Death By Monkey

Death By Monkey is the only fully original game made in the IAGE engine. The others are Alice Through the Looking Glass, Cloak of Darkness, and Ruins ported over from the Inform sample book, an incomplete port of Mini Zork, and an MST version of Pick Up the Phone Booth and Die. Curiously, this game also has multiplayer compatibility, apparently. IAGE lets you host a server that other people can join to play games with you, and there's even functionality to kick players who are disruptive.

It was a pain to figure out how to play this game in the first place, given the obscurity of the platform. I wound up using the IF Archive to download the launchers, hosted my own server, and then joined it in another client (there didn't seem to be a way to just play this on its own). I was surprised the program worked perfectly on my PC, given that it was discontinued in 2002.

For the story, you are driving down a dark road at night when your car crashes. With nowhere else to take shelter, you go to a creepy mansion and look through the window to see a mad scientist zapping a caged, implanted monkey, causing it to briefly gain super strength. Now, you head down to the basement and see the monkey for yourself. You can knock it out by throwing a rock at it, and there's a few items and pieces of scenery around that serve as red herrings, because the rest of the game is unimplemented. You can't get killed by the monkey, either. There's no formal ending point.