my father's long, long legs, by michael lutz Average member rating: (148 ratings) A weird tale. Some parts make use of sound, so this game is best played with headphones. One ending. |
My Gender Is a Fish, by Carter X Gwertzman Cryptic Puffin's rating: Average member rating: (24 ratings) Magpies from the forbidden woods like to steal things: coins, jewelry, your gender identity. It's starting to get dark, so you'd better find your gender fast. If only you could remember what it looked... |
Open Up!, by Brendan Patrick Hennessy Cryptic Puffin's rating: Average member rating: (26 ratings) 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 Cryptic Puffin's rating: Average member rating: (68 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... |
Orunge , by Jennifer Reuter Average member rating: (1 rating) A young girl seems to be in a hurry to buy a bag of oranges... |
The Owl Consults, by Thomas Mack, Nick Mathewson, and Cidney Hamilton Cryptic Puffin's rating: Average member rating: (21 ratings) Once you've established yourself as the ruler of the crime world (and, eventually, the literal world), the only challenge left is helping out the next generation of supervillains---for a suitable fee, of... |
Phenomena, by Dawn Sueoka Average member rating: (6 ratings) Shifting stories about UFOs. An interactive poem. |
Pirate's Plunder!, by Tiberius Thingamus Cryptic Puffin's rating: Average member rating: (12 ratings) In this game, it be yer goal to findeth ye olde, cursed treasure on Loot Island and taketh it fer yer own. Not even that evil Captain Hookhead can stoppeth ye once ye put ye mind to it. Know why? If ye... |
The Play, by Dietrich Squinkifer (Squinky) Cryptic Puffin's rating: Average member rating: (66 ratings) 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: (67 ratings) 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... |
Quest for the Serpent's Eye, by Lazygamedesigner82 Cryptic Puffin's rating: Average member rating: (2 ratings) Do you long for the days of sensational descriptions, ridiculously inconsistent monochrome artwork, and the mind-numbing frustration of seemingly impossible puzzles? If so, this might be the game for you!... |
Quing's Quest VII: The Death of Videogames!, by Dietrich Squinkifer (Squinky) Cryptic Puffin's rating: Average member rating: (6 ratings) You are a young monarch of mysterious and indistinct gender, valiantly trying to survive exile from your home planet -- or whatever's left of it since the invasion, anyway. |
Reference and Representation: An Approach to First-Order Semantics, by Ryan Veeder Cryptic Puffin's rating: Average member rating: (35 ratings) Violence is the answer to this one. |
Reflections, by Tristin Grizel Dean Cryptic Puffin's rating: Average member rating: (6 ratings) You're the descendant of a well-known fairy tale character, trying to inherit your family's magical power. This is an entry for the Text Adventure Literacy Jam, intended to be playable by kids and their... |
Robin & Orchid, by Ryan Veeder and Emily Boegheim Cryptic Puffin's rating: Average member rating: (65 ratings) High school journalists spend the night in a church, investigating reports of a ghost. |
Save the World in 7 Moves, by chintokkong Cryptic Puffin's rating: Average member rating: (12 ratings) Aliens are invading earth with flying cups and flying saucers! And you have only 7 moves to make before the end. Can you save the world in time? |
Shade, by Andrew Plotkin Cryptic Puffin's rating: Average member rating: (421 ratings) "A one-room game set in your apartment." [--blurb from Competition Aught-Zero] |
a short walk in the spring, by Amorphous Average member rating: (6 ratings) A procedurally-generated Twine. It's spring, and the flowers have sprouted in all the cities you used to go. Visit them to honor your ghosts, or wander away somewhere. |
Social Lycanthropy Disorder, by Emery Joyce Cryptic Puffin's rating: Average member rating: (13 ratings) 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... |
SPACE FROG!, by npckc Cryptic Puffin's rating: Average member rating: (4 ratings) this is SPACE FROG! a story of a frog in space. |
Superluminal Vagrant Twin, by C.E.J. Pacian Average member rating: (131 ratings) A text-only space sim. Ply the spaceways. Make five million credits. Buy back your twin. (Superluminal Vagrant Twin is a shallow but broad exploration game.) |