80 DAYS, by inkle, Meg Jayanth Average member rating: (100 ratings) 1872, with a steampunk twist. Phileas Fogg has wagered he can circumnavigate the world in just eighty days. Choose your own route around a 3D globe, travelling by airship, submarine, mechanical camel,... |
The Act of Misdirection, by Callico Harrison Average member rating: (75 ratings) The curtain lifts to a torrent of applause, as the city's gents and ladies lose their decorum for a just few moments in anticipation of something magical. The spotlights drown the glitter of sequins and... |
An Act of Murder, by Christopher Huang Average member rating: (82 ratings) |
Alabaster, by John Cater, Rob Dubbin, Eric Eve, Elizabeth Heller, Jayzee, Kazuki Mishima, Sarah Morayati, Mark Musante, Emily Short, Adam Thornton, Ziv Wities Average member rating: (124 ratings) The Queen has told you to return with her heart in a box. Snow White has made you promise to make other arrangements. Now that you're alone in the forest, it's hard to know which of the two women to trust.... |
All Roads, by Jon Ingold Average member rating: (156 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] |
Anchorhead, by Michael Gentry Average member rating: (409 ratings) 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... |
Antifascista, by Greg Farough Average member rating: (11 ratings) A picture from life's other side. |
Babel, by Ian Finley Average member rating: (156 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... |
Baluthar, by Chris Molloy Wischer Average member rating: (20 ratings) In this game of horror, you play as an old man of a tribal culture. For months, you've been weary of life and kept to your bed. But when you learn that your adult son, Rykhard, has foolishly gone into the... |
Best of Three, by Emily Short Average member rating: (62 ratings) |
Blue Lacuna, by Aaron A. Reed Average member rating: (114 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... |
Broken Legs, by Sarah Morayati Average member rating: (31 ratings) A blurb? They expect you to write? You're Lottie Plum so you're not going into writing. You sing. And dance and act up a storm while everyone else can only manage a puddle. You belong at Bridger. No matter... |
Bronze, by Emily Short Average member rating: (290 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. |
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... |
Choice of the Deathless, by Max Gladstone Average member rating: (30 ratings) Battle demons and undead attorneys, and win souls to pay back your student loans! At the elite demonic-law firm of Varkath Nebuchadnezzar Stone, you'll depose a fallen god, find romance, and maybe even make... |
Choice of the Dragon, by Dan Fabulich and Adam Strong-Morse Average member rating: (38 ratings) 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... |
Choice of the Vampire, by Jason Stevan Hill Average member rating: (7 ratings) Slake your thirst, without becoming a monster! Blessed with the blood-soaked gift of immortality, will you tend the flock of humanity—or twist it to your whims? When a brash young country butts heads with... |
City of Secrets, by Emily Short Average member rating: (105 ratings) |
Curses, by Graham Nelson Average member rating: (132 ratings) "As "Curses" opens, you're hunting about in the attic of your family home, looking for a tatty old map of Paris (you're going on holiday tomorrow) and generally trying to avoid all the packing. Aunt Jemima... |
CYBERQUEEN, by Porpentine Average member rating: (67 ratings) integration necessitates evisceration |
Dark Carnival, by Marshal Tenner Winter Average member rating: (13 ratings) There have been unexplained murders and disappearances at a seemingly innocent amusement area just north of Providence, Rhode Island. Due to your strange investigations in the past, you are the one called in... |
De Baron, by Victor Gijsbers Average member rating: (167 ratings) 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 Cities, by Jon Ingold Average member rating: (32 ratings) The letter you received from Arkwright's nephew Carter was clear enough: when the old man dies the inheritance tax will be too great. It's certain ruin, much like the estate itself. To raise some capital the... |
Deadline Enchanter, by Alan DeNiro Average member rating: (58 ratings) |
The Dreamhold, by Andrew Plotkin Average member rating: (177 ratings) The Dreamhold is interactive fiction — a classic text adventure. No graphics! No point-and-click! You type your commands, and read what happens next. The Dreamhold is designed for people who have never... |
dripping with the waters of SHEOL, by Lady Isak Grozny Average member rating: (10 ratings) A ghost of a peculiar origin stalks the corridor of your flat. Maybe you should go talk to it? A story about gay love and how all things hidden become evident, featuring a bigender protagonist and their... |
Ecdysis, by Peter Nepstad Average member rating: (81 ratings) You wake, a pounding headache loud in your inner ear, the back of your head itching and tingling, your mouth full of cotton. The pain drives away your dreams, weird visions of alien landscapes... Ecdysis is... |
Ekphrasis, by FibreTigre Average member rating: (10 ratings) |
Enchanter, by Marc Blank, Dave Lebling Average member rating: (110 ratings) In Enchanter, the first of a spellbinding series in the tradition of Zork, you are a novice magician whom Fate has chosen to do singlehanded combat with a dark and fierce power. But worldly weapons will... |
Everybody Dies, by Jim Munroe Average member rating: (107 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.... |
Fallen London, by Failbetter Games Average member rating: (57 ratings) Poet or Assassin? Lover or Spy? Choose your fate in Fallen London, a gothic metropolis a mile beneath the surface of the earth. An epic adventure where you live a sometimes horrific, often curious, but... |
Fate, by Victor Gijsbers Average member rating: (50 ratings) You are nine months pregnant, and the contractions have already begun. Trapped in a castle with more enemies than friends, and Queen in name but not in influence, you fear for the future of your child. But... |
Floatpoint, by Emily Short 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... |
For a Change, by Dan Schmidt Average member rating: (117 ratings) "The sun has gone. It must be brought. You have a rock." [--blurb from Competition '99] |
Galatea, by Emily Short 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 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... |
howling dogs, by Porpentine Average member rating: (128 ratings) death cube sim | galactic survey | visionatrix | facet machine | power gardens | women | fascination two significant endings |
Kaged, by Ian Finley Average member rating: (54 ratings) ""But my madness speaks: It will but skin and film the ulcerous place, Whilst rank corruption, mining all within, Infects unseen." Welcome to the Citadel of Justice. The Inquisitor is waiting." [--blurb from... |
The King of Shreds and Patches, by Jimmy Maher Average member rating: (81 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... |
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... |
Little Blue Men, by Michael S. Gentry Average member rating: (71 ratings) This game is a joke. This game is a warning. This game is a satire. This game is inspired in equal parts by Vaclav Havel's "The Memorandum" and Hunter S. Thompson's "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas". This... |
Lock & Key, by Adam Cadre Average member rating: (78 ratings) |
Lost Pig, by Admiral Jota Average member rating: (500 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 |
Lux, by Agnieszka Trzaska Average member rating: (21 ratings) You wander around in darkness – even though the lights are on. Sandra is the only one to survive a mysterious attack on a deep space mining station. She is alive, but has lost her vision. Now Sandra must... |
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... |
Make It Good, by Jon Ingold Average member rating: (86 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... |
Metamorphoses, by Emily Short Average member rating: (133 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... |
minor fall MAJOR LIFT, by Lady Isak Grozny Average member rating: (10 ratings) You step into the shoes of Lev/Liubov Morgenshtern, a bigender writer living in the city of Svet-Dmitrin. You meet and get to know one Anzu Menelik, beautiful and mysterious. A proof-of-concept/prototype for... |
Moon-Shaped, by Jason Ermer Average member rating: (38 ratings) In this game partly inspired by Little Red Riding Hood, you play as Rosalind Wechsler, a girl on the cusp of her 13th birthday. What begins as a trip to Grandmother's house in the woods leads to disturbing... |
Muse: An Autumn Romance, by Christopher Huang Average member rating: (35 ratings) Early September, 1886. Autumn. The Victorian Era. The Rev. Dawson, 59, is off to the Continent and an unexpected Romance... [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue] |
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. |
Photograph: A Portrait of Reflection, by Steve Evans Average member rating: (27 ratings) Photograph was an entry in the 2002 IFComp, in which it placed 3rd out of 38 entries. It was also nominated for two XYZZY awards, "Best Player Character" & "Best Use Of Medium". It's a story-driven, almost... |
Photopia, by Adam Cadre Average member rating: (568 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." |
Pytho's Mask, by Emily Short Average member rating: (71 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... |
Rameses, by Stephen Bond Average member rating: (127 ratings) |
Savoir-Faire, by Emily Short Average member rating: (134 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... |
Shade, by Andrew Plotkin Average member rating: (421 ratings) "A one-room game set in your apartment." [--blurb from Competition Aught-Zero] |
The Shadow in the Cathedral, by Ian Finley and Jon Ingold Average member rating: (32 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... |
Shrapnel, by Adam Cadre Average member rating: (170 ratings) |
Slouching Towards Bedlam, by Star Foster and Daniel Ravipinto Average member rating: (219 ratings) In the beginning was the Word, and it was hungry. ... |
Sorcerer, by Steve Meretzky Average member rating: (68 ratings) Sorcerer, the second of a spellbinding fantasy series in the tradition of Zork, takes you on a magical tour through the darker side of Zorkian enchantment. Your journey begins with a cryptic diary - the last... |
Spider and Web, by Andrew Plotkin Average member rating: (318 ratings) 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... |
Sunless Skies, by Failbetter Games Average member rating: (7 ratings) SAIL THE STARS. BETRAY YOUR QUEEN. MURDER A SUN. Sunless Skies is a Gothic Horror roleplay game with a focus on exploration and exquisite storytelling for PC, Mac and Linux. |
Suveh Nux, by David Fisher Average member rating: (228 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. |
Tapestry, by Daniel Ravipinto Average member rating: (44 ratings) 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... |
Turandot, by Victor Gijsbers Average member rating: (51 ratings) 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. |
the uncle who works for nintendo, by michael lutz Average member rating: (110 ratings) You are 11 years old. You are sleeping over at your best friend's house. You and your friend like videogames. Your friend has a lot of cool games. And, believe it or not, an uncle who works for Nintendo. And... |
Vampire: The Masquerade — Night Road, by Kyle Marquis Average member rating: (13 ratings) The elders have entrusted you, an elite vampire courier, to deliver their secrets. Can you outrun the hunters, the other drivers, and the rising sun? "Vampire: The Masquerade — Night Road" is a... |
Varicella, by Adam Cadre Average member rating: (132 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... |
Violet, by Jeremy Freese Average member rating: (389 ratings) 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] |
Weird City Interloper, by C.E.J. Pacian Average member rating: (58 ratings) An interactive tale of strange conspiracy. Pull up your hood, lower your gaze and enter the city of Zendon. If you can gather enough information, you may just be able to change the course of history. (Weird... |
Whom The Telling Changed, by Aaron A. Reed Average member rating: (64 ratings) The people had always gathered on moonless nights to hear the stories, since the time of their ancestors' ancestors. The heat of the fire and the glow in the storyteller's eyes made the past present, and the... |
With Those We Love Alive, by Porpentine and Brenda Neotenomie Average member rating: (117 ratings) no dreams written by porpentine scored by brenda neotenomie |
Worlds Apart, by Suzanne Britton Average member rating: (91 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... |
You are Standing at a Crossroads, by Astrid Dalmady Average member rating: (30 ratings) You are Standing at a Crossroads is a short Twine story about being lost, being changed, and being stagnant. |