'Mid the Sagebrush and the Cactus, by Victor Gijsbers Katrisa's rating: 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... |
> by @, by Aaron A. Reed Katrisa's rating: Average member rating: (24 ratings) On the surface, > seems to be a traditional adventure game, featuring treasure, an NPC, a puzzle, and a happy ending. However, matters are complicated by the realization that the work's purported author is... |
50 Shades of Jilting, by Rowan Lipkovits (as Lankly Lockers) Katrisa's rating: Average member rating: (13 ratings) The relationship is in a walking dead situation: it's over, only continuing to move onward solely on inertia. One way or another, it ends here. |
69,105 Keys, by David Welbourn Katrisa's rating: Average member rating: (80 ratings) There's just one room. How hard can it be? Just unlock the door. Oh. There's 69,105 keys. |
80 DAYS, by inkle, Meg Jayanth Katrisa's rating: Average member rating: (100 ratings) 1872, with a steampunk twist. Phileas Fogg has wagered he can circumnavigate the world in just eighty days. Choose your own route around a 3D globe, travelling by airship, submarine, mechanical camel,... |
9:05, by Adam Cadre Katrisa's rating: Average member rating: (544 ratings) 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. |
Ad Verbum, by Nick Montfort Katrisa's rating: Average member rating: (136 ratings) "With the cantankerous Wizard of Wordplay evicted from his mansion, the worthless plot can now be redeveloped. The city regulations declare, however, that the rip-down job can't proceed until all the items... |
Aisle, by Sam Barlow Katrisa's rating: Average member rating: (326 ratings) "Late Thursday night. You've had a hard day and the last thing you need is this: shopping. Luckily, the place is pretty empty and you're progressing rapidly. On to the next aisle... Aisle started out as a... |
Alabaster, by John Cater, Rob Dubbin, Eric Eve, Elizabeth Heller, Jayzee, Kazuki Mishima, Sarah Morayati, Mark Musante, Emily Short, Adam Thornton, Ziv Wities Katrisa's rating: Average member rating: (124 ratings) 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.... |
All Roads, by Jon Ingold Katrisa's rating: Average member rating: (156 ratings) "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] |
Anchorhead, by Michael Gentry Katrisa's rating: Average member rating: (409 ratings) 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... |
The Axolotl Project, by Samantha Vick Katrisa's rating: Average member rating: (54 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... |
A Beauty Cold and Austere, by Mike Spivey Katrisa's rating: Average member rating: (61 ratings) 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.... |
Bee, by Emily Short Katrisa's rating: Average member rating: (89 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... |
Beyond, by Roberto Grassi, Paolo Lucchesi, and Alessandro Peretti Katrisa's rating: Average member rating: (45 ratings) A mysterious death, a secret to be revealed… and someone who wants to know the truth, at any cost. ... |
Birdland, by Brendan Patrick Hennessy Katrisa's rating: Average member rating: (173 ratings) Fourteen-year-old Bridget's summer camp experience takes a turn for the bizarre when her otherworldly bird dreams start bleeding into reality. |
Blighted Isle, by Eric Eve Katrisa's rating: Average member rating: (43 ratings) 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... |
Blue Lacuna, by Aaron A. Reed Katrisa's rating: Average member rating: (114 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... |
Bronze, by Emily Short Katrisa's rating: Average member rating: (290 ratings) 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. |
Castle of the Red Prince, by C.E.J. Pacian Katrisa's rating: Average member rating: (55 ratings) Welcome to Amaranth, foreigner. The Red Prince haunts your dreams, you say? If you want to overthrow our tyrant, you’ll need to consider this whole blighted land at once. (Castle of the Red Prince is a... |
Castle, Forest, Island, Sea, by Hide&Seek Katrisa's rating: Average member rating: (18 ratings) 'Castle, Forest, Island, Sea' is a choose-your-own-adventure story that explores key questions in philosophy. Where will your chosen path lead you? From bickering birds to scary monsters, choose your quest... |
A Colder Light, by Jon Ingold Katrisa's rating: Average member rating: (19 ratings) The last light has gone. The stars are coming out in the black sea above. Many are hidden by ice-fingered winds. My father is still not returned and the fire is almost gone. But this is how life is: always... |
Counterfeit Monkey, by Emily Short Katrisa'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... |
The Cove, by Kathleen M. Fischer Katrisa's rating: Average member rating: (21 ratings) |
De Baron, by Victor Gijsbers Katrisa's rating: Average member rating: (166 ratings) 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 Like Ants, by C.E.J. Pacian Katrisa's rating: Average member rating: (60 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... |
Death off the Cuff, by Simon Christiansen Katrisa's rating: Average member rating: (54 ratings) They all stare at you expectantly, like children waiting to be told a bedtime story. Who can blame them? You are, after all, Antoine Saint Germain, the great French detective. No criminal has ever been a... |
Dinner Bell, by Jenni Polodna Katrisa's rating: 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... |
The Elysium Enigma, by Eric Eve Katrisa's rating: Average member rating: (78 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, Nameless, by Adam Cadre Katrisa's rating: Average member rating: (56 ratings) The first time I ever saw someone play a text adventure was in fifth grade. One of the sixth-graders didn't go to outdoor ed, and therefore spent the week in my fifth-grade classroom, playing Scott Adams's... |
The Endling Archive, by Kazuki Mishima Katrisa's rating: Average member rating: (30 ratings) Browse the Endling Archive to uncover the purpose of its creation. |
Everybody Dies, by Jim Munroe Katrisa's rating: Average member rating: (107 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.... |
Exhibition, by Ian Finley Katrisa's rating: Average member rating: (27 ratings) "The Hartman Gallery extends their invitation to an exhibition of Anatoly Domokov's "American Paintings." Who draws the line between art and life? HTML enhanced." [--blurb from Competition '99] |
A Family Supper, by Emily Short, Richard Evans, Linden Lab Katrisa's rating: Average member rating: (2 ratings) The Quinn family is hosting a small house party, but an unconventional guest threatens their peace with sonnets, vegetarianism, and a gift for finding everyone's sore points. When secrets start coming to... |
Frankenstein, by Dave Morris and inkle Katrisa's rating: Average member rating: (6 ratings) This unique literary app places you in conversation with Frankenstein himself as his story unfolds. He will be your guide, and you his advisor. Console, counsel or condemn him: the choice is yours. Written... |
Galatea, by Emily Short Katrisa's rating: Average member rating: (346 ratings) Emily Short's description: A conversation with a work of art. "47. Galatea. White Thasos marble. Non-commissioned work by the late Pygmalion of Cyprus. (The artist has since committed suicide.) Originally... |
Glass, by Emily Short Katrisa's rating: Average member rating: (108 ratings) 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... |
Gun Mute, by C.E.J. Pacian Katrisa's rating: Average member rating: (156 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... |
Hallowmoor, by Mike Snyder Katrisa's rating: Average member rating: (18 ratings) Your quest: infiltrate Castle Hallowmoor, find the potion, and make it out alive. This is a Halloween-themed adventure -- hypertext interactive fiction playable in most modern web browsers. |
Hana Feels, by Gavin Inglis Katrisa's rating: Average member rating: (64 ratings) 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... |
Jigsaw, by Graham Nelson Katrisa's rating: Average member rating: (84 ratings) New Year's Eve, 1999, a quarter to midnight and where else to be but Century Park! Fireworks cascade across the sky, your stomach rumbles uneasily, music and lasers howl across the parkland... Not exactly... |
Kerkerkruip, by Victor Gijsbers Katrisa's rating: Average member rating: (70 ratings) Kerkerkruip is a short-form roguelike in the interactive fiction medium, featuring meaningful tactical and strategic depth, innovative game play, zero grinding, and a sword & sorcery setting that does not... |
Little Blue Men, by Michael S. Gentry Katrisa's rating: Average member rating: (71 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... |
Lock & Key, by Adam Cadre Katrisa's rating: Average member rating: (78 ratings) |
Love, Hate and the Mysterious Ocean Tower, by C.E.J. Pacian Katrisa's rating: Average member rating: (43 ratings) |
Map, by Ade McT Katrisa's rating: Average member rating: (33 ratings) The house is growing. Or perhaps it's you who is shrinking. And with all this extra space is coming....time. Time enough, maybe, to make some changes. |
Masquerade, by Kathleen M. Fischer Katrisa's rating: 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... |
The Matter of the Great Red Dragon, by Jonas Kyratzes Katrisa's rating: Average member rating: (13 ratings) As is written in the Book of the Carvings of Narm, every one hundred years the Great Red Dragon rises from his lair in the Clawed Mountain, and descends with terrible fire on all the people of the Land of... |
maybe make some change, by Aaron A. Reed Katrisa's rating: Average member rating: (14 ratings) Inspired by the Maywand district killings in Afghanistan, 'maybe make some change' explores a frozen battlefield moment from six violently conflicting perspectives. |
Olivia's Orphanorium, by Sam Kabo Ashwell Katrisa's rating: Average member rating: (24 ratings) Sparky young entrepreneur Olivia sets out to fulfil her dream of running an orphanage. The beatings will continue until morale improves. |
Patrick, by michael lutz Katrisa's rating: Average member rating: (27 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. |
Photopia, by Adam Cadre Katrisa's rating: Average member rating: (568 ratings) "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." |
Play Nice, by alicethornburgh Katrisa's rating: Average member rating: (7 ratings) Navigate the choppy waters of intergalactic politics using your smart social skills and a series of bizarre cultural rules. |
The Primrose Path, by Nolan Bonvouloir Katrisa's rating: 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 . . . |
Pytho's Mask, by Emily Short Katrisa's rating: Average member rating: (71 ratings) On the Night of the Comet, the usual astrological bonds do not hold, and the order of the universe is threatened. It is a time made for rebels and usurpers, and all who would claim the kingdom for... |
Rameses, by Stephen Bond Katrisa's rating: Average member rating: (127 ratings) |
rendition, by nespresso Katrisa's rating: Average member rating: (38 ratings) 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... |
Restless, by Emily Short Katrisa's rating: Average member rating: (4 ratings) You've been haunting old Mrs Fagles for decades. Now she's sold the house, and the new owner's moved in. Sylvie's broke, bad at plumbing, and anxious about everything. And with a living, breathing, fretting... |
Robin & Orchid, by Ryan Veeder and Emily Boegheim Katrisa's rating: Average member rating: (65 ratings) High school journalists spend the night in a church, investigating reports of a ghost. |
The Sadness of Rocky Barbato, by PaperBlurt Katrisa's rating: Average member rating: (5 ratings) An old porn star reflects about his life... Contemplating choices made and if penetration truly has led to happiness or if there's another hole in his life that needs to be filled. But what’s missing? |
Shade, by Andrew Plotkin Katrisa's rating: Average member rating: (421 ratings) "A one-room game set in your apartment." [--blurb from Competition Aught-Zero] |
Slap That Fish, by Peter Nepstad Katrisa's rating: Average member rating: (32 ratings) This time, those fishy bastards are finally going to get what's coming to them. |
Snack Time!, by Hardy the Bulldog and Renee Choba Katrisa's rating: Average member rating: (61 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] |
Spider and Web, by Andrew Plotkin Katrisa's rating: Average member rating: (318 ratings) 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... |
Superluminal Vagrant Twin, by C.E.J. Pacian Katrisa's rating: Average member rating: (131 ratings) 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.) |
Suveh Nux, by David Fisher Katrisa's rating: Average member rating: (228 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. |
Tapestry, by Daniel Ravipinto Katrisa's rating: Average member rating: (44 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... |
Tenth Plague, by Lynnea Dally Katrisa's rating: Average member rating: (28 ratings) You are thrust into earthly existence to fulfill the tenth and final plague. |
Tethered, by Linus Åkesson Katrisa's rating: Average member rating: (32 ratings) "I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly, dreaming I am a man."... |
The Thing About Dungeons, by Brendan Patrick Hennessy Katrisa's rating: Average member rating: (16 ratings) An interactive short story (about dungeons). |
Toby's Nose, by Chandler Groover Katrisa's rating: Average member rating: (120 ratings) A murder most foul has been committed and Sherlock Holmes is on the case. You are his dog. |
Violet, by Jeremy Freese Katrisa's rating: Average member rating: (389 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] |
The Warbler's Nest, by Jason McIntosh Katrisa's rating: Average member rating: (92 ratings) Surely the reed bank counts as a wild place. While it gives you so much, you've never tended it, not really, not like you do with your garden. It's something like the forest, then, but much safer to search... |
Whom The Telling Changed, by Aaron A. Reed Katrisa's rating: Average member rating: (64 ratings) 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... |
Worlds Apart, by Suzanne Britton Katrisa's rating: Average member rating: (91 ratings) For over 20 years, I dreamed about an alternate universe I called the Higher World. For three of those years, I poured almost all of my creative energy into a novel-length story set in that universe. Worlds... |
Writers Are Not Strangers, by Lynda Clark Katrisa's rating: Average member rating: (12 ratings) The meteorite could hit tomorrow, or in an hour, or six months from now. No-one seems to know, and so life goes on as normal. Although, for Alix, normal is relative. Please click the 'Show Stats' button for... |