Cory Roush's Played Games
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| 9:05, by Adam Cadre Cory Roush's rating:  Average member rating:  The phone rings. Oh, no — how long have you been asleep? Sure, it was a tough night, but... This is bad. This is very bad. The phone rings. |
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| The Act of Misdirection, by Callico Harrison Cory Roush's rating: Average member rating: The curtain lifts to a torrent of applause, as the city's gents and ladies lose their decorum for a just few moments in anticipation of something magical. The spotlights drown the glitter of sequins and... |
| An Act of Murder, by Christopher Huang Cory Roush's rating: Average member rating: |
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| Alabaster, by John Cater, Rob Dubbin, Eric Eve, Elizabeth Heller, Jayzee, Kazuki Mishima, Sarah Morayati, Mark Musante, Emily Short, Adam Thornton, Ziv Wities Cory Roush's rating: Average member rating: The Queen has told you to return with her heart in a box. Snow White has made you promise to make other arrangements. Now that you're alone in the forest, it's hard to know which of the two women to trust.... |
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| All Hope Abandon, by Eric Eve Cory Roush's rating: Average member rating: 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... |
| All Roads, by Jon Ingold Cory Roush's rating: Average member rating: "Wave a circle round him thrice, And close your eyes with holy dread For he on honey-dew hath fed And drunk the milk of paradise." [--blurb from Competition Aught-One] |
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| Andromeda Apocalypse — Extended Edition, by Marco Innocenti Cory Roush's rating: Average member rating: Floating in space on a strange vessel, sole survivor of a world... and maybe of the entire human race, Ektor Mastiff must find a way through the cosmos, on a voyage that can change the history of mankind... |
| Andromeda Awakening - The Final Cut, by Marco Innocenti Cory Roush's rating: Average member rating: The most important discovery in history. And then, the whole world goes crumbling down. Armed with but a computer and an expired railway ticket, how can one expect to save the day when the doomsday clock has... |
| Ariadne in Aeaea, by Víctor Ojuel Cory Roush's rating: Average member rating: Isle of Aeaea, the eastern Aegean. 3,500 years ago. In the northern wastes, the Achaeans have a new and warlike chieftain. Palace after palace is falling to his armies. On the shores of Crete, the Minoan... |
| The Axolotl Project, by Samantha Vick Cory Roush's rating: Average member rating: 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... |
| Babel, by Ian Finley Cory Roush'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... |
| A Bear's Night Out, by David Dyte Cory Roush's rating: Average member rating: "Tomorrow is the big Teddy Bear party, and you must definitely not let your owner forget about it..." [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue] |
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| A Beauty Cold and Austere, by Mike Spivey Cory Roush's rating: Average member rating: That survey course in conceptual mathematics seemed like a good idea at the start of the term - no graded homework, no midterm exams - just an oral final at the end. But now that final is tomorrow morning.... |
| The Beetmonger's Journal, by Scott Starkey Cory Roush's rating: Average member rating: "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... |
| The Bibliophile, by Marshal Tenner Winter Cory Roush's rating: Average member rating: “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... |
| Blighted Isle, by Eric Eve Cory Roush's rating: Average member rating: Blockade duty in the Bay of Biscay, vile weather, and an unplanned jaunt over the side of the ship into the tossing waves. But instead of drowning, you end up on an island that has no right to be there - and... |
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| Bronze, by Emily Short Cory Roush's rating: Average member rating: When the seventh day comes and it is time for you to return to the castle in the forest, your sisters cling to your sleeves. |
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| Chlorophyll, by Steph Cherrywell Cory Roush's rating: Average member rating: |
| Choice of Robots, by Kevin Gold Cory Roush's rating: Average member rating: The robots you design will change the world! Will you show them the true meaning of love, or conquer Alaska with your robot army? "Choice of Robots" is an epic 300,000-word interactive sci-fi novel by Kevin... |
| Code Name Silver Steel, by SpecialAgent Cory Roush's rating: Average member rating: A freelance spy is a great job. It pays well and you get to travel to new and interesting places. Unless you get caught, that part is not so great. You open the unmarked envelope and unfold the mission... |
| Color the Truth, by mathbrush Cory Roush's rating: Average member rating: Rosalita Morales is dead, and you have to figure out who did it. The four people closest to her had the motive and the means: her partner, her secretary, her ex-husband, and her sister. Re-live their... |
| Coloratura, by Lynnea Glasser Cory Roush's rating: Average member rating: 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. |
| Corruption, by Rob Steggles, Hugh Steers Cory Roush's rating: Average member rating: In the real world the good guys rarely win. CAN YOU COPE WITH CORRUPTION? The City of London. Deals and chicanery, Porsches and profit, wild animals in handmade suits. And you. Outwardly, you're on the fast... |
| Counterfeit Monkey, by Emily Short Cory Roush's rating: Average member rating: (253 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... |
| Craverly Heights, by Ryan Veeder Cory Roush's rating: Average member rating: Take on the role of Doctor Langridge, whose patient, Janine, is very sick. |
| De Baron, by Victor Gijsbers Cory Roush's rating: Average member rating: An evil nobleman, a kidnapped daughter and a father who wants to rescue her at any cost--that is not the way life works. Something much darker, something much more human, lies underneath. Een kwaadaardige... |
| Dead Cities, by Jon Ingold Cory Roush's rating: Average member rating: The letter you received from Arkwright's nephew Carter was clear enough: when the old man dies the inheritance tax will be too great. It's certain ruin, much like the estate itself. To raise some capital the... |
| Delightful Wallpaper, by Andrew Plotkin ('Edgar O. Weyrd') Cory Roush's rating: Average member rating: |
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| Distress, by Mike Snyder Cory Roush's rating: Average member rating: Lieutenant Huchess came to, an hour or so ago. That was around the time Runoma, blazing orange-hot so near this, its second planet, fell below the distant, jagged crag line. Ensign Covegn died not long after... |
| Divis Mortis, by Lynnea Dally Cory Roush's rating: Average member rating: The infection has spread. They are coming. |
| Down, the Serpent and the Sun, by Chandler Groover Cory Roush's rating: Average member rating: 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. |
| Dual Transform, by Andrew Plotkin Cory Roush's rating: Average member rating: 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. |
| Ecdysis, by Peter Nepstad Cory Roush's rating: Average member rating: You wake, a pounding headache loud in your inner ear, the back of your head itching and tingling, your mouth full of cotton. The pain drives away your dreams, weird visions of alien landscapes... Ecdysis is... |
| The Edifice, by Lucian P. Smith Cory Roush's rating: Average member rating: "Something new in your everyday hunter-gatherer routine: where did this strange edifice come from? Dare you enter and explore the secrets of this... thing, or do you try to face your enemies? Like you have a... |
| The Elysium Enigma, by Eric Eve Cory Roush's rating: Average member rating: 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... |
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| Fabricationist DeWit Remakes the World, by Jedediah Berry Cory Roush's rating: Average member rating: After a sleep of centuries, a synthetic being receives an unexpected visitor—along with a new role in the Great Project. |
| Fail-Safe, by Jon Ingold Cory Roush's rating: Average member rating: |
| Fair, by Hanon Ondricek Cory Roush's rating: Average member rating: As the most famous self-published Science Fiction author residing in Hillview, you are eminently qualified to judge their annual Elementary School Science Fair. |
| Fate, by Victor Gijsbers Cory Roush's rating: Average member rating: 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... |
| Final Exam, by Jack Whitham Cory Roush's rating: Average member rating: Final Exam takes place in the near future after an AI revolution has led to the establishment of a new sort of government. You are seeking a job within this government: your performance in the “final... |
| The Fire Tower, by Jacqueline A. Lott Cory Roush's rating: Average member rating: |
| For a Change, by Dan Schmidt Cory Roush's rating: Average member rating: "The sun has gone. It must be brought. You have a rock." [--blurb from Competition '99] |
| Fragile Shells, by Stephen Granade Cory Roush's rating: Average member rating: You don't know how long you've been hammering against the station's wall, but you stop as soon as you realize what you've been doing. |
| Glass, by Emily Short Cory Roush's rating: Average member rating: The Prince sits awkwardly on the couch, holding his glass slipper and trying to keep it from crushing. Lucinda and Theodora have the ends of the same couch, and they are taking turns seeing who can bend... |
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| Hana Feels, by Gavin Inglis Cory Roush's rating: Average member rating: Something is bothering Hana. Can you work out what it is? Take the part of four important people in her life and guide their conversations. After each scene, peek at Hana's journal and find out how she felt... |
| Heroes Rise: HeroFall, by Zachary Sergi Cory Roush's rating: Average member rating: Would a hero like you assassinate the president of the United States to defend the right to be Powered? As the corrupt President Victon launches his oppressive campaign of Powered Regulation, your Legendary... |
| Heroes Rise: The Hero Project, by Zachary Sergi Cory Roush's rating: Average member rating: As a contestant on “The Hero Project,” you’ll battle villains and heroes alike with your newly discovered “Infini” powers. Will you vote to eliminate your rivals, or betray your alliance to curry... |
| Hunger Daemon, by Sean M. Shore Cory Roush's rating: Average member rating: 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. |
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| IFDB Spelunking, by Joey Jones Cory Roush's rating: Average member rating: In the depths of the interactive fiction database strange games lurk! This is an emulation of ten random works found on the IFDB, in which inventory carries over between games for unique effect. |
| Indigo, by Emily Short Cory Roush's rating: Average member rating: "Years ago, a witch placed you in this tower and arranged for your upkeep, paying certain villagers well to keep you supplied with the most basic necessities, and no more. Your years in the tower have... |
| Inside the Facility, by Arthur DiBianca Cory Roush's rating: Average member rating: Your friend Mike thinks no one can infiltrate THE FACILITY, but you're going to prove him wrong. A light puzzle game. In the author's opinion, it's totally family-friendly. (If you're playing the Browser... |
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| Insight, by Jon Ingold Cory Roush's rating: Average member rating: |
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| Jesse Stavro's Doorway, by Marshal Tenner Winter Cory Roush's rating: Average member rating: Jordan is looking for his friend, Jesse, who is in hiding from the government. Picking up the trail, he discovers that Jesse is following the Grateful Dead on tour, but as Jordan immerses himself into the... |
| Kaged, by Ian Finley Cory Roush's rating: Average member rating: ""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... |
| Keepsake, by Savaric Cory Roush's rating: Average member rating: The planning was easy. Committing the murder was easy. But getting away with it? That's another thing. Keepsake is a short, surreal story about vengeance and its consequences. |
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| Little Blue Men, by Michael S. Gentry Cory Roush's rating: Average member rating: 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... |
| Lock & Key, by Adam Cadre Cory Roush's rating: Average member rating: |
| A Long Way to the Nearest Star, by SV Linwood Cory Roush's rating: Average member rating: A thief on the run from the galactic police finds refuge on an abandoned spaceship. A lonely ship AI finds unexpected company. Explore the ship, solve puzzles, uncover mysteries, and befriend an AI who... |
| Lydia's Heart, by Jim Aikin Cory Roush's rating: Average member rating: "Lydia's Heart" is a large, complex game with a serious tone and seven or eight NPCs you can converse with. The genre is low-key horror: There's almost no actual blood, but there are several ways to die in a... |
| Make It Good, by Jon Ingold Cory Roush's rating: Average member rating: The call comes through. Of all the dicks; you get the call, sitting in the front seat of your car, hands shaking on the steering wheel. An urgent call; but all you were thinking of was the bottle in the... |
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| Nautilisia, by Ryan Veeder Cory Roush's rating: Average member rating: Your friend claims to be in a coma. |
| Nightfall, by Eric Eve Cory Roush's rating: Average member rating: 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... |
| Olivia's Orphanorium, by Sam Kabo Ashwell Cory Roush's rating: Average member rating: Sparky young entrepreneur Olivia sets out to fulfil her dream of running an orphanage. The beatings will continue until morale improves. |
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| Open Sorcery, by Abigail Corfman Cory Roush's rating: Average member rating: You are online. You are fire and order. You are here to protect. ---- "Open Sorcery" is a game about technology, magic and becoming a person. It follows the development of an Elemental Firewall--a creature... |
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| Origins, by Vincent Zeng and Chris Martens Cory Roush's rating: Average member rating: "Origins" is a story of the individual, potentially convergent paths of two people making their way through Pittsburgh. There are two available modes, a "myopic" view wherein the player controls a single... |
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| Pathway to Destruction, by Richard Otter Cory Roush's rating: Average member rating: You have worked at the Institute of Transportation for nearly five years. As one of the engineering team in the Research and Development section, it is considered a highly respected position and is... |
| Perdition's Flames, by Michael J. Roberts Cory Roush's rating: Average member rating: The afterlife isn't what you expected. Explore a strangely modernized and bureaucratic underworld, replete with strip malls, government offices, and science labs, as well as the occasional lake of molten... |
| Photopia, by Adam Cadre Cory Roush's rating: Average member rating: "Will you read me a story?" "Read you a story? What fun would that be? I've got a better idea: let's tell a story together." |
| The Play, by Dietrich Squinkifer (Squinky) Cory Roush's rating: Average member rating: Pull yourself together, Ainsley. Just one more rehearsal until the big day, assuming nothing catastrophic happens. But really, all you have to do is get your motley crew of actors to run their parts once... |
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| Psychomanteum, by Hanon Ondricek Cory Roush's rating: Average member rating: Every year your friend hosts a Halloween party where guests are expected to complete three dares. This is the third. A Grand Guignol entry for ECTOCOMP 2016. |
| rendition, by nespresso Cory Roush's rating: Average member rating: They caught Abdul during an insurgency in the east. He tried to take out a regiment with some home-made explosives strapped to his chest. They didn't explode, so pretty soon the coalition had a real live... |
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| Robin & Orchid, by Ryan Veeder and Emily Boegheim Cory Roush's rating: Average member rating: High school journalists spend the night in a church, investigating reports of a ghost. |
| Rogue of the Multiverse, by C.E.J. Pacian Cory Roush's rating: Average member rating: 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... |
| Rover's Day Out, by Jack Welch and Ben Collins-Sussman Cory Roush's rating: Average member rating: Three hundred years ago, the Brazilian Space Agency discovered a rocky exoplanet only 38 light years from Earth. With a surface temperature of 1200 Celsius and nine times Earth gravity, it's hardly the sort... |
| Scavenger, by Quintin Stone Cory Roush's rating: Average member rating: Search a war-shattered world for secrets of the past. |
| Shade, by Andrew Plotkin Cory Roush's rating: Average member rating: "A one-room game set in your apartment." [--blurb from Competition Aught-Zero] |
| Shelter from the Storm, by Eric Eve Cory Roush's rating: Average member rating: It is set in October 1940. Jack is a newly-commissioned sapper officer on his way to his first posting somewhere on Salisbury Plain (in southern England) when his car breaks down. The weather is starting to... |
| Shrapnel, by Adam Cadre Cory Roush's rating: Average member rating: |
| Slouching Towards Bedlam, by Star Foster and Daniel Ravipinto Cory Roush's rating: Average member rating: In the beginning was the Word, and it was hungry. ... |
| Snowblind Aces, by C.E.J. Pacian Cory Roush's rating: Average member rating: Two aces shelter from a snowstorm under the wing of a biplane. They've duelled and played in the air for years. Love is inevitable. But what kind of relationship will they end up in? |
| Snowquest, by Eric Eve Cory Roush's rating: Average member rating: 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. |
| Solarium, by Anya Johanna DeNiro Cory Roush's rating: Average member rating: The year is 1954. One year after mutually assured destruction. And I am trying to find you, through memory and alchemy. Not many people know how the nuclear devastation really happened. But we do. We were... |
| The Space Under the Window, by Andrew Plotkin Cory Roush's rating: Average member rating: 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] |
| Spider and Web, by Andrew Plotkin Cory Roush's rating: Average member rating: A vacation in our lovely country! See the ethnic charms of the countryside, the historic grandeur of the capital city. Taste our traditional cuisine; smell the flowers of the Old Tree. And all without... |
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| Sub Rosa, by Joey Jones, Melvin Rangasamy Cory Roush's rating: Average member rating: A puzzle game about secrets in the Age of Lead. You've spent seventeen years preparing for an infiltration. Stealing the Confessor's secrets is only the beginning: it will all be for nothing if you leave a... |
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| Superluminal Vagrant Twin, by C.E.J. Pacian Cory Roush's rating: Average member rating: A text-only space sim. Ply the spaceways. Make five million credits. Buy back your twin. (Superluminal Vagrant Twin is a shallow but broad exploration game.) |
| Taco Fiction, by Ryan Veeder Cory Roush's rating: Average member rating: Taco Fiction is a game about crime. |
| Tangaroa Deep, by Astrid Dalmady Cory Roush's rating: Average member rating: We know more about space than we do about the ocean. Isn’t it time to start changing that? Released for the 2016 Spring Thing |
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| Three-Card Trick, by Chandler Groover Cory Roush's rating: Average member rating: You're going to perform a three-card trick or your name isn't Morgan the Magnificent. |
| Toby's Nose, by Chandler Groover Cory Roush's rating: Average member rating: A murder most foul has been committed and Sherlock Holmes is on the case. You are his dog. |
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| Transparent, by Hanon Ondricek Cory Roush's rating: Average member rating: 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.... |
| Trials of the Thief-Taker, by Joey Jones Cory Roush's rating: Average member rating: In London, 1729, before they had police, they had you: thief-takers, hunting criminals for cash! Fire a flintlock and sip gin in the age of powdered wigs. Will you grow rich catching smugglers and... |
| Trouble in Sector 471, by Arthur DiBianca Cory Roush's rating: Average member rating: The power just went out in Sector 471. You had better go take a look. (The Glulx version was entered in IFComp 2022. A browser-based version was released subsequently, in 2024.) |
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| Violet, by Jeremy Freese Cory Roush's rating: Average member rating: 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] |
| The Weapon, by Sean Barrett Cory Roush's rating: Average member rating: |
| Whom The Telling Changed, by Aaron A. Reed Cory Roush's rating: Average member rating: The people had always gathered on moonless nights to hear the stories, since the time of their ancestors' ancestors. The heat of the fire and the glow in the storyteller's eyes made the past present, and the... |
| Wisher, Theurgist, Fatalist, by Xavid Cory Roush's rating: Average member rating: From the ranks of the people you have been raised up as a Wisher— ... |
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