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| Accelerate, by The TAV Institute Average member rating:   A multimedia project about the end of everything. This is not a true story. Everything in it happened, and will. Any resemblance to actual events, or actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.... |
| Alabaster, by John Cater, Rob Dubbin, Eric Eve, Elizabeth Heller, Jayzee, Kazuki Mishima, Sarah Morayati, Mark Musante, Emily Short, Adam Thornton, Ziv Wities Average member rating: 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.... |
| All Roads, by Jon Ingold Average member rating:  "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] |
| Alltarach, by Katie Canning and Josef Olsson Average member rating: An illustrated interactive novel about family, folklore, and grief, set in a semi-historical version of 6th century Ireland. Author's Comment: "This game is part character study, part playful take on Irish... |
| American Election, by Greg Buchanan Average member rating: A dark political nightmare game about Abigail Thoreau, a campaign assistant working to elect her candidate. In this hour-long cyoa game (composed of eleven chapters), you make choices both political and... |
| The Anachronist, by Peter Levine Average member rating: In the year 1596, Anna is about to be burned at the stake. As the constable prepares to light the fire below her, she can do nothing but seek a solution in her own memory and imagination. ... |
| Babyface, by Mark Sample Average member rating: We are haunted by the houses of our childhood. How unfamiliar they are, when we return. Yet you never forget, do you? You never really forget. A Southern Gothic horror story. Remember, of all the masks we... |
| Barcarolle in Yellow, by Víctor Ojuel Average member rating: Barcarolle in Yellow (1975, released in Italy as "Barcarolla in Giallo"), starring Eva Chantry. ... |
| Basilica de Sangre, by Bitter Karella Average member rating: What's a demon to do? Your mother has been missing for weeks. Rumor has it that she's being held prisoner in the infamous convent Basilica de Sangre. They say no demon has ever escaped from Basilica de... |
| Bear Creek, Part 1, by Wes Modes Average member rating: Bear Creek, August 1975. Looking back, it was that summer, or maybe just that one day that changed everything. KC and the Sunshine Band was on the radio and you were eight years old. A curious daydreamer, on... |
| Being Andrew Plotkin, by J. Robinson Wheeler Average member rating: "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,... |
| Beware The Faerie Food You Eat, by Astrid Dalmady Average member rating: 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... |
| Beyond, by Roberto Grassi, Paolo Lucchesi, and Alessandro Peretti Average member rating: A mysterious death, a secret to be revealed… and someone who wants to know the truth, at any cost. “Oh, another nice question… Well, look at the glass boxes… look inside them… Many say that the... |
| Beyond Zork, by Brian Moriarty Average member rating: Dread times have befallen the Kingdom of Quendor. The wizards have mysteriously disappeared. The Enchanter's Guild Hall lies in ruins. Villages are abandoned, drunken men mutter strange tales, and vicious... |
| Bigger Than You Think, by Andrew Plotkin Average member rating: 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:... |
| Blighted Isle, by Eric Eve Average member rating: Blockade duty in the Bay of Biscay, vile weather, and an unplanned jaunt over the side of the ship into the tossing waves. But instead of drowning, you end up on an island that has no right to be there - and... |
| Blue Lacuna, by Aaron A. Reed Average member rating: You have always been different. One in a trillion have your gift, your curse: to move between worlds, never settling, always alone. To Wayfare. Yet there are others like you, and something stronger than... |
| Bolivia By Night, by Aidan Doyle Average member rating: A mystery adventure game set in Bolivia. |
| Bring Me A Head!, by Chandler Groover Average member rating: Better hope you can hack it. A Grand Guignol entry for ECTOCOMP 2016. |
| Bubblegum Slaughter, by Merritt Kopas Average member rating: A text-based magical girl RPG with turn-based combat and the ache of broken innocence. |
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| Bullhockey!, by B F Lindsay Average member rating: Your girlfriend has left you, leaving disturbing notes. And she--oops--lost your laundry. In various places. Around town. You can't have her back. But you can try to get your laundry. |
| Bus Station, Unbound, by Jenn Ashworth, Richard Hirst Average member rating: Bus Station: Unbound is a fable about about finding yourself in-between places and times: a 'choose your own adventure' for grown-ups, in which the narrative lies in your own hands. Is it about an iconic... |
| Castle of the Red Prince, by C.E.J. Pacian Average member rating: 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... |
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| Citizen Makane, by The Reverend Average member rating: In the beginning, you thought it was a simple nightmare. But then it just didn't stop. ... |
| CODENAME OBSCURA, by Mika Kujala Average member rating: It's the year 1987. As an undercover operative Sinus for the T.U.R.T.L.E organization, (Tactical Unit for Rapid and Thorough Lethal Espionage), you have recently been assigned to a task in Italy. A few weeks... |
| A Colder Light, by Jon Ingold Average member rating: The last light has gone. The stars are coming out in the black sea above. Many are hidden by ice-fingered winds. My father is still not returned and the fire is almost gone. But this is how life is: always... |
| ConfigurationUploader, by Autumn Chen Average member rating: ConfigurationUploader is a program for uploading configurations. |
| Curses, by Graham Nelson Average member rating: "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... |
| Custard & Mustard's Big Adventure, by Christopher Merriner Average member rating: Ordinary dogs? We're not ordinary dogs! We're Custard and Mustard - and we're looking for adventure! It's fête day in Little Pottlington! The sun is shining, the beer is flowing, and the streets are abuzz... |
| Dark and Deep, by Amanda Walker Average member rating: Secrets, sins, and bones that will not rest. Content warnings: Violence, death, murder, sexual content |
| De Baron, by Victor Gijsbers Average member rating: 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... |
| Dead Cities, by Jon Ingold Average member rating: The letter you received from Arkwright's nephew Carter was clear enough: when the old man dies the inheritance tax will be too great. It's certain ruin, much like the estate itself. To raise some capital the... |
| Deadline Enchanter, by Alan DeNiro Average member rating: |
| Delightful Wallpaper, by Andrew Plotkin ('Edgar O. Weyrd') Average member rating: Delightful Wallpaper is a ghoulishly humorous take on the mannerly (or manorly) murder mystery. You do not play the detective, however. Your point of view is part of the mystery; but don't worry, it will all... |
| Detectiveland, by Robin Johnson Average member rating: 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... |
| DICK MCBUTTS GETS KICKED IN THE NUTS, by Damon L. Wakes (as "Hubert Janus") Average member rating: It's exactly what it sounds like. ... |
| Diddlebucker!, by J. Michael Average member rating: Who's the best and brightest Gamer of 'em all? Find out by joining the 27th Annual All-Night Diddlebucker Run! You'll compete against hundreds of other teams in the world's most popular scavenger hunt! Find... |
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| DOL-OS, by manonamora Average member rating: Year 3XXX, you discover an old computer, an antique, in some ruins. Surprisingly, it still powers up when you press its buttons. Wonder what you found within its files? ~ An 3XXX, vous trouvez un vieil... |
| Dominique Pamplemousse - It's All Over Once The Fat Lady Sings!, by Dietrich Squinkifer (Squinky) Average member rating: Dominique Pamplemousse-- It's All Over Once The Fat Lady Sings! is a unique and offbeat stop motion animated detective adventure game about gender and the economy. Also, all the characters frequently burst... |
| The Dreamhold, by Andrew Plotkin Average member rating: 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... |
| Dull Grey, by Provodnik Games Average member rating: An interactive drama in the traditions of Soviet fiction about choosing a profession. Mother and her teenage son live on the edge of the world amid hot springs, steam, mountains, five-story houses and rusty... |
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| The Elysium Enigma, by Eric Eve Average member rating: It was meant to be a routine visit on behalf of the imperial government, just to remind the settlers that the Empire hadn't forgotten them, and if you stick rigidly to the letter of your orders and refuse to... |
| En Garde, by Jack Welch Average member rating: A man who has lost his mind. A mouse who has lost his realm. A dog who has lost his family. And the scientist who will save the world. |
| Enceladus, by Robb Sherwin Average member rating: There's a werewolf loose on the spaceship known as the HMCS Plagoo! |
| The Endling Archive, by Kazuki Mishima Average member rating: Browse the Endling Archive to uncover the purpose of its creation. |
| ESC, by Lena Raine Average member rating: (1 rating)ESC IS... an interactive novel about identity, roleplay, and dreams Enter the memories of Raine as she explores the text-based world of VerdaMUCK, a simulation of the old network within the vast... |
| Etiolated Light, by Lassiter W. Average member rating: A marriage contract, an isolated island, a house that seems to gnash its teeth in waiting. You have saved your family - but at what cost? |
| Eurydice, by Anonymous Average member rating: A short game about grief, with occasional snakes. |
| Everybody Dies, by Jim Munroe Average member rating: 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.... |
| Excalibur, by J. J. Guest, G. C. Baccaris, and Duncan Bowsman Average member rating: The psychedelic science fantasy series Excalibur was wiped by the BBC. It lives on, in the memories of its fans. Author's Comment: "Welcome to the Excalibur Wiki. This fan-run encyclopaedia preserves the... |
| Exhibition, by Ian Finley Average member rating: "The Hartman Gallery extends their invitation to an exhibition of Anatoly Domokov's "American Paintings." Who draws the line between art and life? HTML enhanced." [--blurb from Competition '99] |
| Fabricationist DeWit Remakes the World, by Jedediah Berry Average member rating: After a sleep of centuries, a synthetic being receives an unexpected visitor—along with a new role in the Great Project. |
| Fair, by Hanon Ondricek Average member rating: As the most famous self-published Science Fiction author residing in Hillview, you are eminently qualified to judge their annual Elementary School Science Fair. |
| First Things First, by J. Robinson Wheeler Average member rating: You’ve just arrived at home from your nightly visit to the science and invention section of the local public library, where you spend each night dreaming your dreamy dreams of one day inventing a time... |
| First Times, by Hero Robb Average member rating: This is my first foray into IF, so be gentle. I used a simplified language for inputs on this game. You pretty much only need to type look, take, use "whatever" (on "whatever"), go (north/east/south/west),... |
| Fish & Dagger, by grave snail games Average member rating: You are a secret agent. It’s the end of the world. You are cursed. You came here to rescue your partner, but the mission has taken a turn for the weird. Parody spy thriller. Best played on a computer or... |
| Floatpoint, by Emily Short Average member rating: It is night on this side of the planet. Settled areas are lit: a jagged crescent in the tropics, lining the inland sea. The bright splatter along the top of the curve is Tanhua, as bright from space as New... |
| Fragile Shells, by Stephen Granade Average member rating: You don't know how long you've been hammering against the station's wall, but you stop as soon as you realize what you've been doing. |
| Galatea, by Emily Short Average member rating: 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... |
| Get Lost!, by S. Woodson Average member rating: 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,... |
| Ghosterington Night, by Wade Clarke Average member rating: Danger-filled Ghosterington Manor appears atop the same cliff each year on Samhain night. Hidden inside are the last four works of the dead bad poet Vigilance Ghosterington. Those four poems are worth a... |
| Ghostfinder: Shift, by Han-Joo Kim Average member rating: In a world where magic is real and mind-bending nightmares lie waiting in the least expected places, the Fraternal Order of Ghostfinders, an international society of elite occult investigators, is humanity's... |
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| Goldilocks is a FOX!, by J. J. Guest Average member rating: 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... |
| Gourmet, by Aaron A. Reed and Chad Barb Average member rating: 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... |
| Guess the Verb!, by Leonard Richardson Average member rating: "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... |
| Hallowmoor, by Mike Snyder Average member rating: 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. |
| Hand Me Down, by Brett Witty Average member rating: Ruby Walker takes a hesitant bus ride to the hospital where her father has spent the last nine months. But he has not called her there to discuss his condition. With James, her supportive partner by her... |
| hanging & wiving goes by destiny, by KA Tan Average member rating: A 10k-word novelette about Bluebeard's wives in the form of a play, a museum exhibit, and a conversation. (Interactive fiction with heavy emphasis on the fiction.) Created for Bluebeard Jam and Anti-Romance... |
| Harmonic Time-Bind Ritual Symphony, by Ben Kidwell and Maevele Straw Average member rating: A musician's manic episode binds fiction and reality into a joyful union. |
| HHH.exe, by Robot Parking Average member rating: The disk drive uttered a sickening crack as you tried to access it. Somehow, you were able to run the single program installed on it, ＨＨＨ．ｅｘｅ. It's a game, apparently. By turns unfun and... |
| Hildy, by J. Michael Average member rating: You are Hildy, a twenty-year-old apprentice enchantress who is seriously considering a change of vocation. And who can blame you? The Guild Masters don't understand you, the other apprentices think you're a... |
| Hill Ridge Lost & Found, by Jeremy Pflasterer Average member rating: When he fears that a reclusive neighbor’s weird ministrations are leading the locals astray, an old cowboy takes it upon himself to amble back up to Hill Ridge and set things a-right. Note: This game was... |
| Hoist Sail for the Heliopause and Home, by Andrew Plotkin Average member rating: A far-future story of discovery. |
| Honk!, by Alex Harby Average member rating: A Fair Game ... |
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| HUNTING UNICORN, by Chandler Groover Average member rating: A maiden leads a unicorn hunt. Sixteen narrative variants. Choose-your-own-adventure style. Mature thematic elements. |
| I Am Prey, by Joey Tanden Average member rating: A horror-lite science fiction game of evasion. (Experimental game: Reading the included survival guide before playing is highly recommended.) Inspired by the casual and round-based designs of visual indie... |
| if not us: an interactive fiction anthology, by ub4q Average member rating: Seven years ago, five heroes were brought together to save the world. Their success came at the cost of their leader's life; the secret behind it cost them their friendship. Now they've been summoned for a... |
| IFDB Spelunking 2, by Sam Kabo Ashwell Average member rating: A series of old and obscure parser games, munged together into a loosely-connected pile which I then snark about. |
| Illuminismo Iniziato, by Michael J. Coyne Average member rating: Lovingly handcrafted in Inform6, this overripe sequel to Risorgimento Represso is full of cheese, gunpowder, chemistry and explosions (well, only a little chemistry). Includes automap, sounds and graphical... |
| Imprimatura, by Elizabeth Ballou Average member rating: Imprimatura (It.): the first layer of paint on a canvas. Imagine that you are an artist. Imagine that you are in mourning. A painter - your relative, and your former mentor - has died. In their will, they... |
| Infidel, by Michael Berlyn Average member rating: Infidel finds you marooned by your followers in the heart of the deadly Egyptian Desert. A soldier of fortune by trade, you've come hither in search of a great lost pyramid and its untold riches. Now, alone,... |
| InGirum_English, by BenyDanette Average member rating: InGirum is an unfinished game. It's a game in ruins, just like its creator. |
| Invasion, by Cat Manning Average member rating: The end of the world, and there's something after you. A short horror Twine about sacrifice, survival, and relative humanity. Le Grand Guignol entry in ECTOCOMP 2015. |
| It, by Emily Boegheim Average member rating: "The rules of the game are easy. I'm It, so I go and hide. You and the others count to 50, then you have to look for me. If you find me, you have to get into the hiding spot with me. If you're the last... |
| Jay Schilling's Edge of Chaos, by Robb Sherwin, Mike Sousa Average member rating: There was an aye-aye behind the bar, staring at me horribly. Or maybe its face just froze that way. I was waiting for my client at ten at night in a dusty, dirty town in the middle of nowhere. Clouds out... |
| JELLY, by Tom Lento, Chandler Groover Average member rating: Young love in the Lonely Valley. |
| Kaged, by Ian Finley Average member rating: ""But my madness speaks: It will but skin and film the ulcerous place, Whilst rank corruption, mining all within, Infects unseen." Welcome to the Citadel of Justice. The Inquisitor is waiting." [--blurb from... |
| The Killings in Wasacona, by Steve Kollmansberger Average member rating: There's a killer on the loose! As a fresh graduate of the FBI Academy, you have been called to a small town struck by a series of suspicious deaths. Can you solve the mystery before the clock runs out?... |
| The King of Shreds and Patches, by Jimmy Maher Average member rating: January 14th Dear friend. My sojourn in parts foreign is at an ende. I am at lodgings in Southwark not far from the bridge at Stoney Street, come dine with me two days hence to ring in the newe year. I have... |
| Lady Thalia and the Seraskier Sapphires, by Emery Joyce and N. Cormier Average member rating: Navigate fraught social situations by day and pull off heists by night as Lady Thalia, the not-actually-aristocratic thief bent on making a mockery of British high society. |
| The Land of Breakfast and Lunch, by Daniel Talsky Average member rating: A diorama of made-up memories. The Land of Breakfast and Lunch is like a walk through a half-remembered childhood place that mixes up vaguely pleasant memories with half-remembered stories read long ago.... |
| The Last Mountain, by Dee Cooke Average member rating: You're out on the mountain again for the Merrithorne Mountain Race, your friend Susan by your side as ever. But something is different this time. Susan is struggling, and your chances of finishing the race... |
| Last-Minute Magic, by Ryan Veeder Average member rating: An optimization tale from Leah Naidu's world of Visit Skuga Lake, featuring the same magic system. |
| Leadlight, by Wade Clarke Average member rating: 15-year-old Belinda Nettle is studying at Linville Girls High School in Australia's Blue Mountains. After falling asleep in the library one afternoon, she wakes from her mundane existence into a nightmare... |
| Leadlight Gamma, by Wade Clarke Average member rating: 15-year-old Belinda Nettle is studying at Linville Girls High School in Australia's Blue Mountains. After falling asleep in the library one afternoon, she wakes from her mundane existence into a nightmare.... |
| Lid Astray, by Avery Hiebert and Ryan Samman Average member rating: (4 ratings)Enter an experimental simulation known as "the Labyrinth," where reality changes whenever you blink your real-life human eyes. Do you have what it takes to escape? An interactive fiction game made in 72... |
| Lies & Cigars, by Katherine Morayati Average member rating: A mystery story, told in the format of a branching interview with multiple characters, set and photographed in Astoria, Queens. Originally commissioned for Now Play This, 2019. |
| The Life (and Deaths) of Doctor M, by Michael D. Hilborn Average member rating: Your vision clears as you gently land in an endless landscape. There is the wind, a bleak and chill thing. And there is your sense of uncertainty: You don't know which way to go. Or, maybe, which way you... |
| Light My Way Home, by Caelyn Sandel (as Venus Hart) Average member rating: |
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| The Lost Islands of Alabaz, by Michael Gentry Average member rating: Once upon a time, our Kingdom was much larger than it is now, reaching across all ten islands of the Alabaz Archipelago. But then a terrible curse fell upon us. A thick, gray mist covered the sea, hiding... |
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| LUNIUM, by Ben Jackson Average member rating: 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... |
| The Lurking Horror, by Dave Lebling Average member rating: A winter night at the G.U.E. tech campus with most students away on vacation serves as the backdrop for this tale of Lovecraftian horror. |
| Lux, by Agnieszka Trzaska Average member rating: 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 Average member rating: A man heads into hell to seek out his lost lover; there he has to decide how much of himself to leave behind. |
| Marie Waits, by Dee Cooke Average member rating: Three hours. All you can do is wait... or is it? |
| Mentula Macanus: Apocolocyntosis, by One of the Bruces and Drunken Bastard Average member rating: Stiffy Makane, or rather his ancestor Mentula Macanus, is here subjected to an increasingly-unlikely series of crudely sexual romps through the ancient world. It's sort of like the Satyricon, except not... |
| Metamorphoses, by Emily Short Average member rating: You wake to stillness. The hammering, banging, and shouting that kept you awake half the night are gone. The air is cold, and something smells burnt. Your master's experiments must be finished, but with what... |
| A Mind Forever Voyaging, by Steve Meretzky Average member rating: "If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not..." --Shakespeare It's 2031. The world is on the brink of chaos. In the United States of North America, spiraling... |
| Mindwheel, by Robert Pinsky, William Mataga, Steve Hales Average member rating: Travel into the minds of four important people to collect the Wheel of Wisdom and save the world: BOBBY CLEMON, assassinated rock star, once called 'half John Lennon and half Janis Joplin'. This charismatic,... |
| Mirror and Queen, by Chandler Groover Average member rating: Your mirror never lies. A puzzleless reflection. Fifteen to forty minutes. |
| Moon-Shaped, by Jason Ermer Average member rating: In this game partly inspired by Little Red Riding Hood, you play as Rosalind Wechsler, a girl on the cusp of her 13th birthday. What begins as a trip to Grandmother's house in the woods leads to disturbing... |
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| Never Gives Up Her Dead, by Mathbrush Average member rating: Time is running out after a meteor strikes your interstellar starship. While the crew is under full alert, only you seem to notice the strange red portals opening up throughout the ship. Explore ten... |
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| Nightfall, by Eric Eve Average member rating: The Enemy is expected to arrive at any moment. Staying behind is either the stupidest or the bravest thing you've ever done. Only one thing - or one person - could have made you stay. So now there's nothing... |
| Not Just an Ordinary Ballerina, by Jim Aikin Average member rating: |
| Nothing Could be Further From the Truth, by Adam Wasserman Average member rating: Welcome to the Bunker, an orderly, underground utopia where everyone’s needs have been satisfied. You, Oliva Mirram, are a dust maid assigned to Research Lab A-U61, a facility in the Developmental... |
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| Open Up!, by Brendan Patrick Hennessy Average member rating: 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 Average member rating: 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... |
| The Origin of Madame Time, by Mathbrush Average member rating: As an avid fan of superheroes and a harsh critic of villains, the battle over the abandoned amusement park captured your imagination. But when the nuclear airship Mephistopheles exploded above you, it seemed... |
| Pantomime, by Robb Sherwin Average member rating: Pantomime takes place on the Martian moon of Phobos, in the year 2044. Mankind has developed colonies on Mars, Titan, Ganymede and installed a life bubble on the closer, larger Martian satellite. Mankind has... |
| A Papal Summons, or The Church Cat, by Bitter Karella Average member rating: 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,... |
| Party Foul, by Brooks Reeves Average member rating: You're cornered, trapped. There seems to be no escape. You aren't in a jail cell. No, you're in the cocktail party from hell and only by using your wits and luck are you going to get out of this suburb... |
| PataNoir, by Simon Christiansen Average member rating: 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. (Originally entered in the 2011... |
| Portcullis, by Robin Johnson Average member rating: Your home town, Portcullis, has been taken over by an evil sorcerer (because that's what evil sorcerers do) and a party of adventurers has arrived to overthrow him (because that's what adventurers do.) An... |
| The Primrose Path, by Nolan Bonvouloir Average member rating: You've been having a series of nightmares about Leo, standing at the edge of a cliff. No matter what you do, a bell rings and Leo disappears over the edge . . . You've led a fairly uneventful life, perhaps;... |
| Prism, by Eliot M.B. Howard Average member rating: Born to a city of wonders beyond your reach, scarcity has always been a close friend. As a courier, the city’s human infrastructure, you scale its roofworks, evade its constables, risk death every day for... |
| The Purple Pearl, by Amanda Walker Average member rating: A stolen treasure. A desperate king. Two valorous volunteers will prove their worth as a team to recover the luck of the kingdom, or die trying. This is a 2-player text adventure. You will need a partner to... |
| Railways of Love, by Provodnik Games Average member rating: They have feelings for each other. They are doomed to part. Train wheels click-clack monotonously. The ring of existence remains intact. Only you can break it giving the protagonists a chance for happiness.... |
| Red Door Yellow Door, by Charm Cochran Average member rating: Guide your sister through a game of visualization, adventure, and danger, and perhaps discover truths about each other along the way. This was originally intended for SeedComp!, but winded up being a bigger... |
| Remedial Witchcraft, by dgtziea Average member rating: Lina is a first year student studying magic. Lina isn't doing very well at her classes. Lina is apprenticing for the Witch of Howling Woods because no one else would take her. Tonight, Lina has messed up... |
| Renegade Brainwave, by J. J. Guest Average member rating: "Beware! Beware! Take care! For you are about take part in an interactive story that will reveal the terrifying truth behind the mysterious Soviet space programme! Revelations of incredible horrors that will... |
| Restless, by Emily Short Average member rating: You've been haunting old Mrs Fagles for decades. Now she's sold the house, and the new owner's moved in. Sylvie's broke, bad at plumbing, and anxious about everything. And with a living, breathing, fretting... |
| Return to Ditch Day, by M.J. Roberts Average member rating: It's been a decade since you graduated, but now it looks like you're going to have to solve one more Ditch Day stack. |
| Rover's Day Out, by Jack Welch and Ben Collins-Sussman Average member rating: 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: A game about transition from powerless to powerful. Has freeware and commercial versions. The commercial version contains unique pixel art and a soundtrack. |
| Scroll Thief, by Daniel M. Stelzer Average member rating: Not a single spell! After two full years of study! Every Enchanter—every mortal with the power to change very nature of the universe with their words—has a spell book! Filled with words of power... |
| 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... |
| Secret of the Black Walrus, by spaceflounder Average member rating: A wicked plot is afoot in Victorian London. Are you a clever enough to discover the Secret of the Black Walrus? |
| The Shadow in the Cathedral, by Ian Finley and Jon Ingold Average member rating: When the monks took me, aged six months, into their care, they named me Wren. Maybe because I was small, insignificant, and happy to eat any crumbs they threw my way. But these days I'm Wren, 2nd Assistant... |
| Shadow Operative, by Michael Lauenstein Average member rating: Another run. Another dive into the neon sea. A Cyberpunk Heist Game. Parser-based but with a hybrid interface (playable by typing or by links alone). Best played in a desktop browser (or on a tablet in... |
| Sigil Reader (Field), by verityvirtue Average member rating: I am a sigil reader. I work in a city where sigils are a matter of public health, for a maliciously inscribed sigil could mean the ruin of a business - or a soul. Except today I wake to a changed world. The... |
| Signal Hill, by Crosshollow Average member rating: A text-based RPG set in the post-apocalyptic utopia of Signal Hill. You came here with a caravan, set on starting a new life- but when you're ambushed outside the city, shot, your cargo stolen and your... |
| Six Silver Bullets, by William Dooling Average member rating: You are the Silver Agent, a spy who has lost their mind. You are alone in the city, without your memories...but you do have a mission, and it changes every time you play. You also have your silver gun. It... |
| Skybreak!, by William Dooling Average member rating: Skybreak! is a science-fantasy role-playing game of galactic proportions: explore distant stars, plunder alien ruins, hunt space pirates, collect beetles, slay gods, make out with sorcerers, and punch cosmic... |
| Spider and Web, by Andrew Plotkin Average member rating: 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... |
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| Submarine Sabotage, by Garry Francis Average member rating: You are currently serving aboard the USS Ibis, the first of the US Navy's top-secret Puny class submarines. The Puny class is an attack submarine that packs maximum firepower into a minimum-sized hull. It... |
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| Tales from Castle Balderstone, by Ryan Veeder Average member rating: An anthology of terror, edited by Ryan Veeder. Also an ECTOCOMP 2018 entry. |
| Thalassaphilia, by InfiniteStars Average member rating: (2 ratings)Five exceptional astronauts. An expedition to Saturn's frozen moon. One tragic accident that changes everything. Hand-picked for an unprecedented mission, the crew onboard the Rihltasis has spent a decade... |
| Thaumistry: In Charm's Way, by Bob Bates Average member rating: Thaum: (noun). A unit of magical energy Bodge: (verb). To hack or kludge Eric Knight was a child prodigy who was featured on the cover of Invent! Magazine at the age of 13 for his invention of an anti-stain... |
| their angelical understanding, by Porpentine Average member rating: I train to fight angels in a monastery by the sea. Wear headphones. TW: Suicidal ideation, ableism, abuse, possible epilepsy trigger. |
| Things that Happened in Houghtonbridge, by Dee Cooke Average member rating: On a hot summer weekend, all Olivia Raines wants to do is get on with her studies for her upcoming exams. But her unreliable aunt, Beverly, has gone missing, and Olivia finds herself unwillingly dragged into... |
| A Thousand Thousand Slimy Things, by Charm Cochran Average member rating: You awaken in a rowboat, in the middle of the ocean. Your food supply is low. Your drinking water is low. If you can wait 'til night, if you can see the stars, maybe you can navigate towards land. But... |
| Today is the Same as Any Other, by Adam Wasserman Average member rating: Welcome to the Bunker, an orderly, underground utopia where everyone's needs have been satisfied. You, Cory Resden, are a population tweaker in I-12 sector. You don't aspire to much, and your life is fairly... |
| Trading Punches, by Mike Snyder Average member rating: Friendship and rivalry, trust and doubt, unity and division, honesty and guile, hope and despair. These are the rifts through which history flows. Note: Trading Punches contains some mature themes, and may... |
| A Train to Piccadilly, by Marco Innocenti Average member rating: A stupid rainy day. Another one, the umpteenth in Soviet Europe. It kindly keeps the dust down, but moving through the rubble is difficult: the risk is that of slipping and breaking a bone. I'm in the right... |
| Transparent, by Hanon Ondricek Average member rating: There is a house. There is a room in the house. There is a door in the room. The door is locked. Some people are in the room. Some people are transparent. An eerie exploration of an abandoned historic house.... |
| Trapped in Time, by Simon Christiansen Average member rating: A Science Fiction adventure where YOU are the hero! |
| A Trial, by B Minus Seven Average member rating: A funny thing happens on your way to the Center for Nominal Reassignment. "A Trial" is a chimera of prose, poetry and ???. |
| The Trials and Tribulation of Edward Harcourt, by MelS and manonamora Average member rating: Friday February 2nd, 1923 My dearest friend, Such good fortune has befallen me, that I scarcely dare write you in case it is merely some joke played on me by fate. Lord knows that Fortuna has not been kind... |
| Ugly Chapter, by Sam Kabo Ashwell Average member rating: In this short story, you play as Leti, a rich woman and a patron of the arts, who travels from Hawaii to Mars, as told by an angry and bitter male poet who knew her. What you did in the most ugly chapter of... |
| Universal Hologram, by Kit Riemer Average member rating: Dreams are nothing but organic simulations. In a computer-generated universe, the citizens of a far-future Martian colony begin projecting their consciousnesses out of their bodies using astral projection... |
| Ürs, by Christopher Hayes, Daniel Talsky Average member rating: You're a regular rabbit who's lived in the same warren your entire life. You have no reason to leave, but the THUD threatens to destroy all the baby kittens. Maybe something in the ancient places of the Ürs... |
| Vain Empires, by Thomas Mack and Xavid Average member rating: The memoir of a demonic spy in the Cold War between Heaven and Hell. |
| Verses, by Kit Riemer Average member rating: Then the externality comes apart like something wet. Then the truth reveals itself to be a nutrient or a poison. Then the sun goes away and the rain comes, and you and I freeze in it, the translucent... |
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| Walker & Silhouette, by C.E.J. Pacian Average member rating: Team up with a dashing detective and an iconoclastic flapper to solve absurd and unfathomable crimes in this interactive story - where you control the action just by typing or clicking highlighted words in... |
| We Are the Firewall, by Anya Johanna DeNiro Average member rating: A game-novella set in near future Minneapolis. |
| We Know the Devil, by Aevee Bee and Mia Schwartz Average member rating: Anyone can kill the devil; that's why they always make teens the vampire slayers, the magical girls. But some kids can't even get that right; and that's why meangirl Neptune, tomboy Jupiter, and shy shy... |
| Whom The Telling Changed, by Aaron A. Reed Average member rating: 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... |
| Winterstrike, by Yoon Ha Lee A winter-locked city. Cold guns. Starship carcasses. And now, you. |
| Worlds Apart, by Suzanne Britton Average member rating: For over 20 years, I dreamed about an alternate universe I called the Higher World. For three of those years, I poured almost all of my creative energy into a novel-length story set in that universe. Worlds... |
| Worldsmith, by Ade McT Average member rating: (30 ratings)The Septem Tower has held steady in the Manifold, the space between time and the Real, for billenia. Populating the Tower are the Anemoi, a race of beings so far advanced that they hold the power of life and... |
| Writers Are Not Strangers, by Lynda Clark Average member rating: The meteorite could hit tomorrow, or in an hour, or six months from now. No-one seems to know, and so life goes on as normal. Although, for Alix, normal is relative. Please click the 'Show Stats' button for... |
| yet another planning doc, by Naarel Average member rating: WARNING This project contains mentions of drugs and some suggestive content. Emmeline, Izzy and Ana Vitória just want to make everything work... but not everything in life goes according to plan. Experience... |
| You are Standing at a Crossroads, by Astrid Dalmady Average member rating: You are Standing at a Crossroads is a short Twine story about being lost, being changed, and being stagnant. |
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