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> 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...

According to Cain, by Jim Nelson
Average member rating: (41 ratings)

Two brothers. One murder. And a mystery as old as mankind. ...

Acht, by Wiebke Scholz
Average member rating: (1 rating)

Plot You have been turned into a spider. Find out what has happened - and survive! Description "Acht" is a text-based exploration game set in the 1980s. It is a home-crawler adventure where you control 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: (121 ratings)

The Queen has told you to return with her heart in a box. Snow White has made you promise to make other arrangements. Now that you're alone in the forest, it's hard to know which of the two women to trust....

All Alone, by Ian Finley
Average member rating: (70 ratings)

Alone, by Paul Michael Winters
Average member rating: (30 ratings)

Just you and your car, alone on the open road. You haven't seen another car for weeks. You haven't spoken to another person in months. And if you want to stay alive, you'd better keep it that way.

American Outlaws: The Dillinger Gang, by Will11
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

It is 1933 and America is in its fourth year of Depression. There is widespread anger at the banks and at the forces of justice. Against this backdrop the charismatic and carefree John Dillinger has emerged...
American Outlaws: The Wild Bunch, by Will11
Average member rating: (4 ratings)
They were dueling Doolin-Dalton / High or low it was the same / Easy money and faithless women / Red eye whiskey for the pain. Go down Bill Dalton, it must be God's will / Two brothers lying dead in...

Amnesia, by Thomas M. Disch and Kevin Bentley
Average member rating: (12 ratings)

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...

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: ★ ★ ★

Andromeda Apocalypse — Extended Edition, by Marco Innocenti
Average member rating: (29 ratings)

Floating in space on a strange vessel, sole survivor of a world... and maybe of the entire human race, Ektor Mastiff must find a way through the cosmos, on a voyage that can change the history of mankind...

Andromeda Awakening - The Final Cut, by Marco Innocenti
Average member rating: (42 ratings)

The most important discovery in history. And then, the whole world goes crumbling down. Armed with but a computer and an expired railway ticket, how can one expect to save the day when the doomsday clock has...

The Archivist and the Revolution, by Autumn Chen
Average member rating: (35 ratings)

The world is ending, and you are still paying rent....

The Arkham Abomination, by catventure
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

"THE ARKHAM ABOMINATION" (aka: "The Vileness Under The Henge") An interactive 'Lovecraftian' horror fanfic story. Author: catventure ©2021. A free, short, offline, downloadable, parser-based text adventure...

Aurora, by katz
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

It doesn't take you long after awakening to realize that your intersidereal mission has not reached its destination. Stranded in deep space and with the rest of the crew still asleep in cryo, you must...

The Baker of Shireton, by Hanon Ondricek
Average member rating: (20 ratings)

You are the Baker of Shireton. The bread you bake is delicious. Raiders are coming.

Ballyhoo, by Jeff O'Neill
Average member rating: (44 ratings)

Spangleland! Sawdust and glitter, buffoons and cotton candy! It's a place where your wildest dreams come true! At least, that's what you think... until you get behind the scenes at the big top. Then you...

Barcarolle in Yellow, by Víctor Ojuel
Average member rating: (12 ratings)

Barcarolle in Yellow (1975, released in Italy as "Barcarolla in Giallo"), starring Eva Chantry. ...

Batman 66, by Alan Azeredo
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

With the Dynamic Duo nowhere to be found and super-criminals running amok, it’s up to you, citizen, to be Batman for a day and serve justice to those unscrupulous fiends. Explore key locations in Gotham...

Bellclap, by Tommy Herbert
Average member rating: (26 ratings)

Beyond the Tesseract, by David Lo
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

The Black Lily, by Hannes Schueller
Average member rating: (20 ratings)

If you think you are being watched while playing this game, keep telling yourself that it's all in your mind.

Brain Guzzlers from Beyond!, by Steph Cherrywell
Average member rating: (72 ratings)

You are Bonnie Noodleman, Ordinary Well-Adjusted Teen-Ager, on an ordinary well-adjusted drive up Make-Out Mountain--until some gooey monstrosity from beyond the stars guzzles your boyfriend's brains clean...

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...

Captain Cutter's Treasure, by Garry Francis
Average member rating: (9 ratings)

You wake up in the broom closet of The Red Anchor with a nasty bump on the back of your head. A note is pinned to the wall with a knife. It says, 'Return me treasure by sunset or the girl gets it. - Cutter'....

Castaway, by Conrad Knopf
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

You are shipwrecked in the Pacific. Slowly you drift through the fog until you find a deserted island. There you find countless treasures, but they are worthless if you cannot return to civilization. Will...
A Change in the Weather, by Andrew Plotkin
Average member rating: (69 ratings)
"Walking away from a picnic, you are suddenly caught in a country storm. You must protect a bridge from being destroyed. An ultra-linear game." [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue]

Cheeseshop, by David Welbourn
Average member rating: (24 ratings)

An interactive re-creation of Monty Python’s Cheeseshop sketch, where you try to buy some cheese.

Christminster, by Gareth Rees
Average member rating: (88 ratings)

"When your brother Malcolm sends you a telegram inviting you to visit him at Biblioll College in the ancient university town of Christminster, you imagine that the mysterious `discovery' he alludes to is...

Chronicon Apocalyptica, by Robert Davis
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

Battle Norse raiders, ghosts, and changelings to save medieval England! But beware, if the elves can capture the Book you hold, the world will end. "Chronicon Apocalyptica" is a 250,000-word interactive...

City of Secrets, by Emily Short
Average member rating: (103 ratings)

A Colder Light, by Jon Ingold
Average member rating: (18 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...

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...

Counterfeit Monkey, by Emily Short
Average member rating: (239 ratings)

Anglophone Atlantis has been an independent nation since an April day in 1822, when a well-aimed shot from their depluralizing cannon reduced the British colonizing fleet to one ship. Since then, Atlantis...

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 Johnson

Average member rating: (24 ratings)

A tribute to Anchorhead.

A Crimson Spring, by Robb Sherwin
Average member rating: (10 ratings)

"Red Cloud meant more to me than anyone else on the planet. Sometime between one and three in the morning, on March 26th, 2015, she was brutally slain. Nobody knows why. I am going to find out if it means...

Cutthroats, by Michael Berlyn, Jerry Wolper
Average member rating: (22 ratings)

You're about to get yourself into very deep trouble. You're a backwater island's top diver and foremost expert on local shipwrecks. Which makes you perfect for the job a band of the island's shadiest...

D'ARKUN, by Michael Baltes
Average member rating: (13 ratings)

Long forgotten proceedings have changed the coastal area north of Altenkirchen forever. Now, almost a century later, the proceedings have begun again. You're about to discover the sinister secrets of this...

Danny Dipstick, by Garry Francis
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

You need to find a girlfriend, but all the girls think you're a dork. Try to overcome your dorkiness to pick up a girl.

Deadline, by Marc Blank
Average member rating: (58 ratings)

Twelve hours to solve the mystery. One false move, and the killer strikes again. It's been called "part of the latest craze in home computing (TIME magazine), an "amazing feat of programming" (THE NEW YORK...

Deformuseum, by Sophie Fruehling, Ralf Herrmann, Florian Kalenda (aka Florian Edlbauer), Max Kalus, Christof Menear, Martin Oehm, Christoph Winkler, Christian Bluemke

Deformuseum was a joint venture project. Eight authors contributed to an interactive exhibition of paintings, coded in Inform 6 using the German deform library, written by Martin Oehm (which had just been...

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...

Die Geschichte des Herrn P., by Hannes Schueller
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One morning, when P. woke from peaceful dreams, he found himself in his bed – still his old self. Part of the German language Textpäckchen project. English version: The Story of Mr. P..

Die schwarze Lilie, by Hannes Schüller

If you think you are being watched while playing this game, keep telling yourself that it's all in your mind. German Version of "The Black Lily".

Digit, by Joey Acrimonious
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

On a sweltering-hot summer evening, two friends walk and talk. And then some. Released for Spring Thing 2022, where it appeared with the author's comment: "For adults only. Digit is an interactive erotic...

Djibouti Dirigible Discombobulation, by Sam Kabo Ashwell
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

Dorm: Adventure at the 8-Bit Assembly , by Carrington Vanston
Average member rating: (1 rating)

PLOT You’ve heard about the 8-Bit Assembly for ages: a retro Apple II computer convention where attendees stay in a university dorm along with fellow vintage computer nerds. You’ve been looking forward to it...

Dr Horror's House of Terror, by Ade McT
Average member rating: (19 ratings)

The Grave cannot hold them...Nothing human can stop them...Torn from their tombs to terrify the world, the cravings of their undead blood made them kill...kill...KILL! Feel the chill of the crypt in your...

Dr. Death's House of Horrors, by John Olsen
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

You stand in a medieval jail cell, watching the stone walls close together to crush you. If you can escape, you must still find the keys to freedom hidden somewhere in the wax museum known as Dr. Death's...

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...

Earth And Sky 3: Luminous Horizon, by Paul O'Brian
Average member rating: (41 ratings)

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...

Ether, by MathBrush
Average member rating: (32 ratings)

"For the first time in centuries, something is different. Your tentacles tingle as you float to the east past icebergs and whirlwinds. You skirt a pocket of hot air, bounce through a field of ice, and...

The Faeries Of Haelstowne, by Christopher Merriner
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

“Hailstone," announced the Chief. “Round Ashton way. A little job for you, Arthur - their vicar's gone missing. They're a funny lot over in those parts. Superstitious. Someone's hiding something; don't let...

Fail-Safe, by Jon Ingold
Average member rating: (112 ratings)

Fallen London, by Failbetter Games
Average member rating: (57 ratings)

Poet or Assassin? Lover or Spy? Choose your fate in Fallen London, a gothic metropolis a mile beneath the surface of the earth. An epic adventure where you live a sometimes horrific, often curious, but...

Fan Interference, by Andrew Schultz
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

The 2003 Cubs are on the brink of the World Series. It's game 6, and they're even going to take a late 3-0 lead in the clinching game. They won't keep it. Unless you, who just got kicked off the bus near...

Figaro, by Victor Gijsbers
Average member rating: (14 ratings)

A short example game created to accompany the essay "Co-Authorship and Community". It gives the player a kind of freedom that is not seen in any other interactive fiction: the freedom to determine what the...

Finish your Foe!, by Oliver Frank
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

The afternoon sun burns hot even with the wind rushing through your hair. Catching a quick glance of your reflection in your sword, you quickly return your attention to the important matter at hand - your...

Four-In-One Sampler I, by Various
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The Four-In-One sampler contains introductory portions of Infidel, Planetfall, and Zork I, together with a session transcript from The Witness, and a scene found in no other Infocom game: Marc Blank's...

Four-In-One Sampler II, by Various
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This second Four-In-One sampler updated the first, reflecting the dramatic expansion in Infocom's output between 1984 and 1987. It contains introductory portions of Zork I, Leather Goddesses of Phobos, and...

Frankenstein's Legacy, by John Olsen
Average member rating: (1 rating)

In this horror game, you play as Victor Frankenstein's last living relative. He's invited you to the family estate so you can assist him in bringing his newest creature to life.

Galatea, by Emily Short
Average member rating: (335 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 Game Formerly Known as Hidden Nazi Mode, by Victor Gijsbers
Average member rating: (28 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...

Glowgrass, by Nate Cull
Average member rating: (99 ratings)

You play as a xenohistorian on an expedition. You've been dropped (more literally than you planned) by a dropship over the ground of the Ancients. Your equipment was scattered and the dropship crashed. Now...

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...

Gris et Jaune, by Jason Devlin
Average member rating: (25 ratings)

She wanted answers. He wanted a cure. You just wanted to live.

Gruds in Space, by Joseph A. Dudar and Chuck Sommerville
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

There I was, like, cool to the max, man, crusing in my totally awesome Space-Commuter. I was turned on to some tunes when a blast came in over the computer/wet bar. Like wow! It was direct from President...

Gruesome, by Robin Johnson
Average member rating: (11 ratings)

As a grue, it's your duty to keep the underground kingdom safe from vandalism by sorcerers, swordspeople, and other ugly monsters who keep invading the dungeon in hopes of stealing a sackful of your friends'...

Gun Mute, by C.E.J. Pacian
Average member rating: (153 ratings)

Step into the shoes of Mute Lawton, a lone cowboy who must stop an execution set to occur at noon by shooting his way past dangerous cyborgs and mutants in a post-apocalyptic western setting. (From the...

Guttersnipe: St. Hesper's Asylum for the Criminally Mischievous, by Bitter Karella
Average member rating: (9 ratings)

The year is 1929. You are Lil' Ragamuffin, the roughest toughest urchin in all of Garbagetown DC and the surrounding wastes of Montgomery County, but somehow the constabulary has managed to capture you and...

Hibernated 1 (Director's Cut), by Stefan Vogt
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

Have you ever dreamed about a journey far beyond the known regions of the universe? Close to Alpha Centauri, Olivia Lund is on the trail of one of mankind's greatest secrets and a thousand-year-old mystery....

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......

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)...

The Impossible Stairs, by Mathbrush
Average member rating: (26 ratings)

Getting ready for a party can take a lot of time. Help CJ navigate a text adventure of temporal trials. Merciful puzzlefest. Parser or point-and-click, as you please. Authorized sequel to The Impossible...

In Her Own Hands, by SurpriseDelight

I could never have imagined the life that I have now. I live each day with no regrets, but that wasn’t always the case. I was always the "good girl" who did everything perfectly. I colored inside the lines...

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...

Jäger der heiligen Steine - Ein Abenteuer in Raum und Zeit, by Heiko Spies
Average member rating: (1 rating)

This is the German version of the game. You can find the game in English and the related files here: Raiders of the Holy Stones "Jäger" ist eine klassisches Text Adventure. In einer Hommage an die...

A Killer Headache, by Mike Ciul
Average member rating: (21 ratings)

The apocalypse is over. The human race lost. You're hungry. And you have a hell of a headache. Discretionary warning: This game is violent, scatological, and eschatological.

Klub Karisma, by Christian Bluemke
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

You are the most dashing dog groomer in town and your girlfriend's just dumped you for a male stripper from the Hamburg Reeperbahn. So stop whining and go get her back, for the night has only just begun...

Knack!, by Christian Bluemke
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Knack! Eine kurze interaktive Abkühlung This game is a short example for timed events written in ZETA, a Z-Code compiler for German games written by Martin Oehm (2005). ZETA has never been officially...

LAKE Adventure, by B.J. Best
Average member rating: (23 ratings)

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Leadlight, by Wade Clarke
Average member rating: (34 ratings)

15-year-old Belinda Nettle is studying at Linville Girls High School in Australia's Blue Mountains. After falling asleep in the library one afternoon, she wakes from her mundane existence into a nightmare...

Leather Goddesses of Phobos, by Steve Meretzky
Average member rating: (70 ratings)

And now... the next exciting episode of humanoids in space! How did you, a regular at Joe's Bar in Upper Sandusky, Ohio, end up on a Martian moon? Can you prevent the hideous space creature from abducting...

Life On Mars?, by Hugo Labrande
Average member rating: (18 ratings)

The first mission to colonize Mars ended with a horrible shuttle crash, and it's a miracle you're still alive... Now you just have to wait until the second shuttle gets here. Five more months...

Lost Pig, by Admiral Jota
Average member rating: (492 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

The Lurking Horror II: The Lurkening, by Ryan Veeder
Average member rating: (27 ratings)

An unauthorized sequel to the Infocom classic, written for the 2018 MIT Mystery Hunt.

Lydia's Heart, by Jim Aikin
Average member rating: (32 ratings)

"Lydia's Heart" is a large, complex game with a serious tone and seven or eight NPCs you can converse with. The genre is low-key horror: There's almost no actual blood, but there are several ways to die in a...

The Magpie Takes the Train, by Mathbrush
Average member rating: (40 ratings)

A millionaire guards a fabulous ruby in her private train car. Countless thieves have failed to steal it. But they weren't the Magpie!

Make It Good, by Jon Ingold
Average member rating: (84 ratings)

The call comes through. Of all the dicks; you get the call, sitting in the front seat of your car, hands shaking on the steering wheel. An urgent call; but all you were thinking of was the bottle in the...

The Martian Job, by M. Darusha Wehm
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

Rob the first Martian casino and find out who really rules the planet! Crack a safe, break some hearts, start a revolution, or get rich beyond the stars! The Martian Job is a 155,000-word interactive novel...

Max Blaster and Doris de Lightning Against the Parrot Creatures of Venus, by Dan Shiovitz and Emily Short
Average member rating: (15 ratings)

Someplace on Venus a secret weapon is being built that threatens Earth with total destruction. You and your comrade must penetrate the Xavian base and save the world -- before it's too late!

Mean Mother Trucker, by Bitter Karella
Average member rating: (15 ratings)

Big Ester is a mean mother trucker about to take her big rig down The Devil’s Taint, the most treacherous stretch of mountain road on the whole trucking circuit... but first she’s got to win the heart of the...

Midnight. Swordfight., by Chandler Groover
Average member rating: (79 ratings)

A fool receives a challenge from a countess. Violence. Sex. Profanity. Sausage.

Mini-Zork, by Dave Lebling, Marc Blank
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

This story file is a condensed version of Zork I, Infocom's most popular title, reduced to make it viable for the cassette-based Commodore 64. The only Infocom story file ever to be intended to run from...

Mirror and Queen, by Chandler Groover
Average member rating: (31 ratings)

Your mirror never lies. A puzzleless reflection. Fifteen to forty minutes.

Moonmist, by Stu Galley, Jim Lawrence
Average member rating: (48 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...

Mutiny on the Bounty, by Will11
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

In 1787 the HMS Bounty left England with a crew of 46 men to sail to Tahiti, pick up breadfruit trees, transport them to colonies in Jamaica and return to England. This seemingly innocent voyage would result...
Night of the Walking Dead, by John Olsen
Average member rating: (3 ratings)
You are in an old rundown cemetery at the edge of a Louisiana bayou, looking for the grave of your Aunt Bedilia. Can you bring back her locket? Or will you be thwarted by the secrets of the dead?

The Northnorth Passage., by Caleb Wilson (as Snowball Ice)
Average member rating: (25 ratings)

Oh no, the old family curse has flared up! This is a short story about limits to action.

PataNoir, by Simon Christiansen
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.

PataNoir - Ein unvergleichlicher Kriminalfall, by Simon Christiansen ; Marius Müller (translator)

Die Tochter des Barons ist verschwunden, und du bist der richtige Mann, um sie zu finden. Kein Problem. Dank deines schier unerschöpflichen Vorrates an hartgesottenen Vergleichen gibt es nichts, was dich...

Philosopher's Quest, by Peter D. Killworth and Jonathan Mestel
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

Originally written on Cambridge University's "Phoenix" IBM mainframe computer as "BrandX". When released by Acornsoft for the BBC B microcomputer, it was renamed to "Philosopher's Quest".

Pirate's Plunder!, by Tiberius Thingamus
Average member rating: (12 ratings)

In this game, it be yer goal to findeth ye olde, cursed treasure on Loot Island and taketh it fer yer own. Not even that evil Captain Hookhead can stoppeth ye once ye put ye mind to it. Know why? If ye...

Piratenabenteuer (Pirate Adventure), by Scott Adams, Alexis Adams, Christian Bluemke

This is a German translation and rewrite of the classic Pirate Adventure by Scott and Alexis Adams (by courtesy of Scott Adams).

Pirateship, by Robin Johnson
Average member rating: (15 ratings)

Who doesn't love pirates? Who, that is, apart from the British, the Spanish, the French, the Dutch, innkeepers, crocodiles, flying children, other pirates, merchant seamen with valuable cargoes of gold and...

Planetfall, by Steve Meretzky
Average member rating: (121 ratings)

"Join the Patrol, and see the Galaxy!" You took the poster's advice, bait and all, and marched right over to the recruitment station near your home on the backwater planet of Gallium. Images of exotic...

The Problems Compound, by Andrew Schultz
Average member rating: (11 ratings)

Wherein you, Alec Smart, turn what's-thats into that's-whats.

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....

Renegade Brainwave, by J. J. Guest
Average member rating: (12 ratings)

"Beware! Beware! Take care! For you are about take part in an interactive story that will reveal the terrifying truth behind the mysterious Soviet space programme! Revelations of incredible horrors that will...

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...

Schießbefehl, by Marius Müller
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

A short work of Interactive Fiction. You are a young woman, trying to cross the German-German border. (3rd Place in the Textfire Grand Prix 2011.) (Updated in November 2013).

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...

Seastalker, by Stu Galley, Jim Lawrence
Average member rating: (28 ratings)

There's something down there in the ocean, something terrifying. And you have to face it - because only you can save the Aquadome, the world's first undersea research station. The alarm sounds and your...

Shades of Gray, by Mark Baker, Steve Bauman, Belisana, Mike Laskey, Judith Pintar, Cindy Yans, and Hercules
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

You wake painfully, from a fitful sleep, to find yourself surrounded by three shadowy figures… After a horrible dizzying moment, the shapes come into focus — vampires, they are vampires, and they are...

The Shadow in the Cathedral, by Ian Finley and Jon Ingold
Average member rating: (31 ratings)

When the monks took me, aged six months, into their care, they named me Wren. Maybe because I was small, insignificant, and happy to eat any crumbs they threw my way. But these days I'm Wren, 2nd Assistant...

Skies Above, by Arthur DiBianca
Average member rating: (20 ratings)

Play minigames to get your airship flying, tour the skies, and see what mischief is going on up there. Champion of the Skies: Sarah Adams

Skybreak!, by William Dooling
Average member rating: (17 ratings)

Skybreak! is a science-fantasy role-playing game of galactic proportions: explore distant stars, plunder alien ruins, hunt space pirates, collect beetles, slay gods, make out with sorcerers, and punch cosmic...

Slouching Towards Bedlam, by Star Foster and Daniel Ravipinto
Average member rating: (215 ratings)

In the beginning was the Word, and it was hungry. ...

The Space Under the Window, by Andrew Plotkin
Average member rating: (98 ratings)

A new, experimental game that has no puzzles but uses only words that change your focus on things, thereby adapting the story. [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue]

Spacestation, by David Ledgard
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

Based on the example transcript that came with Infocom's Stationfall, with extensions and improvements, of course. [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue]

Sphinx Adventure, by Paul Fellows
Average member rating: (1 rating)

Spider and Web, by Andrew Plotkin
Average member rating: (310 ratings)

A vacation in our lovely country! See the ethnic charms of the countryside, the historic grandeur of the capital city. Taste our traditional cuisine; smell the flowers of the Old Tree. And all without...

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...

Starcross, by Dave Lebling
Average member rating: (50 ratings)

Starcross, Infocom's science fiction mind-bender, launches you headlong into the year 2186 and the depths of space. And not without good reason, for you are destined to rendezvous with a gargantuan starship...

Starrider, by Maximilian Kalus
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

Stationfall, by Steve Meretzky
Average member rating: (46 ratings)

What a trotting krip! Since your incredible heroics in Planetfall, where you risked life and limb to save the planet Resida, things have hardly changed at all. Sure, you were promoted to Lieutenant First...

Staub, by IkeC

A Western by IkeC

The Story of Mr. P, by Hannes Schueller
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

One morning, when P. woke from peaceful dreams, he found himself in his bed – still his old self. A translation of Die Geschichte des Herrn P. from German to English.

Suspect, by Dave Lebling
Average member rating: (23 ratings)

You're guilty until proven innocent. You have walked into a hotbed of deceit and trickery. And now they're accusing you of something you couldn't have done. But they have proof that you did it. "You're a...

Suveh Nux, by David Fisher
Average member rating: (225 ratings)

An entry in the 2007 One Room Game Competition. You play a magician's servant who gets trapped in your master's vault; you'll need to learn some of his tricks if you want to get out.

Taco Fiction, by Ryan Veeder
Average member rating: (115 ratings)

Taco Fiction is a game about crime.

Taghairm, by Chandler Groover
Average member rating: (26 ratings)

"Perhaps the most horrible of all recorded magical spells." Cruelty. Violence. Sounds. Headphones recommended.

Tethered, by Linus Åkesson
Average member rating: (31 ratings)

"I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly, dreaming I am a man."...

The Time Machine, by Bill Maya
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

This eponymous game is a sequel to "The Time Machine," H.G. Wells' Victorian science fiction novella. Can you solve the mystery of your friend’s delusions or will you be confined to the asylum with him?

Trail Stash, by Andrew Schultz
Average member rating: (11 ratings)

A surreal, small treasure hunt with bumpers. Lots of them.

The Train To Abaddon, by Marshal Tenner Winter
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

A very short steampunk adventure! Try to unlock all 7 achievements!

Treffen am Nebelgrat, by David Görzig
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

German IF Grand Prix 2014 entry.

Uncle Mortimer's Secret, by Jim MacBrayne
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

Under the Sea, by Heike Borchers
Average member rating: (16 ratings)

Deep under the sea lies the wreck of the sunken galleon Santa Tortosa. On your quest to find its treasure, you will discover uncharted places, learn new skills, and make scaly friends. But will the honorable...

Universal Hologram, by Kit Riemer
Average member rating: (17 ratings)

Dreams are nothing but organic simulations. In a computer-generated universe, the citizens of a far-future Martian colony begin projecting their consciousnesses out of their bodies using astral projection...

The Vambrace of Destiny, by Arthur DiBianca
Average member rating: (19 ratings)

A light dungeon crawl. Tap spell gems to defeat monsters! In this game, all your commands are single keystrokes. You don't even have to press the enter key.

Violet, by Jeremy Freese
Average member rating: (383 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]

Walker & Silhouette, by C.E.J. Pacian
Average member rating: (51 ratings)

Team up with a dashing detective and an iconoclastic flapper to solve absurd and unfathomable crimes in this interactive story - where you control the action just by typing or clicking highlighted words in...

The Weight of a Soul, by Chin Kee Yong
Average member rating: (24 ratings)

In a world of arcane mysteries, a young doctor's apprentice unravels a conspiracy most grim. The Weight of a Soul is a mystery-horror interactive novel inspired by IF classics like Blue Lacuna and...

Whoah Cubs Woe, by Andrew Schultz
Average member rating: (1 rating)

EctoComp petite mort entry. No baseball knowledge necessary.

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...

World, by J. D. McDonald
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

On a scientific mission, your starship found that its long-range scanners could not penetrate the atmosphere of an unknown planet due to a shimmering forcefield. A landing party was sent down to investigate,...

You Are Standing, by Aaron A. Reed
Average member rating: (13 ratings)

A bonus text game created specifically for the Ultimate Collector's Edition of 50 Years of Text Games; initially, available exclusively to backers on 3.5" floppy disc and/or as a download. The game was...

Zeppelin Adventure, by Robin Johnson
Average member rating: (12 ratings)

Piloting a tea-zeppelin on Mars is a lonely job, but this run is nearly over and then you're due for a holiday. That's unless you get sucked into a puzzly adventure involving pterodactyls, robots,...

Zork, by Tim Anderson, Marc Blank, Bruce Daniels, and Dave Lebling
Average member rating: (32 ratings)

Also known as Dungeon. The original mainframe game that was later split and adapted into the Zork trilogy for microcomputers.

Zork Zero, by Steve Meretzky
Average member rating: (59 ratings)

The Great Underground Empire is in its heyday. Upscale condos crowd the massive caverns. Subterranean highways stretch from Aragain to the Fublio Valley. And no adventurer has yet set foot in the open field...

Zork: The Undiscovered Underground, by Marc Blank, Michael Berlyn, and G. Kevin Wilson
Average member rating: (31 ratings)

Grubald the Bold, Matchlick the Mighty, Linklaw the Lucky; all of the great Heroes are busy, laid up, contracted or dead. So it is you who gets to explore a never before seen part of the Great Underground...

Zorkian Stories 1: G.U.E., by Marshal Tenner Winter
Average member rating: (15 ratings)

Finally making it to the Eastlands, you find a shaft leading to the depths of the Great Underground Empire where, supposedly, lost treasures that have been forgotten for centuries are waiting to be found...


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