'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... |
(do not) forget, by lectronice Average member rating: (23 ratings) (do not) forget is a slightly surreal tale. It takes place in an isometric world inhabited by cute cubic animals. It is, however, not intended for children. This is a contemplative game, sometimes crude,... |
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... |
All Hope Abandon, by Eric Eve Average member rating: (37 ratings) Your day got off to a good enough start when you met that blonde in the breakfast queue, but it's all downhill from there: you may be wishing you could escape a particularly dire lecture, but not by the one... |
The Ark, by Matthew Marcus, Devi Acharya Average member rating: (5 ratings) The Ark is a multimedia computer game where players navigate text, image, and audio to solve puzzles and unravel an immersive sci-fi mystery. - - You've awoken on an abandoned space craft. As you explore the... |
The Ascent of the Gothic Tower, by Ryan Veeder Average member rating: (31 ratings) A story of mild and non-debilitating obsession. |
Augmented Fourth, by Brian Uri! Average member rating: (65 ratings) WANTED: Amateur musicians to serve the Royal Court. Must provide own instrument and be inured to copious constructive criticism. Impress your friends! Meet the King! Apply in person at the Castle, located on... |
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... |
Ballyhoo, by Jeff O'Neill Average member rating: (44 ratings) Spangleland! Sawdust and glitter, buffoons and cotton candy! It's a place where your wildest dreams come true! At least, that's what you think... until you get behind the scenes at the big top. Then you... |
Base of the Comet, by rosencrantz Average member rating: (10 ratings) Base of the Comet is an interactive story about Cal Yeasin, space scientist. There will be monsters. There are sideways paths and detours where you can learn more about Cal or explore a few more bits of ship... |
Bee, by Emily Short Average member rating: (85 ratings) The story of a home-schooled girl preparing to compete in the national spelling bee, dealing with various small crises with family and friends, and gradually coming to terms with the clash of subcultures... |
The Beetmonger's Journal, by Scott Starkey Average member rating: (16 ratings) "Victor Lapot and I were miles from base camp on the south continent, once again hacking through previously unsurveyed lands and searching for forgotten cultures. The expedition reminded me of our grand... |
Before the End of the World, by Silverstring Media Average member rating: (13 ratings) The sky is tearing itself open. Fire rains from the heavens. And you've returned home to reflect on the person you fell in love with in your dreams. Before the End of the World is a Twine game created to... |
Bell Park, Youth Detective, by Brendan Patrick Hennessy Average member rating: (62 ratings) A headstrong twelve-year-old detective gets in over her head when she's hired to solve a murder mystery at an internet technology conference. |
Best of Three, by Emily Short Average member rating: (62 ratings) |
Beyond, by Roberto Grassi, Paolo Lucchesi, and Alessandro Peretti Average member rating: (45 ratings) A mysterious death, a secret to be revealed… and someone who wants to know the truth, at any cost. ... |
The Bibliophile, by Marshal Tenner Winter Average member rating: (10 ratings) “Azathoth is a cosmic horror; a force outside of known physics, Higgins.” Doctor Coffey explains, “It is the embodiment of chaos and destruction and now Dennison has found a way to bring this nightmare to... |
The Black Lily, by Hannes Schueller Average member rating: (20 ratings) If you think you are being watched while playing this game, keep telling yourself that it's all in your mind. |
The Blind House, by Amanda Allen 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... |
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... |
Bolivia By Night, by Aidan Doyle Average member rating: (19 ratings) A mystery adventure game set in Bolivia. |
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... |
Bubblegum Slaughter, by Merritt Kopas Average member rating: (9 ratings) A text-based magical girl RPG with turn-based combat and the ache of broken innocence. |
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... |
Candlesmoke, by Caelyn Sandel and Carolyn VanEseltine Average member rating: (24 ratings) Entry in EctoComp 2014. |
Capsule, by PaperBlurt Average member rating: (17 ratings) Alone. In space. A vessel the size of Wales, floating through the endless night. You are the keeper of millions of people. But what might be happening in Sector 24-R? |
Cat Petting Simulator 2014, by neongrey Average member rating: (11 ratings) The most realistic and verismilitudinous text-based simulation of petting a cat ever written. |
Coloratura, by Lynnea Glasser Average member rating: (110 ratings) Stolen away by apathetic Blind Ones, your only desire is to return to your Cellarium and the Song of the Universe. They should understand. You shall make them to understand. |
Composition in a Minor Key, by Aleks Samoylov Average member rating: (5 ratings) "Composition in a Minor Key" is a surreal interactive story about love, community, loneliness, etc. It boasts roughly 8000 words, and does not contain puzzles, action, or difficult moral choices. There is a... |
Conversations With My Mother, by Merritt Kopas Average member rating: (10 ratings) A brief game about family relationships, in which you can click on words in the dialogue to change them before continuing the conversation. |
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... |
The Cradle of Eve, by Kitty Horrorshow Average member rating: (14 ratings) |
Craverly Heights, by Ryan Veeder Average member rating: (18 ratings) Take on the role of Doctor Langridge, whose patient, Janine, is very sick. |
Dangerous Curves, by Irene Callaci Average member rating: (23 ratings) |
Dark Carnival, by Marshal Tenner Winter Average member rating: (13 ratings) There have been unexplained murders and disappearances at a seemingly innocent amusement area just north of Providence, Rhode Island. Due to your strange investigations in the past, you are the one called in... |
A Day for Fresh Sushi, by Emily Short Average member rating: (98 ratings) No time for fantasy. Must feed fish. |
Dead Like Ants, by C.E.J. Pacian Average member rating: (58 ratings) You play as a young woman in red overalls, a red worker ant. Every spring, five dangerous creatures visit the tree and threaten the village, and every spring, the Queen sends one of her daughters to... |
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) |
Desert Heat, by Papillon Average member rating: (10 ratings) "WARNING. This game is intended for mature readers and may contain explicit sexual scenes and/or questionable consensuality depending on play. It is possible to complete the game without encountering these... |
Dinner Bell, by Jenni Polodna Average member rating: (54 ratings) You are the involuntary and very hungry test subject of a semi-anthropomorphized dog in a labcoat who wants you to find all sixteen food items mentioned in They Might Be Giants' song Dinner Bell, which have... |
Divis Mortis, by Lynnea Dally Average member rating: (42 ratings) The infection has spread. They are coming. |
The Djinni Chronicles, by J. D. Berry Average member rating: (33 ratings) |
Down, the Serpent and the Sun, by Chandler Groover Average member rating: (27 ratings) The feathered serpent coils before you, greater than any god or any monster. Maimed warriors are crushed beneath its claws. The sun will never rise again. |
Dreadwine, by Eric Eve Average member rating: (6 ratings) An entry into the MCDream minicomp, this game tries to capture the essence of a vivid dream its author remembers having many decades ago. |
Dual Transform, by Andrew Plotkin Average member rating: (109 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. |
An Earth Turning Slowly, by Mæja Stefánsson Average member rating: (10 ratings) She ran through her list of findings. “We’ve never had one quite like her. The diversity of simultaneous wounds, I mean, in a surviving specimen. There’s this long-standing hand-wave in paleopathology: we... |
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... |
electro primitive girl, by Sloane Leong Average member rating: (2 ratings) |
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... |
Endless Sands, by Hamish McIntyre Average member rating: (13 ratings) Exiled to the desert for a crime they didn’t commit, a vampire must find shelter before sunrise. |
The Endling Archive, by Kazuki Mishima Average member rating: (30 ratings) Browse the Endling Archive to uncover the purpose of its creation. |
The Entropy Cage, by Stormrose Average member rating: (15 ratings) Sub-sentient computer programs 'subs' coordinate our future society. You, the first cyber-psychiatrist, are drawn into the sub's war for their next evolution. PLAYTIME: ~20mins FORMAT: standalone .html file.... |
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. |
Everybody Dies, by Jim Munroe Average member rating: (105 ratings) It starts with a metalhead, Graham, realizing that throwing that shopping cart over the bridge was not the great idea he thought it was. Even if it did get him out of washroom duty at Cost Cutters.... |
The Eyes of the Moon, by neongrey Average member rating: (3 ratings) A scholar, a socialite, and a thief meet together in a private room to discuss their plan to steal the Eyes of the Moon-- an opal necklace of fantastic esoteric, aesthetic, and monetary significance. The... |
Fail-Safe, by Jon Ingold Average member rating: (112 ratings) |
The Fairy Woods, by rosencrantz Average member rating: (17 ratings) Someone dear to you has disappeared into the dangerous woods of the fairy realm, and you're already on your way to save them... The Fairy Woods is an interactive fiction created in Twine for no particular... |
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... |
Fallout Shelter, by Marshal Tenner Winter (as Histroy Gloam) Average member rating: (11 ratings) "Screw the world!" you said to yourself as you slammed shut the hatch door. You leave behind a tenure at the local college, an estranged ex-wife, and nothing but contempt for a town that basically shunned... |
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... |
Feu de Joie (Session 1): cathedral, by Alan DeNiro Average member rating: (7 ratings) A freelance QA specialist has started archiving an unusual project online that he has been working on. A mysterious company named BUCOLIC ehf, a "digital literature publisher", is developing an interactive... |
Fine-Tuned, by Dennis Jerz Average member rating: (23 ratings) "Can Troy, the handsome daredevil autoist, live up to his "sterling" reputation? What secret threatens the career of the talented singer, Miss Melody Sweet? With the help of the mechanical genius Aloysius... |
The Fire Tower, by Jacqueline A. Lott Average member rating: (49 ratings) |
First Draft of the Revolution, by Emily Short, Liza Daly and inkle Average member rating: (55 ratings) It is dangerous to deceive a husband of magic-using rank... Juliette has been banished for the summer to a village above Grenoble: a few Alpine houses, a deep lake, blue sky, and no society. Now she writes... |
Fish Bowl, by Ethan Rupp and Joshua Rupp Average member rating: (30 ratings) You are a beachcomber living by the shore. Today, you wake to find an empty fish bowl in your home, and don't remember how it got there. You try to piece your memory back together, but soon learn what the... |
Four in One, by J. Robinson Wheeler Average member rating: (9 ratings) "Do you realize how behind schedule and over budget this picture is?" "Look, Mr. Thalberg," you say. "All I've gotta do is get the master shot in the can. So, maybe it'll take twenty takes. But when I get... |
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... |
Gun Mute, by C.E.J. Pacian Average member rating: (153 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... |
Hard Puzzle, by Ade McT Average member rating: (14 ratings) 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 |
Homecoming, by Carolyn VanEseltine Average member rating: (13 ratings) "Homecoming" is a short, twisted comedy about a newly awakened AI. |
Hoosegow, by Ben Collins-Sussman, Jack Welch 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... |
The Horrible Pyramid, by Ryan Veeder Average member rating: (31 ratings) Something weird is going on in this pyramid. |
The Hours, by Robert Patten Average member rating: (25 ratings) Your new job as a time traveler may be harder than you thought. A simple heist in the ancient Library of Alexandria turns into a murder mystery. ONLINE PLAY: The status bar is essential to the game, but may... |
The House of Fear, by Gwen Katz Average member rating: (3 ratings) When 19-year-old Leonora Carrington runs away to France with an artist twice her age, she doesn’t know that she’ll end up in a Spanish mental asylum and he in a concentration camp. Follow her on a hermetic... |
Hunger Daemon, by Sean M. Shore Average member rating: (65 ratings) It's not the end of the world, and you're to blame. Better get on that. But man, it sure would be nice to get a bite to eat first. |
The Hunt for the Gay Planet, by Anna Anthropy Average member rating: (12 ratings) You thought you were fluent at Galactic Basic, but no one seems to understand you when you say "I'm not interested in guys!" Your lasgun ends up having to do the talking for you. The number of star systems... |
I-0, by Anonymous Average member rating: (157 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... |
Internal Vigilance, by Simon Christiansen 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... |
Invisible Parties, by Sam Kabo Ashwell (as Psychopup) Average member rating: (20 ratings) You are a walker of the ways between the worlds. It is not an arrangement conducive to straightforward relationships. The Three Rebeccas have created a tangle, a temporary artifice woven from parts of many... |
Jacqueline, Jungle Queen!, by Steph Cherrywell Average member rating: (24 ratings) You are Jacqueline McBean, modern woman for the Thirties and intrepid international correspondent for the Fresno Bee. The good news is that you're on your way to a plum assignment among the glitzy spires and... |
Ka, by Dan Efran Average member rating: (20 ratings) For an Egyptian mummy's soul - or "Ka" - death is but the first step on a puzzling and perilous journey. The second step? Getting out of all those coffins.... |
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... |
A Killer Headache, by Mike Ciul Average member rating: (21 ratings) The apocalypse is over. The human race lost. You're hungry. And you have a hell of a headache. Discretionary warning: This game is violent, scatological, and eschatological. |
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... |
Light My Way Home, by Caelyn Sandel (as Venus Hart) Average member rating: (18 ratings) |
Lime Ergot, by Caleb Wilson (as Rust Blight) Average member rating: (82 ratings) Now everyone is gone. (Well, almost everyone.) Entry in ECTOCOMP 2014. |
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... |
Love, Hate and the Mysterious Ocean Tower, by C.E.J. Pacian Average member rating: (42 ratings) |
Machine of Death, by Hulk Handsome Average member rating: (22 ratings) In the near future, the world will be changed by a machine that predicts how a person will die with 100% accuracy... but not clarity. Would knowing your demise change the way you lived your life? A... |
Map of Fahlstaff, by Ian Hinck Average member rating: (8 ratings) A "map" of the mysterious town Fahlstaff. |
Masquerade, by Kathleen M. Fischer 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... |
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! |
maybe make some change, by Aaron A. Reed Average member rating: (13 ratings) Inspired by the Maywand district killings in Afghanistan, 'maybe make some change' explores a frozen battlefield moment from six violently conflicting perspectives. |
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... |
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... |
Mindshadow, by Brian Fargo Average member rating: (11 ratings) You find yourself lost in the middle of nowhere. In the middle of a mystery. Who are you? Where will you go? What will you do? London. Luxembourg. Across oceans and continents. You struggle for answers. For... |
Mingsheng, by Deane Saunders Average member rating: (7 ratings) |
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... |
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] |
Mystery House Possessed, by Emily Short Average member rating: (11 ratings) This intricate all-text reworking draws on the Gothic, as well as Clue, to simulate seven characters working to outwit the killer in their midst. |
Narcolepsy, by Adam Cadre Average member rating: (62 ratings) |
Nautilisia, by Ryan Veeder Average member rating: (41 ratings) Your friend claims to be in a coma. |
Nightfall, by Eric Eve Average member rating: (61 ratings) 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... |
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. |
Nostrils of Flesh and Clay, by Porpentine Average member rating: (6 ratings) You are a scent detective, drifting through a world torn apart by greed and nausea. With colors dripping from your nostrils, you flex cartilage and demand to know...what is Project Olympia? Who are the... |
One Eye Open, by Caelyn Sandel (as Colin Sandel) and Carolyn VanEseltine Average member rating: (46 ratings) Had you known the bloody history of Corona Labs, you would never have signed up as a test subject. But now, plunged into that history, surrounded by the damned and the dying, you must find the truth. Perhaps... |
Oppositely Opal, by Buster Hudson Average member rating: (64 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... |
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... |
Patrick, by michael lutz Average member rating: (25 ratings) 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. |
The Pawn, by Rob Steggles, Peter Kemp, Hugh Steers, Ken Gordon, and Geoff Quilley Average member rating: (28 ratings) The Pawn is an adventure game set in the magical world of Kerovnia during a period of tremendous social upheaval. Recently, King Erik, the present ruler of the land, has started to lose his hold on the... |
The People's Glorious Revolutionary Text Adventure Game, by Taylor Vaughan Average member rating: (56 ratings) Sure, there's only five of you against a world full of reactionaries, but you have Revolutionary Spirit! You can't possibly fail. Nothing can stand in your way! Now if only you could find your Revolutionary... |
Play Nice, by alicethornburgh Average member rating: (7 ratings) Navigate the choppy waters of intergalactic politics using your smart social skills and a series of bizarre cultural rules. |
The Primrose Path, by Nolan Bonvouloir 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 . . . |
Queers in Love at the End of the World, by Anna Anthropy Average member rating: (37 ratings) |
Raik, by Harry Giles Average member rating: (18 ratings) A Scots fantasia about anxiety Featuring kelpies, lost keys, mysteriously-lit underground caverns, boring work, panic attacks and red hair. Raik is written in Scots, one of the languages of Scotland, with a... |
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... |
rat chaos, by Winter Lake Average member rating: (26 ratings) |
Revenger, by Robb Sherwin Average member rating: (4 ratings) "Jalen McKeon had it all figured out. Post-graduate work in the lovely desert over work he could attend to with his eyes closed. Another eleven months and voila! Another degree for this professional student.... |
Ribbons, by J. D. Berry Average member rating: (8 ratings) |
the rice and the radio, by muinil Average member rating: (4 ratings) a game about eating rice and deciding the fates of all those on this desolate planet with you. |
Robin & Orchid, by Ryan Veeder and Emily Boegheim Average member rating: (64 ratings) High school journalists spend the night in a church, investigating reports of a ghost. |
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... |
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... |
Scaffold 22, by MoLoLu Average member rating: (3 ratings) Scaffold 22 is a text-based RPG set in the distant future. The galaxy is divided, its spiritual life dictated by the Church of Eden, while the Corporate Hegemony endeavors to squeeze every last credit from... |
Scavenger, by Quintin Stone Average member rating: (29 ratings) Search a war-shattered world for secrets of the past. |
Sentencing Mr Liddell, by Anonymous Average member rating: (15 ratings) "The time has come", the Teacher says, "to talk of many sins: of wives and mums and unloved sons (of where it all begins), and why it's really all your fault, and whether no-one wins." |
Sequitur, by Nigel Jayne (as Tin Foil Jenny) Average member rating: (5 ratings) The only person who can explain what happened in a long-forgotten house with four dead people inside is comatose and clinging to her life in hospital. Detective Stephen Cochone of the New Orleans Police... |
shadows on the mirror, by Chrysoula Tzavelas Average member rating: (27 ratings) I am falling, I am fading, I am drowning, help me to breathe... |
Shuffling Around, by Andrew Schultz (as Ned Yompus) Average member rating: (25 ratings) A weird power to save a weird world. So you just got fired from the best company ever, and it's the best day of your life. New opportunities! New horizons! New ways to look at things! Like calling this... |
The Sixth Sleep, by Sloane Leong Average member rating: (2 ratings) Companion piece to "Labyrinth": http://sloanesloane.com/labyrinth.html |
The Skeleton Key of Ambady, by Caelyn Sandel (as Adalai Trammels) Average member rating: (10 ratings) I come through town every dozen years or so. Strangers still seem strange, but I've found work and welcome everywhere I've been. I come and go as I please. Don't waste your worry on me. The Skeleton Key of... |
Skulljhabit, by Porpentine Average member rating: (17 ratings) kind of like Dampe the gravedigger meets Harvest Moon meets Ligotti. |
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] |
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. |
The Space Under the Window, by Andrew Plotkin Average member rating: (98 ratings) A new, experimental game that has no puzzles but uses only words that change your focus on things, thereby adapting the story. [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue] |
Speculative Fiction, by Diane Christoforo and Thomas Mack Average member rating: (13 ratings) A puzzle game about committing acts of financial skulduggery and exploiting ridiculous magical items. This game is the complete version of the one that appeared in IntroComp 2011, where it won second place. |
spondre, by Jay Nabonne Average member rating: (5 ratings) Who is the mysterious old man? More importantly, who are you? Thrust into a tiny cell with a stranger, the future looks bleak. But things are not always what they seem. |
Square Circle, by Eric Eve Average member rating: (27 ratings) What is your crime? Why do you feel both guilty and unjustly punished? What has happened to your memory? How will you draw a square circle and get out of your prison? What will you find then? |
Star Court, by Anna Anthropy Average member rating: (14 ratings) The laser gavel pounds. The Robailiff boots up. Somewhere, a gong sounds. STAR COURT is now in session. (Inspired by the Mac game Kangaroo Court.) |
Surface, by Geoff Moore Average member rating: (11 ratings) You breathe, and the vessel breathes with you. The pod attempts to bind with you as you shift, restless, weak with hunger and exhaustion. Too long now, far too long since Xil left. She should have returned... |
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. |
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... |
Tenth Plague, by Lynnea Dally Average member rating: (28 ratings) You are thrust into earthly existence to fulfill the tenth and final plague. |
The Terror Aboard the Speedwell, by Javy Gwaltney Average member rating: (4 ratings) A sci-fi horror story with many different endings, this game takes place in the same fictional universe of You Were Made For Loneliness, an earlier work by a team which included this author as the lead... |
The Test is Now READY, by Jim Warrenfeltz Average member rating: (19 ratings) |
Three Days of Night, by spaceflounder Average member rating: (7 ratings) Can you survive first contact with an alien species? The Moon can be a dangerous place... |
Till Death Makes a Monk-Fish Out of Me, by Mike Sousa and Jon Ingold Average member rating: (34 ratings) 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... |
The Train To Abaddon, by Marshal Tenner Winter Average member rating: (6 ratings) A very short steampunk adventure! Try to unlock all 7 achievements! |
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... |
TWEEZER, by Richard Goodness and PaperBlurt Average member rating: (6 ratings) 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... |
The Usher, by Branden Rishel and Daphne Gabrieli Average member rating: (2 ratings) You are Lalu, a young woman who is buried alive—entombed. Your job is to lead the dead queen to the afterlife in this multi-dimensional tale of escape. |
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... |
Varronis Museum, by David Garcia Average member rating: (5 ratings) Well! It seemed that the house of Marcus Terentius Varro would be just a brief first stop in your joyful stroll through the city of Rome. But now it is clear that you will have to kill time in the courtyard... |
Venus Meets Venus, by kaleidofish Average member rating: (26 ratings) Two women meet in a bar. This is not a love story. (Mature content warning.) |
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] |
Walker & Silhouette, by C.E.J. Pacian Average member rating: (51 ratings) 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... |
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... |
Weird City Interloper, by C.E.J. Pacian Average member rating: (54 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... |
Weishaupt Scholars, by Michael C. Martin 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... |
When in Rome 1: Accounting for Taste, by Emily Short Average member rating: (27 ratings) Manhattan, May, 1954. |
Wrenlaw, by Ryan Veeder Average member rating: (24 ratings) It would be nice to know what you're looking for. |
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 Were Made For Loneliness, by Tsukareta Average member rating: (10 ratings) It’s the future. The remnants of humanity, in the aftermath of a cataclysmic event known only as The Fall, have fled a dying homeworld to seek refuge among the colonies of the solar system. Twenty years... |
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. |
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... |