"So, About Last Night...", by Elissa Black Average member rating: (1 rating) Los Angeles, CA 1996 Okay, so it’s not the first time you’ve hooked up with a stranger at a party. And it’s certainly not the first time you’ve woken up feeling like death after a party. This is, however,... |
4x4 Archipelago, by Agnieszka Trzaska Average member rating: (25 ratings) Adventure waits for you in a procedurally generated Archipelago! Discover strange new lands. Make a fortune from trading. Swing a Really Big Sword at a dragon. Fight wild beasts – or turn them into your... |
AardVarK Versus the Hype, by Truthcraze Average member rating: (10 ratings) November, 1997, somewhere in the suburbs: Carpenter jeans. Mixtapes. Alt Rock. A mind-controlling vaguely-citrus soda. A beat-up 1989 Toyota Celica. A gas station that sells snacks. And the band whose name... |
And Then You Come to a House Not Unlike the Previous One, by B.J. Best Average member rating: (66 ratings) Title: Infinite Adventure Year: 1986 Genre: Adventure Summary: Wander through an apparently infinite number of spooky mansions, solving a basic puzzle in each one. ForgottenGames.com rating: ★ ★ ★ |
Anita's Goodbye, by IlDiavoloVesteRosa Average member rating: (5 ratings) A very short Parser game with weird mechanics rushed into makings and not at all expanded on, but something you can play and that I'm proud of! This was a rush! Was made in 4 days for a 30-day jam! The first... |
Bad Machine, by Dan Shiovitz Average member rating: (15 ratings) |
Banana Apocalypse and the Rocket Pants of Destiny, by Emily Short Average member rating: (16 ratings) |
Beat Witch, by Robert Patten Average member rating: (11 ratings) An interactive loneliness ... ... |
A Beauty Cold and Austere, by Mike Spivey Average member rating: (56 ratings) That survey course in conceptual mathematics seemed like a good idea at the start of the term - no graded homework, no midterm exams - just an oral final at the end. But now that final is tomorrow morning.... |
Bell Park, Youth Detective, by Brendan Patrick Hennessy Average member rating: (62 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. |
Bureaucracy, by Douglas Adams, The Staff of Infocom Average member rating: (48 ratings) IMPORTANT! Our records show that you do not have a license to operate this software. Normally, you would be required to complete a License Application Form and mail it (with proof of purchase) to our... |
Castle, Forest, Island, Sea, by Hide&Seek Average member rating: (18 ratings) 'Castle, Forest, Island, Sea' is a choose-your-own-adventure story that explores key questions in philosophy. Where will your chosen path lead you? From bickering birds to scary monsters, choose your quest... |
Charlie the Chimp, by Garry Francis Average member rating: (5 ratings) It's a beautiful day in the gorilla enclosure at Sydney's famous Taronga Park Zoo. There's only one problem. You're not a gorilla, you're a chimpanzee named Charlie. Some idiot zookeeper has mistaken you for... |
Chuk and the Arena, by Agnieszka Trzaska Average member rating: (23 ratings) Fight in the Grand Galactic Tournament to get back your planet's stolen moon! |
Codex Sadistica: A Heavy-Metal Minigame, by grave snail games Average member rating: (11 ratings) Your band has come to play at the greatest metal venue around: the Blood Furnace’s INFURNAL STAGE. There is only one problem: the act before you is—*shudder*—playing glam metal! And worse yet, they’ve gone... |
Color the Truth, by mathbrush Average member rating: (72 ratings) Rosalita Morales is dead, and you have to figure out who did it. The four people closest to her had the motive and the means: her partner, her secretary, her ex-husband, and her sister. Re-live their... |
Computerfriend, by Kit Riemer Average member rating: (21 ratings) The year is 1999. The place is Godfield, Louisiana: the tech capital of the world, where the sky bleeds acid and the mud boils in the bayou. It’s time for your state-mandated digital therapy. |
The Corn Identity, by Carl Muckenhoupt, Serhei Makarov, Tama Wise, J. Robinson Wheeler, A O Muniz, Admiral Jota, Andrew Schepler, Jacqueline A. Lott, Sam Kabo Ashwell, Dan Shiovitz, John Cater, Duchess, and Mark Musante Average member rating: (4 ratings) |
Craverly Heights, by Ryan Veeder Average member rating: (18 ratings) Take on the role of Doctor Langridge, whose patient, Janine, is very sick. |
Crown of Exile, by Ramona G Average member rating: (3 ratings) Description: When your village is razed to the ground, you're left fleeing with an exiled prince. You can trust no one but each other. Your father's dying wish was to protect the prince, but can you really... |
The Curse of the Scarab, by Nils Fagerburg Average member rating: (11 ratings) Archeology licenses are for suckers, not for Rhoda Tarcrew. But now the authorities are closing in and there's only time for one last dig before you have to flee the country. Better make it count. |
The Cursèd Pickle of Shireton, by Hanon Ondricek Average member rating: (11 ratings) Evil, sealed away for Aeons, has been released. |
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... |
DOL-OS, by manonamora Average member rating: (6 ratings) Year 3XXX, you discover an old computer, an antique, in some ruins. Surprisingly, it still powers up when you press its buttons. Wonder what you found within its files? ~ An 3XXX, vous trouvez un vieil... |
Dungeons & Distractions, by E. Joyce Average member rating: (6 ratings) Having recently been turned into a werewolf, you're trying to make some friends in the supernatural community, and you're doing it the only way you know how: through tabletop gaming. Funny coincidence,... |
The Eleusinian Miseries, by Mike Russo Average member rating: (26 ratings) Well, isn't this a lark! After solid years of going after old Alky to let you in on that Mysteries wheeze of his, at last tonight's the night. He's dragged you from Athens to Eleusis for the to-do, but no... |
Elftor and the Quest of the Screaming King, by Damon L. Wakes Average member rating: (8 ratings) You are Elftor, legendary hero! You’re quite accustomed to adoring peasants shouting your name, but now you’ve come across a town where everyone is shouting everything - and it’s getting a little annoying! |
Enlightenment, by Taro Ogawa Average member rating: (42 ratings) "The intrepid Adventurer has escaped the caverns. Nought remains to block a successful escape but this troll here. Hmmm. A one-room adventure. The author recommends this for people who grew up on Zork II and... |
Erstwhile, by Aster (formally Maddie) Fialla, Marijke Perry Average member rating: (63 ratings) The neighborhood Thanksgiving party was going pretty well until you keeled over and died. Now you're a ghost, and you're going to figure out who killed you. But you can't exactly interview people or search... |
Excalibur, by J. J. Guest, G. C. Baccaris, and Duncan Bowsman Average member rating: (22 ratings) The psychedelic science fantasy series Excalibur was wiped by the BBC. It lives on, in the memories of its fans. Author's Comment: "Welcome to the Excalibur Wiki. This fan-run encyclopaedia preserves the... |
Fail-Safe, by Jon Ingold Average member rating: (112 ratings) |
Fate of the Vanguard, by Jordan Jones Average member rating: (1 rating) A distress signal from Earth's first interstellar ship, the Vanguard, was received a short while ago. Further attempts at communication with the ship have been unsuccessful. You are being sent in with a... |
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... |
Fragments of the Past, by writingmysoul Fragments of the Past was inspired by a radio script I wrote as an undergraduate. Now, I've expanded on it and converted it to the IF form. This version is around 7000 words. You can choose the pronouns and... |
Good Grub!, by Damon L. Wakes Average member rating: (9 ratings) Good Grub! is a brief, comedic interactive narrative about insects as a sustainable food source. |
Goose, Egg, Badger, by Brian Rapp Average member rating: (21 ratings) |
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... |
Grandma Bethlinda's Remarkable Egg, by Arthur DiBianca Average member rating: (23 ratings) How do you break out of handcuffs when all you've got is an egg? |
Grimnoir, by ProP Average member rating: (28 ratings) It's his biggest selling point and it's a cold, hard fact: occult detective Jacob Morris has never lost a case, and he's been in this business a long time. Join him and his singularly skilled colleague... |
Guess the Verb!, by Leonard Richardson Average member rating: (28 ratings) "Now you too can GUESS THE VERB for fun and prizes! Read evocative and amusing room descriptions while manipulating interesting objects! Interact with the simulated motives and desires of quirky NPCs! No... |
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? |
Hollywood Hijinx, by Dave Anderson, Liz Cyr-Jones Average member rating: (32 ratings) Vampire Penguins. A Corpse Line. Meltdown on Elm Street. Who could forget these classic Hollywood movies produced by your uncle, Buddy Burbank? But his greatest masterpiece has yet to be experienced...... |
How Prince Quisborne the Feckless Shook His Title, by John Ziegler Average member rating: (14 ratings) A Fanciful Tale Both Whimsical and Earnest ... |
I Am Prey, by Joey Tanden Average member rating: (11 ratings) A horror-lite science fiction game of evasion. (Experimental game: Reading the included survival guide before playing is highly recommended.) Inspired by the casual and round-based designs of visual indie... |
Lady Thalia and the Rose of Rocroi, by E. Joyce and N. Cormier Average member rating: (6 ratings) Everyone who’s anyone summers in France - which means master thief Lady Thalia is there too, attending garden parties by day and stealing masterpieces by night. Unfortunately, this holiday is less than... |
Lock & Key, by Adam Cadre Average member rating: (77 ratings) |
A Long Way to the Nearest Star, by SV Linwood Average member rating: (44 ratings) A thief on the run from the galactic police finds refuge on an abandoned spaceship. A lonely ship AI finds unexpected company.... |
Lost Coastlines, by William Dooling Average member rating: (11 ratings) > SHARE all your stories... |
Lux, by Agnieszka Trzaska Average member rating: (20 ratings) You wander around in darkness – even though the lights are on. Sandra is the only one to survive a mysterious attack on a deep space mining station. She is alive, but has lost her vision. Now Sandra must... |
Midnight Snack, by I.F. Zerosix Average member rating: (1 rating) You awaken in the middle of the night craving a snack. The story can be won in as little as 30 moves, but one misstep along the way could result in a cascading comedy of errors and a night of insomnia. |
Midnight. Swordfight., by Chandler Groover Average member rating: (79 ratings) A fool receives a challenge from a countess. Violence. Sex. Profanity. Sausage. |
Miss No-Name, by Bellamy Briks Average member rating: (7 ratings) A really popular kid is trying to find out the name of the mysterious girl that sits in the front of the class. Your goal is to help him achieve this! Or risk his life trying |
Moon Goon, by Caleb Wilson Average member rating: (8 ratings) A skilled courier of Saturnine encounters a cruel predicament. Written for ECTOCOMP 2018. |
No One Else Is Doing This, by Lauren O'Donoghue Average member rating: (19 ratings) You are a community organiser. This is your job, four nights out of five; you sell people hope on their doorsteps.... |
Ocean's Call, by Jac Colvin The ocean calls… Will you answer? There are secrets to be found beneath the water’s glassy surface if you know where to look. But perhaps some things are best left hidden. |
One Does Not Simply Fry, by Stewart C Baker and James Beamon Average member rating: (10 ratings) One Ring of onion and flour, One Ring that's frying, One Ring to bring them all, and to the menu bind them... ... |
One Final Pitbull Song (at the End of the World), by Paige Morgan Average member rating: (10 ratings) "this is for you, a playlist for our adventures"... |
The Only Possible Prom Dress, by Jim Aikin Average member rating: (10 ratings) Ten years ago you had to burgle every store in Stufftown to get your hands on the sought-after doll called Sugar Toes Ballerina so your 7-year-old daughter Samantha wouldn't be heartbroken on Christmas... |
Open Sorcery, by Abigail Corfman Average member rating: (77 ratings) You are online. You are fire and order. You are here to protect. ---- "Open Sorcery" is a game about technology, magic and becoming a person. It follows the development of an Elemental Firewall--a creature... |
Oppositely Opal, by Buster Hudson Average member rating: (64 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... |
The Prairie House, by Chris Hay (a.k.a. Eldritch Renaissance Cake) Average member rating: (12 ratings) A student finishes their prairie field work but has to spend the night alone at an old house. Follow the story from dark evening to mysterious morning and get all the achievements to think up your best... |
PRETTYBOY Inc. is Hiring!, by HeartSyncProductions Average member rating: (1 rating) You just got out of college, money's tight, and you're willing to try anything. That's when you see PRETTY BOY Inc. has a job posting. A notorious company, known for hiring any guy with a decent face. It... |
Purpose, by Christopher M. Purpose Play as Sarah, a young woman struggling to survive and find purpose in a post-apocalyptic world. Her life is changed forever when she meets a little girl named Tiffany. Purpose is an episodic story... |
Redux, by Shawn Sijnstra Average member rating: (3 ratings) A text adventure exploration into rebuilding yourself. The game is an exploration into the mind of the protagonist, and has a highly unusual gameplay. |
robotsexpartymurder, by Hanon Ondricek Average member rating: (21 ratings) When suspects and witnesses are “property, not people,” how should those who seek the truth proceed? Date robots. Avert scandal. Bring protection. Content warning: Adult Situations, Language, and Humor,... |
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. |
Ryan Veeder's Authentic Fly Fishing, by Ryan Veeder Average member rating: (15 ratings) Relax at the Jewel Pond Recreation Area with Ryan Veeder as your guide. |
Scroll Thief, by Daniel M. Stelzer Average member rating: (16 ratings) Not a single spell! After two full years of study! Every Enchanter—every mortal with the power to change very nature of the universe with their words—has a spell book! Filled with words of power collected... |
a short walk in the spring, by Amorphous Average member rating: (6 ratings) A procedurally-generated Twine. It's spring, and the flowers have sprouted in all the cities you used to go. Visit them to honor your ghosts, or wander away somewhere. |
Sidewise, by C. Scott Davis Average member rating: (1 rating) You’re starting an exciting new job today… then everything goes sidewise. Now you’re trying to figure out where, and when, you are and how to get back home. Contains the game file, game manual, and quick... |
Signal Hill, by Crosshollow Average member rating: (4 ratings) A text-based RPG set in the post-apocalyptic utopia of Signal Hill. You came here with a caravan, set on starting a new life- but when you're ambushed outside the city, shot, your cargo stolen and your... |
Slouching Towards Bedlam, by Star Foster and Daniel Ravipinto Average member rating: (215 ratings) In the beginning was the Word, and it was hungry. ... |
Stay?, by E. Jade Lomax Average member rating: (22 ratings) STAY? CHOOSE YOUR OWN HAPPY ENDING Welcome to Elaia, a magical city nestled in a high valley. It's the end of your first year at university & time to choose your major. Find yourself among potential friends... |
STOP BURYING ME ALIVE, BEAUTIFUL!, by robobarbie, Destini Islands, Allie Vera, Angela He Average member rating: (2 ratings) You wake up to your girlfriend burying you alive, and she won't be convinced that you aren't dead. One of several problems, it turns out, as you find yourself dealing with rats trying to take a few early... |
Sugarlawn, by Mike Spivey Average member rating: (32 ratings) With a loud "click," the door closes behind you. Finally! You are locked inside an antebellum Southern mansion, alone, wearing only a chicken costume. You've fantasized about this moment for years. |
System Processing, by Albie Average member rating: (2 ratings) Content Warning: This story contains mature themes including depression, death, grief, and suicide. The Story "I appreciate a degree of nebulous uncertainty when it comes to my past: I was born. I lived. My... |
Tavern Crawler, by Josh Labelle Average member rating: (41 ratings) Most fantasy stories are about slaying the dragon. This one is about what happens after that. When you and your companions are approached by a man in a tavern who offers you more gold than you could spend in... |
A Thousand Thousand Slimy Things, by Charm Cochran Average member rating: (7 ratings) You awaken in a rowboat, in the middle of the ocean. Your food supply is low. Your drinking water is low. If you can wait 'til night, if you can see the stars, maybe you can navigate towards land. But... |
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... |
To Sea in a Sieve, by J. J. Guest Average member rating: (18 ratings) Peter Petibon, cabin boy, hath a problem. He be goin' down -- to Davy Jones' locker, by the powers! Lest he seize the booty o' the dread pyrate Booby, and heave it all o'erboard, he and the Cap'n both will... |
Trigaea, by Adam Ipsen (RynGM) Average member rating: (9 ratings) Could you survive an alien world? Change your genetics and wander the wasteland for answers, all the while aided by your AI companion. Trigaea is an epic 200,000-word piece of interactive fiction. It's a... |
Trouble in Sector 471, by Arthur DiBianca Average member rating: (30 ratings) The power just went out in Sector 471. You had better go take a look. |
Underwall: An Arcane Mystery, by Westley Kossuth You've been a Detective in the sleepy village of Underwall for years, but nothing you've seen has shaken the community quite like this. An explosion without a flame, a magical ritual gone awry , and a... |
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... |
WHOM I SHOULD LOVE ABOVE ALL THINGS, by Sophia de Augustine Average member rating: (6 ratings) A priest is confronted with the sudden return of his former lover. My God, I am sorry for my sins with all my heart, and I detest them. In choosing to do wrong and failing to do good, I have sinned against... |
Wishbringer, by Brian Moriarty Average member rating: (109 ratings) It's an ordinary day in your ordinary little town, and you've been performing your ordinary mail clerk's duties in an altogether ordinary way. But there's something quite extraordinary in today's mail. It's... |
The Witness, by Stu Galley Average member rating: (28 ratings) February 1938, Los Angeles. FDR's New Deal is finally rolling. Hitler's rolling, too; this time through Austria. But as Chief Detective for a quiet burgh on the outskirts of L.A., you've got other fish to... |
You are SpamZapper 3.1, by Leon Arnott Average member rating: (29 ratings) DISTINGUISH TRUTH AND SCAMS IN OVER 130 UNIQUE EMAILS • PROTECT THE INBOX FROM URBAN LEGENDS • EXCHANGE WITTY REPARTEE WITH YOUR PLUGIN COWORKERS • CROSS SWORDS WITH A DEADLY EMAIL WORM • LEARN WAY TOO MUCH... |
You Feel Like You've Read this in a Book, by Austin Lim Average member rating: (11 ratings) A time-sensitive mystery puzzle game with multiple endings. As you explore your surroundings, you get the feeling that your surroundings are vaguely familiar. |