80 DAYS, by inkle, Meg Jayanth Average member rating: (95 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,... |
Absence of Law, by mathbrush Average member rating: (47 ratings) Excuse me, can you help me? Yes, you, browsing IFDB games! I need your assistance, but I don't have long. There's so much going on: remote surveillance, unauthorized cloning, forgotten languages, robots... |
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... |
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... |
Advent Door, by Andrew Plotkin Average member rating: (16 ratings) Where’s that door? This game was written for a collaborative 2019 Advent Calendar project. The theme was "The City of Doors" from the Planescape roleplaying setting. That project was never completed, so I... |
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.... |
Anchorhead, by Michael Gentry Average member rating: (393 ratings) You take a deep breath of salty air as the first raindrops begin to spatter the pavement, and the swollen, slate-colored clouds that blanket the sky mutter ominous portents amongst themselves over the little... |
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... |
Being Andrew Plotkin, by J. Robinson Wheeler 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,... |
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:... |
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... |
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. |
City of Secrets, by Emily Short Average member rating: (103 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. |
Creatures Such As We, by Lynnea Glasser Average member rating: (91 ratings) A dating sim about how humanity connects through art, even out in the vastness of space. |
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... |
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... |
Delightful Wallpaper, by Andrew Plotkin ('Edgar O. Weyrd') Average member rating: (78 ratings) |
Detectiveland, by Robin Johnson Average member rating: (53 ratings) New Losago, 1929 - a town full of creeps, clowns, mobsters and, if you know where to look, the occasional honest citizen. Guide private investigator Lanson Rose through a series of puzzling cases: solve the... |
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... |
Dungeon Detective, by Wonaglot, Caitlin Mulvihill Average member rating: (17 ratings) You're a gnoll. Whether that's a blessing or a curse is up to you. Unlike other gnolls, you're trying to eke out a simple existence by plying your trade - that of the world's first Dungeon Detective. Amass... |
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... |
Earth and Sky 2: Another Earth, Another Sky, by Paul O'Brian Average member rating: (54 ratings) |
Earth And Sky 3: Luminous Horizon, by Paul O'Brian Average member rating: (41 ratings) |
Eat Me, by Chandler Groover Average member rating: (98 ratings) In this castle, you'll eat or be eaten. May contain dairy, carnage, puzzles, nuts. |
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... |
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... |
Glass, by Emily Short Average member rating: (106 ratings) The Prince sits awkwardly on the couch, holding his glass slipper and trying to keep it from crushing. Lucinda and Theodora have the ends of the same couch, and they are taking turns seeing who can bend... |
The Gostak, by Carl Muckenhoupt Average member rating: (89 ratings) "Finally, here you are. At the delcot of tondam, where doshes deave. But the doshery lutt is crenned with glauds. Glauds! How rorm it would be to pell back to the bewl and distunk them, distunk the whole... |
Hadean Lands, by Andrew Plotkin Average member rating: (67 ratings) Marooned in an alien, airless wasteland -- your starship fractured -- your crewmates missing. Can an apprentice alchemist learn how to survive? |
Hoist Sail for the Heliopause and Home, by Andrew Plotkin Average member rating: (84 ratings) A far-future story of discovery. |
Homecoming, by Carolyn VanEseltine Average member rating: (13 ratings) "Homecoming" is a short, twisted comedy about a newly awakened AI. |
howling dogs, by Porpentine Average member rating: (125 ratings) death cube sim | galactic survey | visionatrix | facet machine | power gardens | women | fascination two significant endings |
The Impossible Bottle, by Linus Åkesson Average member rating: (78 ratings) Housework is only as dull as your imagination. Join Emma, six years old, on a playful adventure of peculiar proportions. Merciful puzzlefest. Parser or point-and-click, as you please. Web (including mobile)... |
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... |
Invisible Parties, by Sam Kabo Ashwell (as Psychopup) Average member rating: (20 ratings) You are a walker of the ways between the worlds. It is not an arrangement conducive to straightforward relationships. The Three Rebeccas have created a tangle, a temporary artifice woven from parts of many... |
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... |
Lady Thalia and the Seraskier Sapphires, by E. Joyce and N. Cormier Average member rating: (20 ratings) Navigate fraught social situations by day and pull off heists by night as Lady Thalia, the not-actually-aristocratic thief bent on making a mockery of British high society. |
Lime Ergot, by Caleb Wilson (as Rust Blight) Average member rating: (82 ratings) Now everyone is gone. (Well, almost everyone.) Entry in ECTOCOMP 2014. |
Limerick Heist, by Pace Smith Average member rating: (25 ratings) Rule 1 is that no one gets iced. Rule 2: the loot's evenly sliced. There's only two rules. Now listen up, fools! We're pulling a... |
Lovely Assistant: Magical Girl, by Bitter Karella Average member rating: (16 ratings) A magician's assistant has two very important duties, to point at things and to look good in a form-fitting evening gown. But when Mugwort the Magician is kidnapped by his devious riddle-obsessed... |
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... |
Mammal, by Joey Jones Average member rating: (20 ratings) The lizards have taken over. You, a lowly human slave, are tasked with eradicating all mammalian traces from the Don Quixote Memorial Museum. (Written for the Apollo 18+20 tribute album project.) |
Marble Madness, by Emily Short Average member rating: (16 ratings) |
Midnight. Swordfight., by Chandler Groover Average member rating: (79 ratings) A fool receives a challenge from a countess. Violence. Sex. Profanity. Sausage. |
Milliseconds of Romance, by Joey Tanden Average member rating: (1 rating) A simple automaton learns to embrace new experiences, during the downfall of its own kind. |
Möbius, by J.D. Clemens Average member rating: (35 ratings) Another mission. Just when you had settled in for a nap. |
my father's long, long legs, by michael lutz Average member rating: (143 ratings) A weird tale. Some parts make use of sound, so this game is best played with headphones. One ending. |
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. |
Nautilisia, by Ryan Veeder Average member rating: (41 ratings) Your friend claims to be in a coma. |
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... |
Raiders of the Holy Stones, by Heiko Spies "Raiders" is a classic puzzle text adventure. In an homage to the Sci-Fi pop culture of the late 1970s, it is up to you to save the day. The game consists of a series of small adventures with a time machine.... |
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... |
Scents & Semiosis, by Sam Kabo Ashwell, Cat Manning, Caleb Wilson, Yoon Ha Lee Average member rating: (9 ratings) A perfumer keeps a private collection of scents, each tied to a memory. Decide what they mean. Scents & Semiosis makes heavy use of procedural generation to create strange perfumes, full lives, and potent... |
The Sea Eternal, by Lynnea Glasser Average member rating: (8 ratings) In the enchanted underwater City of Glass, what will you sacrifice for immortality? Love, memories, freedom? Will you take freedom from others to win your heart's desire? Dive into a world of mermaids,... |
Shade, by Andrew Plotkin Average member rating: (413 ratings) "A one-room game set in your apartment." [--blurb from Competition Aught-Zero] |
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... |
SPY INTRIGUE, by furkle Average member rating: (44 ratings) IT'S YOUR FIRST DAY AT SPY SCHOOL, AND YOU'RE READY TO COMMENCE A LIFE OF ESPIONAGE, TRADECRAFT, AND INTRIGUE. THE ONLY PROBLEM IS, EVERY HUMAN EMPLOYEE DIED OF MUMPS JUST THE OTHER DAY. CAN YOU AND THE SOLE... |
The Storm, by Stephane F. Average member rating: (6 ratings) At home, safe and warm. Everywhere : the night. Outside, the storm. « The Storm » is the english version of « La Tempête » released for the French comp 2018. Translation by Stéphane F. and Jack Welch. |
Terminator Chaser, by Bruno Dias Average member rating: (10 ratings) Cycle 87. Last work shift of the quarter. And you're left behind to tidy up so the rest of the crew has time to settle into the new site. Make sure Mining Site 43 won't be a half-melted wreck by the time the... |
Threediopolis, by Andrew Schultz Average member rating: (28 ratings) A wordplay/quasi-maze game. |
What the Bus?, by E. Joyce Average member rating: (20 ratings) Your commute is simple enough. Or at least, it should be. But today, the entire public transportation system seems to have it out for you--and is it just you, or does the geography keep... shifting? |
Wisher, Theurgist, Fatalist, by Xavid Average member rating: (11 ratings) From the ranks of the people you have been raised up as a Wisher— ... |
The Wizard Sniffer, by Buster Hudson Average member rating: (129 ratings) You were recently acquired by the brave Ser Leonhart and his squire to sniff out the evil shapeshifting wizard. Unfortunately, you are not a wizard sniffer (if such a thing even exists). As far as you can... |
Worlds Apart, by Suzanne Britton Average member rating: (90 ratings) For over 20 years, I dreamed about an alternate universe I called the Higher World. For three of those years, I poured almost all of my creative energy into a novel-length story set in that universe. Worlds... |
Worldsmith, by Ade McT Average member rating: (30 ratings) The Septem Tower has held steady in the Manifold, the space between time and the Real, for billenia. Populating the Tower are the Anemoi, a race of beings so far advanced that they hold the power of life and... |
Zozzled, by Steph Cherrywell Average member rating: (45 ratings) Hotsy-totsy! It's 1928 and you're madcap flapper Hazel Greene, tottering around the city's finest hotel with a gullet full of giggle juice...until a gaggle of ghosts shows up to spoil the fun by turning... |