Ad Verbum, by Nick Montfort 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... |
Adventure, by William Crowther and Donald Woods Average member rating: (99 ratings) |
Aisle, by Sam Barlow Average member rating: (326 ratings) "Late Thursday night. You've had a hard day and the last thing you need is this: shopping. Luckily, the place is pretty empty and you're progressing rapidly. On to the next aisle... Aisle started out as a... |
All Roads, by Jon Ingold Average member rating: (156 ratings) "Wave a circle round him thrice, And close your eyes with holy dread For he on honey-dew hath fed And drunk the milk of paradise." [--blurb from Competition Aught-One] |
Anchorhead, by Michael Gentry 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... |
Antifascista, by Greg Farough Average member rating: (11 ratings) A picture from life's other side. |
Arthur: The Quest for Excalibur, by Bob Bates Average member rating: (30 ratings) "Whoso pulleth out this sword of this stone, is rightwise king of England." In the days before Camelot, when magic and evil rule England, a sword sheathed in stone appears in a quiet churchyard. Engraved... |
The Ascot, by Duncan Bowsman Average member rating: (27 ratings) Anything might happen to you on the way to the convenience store. You might even run into a guy handing out cursed ascots that lead you to lost fortunes guarded by terrible monsters. Can you nab 100% of the... |
Being Andrew Plotkin, by J. Robinson Wheeler Average member rating: (58 ratings) "Zarf? you think to yourself. Could it be? The one and only Zarf? Xyzzy Award winner? IF Competition winner? The mighty Inscruitable One? Gosh. What it must be like to be Zarf... You begin to crawl forward,... |
Blue Lacuna, by Aaron A. Reed Average member rating: (114 ratings) You have always been different. One in a trillion have your gift, your curse: to move between worlds, never settling, always alone. To Wayfare. Yet there are others like you, and something stronger than... |
Border Zone, by Marc Blank Average member rating: (27 ratings) Where the Iron Curtain divides East and West, the frontier is a no man's land between freedom and captivity, a place where moments lost or precautions not taken exact a toll in men's lives. In Border Zone,... |
The Box, by Paul Michael Winters Average member rating: (8 ratings) You are a collector of rare antiquities, with a special passion for puzzle boxes. You've been searching for one particular box for a long time, but perhaps this box is better left unfound. |
Candlesmoke, by Caelyn Sandel and Carolyn VanEseltine Average member rating: (25 ratings) Entry in EctoComp 2014. |
The Cavity of Time, by Sam Kabo Ashwell Average member rating: (11 ratings) An Undum-fueled CYOA through a surrealistic landscape of intertextuality and logorrhoea, starring Stiffy Makane in his usual pornographic, antiheroic groove. |
The Cellar, by David Whyld Average member rating: (7 ratings) You were always told not to go into the cellar. Told many, many times. But you were never told why. Today you'll find out... |
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. |
Crow Quest, by rookerie Average member rating: (10 ratings) Eat, swear & try to take over the neighbourhood. |
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... |
A D R I F T, by Pinkunz Average member rating: (8 ratings) They always go on about the stars, stunning vistas spanning the heavens. But now you’re here, and you see nothing but the sun in a black void. You don’t know how to turn away, let alone get home, and all... |
Devil's Food, by Hanon Ondricek Average member rating: (12 ratings) A short story about cake, and the nature of Evil. |
Dual Transform, by Andrew Plotkin Average member rating: (110 ratings) This game takes place in a single room — but not always the same one. The room contains just one item, but again, there's more to it than that. Experiment and enjoy. |
Ecdysis, by Peter Nepstad Average member rating: (81 ratings) You wake, a pounding headache loud in your inner ear, the back of your head itching and tingling, your mouth full of cotton. The pain drives away your dreams, weird visions of alien landscapes... Ecdysis is... |
Eric the Unready, by Bob Bates 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. |
Everybody Dies, by Jim Munroe Average member rating: (107 ratings) It starts with a metalhead, Graham, realizing that throwing that shopping cart over the bridge was not the great idea he thought it was. Even if it did get him out of washroom duty at Cost Cutters.... |
Fail-Safe, by Jon Ingold Average member rating: (115 ratings) |
The Fall of Asemia, by B.J. Best Average member rating: (9 ratings) ⚔️ 💣 💥 💀 🏴 🏚️ 👪 ⛺ ✍️ |
fix it, by Lily Boughton Average member rating: (5 ratings) there are many things for you to do today but first, there is a slight issue |
Galatea, by Emily Short Average member rating: (346 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: (29 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... |
Ghost Town, by Finn Rosenløv Average member rating: (1 rating) The premise of Ghost Town is to fulfill the final wishes of your Great Grandfather and inherit his entire estate and visit the abandoned gold mining town of Battle Creek. It sounds like a simple task, until... |
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. |
Gorxungula's Curse, by Duncan Bowsman Average member rating: (2 ratings) Help us, Lophese. A misspoken word has birthed Gorxungula, who now terrorizes the absurd voids above our beloved faraway Rabbits. Make a proper sacrifice to Elder Moose, the Great Antlered One, and rid us of... |
The Gostak, by Carl Muckenhoupt Average member rating: (93 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... |
Gun Mute, by C.E.J. Pacian 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... |
Hinterlands: Marooned!, by Cody Gaisser Average member rating: (7 ratings) Following a series of mishaps, a recruit from the Consortium Of Known Occupied Worlds is marooned on a tiny island on an unfamiliar planet; but the recruit is not alone - there is a Q’udzlth here! |
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams and Steve Meretzky 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... |
Hoist Sail for the Heliopause and Home, by Andrew Plotkin Average member rating: (86 ratings) A far-future story of discovery. |
The Hole Man, by E.Z. Poschman Average member rating: (4 ratings) You’ve had your identity stolen — your WHOLE identity, body and all! But there’s a lot of friendly folks in this surreal world that might be willing to let you have their identity, if that’s what... |
Irvine Quik & the Search for the Fish of Traglea, by Duncan Bowsman Average member rating: (15 ratings) Science fiction adventure! Extinction looms for the fish, people, and entire planet of Traglea. Can one bumbling space cadet rescue enough alien fish before too late? Can he learn the secret of Traglean... |
It Is Pitch Black, by Caelyn Sandel Average member rating: (26 ratings) Trapped alone in a darkened antique store with a man-eating grue, can you keep a light going long enough to survive? (contains sound, but no jumpscares.) 2nd place, EctoComp 2014. |
The King of Shreds and Patches, by Jimmy Maher Average member rating: (81 ratings) 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... |
Lime Ergot, by Caleb Wilson (as Rust Blight) Average member rating: (85 ratings) Now everyone is gone. (Well, almost everyone.) Entry in ECTOCOMP 2014. |
LISEY, by Marco Innocenti Average member rating: (7 ratings) Love has no boundaries. Not even life itself. Entry in EctoComp 2014. |
Lost Pig, by Admiral Jota Average member rating: (500 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, by Dave Lebling 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. |
maybe make some change, by Aaron A. Reed Average member rating: (14 ratings) Inspired by the Maywand district killings in Afghanistan, 'maybe make some change' explores a frozen battlefield moment from six violently conflicting perspectives. |
Mentula Macanus: Apocolocyntosis, by One of the Bruces and Drunken Bastard Average member rating: (33 ratings) Stiffy Makane, or rather his ancestor Mentula Macanus, is here subjected to an increasingly-unlikely series of crudely sexual romps through the ancient world. It's sort of like the Satyricon, except not... |
A Mind Forever Voyaging, by Steve Meretzky Average member rating: (118 ratings) "If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not..." --Shakespeare It's 2031. The world is on the brink of chaos. In the United States of North America, spiraling... |
Monster Maker, by Adri ("Erin Gigglecreek") Average member rating: (8 ratings) A silly character creation toy. |
Ninja, by Paul Allen Panks Average member rating: (12 ratings) You are a lone ninja, protecting a shinto shrine of Japan. Your goal is to avoid capture by the Evil One, a deft ninja from a rival shrine. He is nearby, but you don't know exactly where. And it is dark... |
Pathway to Destruction, by Richard Otter Average member rating: (8 ratings) You have worked at the Institute of Transportation for nearly five years. As one of the engineering team in the Research and Development section, it is considered a highly respected position and is... |
The People's Glorious Revolutionary Text Adventure Game, by Taylor Vaughan 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... |
Photopia, by Adam Cadre Average member rating: (568 ratings) "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." |
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... |
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... |
Renegade Brainwave, by J. J. Guest Average member rating: (14 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... |
Rogue of the Multiverse, by C.E.J. Pacian 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... |
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... |
Shade, by Andrew Plotkin Average member rating: (421 ratings) "A one-room game set in your apartment." [--blurb from Competition Aught-Zero] |
Shrapnel, by Adam Cadre Average member rating: (170 ratings) |
Slouching Towards Bedlam, by Star Foster and Daniel Ravipinto Average member rating: (219 ratings) In the beginning was the Word, and it was hungry. ... |
The Space Under the Window, by Andrew Plotkin Average member rating: (100 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] |
Spider and Web, by Andrew Plotkin 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... |
Sweetpea, by Sophia de Augustine Average member rating: (14 ratings) Someone claiming to be your father is trying to break in. Following the eponymous Sweetpea is: a mosaic faced guardian angel, something wearing her father’s guise, and the detritus of life in their gently... |
Thy Dungeonman, by Videlectrix Average member rating: (9 ratings) |
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... |
Top Hat, by Duncan Bowsman You are an elf inside a magic hat. Your boss's magic show is going badly. Your boss reaches into the hat expectantly. What can you do to make sure the Boss puts on an awesome show? |
Treasures of a Slaver's Kingdom, by S. John Ross Average member rating: (48 ratings) 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: (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... |
Violet, by Jeremy Freese Average member rating: (389 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] |
The Voodoo You Do 2, by Marshal Tenner Winter Average member rating: (10 ratings) The casket opens and the pitch blackness is replaced with the sight of the moon; full in the night sky. Then, someone leans over, facing you and smiling a lunatic grin. He wears a dirty black top hat and... |
The Warbler's Nest, by Jason McIntosh Average member rating: (92 ratings) Surely the reed bank counts as a wild place. While it gives you so much, you've never tended it, not really, not like you do with your garden. It's something like the forest, then, but much safer to search... |
Wry, by Olaf Nowacki Average member rating: (14 ratings) A one and a half room slapstick miniature about subconscious erotic desires with three quite different endings. |
Yak Shaving for Kicks and Giggles!, by J. J. Guest Average member rating: (4 ratings) You are Steve Goodwin. You're a regular guy, young, successful, dynamic. But a nagging question gnaws at your soul, undermines your joy at your success and interferes with the very business of living. For... |
Yon Astounding Castle! of some sort, by Tiberius Thingamus Average member rating: (8 ratings) In this adventure, findeth ye olde treasures from within yon castle. Maketh friends as ye o'ercome meddlesome goblins! Outwitteth ye riddling gnome! Resizeth ye belts & belt-like things! Can ye getteth all... |
Zork I, by Marc Blank and Dave Lebling 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... |