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| (do not) forget, by lectronice Average member rating:  (19 ratings)(do not) forget is a slightly surreal tale. It takes place in an isometric world inhabited by cute cubic animals. It is, however, not intended for children. This is a contemplative game, sometimes crude,... |
| Accelerate, by The TAV Institute Average member rating: (14 ratings)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.... |
| The Act of Misdirection, by Callico Harrison Average member rating: (60 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... |
| Adventurer's Consumer Guide, by Øyvind Thorsby Average member rating: (27 ratings) |
| All Roads, by Jon Ingold Average member rating: (148 ratings)"Wave a circle round him thrice, And close your eyes with holy dread For he on honey-dew hath fed And drunk the milk of paradise." [--blurb from Competition Aught-One] |
| American Election, by Greg Buchanan Average member rating: (15 ratings)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... |
| Aunts and Butlers, by Robin Johnson Average member rating: (43 ratings)It's 1920, you're a minor aristocrat fallen on hard times, and your wretched Aunt Cedilla is on the warpath. A Wodehousean comedy of manners, manors, mysterious butlers and unfriendly poodles. |
| Babyface, by Mark Sample Average member rating: (24 ratings)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... |
| Basilica de Sangre, by Bitter Karella Average member rating: (10 ratings)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: (6 ratings)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: (55 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,... |
| Blighted Isle, by Eric Eve Average member rating: (42 ratings)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: (99 ratings)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... |
| Broken Legs, by Sarah Morayati Average member rating: (28 ratings)A blurb? They expect you to write? You're Lottie Plum so you're not going into writing. You sing. And dance and act up a storm while everyone else can only manage a puddle. You belong at Bridger. No matter... |
| Bullhockey!, by B F Lindsay Average member rating: (9 ratings)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. |
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(5 ratings)| Cape, by Bruno Dias Average member rating: (43 ratings)Cape is a superhero origin story for the cyberpunk dystopia we're all living in. |
| Castle of the Red Prince, by C.E.J. Pacian Average member rating: (47 ratings)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 small... |
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(81 ratings)| City of Secrets, by Emily Short Average member rating: (98 ratings) |
| The Colder Light, by Jon Ingold Average member rating: (16 ratings)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... |
| Curses, by Graham Nelson Average member rating: (123 ratings)"As "Curses" opens, you're hunting about in the attic of your family home, looking for a tatty old map of Paris (you're going on holiday tomorrow) and generally trying to avoid all the packing. Aunt Jemima... |
| Custard & Mustard's Big Adventure, by Christopher Merriner Average member rating: (7 ratings)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... |
| Dead Like Ants, by C.E.J. Pacian Average member rating: (52 ratings)You play as a young woman in red overalls, a red worker ant. Every spring, five dangerous creatures visit the tree and threaten the village, and every spring, the Queen sends one of her daughters to... |
| Delightful Wallpaper, by Andrew Plotkin ('Edgar O. Weyrd') Average member rating: (75 ratings) |
| Detectiveland, by Robin Johnson Average member rating: (50 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... |
| Diddlebucker!, by J. Michael Average member rating: (11 ratings)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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(21 ratings)| Draculaland, by Robin Johnson Average member rating: (28 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... |
| Dull Grey, by Provodnik Games Average member rating: (16 ratings)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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(31 ratings)| Enceladus, by Robb Sherwin Average member rating: (12 ratings)There's a werewolf loose on the spaceship known as the HMCS Plagoo! |
| Eurydice, by Anonymous Average member rating: (36 ratings)A short game about grief, with occasional snakes. |
| Everybody Dies, by Jim Munroe Average member rating: (95 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.... |
| Exhibition, by Ian Finley Average member rating: (25 ratings)"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] |
| Fair, by Hanon Ondricek Average member rating: (25 ratings)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: (20 ratings)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 travel... |
| First Times, by Hero Robb Average member rating: (11 ratings)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: (9 ratings)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... |
| The Fixer, by Chikodili Emelumadu Average member rating: (9 ratings)Story: Chikodili Emelumadu Art: Onyinye Iwu Interactivity: Tory Hoke She finds you, and she won’t let go. Two women hire a private investigator to trail their erring husbands. Playing time: 8 minutes |
| Floatpoint, by Emily Short Average member rating: (95 ratings)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: (48 ratings)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: (309 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... |
| Get Lost!, by S. Woodson Average member rating: (15 ratings)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,... |
| Ghostfinder: Shift, by Han-Joo Kim Average member rating: (8 ratings)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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(94 ratings)| Gourmet, by Aaron A. Reed and Chad Barb Average member rating: (50 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... |
| Grimnoir, by ProP Average member rating: (18 ratings)It's his biggest selling point and it's a cold, hard fact: occult detective Jacob Morris has never lost a case, and he's been in this business a long time. Join him and his singularly skilled colleague... |
| Guess the Verb!, by Leonard Richardson Average member rating: (28 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... |
| Guilded Youth, by Jim Munroe Average member rating: (45 ratings)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... |
| Hallowmoor, by Mike Snyder Average member rating: (15 ratings)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. |
| 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. |
| Heretic's Hope, by G. C. Baccaris Average member rating: (18 ratings)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... |
| HHH.exe, by Robot Parking Average member rating: (16 ratings)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 familiar; foolish... |
| HUNTING UNICORN, by Chandler Groover Average member rating: (26 ratings)A maiden leads a unicorn hunt. Sixteen narrative variants. Choose-your-own-adventure style. Mature thematic elements. |
| Invasion, by Cat Manning Average member rating: (24 ratings)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. |
| Invisible Parties, by Sam Kabo Ashwell (as Psychopup) Average member rating: (19 ratings)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... |
| Jay Schilling's Edge of Chaos, by Robb Sherwin, Mike Sousa Average member rating: (16 ratings)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: (11 ratings)Young love in the Lonely Valley. |
| Kaged, by Ian Finley Average member rating: (51 ratings)""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 King of Shreds and Patches, by Jimmy Maher Average member rating: (71 ratings)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 E. Joyce and N. Cormier Average member rating: (8 ratings)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: (10 ratings)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.... |
| Leadlight, by Wade Clarke Average member rating: (33 ratings)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...... |
| The Life (and Deaths) of Doctor M, by Michael D. Hilborn Average member rating: (29 ratings)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: (16 ratings) |
| Losing Your Grip, by Stephen Granade Average member rating: (21 ratings) |
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(15 ratings)| The Lurking Horror, by Dave Lebling Average member rating: (86 ratings)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: (16 ratings)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... |
| Lydia's Heart, by Jim Aikin Average member rating: (29 ratings)"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... |
| Lyreless, by Bruno Dias Average member rating: (11 ratings)A man heads into hell to seek out his lost lover; there he has to decide how much of himself to leave behind. |
| The Master of the Land, by Pseudavid Average member rating: (22 ratings)> 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... |
| Metamorphoses, by Emily Short Average member rating: (120 ratings)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: (107 ratings)"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... |
| Mirror and Queen, by Chandler Groover Average member rating: (27 ratings)Your mirror never lies. A puzzleless reflection. Fifteen to forty minutes. |
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(5 ratings)| Nightfall, by Eric Eve Average member rating: (58 ratings)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: (28 ratings) |
| Oppositely Opal, by Buster Hudson Average member rating: (51 ratings)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... |
| Pantomime, by Robb Sherwin Average member rating: (10 ratings) |
| A Papal Summons, or The Church Cat, by Bitter Karella Average member rating: (14 ratings)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: (30 ratings)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: (49 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. |
| Restless, by Emily Short Average member rating: (4 ratings)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: (28 ratings)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. |
| Robin & Orchid, by Ryan Veeder and Emily Boegheim Average member rating: (59 ratings)High school journalists spend the night in a church, investigating reports of a ghost. |
| Rover's Day Out, by Jack Welch and Ben Collins-Sussman Average member rating: (49 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: (9 ratings)A game about transition from powerless to powerful. Has freeware and commercial versions. The commercial version contains unique pixel art and a soundtrack. |
| Secret Agent Cinder, by Emily Ryan Average member rating: (21 ratings)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... |
| The Shadow in the Cathedral, by Ian Finley and Jon Ingold Average member rating: (27 ratings)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: (15 ratings)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... |
| Six Gray Rats Crawl Up The Pillow, by Caleb Wilson (as Boswell Cain) Average member rating: (19 ratings)A distressing episode in the life of Rinaldo di Gorgonzola. |
| Six Silver Bullets, by William Dooling Average member rating: (8 ratings)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: (15 ratings)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: (283 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... |
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(4 ratings)| Stone Harbor, by Liza Daly Average member rating: (38 ratings)You're good at what you do: tell tourists pretty lies about love, money, and life after death. That's what people want from a boardwalk psychic, and you deliver. It's not the future you imagined for... |
| Tales from Castle Balderstone, by Ryan Veeder Average member rating: (13 ratings)An anthology of terror, edited by Ryan Veeder. Also an ECTOCOMP 2018 entry. |
| Thanksgiving, by Hannah Powell-Smith Average member rating: (14 ratings)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... |
| Today is the Same as Any Other, by Adam Wasserman Average member rating: (2 ratings)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: (12 ratings) |
| Trapped in Time, by Simon Christiansen Average member rating: (22 ratings)A Science Fiction adventure where YOU are the hero! |
| Ürs, by Christopher Hayes, Daniel Talsky Average member rating: (22 ratings)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... |
| Ugly Chapter, by Sam Kabo Ashwell Average member rating: (12 ratings)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... |
| Vain Empires, by Thomas Mack and Xavid Average member rating: (22 ratings)The memoir of a demonic spy in the Cold War between Heaven and Hell. |
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(164 ratings)| We Know the Devil, by Aevee Bee and Mia Schwartz Average member rating: (13 ratings)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... |
| Worlds Apart, by Suzanne Britton Average member rating: (83 ratings)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... |
| Wretch!, by Josh Labelle Average member rating: (3 ratings)You awaken in a lab. Your head is filled with memories not wholly your own. The mysterious doctor regards you from the doorway. Will you try to earn his favor? Or escape his ramshackle house? Can you make a... |
| Writers Are Not Strangers, by Lynda Clark Average member rating: (12 ratings)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... |
| You are Standing at a Crossroads, by Astrid Dalmady Average member rating: (25 ratings)You are Standing at a Crossroads is a short Twine story about being lost, being changed, and being stagnant. |
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