| 9:05, by Adam Cadre DAzebras's rating: Average member rating: 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. |
| According to Cain, by Jim Nelson DAzebras's rating: Average member rating: Two brothers. One murder. And a mystery as old as mankind. You are a medieval investigator sent back in time to learn the secrets behind mankind's first murder. Using a novel alchemy system, observation, and... |
| Ad Verbum, by Nick Montfort DAzebras's rating: Average member rating: "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... |
| Alias 'The Magpie', by J. J. Guest DAzebras's rating: Average member rating: 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: "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] |
| Analogue: A Hate Story, by Christine Love DAzebras's rating: Average member rating: Back in the 25th century, Earth launched a generation ship into deep space, with the goal of establishing the first interstellar colony. It dropped out of contact and disappeared, never reaching its... |
| Anchorhead, by Michael Gentry DAzebras's rating: Average member rating: You take a deep breath of salty air as the first raindrops begin to spatter the pavement, and the swollen, slate-colored clouds that blanket the sky mutter ominous portents amongst themselves over the little... |
| The Bat, by Chandler Groover DAzebras's rating: Average member rating: Master Bryce is throwing a party. As his most faithful servant, that means it's your job to make the party run smoothly. But you only have two hands—and far too many duties. You'll have to manage requests... |
| Bee, by Emily Short DAzebras's rating: Average member rating: 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: 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: Your task is simple enough. Just nab the chalice. |
| Child's Play, by Stephen Granade DAzebras's rating: Average member rating: 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... |
| Choice of the Dragon, by Dan Fabulich and Adam Strong-Morse DAzebras's rating: Average member rating: Play as a fire-breathing dragon who sleeps on gold and kidnaps princesses for fun! Choice of the Dragon is a free text-based game of multiple choice. Dominate the local kingdom, loot and pillage, and inspire... |
| Coloratura, by Lynnea Glasser DAzebras's rating: Average member rating: 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: 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... |
| De Baron, by Victor Gijsbers Average member rating: An evil nobleman, a kidnapped daughter and a father who wants to rescue her at any cost--that is not the way life works. Something much darker, something much more human, lies underneath. Een kwaadaardige... |
| Dead Like Ants, by C.E.J. Pacian DAzebras's rating: Average member rating: 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... |
| Death off the Cuff, by Simon Christiansen DAzebras's rating: Average member rating: 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: For reasons which remain obscure, it is your job to dig a grave. Written for the Apollo 18+20 tribute album project. |
| Digital: A Love Story, by Christine Love DAzebras's rating: Average member rating: A computer mystery/romance set five minutes into the future of 1988. |
| Dinner Bell, by Jenni Polodna DAzebras's rating: Average member rating: 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: 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 Edifice, by Lucian P. Smith DAzebras's rating: Average member rating: DAzebras's time: 4 hours "Something new in your everyday hunter-gatherer routine: where did this strange edifice come from? Dare you enter and explore the secrets of this... thing, or do you try to face your enemies? Like you have a... |
| The Empty Room, by Matthew Alger DAzebras's rating: Average member rating: 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: 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: 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: "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: |
| First Draft of the Revolution, by Emily Short, Liza Daly and inkle DAzebras's rating: Average member rating: 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: 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... |
| For a Change, by Dan Schmidt DAzebras's rating: Average member rating: "The sun has gone. It must be brought. You have a rock." [--blurb from Competition '99] |
| Galatea, by Emily Short DAzebras's rating: Average member rating: 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: 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... |
| Heaven's Vault, by Inkle DAzebras's rating: Average member rating: An archaeologist uncovers a lost history in an ancient space Nebula. Award-winning narrative adventure game with hieroglyphic language puzzles, from the creators of 80 DAYS. |
| Hoosegow, by Ben Collins-Sussman, Jack Welch DAzebras's rating: Average member rating: Muddy's plan done landed you and your partner in the hoosegow. Now you're fixing to rectificate the matter before the marshal introduces you to the business end of a hangin' rope at dawn. Created for the... |
| The Impossible Bottle, by Linus Åkesson DAzebras's rating: Average member rating: 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)... |
| Internal Vigilance, by Simon Christiansen DAzebras's rating: Average member rating: You are informed that a new prisoner was brought in recently. Your job, as usual, is to interrogate him and determine whether he poses a threat to The Union. This should not be a problem. You are a trained... |
| The King of Shreds and Patches, by Jimmy Maher DAzebras's rating: Average member rating: 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... |
| Lime Ergot, by Caleb Wilson (as Rust Blight) DAzebras's rating: Average member rating: DAzebras's time: 30 minutes Now everyone is gone. (Well, almost everyone.) Entry in ECTOCOMP 2014. |
| Lord Bellwater's Secret, by Sam Gordon DAzebras's rating: Average member rating: DAzebras's time: 40 minutes The game takes place on the town house of the fictional Lord Bellwater on the night of 19th June/20th June 1863. The player character is a groom who works in Bellwater's service and wants to discover more... |
| Lost Pig, by Admiral Jota DAzebras's rating: Average member rating: 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. Now Grunk need find pig. -- IFComp 2007 blurb |
| The Magpie Takes the Train, by Mathbrush DAzebras's rating: Average member rating: A millionaire guards a fabulous ruby in her private train car. Countless thieves have failed to steal it. But they weren't the Magpie! |
| Metamorphoses, by Emily Short DAzebras's rating: Average member rating: 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... |
| Molly and the Butter Thieves, by Alice Grove (as Cosmic Hamster) DAzebras's rating: Average member rating: DAzebras's time: 15 minutes You are Molly Butterfield, dairy farmer extraordinaire. In the past week there have been two mysterious butter disappearances from your own kitchen. There will not be a third. Molly and the Butter Thieves... |
| my father's long, long legs, by michael lutz Average member rating: A weird tale. Some parts make use of sound, so this game is best played with headphones. One ending. |
| Overboard!, by inkle DAzebras's rating: Average member rating: Overboard! is a whodunnit where you’re the one whodunnit. You have just eight hours to cover the evidence, mislead the witnesses, frame another suspect and escape ... if you can! The Story July, 1935.... |
| Photopia, by Adam Cadre (as Opal O'Donnell) Average member rating: "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." |
| The Prongleman Job, by Arthur DiBianca DAzebras's rating: Average member rating: 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 DAzebras's rating: Average member rating: 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... |
| Robin & Orchid, by Ryan Veeder and Emily Boegheim DAzebras's rating: Average member rating: DAzebras's time: 50 minutes High school journalists spend the night in a church, investigating reports of a ghost. |
| The Roottrees are Dead, by Jeremy Johnston DAzebras's rating: Average member rating: The year is 1998. A private jet belonging to the Roottree Corporation has crashed. On it were The Roottree Sisters and their parents. Combined, they were worth over a billion dollars. Now, due to the... |
| Shade, by Andrew Plotkin DAzebras's rating: Average member rating: "A one-room game set in your apartment." [--blurb from Competition Aught-Zero] |
| Shrapnel, by Adam Cadre Average member rating: |
| Slouching Towards Bedlam, by Star C. Foster and Daniel Ravipinto DAzebras's rating: Average member rating: In the beginning was the Word, and it was hungry. Enter a steampunk adventure set in a London that might have been. The year is 1885. Bedlam Hospital still stands in Moorsfield, a decaying shell used to... |
| Speculative Fiction, by Diane Christoforo and Thomas Mack DAzebras's rating: Average member rating: A puzzle game about committing acts of financial skulduggery and exploiting ridiculous magical items. This game is the complete version of the one that appeared in IntroComp 2011, where it won second place. |
| Spider and Web, by Andrew Plotkin DAzebras's rating: Average member rating: 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... |
| Stuff of Legend, by Lance Campbell DAzebras's rating: Average member rating: DAzebras's time: 1 hour The only thing worse than being a village idiot is being an unemployed village idiot. Maybe it’s time to change careers. Maybe it’s time to be a knight. |
| Suveh Nux, by David Fisher Average member rating: 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. |
| Tales from Castle Balderstone, by Ryan Veeder DAzebras's rating: Average member rating: An anthology of terror, edited by Ryan Veeder. Also an ECTOCOMP 2018 entry. |
| Tapestry, by Daniel Ravipinto DAzebras's rating: Average member rating: You were born; you lived; you died. Not everyone gets a second chance to go back and change crucial decisions. You have been granted one and must go back to critical moral dilemmas; but do you change the... |
| To Hell in a Hamper, by J. J. Guest DAzebras's rating: Average member rating: Professor Pettibone, eminent Victorian balloonist, has a problem. He can't get it up. His balloon that is. If he can't reach an altitude of 20,000 feet, and soon, both he and his mysterious travelling... |
| Tristam Island, by Hugo Labrande DAzebras's rating: Average member rating: After crashing your plane at sea, you end up drifting to a small island, with not much to survive. You explore, and find out the island was inhabited, years ago. But why did the people leave? And why is... |
| Turandot, by Victor Gijsbers DAzebras's rating: Average member rating: An operatic performance. A tale of atonement. A dating sim with a crocodile pit. Content warnings: sex; sexism and other gender issues; suicide; torture; homophobia; xenophobia. |
| Type Help, by William Rous DAzebras's rating: Average member rating: DAzebras's time: 7 hours A puzzle-mystery game inspired by Return of the Obra Dinn, Her Story, Unheard and The Roottrees are Dead. Investigate the files on an old computer that once belonged to a mysterious outside agent. The files... |
| Under the Cognomen of Edgar Allan Poe, by Jim Nelson DAzebras's rating: Average member rating: A tale of literary ambition. "There are some secrets that do not permit themselves to be told." In 1849, Edgar Allan Poe disappeared among the back alleys of Baltimore. A week later, he was found delirious... |
| Varicella, by Adam Cadre DAzebras's rating: Average member rating: 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... |
| Violet, by Jeremy Freese DAzebras's rating: Average member rating: Calm down. All you have to do is write a thousand words and everything will be fine. And you have all day, except it's already noon. [blurb from IF Comp 2008] |
| The Wand, by Arthur DiBianca DAzebras's rating: Average member rating: DAzebras's time: 6 hours 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.) |
| What Heart Heard Of, Ghost Guessed, by Amanda Walker DAzebras's rating: Average member rating: Margaret, are you grieving Over Goldengrove unleaving… Come home to Goldengrove, a beautiful old house haunted by a lost soul. Uncover the secrets of your tormented past in a tale of unrequited love,... |
| The Wizard Sniffer, by Buster Hudson DAzebras's rating: Average member rating: DAzebras's time: 3 hours You were recently acquired by the brave Ser Leonhart and his squire to sniff out the evil shapeshifting wizard. Unfortunately, you are not a wizard sniffer (if such a thing even exists). As far as you can... |