♥Magical Makeover♥, by S. Woodson Average member rating: "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... |
16 Ways to Kill a Vampire at McDonalds, by Abigail Corfman Average member rating: You're a vampire hunter on your night off. You're getting a manicure, seeing a movie, and eating fast food. But there's a vampire in this McDonalds. If you don't do something, then in one hour it will eat... |
80 DAYS, by inkle, Meg Jayanth Average member rating: 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: 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... |
According to Cain, by Jim Nelson Average member rating: Two brothers. One murder. And a mystery as old as mankind. You are a medieval investigator sent back in time to learn the secrets behind mankind's first murder. Using a novel alchemy system, observation, and... |
An Admirer, by Amanda Walker Drew Cook's rating: Average member rating: Drew Cook's time: 30 minutes Something loves you. |
Anchorhead, by Michael Gentry Average member rating: 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: 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: ★ ★ ★ |
Augmented Fourth, by Brian Uri! Average member rating: WANTED: Amateur musicians to serve the Royal Court. Must provide own instrument and be inured to copious constructive criticism. Impress your friends! Meet the King! Apply in person at the Castle, located on... |
Babel, by Ian Finley Average member rating: 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... |
Ballyhoo, by Jeff O'Neill Average member rating: 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... |
The Bat, by Chandler Groover Average member rating: Master Bryce is throwing a party. As his most faithful servant, that means it's your job to make the party run smoothly. But you only have two hands—and far too many duties. You'll have to manage requests... |
A Beauty Cold and Austere, by Mike Spivey Average member rating: 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.... |
Bee, by Emily Short Average member rating: 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... |
Birdland, by Brendan Patrick Hennessy Average member rating: Fourteen-year-old Bridget's summer camp experience takes a turn for the bizarre when her otherworldly bird dreams start bleeding into reality. |
Blood and Sunlight, by alyshkalia Drew Cook's rating: Average member rating: Drew Cook's time: 30 minutes It’s New Year’s Eve, and you’re not alone. Play as vampire Zach dating human grad student Lyle, who has a request for you tonight—stay over... and face the sunlight tomorrow. -A follow-up to two... |
Blue Lacuna, by Aaron A. Reed Average member rating: 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... |
Bogeyman, by Elizabeth Smyth Average member rating: You can go home when you learn to be good. |
Brain Guzzlers from Beyond!, by Steph Cherrywell Average member rating: 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... |
Bronze, by Emily Short Average member rating: 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. |
Cactus Blue Motel, by Astrid Dalmady Average member rating: Somewhere between New Mexico and Arizona, three friends were driving through a barren desert of red rocks, and wide empty skies. It was the end of summer, the end of high school, the end of so many things.... |
Canvas Keepsakes, by C.T. O'Mahony Drew Cook's rating: Average member rating: You're an artist with a secret: you can enter your own paintings and even bring things back — little keepsakes, mostly. But when a mysterious buyer commissions a painting of a demon, you find yourself... |
Chlorophyll, by Steph Cherrywell Average member rating: |
Choice of Robots, by Kevin Gold Average member rating: 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... |
City of Secrets, by Emily Short Average member rating: A train journey abruptly cut off. An enforced stay in a strange City. Intrigue, madmen, and growing sense of being watched... |
Coloratura, by Lynnea Glasser Average member rating: 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. |
Computerfriend, by Kit Riemer Drew Cook's rating: Average member rating: Drew Cook's time: 1 hour and 15 minutes 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. |
Contaminated Space, by Kanderwund Average member rating: Drew Cook's time: 30 minutes To venture into the exclusion zone is to drop off the face of the universe. A short story about alien parasites. |
Counterfeit Monkey, by Emily Short Average member rating: 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... |
Curses, by Graham Nelson Average member rating: "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... |
Deadline, by Marc Blank Average member rating: 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... |
Deadline Enchanter, by Alan DeNiro Average member rating: |
The Den, by Ben Jackson Average member rating: Vee and Aiden have spent their entire lives in a place they call ‘The Den’. Father looks after them and protects them from the outside world. They have never thought about leaving – until something... |
Die Another Day, by Emery Joyce Drew Cook's rating: Average member rating: Drew Cook's time: 20 minutes (And another... and another...) You are having a small problem. |
Disco Elysium - The Final Cut, by ZA/UM Average member rating: Disco Elysium is a groundbreaking role playing game. You’re a detective with a unique skill system at your disposal and a whole city to carve your path across. Interrogate unforgettable characters, crack... |
Dr Ludwig and the Devil, by SV Linwood Average member rating: Join esteemed mad scientist Dr Ludwig as he faces the greatest challenge of his nefarious career: making a deal with the Devil and coming out on top. Research demonology! Read legal documents! Face off... |
Eat Me, by Chandler Groover Average member rating: In this castle, you'll eat or be eaten. May contain dairy, carnage, puzzles, nuts. |
Endless, Nameless, by Adam Cadre Average member rating: 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... |
Eric the Unready, by Bob Bates Average member rating: A tongue-in-cheek graphic text adventure/point and click adventure hybrid. You are a chivalrous knight attempting to save a princess; your quest takes you through a mad-cap Douglas Adams-style world. |
Erstwhile, by Aster (formerly Maddie) Fialla, Marijke Perry Average member rating: 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... |
Foo Foo, by Buster Hudson Average member rating: 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. |
Ghost Hunt, by Dee Cooke Average member rating: Drew Cook's time: 15 minutes Nearly time for the Hallowe'en party... but you need to get rid of some uninvited guests! |
The Gostak, by Carl Muckenhoupt Average member rating: "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... |
Gun Mute, by C.E.J. Pacian Average member rating: 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 Average member rating: Marooned in an alien, airless wasteland -- your starship fractured -- your crewmates missing. Can an apprentice alchemist learn how to survive? |
Harmonia, by Liza Daly Average member rating: Fuller, A. (b. 1966, d.?) 12 chapters, edited by E. Merchant. 091 Manuscripts—096 Illustrated—098 Prohibited works, forgeries, and hoaxes Signed permission from the Dean required for viewing. No... |
The Impossible Bottle, by Linus Åkesson Average member rating: 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)... |
Junior Arithmancer, by Mike Spivey Average member rating: A one-to-many-room puzzler. |
The King of Shreds and Patches, by Jimmy Maher Average member rating: January 14th Dear friend. My sojourn in parts foreign is at an ende. I am at lodgings in Southwark not far from the bridge at Stoney Street, come dine with me two days hence to ring in the newe year. I have... |
Known Unknowns, by Brendan Patrick Hennessy Average member rating: 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... |
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Lazarrien: A Love Story, by DemonApologist Drew Cook's rating: Average member rating: Drew Cook's time: 20 minutes Interactive fiction for Single Choice Jam 2024. Navigate through a cursed realm, uncovering strange connections between the sinister characters you encounter. Content Warnings: Body horror imagery.... |
A Long Way to the Nearest Star, by SV Linwood Average member rating: A thief on the run from the galactic police finds refuge on an abandoned spaceship. A lonely ship AI finds unexpected company. Explore the ship, solve puzzles, uncover mysteries, and befriend an AI who... |
Lost Pig, by Admiral Jota Average member rating: 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. Now Grunk need find pig. -- IFComp 2007 blurb |
The Lurking Horror, by Dave Lebling Average member rating: A winter night at the G.U.E. tech campus with most students away on vacation serves as the backdrop for this tale of Lovecraftian horror. |
Make It Good, by Jon Ingold Average member rating: 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... |
Midnight. Swordfight., by Chandler Groover Average member rating: A fool receives a challenge from a countess. Violence. Sex. Profanity. Sausage. |
New Year's Eve, 2019, by Autumn Chen Drew Cook's rating: Average member rating: Social gatherings are not your preferred activity. But this one is obligatory, and it threatens to ruin you. You are Karen Zhao, a senior in college who is home for winter break, and seeing your old high... |
No More, by alyshkalia Drew Cook's rating: Average member rating: Drew Cook's time: 30 minutes Your father's had enough of your insolence... and you've had enough of his abuse. A short, interactive horror story. Play the traditional way by typing commands to progress, or enable story mode and simply... |
Open Sorcery, by Abigail Corfman Average member rating: 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: 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... |
Orbital Decay, by Kayvan Sarikhani Average member rating: An astronaut’s life is wondrous; sometimes, space has other ideas. |
Pharos Fidelis, by DemonApologist Drew Cook's rating: Average member rating: Drew Cook's time: 2 hours A romantic island getaway. CW: graphic violence, sexually suggestive content, toxic academia, denial of agency, hunger, death. |
Photopia, by Adam Cadre Average member rating: "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." |
Restore, Reflect, Retry, by Natalia Theodoridou Drew Cook's rating: Average member rating: This is a haunted game about a haunted game. You've played this game before. You may not remember, but the game does. |
Roar, by Hatless Average member rating: Drew Cook's time: 25 minutes When I was young, I daydreamed about grand battles between humans and wild animals. It never felt strange that I was always on the side of the animals. (Speed-IF made in 4 hours for Ectocomp 2024.) |
Savoir-Faire, by Emily Short Average member rating: 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... |
Seastalker, by Stu Galley, Jim Lawrence Average member rating: 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... |
Slouching Towards Bedlam, by Star C. Foster and Daniel Ravipinto Average member rating: In the beginning was the Word, and it was hungry. Enter a steampunk adventure set in a London that might have been. The year is 1885. Bedlam Hospital still stands in Moorsfield, a decaying shell used to... |
Smart Theory, by AKheon Average member rating: A strange, new thought system has been spreading like wildfire through schools and institutions - it has even taken over the university that you go to. What could this all mean? Perhaps we'll discover the... |
Spider and Web, by Andrew Plotkin Average member rating: 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... |
SPILL YOUR GUT, by Coral Nulla Drew Cook's rating: Average member rating: Drew Cook's time: 40 minutes MAKE IT AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN AND Whatever happened to GUT? First they were gonna be the next big obscure indie band. Then they made a horror movie. There was talk of a sequel, but there... |
SPY INTRIGUE, by furkle Average member rating: 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... |
Star Crystal Warriors Go!, by Holly McMasters, Brian Rushton Drew Cook's rating: Average member rating: Drew Cook's time: 5 hours Star Crystal Warriors Go! is an interactive magical girl anime novel by Holly McMasters, with additional content by Brian Rushton. It’s entirely text-based, 250,000 words and hundreds of choices, without... |
Starcross, by Dave Lebling Average member rating: 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... |
Superluminal Vagrant Twin, by C.E.J. Pacian Average member rating: 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.) |
Suspended, by Michael Berlyn Average member rating: They said you would sleep for half a millennium - not an unreasonable length of time, considering you'd be in limited cryogenic suspension. Your body would rest at the planet's nerve center, an underground... |
Suveh Nux, by David Fisher Average member rating: 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. |
To Hell in a Hamper, by J. J. Guest Average member rating: 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... |
Toby's Nose, by Chandler Groover Average member rating: A murder most foul has been committed and Sherlock Holmes is on the case. You are his dog. |
Treasures of a Slaver's Kingdom, by S. John Ross Average member rating: In the cruel kingdoms north of the Viraxian Empire, a barbarian seeks treasure - and vengeance! Having escaped the clutches of the Slaver King, he has vowed to pillage the wealth of the kingdom ... then... |
Trinity, by Brian Moriarty Average member rating: You're neither an adventurer nor a professional thrill-seeker. You're simply an American tourist in London, enjoying a relaxing stroll through the famous Kensington Gardens. When World War III starts and the... |
Truck Quest, by Donald Conrad and Peter M.J. Gross Drew Cook's rating: Average member rating: You only need one low-budget truck (and one high-interest loan) to start your own delivery service. It’ll be an adventure, hauling military-grade narcotics to the megachurches of Bean Station and driving... |
Turandot, by Victor Gijsbers Average member rating: An operatic performance. A tale of atonement. A dating sim with a crocodile pit. Content warnings: sex; sexism and other gender issues; suicide; torture; homophobia; xenophobia. |
Type Help, by William Rous Average member rating: A puzzle-mystery game inspired by Return of the Obra Dinn, Her Story, Unheard and The Roottrees are Dead. Investigate the files on an old computer that once belonged to a mysterious outside agent. The files... |
Untitled Relationship Project, by Sophia de Augustine, Charm Cochran, Drew Cook, Matt Devins, Piergiorgio d’Errico, Max Fog, Hanon Ondricek, Hidnook, Joey Jones, Kastel, Manonamora, Mathbrush, Mike Russo, Tabitha Average member rating: Drew Cook's time: 10 minutes This is a short game about bits and pieces of relationships, written by a group of authors. |
Violet, by Jeremy Freese Average member rating: 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] |
The Wand, by Arthur DiBianca Average member rating: Explore the wizard Bartholloco's castle with the help of a versatile magic wand. Can you overcome his challenge? Can you levitate a rock? Can you slice a baltavakia? (Puzzle-oriented and family friendly.) |
Weird City Interloper, by C.E.J. Pacian Average member rating: 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 Heart Heard Of, Ghost Guessed, by Amanda Walker Average member rating: Margaret, are you grieving Over Goldengrove unleaving… Come home to Goldengrove, a beautiful old house haunted by a lost soul. Uncover the secrets of your tormented past in a tale of unrequited love,... |
What remains of me, by Jovial Ron Average member rating: Sometimes we all dream about old places we visited or places we lived. While dreams can take from the calmest to most hapazhard scenarios, sometimes they help us gather our thoughts that the conscious mind... |
Will Not Let Me Go, by Stephen Granade Average member rating: Dallas, Texas. 1996. Fred Strickland has Alzheimer's. |
With Those We Love Alive, by Porpentine and Brenda Neotenomie Average member rating: no dreams written by porpentine scored by brenda neotenomie |
The Witness, by Stu Galley Average member rating: 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... |
Worlds Apart, by Suzanne Britton Average member rating: 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... |
YARRY, by Zachary Dillon Average member rating: Drew Cook's time: 20 minutes Your two-year-old has just learned your name. …only it's not your name. |
You Will Select a Decision, by Brendan Patrick Hennessy Average member rating: A pair of knock-off choose your own adventure books from Soviet-era Kyrgyzstan. |
Your Little Haunting, by Christina Nordlander Average member rating: Drew Cook's time: 30 minutes Trying to find your way through a dark, deserted house. Made for La Petite Mort in ECTOCOMP '24. |
Zork I, by Marc Blank and Dave Lebling Average member rating: Many strange tales have been told of the fabulous treasure, exotic creatures, and diabolical puzzles in the Great Underground Empire. As an aspiring adventurer, you will undoubtedly want to locate these... |
Zork II, by Dave Lebling, Marc Blank Average member rating: The Wizard appears, floating nonchalantly in the air beside you. He grins sideways at you. The Wizard incants "Fantasize," but nothing happens. He shakes his wand. Nothing happens. With a slightly... |
Zork III, by Dave Lebling, Marc Blank Average member rating: An old, oddly youthful man turns toward you slowly. His long, silver hair dances about him as a fresh breeze blows. "You have reached the final test, my friend! You are proved clever and powerful, but this... |
Zozzled, by Steph Cherrywell Average member rating: 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... |