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♥girl things♥, by jaystarry
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

♥girl things♥ is a game about you, a trans wlw, and your friend lily being able to finally hang out & spend time together. cw: mentions of dysphoria and parental unacceptance ♥gt♥ is supposed to be a small,...

1893: A World's Fair Mystery, by Peter Nepstad
Average member rating: (25 ratings)

A theft on the fairgrounds! Precious diamonds stolen from the Kimberly Diamond Mining Exhibit! An urgent telegram from your old partner arrives, requesting your help to solve the mystery. How can you refuse?...

1915, by Gregor Duddy, Luke Powell, Finlay Macpherson
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

"1915 is a powerful little experience that would make a great companion piece to Peter Jackson’s They Shall Not Grow Old" - Alpha Beta Gamer About: 1915 is a short World War One narrative-driven experience...

1958: Dancing With Fear, by Victor Ojuel
Average member rating: (32 ratings)

"Dancing with Fear" (1958, directed by Víctor Ojuel). In this forgotten classic of Golden Age Hollywood, a vedette fallen on hard times (Salomé Vélez) finds herself enmeshed in a tangle of political...

Absence of Law, by mathbrush
Average member rating: (47 ratings)

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...

Accuse, by David A. Wheeler
Average member rating: (17 ratings)

This is a small puzzle/game where you must determine who murdered someone, with what, and where, by making a series of accusations. The solution, suspect placement, and weapon placement is random each time....

An Act of Murder, by Christopher Huang
Average member rating: (82 ratings)

Ad Verbum, by Nick Montfort
Average member rating: (134 ratings)

"With the cantankerous Wizard of Wordplay evicted from his mansion, the worthless plot can now be redeveloped. The city regulations declare, however, that the rip-down job can't proceed until all the items...

Admiration Point, by Rachel Helps
Average member rating: (22 ratings)

You work as a virtual exhibit artist at a digital culture museum. There is a glimmer of attraction to your co-worker. You are married and Mormon.

Afternoon in the House of Secrets, by Anna Anthropy
Average member rating: (10 ratings)

You have come to this enigmatic house in search of the secret that you know is here. You shall not leave until you find it! Made in two hours for the 25th Klik of the Month Klub.

afternoon, a story, by Michael Joyce

afternoon was first offered to the public as a demonstration of the hypertext authoring system Storyspace, announced in 1987 at the first Association for Computing Machinery Hypertext conference in a paper...

All Quiet on the Library Front, by Michael S. Phillips
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Average member rating: (14 ratings)

As a student with an IF assignment looming, you need to get a biography out of the library - however, it is a very rare book, and surely you won't be allowed to take it with you... [--blurb from The Z-Files...

All Roads, by Jon Ingold
Average member rating: (154 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]

All Things Devours, by half sick of shadows
Average member rating: (94 ratings)

From the game's about command: "All Things Devours is a short piece of interactive fiction, leaning strongly towards the text-adventure end of the spectrum. It explores an all-too-familiar science fiction...

Amanda, by Francisco J. López
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

Two tall, austere and well dressed men, almost of etiquette, are standing in the middle of a bridge escorting a third one. The image of the latter - your own image, in fact - is hardly recognizable by the...

Animalia, by Ian Michael Waddell
Average member rating: (36 ratings)

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...

Aphrodite's Orphan, by Thomas La Homme
Average member rating: (10 ratings)

A teenage girl living on a Venus out of 1930's Pulp Science Fiction must search the planet and other worlds with her robot tutor to find the killers of her parents. This is done in the format of an...

Augmented Fourth, by Brian Uri!
Average member rating: (65 ratings)

WANTED: Amateur musicians to serve the Royal Court. Must provide own instrument and be inured to copious constructive criticism. Impress your friends! Meet the King! Apply in person at the Castle, located on...

Bad Machine, by Dan Shiovitz
Average member rating: (15 ratings)

Beautiful Dreamer, by S. Woodson
Average member rating: (35 ratings)

"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...

A Beauty Cold and Austere, by Mike Spivey
Average member rating: (56 ratings)

That survey course in conceptual mathematics seemed like a good idea at the start of the term - no graded homework, no midterm exams - just an oral final at the end. But now that final is tomorrow morning....

Best of Three, by Emily Short
Average member rating: (62 ratings)

Birdland, by Brendan Patrick Hennessy
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Average member rating: (168 ratings)

Fourteen-year-old Bridget's summer camp experience takes a turn for the bizarre when her otherworldly bird dreams start bleeding into reality.

A Blank Page, by Edu Sánchez
Average member rating: (10 ratings)

A short story about creative block and the impostor syndrome

Blue Lacuna, by Aaron A. Reed
Average member rating: (111 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...

BOAT PROM, by Brendan Patrick Hennessy
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Average member rating: (18 ratings)

What’s worse than getting dumped by your pity date at prom? How about being stuck on a boat with him all night as he makes out with the girl you have a crush on? It’s enough to make Elizabeth want to jump...

Brain Guzzlers from Beyond!, by Steph Cherrywell
Average member rating: (72 ratings)

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...

Brimstone, by James Paul
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

This real time all-text tale puts you in the role of Sir Gawain, a knight of the Round Table. It takes place in a dream that traps you in the underworld of Ulro, where you must learn five magic words in...

Bugged, by Anssi Räisänen
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

The conceit of this game is that your cousin has written a very buggy IF game that you are determined to play through to the end. Can you take advantage of the bugs in the game to get around the other bugs...

Byzantine Perspective, by Lea Albaugh
Average member rating: (56 ratings)

Your task is simple enough. Just nab the chalice.

Calm, by Joey Jones and Melvin Rangasamy
Average member rating: (17 ratings)

Since the spores came life has been happier. How could it not be? For now stress is fatal and all who remain alive must remain calm...

Cannery Vale, by Hanon Ondricek (as Keanhid Connor)
Average member rating: (30 ratings)

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_

The Castle of Vourtram, by Alexandre Torres
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

The Kingdom of Gwalinad is in its last days of existence. The evil wizard Vourtram, aided by an army of demoniac creatures, razed most of the old cities, spreading terror everywhere. When the capital...

Child's Play, by Stephen Granade
Average member rating: (54 ratings)

It is playgroup day and playgroup day is normally a good day but ever since that little red-haired girl started coming she always wants your toys. She shouldn't get your toys. You tried telling the mom this...

Chlorophyll, by Steph Cherrywell
Average member rating: (58 ratings)

Christminster, by Gareth Rees
Average member rating: (88 ratings)

"When your brother Malcolm sends you a telegram inviting you to visit him at Biblioll College in the ancient university town of Christminster, you imagine that the mysterious `discovery' he alludes to is...

Chuk and the Arena, by Agnieszka Trzaska
Average member rating: (23 ratings)

Fight in the Grand Galactic Tournament to get back your planet's stolen moon!

City of Dead Leaves, by Felix Pleşoianu
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

There's nothing left in your life. There's nothing left in anyone's life. Will he even remember you after all this time? Will he want you back? ...

Color the Truth, by mathbrush
Average member rating: (72 ratings)

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...

Cragne Manor, by Ryan Veeder, Jenni Polodna et al.
Show other authorsAdam Whybray, Adri, Andrew Plotkin, Andy Holloway, Austin Auclair, Baldur Brückner, Ben Collins-Sussman, Bill Maya, Brian Rushton, Buster Hudson, Caleb Wilson, Carl Muckenhoupt, Chandler Groover, Chris Jones, Christopher Conley, Damon L. Wakes, Daniel Ravipinto, Daniel Stelzer, David Jose, David Petrocco, David Sturgis, Drew Mochak, Edward B, Emily Short, Erica Newman, Feneric, Finn Rosenlřv, Gary Butterfield, Gavin Inglis, Greg Frost, Hanon Ondricek, Harkness Munt, Harrison Gerard, Ian Holmes, Ivan Roth, Jack Welch, Jacqueline Ashwell, James Eagle, Jason Dyer, Jason Lautzenheiser, Jason Love, Jeremy Freese, Joey Jones, Joshua Porch, Justin de Vesine, Justin Melvin, Katherine Morayati, Kenneth Pedersen, Lane Puetz, Llew Mason, Lucian Smith, Marco Innocenti, Marius Müller, Mark Britton, Mark Sample, Marshal Tenner Winter, Matt Schneider, Matt Weiner, Matthew Korson, Michael Fessler, Michael Gentry, Michael Hilborn, Michael Lin, Mike Spivey, Molly Ying, Monique Padelis, Naomi Hinchen, Nate Edwards, Petter Sjölund, Q Pheevr, Rachel Spitler, Reed Lockwood, Reina Adair, Riff Conner, Roberto Colnaghi, Rowan Lipkovits, Sam Kabo Ashwell, Scott Hammack, Sean M. Shore, Shin, Wade Clarke, Zach Hodgens, Zack Johnson

Average member rating: (24 ratings)

A tribute to Anchorhead.

Crash, by Phil Riley
Average member rating: (10 ratings)

Space Station Omicron-5 in the Deneb system is the biggest Space Authority outpost for many light years. You have the honor of being a member of the Repair Corps, repairing appliances and the like on Space...

Craverly Heights, by Ryan Veeder
Average member rating: (18 ratings)

Take on the role of Doctor Langridge, whose patient, Janine, is very sick.

The Dead Tower, by Mez Breeze, Andy Campbell
Average member rating: (1 rating)

Set in a dark and abstract dream world that revolves around a crashed bus, the atmospheric literary game environment The Dead Tower can be freely explored at full-screen with the mouse and keyboard. Like the...

Death By Powerpoint, by Jack Welch
Average member rating: (11 ratings)

This Halloween, you have a PowerPoint presentation to deliver. And delivery it you will. Even if it kills you.

Deelzebub, by Morgan Elrod-Erickson, Skyler Grandel, Jan Kim
Average member rating: (11 ratings)

Reginald is your average former soap-sniffer: thirty-two, dumped, and unemployed. You are a voice inside his head. Summon demons, bake cookies, and decide the fate of the Hidden Hills Sanctuary.

Detective 1: Blacksea Island, by Will11
Average member rating: (10 ratings)

The first in a new series of stories featuring the teenage amateur detective Susan Knox as the reader's character. Set in open world locations where the reader is free to choose where to look for clues, who...

Detectiveland, by Robin Johnson
Average member rating: (53 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...

THE DEVIL'S IMAGO, by DOMINO CLUB, cecile richard, and isyourguy
Average member rating: (1 rating)

"A tale of primeval forces, unknown, uncaring, and unearthed" made for DOMINO JAM VI — HUMORS & HUMUS

Dial C for Cupcakes, by Ryan Veeder
Average member rating: (31 ratings)

A cantankerous ex-cop calls in a favor from his old partner.

Divis Mortis, by Lynnea Dally
Average member rating: (42 ratings)

The infection has spread. They are coming.

Doki Doki Literature Club, by Team Salvato
Average member rating: (18 ratings)

Hi, Monika here! Welcome to the Literature Club! It's always been a dream of mine to make something special out of the things I love. Now that you're a club member, you can help me make that dream come true...

Dr Horror's House of Terror, by Ade McT
Average member rating: (19 ratings)

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...

Dungeon Detective 2: Devils and Details, by Wonaglot
Average member rating: (9 ratings)

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...

Dungeons & Distractions, by E. Joyce
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

Having recently been turned into a werewolf, you're trying to make some friends in the supernatural community, and you're doing it the only way you know how: through tabletop gaming. Funny coincidence,...

Eat Me, by Chandler Groover
Average member rating: (98 ratings)

In this castle, you'll eat or be eaten. May contain dairy, carnage, puzzles, nuts.

Eclosion, by Buster Hudson
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

Entry in Ectocomp 2014.

The Eleusinian Miseries, by Mike Russo
Average member rating: (26 ratings)

Well, isn't this a lark! After solid years of going after old Alky to let you in on that Mysteries wheeze of his, at last tonight's the night. He's dragged you from Athens to Eleusis for the to-do, but no...

Endless, Nameless, by Adam Cadre
Average member rating: (53 ratings)

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...

Enough, by Hannah Powell-Smith
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

You're doing OK. A tiny game about comfort. Made for the TinyUtopias jam.

Escape from Hell, by Nils Fagerburg
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

You've been trapped in a stupid zombie accountant long enough, tonight you steal another body and... Escape from Hell! A puzzly parserless parser game.

Everybody Dies, by Jim Munroe
Average member rating: (105 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....

The Familiar, by groggydog
Average member rating: (13 ratings)

You are a witch's crow familiar, headstrong as anything but still young and untested. What starts as a normal day soon takes a harrowing turn when your pacific caretaker, Valmai, is struck down by a terrible...

Fifteen Minutes, by Ade McT
Average member rating: (24 ratings)

You're in a tight spot. You have fifteen minutes before the Principal expels you from the cosy world of academia and into the cold harsh reality of the real world. You really should do something about it. A...

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),...

Floatpoint, by Emily Short
Average member rating: (98 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...

Future Boy!, by Kent Tessman, Derek Lo, Dan Langan, and Nate Laguzza
Average member rating: (10 ratings)

Ghost, by beecadee
Average member rating: (1 rating)

When the masters of the house left for vacation, you thought you'd finally get some peace and quiet of your own. Then *these* cretins traipsed up the drive. Surely, you'd thought, if you ruined enough...

Ghost Simulator, by Morton Newberry
Average member rating: (1 rating)

You've never known what would happen after death. And now that you have woken up in a dusty attic, it is time to figure out what happened to you and meet the family living in your home. Ghost Simulator is a...

The Good Ghost, by Sarah Willson, Kirk Damato
Average member rating: (18 ratings)

A wholesome haunt in five acts.

Grimnoir, by ProP
Average member rating: (28 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...

The Grown-Up Detective Agency, by Brendan Patrick Hennessy
Average member rating: (47 ratings)

The only thing Bell Park likes more than a mystery is solving it on her own. But when a time-traveling 12-year-old version of herself lands face-down on her rented co-working desk, she'll have no choice but...

Guilded Youth, by Jim Munroe
Average member rating: (49 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: (18 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.

Heart of the House, by Nissa Campbell
Average member rating: (14 ratings)

Destroy the evil at the heart of a haunted manor! As an orphan, you discovered your ability to commune with the spirit world and ghosts. When your uncle Kent mysteriously disappears, you'll embark on a...

Heaven Will Be Mine, by Aevee Bee and Mia Schwartz
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

It’s 1981, and the dream of a new home in space for all humanity is dead. After fighting for decades against an intangible and ephemeral existential threat from beyond the solar system, Earth command has...

Heretic's Hope, by G. C. Baccaris
Average member rating: (25 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...

Honk!, by Alex Harby
Average member rating: (15 ratings)

A Fair Game ...

The House Abandon, by jonNoCode
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

A unique horror game, inside another horror game. 80’s text-adventure by way of psychological horror and meta-representation. A short story, free, for PC and Mac. Created for Ludum Dare 36, this 72 hour game...

The Impossible Bottle, by Linus Ĺkesson
Average member rating: (78 ratings)

Housework is only as dull as your imagination. Join Emma, six years old, on a playful adventure of peculiar proportions. Merciful puzzlefest. Parser or point-and-click, as you please. Web (including mobile)...

In a Manor of Speaking, by Hulk Handsome
Average member rating: (27 ratings)

In a Manor of Speaking is a punny adventure set in the surreal world of Calembour. Journey through the bizarre Outlands, the bustling streets of Rudeville, and eventually find your way to the manor itself as...

In the Deep, by Styxcolor
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

Embark on an exciting adventure as John Harper, an experienced saturation diver in the oil industry. With one of the most hazardous occupations in the world, John is used to danger. But the clean-up under...

John's Fire Witch, by John Baker
Average member rating: (40 ratings)

A small, witty text adventure. Its clever puzzles received quite a bit of acclaim on rec.arts.int-fiction upon its release. You've come to visit your old friend John Baker, but he's missing, and a blizzard...

Junior Arithmancer, by Mike Spivey
Average member rating: (54 ratings)

A one-to-many-room puzzler.

Keepsake, by Savaric
Average member rating: (26 ratings)

The planning was easy. Committing the murder was easy. But getting away with it? That's another thing. Keepsake is a short, surreal story about vengeance and its consequences.

The King of Shreds and Patches, by Jimmy Maher
Average member rating: (77 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...

The King's Ball, by Garry Francis
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

Every year, the king holds an extravagant ball where he invites all the local dignitaries and they lavish him with gifts. The king sells some of these gifts after the ball and uses the money to fund the ball...

Lazy Wizard's Guide, by Lenard Gunda
Average member rating: (14 ratings)

It is time to take the final exam in your magician studies. The only problem is, for all the years you have spent in this prestigious school of magic, you have been really lazy. Really, really, "you don't...

Leadlight, by Wade Clarke
Average member rating: (34 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 Legend of Lady Magaidh, by Daniel Freas
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

Legion, by Jason Devlin
Average member rating: (21 ratings)

Les espions ne meurent jamais, by Hugo Labrande
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

You, Randolf McHifflin, have managed to capture your archnemesis, the famous English spy James Powers. He's tied up in front of you, and you just have to kill him, by any mean you can find in this room. But...

The Lesson of the Tortoise, by G. Kevin Wilson
Average member rating: (19 ratings)

In this short game, you play as Wang Lo, a Chinese farmer. Alas, you shall learn that your wife has been unfaithful and desires your death.

The Long Nap, by Paul Michael Winters
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

Sometimes you just need some rest. But don't sleep too deeply! Developed in under four hours for Ectocomp La Petite Mort category.

Lost in time, by Gerardo Adesso
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

Knock Knock. Knock Knock. A journey through memory lane.

Lydia's Heart, by Jim Aikin
Average member rating: (32 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...

Mango, by Aaron Reed, Duncan Bowsman, and Alexei Othenin-Girard
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

You are stuck inside a creepy hotel room in Boston and need to escape. How can losing precious brain parts learning learning occult magicks, former president Millard Fillmore, and time traveling to the Irish...

Metamorphoses, by Emily Short
Average member rating: (130 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...

Midnight. Swordfight., by Chandler Groover
Average member rating: (79 ratings)

A fool receives a challenge from a countess. Violence. Sex. Profanity. Sausage.

Milliways: the Restaurant at the End of the Universe, by Max Fog
Average member rating: (11 ratings)

In Milliways: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, every step you take has an equal probability of sending you over the edge of perilous cliff drops or spinning into the stratosphere. But before that...

The Mines of Lithiad, by Jack Lockerby
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

Mingsheng, by Deane Saunders
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

Mirror and Queen, by Chandler Groover
Average member rating: (31 ratings)

Your mirror never lies. A puzzleless reflection. Fifteen to forty minutes.

The Moonlit Tower, by Yoon Ha Lee
Average member rating: (61 ratings)

Moonmist, by Stu Galley, Jim Lawrence
Average member rating: (48 ratings)

More ghosts haunt the misty sea-coast and stone ramparts of Cornwall than anyplace else on earth. One such soul roams Tresyllian Castle: a pale phantom with flaxen hair and a luminous, flowing gown. It seems...

The Mulldoon Legacy, by Jon Ingold
Average member rating: (45 ratings)

"In the event of my disappearance, my legacy shall not be distributed until every room in my museum has been searched in case I can be located." --Last Will and Testament, E. Mulldoon.
My Angel, by Jon Ingold
Average member rating: (28 ratings)
"I wake peacefully, and already she is there." [--blurb from Competition Aught-Zero]

Never Date Werewolves, by Rebecca Zahabi
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

Raise your litter of six baby werewolves while hunting for your true love! Dating a werewolf means you've been left with a litter of kids. Six kids. Kids who turn into cubs when they get upset. You've gotten...

Never Gives Up Her Dead, by Mathbrush
Average member rating: (13 ratings)

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...

A New Life, by A O Muniz
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

Night House, by Bitter Karella
Average member rating: (18 ratings)

It looks different in the dark. You're eight years old. You wake up in the middle of the night to use the bathroom, but you soon realize that not everything is as it seems in the house tonight. Where has...

Nocked! True Tales of Robin Hood, by Andrew G. Schneider
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

You are Robin of Locksley. Hounded from your home by the Sheriff of Nottingham, take control of your fate in this extravagant choose-your-own-adventure style role-playing game. Rob from the rich, rally the...

Nothing Could be Further From the Truth, by Adam Wasserman
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

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...

One Eye Open, by Caelyn Sandel (as Colin Sandel) and Carolyn VanEseltine
Average member rating: (46 ratings)

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...

PataNoir, by Simon Christiansen
Average member rating: (58 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.

The People's Glorious Revolutionary Text Adventure Game, by Taylor Vaughan
Average member rating: (56 ratings)

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...

Perihelion, by Tim White
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

What comets may come

Photopia, by Adam Cadre
Average member rating: (558 ratings)

"Will you read me a story?" "Read you a story? What fun would that be? I've got a better idea: let's tell a story together."

Pick Up the Phone Booth and Aisle, by David Dyte, Steve Bernard, Dan Shiovitz, Iain Merrick, Liza Daly, John Cater, Ola Sverre Bauge, J. Robinson Wheeler, Jon Blask, Dan Schmidt, Stephen Granade, Rob Noyes, and Emily Short
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Average member rating: (107 ratings)

A pirate's pleasure, by Lisa Fox

Sail the sea of love as a pirate queen! Seek gold, glory, and epic romance with a rogue, a warrior, or a nobleman. The Golden Age of Piracy is winding down and life is changing in the Caribbean—and as a...

Plasmorphosis, by Agnieszka Trzaska
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

Help a plucky rover complete its planetary research mission by studying alien lifeforms... and morphing them into brand new shapes and forms! "Plasmorphosis" is a short game about exploration, with light...

The Prongleman Job, by Arthur DiBianca
Average member rating: (14 ratings)

Break into Prongleman's house and steal a few valuables. Try and finish before he gets home. The Thieves' Society is counting on you.

Pytho's Mask, by Emily Short
Average member rating: (68 ratings)

On the Night of the Comet, the usual astrological bonds do not hold, and the order of the universe is threatened. It is a time made for rebels and usurpers, and all who would claim the kingdom for...

Quest for the Serpent's Eye, by Lazygamedesigner82
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Average member rating: (1 rating)

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!...

Quickfire, by Sean M. Shore
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

The sun has not even risen when the Elves rouse you from your rest. You've slept far too little since last night's bloodbath, but it's time once again for battle. You sharpen your blades and head to the...

Remedial Witchcraft, by dgtziea
Average member rating: (20 ratings)

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...

The Shadow in the Cathedral, by Ian Finley and Jon Ingold
Average member rating: (31 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...

Shuffling Around, by Andrew Schultz (as Ned Yompus)
Average member rating: (25 ratings)

A weird power to save a weird world. So you just got fired from the best company ever, and it's the best day of your life. New opportunities! New horizons! New ways to look at things! Like calling this...

Six, by Wade Clarke
Average member rating: (40 ratings)

Your name is Harriet Leitner, and you and your twin sister Demi turned six this morning! You're having a fancy dress birthday party, and this afternoon you'll be playing Hide and Seek Tip over in the park....

Six Stories, by Neil K. Guy
Average member rating: (25 ratings)

After losing control of your car during a blizzard in the mountains of British Columbia, you make your way to a rundown shack and sleep. You wake up elsewhere and soon encounter a mouse, a pair of drawing...

Skybreak!, by William Dooling
Average member rating: (17 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...

Snatches, by Gregory Weir
Average member rating: (15 ratings)

Space Diner, by Marta and Alexej
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

You run a diner and your customers are aliens with various dietary restrictions and tastes. Make them happy, and they will repay you in space dollars and positive reviews!

The Story of the Shinoboo, by Adri
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

La Petite Mort entry in ECTOCOMP 2015.

stupidgame, by Sam Kabo Ashwell
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

Sub Rosa, by Joey Jones, Melvin Rangasamy
Average member rating: (42 ratings)

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...

Suveh Nux, by David Fisher
Average member rating: (225 ratings)

An entry in the 2007 One Room Game Competition. You play a magician's servant who gets trapped in your master's vault; you'll need to learn some of his tricks if you want to get out.

Take, by Katherine Morayati (as Amelia Pinnolla)
Average member rating: (37 ratings)

You are battle-weary. Your armor is scanty and your countenance is loathsome; you tire of the swords flicking at your neck. But you have a duty. There is nothing you can't take. (Content warning: Violence,...

Tales from Castle Balderstone, by Ryan Veeder
Average member rating: (16 ratings)

An anthology of terror, edited by Ryan Veeder. Also an ECTOCOMP 2018 entry.

Tally Ho, by Kreg Segall
Average member rating: (21 ratings)

Only a perfect servant can solve a perfect mess! Being the perfect gentleman's gentleman or lady's lady doesn't make you an angel. Can you untangle your employer's knottiest problems with elegance and...

Tea and Toast, by Matt Weiner (as Maria del Pangolin)
Average member rating: (13 ratings)

Theatre, by Brendon Wyber
Average member rating: (89 ratings)
Your job as a real estate agent brings you into contact with many old buildings, but none are quite like the old theatre that has stood deserted for almost thirty years. After visiting it with some...

Toby's Nose, by Chandler Groover
Average member rating: (109 ratings)

A murder most foul has been committed and Sherlock Holmes is on the case. You are his dog.

Treasure Island, by Ann Weil, Lee Jacknow and Robert Louis Stevenson

As Jim Hawkins, search for pirate gold and for a way to outwit Long John Silver, a clever and cunning buccaneer.

Trigaea, by Adam Ipsen (RynGM)
Average member rating: (9 ratings)

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...

Trouble in Sector 471, by Arthur DiBianca
Average member rating: (30 ratings)

The power just went out in Sector 471. You had better go take a look.

Ürs, by Christopher Hayes, Daniel Talsky
Average member rating: (23 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...

Universe For Sale, by Tmesis Studio
Average member rating: (1 rating)

A sci-fi narrative experience about human relationships and self-acceptance, follow the nameless Master, a mysterious cultist and Lila the universes vendor. Walk through Jupiter's bazaars, meet absurd...

The Wand, by Arthur DiBianca
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Average member rating: (58 ratings)

Explore the wizard Bartholloco's castle with the help of a versatile magic wand. Can you overcome his challenge? Can you levitate a rock? Can you slice a baltavakia? (Puzzle-oriented and family friendly.)

Wedding Day, by E. Joyce
Average member rating: (9 ratings)

Your wedding ceremony will begin soon. You must prepare.
Who Among Us, by Tia Orisney
Average member rating: (12 ratings)
A noir-themed murder mystery story inspired by Agatha Christie's novel "And Then There Were None" and set in modern day Russia.
Winter Break at Hogwarts, by Brian Davies
Average member rating: (10 ratings)
Spend a Christmas holiday alone in the world's most famous wizarding school... What was supposed to be a couple of weeks of peace and quiet while the other students were home with their families gets...

Worlds Apart, by Suzanne Britton
Average member rating: (90 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...

Wry, by Olaf Nowacki
Average member rating: (13 ratings)

A one and a half room slapstick miniature about subconscious erotic desires with three quite different endings.

Zeppelin Adventure, by Robin Johnson
Average member rating: (12 ratings)

Piloting a tea-zeppelin on Mars is a lonely job, but this run is nearly over and then you're due for a holiday. That's unless you get sucked into a puzzly adventure involving pterodactyls, robots,...

A·L·I·E·N: La aventura - Edición Especial, by Alpha Aventuras (Ricardo Pérez, Manuel Millán, Francisco J. Roldán, Manuel I. Monge, Antonio Matiola, Francisco Picazo)
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Average member rating: (2 ratings)

Desde hace casi tres ańos, el Gobierno ha estado utilizando una rica mina de Vibrantium en el planeta 2003 UB313, pero llevamos quince días sin tener noticias de la colonia minera situada en el planeta....


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