69,105 Keys, by David Welbourn o0pyromancer0o's rating: Average member rating: (80 ratings) There's just one room. How hard can it be? Just unlock the door. Oh. There's 69,105 keys. |
9:05, by Adam Cadre o0pyromancer0o's rating: Average member rating: (544 ratings) The phone rings. Oh, no — how long have you been asleep? Sure, it was a tough night, but... This is bad. This is very bad. The phone rings. |
Ad Verbum, by Nick Montfort o0pyromancer0o's rating: Average member rating: (136 ratings) "With the cantankerous Wizard of Wordplay evicted from his mansion, the worthless plot can now be redeveloped. The city regulations declare, however, that the rip-down job can't proceed until all the items... |
Alabaster, by John Cater, Rob Dubbin, Eric Eve, Elizabeth Heller, Jayzee, Kazuki Mishima, Sarah Morayati, Mark Musante, Emily Short, Adam Thornton, Ziv Wities o0pyromancer0o's rating: Average member rating: (124 ratings) The Queen has told you to return with her heart in a box. Snow White has made you promise to make other arrangements. Now that you're alone in the forest, it's hard to know which of the two women to trust.... |
Anchorhead, by Michael Gentry o0pyromancer0o's rating: Average member rating: (409 ratings) You take a deep breath of salty air as the first raindrops begin to spatter the pavement, and the swollen, slate-colored clouds that blanket the sky mutter ominous portents amongst themselves over the little... |
Ballyhoo, by Jeff O'Neill o0pyromancer0o's rating: Average member rating: (45 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... |
A Bear's Night Out, by David Dyte o0pyromancer0o's rating: Average member rating: (69 ratings) "Tomorrow is the big Teddy Bear party, and you must definitely not let your owner forget about it..." [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue] |
Book and Volume, by Nick Montfort o0pyromancer0o's rating: Average member rating: (13 ratings) Your pager tickles you awake. Upstairs in the house of your childhood, in your room, and it must be time for school because -- no, it's the weekend, you remember, but your alarm is going off anyway. You... |
Cutthroats, by Michael Berlyn, Jerry Wolper o0pyromancer0o's rating: Average member rating: (23 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... |
The Dallas Quest, by James Garon, Louella Lee Caraway, Phyllis Wapner o0pyromancer0o's rating: Average member rating: (8 ratings) An adaptation of the TV series, handily employing implausible soap opera plot conventions as excuses for preposterous adventure game puzzles. |
A Day for Fresh Sushi, by Emily Short o0pyromancer0o's rating: Average member rating: (99 ratings) No time for fantasy. Must feed fish. |
Dead Like Ants, by C.E.J. Pacian o0pyromancer0o's rating: Average member rating: (60 ratings) You play as a young woman in red overalls, a red worker ant. Every spring, five dangerous creatures visit the tree and threaten the village, and every spring, the Queen sends one of her daughters to... |
Deadline, by Marc Blank o0pyromancer0o's rating: Average member rating: (60 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... |
Deadline Enchanter, by Alan DeNiro o0pyromancer0o's rating: Average member rating: (58 ratings) |
Demon's Forge, by Brian Fargo o0pyromancer0o's rating: Average member rating: (3 ratings) As a punishment for killing four guards in a tavern brawl, you are thrown into the dungeon network known as the Demon's Forge. From there it's a dungeon crawl to the exit and freedom. |
Demon's Tomb - The Awakening, by Simon Price o0pyromancer0o's rating: Average member rating: (3 ratings) 16-year-old Richard goes looking for his father who has failed to return from his archelogical research in an old tomb, only to get involved with demon worshippers and outer-dimensional gods with names like... |
Dinner Bell, by Jenni Polodna o0pyromancer0o's rating: Average member rating: (54 ratings) You are the involuntary and very hungry test subject of a semi-anthropomorphized dog in a labcoat who wants you to find all sixteen food items mentioned in They Might Be Giants' song Dinner Bell, which have... |
Eat Cow To Live, by Paper Asssassin o0pyromancer0o's rating: Average member rating: (2 ratings) TERMINATE AND EAT COW!!! ... |
The Elysium Enigma, by Eric Eve o0pyromancer0o's rating: Average member rating: (78 ratings) It was meant to be a routine visit on behalf of the imperial government, just to remind the settlers that the Empire hadn't forgotten them, and if you stick rigidly to the letter of your orders and refuse to... |
Enchanter, by Marc Blank, Dave Lebling o0pyromancer0o's rating: Average member rating: (110 ratings) In Enchanter, the first of a spellbinding series in the tradition of Zork, you are a novice magician whom Fate has chosen to do singlehanded combat with a dark and fierce power. But worldly weapons will... |
Eric the Unready, by Bob Bates o0pyromancer0o's rating: Average member rating: (42 ratings) 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. |
Escapade!, by Juhana Leinonen o0pyromancer0o's rating: Average member rating: (18 ratings) An entry in the 2008 One Room Game Competition. You play the bumbling sidekick of the heroic Captain McBrawn; while trying to carry out a task he's set you, you are captured by the Screaming Communists and... |
Ex Nihilo, by Juhana Leinonen o0pyromancer0o's rating: Average member rating: (33 ratings) In the beginning there was nothing. From nothing light and darkness were born. |
The Farmer's Daughter, by R. W. Fisher and D. W. J. Sarhan o0pyromancer0o's rating: Average member rating: (15 ratings) |
Fingertips: Everything Is Catching On Fire, by Emery Joyce o0pyromancer0o's rating: Average member rating: (13 ratings) This may be just one of the job hazards that you have to put up with in your line of work, but still, you're not really a big fan of apartments being set on fire. (Unless you're doing it, which is only when... |
Fish!, by John Molloy, Pete Kemp, Phil South, Rob Steggles o0pyromancer0o's rating: Average member rating: (18 ratings) One nibble and you're hooked. JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT IT WAS SAFE TO GET OUT OF THE WATER: The tide is turning in the teeming metropolis of Fishworld. The oceans and seas are boiling off into space. The Seven... |
For a Change, by Dan Schmidt o0pyromancer0o's rating: Average member rating: (117 ratings) "The sun has gone. It must be brought. You have a rock." [--blurb from Competition '99] |
Forbidden Quest, by Donnel Cox and William Pryor o0pyromancer0o's rating: Average member rating: (2 ratings) A forgotten piece of science fiction that uses a less common puzzle format: the story comes with large physical art prints and the reader must study the prints in order to figure solutions. |
Gremlins, by Brian Howarth and Teoman Irmak o0pyromancer0o's rating: Average member rating: (5 ratings) Kingston Falls is in danger of being over-run with Gremlins, Billy has been tricked by Gizmo's offsprings into feeding them after midnight. The Mogwai have already pupated and turned into the evil Gremlins,... |
The Guild of Thieves, by Rob Steggles o0pyromancer0o's rating: Average member rating: (26 ratings) Steal yourself a world of fantasy WHY BUY THIS GAME WHEN YOU CAN STEAL IT ? Except you can't. Not yet. An amateur like you? Come off it! Now, if you were a fully paid-up member of the notorious Guild of... |
Gun Mute, by C.E.J. Pacian o0pyromancer0o's rating: Average member rating: (156 ratings) Step into the shoes of Mute Lawton, a lone cowboy who must stop an execution set to occur at noon by shooting his way past dangerous cyborgs and mutants in a post-apocalyptic western setting. (From the... |
Hamlet -- The Text Adventure, by Robin Johnson o0pyromancer0o's rating: Average member rating: (18 ratings) Who really killed Hamlet's dad? Can the Prince ever 'get' Gertrude, or is that just wrong? What does Richard III want with a horse anyway? And where did the gravedigger get that gorgeous pink dress? Avenge... |
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams and Steve Meretzky o0pyromancer0o's rating: Average member rating: (188 ratings) Don't Panic! Relax, because everything you need to know about playing The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is contained in the pages of this manual. In this story, you will be Arthur Dent, a rather ordinary... |
Hoosegow, by Ben Collins-Sussman, Jack Welch o0pyromancer0o's rating: Average member rating: (40 ratings) Muddy's plan done landed you and your partner in the hoosegow. Now you're fixing to rectificate the matter before the marshal introduces you to the business end of a hangin' rope at dawn. Created for the... |
In the Woods, by Anna Anthropy o0pyromancer0o's rating: Average member rating: (8 ratings) |
Infidel, by Michael Berlyn o0pyromancer0o's rating: Average member rating: (62 ratings) Infidel finds you marooned by your followers in the heart of the deadly Egyptian Desert. A soldier of fortune by trade, you've come hither in search of a great lost pyramid and its untold riches. Now, alone,... |
Jetbike Gang, by C.E.J. Pacian o0pyromancer0o's rating: Average member rating: (23 ratings) You're a member of a jetbike gang. Tiny Twine game for the Twiny Jam. Exactly 300 words. |
Kaged, by Ian Finley o0pyromancer0o's rating: Average member rating: (54 ratings) ""But my madness speaks: It will but skin and film the ulcerous place, Whilst rank corruption, mining all within, Infects unseen." Welcome to the Citadel of Justice. The Inquisitor is waiting." [--blurb from... |
Kayleth, by Stefan Ufnowski o0pyromancer0o's rating: Average member rating: (1 rating) The Zyroneans were an advanced, pacifistic civilisation, until the arrival of KAYLETH and the ensuing destruction! Kayleth's craving for chromazin (a rare mineral), found in small quantities on Zyron) led... |
A Killer Headache, by Mike Ciul o0pyromancer0o's rating: 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. |
The Kuolema, by Ben Jackson o0pyromancer0o's rating: Average member rating: (24 ratings) This game has now been entirely 'remastered' in Twine. An abandoned ship is found adrift in the South China Sea. Its radio is silent and there's no sign of anyone on board. As a lone operative, you are... |
Leather Goddesses of Phobos, by Steve Meretzky o0pyromancer0o's rating: Average member rating: (72 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... |
A Long Way to the Nearest Star, by SV Linwood o0pyromancer0o's rating: Average member rating: (52 ratings) 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... |
Love, Hate and the Mysterious Ocean Tower, by C.E.J. Pacian o0pyromancer0o's rating: Average member rating: (43 ratings) |
LUNIUM, by Ben Jackson o0pyromancer0o's rating: Average member rating: (23 ratings) Can you escape your chains before the killer strikes again? You wake to find yourself trapped in a room filled with locks and strange contraptions. Someone has locked you in here and identifying them may... |
The Lurking Horror, by Dave Lebling o0pyromancer0o's rating: Average member rating: (94 ratings) 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. |
Marble Madness, by Emily Short o0pyromancer0o's rating: Average member rating: (16 ratings) |
Masters of the Universe - The Super Adventure, by Mike Woodroffe, Teoman Irmak, Stefan F. Ufnowski, Graham Lilley o0pyromancer0o's rating: Average member rating: (1 rating) Skeletor has developed an Earthquaker device, which uses hypnotic rays to control a horde of Rockbinders - gigantic boulder beasts capable of gnawing through solid rock. As the game starts, the beasts are... |
Narcolepsy, by Adam Cadre o0pyromancer0o's rating: Average member rating: (63 ratings) |
Nautilisia, by Ryan Veeder o0pyromancer0o's rating: Average member rating: (41 ratings) Your friend claims to be in a coma. |
Ooze - Creepy Nites, by Guido Henkel, Hans-Jürgen Brändle, Markus Henrich, Michael Tschögl, Jon Dean, Elaine Dean o0pyromancer0o's rating: Average member rating: (2 ratings) Ooze - an illustrated text adventure: Your uncle Chez Burger left you a house called Carfax Abbey, placed in a little town in the southeast of Salom's Lot. As Ham Burger you are heir to something evil and... |
Oppositely Opal, by Buster Hudson o0pyromancer0o's rating: Average member rating: (68 ratings) You've practiced long and hard for PotionComp, but Grusilda won't give up her title so easily. UGH! Curse that Grusilda! A one-room potion-brewing spell-casting parser puzzler, where things might go opposite... |
Party Foul, by Brooks Reeves o0pyromancer0o's rating: Average member rating: (34 ratings) You're cornered, trapped. There seems to be no escape. You aren't in a jail cell. No, you're in the cocktail party from hell and only by using your wits and luck are you going to get out of this suburb... |
The Pawn, by Rob Steggles, Peter Kemp, Hugh Steers, Ken Gordon, and Geoff Quilley o0pyromancer0o's rating: Average member rating: (29 ratings) The Pawn is an adventure game set in the magical world of Kerovnia during a period of tremendous social upheaval. Recently, King Erik, the present ruler of the land, has started to lose his hold on the... |
The People's Glorious Revolutionary Text Adventure Game, by Taylor Vaughan o0pyromancer0o's rating: Average member rating: (56 ratings) Sure, there's only five of you against a world full of reactionaries, but you have Revolutionary Spirit! You can't possibly fail. Nothing can stand in your way! Now if only you could find your Revolutionary... |
Police Bear, by Anna Anthropy o0pyromancer0o's rating: Average member rating: (9 ratings) Across America, scores of the disenfranchised and jobless have flocked to the streets in protest of unchecked corporate and capitalist greed, only to be met with strong police resistance. These are confusing... |
Questprobe Featuring The Hulk, by Scott Adams, John Romita Sr., Mark Gruenwald, and Kem NcNair o0pyromancer0o's rating: Average member rating: (8 ratings) Questprobe adventure number 1. Author Note: Originally the last of the 2 word (Verb/Noun) SAGA based games. Spiderman was next written using SAGA+, a mutli-word parser engine. The Hulk gets taken to a... |
Questprobe Featuring: Spider-Man, by Scott Adams and Al Milgrom o0pyromancer0o's rating: Average member rating: (4 ratings) Questprobe adventure number 2. Author's note: This was the first of the SAGA+ multi-word parser based games. It's the amazing Spider-Man's turn to be tested by the mysterious Chief Examiner. The offices of... |
Raising the Flag on Mount Yo Momma, by Juhana Leinonen o0pyromancer0o's rating: Average member rating: (22 ratings) Gus is a smug numbskull who doesn't deserve to have the insult battle championship. You are here to take the title from him with the best yo momma insults there are. You just have to find them first. Raising... |
Rebel Planet, by Stefan Ufnowski o0pyromancer0o's rating: Average member rating: (5 ratings) As the mighty alien Arcadian Empire tightens its hold on the galaxy, the leaders of the secret earth organisation SAROS gather their slender resources into one last daring and foolhardy mission to strike at... |
Rescue at Quickenheath, by Mo Farr o0pyromancer0o's rating: Average member rating: (12 ratings) Being the Most Recent Exploit of the Notorious Highway Robbers Aubrey & Valentine, featuring Grim Imprisonment, Fairy Intrigue, Romance, Adventure, Feathered Hats, etc. |
Rogue of the Multiverse, by C.E.J. Pacian o0pyromancer0o's rating: Average member rating: (75 ratings) Congratulations, convict 76954! You have been selected for scientific experimentation! You will be matter-transmitted to exotic non-Treaty worlds - where opportunities abound to take in fantastic sights and... |
Rover's Day Out, by Jack Welch and Ben Collins-Sussman Average member rating: (56 ratings) Three hundred years ago, the Brazilian Space Agency discovered a rocky exoplanet only 38 light years from Earth. With a surface temperature of 1200 Celsius and nine times Earth gravity, it's hardly the sort... |
Secret Mission, by Scott Adams o0pyromancer0o's rating: Average member rating: (17 ratings) In this exciting Adventure, time is of the essence as you race the clock to complete your mission in time -- or else the world's first automated nuclear reactor is doomed! If you survive this challenging... |
The Secret of St. Brides, by Priscilla Langridge o0pyromancer0o's rating: Average member rating: (1 rating) St. Brides is a real school. As a matter of fact, I'm sitting at a desk in St. Brides right now, writing this. But it isn't an ordinary school. Even though it exists today, it's just like a girls boarding... |
Seedship, by John Ayliff o0pyromancer0o's rating: Average member rating: (53 ratings) An AI ship full of frozen colonists must find the best planet to be the new home of the human race. |
Sex Cops of Tickle City, by Anna Anthropy o0pyromancer0o's rating: Average member rating: (8 ratings) "Tickling. Not the tee-hee, giggle giggle kind, the stake you down and work you over til you explode kind. Til you're so overstimulated, so hypersensitized that every touch makes your skin scream, and you're... |
Shade, by Andrew Plotkin o0pyromancer0o's rating: Average member rating: (421 ratings) "A one-room game set in your apartment." [--blurb from Competition Aught-Zero] |
Six, by Wade Clarke o0pyromancer0o's rating: Average member rating: (42 ratings) Your name is Harriet Leitner, and you and your twin sister Demi turned six this morning! You're having a fancy dress birthday party, and this afternoon you'll be playing Hide and Seek Tip over in the park.... |
Snack Time!, by Hardy the Bulldog and Renee Choba o0pyromancer0o's rating: Average member rating: (61 ratings) Can you help one hungry bulldog in his quest to find something good to eat? He would like that. A lot. [blurb from IF Comp 2008] |
Snowquest, by Eric Eve o0pyromancer0o's rating: Average member rating: (48 ratings) You've been on your quest so long you've almost forgotten what it is all about, but now you are nearing your destination -- if only you can stay alive long enough in this frozen wilderness to reach it. |
Someone's Watching, by DandyuBaby Mia just moved into a new house on the edges of the city. It's an old house, covered in climbing roses. A real romantic's house. But something feels...off. She feels someone watching you when she is going to... |
Spellbreaker, by Dave Lebling o0pyromancer0o's rating: Average member rating: (59 ratings) Spellbreaker, the riveting conclusion to the Enchanter trilogy, explores the mysterious underpinnings of the Zorkian universe. A world founded on sorcery suddenly finds its magic failing, and only you,... |
Spellcasting 101 - Sorcerers Get All The Girls, by Steve Meretzky o0pyromancer0o's rating: Average member rating: (25 ratings) From MobyGames: Spellcasting 101 is the first in a series of risque adventures from the mind of Steve Meretzky of Leather Goddesses of Phobos fame. This textual liaison pits you as Ernie Eaglebeak, a student... |
Spider and Web, by Andrew Plotkin o0pyromancer0o's rating: Average member rating: (318 ratings) A vacation in our lovely country! See the ethnic charms of the countryside, the historic grandeur of the capital city. Taste our traditional cuisine; smell the flowers of the Old Tree. And all without... |
The Surprising Case of Brian Timmons, by Marshal Tenner Winter o0pyromancer0o's rating: Average member rating: (24 ratings) You listen to the old broad on the other end of the phone as she finishes her plight. "Brian has gone insane. I've had to have him committed.", she tells you. You haven't seen Brian Timmons in several years... |
Suveh Nux, by David Fisher o0pyromancer0o's rating: Average member rating: (228 ratings) An entry in the 2007 One Room Game Competition. You play a magician's servant who gets trapped in your master's vault; you'll need to learn some of his tricks if you want to get out. |
Tass Times in Tonetown, by Michael Berlyn and Muffy Berlyn o0pyromancer0o's rating: Average member rating: (13 ratings) Tonetown! It's a totally radical dimension where the top tune is Tass by the Daglets, the top Gear is Troppo-Wear, and the UltraTouch haircut is a DieCut by Chaz. What are you doing there? Simple. Your... |
Terrormolinos, by Peter Jones, Trevor Lever, Mike Robinson, James Byrne, and Roger Taylor o0pyromancer0o's rating: Average member rating: (6 ratings) When chubby-cheeked Cliff Richard first sang "We're all going on a summer holiday" it's unlikely that he was referring to the Costa Brava resort of Terrormolinos, because Terrormolinos is the kind of place... |
Trinity, by Brian Moriarty o0pyromancer0o's rating: Average member rating: (104 ratings) 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... |
Valkyrie 17, by Tony Barber o0pyromancer0o's rating: Average member rating: (3 ratings) |
Voices, by Aris Katsaris o0pyromancer0o's rating: Average member rating: (26 ratings) |
Wishbringer, by Brian Moriarty o0pyromancer0o's rating: Average member rating: (111 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... |
Wolfman, by Rod Pike, Jared Derrett, HO o0pyromancer0o's rating: Average member rating: (2 ratings) |
Zork I, by Marc Blank and Dave Lebling o0pyromancer0o's rating: Average member rating: (222 ratings) 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 o0pyromancer0o's rating: Average member rating: (100 ratings) 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... |