Our Life: Beginnings & Always, by GBPatch Average member rating: (7 ratings) A nostalgic visual novel where you design your own character and grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable,... |
(do not) forget, by lectronice Average member rating: (23 ratings) (do not) forget is a slightly surreal tale. It takes place in an isometric world inhabited by cute cubic animals. It is, however, not intended for children. This is a contemplative game, sometimes crude,... |
18 Rooms to Home, by Carolyn VanEseltine Average member rating: (6 ratings) 18 Rooms to Home is an experimental work of interactive fiction. It’s a day in the life of Yesenia Reed, whose life is far from ordinary, no matter what she might prefer. This story takes place over the... |
77 Verbs, by MathBrush (as Prismatik) Average member rating: (21 ratings) Use every standard verb in the Inform library to escape deadly situations in this introduction to parser games! (This game was formerly known as 85 Verbs.) |
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... |
Accelerate, by The TAV Institute Average member rating: (19 ratings) A multimedia project about the end of everything. This is not a true story. Everything in it happened, and will. Any resemblance to actual events, or actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.... |
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. |
The Alchemist, by Dariel Ivalyen Average member rating: (2 ratings) A browser game made in HTML5. Play as an alchemist! Manage your shop, help (and romance!) people, and even try to brew a potion in a small mini-game! |
AlethiCorp, by Simon Christiansen Average member rating: (31 ratings) Do you have what it takes to be an Associate Information Management Consultant with one of the world's largest information management companies? Can you leverage synergies with the best to operationalize our... |
American Angst, by m3g1dd0 Average member rating: (5 ratings) Imagine a horror novel where you get to make the choices and decide how the story plays out: Welcome to American Angst, a text-based multiple-choice survival horror interactive fiction, combining RPG... |
The Anachronist, by Peter Levine Average member rating: (7 ratings) In the year 1596, Anna is about to be burned at the stake. As the constable prepares to light the fire below her, she can do nothing but seek a solution in her own memory and imagination. ... |
Anchorhead, by Michael Gentry Average member rating: (393 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... |
ANIME HELL 1995, by spacetwinks ANIME HELL 1995 is a twine game about depression, self-hate, time travel, dopplegangers, being sucked into a fantasy world, and more, all within the context of the VHS tape hell of 1995. 5 stories total,... |
The Baker of Shireton, by Hanon Ondricek Average member rating: (20 ratings) You are the Baker of Shireton. The bread you bake is delicious. Raiders are coming. |
Bigger Than You Think, by Andrew Plotkin Average member rating: (51 ratings) Bigger Than You Think is a choice-based interactive narrative. This game was written for the Yuletide 2012 fanfic exchange. The game was inspired -- perhaps loosely -- by Randall Munroe's comic xkcd-1110:... |
Black Crown, by Rob Sherman Average member rating: (2 ratings) Imagine yourself in bizarre employment at the Widsith Institute, excavating the possessions of a man long dead. Don the Dutch Frame, meet the mysterious Clerk Wayle, climb the terrifying Shushbaby. Descend... |
Bloom, by Caelyn Sandel Average member rating: (6 ratings) A story about being old enough that you should have everything figured out, only to discover that you’re living as the wrong gender… Ongoing multimedia hypertext serial interactive fiction. |
Bogeyman, by Elizabeth Smyth Average member rating: (85 ratings) You can go home when you learn to be good. |
The Bones of Rosalinda, by Agnieszka Trzaska Average member rating: (13 ratings) ”Hey, you! Skeleton lady! Can you hear me? You’ve got to pull yourself together and run before the Necromancer turns you into one of his minions!” Rosalinda realised she wasn’t dreaming. She was in a dark... |
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... |
Break Stuff, by Amy Clare Fontaine Average member rating: (8 ratings) What better way to get over a breakup than smashing things? In Break Stuff, you make decisions for a troubled young woman who just broke up with her boyfriend. When your old friend from high school comes... |
Bring Back A ██████ For Me, by ghostchibi Your name is Tsubame Shin'yashiki, and you are helping someone you love recover from the trauma of your death. You were executed for a murder that you never committed—at least, that's what everyone thought.... |
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. |
Bubblegum Slaughter, by Merritt Kopas Average member rating: (9 ratings) A text-based magical girl RPG with turn-based combat and the ache of broken innocence. |
Byzantine Perspective, by Lea Albaugh Average member rating: (56 ratings) Your task is simple enough. Just nab the chalice. |
The Call of Innsmouth, by Tripper McCarthy Average member rating: (14 ratings) People warned me about being a private dick in Arkham, Massachusetts. Sure, I’d heard the stories of monsters, cults, and other bizarre happenings in this old New England town. My take? The world is scary... |
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_ |
Capsule, by PaperBlurt Average member rating: (17 ratings) Alone. In space. A vessel the size of Wales, floating through the endless night. You are the keeper of millions of people. But what might be happening in Sector 24-R? |
Capsule II - The 11th Sandman, by PaperBlurt Average member rating: (13 ratings) There's this pause on the Makida every time the current Sandman goes back into the cryotube, and before the new one awakes. A certain calm where all is still. The Makida's dull hum is heard, but that is all.... |
Castle of the Red Prince, by C.E.J. Pacian Average member rating: (54 ratings) Welcome to Amaranth, foreigner. The Red Prince haunts your dreams, you say? If you want to overthrow our tyrant, you’ll need to consider this whole blighted land at once. (Castle of the Red Prince is a small... |
chiaroscuro, by Kim Berkley Average member rating: (3 ratings) chiaroscuro is a low-fantasy interactive fiction novella about art and inspiration, set in the heart of modern-day Rome. Step into the shoes of Perce, a young artist in search of her muse who instead finds... |
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 Secrets, by Emily Short Average member rating: (103 ratings) |
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... |
Composition in a Minor Key, by Aleks Samoylov Average member rating: (5 ratings) "Composition in a Minor Key" is a surreal interactive story about love, community, loneliness, etc. It boasts roughly 8000 words, and does not contain puzzles, action, or difficult moral choices. There is a... |
Consensual Torture Simulator, by Merritt Kopas Average member rating: (1 rating) This is a game that simulates a session of consensual sadomasochism - specifically, impact play. The player takes the role of the sadist, and must manage the session with care and diligence - watching the... |
Conversations With My Mother, by Merritt Kopas Average member rating: (10 ratings) A brief game about family relationships, in which you can click on words in the dialogue to change them before continuing the conversation. |
Counterfeit Monkey, by Emily Short Average member rating: (239 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... |
The Cradle of Eve, by Kitty Horrorshow Average member rating: (14 ratings) |
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 Rosenløv, 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 JohnsonAverage member rating: (24 ratings) A tribute to Anchorhead. |
Crimson Rose & White Lily, by manonamora Average member rating: (6 ratings) After waking up from the weirdest dream, you find yourself in a strange place, among strange people. Realizing that you barely remember anything, you soon learn of your noble position in this world, and of... |
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... |
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... |
Dead Man's Fiesta, by Ed Sibley Average member rating: (13 ratings) Summer was coming to an end, and all you wanted to do was finish grieving in peace before you had to go back to work. And because it had been a rough couple of months you bought yourself a car, you know, as... |
Deus Ex Ceviche, by Tom Lento, Chandler Groover Average member rating: (15 ratings) Something fishy is happening in the Section B-2 Temple. |
DEVOTIONALIA, by G.C. "Grim" Baccaris (as G. Grimoire) Average member rating: (24 ratings) The high priest of an obscure cult is preparing a ritual. Don the priest’s sacred mantle, for these holy labors are yours to direct. You may carve a votive, lead a prayer, or make a sacrifice — but you must... |
Domestic Elementalism, by fireisnormal Average member rating: (23 ratings) The plants that grow out of your bedroom walls are associated with Earth. The fairy lights strung across your kitchen are associated with Fire. Change an object's element, and the object will turn into... |
Dominique Pamplemousse - It's All Over Once The Fat Lady Sings!, by Dietrich Squinkifer (Squinky) Average member rating: (8 ratings) Dominique Pamplemousse-- It's All Over Once The Fat Lady Sings! is a unique and offbeat stop motion animated detective adventure game about gender and the economy. Also, all the characters frequently burst... |
Don't Mind My Apocalypse Head, by Bruno Dias Average member rating: (8 ratings) A social anxiety body horror short story about surviving a dinner party when you are just a little bit possessed by an entity that wants to bring about the end of the universe. Features nine official endings... |
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... |
Eden, by Gaming Pixie Average member rating: (11 ratings) In Eden, you’re a scientist faced with a choice: risk your life and career for someone else who's beautiful, but "not even human" or look out for Number One. And that's just the beginning. Can you really... |
Empyreum, by n-n Average member rating: (1 rating) Shopping at the end of the world. A short Interactive Fiction. |
Enceladus, by Robb Sherwin Average member rating: (11 ratings) There's a werewolf loose on the spaceship known as the HMCS Plagoo! |
Enchanted, by Felicity Banks Average member rating: (2 ratings) ENCHANTED is a story told entirely through SMSes (including pictures and YouTube links). It's a paranormal romance adventure available on sequel via kik messenger at https://www.onsequel.com/#/ on your... |
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... |
Eurydice, by Anonymous Average member rating: (37 ratings) A short game about grief, with occasional snakes. |
Even Some More Tales from Castle Balderstone, by Ryan Veeder Average member rating: (17 ratings) The fourth one in a series of anthologies of unbelievable terror, edited by Ryan Veeder. Also an ECTOCOMP 2021 entry. |
An Evening at the Ransom Woodingdean Museum House, by Ryan Veeder Average member rating: (24 ratings) Karen Chambers gives tours in a restored Victorian home. |
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.... |
Fair, by Hanon Ondricek Average member rating: (27 ratings) As the most famous self-published Science Fiction author residing in Hillview, you are eminently qualified to judge their annual Elementary School Science Fair. |
Fairest, by Amanda Walker Average member rating: (26 ratings) “Mirror, mirror, on the wall,” you say dreamily, gazing into its sparkling surface… “You know,” replies the mirror, “I can do a lot more than just reflect fair faces. O, how I long to leap off this wall! I... |
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... |
Feu de Joie (Session 1): cathedral, by Alan DeNiro Average member rating: (7 ratings) A freelance QA specialist has started archiving an unusual project online that he has been working on. A mysterious company named BUCOLIC ehf, a "digital literature publisher", is developing an interactive... |
Final Girl, by Hanon Ondricek Average member rating: (8 ratings) ===NOTE: FINAL GIRL is no longer available due to technical issues with the Storynexus engine that cannot be resolved. A sequel/remake is in the works.=== Everyone is dead. You are still alive. The Skull... |
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... |
Fish & Dagger, by grave snail games Average member rating: (9 ratings) You are a secret agent. It’s the end of the world. You are cursed. You came here to rescue your partner, but the mission has taken a turn for the weird. Parody spy thriller. Best played on a computer or... |
Flight of the Code Monkeys, by Mark C. Marino Average member rating: (8 ratings) You have one job: Correct the errors in the System code. It's menial work, but it pays the bills. Only, maybe you'd rather not... What are you? Just a CodeMonkey? Perhaps you could join the Resistance, or at... |
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... |
Four Sittings in a Sinking House, by Bruno Dias Average member rating: (17 ratings) The thing about sinking is: the sea is not a void. If you're sinking, you're displacing something. A Grand Guignol entry for ECTOCOMP 2016 |
The Game of Worlds TOURNAMENT!, by Ade Average member rating: (16 ratings) It is a long million, this. The Septem Tower, held in the Manifold by the Tagides Rings, grinds on and on - its grey walls pressing close. The only thing to look forward to is the long, cold, endless Waste.... |
Get Lost!, by S. Woodson Average member rating: (17 ratings) You're a suburban teen, sick of the suburbs. You run away to the land of the fairies, prepared for thrills and danger. Absolutely nothing happens the way you expect. A short Twine game with nine endings,... |
Ghostfinder: Shift, by Han-Joo Kim Average member rating: (9 ratings) In a world where magic is real and mind-bending nightmares lie waiting in the least expected places, the Fraternal Order of Ghostfinders, an international society of elite occult investigators, is humanity's... |
The Gift of What You Notice More, by Xavid and Zan Average member rating: (10 ratings) If you're gonna get your heart broke, you'd better do it just right... ... |
Girth Loinhammer and the Quest for the Unsee Elixir, by Damon L. Wakes Average member rating: (12 ratings) You are Girth Loinhammer, Dungeon Lord! It's a pretty sweet gig, with a gigantic trap-filled underground dungeon and a vast collection of torture devices with which to torment those who venture within your... |
Glass, by Emily Short Average member rating: (106 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... |
The Good Ghost, by Sarah Willson, Kirk Damato Average member rating: (18 ratings) A wholesome haunt in five acts. |
The Gostak, by Carl Muckenhoupt Average member rating: (88 ratings) "Finally, here you are. At the delcot of tondam, where doshes deave. But the doshery lutt is crenned with glauds. Glauds! How rorm it would be to pell back to the bewl and distunk them, distunk the whole... |
Grandma Bethlinda's Variety Box, by Arthur DiBianca Average member rating: (36 ratings) It's the latest model, and it would really like to play with you. |
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... |
Grofast Industries, by Brwarner Studios Average member rating: (2 ratings) After her partner's death in a gruesome metal mill accident, Jennifer Holdings, former sex worker turned steel worker, finds herself trapped between an encroaching union, an elected but stale board, her... |
Gun Mute, by C.E.J. Pacian Average member rating: (153 ratings) Step into the shoes of Mute Lawton, a lone cowboy who must stop an execution set to occur at noon by shooting his way past dangerous cyborgs and mutants in a post-apocalyptic western setting. (From the... |
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? |
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. |
the hanging heart, by wilderlingdev a fantasy short interactive fiction game made in twine for @interact-if’s game jam. STORY The hungering tree stands tall on the hill beyond the village. it is a beautiful but dangerous, almost malicious... |
Harmonic Time-Bind Ritual Symphony, by Ben Kidwell and Maevele Straw Average member rating: (13 ratings) A musician's manic episode binds fiction and reality into a joyful union. |
Harrison Squared Dies Early, by Daryl Gregory Average member rating: (9 ratings) A Lovecraftian choose-your-own-adventure through a creepy school. There's a monster on the loose, and the only one who can track it down is you, Harrison Harrison, teenage monster detective. This is 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... |
Hoist Sail for the Heliopause and Home, by Andrew Plotkin Average member rating: (84 ratings) A far-future story of discovery. |
HOW TO SPEAK ATLANTEAN, by Porpentine Average member rating: (12 ratings) Repair your Body! Find the Subterranean Mall Arcology! Get the Focus Gem! Get the Power Core! |
I.A.G. Alpha, by Serhii Mozhaiskyi Average member rating: (15 ratings) You may think this game is about a post-Soviet Research Institute. About an experiment that went out of control. You may think that the initials "I.A.G." are somehow related to the Institute. You may think... |
The Ice-Bound Concordance, by Aaron A. Reed and Jacob Garbe Average member rating: (1 rating) The Ice-Bound Concordance is an award-winning indie game ("Best Story/World Design" winner, IndieCade 2014; "Excellence in Narrative" nominee, IGF 2015) with cutting-edge interactive story technology,... |
if not us: an interactive fiction anthology, by ub4q Average member rating: (6 ratings) Seven years ago, five heroes were brought together to save the world. Their success came at the cost of their leader's life; the secret behind it cost them their friendship. Now they've been summoned for a... |
IFDB Spelunking, by Joey Jones Average member rating: (21 ratings) In the depths of the interactive fiction database strange games lurk! This is an emulation of ten random works found on the IFDB, in which inventory carries over between games for unique effect. |
IFDB Spelunking 2, by sam Kabo Ashwell Average member rating: (2 ratings) A series of old and obscure parser games, munged together into a loosely-connected pile which I then snark about. |
The Impossible Bottle, by Linus Åkesson 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 the Service of Mrs. Claus, by Mathbrush Average member rating: (6 ratings) Let me tell you the true secret of Christmas: Santa Claus died centuries ago. You see, in ancient times, as the Gods began to die, Santa Claus married a goddess. She was worshiped as Bast in Egypt, as... |
Indigo, by Emily Short Average member rating: (54 ratings) "Years ago, a witch placed you in this tower and arranged for your upkeep, paying certain villagers well to keep you supplied with the most basic necessities, and no more. Your years in the tower have... |
I’m the Echo when You call, by PDRRook I’m the Echo when You call is my submission to the non-ranked Interact-If 2022 Game Jam. The theme is “Red Herring”. You are a Liminari - a scholar who has committed sacrilege by pursuing forbidden... |
Jay Schilling's Edge of Chaos, by Robb Sherwin, Mike Sousa Average member rating: (18 ratings) There was an aye-aye behind the bar, staring at me horribly. Or maybe its face just froze that way. I was waiting for my client at ten at night in a dusty, dirty town in the middle of nowhere. Clouds out... |
JELLY, by Tom Lento, Chandler Groover Average member rating: (17 ratings) Young love in the Lonely Valley. |
Kemono Friends, by Ching Lam Yung Average member rating: (1 rating) A parody and tribute to the popular anime with the same name "Kemono Friends." I started out with similar settings to the actual anime, then I'm stuck on which direction to take the writing to. I took my... |
Kerkerkruip, by Victor Gijsbers Average member rating: (69 ratings) Kerkerkruip is a short-form roguelike in the interactive fiction medium, featuring meaningful tactical and strategic depth, innovative game play, zero grinding, and a sword & sorcery setting that does not... |
Laid Off from the Synesthesia Factory, by Katherine Morayati Average member rating: (23 ratings) Synpiece: A wearable technology that changes the wearer's mood. Users of the Synpiece can adjust the 'color' of their experience, which adjusts psychological traits mapped to hue (emotion), saturation... |
Let's Play: Ancient Greek Punishment: The Text Adventure, by Pippin Barr Average member rating: (11 ratings) You're dead, but you're not on Charon's list. Impersonate mythological Greek figures (and Zeno!) and suffer eternal punishment in Hades in their place, for better or worse. Okay, it's definitely for worse. |
Lethophobia, by Jess Mersky, Olivia Wood Average member rating: (4 ratings) Lethophobia is an unsettling and comic haunted-house mystery-adventure from Jess Mersky and Olivia Wood. The game explores the nature of memory, self and forgotten trauma. It is also a gesture of love to... |
Light My Way Home, by Caelyn Sandel (as Venus Hart) Average member rating: (18 ratings) |
Limerick Quest, by Pace Smith Average member rating: (18 ratings) "To Russia!" you boldly suggest. "This riddle has got me obsessed. We'll search 'till we're blind, and loot what we find! Let's go on a... |
Lionkiller, by Sisi Jiang Average member rating: (2 ratings) LIONKILLER is a choose-your-own-adventure game made in Twine. Play as Hua Mulan, a young lesbian who is conscripted into the First Opium War against the British Empire. Run a flower shop, kiss a girl, shoot... |
The Little Match Girl 4: Crown of Pearls, by Ryan Veeder Average member rating: (22 ratings) A touching epic time travel fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen. |
The Little Match Girl, by Hans Christian Andersen, by Ryan Veeder Average member rating: (19 ratings) A touching short story. |
Lost Memories Dot Net, by Nina Freeman & Aaron Freeman A game about teen girls, blogs and love triangles in 2004. Lost Memories Dot Net was originally commissioned by the Manchester International Festival. |
Lyreless, by Bruno Dias Average member rating: (11 ratings) A man heads into hell to seek out his lost lover; there he has to decide how much of himself to leave behind. |
MADNESS OF THE COASTAL STRUCTURE: an Choice Chooser experience, by Porpentine In this adventure you play as a fictional character with the power to acquire items and traits in their adventure to solve the mystery of the coastal structure across 10,000+ words of THANATOIDAL... |
The Magic Word, by B.J. Best Average member rating: (3 ratings) "AND LEMME TELL YA, THE MAGIC WORD ISN'T 'PLEASE.'" —The imp. A fiendishly difficult limited-verb puzzle box. Created for SeedComp '23, based on a seed by Rovarsson. |
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... |
Map, by Ade McT Average member rating: (33 ratings) The house is growing. Or perhaps it's you who is shrinking. And with all this extra space is coming....time. Time enough, maybe, to make some changes. |
The Mary Jane of Tomorrow, by Emily Short Average member rating: (21 ratings) You, Mary Jane Minsky, have a few things to clear up with your best friend Jenny Yoshida. When your robotic birthday gift doesn't go over as planned, you may need to reset your expectations, for her and... |
Medicum Veloctic, by Lawrence M Marable Average member rating: (6 ratings) the city’s hero: Veloctic. A man of great skill and great power who pushes his body to the brink every night to beat criminals. Veloctic’s boyfriend: you, a man who is desperately trying to use your medical... |
A Mind Forever Voyaging, by Steve Meretzky Average member rating: (116 ratings) "If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not..." --Shakespeare It's 2031. The world is on the brink of chaos. In the United States of North America, spiraling... |
Moving (On), by quackoquack Average member rating: (8 ratings) A game about nostalgia, jumping around in time, and clearing out your childhood room. ... |
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] |
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... |
NEVER GO TO WORK, by Rani Baker Average member rating: (1 rating) Based on the webcomic Why I'm Not an Artist by the same author and funded by the Interactive Fiction Fund July 2015. This game anti-capitalistic nihilistic game has you play as Agenesia on her way to work... |
Nikola Tesla: War of the Currents, by Dora Klindžić Average member rating: (1 rating) Help the eccentric inventor navigate the intrigue of the emerging electrical industry! Can you outsmart Thomas Edison and electrify the world? |
Not All Things Make It Across, by Bruno Dias Average member rating: (7 ratings) All around the city now, parties are taking place. It's been a hell of a year, emphasis on hell. But tonight, there are other things you have to do. The end of the year is a threshold. And like all... |
Olivia's Orphanorium, by Sam Kabo Ashwell Average member rating: (24 ratings) Sparky young entrepreneur Olivia sets out to fulfil her dream of running an orphanage. The beatings will continue until morale improves. |
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... |
Open Sorcery: Sea++, by Abigail Corfman Average member rating: (1 rating) There is an ocean beneath our world. You can sail it on currents of emotion. Worlds hang in it like bubbles--ephemeral as thought or indelible as memory. You wake up at the bottom of this ocean. Your... |
Out, by Viktor Sobol Average member rating: (26 ratings) It's a wonderful morning, and you're ready to come out. |
Pantomime, by Robb Sherwin Average member rating: (11 ratings) Pantomime takes place on the Martian moon of Phobos, in the year 2044. Mankind has developed colonies on Mars, Titan, Ganymede and installed a life bubble on the closer, larger Martian satellite. Mankind has... |
Pas De Deux, by Linus Åkesson Average member rating: (8 ratings) Striding into the spotlight, you smile as you look out over the crowd. It's a good turnout tonight. Now it is up to the Bournebrook Rill Community Orchestra and you, maestro Nevada Elmsbee, to deliver a... |
Past Present, by Jim Nelson Average member rating: (7 ratings) "The agreement is, once the furniture is moved out of the house, each of us goes inside one at a time to collect our remaining things. ... |
Perfectly Ordinary Ghosts, by Victoria Smith Average member rating: (1 rating) Perfectly Ordinary Ghosts is a domestic horror interactive fiction. It is a real house made imaginary. In summer the ghosts come, and the violet orange of the humid night reaches new depths. Gothic fiction... |
Perishable, by Nina Freeman Average member rating: (4 ratings) You can feel your presets tingling—- |
A Player's Heart, by Melissa Scott Average member rating: (4 ratings) Find love, fame, and intrigue on the stage of the city's all-woman Opera! Put on a show, survive drama on and off-stage…and win your lover's heart. A Player's Heart is a 222,000-word interactive lesbian... |
Popstar Idol Survival Game, by CrunchMasterGowon Average member rating: (12 ratings) Compete against other contestants to become star popstar idol! |
Portal, by Rob Swigart, Brad Fregger Average member rating: (2 ratings) Where are all the humans? Upon returning from your 100 year voyage in the milky way, you find earth empty and abandoned. Between the decaying remnants of civilization, you discover a terminal for Worldnet,... |
The Prairie House, by Chris Hay (a.k.a. Eldritch Renaissance Cake) Average member rating: (12 ratings) A student finishes their prairie field work but has to spend the night alone at an old house. Follow the story from dark evening to mysterious morning and get all the achievements to think up your best... |
Protocol, by 30x30 Average member rating: (4 ratings) You are a crewman aboard Observatory Station Calypso-54414d. Everything you know is a lie. |
The Rats in the Bulkheads, by Bruno Dias Average member rating: (4 ratings) All you have to do is make it inside and fire thrusters to adjust the derelict's course. Content warning: This game contains written depictions of disturbing material, including gore and suicide. |
Reclamation, by groggydog Average member rating: (4 ratings) Corporate Space, the Year 21XX. You awaken from a month of cryosleep to discover that a missing research vessel has suddenly surfaced in the deep. There are no signs of life. You are now tasked with... |
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... |
reProgram, by Soha Kareem (Soha El-Zabaawi) Average member rating: (1 rating) a story about personal kinks and meditation may contain triggers (abuse, PTSD) |
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. |
Ritus Sacri, by quackoquack Average member rating: (11 ratings) On the desk in front of you: a Latin dictionary, a blank sheet of lined paper, and the photocopied passage you need to translate for class tomorrow. You always leave things too late. |
robotsexpartymurder, by Hanon Ondricek Average member rating: (21 ratings) When suspects and witnesses are “property, not people,” how should those who seek the truth proceed? Date robots. Avert scandal. Bring protection. Content warning: Adult Situations, Language, and Humor,... |
Rogue of the Multiverse, by C.E.J. Pacian Average member rating: (73 ratings) Congratulations, convict 76954! You have been selected for scientific experimentation! You will be matter-transmitted to exotic non-Treaty worlds - where opportunities abound to take in fantastic sights and... |
Ruiness, by Porpentine Charity Heartscape Average member rating: (17 ratings) |
Ryan Veeder's Authentic Fly Fishing, by Ryan Veeder Average member rating: (15 ratings) Relax at the Jewel Pond Recreation Area with Ryan Veeder as your guide. |
The Saga of Oedipus Rex, by Jac Colvin Average member rating: (2 ratings) Your name is Oedipus, Prince of Corinth: And you've just discovered your future has been cursed by the gods themselves. Travel back to a time of magic and monsters in ancient Greece. Can you successfully... |
Saint Simon's Saw, by Samuel Thomson Average member rating: (6 ratings) Saint-Simon’s Saw synthesizes different methods of splitting and reforming a narrated situation. It is named after the 18th Century social reformer, Claude Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-Simon, a minor... |
San Francisco, 2118, by Leah Case Average member rating: (5 ratings) The sun is disappearing, your mother is lost. You don’t know why. |
Savoir-Faire, by Emily Short Average member rating: (131 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... |
scarfmemory, by Michael Brough Average member rating: (6 ratings) in recollection of something beautiful |
Scions of Troy, by PyrrhaIphis Average member rating: (1 rating) Though they were fathered by Achilles and Odysseus in the final week of Achilles' life, cousins Atalanta and Ariadne were born into slavery on the island of Lesbos. They have never known anything but a life... |
Shadow Operative, by Michael Lauenstein Average member rating: (16 ratings) Another run. Another dive into the neon sea. A Cyberpunk Heist Game. Parser-based but with a hybrid interface (playable by typing or by links alone). Best played in a desktop browser (or on a tablet in... |
Silicon and Cells, by Nic Barkdull and Matthew Borgard Average member rating: (5 ratings) Jaya Koto's plan was perfect: One big VR heist, and she'd be set for life. Too bad the city’s psychotically devout cybercops chose that exact day to screw with her. With no big score and the city’s security... |
Six Silver Bullets, by William Dooling Average member rating: (8 ratings) You are the Silver Agent, a spy who has lost their mind. You are alone in the city, without your memories...but you do have a mission, and it changes every time you play. You also have your silver gun. It... |
The Skeleton Key of Ambady, by Caelyn Sandel (as Adalai Trammels) Average member rating: (10 ratings) I come through town every dozen years or so. Strangers still seem strange, but I've found work and welcome everywhere I've been. I come and go as I please. Don't waste your worry on me. The Skeleton Key of... |
The Sky in the Room, by Porpentine Average member rating: (5 ratings) queer | cyberpunk | body romance | hyperviolence | vector anxiety | Italian pop songs | meloperadramatic | surgery | molto passione made in 48 hours for the Ludum Dare 24 competition a story about 3 fluids |
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... |
smooch.click, by Devon Guinn Average member rating: (13 ratings) Is a kiss about the kiss itself—or the moments leading up to it? Explore all sorts of smooch-moments in this experimental interactive story. **Not optimized for mobile, and not suitable for children** |
SPACE FROG!, by npckc Average member rating: (4 ratings) this is SPACE FROG! a story of a frog in space. |
The Space Under the Window, by Andrew Plotkin Average member rating: (98 ratings) A new, experimental game that has no puzzles but uses only words that change your focus on things, thereby adapting the story. [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue] |
Spider and Web, by Andrew Plotkin Average member rating: (310 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... |
Stars Arisen, by Abigail C. Trevor Average member rating: (1 rating) Reclaim your mother's lost throne with the mighty power of the skies! Bring down lightning on your foes, climb an endless tower, and call the ghosts of old foes to your aid. In this fantasy epic, how will... |
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... |
Superluminal Vagrant Twin, by C.E.J. Pacian Average member rating: (120 ratings) A text-only space sim. Ply the spaceways. Make five million credits. Buy back your twin. (Superluminal Vagrant Twin is a shallow but broad exploration game.) |
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. |
Tapestry, by Daniel Ravipinto Average member rating: (43 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... |
Terminator, by Matt Weiner Average member rating: (5 ratings) You cannot stop it... You cannot fight it... It will destroy you if it reaches you... the TERMINATOR ...is the line between night and day on an astronomical body. And on this planet day is extremely hot. You... |
Terminator Chaser, by Bruno Dias Average member rating: (10 ratings) Cycle 87. Last work shift of the quarter. And you're left behind to tidy up so the rest of the crew has time to settle into the new site. Make sure Mining Site 43 won't be a half-melted wreck by the time the... |
A Thousand Thousand Slimy Things, by Charm Cochran Average member rating: (7 ratings) You awaken in a rowboat, in the middle of the ocean. Your food supply is low. Your drinking water is low. If you can wait 'til night, if you can see the stars, maybe you can navigate towards land. But... |
Three Mile, by fia glas Average member rating: (1 rating) WARNING: EXTREME CONTENT INCLUDING BLOOD, VIOLENCE, SELF-HARM. NOT INTENDED FOR ALL AGES. Three Mile is a dead-end road in the middle of nowhere America. The story goes that you drive your car to the very... |
To Burn in Memory, by Orihaus Average member rating: (6 ratings) To Burn in Memory, an ahistorical and atemporal Interactive Fiction work originally submitted for IFComp 2015. Explore a city that never existed, and uncover its secret history through the memories of a... |
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. |
Trenchline, by JJ McC "Mercenaries make easy money," your army buddies said. "It's all scowls and shows of force. It'll never come to real fighting." Well, they're all dead now, and here you are. Stranded deep in a war zone,... |
Trials of the Thief-Taker, by Joey Jones Average member rating: (8 ratings) In London, 1729, before they had police, they had you: thief-takers, hunting criminals for cash! Fire a flintlock and sip gin in the age of powdered wigs. Will you grow rich catching smugglers and... |
Trinity, by Brian Moriarty Average member rating: (101 ratings) You're neither an adventurer nor a professional thrill-seeker. You're simply an American tourist in London, enjoying a relaxing stroll through the famous Kensington Gardens. When World War III starts and the... |
Turbo Chest Hair Massacre, by Joey Acrimonious Average member rating: (16 ratings) You are a young woman about to meet your girlfriend for (what you hope will be) a fun and sexy night on the town. But first, you have an important mission: to shave your chest hair. |
Tuuli, by Daurmith and Ruber Eaglenest Average member rating: (26 ratings) "The old witch, your teacher Mákke, is dead. If you want to save your village you'll have to destroy the raiding fleet that's coming. Can you do it, young Lenne-who-would-be-the-witch?" ---------- Mákke, la... |
Ultimate Quest, by Emily Short Average member rating: (2 ratings) You've been kidnapped, confused, and trapped in a factory to do labor far beneath your true level. The friends you once knew think you're dead, if they think about you at all. But you're equipped with... |
Undine of Mine, by Kayla Overkill Average member rating: (1 rating) A plot-based x-rated Twine series about a Lovecraftian creature and a mermaid. |
Varkana, by Maryam Gousheh-Forgeot Average member rating: (25 ratings) Varkana is the name of a region in a world with a timeless, mildy fantasy/sci-fi setting (some technological and magical elements are present at this moment, but not prevalent), with the city-state of Arg... |
Venience World, by Daniel Spitz Average member rating: (3 ratings) Interpret the aphorisms of a mysterious, wise figure from your past. |
Vespertines, by mondaysandwich Average member rating: (2 ratings) Vespertines is an urban fantasy/romance interactive fiction about demons and found family. You play as a human working at a bar for demons, getting to know your customers and collecting their stories. The... |
Walker & Silhouette, by C.E.J. Pacian Average member rating: (51 ratings) Team up with a dashing detective and an iconoclastic flapper to solve absurd and unfathomable crimes in this interactive story - where you control the action just by typing or clicking highlighted words in... |
Way Walkers: University, by J. Leigh Which Way will you walk? In a land were science and magic are the same, you are one of the few born with Extrasensory Abilities--and you dream of attending the most prestigious metaphysical university on the... |
Way Walkers: University 2, by J. Leigh The Way Walkers: University epic continues in the second part of the Tar'citadel trilogy by author J. Leigh! Picking up right where you left off in part one, the city and school are still in shock from the... |
Wayhaven Chronicles: Book Two, by Mishka Jenkins Average member rating: (18 ratings) Two months have passed since the bloody showdown with Murphy. Wayhaven has returned to its peaceful routine, and you've returned to your less-than-thrilling job as detective. But with your new role as human... |
When the Land Goes Under the Water, by Bruno Dias (as Nikephoros De Kloet) Average member rating: (8 ratings) The great, powerful elder empire of Atlantis has fallen, though accounts diverge on why. She will soon sink beneath the waves. But there is time, first, to sift through the ashes and catalog some of its... |
Where the Wind Once Blew Free, by No Sell Out Productions Average member rating: (5 ratings) The War of Ten Dogs is over. Jueyuan and his ten mongrel generals have been defeated. The veterans have returned home. Many return to the city of Mythicus at the heart of the World Tree. Others return to the... |
Whitefield Academy of Witchcraft, by Steph Cherrywell Average member rating: (19 ratings) The year is 1957, and the place is lush, storm-tossed Stinglash Island, just off the north coast of Washington's Olympic Peninsula. You are Page LeBlanc, witch in training, and you've returned for another... |
Wildflowers, by Carolyn VanEseltine Average member rating: (7 ratings) "Wildflowers" was written as a "diary game", as defined by Caelyn Sandel - a game that was written specifically for the benefit of the author, rather than being written for an audience. It is properly... |
Winterstrike, by Yoon Ha Lee A winter-locked city. Cold guns. Starship carcasses. And now, you. |
Wisher, Theurgist, Fatalist, by Xavid Average member rating: (11 ratings) From the ranks of the people you have been raised up as a Wisher— ... |
The Witch's Bakery , by Mona-Mae As an aspiring baker, you're desperate to make yourself a name separate from your famous grandmother. However, when you realise just how broke you are, you decide to attend the King's ball in hopes that... |
Witch's Girl, by Geoff Moore Average member rating: (19 ratings) |
With Those We Love Alive, by Porpentine and Brenda Neotenomie Average member rating: (111 ratings) no dreams written by porpentine scored by brenda neotenomie |
The Wizard Sniffer, by Buster Hudson Average member rating: (128 ratings) 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... |
Workers In Progress, by Konstantinos Dimopoulos Average member rating: (3 ratings) A political simulation in which you play the consciousness of the Greek working class. (Work in progress.) An entry in the 2014 Fear of Twine exhibition. |
The World Turned Upside Down, by Bruno Dias Average member rating: (7 ratings) It's just shy of closing time on the last Saturday before Christmas; only a handful of regulars left in the bar. Peaceful, even, in spite of all of the city's damage. And then he walks in with some messed-up... |
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... |
Worldsmith, by Ade McT Average member rating: (30 ratings) The Septem Tower has held steady in the Manifold, the space between time and the Real, for billenia. Populating the Tower are the Anemoi, a race of beings so far advanced that they hold the power of life and... |
Yellow Dog Running, by Sam Kabo Ashwell Average member rating: (10 ratings) |
You Are Standing, by Aaron A. Reed Average member rating: (13 ratings) A bonus text game created specifically for the Ultimate Collector's Edition of 50 Years of Text Games; initially, available exclusively to backers on 3.5" floppy disc and/or as a download. The game was... |
You Were Made For Loneliness, by Tsukareta Average member rating: (10 ratings) It’s the future. The remnants of humanity, in the aftermath of a cataclysmic event known only as The Fall, have fled a dying homeworld to seek refuge among the colonies of the solar system. Twenty years... |
Zero Summer, by Gordon Levine, Tucker Nelson, Becca Noe Average member rating: (8 ratings) Zero Summer is a wordy western card-playing RPG set in the post-apocalyptic American southwest. Nearly two decades after monsters poured out of Corpus Christi and divided the United States between... |
ZombieDating.zom, by Mike Snyder Average member rating: (10 ratings) |
[I] doesn't exist, by Anna-Lena Pontet, Luzia Hüttenmoser Average member rating: (7 ratings) The cold stone floor beneath your hands brings you to a moment of consciousness. A gentle gust of wind brushes past your cheeks. Back again? Or have you never left? A heartbeat - not your own but of a safe.... |