9:05, by Adam Cadre Cheryl L'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 Cheryl L'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... |
Ad Verbum, by Nick Montfort Cheryl L's rating: Average member rating: (136 ratings) "With the cantankerous Wizard of Wordplay evicted from his mansion, the worthless plot can now be redeveloped. The city regulations declare, however, that the rip-down job can't proceed until all the items... |
Aisle, by Sam Barlow Cheryl L'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... |
Amnesia, by Thomas M. Disch and Kevin Bentley Cheryl L's rating: Average member rating: (13 ratings) |
Anchorhead, by Michael Gentry Cheryl L's rating: Average member rating: (409 ratings) You take a deep breath of salty air as the first raindrops begin to spatter the pavement, and the swollen, slate-colored clouds that blanket the sky mutter ominous portents amongst themselves over the little... |
Babel, by Ian Finley Cheryl L's rating: Average member rating: (156 ratings) In this game, you play as an amnesiac inside Babel, an abandoned Arctic facility devoted to biological research. You soon discover that you have the unusual ability to witness scenes from the past by... |
A Bear's Night Out, by David Dyte Cheryl L's rating: Average member rating: (69 ratings) "Tomorrow is the big Teddy Bear party, and you must definitely not let your owner forget about it..." [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue] |
Being Andrew Plotkin, by J. Robinson Wheeler Cheryl L's rating: Average member rating: (58 ratings) "Zarf? you think to yourself. Could it be? The one and only Zarf? Xyzzy Award winner? IF Competition winner? The mighty Inscruitable One? Gosh. What it must be like to be Zarf... You begin to crawl forward,... |
Byzantine Perspective, by Lea Albaugh Cheryl L's rating: Average member rating: (57 ratings) Your task is simple enough. Just nab the chalice. |
Delightful Wallpaper, by Andrew Plotkin ('Edgar O. Weyrd') Cheryl L's rating: Average member rating: (78 ratings) |
The Dreamhold, by Andrew Plotkin Cheryl L's rating: Average member rating: (177 ratings) The Dreamhold is interactive fiction — a classic text adventure. No graphics! No point-and-click! You type your commands, and read what happens next. The Dreamhold is designed for people who have never... |
Everybody Dies, by Jim Munroe Cheryl L's rating: Average member rating: (107 ratings) It starts with a metalhead, Graham, realizing that throwing that shopping cart over the bridge was not the great idea he thought it was. Even if it did get him out of washroom duty at Cost Cutters.... |
Fail-Safe, by Jon Ingold Cheryl L's rating: Average member rating: (115 ratings) |
Gateway, by Mike Verdu, Michael Lindner, and Glen Dahlgren Cheryl L's rating: Average member rating: (36 ratings) In the early twenty-second century, adventurous citizens of Earth can travel to a place called "Gateway": a long-abandoned alien space station, now rediscovered by humans and turned into a jumping-off point... |
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams and Steve Meretzky Cheryl L's rating: Average member rating: (188 ratings) Don't Panic! Relax, because everything you need to know about playing The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is contained in the pages of this manual. In this story, you will be Arthur Dent, a rather ordinary... |
I-0, by Anonymous Cheryl L'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... |
In the Woods, by Anna Anthropy Cheryl L's rating: Average member rating: (8 ratings) |
Leather Goddesses of Phobos, by Steve Meretzky Cheryl L's rating: Average member rating: (72 ratings) 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... |
Lock & Key, by Adam Cadre Cheryl L's rating: Average member rating: (78 ratings) |
Photopia, by Adam Cadre Cheryl L'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." |
Planetfall, by Steve Meretzky Cheryl L's rating: Average member rating: (121 ratings) "Join the Patrol, and see the Galaxy!" You took the poster's advice, bait and all, and marched right over to the recruitment station near your home on the backwater planet of Gallium. Images of exotic... |
Rameses, by Stephen Bond Cheryl L's rating: Average member rating: (127 ratings) |
Scavenger, by Quintin Stone Cheryl L's rating: Average member rating: (31 ratings) Search a war-shattered world for secrets of the past. |
Shade, by Andrew Plotkin Cheryl L's rating: Average member rating: (421 ratings) "A one-room game set in your apartment." [--blurb from Competition Aught-Zero] |
Shrapnel, by Adam Cadre Cheryl L's rating: Average member rating: (170 ratings) |
Spider and Web, by Andrew Plotkin Cheryl L'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... |
The Tale of the Kissing Bandit, by J. Robinson Wheeler (as 'Cary Valentino') Cheryl L's rating: Average member rating: (47 ratings) |
Tapestry, by Daniel Ravipinto Cheryl L's rating: Average member rating: (44 ratings) You were born; you lived; you died. Not everyone gets a second chance to go back and change crucial decisions. You have been granted one and must go back to critical moral dilemmas; but do you change the... |
Varicella, by Adam Cadre Cheryl L's rating: 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 Cheryl L'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] |
Whom The Telling Changed, by Aaron A. Reed Cheryl L's rating: Average member rating: (64 ratings) The people had always gathered on moonless nights to hear the stories, since the time of their ancestors' ancestors. The heat of the fire and the glow in the storyteller's eyes made the past present, and the... |
Zork I, by Marc Blank and Dave Lebling Cheryl L's rating: Average member rating: (222 ratings) 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... |