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| 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?... |
| Adventureland, by Scott Adams Average member rating: (44 ratings)Wander through an enchanted realm and try to uncover the 13 lost treasures. There are wild animals and magical beings to reckon with as well as many other perils and mysteries. WARNING! The Z-Code conversion... |
| Alias 'The Magpie', by J. J. Guest Average member rating: (69 ratings)Sir Rodney Playfair, gentleman thief, has a simple plan: impersonate a psychiatrist, infiltrate a country house, steal a priceless Egyptian scarab and make it back to London in time for cocktails. All in a... |
| 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] |
| Amazon, by Michael Crichton Average member rating: (5 ratings)The Amazon jungle. Volcanic, dangerous, still unexplored. Home of the jaguar. The alligator. Two hundred species of poisonous snakes. And nataives whose culinary habits, while only rumored, make you very... |
| Andromeda Awakening - The Final Cut, by Marco Innocenti Average member rating: (42 ratings)The most important discovery in history. And then, the whole world goes crumbling down. Armed with but a computer and an expired railway ticket, how can one expect to save the day when the doomsday clock has... |
| Arrival, or Attack of the B-Movie Clichés, by Stephen Granade Average member rating: (34 ratings) |
| 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... |
| Babel, by Ian Finley Average member rating: (155 ratings)In this game, you play as an amnesiac inside Babel, an abandoned Arctic facility devoted to biological research. You soon discover that you have the unusual ability to witness scenes from the past by... |
| Bad Machine, by Dan Shiovitz Average member rating: (15 ratings) |
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(5 ratings)| 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... |
| Breakers, by Rodney Smith, Joe Vierra, William Mataga Average member rating: (3 ratings)They're expecting the Messiah any day now. If you're not him, you'd better have a real good story. The realm of the Breakers wait for their Messiah to come to them the same day you arrive. How to convince... |
| 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... |
| Bronze, by Emily Short Average member rating: (286 ratings)When the seventh day comes and it is time for you to return to the castle in the forest, your sisters cling to your sleeves. |
| Castle of Riddles, by Peter D. Killworth Average member rating: (1 rating) |
| 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... |
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(7 ratings)| The Count, by Scott Adams Average member rating: (22 ratings)"It begins when you awake in a large brass bed in a castle somewhere in Transylvania. Who are you, what are you doing here and WHY did the postman deliver a bottle of blood? Converted from original code by... |
| Countdown to Doom, by Peter D. Killworth Average member rating: (3 ratings) |
| Counterfeit Monkey, by Emily Short Average member rating: (240 ratings)Anglophone Atlantis has been an independent nation since an April day in 1822, when a well-aimed shot from their depluralizing cannon reduced the British colonizing fleet to one ship. Since then, Atlantis... |
| Cryptozookeeper, by Robb Sherwin Average member rating: (23 ratings)Marrow is delicious but that's not why you're here. You're supposed to pick up a single jar of alien bone jelly, which of course can't exist and doesn't exist, so you've convinced yourself that transporting... |
| Cyborg, by Michael Berlyn Average member rating: (1 rating)When NASA 11 told you that becoming a cyborg was a painless experience, you believed them, didn't you?-and you volunteered. The operation was painless. Until you woke up. |
| Dream Prisoner, by Alexander van Oostenrijk Adopting arbitrary plot conventions from both the text and multimedia adventure game genres it builds on, DP casts the player as an modern-day Dutchman somehow (hey, one rarely recalls the precise... |
| Dual Transform, by Andrew Plotkin Average member rating: (109 ratings)This game takes place in a single room — but not always the same one. The room contains just one item, but again, there's more to it than that. Experiment and enjoy. |
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(1 rating)| Earth and Sky, by Paul O'Brian Average member rating: (82 ratings)It's been almost a month since your parents disappeared. One Tuesday, they just didn't come home, and there's been no sign of them since. For the University and the rest of the town, the mystery is beginning... |
| Endless, Nameless, by Adam Cadre Average member rating: (54 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... |
| Essex, by Bill Darrah, William Mataga Average member rating: (2 ratings)You have been waiting for this vacation for weeks and the trip on the Essex is just the start, but somewhere in your mind lurks the feeling that all is not exactly as expected. It may be the news of enemy... |
| Fallacy of Dawn, by Robb Sherwin Average member rating: (19 ratings)In a world that never quite got over the '80s, Delarion Yar dispenses quarters for the local arcade... badly. A software pirate from better days, he's crossed the wrong people one too many times. Locked into... |
| Finding Martin, by G.K. Wennstrom Average member rating: (10 ratings)Venture past the limits of ordinary reality as you investigate the mysterious disappearance of an old friend. In order to solve the most challenging of these puzzles, you will need to cooperate with yourself... |
| First Things First, by J. Robinson Wheeler Average member rating: (23 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... |
| Fragile Shells, by Stephen Granade Average member rating: (51 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. |
| Future Boy!, by Kent Tessman, Derek Lo, Dan Langan, and Nate Laguzza Average member rating: (10 ratings) |
| Gateway, by Mike Verdu, Michael Lindner, and Glen Dahlgren Average member rating: (36 ratings)In the early twenty-second century, adventurous citizens of Earth can travel to a place called "Gateway": a long-abandoned alien space station, now rediscovered by humans and turned into a jumping-off point... |
| GiantKiller, by Peter D. Killworth Average member rating: (2 ratings)From the Topologika website (retrieved September 2012): 'GiantKiller' is a classic (i.e. text-only) and tongue-in-cheek Maths adventure game based on Jack and the Beanstalk. It's aimed at 8 to 14 year olds -... |
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(1 rating)| 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... |
| Hadean Lands, by Andrew Plotkin Average member rating: (67 ratings)Marooned in an alien, airless wasteland -- your starship fractured -- your crewmates missing. Can an apprentice alchemist learn how to survive? |
| Her Majesty's Trolley Problem, by Buster Hudson Average member rating: (27 ratings)No one said life in Her Majesty's Service would be easy. Fortunately, you've got everything you need: your officer's handbook, a harpoon cannon, and the indefatigable command of Captain Lionetta herself. If... |
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(6 ratings)| Jacaranda Jim, by Campbell Wild Average member rating: (1 rating)Following an attack on his cargo-ship by an army of homicidal beechwood armchairs Jacaranda Jim is forced to crashland on the strange world of Ibberspleen IV. Rescued from the burning wreckage by the... |
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(40 ratings)| 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... |
| Kingdom of Hamil, by Jonathan Partington Average member rating: (2 ratings) |
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(2 ratings)| L: A Mathemagical Adventure, by members of the Association of Teachers of Mathematics co-ordinated by Richard Phillips, and including Derek Ball, Tony Corbett, David Rooke, Heather Scott, Alan Shaw, Margaret Stevens, Ruth Townsend, Jo Waddingham, Roger Waddingham, John Warwick, Alan Wigley, John Wood, and David Wooldridge. Average member rating: (4 ratings)It is a very hot day. You are sitting on the grass outside a crumbling palace. Your sister is reading a book called Fractions and the Four Rules — 5000 Carefully Graded Problems. You are bored and the heat... |
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(20 ratings)| Lost Pig, by Admiral Jota Average member rating: (493 ratings)Pig lost! Boss say that it Grunk fault. Say Grunk forget about closing gate. Maybe boss right. Grunk not remember forgetting, but maybe Grunk just forget. -- IFComp 2007 blurb |
| Madness & the Minotaur, by Tom Rosenbaum Average member rating: (4 ratings)A treasure hunt through a randomized dungeon, navigated with the help of magical items with randomly assigned names and effects. |
| Make It Good, by Jon Ingold Average member rating: (84 ratings)The call comes through. Of all the dicks; you get the call, sitting in the front seat of your car, hands shaking on the steering wheel. An urgent call; but all you were thinking of was the bottle in the... |
| Mindwheel, by Robert Pinsky, William Mataga, Steve Hales Average member rating: (5 ratings)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,... |
| Monsters of Murdac, by Jonathan Partington Average member rating: (4 ratings)The forests of Murdac are some of the oldest, as well as the wildest and most isolated, in the whole land. Also they don't take kindly to intruders -- although living on the outermost fringes of the great... |
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(45 ratings)| Necrotic Drift, by Robb Sherwin Average member rating: (18 ratings)Necrotic Drift is a survival horror text adventure... but with graphics and sound! An homage to the old Magnetic Scrolls game in presentation, Necrotic Drift follows the story of gaming store employee Jarret... |
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(7 ratings)| Nightfall, by Eric Eve Average member rating: (61 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: (30 ratings) |
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(28 ratings)| Once and Future, by G. Kevin Wilson Average member rating: (13 ratings) |
| Pentari: First Light, by Howard Sherman Average member rating: (4 ratings)Step inside the magical kingdom of Pentari as a captain in the Empire's army. Dark forces have plunged an entire city into chaos and you are sent in to stop them. Your sword and your wits won't be enough.... |
| Pentari: Second Dawn, by Howard Sherman After saving the Kingdom of Pentari from ruin and total destruction in First Light, you have ascended from the ranks and installed as Governor of the new sixth city of the empire across the Quondem Ocean.... |
| Perdition's Flames, by Michael J. Roberts Average member rating: (23 ratings)The afterlife isn't what you expected. Explore a strangely modernized and bureaucratic underworld, replete with strip malls, government offices, and science labs, as well as the occasional lake of molten... |
| Rambo First Blood Part 2, by Sylvester Stallone and James Cameron Average member rating: (2 ratings)Your war was never over. And now you're going back. The parachute drops you into the middle of enemy territory. Your mission: * Prove the existence of American POWs in Vietnam * Don't engage the enemy *... |
| Return to Ditch Day, by M.J. Roberts Average member rating: (30 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. |
| Risorgimento Represso, by Michael J. Coyne Average member rating: (48 ratings)You play as an Oxbridge student who, during a particularly boring lecture, falls through a green portal under their desk into the cluttered library of the wizard Ninario. Ninny was trying to summon a... |
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(5 ratings)Save Princeton, by Jacob Weinstein and Karine Schaefer
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(7 ratings)| Savoir-Faire, by Emily Short Average member rating: (132 ratings)The beautiful life is always damned, they say. As for you, you've overexpended yourself: fifteen years of prominence, champagne, carriage rides in the Tuileries, having your name whispered behind... |
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(2 ratings)Son of Stagefright, by Mike McCauley
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(2 ratings)| The Sound of One Hand Clapping, by Erica Sadun Average member rating: (5 ratings) |
| Star Trek: The Promethean Prophecy, by Ron Martinez and Jim Gasperini Average member rating: (1 rating)The Lost Adventures of the Starship Enterprise Captain's Log, Stardate 3642.2 Hunger aboard the Enterprise... While exploring an unmapped sector of space near the border of the Great Transtellar Rift, the... |
| T-Zero, by Dennis Cunningham Average member rating: (8 ratings)PROLOGUE A dream came to you as you tossed uneasily upon an unfamiliar bed. In your dream, a time-worn figure waved a scythe in slow arcs across your sky-blue field of vision and picked, out of thin air,... |
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(4 ratings)The Treasury of Zan, by Richard Murchy
| Undertow, by Stephen Granade Average member rating: (8 ratings)Go sailing on a yacht with three friends, and a corpse.... |
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(11 ratings)| Varicella, by Adam Cadre Average member rating: (131 ratings)You are Primo Varicella, Palace Minister at the Palazzo del Piemonte. This title is unlikely to impress anyone. Piedmont is the laughingstock of the Carolingian League, and the Palace Ministry has devolved... |
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(174 ratings)| Waystation, by Stephen Granade Average member rating: (1 rating)"While driving home one night, your car mysteriously dies. You get out, pop the hood, and wham! that's the last you remember...until you wake up trapped in a cell. With no idea of how you got there and no... |
| Will Not Let Me Go, by Stephen Granade Average member rating: (67 ratings)Dallas, Texas. 1996. Fred Strickland has Alzheimer's. |
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