Someone has run off with one of the university's printers, and you, as a computer lab technician, must retrieve it if you want to keep your job. [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue]
Gleaming the Verb, by Kevin Jackson-Mead MathBrush's rating: Average member rating: (23 ratings)
In this very short one-room game, you play as someone abducted to solve a series of related word puzzles.
Food, Drink, Girls, by Roboman MathBrush's rating: Average member rating: (6 ratings)
La Petite Mort entry in ECTOCOMP 2015.
On Optimism, by Zach Flynn (as Tim Lane) MathBrush's rating: Average member rating: (13 ratings)
"A tale on optimism, through your heart and my eyes." A suicide attempt after a break-up leads to a metaphorical exploration of your ex-girlfriend's heart. Placed 24th in the 2005 Interactive Fiction...
As a student with an IF assignment looming, you need to get a biography out of the library - however, it is a very rare book, and surely you won't be allowed to take it with you... [--blurb from The Z-Files...
Tube Trouble, by Richard Tucker MathBrush's rating: Average member rating: (7 ratings)
You have been trapped in the underground system for what may be days or even weeks - and you are desperately hungry. The chocolate machine is playing up, and there's never a train when you want one. [--blurb...
The Atomic Heart, by Stefan Blixt MathBrush's rating: Average member rating: (8 ratings)
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...
The Island, by Andrew Brown (writing as Old Andy) MathBrush's rating: Average member rating: (16 ratings)
Mysterious story... to switch on walkthrough you must type "ftang" then "walkthrough" "shazam" will fill your inventory with useful things... "ftang" toggles cheat mode
"Morning seems strange, almost out place." [--blurb from Competition '99]
Limp, by Ryan Stevens MathBrush's rating: Average member rating: (4 ratings)
It's been seventeen months since your last erection. Highest time to do something about it. [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue]
Lack of Vision, by Ryan Stevens MathBrush's rating: Average member rating: (5 ratings)
Written as a "TextWater" game (as an answer to the "TextFire" April's Fool Hoax), you are in a dark place without knowing why (or what to do). [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue]
Candy, by Ryan Stevens MathBrush's rating: Average member rating: (10 ratings)
"You are playing a small child dropped off at the house of its aunt, on a desperate quest for candies. This is a beta version of "Candy."" [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue]
The Guitar (The Lion Sleeps Tonight), by Jason B. Alonso, Catherine Havasi, and Val Grimm MathBrush's rating: Average member rating: (8 ratings) Hypnotist of Ladies, by David Cornelson MathBrush's rating: Average member rating: (9 ratings)
In this small one-note game, you play as the Hypnotist of Ladies. Your plan is to hypnotize all the ladies.
Asendent, by Nate Cull and Doug Jones MathBrush's rating: Average member rating: (6 ratings)
In this short game that attempts to parody the style of author Rybread Celsius, you play as an office worker who just drank some coffee spiked with hallucinogenic drugs. You are overcome with a desire to...
The House of the Stalker, by Jason Clayton White MathBrush's rating: Average member rating: (6 ratings)
An escaped serial killer is loose in the neighbourhood. Even worse, he might be in your house. Or was that smashing sound something to do with the cat? [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue]
Coming Home, by Andrew Katz MathBrush's rating: Average member rating: (4 ratings)
Expect no more than what the title says. No plot, but lots of strange or time-dependent puzzles. [--blurb for "A Simple Home Adventure" from The Z-Files Catalogue]
What-IF?, by David Ledgard MathBrush's rating: Average member rating: (15 ratings)
"Have you ever wondered what might have happened if a key leader had lived or died, a key decision been made differently...? Such arguments were a popular pastime BC [before computers] when there was less to...
The Newcomer, by Jason Love MathBrush's rating: Average member rating: (4 ratings) Ramón and Jonathan, by Daniele A. Gewurz MathBrush's rating: Average member rating: (6 ratings)
This small story takes place on space station Tithonus. The main tribunal has just read its verdict: Ramón and Jonathan, also known as the People's Friends, the hangmen who killed so many people, are...
zork, buried chaos, by Brad Renshaw MathBrush's rating: Average member rating: (10 ratings)
You were exploring the underground empire when there was an earthquake and it caved in! You have to escape!
The Lift, by Colin Capurso MathBrush's rating: Average member rating: (28 ratings)
You wake up in a room with no memory of who you are or what you're doing there. You need to survive, that's all you know.
Fifteen, by Ricardo Dague MathBrush's rating: Average member rating: (5 ratings)
You stand in the kitchen. Sigh! Yet another darn treasure hunt game! Modeled after Scott Adams's "Adventureland." Dedicated to Sam Loyd (1841-1911), inventor of the 15-puzzle. [--blurb from The Z-Files...
Comp00ter Game, by Brendan Barnwell MathBrush's rating: Average member rating: (4 ratings)
"play my comp00ter game and yyuo wil see its glory!!!!!" [--blurb from Competition Aught-Zero]
Hercules First Labor, by Robert Carl Brown MathBrush's rating: Average member rating: (8 ratings)