'Mid the Sagebrush and the Cactus, by Victor Gijsbers RichCheng'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... |
80 DAYS, by inkle, Meg Jayanth RichCheng'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 RichCheng'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. |
The Act of Misdirection, by Callico Harrison RichCheng's rating: Average member rating: (75 ratings) 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 RichCheng's rating: Average member rating: (82 ratings) |
Aisle, by Sam Barlow RichCheng'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... |
All Roads, by Jon Ingold RichCheng'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 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... |
Aotearoa, by Matt Wigdahl RichCheng's rating: Average member rating: (63 ratings) The Fish of Māui. The Land of the Long Cloud. Aotearoa. An entire continent of untamed wilds, and the last place on Earth where dinosaurs still roam. If only you'd come ashore under better circumstances... |
Bee, by Emily Short RichCheng'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... |
Captain Verdeterre's Plunder, by Ryan Veeder RichCheng's rating: Average member rating: (51 ratings) You should carry the bag. I'm more of a delegator. |
City of Secrets, by Emily Short Average member rating: (105 ratings) |
Curses, by Graham Nelson Average member rating: (132 ratings) "As "Curses" opens, you're hunting about in the attic of your family home, looking for a tatty old map of Paris (you're going on holiday tomorrow) and generally trying to avoid all the packing. Aunt Jemima... |
De Baron, by Victor Gijsbers 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... |
Death off the Cuff, by Simon Christiansen RichCheng'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... |
Fallen London, by Failbetter Games Average member rating: (57 ratings) 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... |
Galatea, by Emily Short RichCheng'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 RichCheng'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... |
Hoist Sail for the Heliopause and Home, by Andrew Plotkin RichCheng's rating: Average member rating: (86 ratings) A far-future story of discovery. |
Horse Master, by Tom McHenry Average member rating: (96 ratings) The Game of Horse Mastery |
I-0, by Anonymous RichCheng's rating: Average member rating: (158 ratings) 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... |
Kerkerkruip, by Victor Gijsbers 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... |
Kotodama, by Aidan Doyle RichCheng's rating: Average member rating: (7 ratings) A robot is sent to deal with an outbreak of poetry in Tokyo. |
The Legend of the Missing Hat, by Adri RichCheng's rating: Average member rating: (31 ratings) A tiny story about four tiny ninjas and a tiny top hat. |
Lost Pig, by Admiral Jota RichCheng's rating: Average member rating: (500 ratings) 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 |
Nautilisia, by Ryan Veeder RichCheng's rating: Average member rating: (41 ratings) Your friend claims to be in a coma. |
Photopia, by Adam Cadre RichCheng'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." |
Rameses, by Stephen Bond RichCheng's rating: Average member rating: (127 ratings) |
rendition, by nespresso 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... |
Rover's Day Out, by Jack Welch and Ben Collins-Sussman RichCheng's rating: Average member rating: (56 ratings) 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... |
Seedship, by John Ayliff RichCheng's rating: Average member rating: (53 ratings) An AI ship full of frozen colonists must find the best planet to be the new home of the human race. |
Shade, by Andrew Plotkin RichCheng's rating: Average member rating: (421 ratings) "A one-room game set in your apartment." [--blurb from Competition Aught-Zero] |
Shrapnel, by Adam Cadre RichCheng's rating: Average member rating: (170 ratings) |
Slouching Towards Bedlam, by Star Foster and Daniel Ravipinto RichCheng's rating: Average member rating: (219 ratings) In the beginning was the Word, and it was hungry. ... |
So, You've Never Played a Text Adventure Before, Huh?, by Ryan Veeder RichCheng's rating: Average member rating: (16 ratings) Robin Monaghan and her friends explore a creepy house. |
Sorcery!, by Steve Jackson and inkle Average member rating: (38 ratings) An adaptation of a print-based game book originally published in 1983, updated for modern touch-screen devices. The player quests across a fantasy map, dealing with all sorts of encounters using a text-based... |
The Space Under the Window, by Andrew Plotkin RichCheng's rating: Average member rating: (100 ratings) 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 RichCheng'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... |
Suveh Nux, by David Fisher RichCheng'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. |
Taco Fiction, by Ryan Veeder RichCheng's rating: Average member rating: (118 ratings) Taco Fiction is a game about crime. |
The Tale of the Kissing Bandit, by J. Robinson Wheeler (as 'Cary Valentino') RichCheng's rating: Average member rating: (47 ratings) |
Varicella, by Adam Cadre Average member rating: (132 ratings) You are Primo Varicella, Palace Minister at the Palazzo del Piemonte. This title is unlikely to impress anyone. Piedmont is the laughingstock of the Carolingian League, and the Palace Ministry has devolved... |
Violet, by Jeremy Freese RichCheng'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 RichCheng'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... |
The Wizard Sniffer, by Buster Hudson RichCheng's rating: Average member rating: (138 ratings) 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... |
The Writer Will Do Something, by Matthew Burns, Tom Bissell RichCheng's rating: Average member rating: (25 ratings) The year is 2012. You are the head writer for the third game in the wildly popular ShatterGate™ franchise. Expectations are through the roof: fans of the series are waiting for the biggest, most bad-ass... |