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♥Magical Makeover♥, by S. Woodson
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"You hold in your hand a pink, heart-shaped card daubed in rosewater and oil of jasmine — an invitation to the Princess Philantha's Grand Equinox Ball. In gilded, sweeping, sweet-smelling calligraphy, the...

+ = x, by Chandler Groover
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An equation is a language, which is a road to move information. All matter is information. Even a crust trimmed from a sandwich. Even a planet's crust, adrift in space, with its core blown. Those lights are...

10pm, by litrouke
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10pm, and dinner is still sitting in the oven. The TV is droning. The front door is closed. You look at the clock. You look at the door. You wait. --- Content warnings: profanity, allusions to sex and...

16 Ways to Kill a Vampire at McDonalds, by Abigail Corfman
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You're a vampire hunter on your night off. You're getting a manicure, seeing a movie, and eating fast food. But there's a vampire in this McDonalds. If you don't do something, then in one hour it will eat...

1958: Dancing With Fear, by Victor Ojuel
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"Dancing with Fear" (1958, directed by Víctor Ojuel). In this forgotten classic of Golden Age Hollywood, a vedette fallen on hard times (Salomé Vélez) finds herself enmeshed in a tangle of political...

4 Edith + 2 Niki, by fishandbeer
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How to renew an old story? Put some new circumstances into the game. An old dating sim of mine, made for Twiny Jam is completed with a few new details.

4x4 Archipelago, by Agnieszka Trzaska
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Adventure waits for you in a procedurally generated Archipelago! Discover strange new lands. Make a fortune from trading. Swing a Really Big Sword at a dragon. Fight wild beasts – or turn them into your...

50 Shades of Jilting, by Rowan Lipkovits (as Lankly Lockers)
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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.

80 DAYS, by inkle, Meg Jayanth
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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 Secret Steps, by mathbrush
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A hypertext fiction based on the They Might Be Giants song of the same name. Choose what to sacrifice as you enter a mystic society. Play time less than 15 minutes. Three endings.

9:05, by Adam Cadre
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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.

The Absence of Miriam Lane, by Abigail Corfman
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Sometimes people give pieces of themselves away....

Accidental Character Generator, by caeth
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19 types of creatures you can be! ~50000 different name combinations! 64 hobbies to have! 16+ personality types + 12 zodiac signs! 40+ pointless anecdotes! possibilities that I'm not willing to count! one...

The Act of Misdirection, by Callico Harrison
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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...

Ad Verbum, by Nick Montfort
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"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...

Age of Fable, by James Hutchings
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Age of Fable is a free role-playing game which you play through your web browser. Its style is deliberately 'retro', based on the gamebooks whose popularity peaked in the 80s such as Fighting Fantasy, Lone...

Aisle, by Sam Barlow
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"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
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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....

Alias 'The Magpie', by J. J. Guest
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Sir Rodney Playfair, gentleman thief, has a simple plan: impersonate a psychiatrist, infiltrate a country house, steal a priceless Egyptian scarab and make it back to London in time for cocktails. All in a...

All Hail The King!, by Luke Skytrekker
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Your father the King has died in a tragic accident involving a salute of cannonry, and now you must succeed him to the throne! Elect two courtiers to your Cabinet, annoy your creepy Chancellor, and determine...

ALL I WANT IS FOR ALL OF MY FRIENDS TO BECOME INSANELY POWERFUL, by Porpentine
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happy valentwine's day please turn on your speakers and your monitor and your mouse and your keyboard when you play this thank you

All Your Time-Tossed Selves, by Porpentine
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a story made in Google Forms

Almost Goodbye, by Aaron A Reed
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Almost Goodbye is an experiment in minimalist procedural content generation for interactive narratives. It does not try to generate a whole story or plot points from scratch, but instead asks what is the...
Alter Ego, by Peter J. Favaro
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The game allows the user to make decisions for an imaginary person (being therefore the player's alter ego) and shows what possible consequences these decisions could have on that person. Alter Ego is...

And a Hippo New Year, by Adri ("Erin Gigglecreek")
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'Twas the night before Christmas when all through the house, the only creature stirring was a hippo the size of a mouse. This game was created for Yuletide 2012, an annual fanfiction exchange. It is based in...

And the Robot Horse You Rode in On, by Anna Anthropy
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Diode emerges from the porta-tent, yawning and cracking open a canteen. She takes a long swig. "Evening, bandita." Then she comes over to you and plants her foot on the top of your head. "i’ll be honest: i...

And Then You Come to a House Not Unlike the Previous One, by B.J. Best
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Title: Infinite Adventure Year: 1986 Genre: Adventure Summary: Wander through an apparently infinite number of spooky mansions, solving a basic puzzle in each one. ForgottenGames.com rating: ★ ★ ★

Aquarium, by Hannah Powell-Smith
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You're seventeen. It's dark in here. Aquarium is a story game about skipping school with a cute boy. There are multiple endings. You can play in your browser on most devices - Internet Explorer will not...

Arcane Intern (Unpaid), by Astrid Dalmady
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Getting coffee, making copies, tampering with powers beyond your control. You know, normal intern things. Now if only you were getting paid for it...

At King Arthur's Christmas Feast, by Travis Moy
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One Christmas at Camelot in charged a strange fellow, a giant man all green, great axe in hand, and called out a challenge in the court of King Arthur: "Bequeath me one blow, behead me clean, and then, in...

Ataraxia, by Lauren O'Donoghue
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Ataraxia is a neighbourhood simulator in text adventure form. Inspired by folk horror, mystery and landscape narratives, you play as a newly-arrived traveller on a remote island. Explore the world. Settle...

The Axolotl Project, by Samantha Vick
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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...

Babel, by Ian Finley
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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...

The Ballroom, by Liza Daly
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You arrived at the ballroom well after midnight. The End.

Bandersnatch, by Charlie Brooker, David Slade
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In 1984, a young programmer begins to question reality as he adapts a dark fantasy novel into a video game. A mind-bending tale with multiple endings. Starring: Fionn Whitehead, Will Poulter, Craig...

A Bear's Night Out, by David Dyte
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"Tomorrow is the big Teddy Bear party, and you must definitely not let your owner forget about it..." [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue]

Beautiful Dreamer, by S. Woodson
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"Outside, the chill wind wails and tears the leaves from their branches. Gusts of wind scour the muddy sidewalks; gusts of wind roar through the alleys between buildings. Before one gust can fade, another...

Beet the Devil, by Carolyn VanEseltine
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Your dog is gone. She must be brought. You have a beet (and some other vegetables).

Before the End of the World, by Silverstring Media
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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...

Begscape, by Porpentine
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highly randomized fantasy begging sim or bleak slot machine poem

Behind the Door, by eejitlikeme
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It all started around a month ago, when you received the first postcard with imprinted exotic flowers and beautiful butterflies. The postcards continued to arrive in your mailbox - without any text apart...

Bell Park, Youth Detective, by Brendan Patrick Hennessy
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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.

Best of Three, by Emily Short
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Beware The Faerie Food You Eat, by Astrid Dalmady
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They say that some of the faerie folk can grant wishes, that they can give gifts to that who gain their favor. Now, you’ve found a portal into their world and you’re ready to step through and claim that...

Bigger Than You Think, by Andrew Plotkin
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Bigger Than You Think is a choice-based interactive narrative. This game was written for the Yuletide 2012 fanfic exchange. The game was inspired -- perhaps loosely -- by Randall Munroe's comic xkcd-1110:...

Birdland, by Brendan Patrick Hennessy
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Fourteen-year-old Bridget's summer camp experience takes a turn for the bizarre when her otherworldly bird dreams start bleeding into reality.

Black Marker, by Michael Kielstra
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Hidden in the shadows, the Agency works for the safety of the citizens. If your goals or beliefs do not appear to align with those of the Agency, you are liable to find yourself in trouble. There are those...

Black Rock City, by Jim Munroe
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You're at Burning Man, with six choices to make before the world goes white. Choose wisely. Or wildly. The dust storm won't care. Zero puzzles, sixty-four endings. Cover: Trish Lamanna

Blind Date from Hell, by rook
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Guro/gore dating sim. Disturbing and sexual themes. Not for the faint of heart. Trigger warnings are in the game. Two characters with five unlockable endings each! A blind date goes horribly, horribly wrong...

Blockchain Goose, by Samuel Garcia (Neo Generation Games)
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A crypto-fairy tale based on the Golden Goose.

Body Bargain, by Amanda Lange
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Your surgery went very well. But you couldn't really afford it... Be aware that this is a work of horror. This game involves situations that may be violent, distressing, disturbing, or triggering. This game...

Bogeyman, by Elizabeth Smyth
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You can go home when you learn to be good.

The Boot-Scraper, by Caleb Wilson (as Lionel Schwob)
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On the night of August 14th, 1799, eight days off St. Stellio, the sloop Meleagris was smashed apart by a storm. Most of the crew and passengers alike were crushed by fallen rigging, or drowned, or eaten by...

Brain Guzzlers from Beyond!, by Steph Cherrywell
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You are Bonnie Noodleman, Ordinary Well-Adjusted Teen-Ager, on an ordinary well-adjusted drive up Make-Out Mountain--until some gooey monstrosity from beyond the stars guzzles your boyfriend's brains clean...

brevity quest, by Chris Longhurst
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it's a quest!

Briar, by Hanon Ondricek
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You are young, dumb, and full of hope for the future; on a secret quest that may change your life forever! Or it may end in death and utter humliation. Good thing you're not really all that bright. This is...

Bring Me A Head!, by Chandler Groover
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Better hope you can hack it. A Grand Guignol entry for ECTOCOMP 2016.

Bronze, by Emily Short
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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.

Bubblegum Slaughter, by Merritt Kopas
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A text-based magical girl RPG with turn-based combat and the ache of broken innocence.

Burning Temples, by ghostwrassler
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wake up as the holy being you are in your lonely temple accrue followers, spruce the place up, witness some things three endings depending on what kind of god you decide to be.. choose wisely

Cactus Blue Motel, by Astrid Dalmady
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Somewhere between New Mexico and Arizona, three friends were driving through a barren desert of red rocks, and wide empty skies. It was the end of summer, the end of high school, the end of so many things....

Calm, by Joey Jones and Melvin Rangasamy
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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...

Cape, by Bruno Dias
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Cape is a superhero origin story for the cyberpunk dystopia we're all living in.

Carpathian Vampire, by Garry Francis
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Deep in the Carpathian Mountains, the Romanian villagers tell tales of the strigoi. The strigoi are said to be troubled spirits that have risen from the grave. They are attributed with the abilities to...

Castle of the Red Prince, by C.E.J. Pacian
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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 small...

A Castle of Thread, by Marshal Tenner Winter
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Your family is known to be expert language keepers in your village. Your specialty is an ancient, dead language called Ixteesh. You never thought it would be useful for much of anything, but then you are...

The Castle of Vourtram, by Alexandre Torres
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The Kingdom of Gwalinad is in its last days of existence. The evil wizard Vourtram, aided by an army of demoniac creatures, razed most of the old cities, spreading terror everywhere. When the capital...

Castle, Forest, Island, Sea, by Hide&Seek
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'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...

Cat Petting Simulator 2014, by neongrey
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The most realistic and verismilitudinous text-based simulation of petting a cat ever written.

Charlie The Robot, by Fernando Contreras
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Earth is overpopulated and low on resources: the puppies, the kitties, and the fishies are all gone. There are not enough jobs, yet Hiremy & Hirschl has employed robots as middle management staff, which...

Cheeseshop, by David Welbourn
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An interactive re-creation of Monty Python’s Cheeseshop sketch, where you try to buy some cheese.

Chloe Is Home, by KhairikaSinani
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A flatmate group chat unknowingly welcomes an uninvited guest into their midst. Part of the Interact-If's 2022 Game Jam. PS- This is my first game jam ever, and I'd like to thank Brushmen for offering his...

Choice of the Dragon, by Dan Fabulich and Adam Strong-Morse
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Play as a fire-breathing dragon who sleeps on gold and kidnaps princesses for fun! Choice of the Dragon is a free text-based game of multiple choice. Dominate the local kingdom, loot and pillage, and inspire...

Choices: And The Sun Went Out, by Tin Man Games: KG Tan, Alyce Potter, and Felicity Banks
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Three months ago, the sun went out. After three hours it came back, but the effects of its absence are global. You are a Private Investigator hired to research this phenomenon. Moti is the AI worn on your...

Choices: And Their Souls Were Eaten, by Tin Man Games, Felicity Banks
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You have a gift. With your gift, the dead are never truly gone. But what if there is a dark side to your gift? What if there are those who can pervert your talent, and alter the balance of life and death?...

Chuk and the Arena, by Agnieszka Trzaska
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Fight in the Grand Galactic Tournament to get back your planet's stolen moon!

Cinnamon Tea, by Daffs O'Dill
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You've only heard that one could see past or future lives through the use of certain teas, and a good rest. Surely you weren't expecting this. [This game contains a death scene, blood in multiple cases, and...

climbing 208 feet up the ruin wall, by Porpentine
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-OVER 207 FEET -MORE THAN 1,000,000 PROCEDURALLY GENERATED VINES -REALISTIC WEATHER SYSTEM -LOOKS LIKE WE GOT A “CLIMB”-INAL INVESTIGATION

Closed Door; Key?, by KnightAnNi
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Closed Door; Key? is an interactive fiction game based on the seed "Room; Closed Door" by Charm Cochran. The challenge from this seed was to make an escape room game using Twine and using only nouns or...

Cold Iron, by Andrew Plotkin (as Lyman Clive Charles)
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Your good axe has gone missing. Reverd Pearson would say you're a careless lunkhead who'd lose his ear if it wasn't nailed on. You figure he's right, a man of the cloth, but that doesn't mean piskeys didn't...
Coming Out Simulator 2014, by Nicky Case
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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...

The Compass Rose, by Yoon Ha Lee and Peter Berman
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There's more than one north by which to guide a world. The survivor of a space raid colonizes a new world with the aid of a compass rose.

Computerfriend, by Kit Riemer
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The year is 1999. The place is Godfield, Louisiana: the tech capital of the world, where the sky bleeds acid and the mud boils in the bayou. It’s time for your state-mandated digital therapy.

Conscientia - The Book of Eidos, by Bruce Burns and Eliot Corley
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Eidos. An immortal traveler in a world that is unknown to her. Where will she go in her exploration? What is her purpose? What will be her fate and the fate of all that she encounters? The answers to these...

Counterfeit Monkey, by Emily Short
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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
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Craverly Heights, by Ryan Veeder
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Take on the role of Doctor Langridge, whose patient, Janine, is very sick.

creak, creak, by chandler groover
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"You have to look." 111 words. Made for Porpentine's Twiny Jam.

Creatures Such As We, by Lynnea Glasser
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A dating sim about how humanity connects through art, even out in the vastness of space.

Crossroads, by Cat Manning
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They say it's death to seek the witch. For you, it's worth the risk. Venture in to the forest in search of relief, but remember that magic is rarely straightforward. A short psychological game about...

CRY$TAL WARRIOR KE$HA, by Porpentine
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THIS GAME IS CANON SPREAD MY GAME SO I CAN GET ON STAGE WITH KE$HA SAVE MUSIC MUSIC IS REAL EVEN IF YOU DONT CARE ABOUT MUSIC OR BELIEVE MUSIC EXISTS, HELP ME GET ONSTAGE WITH MY BIGGEST #IDOL #KESHA A GIRL...

CYBERQUEEN, by Porpentine
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integration necessitates evisceration

A Dark Room, by Michael Townsend
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A Dark Room is a famous text-based indie game made by doublespeakgames, which was inspired by Candy Box, but it's much grimmer in tone, with a stronger plot and a more roguelike-like focus on survival. And...
Daymare #1: "Ritual", by Kitty Horrorshow
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Taken from the website: "the first in an ongoing series of stream-of-consciousness interactive horror fantasies. this one is particularly autobiographical. tw: suicide, dysphoria, emotional abuse,...

Deadline Enchanter, by Alan DeNiro
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Death off the Cuff, by Simon Christiansen
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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...

Depression Quest, by Zoe Quinn, Patrick Lindsey, Isaac Schankler
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"An interactive (non)fiction about living with depression." The player of this multimedia hypertext game is given a series of everyday life events, and has to attempt to manage their illness, relationships,...

Detectiveland, by Robin Johnson
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New Losago, 1929 - a town full of creeps, clowns, mobsters and, if you know where to look, the occasional honest citizen. Guide private investigator Lanson Rose through a series of puzzling cases: solve the...

Dial C for Cupcakes, by Ryan Veeder
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A cantankerous ex-cop calls in a favor from his old partner.

Dig My Grave, by Ryan Veeder
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For reasons which remain obscure, it is your job to dig a grave. Written for the Apollo 18+20 tribute album project.

Digital Witnesses, by rosencrantz
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You are on the run, but why? A short fiction created in twenty-three Twine passages, prompted by a challenge on Twinery.org.

Dinner with Andre, by Liza Daly
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"A date by candlelight in a fine restaurant. Should be a perfect evening." [--blurb from Competition Aught-Zero]

Doki Doki Literature Club, by Team Salvato
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Hi, Monika here! Welcome to the Literature Club! It's always been a dream of mine to make something special out of the things I love. Now that you're a club member, you can help me make that dream come true...

Doppeljobs, by Lei
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You are a young doppelganger, fresh out of School of Humanity, finally realizing your life-long dream to own a human-centric business. You offer a unique service: imitation on demand, living through...

Dr Horror's House of Terror, by Ade McT
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The Grave cannot hold them...Nothing human can stop them...Torn from their tombs to terrify the world, the cravings of their undead blood made them kill...kill...KILL! Feel the chill of the crypt in your...

Draculaland, by Robin Johnson
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A terse, comic horror puzzle game based loosely on Dracula, faithfully reimagining several characters and ignoring most of the original plot. Guide Jonathan Harker on a trip through Transylvania, interacting...

Dragon Fate, by Kris Schnee
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In the hills of Gerrick's Boon, strange stories reach your ears. Alchemy, a rare art elsewhere, here seems more commonly taught than reading. Judging from the wordless shop signs lining the four dirt...
Draw Everything You See That's Mine and Yours, by kaleidofish
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A story about a casual relationship between two men that grows into something more over the years....

The Dream Self, by Florencia Minuzzi
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'I want to get to know you'. It's just another year of your normal London life – work, eat, sleep. However, in your dreams you keep meeting a translucent stranger, a person cloaked in clouds. Who are they,...

Dungeon Detective, by Wonaglot, Caitlin Mulvihill
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You're a gnoll. Whether that's a blessing or a curse is up to you. Unlike other gnolls, you're trying to eke out a simple existence by plying your trade - that of the world's first Dungeon Detective. Amass...

Eat Me, by Chandler Groover
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In this castle, you'll eat or be eaten. May contain dairy, carnage, puzzles, nuts.

Eden, by Gaming Pixie
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In Eden, you’re a scientist faced with a choice: risk your life and career for someone else who's beautiful, but "not even human" or look out for Number One. And that's just the beginning. Can you really...

Eidolon, by A.D. Jansen
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When you wake up, something is passing through the night sky.

Erstwhile, by Aster (formally Maddie) Fialla, Marijke Perry
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The neighborhood Thanksgiving party was going pretty well until you keeled over and died. Now you're a ghost, and you're going to figure out who killed you. But you can't exactly interview people or search...

Escape from the Crazy Place, by J. J. Guest, Loz Etheridge and friends
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You've been locked in a padded cell for no obvious reason with only a deranged hamburger-eating clown for company. The cell doesn't even have a door. So begins an adventure that will take you to many places...

Esther's, by Brad Buchanan and Alleson Buchanan
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At Esther's cafe your adorable host Served cheese to the mice when they wanted toast! That won't bother Harold's robust appetite, But Janie insists that the order's not right. Author's Postmortem

Eurydice, by Anonymous
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A short game about grief, with occasional snakes.

Exile's Rose, by Anonymous
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Your friends and enemies may laugh to hear this, but you do endeavour, in fact, to stay out of trouble. After a fashion. You try to count your rostygold before you wager it, keep the Strangling Willow in ...

Fabricationist DeWit Remakes the World, by Jedediah Berry
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After a sleep of centuries, a synthetic being receives an unexpected visitor—along with a new role in the Great Project.

Fairest, by Amanda Walker
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“Mirror, mirror, on the wall,” you say dreamily, gazing into its sparkling surface… “You know,” replies the mirror, “I can do a lot more than just reflect fair faces. O, how I long to leap off this wall! I...

The Fairy Woods, by rosencrantz
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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...

Fallen London, by Failbetter Games
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Poet or Assassin? Lover or Spy? Choose your fate in Fallen London, a gothic metropolis a mile beneath the surface of the earth. An epic adventure where you live a sometimes horrific, often curious, but...

The Familiar, by groggydog
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You are a witch's crow familiar, headstrong as anything but still young and untested. What starts as a normal day soon takes a harrowing turn when your pacific caretaker, Valmai, is struck down by a terrible...

Fingertips: I Hear the Wind Blow, by Jacqueline A. Lott
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Fish Bowl, by Ethan Rupp and Joshua Rupp
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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...

Foo Foo, by Buster Hudson
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Someone's been bopping the field mice on the head, and only Good Fairy, Senior Detective can find out who. A parser-driven noir adventure based on the interactive fiction of Ryan Veeder.

Four Sittings in a Sinking House, by Bruno Dias
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The thing about sinking is: the sea is not a void. If you're sinking, you're displacing something. A Grand Guignol entry for ECTOCOMP 2016

A Friend to Light Your Way, by verityvirtue
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There may be no incense, no cymbals, no monks at this funeral, but the night watch is mandatory. You've volunteered to take the watch for the first night, and just as well: you can hear him calling. Go round...

The Frog Prince and the Iron Heart, by Celia
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A reimagining of the original tale of the Frog Prince, focusing on the often-forgotten character Iron Heinrich. Made in Twine in 72 hours for Ludum Dare 35, using the theme "shapeshift". It'll probably take...

The Futographer, by Lyle Skains
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Images of you: with a stranger. Images of you: dead and broken. Images of you: in the future. Are they a trick? Are they prophecy? What will you do? ...

Galatea, by Emily Short
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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...

Gent Stickman vs Evil Meat Hand, by AZ / ParserCommander
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Interactive Fiction Parser Game WITHOUT TEXT, just hand drawing graphics. Short, minimalist, difficult puzzles, full of help. Gent Stickman, the drawing in the door of the gentleman toilets must go to save...

Get Lost!, by S. Woodson
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You're a suburban teen, sick of the suburbs. You run away to the land of the fairies, prepared for thrills and danger. Absolutely nothing happens the way you expect. A short Twine game with nine endings,...

Glass, by Emily Short
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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...

The Golden Heist, by George Lockett and Rob Thorman
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The domus aurea. The Golden House. Nero built his crowning marvel, the greatest folly of his reign, on the strength of your father's genius. And then he cast him aside. It's time to get your own back. And,...

The Golden Rose, by Ana Ventura
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You are a recent member of The White Company, a mercenary guild on the far side of the law. Your job consists of hunting artifacts and roaming ruins that the Church has forbidden to mention. One of your...

Goldilocks is a FOX!, by J. J. Guest
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Staggering back from yet another wild student party, blonde bombshell Goldilocks decides to take a shortcut through the enchanted forest. All she really wants is a nice hot bowl of porridge and somewhere to...

GONCHAROV - THE MAFIA HIGHSCHOOL DATING SIMULATOR, by Monday
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Created for Autumn Chen's Goncharov Game Jam! A very, very short highschool dating simulator snippet based on the Tumblr meme Goncharov (1973). Cover art from this picrew.

Goncharov Escapes!, by manonamora
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Play Goncharov, a Russian mobster having moved to Naples, Italy, for... err... reasons. A meeting with the local Don goes haywire, forcing you into a car chase to save your... well, Goncharov's life. As you...

Goncharov: Coda, by Lapin Lunaire Games
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Best played in fullscreen (click the button at the bottom right of the game frame or press F11) Goncharov (1973) stole your heart the very first time you saw it — and now you're living the dream, playing one...

Gourmet, by Aaron A. Reed and Chad Barb
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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...

The Griffin and the Minor Canon, by Frank Stockton, Chandler Groover
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A griffin pays an unwanted visit to a town. Adapted from Frank Stockton's classic short story.

Grimnoir, by ProP
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It's his biggest selling point and it's a cold, hard fact: occult detective Jacob Morris has never lost a case, and he's been in this business a long time. Join him and his singularly skilled colleague...

The Grown-Up Detective Agency, by Brendan Patrick Hennessy
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The only thing Bell Park likes more than a mystery is solving it on her own. But when a time-traveling 12-year-old version of herself lands face-down on her rented co-working desk, she'll have no choice but...

Haiku, by Flaminia Grimaldi
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Sit by the river and write a poem.

Hallowmoor, by Mike Snyder
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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
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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...

Harmonia, by Liza Daly
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Fuller, A. (b. 1966, d.?) 12 chapters, edited by E. Merchant. 091 Manuscripts—096 Illustrated—098 Prohibited works, forgeries, and hoaxes Signed permission from the Dean required for viewing. No exceptions.

Heretic Dreams, by Hannah Powell-Smith
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They would call what you did heresy. No one knows you swallowed the power of a god, but it will break you apart.

Homecoming, by Carolyn VanEseltine
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"Homecoming" is a short, twisted comedy about a newly awakened AI.

How To Be A Blackbird, by Holly Gramazio
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"A game about how to be a blackbird in a city. It takes around 10-15 minutes to play, and is best with sound." --blurb from <http://www.hollygramazio.net/other-games/>
Howled House, by B Minus Seven
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A Petite Mort entry for ECTOCOMP 2016.

howling dogs, by Porpentine
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death cube sim | galactic survey | visionatrix | facet machine | power gardens | women | fascination two significant endings

The Hunt for the Gay Planet, by Anna Anthropy
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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...

HUNTING UNICORN, by Chandler Groover
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A maiden leads a unicorn hunt. Sixteen narrative variants. Choose-your-own-adventure style. Mature thematic elements.

I'm Really Sorry About That Thing I Said When I Was Tired and/or Hungry, by Dietrich Squinkifer (Squinky)
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"I'm Really Sorry About That Thing I Said When I Was Tired and/or Hungry" is a mostly-autobiographical story of how it was like growing up among several different cultures and not really fitting into any of...

I-0, by Anonymous
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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...

In the Woods, by Anna Anthropy
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Insect Hospital, by Loren Sherman
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A hypertext fiction based on the They Might Be Giants song of the same name.
The Intercept, by Jon Ingold and inkle
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Bletchley Park, 1942. A component from the Bombe machine, used to decode intercepted German messages, has gone missing. One of the cryptographers is waiting to be interviewed, under direst suspicion. Is he...
Janitor, by Peter Seebach and Kevin Lynn
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Japanese Rice, by Fionn Murray
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Japanese Rice is an interactive Twine story I created as part of my Master's course. It is a short story from the perspective of an unnamed protagonist who must complete several household chores. Content...

Just Talk to Them, by Raymond Vermeulen
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Sometimes, owning your decisions can be hard. Love can last a moment or a lifetime. But if you want to try and make it last, it's going to require some effort. "What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too...

KING OF BEES IN FANTASY LAND, by Brendan Patrick Hennessy
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A videogame about space bees.

Known Unknowns, by Brendan Patrick Hennessy
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Nadia Nazari has a lot of unknowns to contend with in her Grade 12 year. Like how can she run an entire school newspaper with only one employee? Why has her estranged ex best friend suddenly come back into...

The Kuolema, by Ben Jackson
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This game has now been entirely 'remastered' and released as part of the Spring Thing 2024 competition. An abandoned ship is found adrift in the South China Sea. Its radio is silent and there's no sign of...

Leather Goddesses of Phobos, by Steve Meretzky
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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...

left/right, by chandler groover
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pick one

Let Them Eat Cake, by Alicia Morote
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The small riverside town of Sangnoire holds a deep and dear tradition: the Saving Day Festival. Each year, the citizens gather and offer their best tributes to celebrate the town and its continued existence....

The Libonotus Cup, by Nils Fagerburg
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“You? Win the Libonotus Cup?” Sammy scoffs. “I'd be impressed if your ship even makes it to the starting line tomorrow morning, let alone Portobello.” “Aye,” you say, “me ship may have taken a beating in...

light beneath water, by Anonymous
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Many years later, you will alight at Winking Isle on the sand beside the well, with your face to the sea, to the storming Neath-sky, to the Wax-Wind that sears and tears at your wings, and drop the last of...

Limerick Quest, by Pace Smith
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"To Russia!" you boldly suggest. "This riddle has got me obsessed. We'll search 'till we're blind, and loot what we find! Let's go on a...

little, by chandler groover
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a tiny yarn for ectocomp

little mermaids, by Prynnette
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Tragic mermaid simulator. Made in 2015 for Twiny Jam.

A Long Way to the Nearest Star, by SV Linwood
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A thief on the run from the galactic police finds refuge on an abandoned spaceship. A lonely ship AI finds unexpected company....

Lost Pig, by Admiral Jota
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Pig lost! Boss say that it Grunk fault. Say Grunk forget about closing gate. Maybe boss right. Grunk not remember forgetting, but maybe Grunk just forget. -- IFComp 2007 blurb

Love, Hate and the Mysterious Ocean Tower, by C.E.J. Pacian
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LUNIUM, by Ben Jackson
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Can you escape your chains before the killer strikes again? You wake to find yourself trapped in a room filled with locks and strange contraptions. Someone has locked you in here and identifying them may...

Lux, by Agnieszka Trzaska
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You wander around in darkness – even though the lights are on. Sandra is the only one to survive a mysterious attack on a deep space mining station. She is alive, but has lost her vision. Now Sandra must...

Lyreless, by Bruno Dias
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A man heads into hell to seek out his lost lover; there he has to decide how much of himself to leave behind.

The Magpie Takes the Train, by Mathbrush
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A millionaire guards a fabulous ruby in her private train car. Countless thieves have failed to steal it. But they weren't the Magpie!

Mama Possum, by Bravemule
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Two sisters, a truck driver and a housewife, fend off a Kaiju apocalypse in the Great Smoky Mountains with their mech Mama Possum.

Masks, by lioninthetrees
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Masquerade, by Kathleen M. Fischer
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"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 Master of the Land, by Pseudavid
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> An interactive fiction intrigue in an immersive and dynamic world. A world that changes with every action. Freedom to explore. Radically different playthroughs. Lots of dancing. People wearing skulls. > A...

Mere Anarchy, by Bruno Dias
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“The box is cardboard, a file box; it looks like it should contain years of tax returns. Except the holes on the sides have been shut with black masking tape. Except the lid is held in place with the same...

Midnight. Swordfight., by Chandler Groover
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A fool receives a challenge from a countess. Violence. Sex. Profanity. Sausage.

Minor Arcana, by Jack Sanderson Thwaite
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You have many faces. Your form is multiple. You are the cards. Created many years ago, infused with dark magic, you have seen many things. What secrets do you contain? What visions have you conjured up? How...

Mirror and Queen, by Chandler Groover
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Your mirror never lies. A puzzleless reflection. Fifteen to forty minutes.

Molly and the Butter Thieves, by Alice Grove (as Cosmic Hamster)
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You are Molly Butterfield, dairy farmer extraordinaire. In the past week there have been two mysterious butter disappearances from your own kitchen. There will not be a third. Molly and the Butter Thieves...

The Moonlit Tower, by Yoon Ha Lee
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Muggle Studies, by M. Flourish Klink
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You play as Alice Armstrong, the new Professor of Muggle Studies at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in Scotland, even though you've never heard of "muggles" before and never knew magic was real...

A Murder in Fairyland, by Abigail Corfman
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Prince Blacktree is dead. All of the other fairy nobles are trying to claim credit. You're a traveling Open Sorcerer, and a convenient neutral party who just wants to get out of Fairyland. A whodunit where...

my father's long, long legs, by michael lutz
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A weird tale. Some parts make use of sound, so this game is best played with headphones. One ending.

Night Guard / Morning Star, by Astrid Dalmady
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My mother made a deal. So here I am, working the night shift, alone with her work.

No One Else Is Doing This, by Lauren O'Donoghue
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You are a community organiser. This is your job, four nights out of five; you sell people hope on their doorsteps....

No Parents, by Roscoe
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Kacie and RJ step off the school bus, and there are no parents waiting for any of the kids. Where did they all go? Are they Zombies? Did they all fall asleep? Kacie and her younger brother must figure out...

No Room, by Ben Heaton
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not knowing when the dawn will come, i open every door, by Patrick Fox
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A man goes home to a small town in Quebec to investigate rumours about a haunted house next door to his childhood home.

Off-Season at the Dream Factory, by B.J. Best (writing as “Carroll Lewis")
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As in orcish thought you stand.

Open Up!, by Brendan Patrick Hennessy
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Trin Park's only job while her parents are out of town is to make sure her little sister stays out of trouble. Should be easy enough. The kid usually keeps to herself anyway... (A post-Birdland microgame)

Oppositely Opal, by Buster Hudson
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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...

Orchesterprobe, by Nena Ost
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Ein Orchester studiert ein Stück auf unkonventionelle Weise ein. Ein lustvoller Einblick in die klassische Musik. The player acts within a free-spirited rehearsal of an orchestral piece. An insight full of...

Orifice Clique, by Porpentine
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A Papal Summons, or The Church Cat, by Bitter Karella
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The pope -- the holy father himself! -- has summoned you to Rome for a personal audience. But the Vatican is a massive, bustling city, full of twisting avenues and winding corridors and so many oubliettes,...

The Paper Bag Princess, by Adri
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Princess Elizabeth is about to marry the love of her life when a dragon attacks the castle and kidnaps her betrothed. Based on a book of the same name by Robert Munsch, with permission.

PataNoir, by Simon Christiansen
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The Baron's daughter is missing, and you are the man to find her. No problem. With your inexhaustible arsenal of hard-boiled similes, there is nothing you can't handle.

Patrick, by michael lutz
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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 Periwink, by Jedediah Berry
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It's your last day as her ladyship's groundskeeper—but you still have a little work left to do. A Petite Mort entry for ECTOCOMP 2016.

Photopia, by Adam Cadre
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"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."

Pick Up the Phone Booth and Aisle, by David Dyte, Steve Bernard, Dan Shiovitz, Iain Merrick, Liza Daly, John Cater, Ola Sverre Bauge, J. Robinson Wheeler, Jon Blask, Dan Schmidt, Stephen Granade, Rob Noyes, and Emily Short
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The Play, by Dietrich Squinkifer (Squinky)
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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...

Playing Games, by Kevin Jackson-Mead
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One of the four games in the meta-puzzle for IF Comp 2011. See http://gameshelf.jmac.org/2011/11/cold-iron-my-very-short-if-entry-in-the-comp/ for a short synopsis of the meta-puzzle.

Plundered Hearts, by Amy Briggs
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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...

prepare for return, by Travis Moy
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Entry for SeedComp 2023, sprouting stage. The seed is "other thing" by slugzuki: https://slugzuki.itch.io/seedcomp2

A Primer On The Capture And Identification Of The Little Folk Of Myth And Legend, by Krishan Coupland
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Whilst researching pixies for my short story, "Blue", I stumbled across an ancient-looking field guide at the back of a local bookshop. It was called A Primer On The Capture And Identification Of The Little...

The Princess of Vestria, by K Paulo
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‘Be brave, listen to the voice inside that guides you…’...

Prospero, by Bruno Dias
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A prince and his courtiers retreat to his palace to hide from a deadly plague. Adapted from EA Poe's The Masque of the Red Death.

Puppy Picker, by Brooke Slotsve
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Find the right puppy and keep your dream job!

The Queen's Menagerie, by Chandler Groover
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These beasts won't feed themselves. A puzzleless exhibition. Ten to fifteen minutes.

Quintessence, by Lapin Lunaire Games
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Galina has always been Good. How could she not be? Beloved daughter of the town blacksmith, sweetheart of the farmer's most charming son, and envy of her peers—Galina's life is as close to ideal as it can...

Rainbow Bridge, by John Demeter
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In this tiny game, you play as the angel Gabriel in an isolated cabin with your lover, a mortal man named Demeter. Because of an unexpected crisis, you must now return to the celestial plane. But to get...

Red, by Thomas Insel
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"Don't forget," your mother said, "your Granny's arthritis has been acting up since the weather last week. She's been in bed since Thursday. I need you to take her this basket first thing. When you get back,...

robotsexpartymurder, by Hanon Ondricek
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When suspects and witnesses are “property, not people,” how should those who seek the truth proceed? Date robots. Avert scandal. Bring protection. Content warning: Adult Situations, Language, and Humor,...

RPG-ish, by Stuart Lilford
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A micro-RPG made for Twiny Jam (make a Twine game using 300 words or less).

Scarlet Sails, by Felicity Banks
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Hoist the Jolly Roger and set sail to find the legendary Titan’s Treasure! Do you fight with a cutlass, or with your magical skill? Are you biding your time until you can shoot your captain in the back, or...

Secret Agent Cinder, by Emily Ryan
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Play as a revolutionary agent Cinder. Your mission is to infiltrate the Royal Ball, dodge the guards and steal the Secret Military Plans, all before midnight. The opulence of Versailles disgusts you as you...

The Seers Catalogue, by Sean Michaels
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"Accomplices wanted. Don't weight." ...

Seven Bullets, by Cloud Buchholz
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You're a skilled assassin ready to retire, but before you can call it quits, the Boss kidnaps your little sister, and now you need to use your arsenal of deadly skills to get her back. Will you make the...

Shade, by Andrew Plotkin
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"A one-room game set in your apartment." [--blurb from Competition Aught-Zero]

Shrapnel, by Adam Cadre
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Silver & Gold, by rosencrantz
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These things come in pairs... A sacrifice, a chase, a dark night in a dark city. Silver & Gold is a story told in two voices. Started for a challenge on Twinery.org. Thanks to this Twinery forum post for...

Silver Spooning: Close Encounters with Mr. Right, by A. Hagen
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You are a woman. You just broke up with your boyfriend because he was really boring. It is time to meet someone new. You create an account on Silver Spooning, a dating website for the shamelessly rich. Will...

Six Shots, by Conor Walsh
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Six Shots is a Twine-based text-adventure game with a focus on player choice and branching narrative paths. Your cowboy or cowgirl comes equipped with a revolver that can be fired on almost any screen in the...

Skull-Scraper, by chandler groover
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"Scrape into a skull." Made for the Tiny Utopias Jam.

Skulljhabit, by Porpentine
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kind of like Dampe the gravedigger meets Harvest Moon meets Ligotti.

The Sleeping Princess, by Molly Engelberg, Alex Engelberg, and Mark Engelberg
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You are a pageboy, well, actually you're more like a janitor. Can you wake the sleeping princess? An entry in the IFBeginnersComp.

Slouching Towards Bedlam, by Star Foster and Daniel Ravipinto
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In the beginning was the Word, and it was hungry. ...

Snow White and Rose Red - A Retelling, by Rebecca Thomas
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An interactive retelling of the fairy tale Snow White and Rose Red. (This is my first attempt at creating on Twine, so it's pretty simple. I used a story I wrote on inklewriter to start teaching myself how...

The Space Under the Window, by Andrew Plotkin
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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]

The Spectators, by Amanda Walker
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It is 1560. There are no secrets in the iron-willed Duke d'Este's marriage to his young bride, a girl unprepared for her new role as Duchess. The Duke's army of servants are always present, always watching,...

SPY INTRIGUE, by furkle
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IT'S YOUR FIRST DAY AT SPY SCHOOL, AND YOU'RE READY TO COMMENCE A LIFE OF ESPIONAGE, TRADECRAFT, AND INTRIGUE. THE ONLY PROBLEM IS, EVERY HUMAN EMPLOYEE DIED OF MUMPS JUST THE OTHER DAY. CAN YOU AND THE SOLE...

stone, by Penny Stirling
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Can calcific amatonormativity be cured? An aromantic student struggles with stone and friendship.

Stone Harbor, by Liza Daly
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You're good at what you do: tell tourists pretty lies about love, money, and life after death. That's what people want from a boardwalk psychic, and you deliver. It's not the future you imagined for...

Stuff and Nonsense, by Felicity Banks
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The year is 1860. The place is Bearbrass, Australia: a sprawling metropolis of tin, steel, brick, stone and brass. Queen Victoria is visiting Bearbrass for Australia's own Great Exhibition. All the sharpest...

Suveh Nux, by David Fisher
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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.

Swan Hill, by Laura Michet
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Swan Hill is an interactive story about brothers who have grown apart. It has multiple endings.

Taco Fiction, by Ryan Veeder
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Taco Fiction is a game about crime.

Tailypo, by Chandler Groover
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Alone in his cabin, a hungry man eats something he shouldn't.

Tangaroa Deep, by Astrid Dalmady
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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

Tavern Crawler, by Josh Labelle
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Most fantasy stories are about slaying the dragon. This one is about what happens after that. When you and your companions are approached by a man in a tavern who offers you more gold than you could spend in...

Teeth and Ice, by Hannah Powell-Smith
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A selkie will do anything to reclaim their skin.

That Sinister Self, by Astrid Dalmady
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You look in to a mirror. Your reflection does not look back. That Sinister Self is a short Twine game about a young girl and how she sees herself in the mirror.

their angelical understanding, by Porpentine
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I train to fight angels in a monastery by the sea. Wear headphones. TW: Suicidal ideation, ableism, abuse, possible epilepsy trigger.

The Thick Table Tavern, by manonamora
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One dream. Fourteen days. Serve drinks and gather enough tips to make it happen in time. Or choose chaos and mix whatever you feel like, damned the consequences....

Three-Card Trick, by Chandler Groover
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You're going to perform a three-card trick or your name isn't Morgan the Magnificent.

The Tiniest Room, by Erik108
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An "Escape the Room" kind of game made with less than 300 words for the Twiny Jam.

tiny tarot, by Chelsea Stearns
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78 cards. 300 words. focus, breathe, and draw. Think of a situation or a problem, and let tiny tarot tell you what it thinks. tiny tarot is a browser based tarot deck with a simple 3-card spread. It was made...

To Spring Open, by Peter Berman and Yoon Ha Lee (as Two-Bit Chip)
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An entry in ShuffleComp: Disc 2. Inspired by "Paper Planes" by MIA and "Tragic Kingdom" by No Doubt.

To The Wolves, by Els White
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Offered up as sacrifice to the wolf-gods of the forest, hunted by beasts and man alike, Ella must find a way to survive.

Toby's Nose, by Chandler Groover
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A murder most foul has been committed and Sherlock Holmes is on the case. You are his dog.

Trapped in Time, by Simon Christiansen
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A Science Fiction adventure where YOU are the hero!

Trigaea, by Adam Ipsen (RynGM)
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Could you survive an alien world? Change your genetics and wander the wasteland for answers, all the while aided by your AI companion. Trigaea is an epic 200,000-word piece of interactive fiction. It's a...

Turandot, by Victor Gijsbers
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An operatic performance. A tale of atonement. A dating sim with a crocodile pit. Content warnings: sex; sexism and other gender issues; suicide; torture; homophobia; xenophobia.

the uncle who works for nintendo, by michael lutz
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You are 11 years old. You are sleeping over at your best friend's house. You and your friend like videogames. Your friend has a lot of cool games. And, believe it or not, an uncle who works for Nintendo. And...

Use Your Psychic Powers at Applebee's, by Geoffrey Golden
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You are a Psychic Brand Ambassador for Schtupmeister Beer. Listen to the thoughts of customers at the local Applebee's and convince them to try your syrupy ale. But will being in these peoples' heads...

Utopian Jam, by Astrid Dalmady
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A jam game about preserves. Made in Twine for the 2017 Utopia Jam.

Vespers, by Jason Devlin
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It has been five days, now. Five days since I made the choice. Five days since I closed the gate. Really, there was no choice. Rovato was damned when the first spot appeared: when the first bloody cough...

Violet, by Jeremy Freese
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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]

Vlad the Impala, by Pumpkin B. Parjeter
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Years ago, the identity fraud began. Vlad the Impaler is a vampire. You are a hooved herbivore. You are the unfortunately named...Vlad the Impala. A Grand Guignol entry for ECTOCOMP 2016.

Voices, by Aris Katsaris
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The Warbler's Nest, by Jason McIntosh
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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...

What's in a Name?, by Gaming Pixie
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An interactive story about my early experiences coming out as bisexual. It may not be what you'd expect.

Who Shot Gum E. Bear?, by Damon L. Wakes
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Gum E. Bear lies dead in a pool of his own liquid centre, and only Bubble Gumshoe - private eye extraordinaire - can deliver sweet justice on the rain-sticky streets of Sugar City. Explore the area, seek out...

Wisher, Theurgist, Fatalist, by Xavid
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From the ranks of the people you have been raised up as a Wisher— ...

A Witch's Word, by RainbowStarbird
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Years ago, you sold your first born to a witch. But with your recent dating history, it doesn't look like she'll be getting her end of the bargain any time soon. So the witch has offered to help you find a...

Witches & Wardrobes, by anna anthropy
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Witch outfit to wear? Time to get up! You've got business to attend in the world of humans. What are you possibly going to wear?

With Those We Love Alive, by Porpentine and Brenda Neotenomie
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no dreams written by porpentine scored by brenda neotenomie

Within a Wreath of Dewdrops, by Sam Kabo Ashwell and Jacqueline A. Lott
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In this small game, you are the only actor onstage in Within a Wreath of Dewdrops, a historical opus which has entered its final act. Using just four pathetic props, can you act as the hero, the heroine, and...

The Wizard Sniffer, by Buster Hudson
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You were recently acquired by the brave Ser Leonhart and his squire to sniff out the evil shapeshifting wizard. Unfortunately, you are not a wizard sniffer (if such a thing even exists). As far as you can...

Word of the Day, by Richard Otter
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You are the very first Outer Worlder to gain an appointment on a Bio-Drive vessel, let alone as part of the engineering team. Working hard to gain enough credits to secure your future could this be your...

Xanthippe's Last Night with Socrates, by Victor Gijsbers
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It's your last night together, for literal fuck's sake, but your husband is 'not in the mood'. Can you convince him to fulfil his marital duties? ...

Yesterday, You Saved the World, by Astrid Dalmady
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Today you are only Lucy Newman, eighth grader, C student, nobody. But yesterday, you were cosmic. Yesterday, you were a magical girl. Yesterday, you saved the world.

You are SpamZapper 3.1, by Leon Arnott
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DISTINGUISH TRUTH AND SCAMS IN OVER 130 UNIQUE EMAILS • PROTECT THE INBOX FROM URBAN LEGENDS • EXCHANGE WITTY REPARTEE WITH YOUR PLUGIN COWORKERS • CROSS SWORDS WITH A DEADLY EMAIL WORM • LEARN WAY TOO MUCH...

You are Standing at a Crossroads, by Astrid Dalmady
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You are Standing at a Crossroads is a short Twine story about being lost, being changed, and being stagnant.

You feel like shit: An Interactive Self-Care Guide, by Jace Harr
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This is meant to be an interactive flow chart for people who struggle with self care, executive dysfunction, and/or who have trouble reading internal signals. It's designed to take as much of the weight off...

You Will Select a Decision, by Brendan Patrick Hennessy
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A pair of knock-off choose your own adventure books from Soviet-era Kyrgyzstan.

You've Got a Stew Going!, by Ryan Veeder
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Your friend has invited you over for stew. He has not bothered to procure most of the ingredients.

Zork I, by Marc Blank and Dave Lebling
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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...

[PYG]MALION*, by C.J.
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A story about you — The Murdered God — and your attempt to solve the mystery of your death in places beyond.

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