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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...

(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,...

Above and Beyond!, by Mike Sousa
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

Afflicted, by Doug Egan
Average member rating: (52 ratings)
This isn't the safest neighborhood. A young woman was abducted near here only recently. But as a city sanitarian you are obligated to complete your annual inspection of the local dive. [blurb from IF Comp...
Akabane Nights, by Dobromir Harrison
Average member rating: (6 ratings)
You're a vampire living near Akabane Station in Northern Tokyo. Can you make it through another night unscathed, or will your baser urges give you away? "WARNING: It has bad language, (mild) sexual content...

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 Alone, by Ian Finley
Average member rating: (70 ratings)

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 Ambassador's Daughter, by Stormchild
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

You really want to ask her for a dance, but alas she is from the opposing delegation. If only you could get her alone and pluck up the courage to speak to her. Very short game with compact map.

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...

August, by Matt Fendahleen
Average member rating: (24 ratings)

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...

Beat the Devil, by Robert M. Camisa
Average member rating: (17 ratings)

You are some guy who, after a night of drinking and proclaiming that you'd sell your soul for a chance with the lovely Gwyneth, wakes up in a literal "Mall of Hell". It seems Lucifer overheard you and...

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.

Bellclap, by Tommy Herbert
Average member rating: (26 ratings)

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.

The Book of Living Magic, by Jonas Kyratzes
Average member rating: (9 ratings)

The Book of Living Magic is an adventure game set in the Lands of Dream. It is the story of a girl with the terrible name of Raven Locks Smith, who travels to the faraway Mountains of Oddness to find the...

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.

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...

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...

Cana According To Micah, by Christopher Huang (as Rev. Stephen Dawson)
Average member rating: (19 ratings)

Being an account of the wedding at Cana, by the servant Micah; in which further details, doubtlessly apocryphal, are given of the event, including his contention with a surly Baptist, an interfering orphan,...

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.

A Comedy of Error Messages, by Adam Le Doux
Average member rating: (21 ratings)

A loyal but punctilious PC attempts to save its master from taking part in a disastrous blind-date, set up through the MMORPG Realms of Realmland....
Coming Out Simulator 2014, by Nicky Case
Average member rating: (37 ratings)
A half-true game about half-truths. You play as a semi-fictional version of me, on a night that changed my life forever. Choose your (my?) words wisely. Every character will remember everything you say - or...

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...

The Contortionist, by Nicholas Stillman
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

Prison Escape Plan: 1. Squeeze through the bars. 2. ...

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...

A Courier's Tale, by SJ Griffin
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

It's the near-future. You are a bike messenger in a city that's half flooded but still mananging to stay afloat despite economic collapse. It's your first week at Packet, the best courier company in the...

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.

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?

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...

Dark Deeds, by sarge370
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

A murder mystery interactive story based in London at the end of the Middle Ages, will you be able to solve the murder based off of the clues you gather?

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...

Dinner with Andre, by Liza Daly
Average member rating: (23 ratings)

"A date by candlelight in a fine restaurant. Should be a perfect evening." [--blurb from Competition Aught-Zero]

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.

Draw Everything You See That's Mine and Yours, by kaleidofish
Average member rating: (11 ratings)

A story about a casual relationship between two men that grows into something more over the years....

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.

Duck Ted Bundy, by Coleoptera-Kinbote
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

"After much deliberation done waist-deep in murked algae-rich waters, you have determined that your base urge is to kill. All other functions of your livelihood, eating, grooming, finding shelter, and so on,...
The Duel in the Snow, by Utkonos
Average member rating: (21 ratings)
A Tale of Old Russia
Earl Grey, by Rob Dubbin and Allison Parrish
Average member rating: (29 ratings)
A game about a tea party, a monarchy, and the unpredictability of language.

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)

Elizabeth Hawke's Forever Always, by Iain Merrick
Average member rating: (9 ratings)

An interactive romance novel.

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.

Entrancing Sin, by Lost Trout
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

Ashley is starting an exciting summer job in the Big City. Each morning, she has a chat with her boss. Those chats are downright "entrancing". ...

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...

Film at Eleven, by Bowen Greenwood
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

"Welcome to a day in the life of Betty Byline! Two months out of journalism school you enter the workplace with big time dreams of network television news. Fame, fortune and glory, all writ large under the...

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...

The Frenetic Five vs. Sturm und Drang, by Neil deMause
Average member rating: (13 ratings)

In this game about under-powered superheroes, you play as Improv, leader of the Frenetic Five. You use common objects in surprisingly useful ways. Bob, your contact at Supertemps, hires your team for a new...
Gamlet, by Tomasz Pudlo
Average member rating: (21 ratings)
The Girl in the Haunted House, by Amanda Lange
Average member rating: (14 ratings)
A scary story. What kind? Better find out for yourself. An entry in the 2014 Fear of Twine exhibition.
Gossip, by Hugo Labrande
Average member rating: (7 ratings)
Gris et Jaune, by Jason Devlin
Average member rating: (25 ratings)
She wanted answers. He wanted a cure. You just wanted to live.

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...

Halothane, by Ravi Rajkumar
Average member rating: (11 ratings)

"You're having a hard enough time getting your second novel to work; how could it ever be possible that you, Harold Banks - world's most unsuccessful published author - could actually be sent on a quest to -...

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...

Howwl, by Tipue
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

Howwl is an web-based interactive fiction game. The genre is loosely apocalyptic horror.

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...

Identity Thief, by Rob Shaw-Fuller
Average member rating: (12 ratings)

In this game, you play as a thief who uses cyber implants to steal identities and commit crimes. A "Mr. Johnson" hired you to steal a datachip from Senator Barbara Tarlette's mansion, but things went south...
Inevitable, by Kathleen M. Fischer as Timothy Lawrence Heinrich
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

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...

Jane, by Joseph Grzesiak
Average member rating: (17 ratings)

Janitor, by Peter Seebach and Kevin Lynn
Average member rating: (28 ratings)

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...

Kissing the Buddha's Feet, by Leon Lin
Average member rating: (23 ratings)

Kook U, by Anonymous
Average member rating: (3 ratings)
A Lady in Waiting, by Knight Errant
Average member rating: (4 ratings)
"A Lady in Waiting" is a historical romance set in 16th century Venice. Won second place in the 2008 minicomp.
Legion, by Jason Devlin
Average member rating: (21 ratings)
Lethe Flow Phoenix, by Dan Shiovitz
Average member rating: (3 ratings)
Camping out at night takes you into a strange otherworld peopled with, among other things, several biblical references, objects of a symbolic nature, and a talking tree. Started as an entry for the first IF...

Light My Way Home, by Caelyn Sandel (as Venus Hart)
Average member rating: (18 ratings)

The Lighthouse, by Marius Müller
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

Lighthouses simultaneously stand at the border between land and sea and the border between old and new. They are naturally good settings for secrets. Do you dare visit this one?

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...

Living Will, by Mark Marino
Average member rating: (14 ratings)

As an heir to the fortune of the Coltan-magnate ER Millhouse, you can expand your inheritance or become buried in medical and legal fees as you peruse his living will and discover the story behind the...
The Lost Spellmaker, by Neil James Brown
Average member rating: (13 ratings)
Spells are in short supply, and spellmakers are disappearing one by one. So your boss T sends you on a mission to find the famous Drew Tungshinach so that he may entertain the community further with his...

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...

Madam Spider's Web, by Sara Dee
Average member rating: (38 ratings)

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.

Mercy, by Chris Klimas
Average member rating: (20 ratings)

You see, when the scientists had thought that the only smallpox around was in a very very small box kept securely closed, they were wrong. When you come into the clinic today, seven people have already died....

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)

Moist, by Scarlet Herring
Average member rating: (14 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...

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

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]

My Angel, by Jon Ingold
Average member rating: (28 ratings)

"I wake peacefully, and already she is there." [--blurb from Competition Aught-Zero]

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.

A New Life, by A O Muniz
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

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...

Ollie Ollie Oxen Free, by Carolyn VanEseltine
Average member rating: (28 ratings)

"War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children." - Jimmy Carter

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...

Opening Night, by David Batterham
Average member rating: (28 ratings)

You stepped off the streetcar moments ago, halting before the grand facade of the Marquis Theatre. You have come to see your idol, the Broadway star Miranda Lily, performing in all her dizzying glory. [blurb...

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.

Paradox Corps, by John Evans
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

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 Price of Freedom: Innocence Lost, by Briar Rose
Average member rating: (10 ratings)

(The original version, as seen in Spring Thing 2014, is no longer online, having been replaced by the expanded 2019 version.)

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 . . .

Queen of Swords, by Jessica Knoch
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

In this one-room art piece, you play as a woman in a reserved room at the local library where you and your husband, David, will practise using electric fencing equipment. There's quite a lot of it, and...

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)

Redemption, by Kathleen M. Fischer
Average member rating: (5 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...

Save Princeton, by Jacob Weinstein and Karine Schaefer
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

"Have you ever wanted to kill somebody by feeding them school food? To hobnob with F. Scott Fitzgerald? To be single-handedly responsible for the salvation or destruction of one of the oldest universities in...

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...

Shades of Gray, by Mark Baker, Steve Bauman, Belisana, Mike Laskey, Judith Pintar, Cindy Yans, and Hercules
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

You wake painfully, from a fitful sleep, to find yourself surrounded by three shadowy figures… After a horrible dizzying moment, the shapes come into focus — vampires, they are vampires, and they are...

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...

She's Got a Thing for a Spring, by Brent VanFossen
Average member rating: (32 ratings)

It's been a hectic year, and it's time to get away. He told you that, and you agreed. Now you're here, in a grove of aspen, and long for a good, long bath in the nearby hot spring. [--blurb from The Z-Files...

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.

A Small Talk at the Back of Beyond, by scriptwelder
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

You wake up. Alone, in a dark room. Alone? No, there is someone talking to you through a console. Will you respond?

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]

Snatches, by Gregory Weir
Average member rating: (15 ratings)

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...

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 City, by Mark Sachs
Average member rating: (12 ratings)

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.)

Starship Fabulous, by E. Joyce, Ayse Gursoy, and Chris Johnston
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

In Starship Fabulous: The Great Space Alien Dating Sim, you are a space marine, assigned to a trade vessel as they travel through dangerous space. But space is boring, so you decide to get to know the alien...
Sting of the Wasp, by Jason Devlin
Average member rating: (36 ratings)
Stygia, by Kitty Horrorshow
Average member rating: (11 ratings)
Another cold, rainy Stygian afternoon. Rainy, anyway. That much you can observe. Cold is a different matter; the dead are insensate to things like ambient temperature. For better or worse. But everything...
Sunday Afternoon, by Christopher Huang (as Virgil Hilts)
Average member rating: (20 ratings)
It's gloriously sunny outside, and you can smell the grass from in here. It's not fair. All the servants have the day off, and you can bet they're not cooped up indoors in their Sunday best. If only there...
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...

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 and Toast, by Matt Weiner (as Maria del Pangolin)
Average member rating: (13 ratings)

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...

The Temple, by Johan Berntsson
Average member rating: (11 ratings)

You play as someone plagued by nightmares of falling, but in tonight's nightmare, you've somehow landed in in a strange alien city. With the time-lost Charles Bristow, you'll uncover the city's dark secrets,...

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...

Truth is Ghost, by Joel Goodwin
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

Two mysterious agents called Alpha and Omega chase a traitor, but things may not be as they appear. An entry in the 2014 Fear of Twine exhibition.

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...

Under a Bush of Roses, by Ammore Chicks
Average member rating: (1 rating)

The Unfinished Country, by Phantom Williams
Average member rating: (2 ratings)
A post-apocalyptic story of power, corruption, fear, hunger, waiting.
Ungodly hour, by Simon Deimel
Average member rating: (2 ratings)
You wake up in the middle of the night. Was there some sound in your apartment? The sound of footfalls? You feel that something is wrong, so should you dare to explore? By now you are lying in your bed and...

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.)

Vicious Cycles, by Simon Mark
Average member rating: (17 ratings)

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...

The Wedding, by Neil James Brown
Average member rating: (10 ratings)

What should have been a simple task, watching your old flatmate Malcolm get married, becomes an awful lot more complicated when it transpires that Malcolm has disappeared mere hours before the service. You...
Weekend at Ruby's, by Liam Butler and Jackson Palmer
Average member rating: (3 ratings)
Weekend At Ruby's is an open world puzzle game set at a friend of a friend's house party. You've somehow lost your wallet and with it the phone number of the girl of your dreams. In order to get it back and...

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 Find Yourself in a Room., by Eli Piilonen
Average member rating: (34 ratings)

YFYIAR is the drunken uncle of text-based adventures: Abusive, abrasive, and maybe a little funny.

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 Sum Game, by Cody Sandifer
Average member rating: (19 ratings)

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...


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