1958: Dancing With Fear, by Victor Ojuel Average member rating: (33 ratings) "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... |
500 Apocalypses, by Phantom Williams Average member rating: (24 ratings) 500 Apocalypses is a web installation memorializing collapsed civilizations from across our universe. This interactive space is designed to allow contemplative engagement with five hundred curated entries... |
69,105 Keys, by David Welbourn 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. |
9:05, by Adam Cadre 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 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... |
Adventurer's Consumer Guide, by Øyvind Thorsby Average member rating: (32 ratings) |
Arcane Intern (Unpaid), by Astrid Dalmady Average member rating: (45 ratings) Getting coffee, making copies, tampering with powers beyond your control. You know, normal intern things. Now if only you were getting paid for it... |
The Art of Fugue, by Victor Gijsbers, Jimmy Maher, Dorte Lassen, and Johan Average member rating: (6 ratings) A pure story-less puzzle game featuring logical puzzles based on the idea of the fugue: your commands are performed by four different actors, but with increasing delays. The version with music features... |
At the Bonfire, by Finny Average member rating: (3 ratings) Semi-autobiographical game about interpersonal conflict. |
The Axolotl Project, by Samantha Vick 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... |
Captain Verdeterre's Plunder, by Ryan Veeder Average member rating: (51 ratings) You should carry the bag. I'm more of a delegator. |
Child's Play, by Stephen Granade Average member rating: (54 ratings) It is playgroup day and playgroup day is normally a good day but ever since that little red-haired girl started coming she always wants your toys. She shouldn't get your toys. You tried telling the mom this... |
Chlorophyll, by Steph Cherrywell Average member rating: (61 ratings) |
Code 7 Prologue, by Kevin Glaap, Zein Okko Average member rating: (3 ratings) Code 7 is the idea of a modern text adventure by german game design students Kevin Glaap and Zein Okko. It combines the text adventure genre with cinematic fully-voiced storytelling. You have to play to it... |
Color the Truth, by mathbrush Average member rating: (76 ratings) Rosalita Morales is dead, and you have to figure out who did it. The four people closest to her had the motive and the means: her partner, her secretary, her ex-husband, and her sister. Re-live their... |
Coloratura, by Lynnea Glasser Average member rating: (116 ratings) Stolen away by apathetic Blind Ones, your only desire is to return to your Cellarium and the Song of the Universe. They should understand. You shall make them to understand. |
Depression Quest, by Zoe Quinn, Patrick Lindsey, Isaac Schankler Average member rating: (61 ratings) "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 Average member rating: (56 ratings) 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 Average member rating: (33 ratings) A cantankerous ex-cop calls in a favor from his old partner. |
Digital: A Love Story, by Christine Love Average member rating: (25 ratings) A computer mystery/romance set five minutes into the future of 1988. |
Distress, by Mike Snyder Average member rating: (23 ratings) Lieutenant Huchess came to, an hour or so ago. That was around the time Runoma, blazing orange-hot so near this, its second planet, fell below the distant, jagged crag line. Ensign Covegn died not long after... |
Draculaland, by Robin Johnson Average member rating: (30 ratings) 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... |
Dual Transform, by Andrew Plotkin Average member rating: (110 ratings) This game takes place in a single room — but not always the same one. The room contains just one item, but again, there's more to it than that. Experiment and enjoy. |
electro primitive girl, by Sloane Leong Average member rating: (2 ratings) |
The Erudition Chamber, by Daniel Freas Average member rating: (26 ratings) |
An Evening at the Ransom Woodingdean Museum House, by Ryan Veeder Average member rating: (24 ratings) Karen Chambers gives tours in a restored Victorian home. |
Ex Nihilo, by Juhana Leinonen Average member rating: (33 ratings) In the beginning there was nothing. From nothing light and darkness were born. |
Fabricationist DeWit Remakes the World, by Jedediah Berry Average member rating: (32 ratings) After a sleep of centuries, a synthetic being receives an unexpected visitor—along with a new role in the Great Project. |
Fail-Safe, by Jon Ingold Average member rating: (115 ratings) |
Galatea, by Emily Short 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... |
Gourmet, by Aaron A. Reed and Chad Barb Average member rating: (55 ratings) 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... |
Grandma Bethlinda's Variety Box, by Arthur DiBianca Average member rating: (38 ratings) It's the latest model, and it would really like to play with you. |
Guess the Verb!, by Leonard Richardson Average member rating: (29 ratings) "Now you too can GUESS THE VERB for fun and prizes! Read evocative and amusing room descriptions while manipulating interesting objects! Interact with the simulated motives and desires of quirky NPCs! No... |
Gun Mute, by C.E.J. Pacian 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... |
Harmonic Time-Bind Ritual Symphony, by Ben Kidwell and Maevele Straw Average member rating: (13 ratings) A musician's manic episode binds fiction and reality into a joyful union. |
The Horrible Pyramid, by Ryan Veeder Average member rating: (31 ratings) Something weird is going on in this pyramid. |
The House Abandon, by jonNoCode Average member rating: (6 ratings) A unique horror game, inside another horror game. 80’s text-adventure by way of psychological horror and meta-representation. A short story, free, for PC and Mac. Created for Ludum Dare 36, this 72 hour... |
howling dogs, by Porpentine Average member rating: (128 ratings) death cube sim | galactic survey | visionatrix | facet machine | power gardens | women | fascination two significant endings |
Jacqueline, Jungle Queen!, by Steph Cherrywell Average member rating: (24 ratings) You are Jacqueline McBean, modern woman for the Thirties and intrepid international correspondent for the Fresno Bee. The good news is that you're on your way to a plum assignment among the glitzy spires and... |
Jetbike Gang, by C.E.J. Pacian Average member rating: (23 ratings) You're a member of a jetbike gang. Tiny Twine game for the Twiny Jam. Exactly 300 words. |
Junior Arithmancer, by Mike Spivey Average member rating: (58 ratings) A one-to-many-room puzzler. |
Killing Time at Lightspeed, by Gritfish Average member rating: (7 ratings) You never know what will be the last thing you say to someone. On a transport ship leaving earth, a passenger kills time by scrolling through the messages of their social media feed. As the ship leaves and... |
Labour's Letters Lost, by Christopher Huang Average member rating: (2 ratings) "The dinner party is small, select, and discreet. But when a packet of sensitive letters disappears from Sir Arthur Cox's safe, the implications are severe...." --blurb from <http://www.ricordius.com/game/index.html> |
Letters from Home, by Roger Firth Average member rating: (20 ratings) "Centuries of ancestry, decades of memories, years of decline; now, barely two hours in which to reflect on the glorious past, that bygone golden age when nostalgia really meant something... " [--blurb from... |
Lime Ergot, by Caleb Wilson (as Rust Blight) Average member rating: (85 ratings) Now everyone is gone. (Well, almost everyone.) Entry in ECTOCOMP 2014. |
Midnight. Swordfight., by Chandler Groover Average member rating: (87 ratings) A fool receives a challenge from a countess. Violence. Sex. Profanity. Sausage. |
Mushroom Hunt, by Polyducks Average member rating: (14 ratings) By exploring your surroundings you will discover not only the mushrooms needed to help Granny make her stew, but information about your life. |
Mustard, Music, and Murder, by Christopher Huang Average member rating: (3 ratings) "Daniel Hopkins, investment broker, has been murdered. The police are on their way, and meanwhile you are locked in with the other suspects.... "Can you piece together the clues, apply a little logic, and... |
my father's long, long legs, by michael lutz Average member rating: (148 ratings) A weird tale. Some parts make use of sound, so this game is best played with headphones. One ending. |
PataNoir, by Simon Christiansen Average member rating: (58 ratings) 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. |
Point Blank Blank, by Christopher Huang Average member rating: (2 ratings) "Kevin Green, music hall manager, walked home an hour before the show but never made it back. Now some of the music hall's most stalwart employees have been implicated in his death.... "Can you piece... |
rat chaos, by Winter Lake Average member rating: (28 ratings) |
The Recruit, by Mike Sousa Average member rating: (12 ratings) Try your hand at the Real Life Interactive Gaming Simulacra! You'll face a variety of challenges and simulations and have a chance to win some money and great prizes. Apply today! |
Reference and Representation: An Approach to First-Order Semantics, by Ryan Veeder Average member rating: (35 ratings) Violence is the answer to this one. |
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 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... |
SABBAT, by Eva Average member rating: (11 ratings) A game about transition from powerless to powerful. Has freeware and commercial versions. The commercial version contains unique pixel art and a soundtrack. |
Save the Date, by Chris Cornell Average member rating: (32 ratings) "It’s a perfectly normal evening, and you have a quiet dinner planned with one of your friends. And so begins one of my weirder games. Save the Date is a game about a lot of things. Friendship. Stories.... |
The Seers Catalogue, by Sean Michaels Average member rating: (5 ratings) "Accomplices wanted. Don't weight." ... |
Shade, by Andrew Plotkin Average member rating: (421 ratings) "A one-room game set in your apartment." [--blurb from Competition Aught-Zero] |
Shower Sim, by chrisamaphone Average member rating: (4 ratings) ~~cutting edge, cinematic crappy apartment shower realism~~ |
Shuffling Around, by Andrew Schultz (as Ned Yompus) Average member rating: (25 ratings) A weird power to save a weird world. So you just got fired from the best company ever, and it's the best day of your life. New opportunities! New horizons! New ways to look at things! Like calling this... |
Six, by Wade Clarke Average member rating: (42 ratings) Your name is Harriet Leitner, and you and your twin sister Demi turned six this morning! You're having a fancy dress birthday party, and this afternoon you'll be playing Hide and Seek Tip over in the park.... |
Solarium, by Anya Johanna DeNiro Average member rating: (55 ratings) The year is 1954. One year after mutually assured destruction. And I am trying to find you, through memory and alchemy. Not many people know how the nuclear devastation really happened. But we do. We were... |
The Space Under the Window, by Andrew Plotkin 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] |
SPY INTRIGUE, by furkle Average member rating: (47 ratings) 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... |
Superluminal Vagrant Twin, by C.E.J. Pacian 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 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 Average member rating: (118 ratings) Taco Fiction is a game about crime. |
Tangaroa Deep, by Astrid Dalmady Average member rating: (48 ratings) 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 |
Threediopolis, by Andrew Schultz Average member rating: (28 ratings) A wordplay/quasi-maze game. |
TOMBs of Reschette, by Richard Goodness Average member rating: (13 ratings) Hello, young adventurer! If you're looking for the finest treasure, monster, and exploration experience around, why not come on down to the TOMBs of Reschette! --Earn XP, Dubloons, and Gems, like any good... |
the uncle who works for nintendo, by michael lutz Average member rating: (110 ratings) 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... |
Violet, by Jeremy Freese 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] |
Winter Storm Draco, by Ryan Veeder Average member rating: (26 ratings) A chronicle of the events of the winter storm of the same name. |
You are standing in a cave..., by Caroline Berg Average member rating: (15 ratings) ... you do not know how you got here. The last thing you remember is going out to eat at a fancy restaurant. Perhaps you were drugged. Perhaps you had a bad case of food poisoning and wandered off, feverish,... |