Acheton, by Jon Thackray, David Seal, and Jonathan Partington Average member rating: (7 ratings) |
Across The Stars: The Ralckor Incident, by Dark Star and Peter Mattsson Average member rating: (29 ratings) In the year 5367 IR, humanity is well established throughout the galaxy. It has been over twenty-thousand years since the Zal'tacs passed through our solar system, trading their technology for our food and... |
The Act of Misdirection, by Callico Harrison Average member rating: (70 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) |
Ad Verbum, by Nick Montfort Average member rating: (134 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... |
Adventurer's Consumer Guide, by Øyvind Thorsby Average member rating: (31 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: (121 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 Hope Abandon, by Eric Eve Average member rating: (37 ratings) Your day got off to a good enough start when you met that blonde in the breakfast queue, but it's all downhill from there: you may be wishing you could escape a particularly dire lecture, but not by the one... |
All Roads, by Jon Ingold Average member rating: (154 ratings) "Wave a circle round him thrice, And close your eyes with holy dread For he on honey-dew hath fed And drunk the milk of paradise." [--blurb from Competition Aught-One] |
Amnesia, by Thomas M. Disch and Kevin Bentley Average member rating: (12 ratings) |
Andromeda Awakening - The Final Cut, by Marco Innocenti Average member rating: (42 ratings) The most important discovery in history. And then, the whole world goes crumbling down. Armed with but a computer and an expired railway ticket, how can one expect to save the day when the doomsday clock has... |
Andromeda Dreaming, by Joey Jones Average member rating: (18 ratings) Aliss can control her dreams, but will this help her when she's stuck in a galaxy on the brink of destruction? Winner of the Andromeda Legacy competition 2012, Andromeda Dreaming is in the same setting as... |
Aotearoa, by Matt Wigdahl Average member rating: (61 ratings) The Fish of Māui. The Land of the Long Cloud. Aotearoa. An entire continent of untamed wilds, and the last place on Earth where dinosaurs still roam. If only you'd come ashore under better circumstances... |
Augmented Fourth, by Brian Uri! Average member rating: (65 ratings) WANTED: Amateur musicians to serve the Royal Court. Must provide own instrument and be inured to copious constructive criticism. Impress your friends! Meet the King! Apply in person at the Castle, located on... |
The Axe of Kolt [2014 ADRIFT version], by Larry Horsfield Average member rating: (5 ratings) You are a penniless ex-mercenary soldier, reduced to wandering the land and doing odd-jobs in return for food and a place to sleep. You have just left the town of Greenwych and you have hitched a ride on a... |
The Axe of Kolt [8-bit versions], by Larry Horsfield Average member rating: (6 ratings) You are Alaric Blackmoon, a penniless ex-mercenary soldier, reduced to wandering the land and doing odd-jobs in return for food and a place to sleep. You have just left the town of Greenwych and you have... |
Babel, by Ian Finley Average member rating: (155 ratings) In this game, you play as an amnesiac inside Babel, an abandoned Arctic facility devoted to biological research. You soon discover that you have the unusual ability to witness scenes from the past by... |
Bad Machine, by Dan Shiovitz Average member rating: (15 ratings) |
Balances, by Graham Nelson Average member rating: (38 ratings) "A homage to Infocom's Enchanter Trilogy, at the same time showing some of the things that Inform is capable of doing." [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue] |
A Bear's Night Out, by David Dyte Average member rating: (69 ratings) "Tomorrow is the big Teddy Bear party, and you must definitely not let your owner forget about it..." [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue] |
Bedtime story, by Marius Müller Average member rating: (4 ratings) "Daddy, will you tell me a story?" asks your son, Danny. Your wife, Randa, started the story of Prince George and his quest to rescue a princess while you were away for six months. Now it's your turn to... |
The Beetmonger's Journal, by Scott Starkey Average member rating: (16 ratings) "Victor Lapot and I were miles from base camp on the south continent, once again hacking through previously unsurveyed lands and searching for forgotten cultures. The expedition reminded me of our grand... |
Beyond, by Roberto Grassi, Paolo Lucchesi, and Alessandro Peretti Average member rating: (45 ratings) A mysterious death, a secret to be revealed… and someone who wants to know the truth, at any cost. ... |
BiCon, by rach Average member rating: (6 ratings) An interactive story of love and friendship set at the UK BiCon and International Bisexual Conference 2010. Though written primarily for conference attendees and friends, BiCon requires no knowledge of the... |
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:... |
Blighted Isle, by Eric Eve Average member rating: (43 ratings) Blockade duty in the Bay of Biscay, vile weather, and an unplanned jaunt over the side of the ship into the tossing waves. But instead of drowning, you end up on an island that has no right to be there - and... |
The Blind House, by Amanda Allen Average member rating: (38 ratings) I scarcely know the woman at my side. I don't even know why she was the one I turned to. I can only hope that we haven't been followed, that she won't ask too many questions. The only choice left to me now... |
Blue Lacuna, by Aaron A. Reed Average member rating: (111 ratings) You have always been different. One in a trillion have your gift, your curse: to move between worlds, never settling, always alone. To Wayfare. Yet there are others like you, and something stronger than... |
Bolivia By Night, by Aidan Doyle Average member rating: (19 ratings) A mystery adventure game set in Bolivia. |
Book and Volume, by Nick Montfort Average member rating: (13 ratings) Your pager tickles you awake. Upstairs in the house of your childhood, in your room, and it must be time for school because -- no, it's the weekend, you remember, but your alarm is going off anyway. You... |
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: (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. |
Building, by Poster Average member rating: (14 ratings) |
Castronegro Blues, by Marshal Tenner Winter Average member rating: (12 ratings) You listen to the dame on the other end of the phone as she finishes her plight. "My brother has gone missing. I want you to find him." You promised yourself a vacation, but this broad sounds a bit dishy.... |
The Cellar, by David Whyld Average member rating: (7 ratings) You were always told not to go into the cellar. Told many, many times. But you were never told why. Today you'll find out... |
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... |
Common Ground, by Stephen Granade Average member rating: (30 ratings) |
The Count, by Scott Adams Average member rating: (22 ratings) "It begins when you awake in a large brass bed in a castle somewhere in Transylvania. Who are you, what are you doing here and WHY did the postman deliver a bottle of blood? Converted from original code by... |
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 Cove, by Kathleen M. Fischer Average member rating: (21 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. |
Cry Wolf, by Clare Parker Average member rating: (11 ratings) You are awoken, startled by a sound in the night. Still bleary from dreams, you turn on the light to chase away the shadows. But there, beyond the safety of your room, something moves in the darkness. It is... |
Damnatio Memoriae, by Emily Short 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... |
Dangerous Curves, by Irene Callaci Average member rating: (23 ratings) |
De Baron, by Victor Gijsbers Average member rating: (160 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... |
Deadline Enchanter, by Alan DeNiro Average member rating: (58 ratings) |
Death off the Cuff, by Simon Christiansen Average member rating: (53 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... |
Degeneracy, by Leonard Richardson Average member rating: (16 ratings) The glitterings of Gold, Jewels, Tapestries, &c. belie the Corruption of he who 'til recently occupied this high Seat. A white Carpet, once flanked by Sycophants & Counsellors, now lies untravelled. It leads... |
Delightful Wallpaper, by Andrew Plotkin ('Edgar O. Weyrd') Average member rating: (78 ratings) |
Dinner Bell, by Jenni Polodna 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... |
Divis Mortis, by Lynnea Dally Average member rating: (42 ratings) The infection has spread. They are coming. |
The Djinni Chronicles, by J. D. Berry Average member rating: (33 ratings) |
Domicile, by John Evans Average member rating: (4 ratings) |
Dr. Dumont's Wild P.A.R.T.I., by Muffy Berlyn and Michael Berlyn Average member rating: (9 ratings) "Failing physics--again--would be traumatic enough. But now, you're trapped inside a Particle Accelerator and Reality Translation Integrator, the product of mad genius meeting mixed metaphors. Originally... |
The Dreamhold, by Andrew Plotkin Average member rating: (175 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... |
Dual Transform, by Andrew Plotkin Average member rating: (109 ratings) This game takes place in a single room — but not always the same one. The room contains just one item, but again, there's more to it than that. Experiment and enjoy. |
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... |
Ecdysis, by Peter Nepstad Average member rating: (80 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... |
The Elysium Enigma, by Eric Eve Average member rating: (76 ratings) It was meant to be a routine visit on behalf of the imperial government, just to remind the settlers that the Empire hadn't forgotten them, and if you stick rigidly to the letter of your orders and refuse to... |
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... |
The Endling Archive, by Kazuki Mishima Average member rating: (30 ratings) Browse the Endling Archive to uncover the purpose of its creation. |
Eric the Unready, by Bob Bates Average member rating: (40 ratings) A tongue-in-cheek graphic text adventure/point and click adventure hybrid. You are a chivalrous knight attempting to save a princess; your quest takes you through a mad-cap Douglas Adams-style world. |
The Erudition Chamber, by Daniel Freas Average member rating: (26 ratings) |
Escapade!, by Juhana Leinonen Average member rating: (17 ratings) An entry in the 2008 One Room Game Competition. You play the bumbling sidekick of the heroic Captain McBrawn; while trying to carry out a task he's set you, you are captured by the Screaming Communists and... |
Eurydice, by Anonymous Average member rating: (37 ratings) A short game about grief, with occasional snakes. |
Exhibition, by Ian Finley Average member rating: (27 ratings) "The Hartman Gallery extends their invitation to an exhibition of Anatoly Domokov's "American Paintings." Who draws the line between art and life? HTML enhanced." [--blurb from Competition '99] |
A Family Supper, by Emily Short, Richard Evans, Linden Lab Average member rating: (2 ratings) The Quinn family is hosting a small house party, but an unconventional guest threatens their peace with sonnets, vegetarianism, and a gift for finding everyone's sore points. When secrets start coming to... |
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... |
Ferret, by FerretAuthors@jugglingsoot.com Average member rating: (2 ratings) A game inspired by Zork, written in the 1980s in PL/I for Data General mini-computers, and ported to IBM Visual Age PL/I for Windows. Ferret is a Windows text mode executable. |
Ferrous Ring, by Justin Morgan ('Carma Ferris') Average member rating: (11 ratings) |
Final Selection, by Sam Gordon Average member rating: (18 ratings) |
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... |
Fine-Tuned, by Dennis Jerz Average member rating: (23 ratings) "Can Troy, the handsome daredevil autoist, live up to his "sterling" reputation? What secret threatens the career of the talented singer, Miss Melody Sweet? With the help of the mechanical genius Aloysius... |
The Fire Tower, by Jacqueline A. Lott Average member rating: (49 ratings) |
First Draft of the Revolution, by Emily Short, Liza Daly and inkle Average member rating: (55 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... |
First Things First, by J. Robinson Wheeler Average member rating: (23 ratings) You’ve just arrived at home from your nightly visit to the science and invention section of the local public library, where you spend each night dreaming your dreamy dreams of one day inventing a time travel... |
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... |
For a Change, by Dan Schmidt Average member rating: (115 ratings) "The sun has gone. It must be brought. You have a rock." [--blurb from Competition '99] |
Forbidden Castle, by Mercer Mayer Average member rating: (2 ratings) On vacation in London, you enter an antique store, and are drawn to a magic book which hurtles you into a fantastic world, where you are to undo the harm done to the world by the wicked Blue Faerie, and... |
Four in One, by J. Robinson Wheeler Average member rating: (9 ratings) "Do you realize how behind schedule and over budget this picture is?" "Look, Mr. Thalberg," you say. "All I've gotta do is get the master shot in the can. So, maybe it'll take twenty takes. But when I get... |
Fragile Shells, by Stephen Granade Average member rating: (51 ratings) You don't know how long you've been hammering against the station's wall, but you stop as soon as you realize what you've been doing. |
Fugue, by Emily Short Average member rating: (11 ratings) Published by Up Right Down, in response to the following plot prompt: THE PLOT: In a bistro in Paris a young woman (A) tells her three girlfriends (B, C, and D) about the affair she had with an American... |
Ghost Town, by Finn Rosenløv Average member rating: (1 rating) The premise of Ghost Town is to fulfill the final wishes of your Great Grandfather and inherit his entire estate and visit the abandoned gold mining town of Battle Creek. It sounds like a simple task, until... |
Goose, Egg, Badger, by Brian Rapp Average member rating: (21 ratings) |
Gourmet, by Aaron A. Reed and Chad Barb Average member rating: (55 ratings) Missing employees, wily crustaceans, malfunctioning kitchen equipment and a terminal food shortage, all on the night the most important culinary critic in the world has chosen to review your debut... |
Grounded in Space, by Matt Wigdahl Average member rating: (11 ratings) Testing your homebuilt rocket engine outside sounded like a good idea, until you incinerated Mom's greenhouse. Now Dad thinks that a few weeks away from the home asteroid mining the Belt alone might teach... |
The Guild of Thieves, by Rob Steggles Average member rating: (24 ratings) Steal yourself a world of fantasy WHY BUY THIS GAME WHEN YOU CAN STEAL IT ? Except you can't. Not yet. An amateur like you? Come off it! Now, if you were a fully paid-up member of the notorious Guild of... |
Heart of the House, by Nissa Campbell Average member rating: (14 ratings) Destroy the evil at the heart of a haunted manor! As an orphan, you discovered your ability to commune with the spirit world and ghosts. When your uncle Kent mysteriously disappears, you'll embark on a... |
The Hobbit, by Philip Mitchell and Veronika Megler Average member rating: (28 ratings) |
Hoist Sail for the Heliopause and Home, by Andrew Plotkin Average member rating: (84 ratings) A far-future story of discovery. |
Hoosegow, by Ben Collins-Sussman, Jack Welch Average member rating: (40 ratings) 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... |
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. |
Ill Wind, by Marshal Tenner Winter Average member rating: (8 ratings) Your friend and fellow private dick, Jack Sullivan, has telegrammed you saying he's onto something big while investigating the Lanzetti murder and desperately needs your help. So here you are, two days... |
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... |
Insight, by Jon Ingold Average member rating: (27 ratings) |
Internal Vigilance, by Simon Christiansen Average member rating: (13 ratings) 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... |
Jigsaw, by Graham Nelson Average member rating: (84 ratings) New Year's Eve, 1999, a quarter to midnight and where else to be but Century Park! Fireworks cascade across the sky, your stomach rumbles uneasily, music and lasers howl across the parkland... Not exactly... |
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... |
A Killer Headache, by Mike Ciul Average member rating: (21 ratings) The apocalypse is over. The human race lost. You're hungry. And you have a hell of a headache. Discretionary warning: This game is violent, scatological, and eschatological. |
The King of Shreds and Patches, by Jimmy Maher Average member rating: (77 ratings) January 14th Dear friend. My sojourn in parts foreign is at an ende. I am at lodgings in Southwark not far from the bridge at Stoney Street, come dine with me two days hence to ring in the newe year. I have... |
LASH -- Local Asynchronous Satellite Hookup, by Paul O'Brian Average member rating: (41 ratings) In this historical drama and treasure hunt set in 2062, you have rented a robot called a MULE that you can control remotely to salvage artifacts from an abandoned irradiated plantation near Macon, Georgia.... |
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, by chandler groover Average member rating: (9 ratings) a tiny yarn for ectocomp |
Little Blue Men, by Michael S. Gentry Average member rating: (70 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: (77 ratings) |
Lord Bellwater's Secret, by Sam Gordon Average member rating: (71 ratings) |
Love, Hate and the Mysterious Ocean Tower, by C.E.J. Pacian Average member rating: (42 ratings) |
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: (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... |
The Manor at Whitby, by L. E. Hall Average member rating: (4 ratings) Visiting your British relations for the first time, you discover the secrets of the strange ancestral manor. |
maybe make some change, by Aaron A. Reed Average member rating: (13 ratings) Inspired by the Maywand district killings in Afghanistan, 'maybe make some change' explores a frozen battlefield moment from six violently conflicting perspectives. |
Mentula Macanus: Apocolocyntosis, by One of the Bruces and Drunken Bastard Average member rating: (33 ratings) Stiffy Makane, or rather his ancestor Mentula Macanus, is here subjected to an increasingly-unlikely series of crudely sexual romps through the ancient world. It's sort of like the Satyricon, except not... |
Mere Anarchy, by Bruno Dias Average member rating: (19 ratings) “The box is cardboard, a file box; it looks like it should contain years of tax returns. Except the holes on the sides have been shut with black masking tape. Except the lid is held in place with the same... |
Metamorphoses, by Emily Short Average member rating: (130 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... |
The Meteor, the Stone and a Long Glass of Sherbet, by Graham Nelson (as Angela M. Horns) Average member rating: (51 ratings) Another day wasted as guest of the Empress, a wretchedly long tour of the breath-taking Boreal Falls, conducted as ever by the Lady Amilia. As if she weren't bad enough, an honour guard of soldiers, their... |
Mindwheel, by Robert Pinsky, William Mataga, Steve Hales Average member rating: (5 ratings) Travel into the minds of four important people to collect the Wheel of Wisdom and save the world: BOBBY CLEMON, assassinated rock star, once called 'half John Lennon and half Janis Joplin'. This charismatic,... |
Moments Out of Time: Adventure Type, by L. Ross Raszewski Average member rating: (2 ratings) At 865741.3 UDC, StreamDiver Alpha Tango-678 performed a routine StreamDive to the middle of the twenty-first century. |
Moments Out of Time: RENEGADE Type, by L. Ross Raszewski Average member rating: (2 ratings) StreamDiver Alpha Tango-678 |
Monday, 16:30, by Alexander "Mordred" Andonov Average member rating: (10 ratings) How long is half an hour when you are bored and miserable? How about when it's Monday, and it's 16:30? How about when you're in love? |
The Moon Watch, by Paolo Maroncelli and Alessandro Peretti Average member rating: (9 ratings) An entry in the 2008 One Room Game Competition. You're an ordinary Soviet citizen, but to your surprise you are selected to play a highly important part in the defence of the Motherland - and then the crisis... |
Moon-Shaped, by Jason Ermer Average member rating: (37 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] |
Mystery House Possessed, by Emily Short Average member rating: (11 ratings) This intricate all-text reworking draws on the Gothic, as well as Clue, to simulate seven characters working to outwit the killer in their midst. |
Narcolepsy, by Adam Cadre Average member rating: (62 ratings) |
Nightfall, by Eric Eve Average member rating: (61 ratings) The Enemy is expected to arrive at any moment. Staying behind is either the stupidest or the bravest thing you've ever done. Only one thing - or one person - could have made you stay. So now there's nothing... |
Nostrils of Flesh and Clay, by Porpentine Average member rating: (6 ratings) You are a scent detective, drifting through a world torn apart by greed and nausea. With colors dripping from your nostrils, you flex cartilage and demand to know...what is Project Olympia? Who are the... |
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. |
Once and Future, by G. Kevin Wilson Average member rating: (13 ratings) |
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... |
Pale Blue Light, by Kazuki Mishima Average member rating: (8 ratings) "Sophie actually enjoyed the festival every year. She enjoyed the lights, the songs, and the crispness of the air. It was only the crowds that made her uneasy and drove her into the solitude she had learned... |
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... |
Party Foul, by Brooks Reeves Average member rating: (33 ratings) You're cornered, trapped. There seems to be no escape. You aren't in a jail cell. No, you're in the cocktail party from hell and only by using your wits and luck are you going to get out of this suburb... |
Perdition's Flames, by Michael J. Roberts Average member rating: (23 ratings) The afterlife isn't what you expected. Explore a strangely modernized and bureaucratic underworld, replete with strip malls, government offices, and science labs, as well as the occasional lake of molten... |
Phantom of the Arcade, by Susan Arendt, John Moulton, and Russ Pitts Average member rating: (2 ratings) Enter The Escapist's very own haunted house ... if you dare! |
Phantom of the Arcade 2: Shadows, Darkness, and Dread, by Susan Arendt, John Moulton Average member rating: (2 ratings) You're trapped in a terrifying amusement park... can you find the means to escape? |
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... |
Pirate's Plunder!, by Tiberius Thingamus Average member rating: (12 ratings) In this game, it be yer goal to findeth ye olde, cursed treasure on Loot Island and taketh it fer yer own. Not even that evil Captain Hookhead can stoppeth ye once ye put ye mind to it. Know why? If ye... |
The Plant, by Michael J. Roberts Average member rating: (34 ratings) You're on a business trip with your boss, driving down a deserted highway in the middle of nowhere, when the car breaks down. You set off on foot seeking help, but you soon find yourself in the middle of a... |
The Play, by Dietrich Squinkifer (Squinky) Average member rating: (62 ratings) Pull yourself together, Ainsley. Just one more rehearsal until the big day, assuming nothing catastrophic happens. But really, all you have to do is get your motley crew of actors to run their parts once... |
The Price of Magik, by Pete Austin, Nick Austin, Mike Austin, and James Horsler Average member rating: (12 ratings) The dying light of the Red Moon has been captured in a crystal by the magicians of Baskalos to act as the last repository of magik. Its guardian for many years has been Myglar, a wise and respected sorcerer.... |
The Primrose Path, by Nolan Bonvouloir Average member rating: (36 ratings) You've been having a series of nightmares about Leo, standing at the edge of a cliff. No matter what you do, a bell rings and Leo disappears over the edge . . . |
Pytho's Mask, by Emily Short Average member rating: (68 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... |
Raising the Flag on Mount Yo Momma, by Juhana Leinonen Average member rating: (21 ratings) Gus is a smug numbskull who doesn't deserve to have the insult battle championship. You are here to take the title from him with the best yo momma insults there are. You just have to find them first. Raising... |
Rameses, by Stephen Bond Average member rating: (125 ratings) |
rat chaos, by Winter Lake Average member rating: (26 ratings) |
Realm of Obsidian, by Amy Kerns Average member rating: (1 rating) This is the story of a man named Nick. Just your average joe trying to make ends meet. Unfortunately, ends didn't meet very well, so Nick had to move back in with his father while he looked for a second job.... |
The Recruit, by Mike Sousa Average member rating: (11 ratings) Try your hand at the Real Life Interactive Gaming Simulacra! You'll face a variety of challenges and simulations and have a chance to win some money and great prizes. Apply today! |
Red Moon, by David Williamson, Simon Aspinall, Pete Austin, Pete Austin, and James Horsler Average member rating: (8 ratings) Red Moon re-enacts a tale from the time where Magik still worked and when mythical monsters guarded fabulous treasure. You have the use of many weapons and a dozen different magical spells to help you rescue... |
The Reliques of Tolti-Aph, by Graham Nelson Average member rating: (15 ratings) "It used to be said that there are two kinds of magic-user: those who have been to Tolti-Aph, and charlatans. It used to be generally understood that the attempt to prove oneself in the unforgiving society... |
rendition, by nespresso Average member rating: (38 ratings) They caught Abdul during an insurgency in the east. He tried to take out a regiment with some home-made explosives strapped to his chest. They didn't explode, so pretty soon the coalition had a real live... |
Resonance, by Matt Scarpino Average member rating: (16 ratings) |
Revenger, by Robb Sherwin Average member rating: (4 ratings) "Jalen McKeon had it all figured out. Post-graduate work in the lovely desert over work he could attend to with his eyes closed. Another eleven months and voila! Another degree for this professional student.... |
Risorgimento Represso, by Michael J. Coyne Average member rating: (48 ratings) You play as an Oxbridge student who, during a particularly boring lecture, falls through a green portal under their desk into the cluttered library of the wizard Ninario. Ninny was trying to summon a... |
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... |
Room 206, by Byron Alexander Campbell Average member rating: (6 ratings) The wedding is over, but the bride is nowhere to be found. You receive a phone call from a mysterious stranger. Things are not always as simple as they seem, and as you pursue the woman of your dreams you... |
Rover's Day Out, by Jack Welch and Ben Collins-Sussman Average member rating: (54 ratings) Three hundred years ago, the Brazilian Space Agency discovered a rocky exoplanet only 38 light years from Earth. With a surface temperature of 1200 Celsius and nine times Earth gravity, it's hardly the sort... |
RPN (Demo), by Benjamin Tilbury A demo of the game RPN (role-playng-novel) Official release date 26-6-2009 Longer demo available on 5-6-2009 |
Runestone, by Alan Davis Average member rating: (2 ratings) Runestone is one very unique adventure, combining the parser and NPCs of The Hobbit with the graphics and large playing area of The Lords of Midnight (not IF). The story is simple: Controlling your three... |
Sand-dancer, by Aaron Reed and Alexei Othenin-Girard Average member rating: (23 ratings) It figures that your pickup would die on a night like this and leave you stranded in the dark New Mexico desert. But nothing else figures about this night, man. Nothing at all. An example game for Aaron... |
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... |
Scavenger, by Quintin Stone Average member rating: (29 ratings) Search a war-shattered world for secrets of the past. |
Sentencing Mr Liddell, by Anonymous Average member rating: (15 ratings) "The time has come", the Teacher says, "to talk of many sins: of wives and mums and unloved sons (of where it all begins), and why it's really all your fault, and whether no-one wins." |
The Shadow in the Cathedral, by Ian Finley and Jon Ingold Average member rating: (31 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... |
shadows on the mirror, by Chrysoula Tzavelas Average member rating: (27 ratings) I am falling, I am fading, I am drowning, help me to breathe... |
Shelter from the Storm, by Eric Eve Average member rating: (23 ratings) It is set in October 1940. Jack is a newly-commissioned sapper officer on his way to his first posting somewhere on Salisbury Plain (in southern England) when his car breaks down. The weather is starting to... |
Shrapnel, by Adam Cadre Average member rating: (166 ratings) |
Six, by Wade Clarke Average member rating: (40 ratings) Your name is Harriet Leitner, and you and your twin sister Demi turned six this morning! You're having a fancy dress birthday party, and this afternoon you'll be playing Hide and Seek Tip over in the park.... |
Six Gray Rats Crawl Up The Pillow, by Caleb Wilson (as Boswell Cain) Average member rating: (19 ratings) A distressing episode in the life of Rinaldo di Gorgonzola. |
Six Stories, by Neil K. Guy Average member rating: (25 ratings) After losing control of your car during a blizzard in the mountains of British Columbia, you make your way to a rundown shack and sleep. You wake up elsewhere and soon encounter a mouse, a pair of drawing... |
Slap That Fish, by Peter Nepstad Average member rating: (32 ratings) This time, those fishy bastards are finally going to get what's coming to them. |
Slouching Towards Bedlam, by Star Foster and Daniel Ravipinto Average member rating: (215 ratings) In the beginning was the Word, and it was hungry. ... |
Snack Time!, by Hardy the Bulldog and Renee Choba Average member rating: (59 ratings) Can you help one hungry bulldog in his quest to find something good to eat? He would like that. A lot. [blurb from IF Comp 2008] |
Snowball, by Mike Austin, Nick Austin, Pete Austin, and Ian Buxton Average member rating: (10 ratings) You play Kim Kimberley, secret agent extraordinary. Your mission: to safeguard the interstar transport, Snowball 9, as a last resort following catastrophic accident or sabotage. Thus when your modified... |
Snowblind Aces, by C.E.J. Pacian Average member rating: (33 ratings) Two aces shelter from a snowstorm under the wing of a biplane. They've duelled and played in the air for years. Love is inevitable. But what kind of relationship will they end up in? |
Snowquest, by Eric Eve Average member rating: (47 ratings) You've been on your quest so long you've almost forgotten what it is all about, but now you are nearing your destination -- if only you can stay alive long enough in this frozen wilderness to reach it. |
Solarium, by Anya Johanna DeNiro Average member rating: (54 ratings) The year is 1954. One year after mutually assured destruction. And I am trying to find you, through memory and alchemy. Not many people know how the nuclear devastation really happened. But we do. We were... |
Spaceship!, by The Guardian's Gamesblog Community Average member rating: (3 ratings) Spaceship! is a collaborative project of the Guardian's Gamesblog community. The aim was simply to create the greatest group-generated text adventure in the world ever. |
Speculative Fiction, by Diane Christoforo and Thomas Mack Average member rating: (13 ratings) 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. |
Spellcasting 101 - Sorcerers Get All The Girls, by Steve Meretzky Average member rating: (24 ratings) From MobyGames: Spellcasting 101 is the first in a series of risque adventures from the mind of Steve Meretzky of Leather Goddesses of Phobos fame. This textual liaison pits you as Ernie Eaglebeak, a student... |
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... |
Spring Cleaning, by Roger Carbol Average member rating: (6 ratings) A down-on-his-luck commoner has been hired to clean the tower of the wizard Morkenmindan. Spring Cleaning was written as part of Spring 'Speed' IF during the last week of March, 2008. I say 'speed' because... |
Square Circle, by Eric Eve Average member rating: (27 ratings) What is your crime? Why do you feel both guilty and unjustly punished? What has happened to your memory? How will you draw a square circle and get out of your prison? What will you find then? |
The Surprising Case of Brian Timmons, by Marshal Tenner Winter Average member rating: (24 ratings) You listen to the old broad on the other end of the phone as she finishes her plight. "Brian has gone insane. I've had to have him committed.", she tells you. You haven't seen Brian Timmons in several years... |
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. |
Tales of the Traveling Swordsman, by Mike Snyder Average member rating: (47 ratings) You are the traveling swordsman; the strong and silent stranger; the wandering vanquisher of villainy. Damsels swoon for you. Good men respect and envy you. Scoundrels learn to fear you. Even so, you are but... |
Till Death Makes a Monk-Fish Out of Me, by Mike Sousa and Jon Ingold Average member rating: (34 ratings) Dr. Taylor's looking worried. Dr. Kurner's looking exhausted. Zak is grinning with glee. Today is the big day, and you're about to try out the crowning experiment of your life, and in AtlantisLab's chequered... |
To Hell in a Hamper, by J. J. Guest Average member rating: (112 ratings) 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... |
Treasures of a Slaver's Kingdom, by S. John Ross Average member rating: (48 ratings) In the cruel kingdoms north of the Viraxian Empire, a barbarian seeks treasure - and vengeance! Having escaped the clutches of the Slaver King, he has vowed to pillage the wealth of the kingdom ... then... |
Twin Kingdom Valley, by Trevor Hall and P. M. Skinner Average member rating: (8 ratings) Twin Kingdom Valley is a complex adventure game using full-screen high resolution graphics for the BBC Micro, ZX Spectrum, and Commodore 64. There are over 179 different locations, each of which (except in... |
Ugly Chapter, by Sam Kabo Ashwell Average member rating: (12 ratings) In this short story, you play as Leti, a rich woman and a patron of the arts, who travels from Hawaii to Mars, as told by an angry and bitter male poet who knew her. What you did in the most ugly chapter of... |
Vampire: The Masquerade — Out for Blood, by Jim Dattilo Average member rating: (4 ratings) Gather your allies to hunt the vampires that terrorize your town! Study their ways and exploit their rivalries, or you'll become a vampire yourself. Vampire: The Masquerade — Out for Blood is a 455,000-word... |
Varicella, by Adam Cadre Average member rating: (131 ratings) You are Primo Varicella, Palace Minister at the Palazzo del Piemonte. This title is unlikely to impress anyone. Piedmont is the laughingstock of the Carolingian League, and the Palace Ministry has devolved... |
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... |
A Very Hairy Fish-Mess, by Byron Alexander Campbell Average member rating: (3 ratings) Have you ever wondered what Christmas would be like if it were run by your horrible cat, who also happened to be a timeless Lovecraftian horror? Find out in this bloody festive holiday treat! |
Voices, by Aris Katsaris Average member rating: (26 ratings) |
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... |
The Warbler's Nest, by Jason McIntosh Average member rating: (91 ratings) Surely the reed bank counts as a wild place. While it gives you so much, you've never tended it, not really, not like you do with your garden. It's something like the forest, then, but much safer to search... |
The Weapon, by Sean Barrett Average member rating: (35 ratings) |
Wearing the Claw, by Paul O'Brian Average member rating: (32 ratings) A traditional fantasy quest in which you and your village have been cursed with a slow transformation into various animals. The only way to stop the curse is to retrieve the Pendant of Elinor from the... |
When in Rome 1: Accounting for Taste, by Emily Short Average member rating: (27 ratings) Manhattan, May, 1954. |
When in Rome 2: Far from Home, by Emily Short Average member rating: (15 ratings) Manhattan, 1954. |
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... |
Winter Wonderland, by Laura Knauth Average member rating: (43 ratings) "Young Gretchen could have only imagined the fanciful events that were to occur before finding herself lost in a winter wonderland." [--blurb from Competition '99] |
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... |
The Worm in Paradise, by Mike Austin, Nick Austin, Pete Austin, and James Horsler Average member rating: (11 ratings) The Worm in Paradise takes place on the planet Eden, 100 years after the time of Snowball and Return to Eden. The robot megalopolis of Enoch may be a paradise for the silent majority, but it's a real... |
Yellow Dog Running, by Sam Kabo Ashwell Average member rating: (10 ratings) |
Yon Astounding Castle! of some sort, by Tiberius Thingamus Average member rating: (8 ratings) In this adventure, findeth ye olde treasures from within yon castle. Maketh friends as ye o'ercome meddlesome goblins! Outwitteth ye riddling gnome! Resizeth ye belts & belt-like things! Can ye getteth all... |
Zegrothenus, by Poster Average member rating: (6 ratings) You are the rather famous, but altogether lazy, wizard Zegrothenus. The Council has imprisoned you in your own lair as a last-ditch effort to cure you of procrastination. Can you create a new potion before... |
[You wake up itching.], by Michael S. Gentry Average member rating: (6 ratings) This game is an entry in the Mystery House Taken Over project. The story and graphics are adapted from Roberta Williams' original Mystery House. |