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| ♥Magical Makeover♥, by S. Woodson Average member rating:   "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... |
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| 4x4 Archipelago, by Agnieszka Trzaska Average member rating: 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... |
| Absence of Law, by mathbrush Average member rating: Excuse me, can you help me? Yes, you, browsing IFDB games! I need your assistance, but I don't have long. There's so much going on: remote surveillance, unauthorized cloning, forgotten languages, robots... |
| According to Cain, by Jim Nelson Average member rating: Two brothers. One murder. And a mystery as old as mankind. You are a medieval investigator sent back in time to learn the secrets behind mankind's first murder. Using a novel alchemy system, observation, and... |
| The Act of Misdirection, by Callico Harrison Average member rating: 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... |
| AlethiCorp, by Simon Christiansen Average member rating: Do you have what it takes to be an Associate Information Management Consultant with one of the world's largest information management companies? Can you leverage synergies with the best to operationalize our... |
| Anchorhead, by Michael Gentry Average member rating: 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... |
| And Then You Come to a House Not Unlike the Previous One, by B.J. Best Average member rating: 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: ★ ★ ★ |
| Animalia, by Ian Michael Waddell Average member rating: This is the story of Charlie Stewart, nine-year-old Human child. Inside this ordinary nine-year-old Human child are four animals from the Forest, working tirelessly to keep YOUR Taiga Federation safe from... |
| The Archivist and the Revolution, by Autumn Chen Average member rating: The world is ending, and you are still paying rent. Content warning: optional sexual content (non-explicit), illness, death, transphobia, homophobia |
| Ascension of Limbs, by AKheon Average member rating: You are an antique store proprietor trying to make ends meet. Use your wits, manage your resources, play the hand you are dealt. This game features a story with multiple endings, achievements as well as an... |
| Ataraxia, by Lauren O'Donoghue Average member rating: 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... |
| Babel, by Ian Finley Average member rating: 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... |
| Beautiful Dreamer, by S. Woodson Average member rating: "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... |
| Birdland, by Brendan Patrick Hennessy Average member rating: Fourteen-year-old Bridget's summer camp experience takes a turn for the bizarre when her otherworldly bird dreams start bleeding into reality. |
| Bogeyman, by Elizabeth Smyth Average member rating: You can go home when you learn to be good. |
| The Boot-Scraper, by Caleb Wilson (as Lionel Schwob) Average member rating: 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 Average member rating: 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... |
| Cactus Blue Motel, by Astrid Dalmady Average member rating: 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.... |
| Cannery Vale, by Hanon Ondricek (as Keanhid Connor) Average member rating: Hell, even a seagull would hit the spot right now, roasted crispy over a flame-- He immediately put all thoughts of food out of his head because at the moment it was just torture_ |
| Color the Truth, by mathbrush Average member rating: 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: 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. |
| Counterfeit Monkey, by Emily Short Average member rating: (253 ratings)Anglophone Atlantis has been an independent nation since an April day in 1822, when a well-aimed shot from their depluralizing cannon reduced the British colonizing fleet to one ship. Since then, Atlantis... |
| The Cursèd Pickle of Shireton, by Hanon Ondricek Average member rating: Evil, sealed away for Aeons, has been released. |
| Death By Powerpoint, by Jack Welch Average member rating: This Halloween, you have a PowerPoint presentation to deliver. And delivery it you will. Even if it kills you. |
| DEVOTIONALIA, by G.C. "Grim" Baccaris (as G. Grimoire) Average member rating: The high priest of an obscure cult is preparing a ritual. Don the priest’s sacred mantle, for these holy labors are yours to direct. You may carve a votive, lead a prayer, or make a sacrifice — but you... |
| Digital: A Love Story, by Christine Love Average member rating: A computer mystery/romance set five minutes into the future of 1988. |
| Dr Horror's House of Terror, by Ade McT Average member rating: 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... |
| Dr Ludwig and the Devil, by SV Linwood Average member rating: Join esteemed mad scientist Dr Ludwig as he faces the greatest challenge of his nefarious career: making a deal with the Devil and coming out on top. ... |
| Dungeon Detective, by Wonaglot, Caitlin Mulvihill Average member rating: 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... |
| Dungeon Detective 2: Devils and Details, by Wonaglot Average member rating: The life of the world's first Dungeon Detective isn't exactly glamorous. You've spent many nights hungry, sleeping in the woods. But word is getting out, and the newest case has showed up at the foot of your... |
| Eat Me, by Chandler Groover Average member rating: In this castle, you'll eat or be eaten. May contain dairy, carnage, puzzles, nuts. |
| Ecdysis, by Peter Nepstad Average member rating: You wake, a pounding headache loud in your inner ear, the back of your head itching and tingling, your mouth full of cotton. The pain drives away your dreams, weird visions of alien landscapes... Ecdysis is... |
| Eikas, by Lauren O'Donoghue Average member rating: a community kitchen You've just arrived at the Canteen, ready to take up the role of Community Chef. It's your job to host regular feasts for the people in the village--and to impress your new employers... |
| Endless, Nameless, by Adam Cadre Average member rating: The first time I ever saw someone play a text adventure was in fifth grade. One of the sixth-graders didn't go to outdoor ed, and therefore spent the week in my fifth-grade classroom, playing Scott Adams's... |
| Erstwhile, by Aster (formally Maddie) Fialla, Marijke Perry Average member rating: 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... |
| Ether, by MathBrush Average member rating: "For the first time in centuries, something is different. Your tentacles tingle as you float to the east past icebergs and whirlwinds. You skirt a pocket of hot air, bounce through a field of ice, and... |
| Fairest, by Amanda Walker Average member rating: “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... |
| Family, by Tim Sheinman Average member rating: (1 rating)Family is a puzzle game, based around a fictional, forgotten 80s indie music scene. Discover the strange and wonderful music of long-lost bands, while uncovering their stories. |
| Fate, by Victor Gijsbers Average member rating: You are nine months pregnant, and the contractions have already begun. Trapped in a castle with more enemies than friends, and Queen in name but not in influence, you fear for the future of your child. But... |
| Gestures Towards Divinity, by Charm Cochran Average member rating: Francis Bacon (1909-1992) was a British painter, infamous for his use of brutal imagery and distortions of the human face and body. Well-known for both his violent subject matter and cutting wit, he is... |
| Guilded Youth, by Jim Munroe Average member rating: You play Tony, a fourteen-year old thief who needs some help looting the legendary Oakville Manor. Luckily it's the 1980s and finding fellow adventurers is just a modem squeal away... |
| Harmonia, by Liza Daly Average member rating: 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... |
| Heretic's Hope, by G. C. Baccaris Average member rating: Eser is the only human left alive. Gods and monsters, blessings and curses, an island ruled by giant insects — and in their midst: a reluctant human priest. Grief-stricken and bound by oath to obey the... |
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| Human Errors, by Katherine Morayati Average member rating: A contractor assigned to handle bug reports for a wearable mood-regulation device becomes unwitting witness to trauma and crime. |
| Hunger Daemon, by Sean M. Shore Average member rating: It's not the end of the world, and you're to blame. Better get on that. But man, it sure would be nice to get a bite to eat first. |
| I.A.G. Alpha, by Serhii Mozhaiskyi Average member rating: You may think this game is about a post-Soviet Research Institute. About an experiment that went out of control. You may think that the initials "I.A.G." are somehow related to the Institute. You may think... |
| IFDB Spelunking, by Joey Jones Average member rating: In the depths of the interactive fiction database strange games lurk! This is an emulation of ten random works found on the IFDB, in which inventory carries over between games for unique effect. |
| Invisible Parties, by Sam Kabo Ashwell (as Psychopup) Average member rating: You are a walker of the ways between the worlds. It is not an arrangement conducive to straightforward relationships. The Three Rebeccas have created a tangle, a temporary artifice woven from parts of many... |
| Killing Machine Loves Slime Prince, by C.E.J. Pacian Average member rating: A biomechanical killing machine stalks a strange world. The slime she loves is dying. And the one responsible is out there somewhere. |
| Known Unknowns, by Brendan Patrick Hennessy Average member rating: 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 Legend of Horse Girl, by Bitter Karella Average member rating: Welcome to Santa Diablo, Texas, a tiny desert town held in the grip of fear by a corrupt judge and his gang of outlaws. No one dares to stand against these rustlers. No one, that is, until the fateful day... |
| Lime Ergot, by Caleb Wilson (as Rust Blight) Average member rating: Now everyone is gone. (Well, almost everyone.) Entry in ECTOCOMP 2014. |
| A Long Way to the Nearest Star, by SV Linwood Average member rating: A thief on the run from the galactic police finds refuge on an abandoned spaceship. A lonely ship AI finds unexpected company. Explore the ship, solve puzzles, uncover mysteries, and befriend an AI who... |
| Lost Memories Dot Net, by Nina Freeman & Aaron Freeman A game about teen girls, blogs and love triangles in 2004. Lost Memories Dot Net was originally commissioned by the Manchester International Festival. |
| Lost Pig, by Admiral Jota Average member rating: 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 |
| Lydia's Heart, by Jim Aikin Average member rating: "Lydia's Heart" is a large, complex game with a serious tone and seven or eight NPCs you can converse with. The genre is low-key horror: There's almost no actual blood, but there are several ways to die in a... |
| Map, by Ade McT Average member rating: The house is growing. Or perhaps it's you who is shrinking. And with all this extra space is coming....time. Time enough, maybe, to make some changes. |
| The Master of the Land, by Pseudavid Average member rating: > 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... |
| Midnight. Swordfight., by Chandler Groover Average member rating: A fool receives a challenge from a countess. Violence. Sex. Profanity. Sausage. |
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| A Murder in Fairyland, by Abigail Corfman Average member rating: 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 Average member rating: A weird tale. Some parts make use of sound, so this game is best played with headphones. One ending. |
| Nautilisia, by Ryan Veeder Average member rating: Your friend claims to be in a coma. |
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| One Eye Open, by Caelyn Sandel (as Colin Sandel) and Carolyn VanEseltine Average member rating: Had you known the bloody history of Corona Labs, you would never have signed up as a test subject. But now, plunged into that history, surrounded by the damned and the dying, you must find the truth. Perhaps... |
| Open Sorcery, by Abigail Corfman Average member rating: You are online. You are fire and order. You are here to protect. ---- "Open Sorcery" is a game about technology, magic and becoming a person. It follows the development of an Elemental Firewall--a creature... |
| The People's Glorious Revolutionary Text Adventure Game, by Taylor Vaughan Average member rating: Sure, there's only five of you against a world full of reactionaries, but you have Revolutionary Spirit! You can't possibly fail. Nothing can stand in your way! Now if only you could find your Revolutionary... |
| The Play, by Dietrich Squinkifer (Squinky) Average member rating: 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... |
| Plundered Hearts, by Amy Briggs Average member rating: 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... |
| Repeat the Ending, by Drew Cook Average member rating: Explore an all-new "critical edition" of a 1996 Inform 5 game about mental illness, magic, and the second law of thermodynamics. When D, a psychiatrically disabled chaos wizard, learns that an estranged... |
| Risorgimento Represso, by Michael J. Coyne Average member rating: You play as an Oxbridge student who, during a particularly boring lecture, falls through a green portal under their desk into the cluttered library of the wizard Ninario. Ninny was trying to summon a... |
| A Rope of Chalk, by Ryan Veeder Average member rating: An account of the disastrous sidewalk chalk tournament of August 27, 2011. |
| Savoir-Faire, by Emily Short Average member rating: The beautiful life is always damned, they say. As for you, you've overexpended yourself: fifteen years of prominence, champagne, carriage rides in the Tuileries, having your name whispered behind... |
| Scavenger, by Quintin Stone Average member rating: Search a war-shattered world for secrets of the past. |
| Secret Agent Cinder, by Emily Ryan Average member rating: 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... |
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| Skies Above, by Arthur DiBianca Average member rating: Play minigames to get your airship flying, tour the skies, and see what mischief is going on up there. Champion of the Skies: Sarah Adams |
| Slouching Towards Bedlam, by Star Foster and Daniel Ravipinto Average member rating: In the beginning was the Word, and it was hungry. ... |
| Social Lycanthropy Disorder, by Emery Joyce Average member rating: You're a werewolf, it's Halloween, and you totally forgot that tonight is the full moon. If you're not careful, you're going to turn into a wolf in front of all your friends... but if you leave the party... |
| Solarium, by Anya Johanna DeNiro Average member rating: 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... |
| SPY INTRIGUE, by furkle Average member rating: 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... |
| Starry Seeksorrow, by Caleb Wilson (as Ayla Rose) Average member rating: An entry in ShuffleComp: Disc 2. Inspired by "The Violet Hour" by Dolls Come to Life. |
| Stay?, by E. Jade Lomax Average member rating: STAY? CHOOSE YOUR OWN HAPPY ENDING Welcome to Elaia, a magical city nestled in a high valley. It's the end of your first year at university & time to choose your major. Find yourself among potential friends... |
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| Stuff of Legend, by Lance Campbell Average member rating: The only thing worse than being a village idiot is being an unemployed village idiot. Maybe it’s time to change careers. Maybe it’s time to be a knight. |
| Sub Rosa, by Joey Jones, Melvin Rangasamy Average member rating: A puzzle game about secrets in the Age of Lead. You've spent seventeen years preparing for an infiltration. Stealing the Confessor's secrets is only the beginning: it will all be for nothing if you leave a... |
| Superluminal Vagrant Twin, by C.E.J. Pacian Average member rating: 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.) |
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| Taco Fiction, by Ryan Veeder Average member rating: Taco Fiction is a game about crime. |
| Tavern Crawler, by Josh Labelle Average member rating: 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... |
| The Temple of No, by Dominik Johann, William Pugh, Crows Crows Crows Average member rating: The Best Game Ever Made (but in twine form). Author website - http://crowscrowscrows.com/ Hey! We’re a new studio directed by William Pugh (Designer behind The Stanley Parable) creating experimental... |
| Thanksgiving, by Harris Powell-Smith Average member rating: You're twenty-one. It's dark in here. Thanksgiving is a story game about being an anxious student with secrets, meeting your boyfriend's folks for the first time. And being Judged. Play in your browser on... |
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| There's A Bear Outside, by Kanesha Bryant Average member rating: Stories of the woods are often stories about darkness. People vanish so easily in the spaces between the trees, and so many things stranger than a human know how to fit their claws into your foot steps so no... |
| Three-Card Trick, by Chandler Groover Average member rating: You're going to perform a three-card trick or your name isn't Morgan the Magnificent. |
| Toby's Nose, by Chandler Groover Average member rating: A murder most foul has been committed and Sherlock Holmes is on the case. You are his dog. |
| Trigaea, by Adam Ipsen (RynGM) Average member rating: 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 Average member rating: 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 Average member rating: 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... |
| Unicorn Story, by Conrad Cook Average member rating: "The unicorn, through its intemperance and not knowing how to control itself, for the love it bears to fair maidens forgets its ferocity and wildness; and laying aside all fear it will go up to a seated... |
| Unit 322 (Disambiguation), by Jonny Muir hecuba's rating: Average member rating: A mystery told entirely through the pages of an online encyclopedia. |
| Varicella, by Adam Cadre Average member rating: 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 Average member rating: 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] |
| Visit Skuga Lake - Masterpiece Edition, by Ryan Veeder Average member rating: (11 ratings)An unpaid intern learns to cast over forty spells as she skulks around a small town, looking for her boss. "Visit Skuga Lake" originally appeared in Even Some More Tales from Castle Balderstone. This... |
| we, the remainder, by Charm Cochran Average member rating: it's been twenty-four days since everyone else floated up. you haven't been out since then; Momma doesn't like you leaving the flat without her, and the effort of getting down the stairs hasn't been worth it... |
| The Weight of a Soul, by Chin Kee Yong Average member rating: In a world of arcane mysteries, a young doctor's apprentice unravels a conspiracy most grim. The Weight of a Soul is a mystery-horror interactive novel inspired by IF classics like Blue Lacuna and... |
| Weird City Interloper, by C.E.J. Pacian Average member rating: An interactive tale of strange conspiracy. Pull up your hood, lower your gaze and enter the city of Zendon. If you can gather enough information, you may just be able to change the course of history. (Weird... |
| What Heart Heard Of, Ghost Guessed, by Amanda Walker Average member rating: Margaret, are you grieving Over Goldengrove unleaving… Come home to Goldengrove, a beautiful old house haunted by a lost soul. Uncover the secrets of your tormented past in a tale of unrequited love,... |
| The Wizard Sniffer, by Buster Hudson Average member rating: 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... |
| You are SpamZapper 3.1, by Leon Arnott Average member rating: 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... |
| You Will Select a Decision, by Brendan Patrick Hennessy Average member rating: A pair of knock-off choose your own adventure books from Soviet-era Kyrgyzstan. |
| Zozzled, by Steph Cherrywell Average member rating: Hotsy-totsy! It's 1928 and you're madcap flapper Hazel Greene, tottering around the city's finest hotel with a gullet full of giggle juice...until a gaggle of ghosts shows up to spoil the fun by turning... |
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