| Adoo's Stinky Story, by B. Perry Quintin Stone's rating: Average member rating: In this game, you play as a university student named Adoo, back home for an extended break. But your childhood home is in danger! Your parents have put their house up for sale! To stop any possible sale, you... |
| The Adventures of the President of the United States, by Mikko Vuorinen Quintin Stone's rating: Average member rating: Being the president of the United States is hard work. You don't get to see the world as much as you would like. Perhaps it is time to go for a little adventure... |
| Amnesia, by Dustin Rhodes Quintin Stone's rating: Average member rating: In this poorly-written game, you play as someone who washed ashore onto an island. You were supposed to have amnesia, but you don't, so the author will make up a new story where you just need to solve a few... |
| Anchorhead, by Michael Gentry Quintin Stone's rating: Average member rating: You take a deep breath of salty air as the first raindrops begin to spatter the pavement, and the swollen, slate-colored clouds that blanket the sky mutter ominous portents amongst themselves over the little... |
| Arthur: The Quest for Excalibur, by Bob Bates Average member rating: "Whoso pulleth out this sword of this stone, is rightwise king of England." In the days before Camelot, when magic and evil rule England, a sword sheathed in stone appears in a quiet churchyard. Engraved... |
| The Atomic Heart, by Stefan Blixt Quintin Stone's rating: Average member rating: Playback starts. It seems you were just getting ready to recuperate after many labouring hours (the amount of strange tasks that Mrs. Go could find for you was amazing). As you plugged in the charger cable... |
| Babel, by Ian Finley Quintin Stone's rating: Average member rating: In this game, you play as an amnesiac inside Babel, an abandoned Arctic facility devoted to biological research. You soon discover that you have the unusual ability to witness scenes from the past by... |
| Ballyhoo, by Jeff O'Neill Average member rating: 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... |
| Baluthar, by Chris Molloy Wischer Quintin Stone's rating: Average member rating: In this game of horror, you play as an old man of a tribal culture. For months, you've been weary of life and kept to your bed. But when you learn that your adult son, Rykhard, has foolishly gone into the... |
| Beyond Zork, by Brian Moriarty Average member rating: Dread times have befallen the Kingdom of Quendor. The wizards have mysteriously disappeared. The Enchanter's Guild Hall lies in ruins. Villages are abandoned, drunken men mutter strange tales, and vicious... |
| Bio, by David Linder Quintin Stone's rating: Average member rating: In this game, you play as a male live-in janitor for a scientific research facility in a Brazilian jungle. Tonight, the scientists are away at a convention and you're enjoying the peace and quiet.... |
| Blue Sky, by Hans Fugal Quintin Stone's rating: Average member rating: You play as a tourist in Santa Fe, New Mexico. You've overslept your first morning here and your tour group has already left the hotel without you. You'd better hurry up and find them! |
| Border Zone, by Marc Blank Average member rating: Where the Iron Curtain divides East and West, the frontier is a no man's land between freedom and captivity, a place where moments lost or precautions not taken exact a toll in men's lives. In Border Zone,... |
| Bureaucracy, by Douglas Adams, The Staff of Infocom Average member rating: IMPORTANT! Our records show that you do not have a license to operate this software. Normally, you would be required to complete a License Application Form and mail it (with proof of purchase) to our... |
| CaffeiNation, by Michael Loegering Quintin Stone's rating: Average member rating: A text only adventure of a pathetic office drone's search for a cup of coffee. Starting in a cubicle at "Data Entry & Diagnosics", the player must escape the clutches of Mr. Norom, the manager, and make his... |
| Cerulean Stowaway, by Roger Descheneaux Quintin Stone's rating: Average member rating: A stowaway gets more of a ride than he bargained for. |
| Curse of Manorland, by James King Quintin Stone's rating: Average member rating: Chrissy and Jacob are playing on their Go-Karts one day when they ride into a puddle, and Chrissy finds herself on top of a Castle and finds out she has to stop an evil Pirate called Rogerover from taking... |
| Cutthroats, by Michael Berlyn, Jerry Wolper Average member rating: You're about to get yourself into very deep trouble. You're a backwater island's top diver and foremost expert on local shipwrecks. Which makes you perfect for the job a band of the island's shadiest... |
| Deadline, by Marc Blank Average member rating: Twelve hours to solve the mystery. One false move, and the killer strikes again. It's been called "part of the latest craze in home computing (TIME magazine), an "amazing feat of programming" (THE NEW YORK... |
| Delvyn, by William A. Tilli Quintin Stone's rating: Average member rating: Citizens of Newberry, South Carolina, will never forget the day, May 5, 1979. A day in which thousands of curious souls, onlookers, news agencies and world reporters flocked to the small hommlet of Newberry,... |
| Disco Elysium - The Final Cut, by ZA/UM Average member rating: Disco Elysium is a groundbreaking role playing game. You’re a detective with a unique skill system at your disposal and a whole city to carve your path across. Interrogate unforgettable characters, crack... |
| The Dreamhold, by Andrew Plotkin Quintin Stone's rating: Average member rating: The Dreamhold is interactive fiction — a classic text adventure. No graphics! No point-and-click! You type your commands, and read what happens next. The Dreamhold is designed for people who have never... |
| Earth and Sky 2: Another Earth, Another Sky, by Paul O'Brian Quintin Stone's rating: Average member rating: In this sequel game, you play as Austin Colborn, a young man who wears an earthsuit made by your scientist parents. It gives you great strength and invulnerability. You and your sister Emily, who wears the... |
| Earth And Sky 3: Luminous Horizon, by Paul O'Brian Quintin Stone's rating: Average member rating: The third and final episode in the Earth And Sky series! It isn't necessary to have played either of the previous two games in order to enjoy this one, and a digital comic feelie is provided to recap the... |
| Enchanter, by Marc Blank, Dave Lebling Average member rating: In Enchanter, the first of a spellbinding series in the tradition of Zork, you are a novice magician whom Fate has chosen to do singlehanded combat with a dark and fierce power. But worldly weapons will... |
| Episode in the Life of an Artist, by Peter Eastman Quintin Stone's rating: Average member rating: |
| The Erudition Chamber, by Daniel Freas Quintin Stone's rating: Average member rating: Step into the Erudition Chamber, where the solution to a puzzle is not half so important as the way you choose to solve it. Multiple solutions, multiple endings, and a generally good time all around - at... |
| The Fat Lardo and the Rubber Ducky, by Anonymous Quintin Stone's rating: Average member rating: |
| For a Change, by Dan Schmidt Average member rating: "The sun has gone. It must be brought. You have a rock." [--blurb from Competition '99] |
| Goose, Egg, Badger, by Brian Rapp Quintin Stone's rating: Average member rating: A violently surreal tragicomic slice of life with a twist. |
| Gourmet, by Aaron A. Reed and Chad Barb Quintin Stone's rating: Average member rating: Missing employees, wily crustaceans, malfunctioning kitchen equipment and a terminal food shortage, all on the night the most important culinary critic in the world has chosen to review your debut... |
| Hercules First Labor, by Robert Carl Brown Quintin Stone's rating: Average member rating: |
| The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams and Steve Meretzky Average member rating: Don't Panic! Relax, because everything you need to know about playing The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is contained in the pages of this manual. In this story, you will be Arthur Dent, a rather ordinary... |
| Hollywood Hijinx, by Dave Anderson, Liz Cyr-Jones Average member rating: Vampire Penguins. A Corpse Line. Meltdown on Elm Street. Who could forget these classic Hollywood movies produced by your uncle, Buddy Burbank? But his greatest masterpiece has yet to be experienced...... |
| Infidel, by Michael Berlyn Average member rating: Infidel finds you marooned by your followers in the heart of the deadly Egyptian Desert. A soldier of fortune by trade, you've come hither in search of a great lost pyramid and its untold riches. Now, alone,... |
| Internal Documents, by Tom Lechner Quintin Stone's rating: Average member rating: In this odd, large, and sparsely-implemented game, you play as a civil servant sent by the incumbent governor to the tiny township of Sebastian to examine the records of the John B. Holden estate. There's... |
| Journey, by Marc Blank Average member rating: Have you mettle enough to make siege on the Dread Lord himself? ...We shall see. If you've ever been spellbound by a fantasy story, captivated by a role playing game, or enthralled by interactive fiction,... |
| Leather Goddesses of Phobos, by Steve Meretzky Average member rating: And now... the next exciting episode of humanoids in space! How did you, a regular at Joe's Bar in Upper Sandusky, Ohio, end up on a Martian moon? Can you prevent the hideous space creature from abducting... |
| Little girl in the big world, by Peter Wendrich Quintin Stone's rating: Average member rating: Help a little girl called Alice to deal with the hard world outside. Special in the sense that there are two main characters which can be controlled at the same time. Both a windows executable and javascript... |
| The Lurking Horror, by Dave Lebling Average member rating: A winter night at the G.U.E. tech campus with most students away on vacation serves as the backdrop for this tale of Lovecraftian horror. |
| Metamorphoses, by Emily Short Average member rating: 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: "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... |
| Mingsheng, by Deane Saunders Quintin Stone's rating: Average member rating: Explore the mythical beginnings of one of China's internal martial arts. |
| Moonmist, by Stu Galley, Jim Lawrence Average member rating: More ghosts haunt the misty sea-coast and stone ramparts of Cornwall than anyplace else on earth. One such soul roams Tresyllian Castle: a pale phantom with flaxen hair and a luminous, flowing gown. It seems... |
| Ninja, by Paul Allen Panks Quintin Stone's rating: Average member rating: You are a lone ninja, protecting a shinto shrine of Japan. Your goal is to avoid capture by the Evil One, a deft ninja from a rival shrine. He is nearby, but you don't know exactly where. And it is dark... |
| No Room, by Ben Heaton Quintin Stone's rating: Average member rating: No Room is a game with zero rooms. It is therefore superior to all games which have rooms. Given a sufficiently odd definition of "superior", anyway. |
| Nord and Bert Couldn't Make Head or Tail of It, by Jeff O'Neill Average member rating: You are standing at the edge of a barren field. A steady wind, having secreted away the topsoil, is now drifting sandy dirt across the plain. A scant sign of life here is a freshly-burrowed molehill on the... |
| A Paper Moon, by Andrew Krywaniuk Quintin Stone's rating: Average member rating: You are Sam Haversham, notorious slacker and beer drinker extraordinaire. Thrust into unfamiliar surroundings, you must use your wits, your imagination, and your long-forgotten passion for origami to... |
| Photograph: A Portrait of Reflection, by Steve Evans Quintin Stone's rating: Average member rating: Photograph was an entry in the 2002 IFComp, in which it placed 3rd out of 38 entries. It was also nominated for two XYZZY awards, "Best Player Character" & "Best Use Of Medium". It's a story-driven, almost... |
| Planetfall, by Steve Meretzky Average member rating: "Join the Patrol, and see the Galaxy!" You took the poster's advice, bait and all, and marched right over to the recruitment station near your home on the backwater planet of Gallium. Images of exotic... |
| Plundered Hearts, by Amy Briggs Average member rating: In the 17th century, the seas are as wild as the untamed heart of a young woman. But when you set out on the schooner Lafond Deux, bound for the West Indies, your thoughts are only of your ailing father who... |
| Rape, Pillage, Galore!, by Kristian Kirsfeldt Quintin Stone's rating: Average member rating: 'A brilliant analysis of the mind of a professional knight' -Chivalry Daily 'Haven't seen a greater variety of creatures in one place except for that time at a party in Q'nghen' -Fantasy Geographic 'The bit... |
| The Recruit, by Mike Sousa, J. D. Berry, Jon Ingold, and Robb Sherwin Quintin Stone's rating: Average member rating: Try your hand at the Real Life Interactive Gaming Simulacra! You'll face a variety of challenges and simulations and have a chance to win some money and great prizes. Apply today! |
| Risorgimento Represso, by Michael J. Coyne Quintin Stone's rating: Average member rating: You play as a student who, during a particularly boring lecture, falls through a green portal under their desk into the cluttered library of the wizard Ninario. Ninny was trying to summon a wizardly... |
| Sardoria, by Anssi Räisänen Quintin Stone's rating: Average member rating: You play as a young villager who is attempting to warn the king about an imminent attack at nightfall. The castle guards, not believing your tale, have imprisoned you in the castle's wine cellar. You must... |
| Scavenger, by Quintin Stone Average member rating: Search a war-shattered world for secrets of the past. |
| Seastalker, by Stu Galley, Jim Lawrence Quintin Stone's rating: Average member rating: There's something down there in the ocean, something terrifying. And you have to face it - because only you can save the Aquadome, the world's first undersea research station. The alarm sounds and your... |
| shadows on the mirror, by Chrysoula Tzavelas Quintin Stone's rating: Average member rating: I am falling, I am fading, I am drowning, help me to breathe... You've procrastinated too long. But there's still a chance to talk your way out of it, make him see you as a person, make him care, just a... |
| Sherlock: The Riddle of the Crown Jewels, by Bob Bates Average member rating: Moriarty has set a deadly trap for Sherlock Holmes. And only you can stop him... Travel back in time to Victorian London, where the city is bustling with preparations for Her Majesty's Golden Jubilee. Crowds... |
| Shogun, by James Clavell, Dave Lebling Quintin Stone's rating: Average member rating: Experience the sweeping drama and power of James Clavell's Shogun. The year is 1600. You are John Blackthorne, Pilot-Major of a privateering merchant ship and the first Englishman to set foot on Japanese... |
| Slouching Towards Bedlam, by Star C. Foster and Daniel Ravipinto Quintin Stone's rating: Average member rating: In the beginning was the Word, and it was hungry. Enter a steampunk adventure set in a London that might have been. The year is 1885. Bedlam Hospital still stands in Moorsfield, a decaying shell used to... |
| Sophie's Adventure, by David Whyld Quintin Stone's rating: Average member rating: For her eighth birthday, Sophie made a wish: she wanted an adventure like none she had ever had before. And an adventure she got... |
| Sorcerer, by Steve Meretzky Average member rating: Sorcerer, the second of a spellbinding fantasy series in the tradition of Zork, takes you on a magical tour through the darker side of Zorkian enchantment. Your journey begins with a cryptic diary - the last... |
| Sorcery! 2, by Steve Jackson and inkle Average member rating: Per the first game in this series, this is an adaptation of a print-based game book originally published in 1983, updated for modern touch-screen devices. The player quests across a fantasy map (this time of... |
| Spellbreaker, by Dave Lebling Average member rating: Spellbreaker, the riveting conclusion to the Enchanter trilogy, explores the mysterious underpinnings of the Zorkian universe. A world founded on sorcery suddenly finds its magic failing, and only you,... |
| Splashdown, by Paul J. Furio Quintin Stone's rating: Average member rating: Thirty-six years in cryosleep seemed like a short nap, but instead of waking up to your new homeworld, you find your colony ship has crash-landed slightly off target. Only you can rescue the other colonists... |
| Square Circle, by Eric Eve Quintin Stone's rating: Average member rating: 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? |
| Starcross, by Dave Lebling Average member rating: Starcross, Infocom's science fiction mind-bender, launches you headlong into the year 2186 and the depths of space. And not without good reason, for you are destined to rendezvous with a gargantuan starship... |
| Stationfall, by Steve Meretzky Average member rating: What a trotting krip! Since your incredible heroics in Planetfall, where you risked life and limb to save the planet Resida, things have hardly changed at all. Sure, you were promoted to Lieutenant First... |
| Suspect, by Dave Lebling Average member rating: You're guilty until proven innocent. You have walked into a hotbed of deceit and trickery. And now they're accusing you of something you couldn't have done. But they have proof that you did it. "You're a... |
| Suspended, by Michael Berlyn Average member rating: They said you would sleep for half a millennium - not an unreasonable length of time, considering you'd be in limited cryogenic suspension. Your body would rest at the planet's nerve center, an underground... |
| Temple of Kaos, by Peter Gambles Quintin Stone's rating: Average member rating: A temple, a poem, out of time; a searcher, a believer, chaotic rhyme. |
| Till Death Makes a Monk-Fish Out of Me, by Mike Sousa and Jon Ingold Quintin Stone's rating: Average member rating: 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... |
| Trading Punches, by Mike Snyder Quintin Stone's rating: Average member rating: Friendship and rivalry, trust and doubt, unity and division, honesty and guile, hope and despair. These are the rifts through which history flows. Note: Trading Punches contains some mature themes, and may... |
| Trinity, by Brian Moriarty Average member rating: You're neither an adventurer nor a professional thrill-seeker. You're simply an American tourist in London, enjoying a relaxing stroll through the famous Kensington Gardens. When World War III starts and the... |
| Wishbringer, by Brian Moriarty Average member rating: It's an ordinary day in your ordinary little town, and you've been performing your ordinary mail clerk's duties in an altogether ordinary way. But there's something quite extraordinary in today's mail. It's... |
| Zero, by William A. Tilli Quintin Stone's rating: Average member rating: Santoonie Corporation's 4th installment of interactive fiction and 2nd IFComp entry. Santoonie Corporation creates a story in a mythical world once again, this time turning the tables as you play the role of... |
| Zork I, by Marc Blank and Dave Lebling Average member rating: Many strange tales have been told of the fabulous treasure, exotic creatures, and diabolical puzzles in the Great Underground Empire. As an aspiring adventurer, you will undoubtedly want to locate these... |
| Zork II, by Dave Lebling, Marc Blank Average member rating: The Wizard appears, floating nonchalantly in the air beside you. He grins sideways at you. The Wizard incants "Fantasize," but nothing happens. He shakes his wand. Nothing happens. With a slightly... |
| Zork III, by Dave Lebling, Marc Blank Average member rating: An old, oddly youthful man turns toward you slowly. His long, silver hair dances about him as a fresh breeze blows. "You have reached the final test, my friend! You are proved clever and powerful, but this... |
| Zork Zero: The Revenge of Megaboz, by Steve Meretzky Average member rating: The Great Underground Empire is in its heyday. Upscale condos crowd the massive caverns. Subterranean highways stretch from Aragain to the Fublio Valley. And no adventurer has yet set foot in the open field... |
| Zork: The Undiscovered Underground, by Marc Blank, Michael Berlyn, and G. Kevin Wilson Average member rating: Grubald the Bold, Matchlick the Mighty, Linklaw the Lucky; all of the great Heroes are busy, laid up, contracted or dead. So it is you who gets to explore a never before seen part of the Great Underground... |