9:05, by Adam Cadre DAzebras's rating: Average member rating: (544 ratings) The phone rings. Oh, no — how long have you been asleep? Sure, it was a tough night, but... This is bad. This is very bad. The phone rings. |
Ad Verbum, by Nick Montfort DAzebras's rating: Average member rating: (136 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... |
Bee, by Emily Short DAzebras's rating: Average member rating: (89 ratings) The story of a home-schooled girl preparing to compete in the national spelling bee, dealing with various small crises with family and friends, and gradually coming to terms with the clash of subcultures... |
Beet the Devil, by Carolyn VanEseltine DAzebras's rating: Average member rating: (35 ratings) Your dog is gone. She must be brought. You have a beet (and some other vegetables). |
Byzantine Perspective, by Lea Albaugh DAzebras's rating: Average member rating: (57 ratings) Your task is simple enough. Just nab the chalice. |
Coloratura, by Lynnea Glasser DAzebras's rating: Average member rating: (116 ratings) Stolen away by apathetic Blind Ones, your only desire is to return to your Cellarium and the Song of the Universe. They should understand. You shall make them to understand. |
Damnatio Memoriae, by Emily Short DAzebras's rating: Average member rating: (58 ratings) 14 AD. Agrippa Postumus, grandson of the recently-deceased Augustus, tries to avoid death at the hands of the next emperor, Tiberius. At his disposal: a couple of old manuscripts, a lamp, and a recalcitrant... |
Death off the Cuff, by Simon Christiansen DAzebras's rating: Average member rating: (54 ratings) They all stare at you expectantly, like children waiting to be told a bedtime story. Who can blame them? You are, after all, Antoine Saint Germain, the great French detective. No criminal has ever been a... |
Dig My Grave, by Ryan Veeder DAzebras's rating: Average member rating: (27 ratings) For reasons which remain obscure, it is your job to dig a grave. Written for the Apollo 18+20 tribute album project. |
Dinner Bell, by Jenni Polodna DAzebras's rating: Average member rating: (54 ratings) You are the involuntary and very hungry test subject of a semi-anthropomorphized dog in a labcoat who wants you to find all sixteen food items mentioned in They Might Be Giants' song Dinner Bell, which have... |
Dual Transform, by Andrew Plotkin DAzebras's rating: Average member rating: (110 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. |
The Empty Room, by Matthew Alger DAzebras's rating: Average member rating: (14 ratings) You awake, finding yourself upon a hard, cool, plasticky surface. Placing your hands against the smooth floor you hoist yourself up. There's nothing here. Nothing at all. For you have found yourself in what... |
Endless, Nameless, by Adam Cadre DAzebras's rating: Average member rating: (56 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... |
Escape From Santaland, by Jason Ermer DAzebras's rating: Average member rating: (22 ratings) Ugh. Christmastime at the mall. The last place you want to be, during the worst time of year to be there. |
Fingertips: All Alone, by Joey Jones DAzebras's rating: Average member rating: (10 ratings) "So I'm all alone, and I've got a decision to make." (A one move game in the Apollo 18+20: The IF Tribute Album) |
Fingertips: I Hear the Wind Blow, by Jacqueline A. Lott DAzebras's rating: Average member rating: (24 ratings) |
First Draft of the Revolution, by Emily Short, Liza Daly and inkle DAzebras's rating: Average member rating: (56 ratings) It is dangerous to deceive a husband of magic-using rank... Juliette has been banished for the summer to a village above Grenoble: a few Alpine houses, a deep lake, blue sky, and no society. Now she writes... |
Floatpoint, by Emily Short DAzebras's rating: Average member rating: (101 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... |
Galatea, by Emily Short DAzebras's rating: Average member rating: (346 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... |
Glass, by Emily Short DAzebras's rating: Average member rating: (108 ratings) The Prince sits awkwardly on the couch, holding his glass slipper and trying to keep it from crushing. Lucinda and Theodora have the ends of the same couch, and they are taking turns seeing who can bend... |