'Mid the Sagebrush and the Cactus, by Victor Gijsbers Average member rating: (19 ratings) They shot you in the leg, the sheriff or one of his men, but you still managed to get away. You always manage to get away. And while they're off pursuing you to, who knows, perhaps Colorado, you have quietly... |
> by @, by Aaron A. Reed Average member rating: (24 ratings) On the surface, > seems to be a traditional adventure game, featuring treasure, an NPC, a puzzle, and a happy ending. However, matters are complicated by the realization that the work's purported author is... |
♥Magical Makeover♥, by S. Woodson Average member rating: (67 ratings) "You hold in your hand a pink, heart-shaped card daubed in rosewater and oil of jasmine — an invitation to the Princess Philantha's Grand Equinox Ball. In gilded, sweeping, sweet-smelling calligraphy, the... |
36 Questions, by Dietrich Squinkifer (Squinky) Average member rating: (6 ratings) A game about falling in love through the power of psychology as the world is about to end. |
50 Shades of Jilting, by Rowan Lipkovits (as Lankly Lockers) Average member rating: (13 ratings) The relationship is in a walking dead situation: it's over, only continuing to move onward solely on inertia. One way or another, it ends here. |
69,105 Keys, by David Welbourn Emily Boegheim's rating: Average member rating: (80 ratings) There's just one room. How hard can it be? Just unlock the door. Oh. There's 69,105 keys. |
80 DAYS, by inkle, Meg Jayanth Emily Boegheim's rating: Average member rating: (100 ratings) 1872, with a steampunk twist. Phileas Fogg has wagered he can circumnavigate the world in just eighty days. Choose your own route around a 3D globe, travelling by airship, submarine, mechanical camel,... |
9:05, by Adam Cadre Average member rating: (544 ratings) The phone rings. Oh, no — how long have you been asleep? Sure, it was a tough night, but... This is bad. This is very bad. The phone rings. |
An Act of Murder, by Christopher Huang Average member rating: (82 ratings) |
Ad Verbum, by Nick Montfort Emily Boegheim's rating: Average member rating: (136 ratings) "With the cantankerous Wizard of Wordplay evicted from his mansion, the worthless plot can now be redeveloped. The city regulations declare, however, that the rip-down job can't proceed until all the items... |
After the Flag Fell, by Felicity Banks Average member rating: (2 ratings) An alternate steampunk history based on the real-life Australian Peter Lalor. Set in the same steampunk Australia as "Attack of the Clockwork Army" (and the same time period) but with almost no crossover... |
Aisle, by Sam Barlow Emily Boegheim's rating: Average member rating: (326 ratings) "Late Thursday night. You've had a hard day and the last thing you need is this: shopping. Luckily, the place is pretty empty and you're progressing rapidly. On to the next aisle... Aisle started out as a... |
Alabaster, by John Cater, Rob Dubbin, Eric Eve, Elizabeth Heller, Jayzee, Kazuki Mishima, Sarah Morayati, Mark Musante, Emily Short, Adam Thornton, Ziv Wities Average member rating: (124 ratings) The Queen has told you to return with her heart in a box. Snow White has made you promise to make other arrangements. Now that you're alone in the forest, it's hard to know which of the two women to trust.... |
Alexander Systems, by M. Darusha Wehm Average member rating: (2 ratings) There’s a way out — if you can see it. A low-level office worker learns that there might be more opportunities for advancement than she once thought — but at what cost? |
All Hope Abandon, by Eric Eve Emily Boegheim's rating: Average member rating: (38 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 Emily Boegheim's rating: Average member rating: (156 ratings) "Wave a circle round him thrice, And close your eyes with holy dread For he on honey-dew hath fed And drunk the milk of paradise." [--blurb from Competition Aught-One] |
All Your Time-Tossed Selves, by Porpentine Average member rating: (16 ratings) a story made in Google Forms |
Amity x Li, by KimikoMuffin Average member rating: (7 ratings) An entry in Ruin Jam 2014 about two girls in love, chatting about life. Amity Watkins and her girlfriend Li Anderson are seniors in high school in the smallish, obscure town of Foxville, Massachusetts. It's... |
Analogue: A Hate Story, by Christine Love Average member rating: (10 ratings) Back in the 25th century, Earth launched a generation ship into deep space, with the goal of establishing the first interstellar colony. It dropped out of contact and disappeared, never reaching its... |
Anchorhead, by Michael Gentry Average member rating: (409 ratings) You take a deep breath of salty air as the first raindrops begin to spatter the pavement, and the swollen, slate-colored clouds that blanket the sky mutter ominous portents amongst themselves over the little... |
And a Hippo New Year, by Adri ("Erin Gigglecreek") Average member rating: (12 ratings) 'Twas the night before Christmas when all through the house, the only creature stirring was a hippo the size of a mouse. This game was created for Yuletide 2012, an annual fanfiction exchange. It is based in... |
And the Robot Horse You Rode in On, by Anna Anthropy Average member rating: (19 ratings) Diode emerges from the porta-tent, yawning and cracking open a canteen. She takes a long swig. "Evening, bandita." Then she comes over to you and plants her foot on the top of your head. "i’ll be honest: i... |
Another Day in Seething Bay, by Lisa Shininger Average member rating: (2 ratings) "What ever went wrong on a Monday?" A cash-strapped lunar colonist struggles to get through another day of faceless corporate drudgery. |
Antropology, by Oreolek Average member rating: (5 ratings) ** On benefits of speech. ** A micro abstract interactive text piece, about one minute long. |
Aotearoa, by Matt Wigdahl Average member rating: (63 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... |
Arcane Intern (Unpaid), by Astrid Dalmady Average member rating: (45 ratings) Getting coffee, making copies, tampering with powers beyond your control. You know, normal intern things. Now if only you were getting paid for it... |
The Argument-Winner's Ghost, by Andrew Schultz Average member rating: (7 ratings) |
Arrival, or Attack of the B-Movie Clichés, by Stephen Granade Average member rating: (34 ratings) |
The Ascent of the Gothic Tower, by Ryan Veeder Average member rating: (34 ratings) A story of mild and non-debilitating obsession. |
The Ascot, by Duncan Bowsman Average member rating: (27 ratings) Anything might happen to you on the way to the convenience store. You might even run into a guy handing out cursed ascots that lead you to lost fortunes guarded by terrible monsters. Can you nab 100% of the... |
Aunts and Butlers, by Robin Johnson Emily Boegheim's rating: Average member rating: (45 ratings) It's 1920, you're a minor aristocrat fallen on hard times, and your wretched Aunt Cedilla is on the warpath. A Wodehousean comedy of manners, manors, mysterious butlers and unfriendly poodles. |
Babel, by Ian Finley Average member rating: (156 ratings) In this game, you play as an amnesiac inside Babel, an abandoned Arctic facility devoted to biological research. You soon discover that you have the unusual ability to witness scenes from the past by... |
Beanstalk the and Jack, by David Welbourn Average member rating: (5 ratings) The story of "Jack and the Beanstalk" - but backwards! |
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] |
Beautiful Dreamer, by S. Woodson Average member rating: (41 ratings) "Outside, the chill wind wails and tears the leaves from their branches. Gusts of wind scour the muddy sidewalks; gusts of wind roar through the alleys between buildings. Before one gust can fade, another... |
Bee, by Emily Short Average member rating: (89 ratings) The story of a home-schooled girl preparing to compete in the national spelling bee, dealing with various small crises with family and friends, and gradually coming to terms with the clash of subcultures... |
Being Andrew Plotkin, by J. Robinson Wheeler Emily Boegheim's rating: Average member rating: (58 ratings) "Zarf? you think to yourself. Could it be? The one and only Zarf? Xyzzy Award winner? IF Competition winner? The mighty Inscruitable One? Gosh. What it must be like to be Zarf... You begin to crawl forward,... |
Being There, by Jordan Magnuson Emily Boegheim's rating: Average member rating: (14 ratings) Being There is an extremely experimental little work of interactive fiction with pictures, about existence and Korea. Only requires a few minutes to play through, but you are encouraged to take your time. |
Bell Park, Youth Detective, by Brendan Patrick Hennessy Average member rating: (61 ratings) A headstrong twelve-year-old detective gets in over her head when she's hired to solve a murder mystery at an internet technology conference. |
Best of Three, by Emily Short Average member rating: (62 ratings) |
Beware The Faerie Food You Eat, by Astrid Dalmady Emily Boegheim's rating: Average member rating: (29 ratings) They say that some of the faerie folk can grant wishes, that they can give gifts to that who gain their favor. Now, you’ve found a portal into their world and you’re ready to step through and claim that... |
Bigger Than You Think, by Andrew Plotkin Average member rating: (52 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:... |
Birdland, by Brendan Patrick Hennessy Emily Boegheim's rating: Average member rating: (173 ratings) Fourteen-year-old Bridget's summer camp experience takes a turn for the bizarre when her otherworldly bird dreams start bleeding into reality. |
Blighted Isle, by Eric Eve Emily Boegheim's rating: 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... |
Bloom, by Caelyn Sandel Emily Boegheim's rating: 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. |
Blue Lacuna, by Aaron A. Reed Emily Boegheim's rating: Average member rating: (114 ratings) You have always been different. One in a trillion have your gift, your curse: to move between worlds, never settling, always alone. To Wayfare. Yet there are others like you, and something stronger than... |
Boogle, by Buster Hudson Average member rating: (15 ratings) |
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 Emily Boegheim's rating: Average member rating: (290 ratings) When the seventh day comes and it is time for you to return to the castle in the forest, your sisters cling to your sleeves. |
A Bucket Filled With Sand, by A C Godliman Average member rating: (9 ratings) Take a trip down to the beach for a short illustrated text-adventure. Spend a century as the ruler of your castle, will you build a citadel? Library? Expand into a kingdom? It's up to you, just remember...in... |
Byzantine Perspective, by Lea Albaugh Emily Boegheim's rating: Average member rating: (57 ratings) Your task is simple enough. Just nab the chalice. |
Cabin Fever, by Dr. Froth Average member rating: (9 ratings) An entry in the 2007 One Room Game competition. You are on vacation in a cabin far from anywhere, snowed in, unable to reach civilization for several hours at least. You are bored. |
Captain Verdeterre's Plunder, by Ryan Veeder Average member rating: (51 ratings) You should carry the bag. I'm more of a delegator. |
Carmen Devine: Supernatural Troubleshooter, by Rob Myall Emily Boegheim's rating: Average member rating: (10 ratings) 'The jet lands smoothly in Harbin. The stink of the city and the bite of the ice-cold air assaults you as you disembark, but your destination is a long jeep ride north, so you'll have to suffer through the... |
Castle of the Red Prince, by C.E.J. Pacian Emily Boegheim's rating: Average member rating: (55 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... |
Cat Petting Simulator 2014, by neongrey Average member rating: (11 ratings) The most realistic and verismilitudinous text-based simulation of petting a cat ever written. |
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... |
Chemistry and Physics, by Caelyn Sandel (as Colin Sandel) and Carolyn VanEseltine Emily Boegheim's rating: Average member rating: (22 ratings) |
Child's Play, by Stephen Granade Emily Boegheim's rating: Average member rating: (54 ratings) It is playgroup day and playgroup day is normally a good day but ever since that little red-haired girl started coming she always wants your toys. She shouldn't get your toys. You tried telling the mom this... |
Choice of Robots, by Kevin Gold Emily Boegheim's rating: Average member rating: (43 ratings) The robots you design will change the world! Will you show them the true meaning of love, or conquer Alaska with your robot army? "Choice of Robots" is an epic 300,000-word interactive sci-fi novel by Kevin... |
Choice of the Deathless, by Max Gladstone Emily Boegheim's rating: Average member rating: (30 ratings) Battle demons and undead attorneys, and win souls to pay back your student loans! At the elite demonic-law firm of Varkath Nebuchadnezzar Stone, you'll depose a fallen god, find romance, and maybe even make... |
Choice of the Dragon, by Dan Fabulich and Adam Strong-Morse Average member rating: (38 ratings) Play as a fire-breathing dragon who sleeps on gold and kidnaps princesses for fun! Choice of the Dragon is a free text-based game of multiple choice. Dominate the local kingdom, loot and pillage, and inspire... |
Cis Gaze, by Caelyn Sandel Average member rating: (13 ratings) Cis Gaze is a diary entry told through hypertext effects, an exploration of the intersection of gender dysphoria and depression. It's not really a game. Content warnings: transmisogyny, depression, suicidal... |
Coin toss, by Simon Deimel Average member rating: (7 ratings) Hanging around with your homie. There is not much to do, or is it? A very short diversion. |
A Colder Light, by Jon Ingold Average member rating: (19 ratings) The last light has gone. The stars are coming out in the black sea above. Many are hidden by ice-fingered winds. My father is still not returned and the fire is almost gone. But this is how life is: always... |
Coloratura, by Lynnea Glasser Emily Boegheim's rating: Average member rating: (116 ratings) Stolen away by apathetic Blind Ones, your only desire is to return to your Cellarium and the Song of the Universe. They should understand. You shall make them to understand. |
Common Ground, by Stephen Granade Average member rating: (30 ratings) |
The Compass Rose, by Yoon Ha Lee and Peter Berman Average member rating: (4 ratings) There's more than one north by which to guide a world. The survivor of a space raid colonizes a new world with the aid of a compass rose. |
Composition in a Minor Key, by Aleks Samoylov Emily Boegheim's rating: 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... |
Conversations With My Mother, by Merritt Kopas Emily Boegheim's rating: 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. |
Cook-Off!, by S. Miracle Average member rating: (3 ratings) More of a mini-game than a work of fiction, in Cook-Off you are the head chef! Select three dishes to cook in such a way that a panel of four random judges rate them more highly than your opponent's. The... |
Counterfeit Monkey, by Emily Short Emily Boegheim's rating: Average member rating: (253 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... |
Craverly Heights, by Ryan Veeder Average member rating: (19 ratings) Take on the role of Doctor Langridge, whose patient, Janine, is very sick. |
creak, creak, by chandler groover Average member rating: (36 ratings) "You have to look." 111 words. Made for Porpentine's Twiny Jam. |
Creatures Such As We, by Lynnea Glasser Average member rating: (96 ratings) A dating sim about how humanity connects through art, even out in the vastness of space. |
Crocodracula: What Happened to Calvin, by Ryan Veeder Average member rating: (12 ratings) Based on the 90s children's horror soap opera. |
Cry Wolf, by Clare Parker Emily Boegheim's rating: 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... |
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... |
Dad vs. Unicorn, by PaperBlurt Average member rating: (25 ratings) A day like many others. Dad at the BBQ - his son in an empty house. Remembering childhood as well as adulthood. Disappointment fills the void between the two. A unicorn changes the day.. |
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... |
Danse Nocturne, by Joey Jones Average member rating: (18 ratings) Danse Nocturne is interactive blank verse, based on one of the legends of Charlemagne. It is played by dancing in different ways and has over a dozen different endings and understands over 1200 different... |
A Dark and Stormy Entry, by Emily Short Average member rating: (26 ratings) |
A Day for Fresh Sushi, by Emily Short Average member rating: (99 ratings) No time for fantasy. Must feed fish. |
Daytime Never Had a Chance, by Snoother Average member rating: (10 ratings) When the weather transforms the woods |
De Baron, by Victor Gijsbers Emily Boegheim's rating: Average member rating: (167 ratings) An evil nobleman, a kidnapped daughter and a father who wants to rescue her at any cost--that is not the way life works. Something much darker, something much more human, lies underneath. Een kwaadaardige... |
Dead Cities, by Jon Ingold Emily Boegheim's rating: Average member rating: (32 ratings) The letter you received from Arkwright's nephew Carter was clear enough: when the old man dies the inheritance tax will be too great. It's certain ruin, much like the estate itself. To raise some capital the... |
Dead Like Ants, by C.E.J. Pacian Average member rating: (60 ratings) You play as a young woman in red overalls, a red worker ant. Every spring, five dangerous creatures visit the tree and threaten the village, and every spring, the Queen sends one of her daughters to... |
Deadline Enchanter, by Alan DeNiro Average member rating: (58 ratings) |
Death Attends The Matinee, by ClickHole Average member rating: (6 ratings) The dame walks into your office without knocking, and boy, does she look uneasy. She stares at you with piercing gray eyes and asks, “Are you Sam Stonemarrow, the private detective?” |
Death off the Cuff, by Simon Christiansen Average member rating: (54 ratings) They all stare at you expectantly, like children waiting to be told a bedtime story. Who can blame them? You are, after all, Antoine Saint Germain, the great French detective. No criminal has ever been a... |
Delightful Wallpaper, by Andrew Plotkin ('Edgar O. Weyrd') Average member rating: (78 ratings) |
Depression Quest, by Zoe Quinn, Patrick Lindsey, Isaac Schankler Average member rating: (61 ratings) "An interactive (non)fiction about living with depression." The player of this multimedia hypertext game is given a series of everyday life events, and has to attempt to manage their illness, relationships,... |
Dial C for Cupcakes, by Ryan Veeder Average member rating: (33 ratings) A cantankerous ex-cop calls in a favor from his old partner. |
Dig My Grave, by Ryan Veeder Average member rating: (27 ratings) For reasons which remain obscure, it is your job to dig a grave. Written for the Apollo 18+20 tribute album project. |
Discover the World, by Adri Average member rating: (2 ratings) |
The Dog/House, by Byron Alexander Campbell Emily Boegheim's rating: Average member rating: (9 ratings) A slight revision of the author's first foray into interactive fiction, "The Dog/House" is a dream-like exploration game on a very small scale. Discover the goal for yourself. Release 2 includes improved... |
Dominique Pamplemousse - It's All Over Once The Fat Lady Sings!, by Dietrich Squinkifer (Squinky) Emily Boegheim's rating: 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 Take It Personally, Babe, It Just Ain't Your Story, by Christine Love Average member rating: (6 ratings) A spiritual sequel of sorts to Digital: A Love Story, set in a prestigious private high school, and on the social networks of 2027. Seven students, three endings, one eavesdropping teacher. A full length... |
Doors, by Caelyn Sandel Average member rating: (1 rating) an interactive visual maze-poem If the game looks weird or isn't working, try the fullscreen version at http://inurashii.xyz/doors/ Created for Twiny Jam |
Draculaland, by Robin Johnson Average member rating: (30 ratings) A terse, comic horror puzzle game based loosely on Dracula, faithfully reimagining several characters and ignoring most of the original plot. Guide Jonathan Harker on a trip through Transylvania, interacting... |
The Dreamhold, by Andrew Plotkin Average member rating: (177 ratings) The Dreamhold is interactive fiction — a classic text adventure. No graphics! No point-and-click! You type your commands, and read what happens next. The Dreamhold is designed for people who have never... |
Dual Transform, by Andrew Plotkin Average member rating: (110 ratings) This game takes place in a single room — but not always the same one. The room contains just one item, but again, there's more to it than that. Experiment and enjoy. |
Earth and Sky, by Paul O'Brian Average member rating: (84 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... |
Earth and Sky 2: Another Earth, Another Sky, by Paul O'Brian Average member rating: (55 ratings) |
Earth And Sky 3: Luminous Horizon, by Paul O'Brian Average member rating: (43 ratings) |
An Earth Turning Slowly, by Mæja Stefánsson Average member rating: (10 ratings) She ran through her list of findings. “We’ve never had one quite like her. The diversity of simultaneous wounds, I mean, in a surviving specimen. There’s this long-standing hand-wave in paleopathology:... |
The Ebb and Flow of the Tide, by Peter Nepstad Average member rating: (15 ratings) You have done a horrible thing, so horrible that burial will be denied you, either in soil or sea, neither can there be any hell for you. You wait for some hours, knowing this. Then your friends come for... |
Ecdysis, by Peter Nepstad Emily Boegheim's rating: Average member rating: (81 ratings) You wake, a pounding headache loud in your inner ear, the back of your head itching and tingling, your mouth full of cotton. The pain drives away your dreams, weird visions of alien landscapes... Ecdysis is... |
The Edifice, by Lucian P. Smith Emily Boegheim's rating: Average member rating: (84 ratings) "Something new in your everyday hunter-gatherer routine: where did this strange edifice come from? Dare you enter and explore the secrets of this... thing, or do you try to face your enemies? Like you have a... |
EGYPTIAN WALKING SIMULATOR, by Jason Dyer Average member rating: (7 ratings) Using Greg Hassett's 1978 game King Tut's Tomb as a base, an art experiment of sort is laid upon the same locations and items. |
electro primitive girl, by Sloane Leong Average member rating: (2 ratings) |
The Elysium Enigma, by Eric Eve Emily Boegheim's rating: Average member rating: (78 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... |
The Endling Archive, by Kazuki Mishima Average member rating: (30 ratings) Browse the Endling Archive to uncover the purpose of its creation. |
Enough, by Harris Powell-Smith Average member rating: (6 ratings) You're doing OK. A tiny game about comfort. Made for the TinyUtopias jam. |
Escapade!, by Juhana Leinonen Emily Boegheim's rating: Average member rating: (18 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... |
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 Emily Boegheim's rating: Average member rating: (107 ratings) It starts with a metalhead, Graham, realizing that throwing that shopping cart over the bridge was not the great idea he thought it was. Even if it did get him out of washroom duty at Cost Cutters.... |
Everything We Do Is Games, by Doug Orleans Average member rating: (9 ratings) A null game, inspired by John Cage's 4′33″. |
Ex Nihilo, by Juhana Leinonen Emily Boegheim's rating: Average member rating: (33 ratings) In the beginning there was nothing. From nothing light and darkness were born. |
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] |
Faithful Companion, by Matt Weiner Average member rating: (22 ratings) The "Play On-line" link should now go to version 2! |
Fate, by Victor Gijsbers Emily Boegheim's rating: 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... |
Ferrous Ring, by Justin Morgan ('Carma Ferris') Average member rating: (11 ratings) |
Find The Woman Of Colour At The Game Jam, by sui Average member rating: (3 ratings) a story about being marginalised in the tech/games industry |
A Fine Day for Reaping, by James Webb (aka revgiblet) Average member rating: (27 ratings) Step into the bare feet of the Grim Reaper for a day and make sure that five pesky souls keep their appointment with the afterlife. |
The Fire Tower, by Jacqueline A. Lott Average member rating: (50 ratings) |
First Draft of the Revolution, by Emily Short, Liza Daly and inkle Average member rating: (56 ratings) It is dangerous to deceive a husband of magic-using rank... Juliette has been banished for the summer to a village above Grenoble: a few Alpine houses, a deep lake, blue sky, and no society. Now she writes... |
The Fixer, by Chikodili Emelumadu Average member rating: (10 ratings) Story: Chikodili Emelumadu Art: Onyinye Iwu Interactivity: Tory Hoke She finds you, and she won’t let go. Two women hire a private investigator to trail their erring husbands. Playing time: 8 minutes |
Floatpoint, by Emily Short Emily Boegheim's rating: Average member rating: (101 ratings) It is night on this side of the planet. Settled areas are lit: a jagged crescent in the tropics, lining the inland sea. The bright splatter along the top of the curve is Tanhua, as bright from space as New... |
Foo Foo, by Buster Hudson Emily Boegheim's rating: Average member rating: (65 ratings) Someone's been bopping the field mice on the head, and only Good Fairy, Senior Detective can find out who. A parser-driven noir adventure based on the interactive fiction of Ryan Veeder. |
For a Change, by Dan Schmidt Emily Boegheim's rating: Average member rating: (117 ratings) "The sun has gone. It must be brought. You have a rock." [--blurb from Competition '99] |
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. |
Frankenstein, by Dave Morris and inkle Emily Boegheim's rating: Average member rating: (6 ratings) This unique literary app places you in conversation with Frankenstein himself as his story unfolds. He will be your guide, and you his advisor. Console, counsel or condemn him: the choice is yours. Written... |
Fridgetopia, by Mathbrush Average member rating: (5 ratings) Every text is possible on a fridge. Made for the Tiny Utopia Jam. Cover art made with CSS. |
Fugue, by Emily Short Average member rating: (12 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... |
Galatea, by Emily Short Average member rating: (346 ratings) Emily Short's description: A conversation with a work of art. "47. Galatea. White Thasos marble. Non-commissioned work by the late Pygmalion of Cyprus. (The artist has since committed suicide.) Originally... |
The Gallery of Henri Beauchamp, by Mike Vollmer Average member rating: (6 ratings) You have a chance to see an exclusive exhibit of the lost works of artist Henri Beauchamp, but you must prove you’re a devotee of the art to get in. An Interactive Fiction based on an old creepy story. It... |
The Game Formerly Known as Hidden Nazi Mode, by Victor Gijsbers Emily Boegheim's rating: Average member rating: (29 ratings) The Game Formerly Known as Hidden Nazi Mode was, in fact, formerly known as Hidden Nazi Mode. As such it was a failed experiment, detailed in the accompanying essay. In this release the Nazi mode has been... |
Gigantomania, by Michelle Tirto and Mike Ciul Average member rating: (21 ratings) Living under the Stalin era, in four parts. |
Glass, by Emily Short Average member rating: (108 ratings) The Prince sits awkwardly on the couch, holding his glass slipper and trying to keep it from crushing. Lucinda and Theodora have the ends of the same couch, and they are taking turns seeing who can bend... |
Gun Mute, by C.E.J. Pacian Average member rating: (156 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 Emily Boegheim's rating: Average member rating: (69 ratings) Marooned in an alien, airless wasteland -- your starship fractured -- your crewmates missing. Can an apprentice alchemist learn how to survive? |
The Hammer of God, by G. K. Chesterton and IF Classics Emily Boegheim's rating: Average member rating: (2 ratings) Roam freely in the world of G. K. Chesterton's classic detective fiction. (Contains complete Feedbooks public-domain text) Two possible formats (in .zip files): 1. .quest story file + brief documentation... |
Hana Feels, by Gavin Inglis Average member rating: (64 ratings) Something is bothering Hana. Can you work out what it is? Take the part of four important people in her life and guide their conversations. After each scene, peek at Hana's journal and find out how she felt... |
Headless, Hapless, by Geoff Moore Average member rating: (14 ratings) It's happened again. You've had a great night riding around, freaking everyone out with your whole headless horseman thing, and you're about to set off for home when you realise you've lost your head. Well,... |
Heretic Dreams, by Harris Powell-Smith Average member rating: (11 ratings) They would call what you did heresy. No one knows you swallowed the power of a god, but it will break you apart. |
Hoist Sail for the Heliopause and Home, by Andrew Plotkin Average member rating: (86 ratings) A far-future story of discovery. |
Hollywood Visionary, by Aaron A. Reed Emily Boegheim's rating: Average member rating: (19 ratings) Make the movie of your dreams amid the glamor and romance of 1950s Hollywood! "Hollywood Visionary" is a 150,000-word interactive novel by Aaron A. Reed, where your choices control the story. It's entirely... |
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... |
The Horrible Pyramid, by Ryan Veeder Average member rating: (31 ratings) Something weird is going on in this pyramid. |
Horse Master, by Tom McHenry Average member rating: (96 ratings) The Game of Horse Mastery |
The House at the End of Rosewood Street, by Michael Thomét Average member rating: (14 ratings) The manor house at the end of Rosewood Street has been vacant for as long as you remember, but a notice in the local newspaper reports that the historic house has been sold. How will this newcomer affect the... |
howling dogs, by Porpentine Average member rating: (128 ratings) death cube sim | galactic survey | visionatrix | facet machine | power gardens | women | fascination two significant endings |
Hunger Daemon, by Sean M. Shore Average member rating: (65 ratings) It's not the end of the world, and you're to blame. Better get on that. But man, it sure would be nice to get a bite to eat first. |
I Didn't Really Like It Before, by Drusilla Average member rating: (6 ratings) It's an experience I had the other day. Bees, winter, brevity. |
I-0, by Anonymous Average member rating: (158 ratings) Stranded on Interstate Zero after your car broke down, you are miles away from the last sign of civilization. It's twenty minutes to noon and the temperature is well over 120°F. It's beginning to look like... |
I'm Gonna Take You To The Video Bar!, by James Mitchelhill Average member rating: (6 ratings) |
Impetum Maleficus, by Hamish McIntyre Average member rating: (3 ratings) Things are pretty weird during a Wizard Apocalypse. Try to get to safety, before it's too late! |
Indigo, by Emily Short Average member rating: (55 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... |
Invasion, by Cat Manning Emily Boegheim's rating: Average member rating: (26 ratings) The end of the world, and there's something after you. A short horror Twine about sacrifice, survival, and relative humanity. Le Grand Guignol entry in ECTOCOMP 2015. |
Investigative Journalism: A Welcome to Night Vale Fan Game, by Astrid Dalmady Average member rating: (15 ratings) In Investigative Journalism, you play as the newest intern at Night Vale Community Radio and you’re tasked with hunting down The News that just escaped. |
Inward Narrow Crooked Lanes, by B Minus Seven Average member rating: (15 ratings) Before we begin, we have a sharp-- I mean short intake form for you to fill out. |
The Island of Doctor Wooby, by Ryan Veeder Average member rating: (16 ratings) Explore an island populated by tiny felt dinosaurs. |
Jetbike Gang, by C.E.J. Pacian Average member rating: (23 ratings) You're a member of a jetbike gang. Tiny Twine game for the Twiny Jam. Exactly 300 words. |
The Journey of the King, by Peter Nepstad Average member rating: (6 ratings) "The King goeth upon a journey with many horses, yet riding upon none, when the pomp of travelling shall be heard in the streets and the sound of the lute and the drum and the name of the King. And I would... |
Kerkerkruip, by Victor Gijsbers Average member rating: (70 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... |
Kii!Wii!, by Adri Average member rating: (4 ratings) This experience was created in order to impart a bit of happiness and sweetness into your life. |
Known Unknowns, by Brendan Patrick Hennessy Average member rating: (75 ratings) Nadia Nazari has a lot of unknowns to contend with in her Grade 12 year. Like how can she run an entire school newspaper with only one employee? Why has her estranged ex best friend suddenly come back into... |
Kotodama, by Aidan Doyle Average member rating: (7 ratings) A robot is sent to deal with an outbreak of poetry in Tokyo. |
Lawn of Love, by Santoonie Corporation Average member rating: (11 ratings) Santoonie's first romantic adventure. |
The Legend of the Missing Hat, by Adri Average member rating: (31 ratings) A tiny story about four tiny ninjas and a tiny top hat. |
Let's Go Eat, by Tom McHenry Average member rating: (7 ratings) The convention center exhibit hall is closed. Everyone is excited to go to dinner but tired and hungry from a long day of working the convention floor. You are a staggering group of sore-footed friends... |
Lifeline, by Dave Justus and 3 Minute Games Average member rating: (14 ratings) "[A] surprising iPhone and Apple Watch bestseller is pushing the boundaries of fiction" - boingboing.net "This is the best game on the Apple Watch" - Time.com Lifeline is a playable, branching story of... |
The Lift, by Colin Capurso Emily Boegheim's rating: Average member rating: (28 ratings) You wake up in a room with no memory of who you are or what you're doing there. You need to survive, that's all you know. |
Lime Ergot, by Caleb Wilson (as Rust Blight) Average member rating: (85 ratings) Now everyone is gone. (Well, almost everyone.) Entry in ECTOCOMP 2014. |
Lord Bellwater's Secret, by Sam Gordon Average member rating: (71 ratings) |
Lost Pig, by Admiral Jota Emily Boegheim's rating: Average member rating: (500 ratings) Pig lost! Boss say that it Grunk fault. Say Grunk forget about closing gate. Maybe boss right. Grunk not remember forgetting, but maybe Grunk just forget. -- IFComp 2007 blurb |
Love, Hate and the Mysterious Ocean Tower, by C.E.J. Pacian Average member rating: (43 ratings) |
The Lurking Horror II: The Lurkening, by Ryan Veeder Average member rating: (29 ratings) An unauthorized sequel to the Infocom classic, written for the 2018 MIT Mystery Hunt. |
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. |
Machine of Death, by Hulk Handsome Average member rating: (23 ratings) In the near future, the world will be changed by a machine that predicts how a person will die with 100% accuracy... but not clarity. Would knowing your demise change the way you lived your life? A... |
A Man in His Life, by Yehuda Amichai and sub-Q Average member rating: (1 rating) Ecclesiastes was wrong about that. A man doesn't have time in his life/to have time for everything. |
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. |
Marine Raider, by Allen Gies Average member rating: (7 ratings) May fourth, nineteen forty-two. The Pacific Ocean froths with war. The Japanese have made immense gains following their infamous December sneak attack. The Philippines have fallen. Pearl Harbor is a... |
Metamorphoses, by Emily Short Average member rating: (133 ratings) You wake to stillness. The hammering, banging, and shouting that kept you awake half the night are gone. The air is cold, and something smells burnt. Your master's experiments must be finished, but with what... |
Midnight. Swordfight., by Chandler Groover Average member rating: (87 ratings) A fool receives a challenge from a countess. Violence. Sex. Profanity. Sausage. |
Milk Party Palace, by Alon Karmi & Glenn Parker Average member rating: (9 ratings) Alec Baldwin gets what Alec Baldwin wants, and when he wants six gallons for a Milk Party, you better believe he's getting six gallons. Includes 3 Endings. |
A Mind Forever Voyaging, by Steve Meretzky Average member rating: (118 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... |
Möbius, by J.D. Clemens Emily Boegheim's rating: Average member rating: (35 ratings) Another mission. Just when you had settled in for a nap. |
Moon-Shaped, by Jason Ermer Emily Boegheim's rating: Average member rating: (38 ratings) In this game partly inspired by Little Red Riding Hood, you play as Rosalind Wechsler, a girl on the cusp of her 13th birthday. What begins as a trip to Grandmother's house in the woods leads to disturbing... |
Moonmist, by Stu Galley, Jim Lawrence Average member rating: (50 ratings) More ghosts haunt the misty sea-coast and stone ramparts of Cornwall than anyplace else on earth. One such soul roams Tresyllian Castle: a pale phantom with flaxen hair and a luminous, flowing gown. It seems... |
More, by Jason Dyer (as Erin Canterbury) Average member rating: (12 ratings) |
the morning after, by verityvirtue Average member rating: (10 ratings) It's been a long night. We've not had a proper sleep. But we seize this moment of peace. Made for the Tiny Utopias jam. |
Mother, by Porpentine Charity Heartscape Average member rating: (7 ratings) No data about this mom. A game made for Twiny Jam in 300 words or less. |
Muse: An Autumn Romance, by Christopher Huang Emily Boegheim's rating: 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] |
Mushrooms Red As Meat, by A C Godliman Average member rating: (4 ratings) A short illustrated journey around the fading memories of a quiet place, created for the TinyUtopia jam. (This is illustrator A C Godliman's second Twine game; requires full-screen and audio) |
my father's long, long legs, by michael lutz Emily Boegheim's rating: Average member rating: (148 ratings) A weird tale. Some parts make use of sound, so this game is best played with headphones. One ending. |
My mistake, by natulia Average member rating: (1 rating) Have fun. You might get multiple endings. It is a horror short. |
My Name is Jack Mills, by Juhana Leinonen Average member rating: (19 ratings) |
Narcolepsy, by Adam Cadre Average member rating: (63 ratings) |
Nautilisia, by Ryan Veeder Average member rating: (41 ratings) Your friend claims to be in a coma. |
Neon Haze, by Porpentine and Brenda Neotenomie Average member rating: (16 ratings) Hold your name like oxygen in your lungs. A drifter with a number on her wrist descends into a massive neon structure. |
The Next Day, by Jonathan Blask Average member rating: (5 ratings) "Sometimes the time after is just as important as the time with." The Next Day is an experimental, slice-of-life mood piece. |
Nightfall, by Eric Eve Emily Boegheim's rating: 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... |
The Northnorth Passage., by Caleb Wilson (as Snowball Ice) Average member rating: (26 ratings) Oh no, the old family curse has flared up! This is a short story about limits to action. |
Not the Same Old Lang Syne, by Jacqueline A. Lott Average member rating: (4 ratings) |
Ohmygod Are You Alright?, by Anna Anthropy Average member rating: (2 ratings) ohmygod are you alright is an autobiographical game about the experience and aftermath of getting hit by a car. it is a game about surviving. you could call it a survival horror. you could call it a direct... |
One Eye Open, by Caelyn Sandel (as Colin Sandel) and Carolyn VanEseltine Average member rating: (47 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 Up!, by Brendan Patrick Hennessy Average member rating: (26 ratings) Trin Park's only job while her parents are out of town is to make sure her little sister stays out of trouble. Should be easy enough. The kid usually keeps to herself anyway... (A post-Birdland microgame) |
Oppositely Opal, by Buster Hudson Emily Boegheim's rating: Average member rating: (68 ratings) You've practiced long and hard for PotionComp, but Grusilda won't give up her title so easily. UGH! Curse that Grusilda! A one-room potion-brewing spell-casting parser puzzler, where things might go opposite... |
Orevore Courier, by Brian Rapp Average member rating: (17 ratings) |
Out There, by FibreTigre Average member rating: (4 ratings) Out There is an award-winning space exploration game blending roguelike, resource management and interactive fiction.... |
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... |
The Paper Bag Princess, by Adri Average member rating: (22 ratings) Princess Elizabeth is about to marry the love of her life when a dragon attacks the castle and kidnaps her betrothed. Based on a book of the same name by Robert Munsch, with permission. |
parasite, by Porpentine Average member rating: (17 ratings) trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9tGJapK-jI made for the new inquiry, to coincide with my interview: http://thenewinquiry.com/essays/beautiful-weapons/ |
PataNoir, by Simon Christiansen Emily Boegheim's rating: Average member rating: (58 ratings) The Baron's daughter is missing, and you are the man to find her. No problem. With your inexhaustible arsenal of hard-boiled similes, there is nothing you can't handle. |
Photopia, by Adam Cadre Average member rating: (568 ratings) "Will you read me a story?" "Read you a story? What fun would that be? I've got a better idea: let's tell a story together." |
The Play, by Dietrich Squinkifer (Squinky) Average member rating: (66 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 Primrose Path, by Nolan Bonvouloir Emily Boegheim's rating: 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 . . . |
The Promise, by Sean Huxter Emily Boegheim's rating: Average member rating: (9 ratings) Your village lives a harsh life of perpetual winter and has for as long as you can remember. As a young boy unable to go on the hunt, you may find that, with almost everyone away, you can be of some use to... |
Prospero, by Bruno Dias Average member rating: (10 ratings) A prince and his courtiers retreat to his palace to hide from a deadly plague. Adapted from EA Poe's The Masque of the Red Death. |
Quing's Quest VII: The Death of Videogames!, by Dietrich Squinkifer (Squinky) Average member rating: (6 ratings) You are a young monarch of mysterious and indistinct gender, valiantly trying to survive exile from your home planet -- or whatever's left of it since the invasion, anyway. |
Rameses, by Stephen Bond Average member rating: (127 ratings) |
Realm of Obsidian, by Amy Kerns Emily Boegheim's rating: 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.... |
Recursive Occlusion, by Elizabeth Sandifer, John G. Wood An adaptation of a critical essay about the Doctor Who episode "Logopolis". |
Reference and Representation: An Approach to First-Order Semantics, by Ryan Veeder Average member rating: (35 ratings) Violence is the answer to this one. |
The Reluctant Resurrectee, by David Whyld Average member rating: (7 ratings) The Further Adventures Of The King Who Wanted To Die But Whose Subjects Just Weren't Ready To Let Him Go… You’re alive. Again. And not too happy about it. During your current period of deadness, your son... |
rendition, by nespresso Emily Boegheim's rating: 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... |
Reset, by Autumn Nicole Bradley Average member rating: (10 ratings) Always trust your Administratrix. Willing but unwitting, one citizen experiences the new possibilities of kink in a transhuman cyborg future. |
Return to Ditch Day, by M.J. Roberts Emily Boegheim's rating: Average member rating: (31 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. |
Ribbons, by J. D. Berry Emily Boegheim's rating: Average member rating: (8 ratings) |
Rogue of the Multiverse, by C.E.J. Pacian Average member rating: (75 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... |
The Role of Music in Your Life, by Five Dials Average member rating: (10 ratings) What is it? It's a questionnaire. But don't ask too many questions. The subject is music. That's about all you need to know. |
The Roscovian Palladium, by Ryan Veeder Average member rating: (21 ratings) Humans are constantly appropriating rat culture. King Roscoe thought to use this to his advantage. |
Rover's Day Out, by Jack Welch and Ben Collins-Sussman Emily Boegheim's rating: Average member rating: (56 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... |
Sam and Leo Go To The Bodega, by Richard Goodness Average member rating: (16 ratings) One day, Sam Dellaria and Leo Akane dropped acid and went to a bodega. This is their story. |
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... |
Secret Agent Cinder, by Emily Ryan Emily Boegheim's rating: Average member rating: (27 ratings) Play as a revolutionary agent Cinder. Your mission is to infiltrate the Royal Ball, dodge the guards and steal the Secret Military Plans, all before midnight. The opulence of Versailles disgusts you as you... |
Shade, by Andrew Plotkin Average member rating: (421 ratings) "A one-room game set in your apartment." [--blurb from Competition Aught-Zero] |
The Shadow in the Cathedral, by Ian Finley and Jon Ingold Emily Boegheim's rating: Average member rating: (32 ratings) When the monks took me, aged six months, into their care, they named me Wren. Maybe because I was small, insignificant, and happy to eat any crumbs they threw my way. But these days I'm Wren, 2nd Assistant... |
shadows on the mirror, by Chrysoula Tzavelas Emily Boegheim's rating: 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: (170 ratings) |
Shuffling Around, by Andrew Schultz (as Ned Yompus) Emily Boegheim's rating: Average member rating: (25 ratings) A weird power to save a weird world. So you just got fired from the best company ever, and it's the best day of your life. New opportunities! New horizons! New ways to look at things! Like calling this... |
Sigmund's Quest, by Gregor Holtz Average member rating: (10 ratings) Sigmund’s Quest is an homage to the classic point-and-click adventure games that inspired me so much as a child. It tells the first part of the story of the Völsunga saga, a Norse myth similar to King... |
Silver & Gold, by rosencrantz Average member rating: (13 ratings) These things come in pairs... A sacrifice, a chase, a dark night in a dark city. Silver & Gold is a story told in two voices. Started for a challenge on Twinery.org. Thanks to this Twinery forum post for... |
Siren for Hire, by Maddy Myers Average member rating: (2 ratings) Siren For Hire tells a story of magical girls living in a future Earth governed by a Dragon who doles out powered gemstones to the deserving. But who "deserves" super-powers? Meanwhile, hacker cults and... |
Six, by Wade Clarke Average member rating: (42 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 Stories, by Neil K. Guy Emily Boegheim's rating: 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... |
The Sixth Sleep, by Sloane Leong Average member rating: (2 ratings) Companion piece to "Labyrinth": http://sloanesloane.com/labyrinth.html |
Skull-Scraper, by chandler groover Average member rating: (18 ratings) "Scrape into a skull." Made for the Tiny Utopias Jam. |
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. |
Sleepless, by Natalia Theodoridou Emily Boegheim's rating: Average member rating: (3 ratings) What happens to dreams if no one sleeps? Humans have stopped sleeping. In nightclubs, helplines, and 24/7 diners, people look for a way to dream. |
Slouching Towards Bedlam, by Star Foster and Daniel Ravipinto Average member rating: (219 ratings) In the beginning was the Word, and it was hungry. ... |
Snack Time!, by Hardy the Bulldog and Renee Choba Emily Boegheim's rating: Average member rating: (61 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] |
Snake Game, by Vajra Chandrasekera and Tory Hoke Choose your own ghosts. A deserting soldier returns home to find a war he can't escape. |
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? |
So, You've Never Played a Text Adventure Before, Huh?, by Ryan Veeder Average member rating: (16 ratings) Robin Monaghan and her friends explore a creepy house. |
Solarium, by Anya Johanna DeNiro Average member rating: (55 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... |
Somewhere, by Kazuki Mishima Average member rating: (9 ratings) "Somewhere" is a short, very bare "interactive poem" written partly as a learning exercise in Inform 7. |
Sorcery!, by Steve Jackson and inkle Emily Boegheim's rating: Average member rating: (38 ratings) An adaptation of a print-based game book originally published in 1983, updated for modern touch-screen devices. The player quests across a fantasy map, dealing with all sorts of encounters using a text-based... |
Sorcery! 2, by Steve Jackson and inkle Average member rating: (21 ratings) Per the first game in this series, this is an adaptation of a print-based game book originally published in 1983, updated for modern touch-screen devices. The player quests across a fantasy map (this time of... |
Sorcery! 3, by Steve Jackson and inkle Average member rating: (11 ratings) The land of Kakhabad is a wilderness - a ruined desert, a tangled forest, cruel mountains and fissures, all guarded by seven fearsome serpents. But you must cross this land if you are to reach Mampang and... |
The Space Under the Window, by Andrew Plotkin Average member rating: (100 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: (318 ratings) A vacation in our lovely country! See the ethnic charms of the countryside, the historic grandeur of the capital city. Taste our traditional cuisine; smell the flowers of the Old Tree. And all without... |
Starborn, by Juhana Leinonen Average member rating: (32 ratings) The Magellan returned to Earth two weeks ago. I however can never go home. There are two versions of the story: Inform 7 version (2011) that uses a single-keyword parser, and Undum/Vorple version (2012) that... |
The Statue Got Me High, by Ryan Veeder Average member rating: (29 ratings) Your job is to make sure John's party is successful. It won't be, though. Written for the Apollo 18+20 tribute album project. |
stone, by Penny Stirling Average member rating: (6 ratings) Can calcific amatonormativity be cured? An aromantic student struggles with stone and friendship. |
The Striding Place, by Gertrude Atherton and sub-Q Average member rating: (3 ratings) Some souls can't be separated. When his friend vanishes during a hunting trip, a young man tracks him down through their unusual connection. |
Superluminal Vagrant Twin, by C.E.J. Pacian Average member rating: (131 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 Emily Boegheim's rating: Average member rating: (228 ratings) An entry in the 2007 One Room Game Competition. You play a magician's servant who gets trapped in your master's vault; you'll need to learn some of his tricks if you want to get out. |
swept up, by Harris Powell-Smith Average member rating: (2 ratings) and she's drumming her fingers on the wheel and watching you sideways, gaze flickering back-forth-back like she doesn't know if she wants to punch you or kiss you or eat you swept up is a game about blood,... |
Taco Fiction, by Ryan Veeder Emily Boegheim's rating: Average member rating: (118 ratings) Taco Fiction is a game about crime. |
Taghairm, by Chandler Groover Average member rating: (27 ratings) "Perhaps the most horrible of all recorded magical spells." Cruelty. Violence. Sounds. Headphones recommended. |
Tailypo, by Chandler Groover Average member rating: (21 ratings) Alone in his cabin, a hungry man eats something he shouldn't. |
The Tale of the Kissing Bandit, by J. Robinson Wheeler (as 'Cary Valentino') Average member rating: (47 ratings) |
Tales of the Traveling Swordsman, by Mike Snyder Emily Boegheim's rating: Average member rating: (48 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... |
Tapestry, by Daniel Ravipinto Average member rating: (44 ratings) You were born; you lived; you died. Not everyone gets a second chance to go back and change crucial decisions. You have been granted one and must go back to critical moral dilemmas; but do you change the... |
Taunting Donut, by Kalev Tait Average member rating: (21 ratings) One-room game where you need to get an out-of-reach donut tied to the ceiling of your exitless room. |
Tentacles Growing Everywhere, by Dietrich Squinkifer (Squinky) Emily Boegheim's rating: Average member rating: (2 ratings) Puberty is weird and awkward, especially when you happen to be a tentacled space alien! In this incredibly queer mashup of Judy Blume, Babysitters Club, and pulpy sci-fi, join three childhood friends �... |
That Sinister Self, by Astrid Dalmady Average member rating: (15 ratings) You look in to a mirror. Your reflection does not look back. That Sinister Self is a short Twine game about a young girl and how she sees herself in the mirror. |
their angelical understanding, by Porpentine Average member rating: (76 ratings) I train to fight angels in a monastery by the sea. Wear headphones. TW: Suicidal ideation, ableism, abuse, possible epilepsy trigger. |
The Thing About Dungeons, by Brendan Patrick Hennessy Average member rating: (16 ratings) An interactive short story (about dungeons). |
This Is A Real Thing That Happened, by Carolyn VanEseltine Average member rating: (13 ratings) This short game was created for RuinJam 2015. |
Three-Card Trick, by Chandler Groover Average member rating: (69 ratings) You're going to perform a three-card trick or your name isn't Morgan the Magnificent. |
Threediopolis, by Andrew Schultz Average member rating: (28 ratings) A wordplay/quasi-maze game. |
Thy Dungeonman, by Videlectrix Average member rating: (9 ratings) |
TinyUtopias Football Manager: Super Soccer Slam Edition, by A. Johanna DeNiro Average member rating: (5 ratings) Your cooperatively owned soccer team begins on the sixth level of the pyramid of English football. Can you reach the top of the Premier League and also smash crony capitalism at the same time? |
To Hell in a Hamper, by J. J. Guest Emily Boegheim's rating: 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... |
Toddler RPG, by Noah Marshall Emily Boegheim's rating: Average member rating: (6 ratings) Find a way to get down the big kids' slide! Progress from infancy, to early communication, to a quest to make it down the big kids' slide. Hints: 1) you will need a little bit of wisdom to take an interest... |
Tonight Dies the Moon, by Tom McHenry Average member rating: (14 ratings) From the author of HORSE MASTER: THE GAME OF HORSE MASTERY, comes a Twine game about life during war between the Earth and Moon in the year 2000. Fall in love, subsistence farm, make spreadsheets, and wear... |
The Tower and the Toucan, by E. Lily Yu Average member rating: (6 ratings) A perfectly ordinary day. Birds and other bright things. (First published on itch.io in April 2016, then reprinted in sub-Q magazine on 31 May 2016.) |
Transit, by Shaye Average member rating: (17 ratings) Find your way through a foreign airport in search of your friend, understanding or just a safe flight home. |
Trapped in Time, by Simon Christiansen Average member rating: (25 ratings) A Science Fiction adventure where YOU are the hero! |
Traveler, by Caelyn Sandel Emily Boegheim's rating: Average member rating: (8 ratings) Your awakening is slow and feels strange. You must have slept for a long time. As you float fitfully toward consciousness, you find yourself wondering if there is a word to describe the way one forgets a... |
A Trick-or-Treat Adventure, by Adelynn Snyder Average member rating: (7 ratings) |
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... |
Ugly Oafs, by Andrew Schultz as Perry Creel Average member rating: (6 ratings) Push back the Wrath Pulse--or find the Fry Gun to destroy it for good! A wordplay game with several ways to lose deliberately. Source code included. |
ULTRA BUSINESS TYCOON III, by Porpentine Emily Boegheim's rating: Average member rating: (61 ratings) I’ve finally finished porting and cracking an old edutainment game from the 90′s. Please enjoy. |
Unauthorized Termination, by Richard Otter Average member rating: (16 ratings) NB: Do not play with the ADRIFT 5 Runner as the game will appear to work but can't be completed. Play online or use the Adrift 4 interpreter instead as this is an Adrift 4 game. You are a senior investigator... |
the uncle who works for nintendo, by michael lutz Emily Boegheim's rating: Average member rating: (110 ratings) You are 11 years old. You are sleeping over at your best friend's house. You and your friend like videogames. Your friend has a lot of cool games. And, believe it or not, an uncle who works for Nintendo. And... |
Unform, by S. Elize Morgan Average member rating: (9 ratings) Welcome to your life, Prisoner 11012. You will survive the scenarios, and do them properly, or you will face Judgement. Your choice, Prisoner. Your life, or your death. It won't hurt a bit. |
Urban Conflict, by Sam Gordon Average member rating: (7 ratings) An entry in the 2007 One Room Game Competition. Your character is a soldier who was dragged into a bombed-out building by an armed NPC after sustaining a serious injury in a bomb blast. |
Úrquel, the black dragon, by David T. Marchand Emily Boegheim's rating: Average member rating: (9 ratings) A short hypertext adventure story about a dragon kidnapping a princess and a hero trying to rescue her. But it's also a joke about how silly the typical "you" character is in most IFs. And a commentary on... |
Vague, by Richard Otter Emily Boegheim's rating: Average member rating: (3 ratings) With amnesia it is quite possible to have a complete or partial loss of memory, but this isn't like that. It is not that you can't remember who you are or anything about your life, you have no thoughts... |
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... |
Venus Meets Venus, by kaleidofish Average member rating: (26 ratings) Two women meet in a bar. This is not a love story. (Mature content warning.) |
Violet, by Jeremy Freese Average member rating: (389 ratings) Calm down. All you have to do is write a thousand words and everything will be fine. And you have all day, except it's already noon. [blurb from IF Comp 2008] |
Voices, by Aris Katsaris Average member rating: (26 ratings) |
The Voodoo You Do, by Marshal Tenner Winter Average member rating: (17 ratings) You've found the crossroads where you were told you would finally meet Papa Legba himself; the intermediary between this world and the next. |
Walker & Silhouette, by C.E.J. Pacian Emily Boegheim's rating: Average member rating: (53 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 War of the Willows, by Adam Bredenberg Average member rating: (9 ratings) Did you see the clean air of the hilltops? Wind waves tumbled down through the trees, tore the drift of lavender smoke... Did you see then, in the cinder that glowed in the pewter cup, did you see how Death... |
The War On New Year's, by Sam Kabo Ashwell Average member rating: (3 ratings) |
The Warbler's Nest, by Jason McIntosh Average member rating: (92 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... |
We Are Unfinished, by Ade McT Average member rating: (10 ratings) The last of the day's light is fading. And, without light, how can he see? A very short piece of Interactive Fiction for the TinyUtopia jam. |
We Know the Devil, by Aevee Bee and Mia Schwartz Emily Boegheim's rating: Average member rating: (17 ratings) Anyone can kill the devil; that's why they always make teens the vampire slayers, the magical girls. But some kids can't even get that right; and that's why meangirl Neptune, tomboy Jupiter, and shy shy... |
Wearing the Claw, by Paul O'Brian Emily Boegheim's rating: 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... |
Weird City Interloper, by C.E.J. Pacian Average member rating: (58 ratings) An interactive tale of strange conspiracy. Pull up your hood, lower your gaze and enter the city of Zendon. If you can gather enough information, you may just be able to change the course of history. (Weird... |
What Fuwa Bansaku Found, by Chandler Groover Average member rating: (31 ratings) A samurai explores a haunted shrine. |
What's in a Name?, by Gaming Pixie Average member rating: (7 ratings) An interactive story about my early experiences coming out as bisexual. It may not be what you'd expect. |
When in Rome 1: Accounting for Taste, by Emily Short Average member rating: (28 ratings) Manhattan, May, 1954. |
When in Rome 2: Far from Home, by Emily Short Average member rating: (15 ratings) Manhattan, 1954. |
Whom The Telling Changed, by Aaron A. Reed Emily Boegheim's rating: Average member rating: (64 ratings) The people had always gathered on moonless nights to hear the stories, since the time of their ancestors' ancestors. The heat of the fire and the glow in the storyteller's eyes made the past present, and the... |
A Wind Blown From Paradise, by N.C. Hunter Hayden Average member rating: (13 ratings) If we live in the past, we aren't living in the present, and may as well be ghosts. |
Winter Storm Draco, by Ryan Veeder Average member rating: (26 ratings) A chronicle of the events of the winter storm of the same name. |
Witch's Girl, by Geoff Moore Emily Boegheim's rating: Average member rating: (19 ratings) |
Witches & Wardrobes, by anna anthropy Average member rating: (10 ratings) Witch outfit to wear? Time to get up! You've got business to attend in the world of humans. What are you possibly going to wear? |
With Those We Love Alive, by Porpentine and Brenda Neotenomie Average member rating: (117 ratings) no dreams written by porpentine scored by brenda neotenomie |
The World Model is Really Problematic, by Spankminister Average member rating: (6 ratings) A short game about making a game. Made for Twiny Jam. |
Wrenlaw, by Ryan Veeder Average member rating: (24 ratings) It would be nice to know what you're looking for. |
The Writer Will Do Something, by Matthew Burns, Tom Bissell Average member rating: (25 ratings) The year is 2012. You are the head writer for the third game in the wildly popular ShatterGate™ franchise. Expectations are through the roof: fans of the series are waiting for the biggest, most bad-ass... |
The Yawhg, by Damian Sommer and Emily Carroll Emily Boegheim's rating: Average member rating: (4 ratings) The Yawhg will be here in six weeks... and no one expects it. Not a one of us. We just keep on living our lives, week by week, unaware... The Yawhg is a one- to four-player choose-your-own-adventure game... |
Yesterday, You Saved the World, by Astrid Dalmady Average member rating: (17 ratings) Today you are only Lucy Newman, eighth grader, C student, nobody. But yesterday, you were cosmic. Yesterday, you were a magical girl. Yesterday, you saved the world. |
You Are Not the Author, by Soda51 Average member rating: (5 ratings) Dadaist Haiku Generator |
You Will Select a Decision, by Brendan Patrick Hennessy Average member rating: (80 ratings) A pair of knock-off choose your own adventure books from Soviet-era Kyrgyzstan. |
You've Got a Stew Going!, by Ryan Veeder Average member rating: (37 ratings) Your friend has invited you over for stew. He has not bothered to procure most of the ingredients. |
ZombieDating.zom, by Mike Snyder Average member rating: (10 ratings) |