and simulations and have a chance to win some money and great prizes. Apply today!

Ribbons, by J. D. Berry
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

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...

Rogue of the Multiverse, by C.E.J. Pacian
Average member rating: (73 ratings)

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...

Sand-dancer, by Aaron Reed and Alexei Othenin-Girard
Average member rating: (23 ratings)

It figures that your pickup would die on a night like this and leave you stranded in the dark New Mexico desert. But nothing else figures about this night, man. Nothing at all. An example game for Aaron...

Savoir-Faire, by Emily Short
Average member rating: (132 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...

Scavenger, by Quintin Stone
Average member rating: (30 ratings)

Search a war-shattered world for secrets of the past.

Six Stories, by Neil K. Guy
Average member rating: (25 ratings)

After losing control of your car during a blizzard in the mountains of British Columbia, you make your way to a rundown shack and sleep. You wake up elsewhere and soon encounter a mouse, a pair of drawing...

Snowquest, by Eric Eve
Average member rating: (47 ratings)

You've been on your quest so long you've almost forgotten what it is all about, but now you are nearing your destination -- if only you can stay alive long enough in this frozen wilderness to reach it.

So Far, by Andrew Plotkin
Average member rating: (73 ratings)

Sitting in a cramped theatre, irritated that your partner apparently hasn't turned up, you are strangely intrigued by a current of air. It will lead you to a place very different from your own familiar...
Stiffy Makane: The Undiscovered Country, by Adam Thornton
Average member rating: (20 ratings)
"Stiffy Makane: The Undiscovered Country. A game months in the making. A game designed to stretch the limits of Glulx Inform, and completely shatter the boundaries of good taste. A game described by sentence...
Sting of the Wasp, by Jason Devlin
Average member rating: (36 ratings)
Sunset Over Savannah, by Ivan Cockrum
Average member rating: (54 ratings)
In this game, you play as an office worker on vacation on a beach in Savannah. This is your last day of a very blissful vacation, and you realize you really really hate your job. You could quit, but should...

Suspended, by Michael Berlyn
Average member rating: (43 ratings)

They said you would sleep for half a millennium - not an unreasonable length of time, considering you'd be in limited cryogenic suspension. Your body would rest at the planet's nerve center, an underground...

Suveh Nux, by David Fisher
Average member rating: (225 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.

The Tale of the Kissing Bandit, by J. Robinson Wheeler (as 'Cary Valentino')
Average member rating: (46 ratings)

Terminal, by C. Everett
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

As an A.I., you are trapped in the facility you are housed in. When everyone leaves, you are all alone. Fashion yourself an actual body!

The Tiny House, by Dan Doyle III
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

Christine comes home from work to her tiny house to find that her son and husband are missing. In searching for clues she discovers a spellbook and must learn various magical spells and go to several...

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...

Varkana, by Maryam Gousheh-Forgeot
Average member rating: (25 ratings)

Varkana is the name of a region in a world with a timeless, mildy fantasy/sci-fi setting (some technological and magical elements are present at this moment, but not prevalent), with the city-state of Arg...

Vespers, by Jason Devlin
Average member rating: (174 ratings)

It has been five days, now. Five days since I made the choice. Five days since I closed the gate. Really, there was no choice. Rovato was damned when the first spot appeared: when the first bloody cough...

Violet, by Jeremy Freese
Average member rating: (383 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]

Wearing the Claw, by Paul O'Brian
Average member rating: (32 ratings)

A traditional fantasy quest in which you and your village have been cursed with a slow transformation into various animals. The only way to stop the curse is to retrieve the Pendant of Elinor from the...

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...


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