a Place by the Putrid Sea Arno von Borries At some point, going back would have been inevitable anyway. And why should I not have been allowed a bit of rest? After all, no one could say I hadn't tried to run. But when you're running, you need to stop eventually, or else you risk running into people. Longer than two hours • Parser-based • Glulx (See guide) Download Play online Walkthrough Ghostfinder: Shift Ghostfinder Series One: First Impressions Cover art for Ghostfinder: Shift Han-Joo Kim hanjookim92@yahoo.com In a world where magic is real and mind-bending nightmares lie waiting in the least expected places, the Fraternal Order of Ghostfinders, an international society of elite occult investigators, is humanity's strongest line of defense against the unspeakable horrors of the void. When your protege, a novice ghostfinder named Cyra, accidentally becomes embroiled in a hunt for a serial killer, you must use every means at your disposal to catch him before he catches her. A detective mystery game with a strong focus on piecing together clues and leads. Content warning: Graphic descriptions of sexual violence, multiple misogynistic murders, and extreme misogynistic language. Mystery, Horror • Two hours • Choice-based • Web-based Download Play online Walkthrough Happyland an interactive murder mystery Cover art for Happyland Rob Fitzel A theme park executive dies on a rollercoaster. Was it an accident? Was it foul play? Grab your crime fighting kit and gather your wits to investigate why all is not happy in Happyland. Content warning: description of death and dying Murder mystery • Longer than two hours • Parser-based • Web-based Download Play online Walkthrough High Jinnks Cover art for High Jinnks M. Nite Chamberlain mnitechamberlain@gmail.com You're a jinni whose only talent is petty magic tricks. And now you're looking for a way home, accompanied by possibly the most infuriating human to have walked this earth, and trying to avoid getting trapped in any more jars. One hour • Choice-based • Web-based Updated: October 1, 4:06 PM (UTC) Download Play online How The Elephant's Child Who Walked By Himself Got His Wings A Choose Your Own Just So Story Cover art for How The Elephant's Child Who Walked By Himself Got His Wings Peter Eastman This fantasia on Kipling's "Just So Stories" takes you back to the High and Far-Off Times to learn how all things came to be what they are today. Warning: Contains bad poetry. Half an hour • Choice-based • Web-based Download Play online The Impossible Bottle Cover art for The Impossible Bottle Linus Åkesson 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) or Z-machine. Two hours • Web-based Download Play online Walkthrough The Incredibly Mild Misadventures of Tom Trundle An Adolescent Reminiscence B F Lindsay ragtimebill@outlook.com "A frickin' important episode in my life." -- Tom Trundle, 17 Content warning: Teen-level profanity; sexually suggestive remarks; adult situations Teen adventure/romance • Longer than two hours • Parser-based • Glulx (See guide) Updated: October 1, 4:48 PM (UTC) Download Play online Walkthrough INFINITUBE where the imagination stretches as far as limitations can reach Cover art for INFINITUBE Tom Charles Bair III tomcharlesbairthethird@gmail.com INFINITUBE: where the imagination stretches as far as limitations can reach Were you ever told you can be anything? Well, with INFINITUBE, you can be just that! Content warning: Some potentially triggering uses of language. Some references to violence and sexual harassment. Maximalist • Longer than two hours • Choice-based • Web-based Download Play online Jay Schilling's Edge of Chaos Cover art for Jay Schilling's Edge of Chaos Robb Sherwin & Mike Sousa There was an aye-aye behind the bar, staring at me horribly. Or maybe its face just froze that way. I was waiting for my client at ten at night in a dusty, dirty town in the middle of nowhere. Clouds out here were apparently one of the thirty million newly unemployed. There was a missing woman and my client was about to hire an amateur private detective with the world's most technologically advanced cellular phone. This was going to be a cinch. Seriously. It'll take me like two searches with it to close this case. Three if mid-investigation I check on my torrents. Y-You're a player of the 2020 Interactive Fiction competition. I'm Jay. Let's straddle the edge. Detective • Two hours • Parser-based • TADS (See guide) Download Play online Walkthrough Juat another Fairy Tale Finn Rosenløv Little did you know that when you went to bed that night, and your mom had kissed you good night and left you room, that you would embark on an adventure beyond your wildest dreams. An unexpected visit of a wizard sets things in motion, a kingdom in peril, an evil queen to be defeated, puzzles to be solved and YOU are the only hope. Fantasy • Two hours • Parser-based • ADRIFT (See guide) Download Walkthrough The Land Down Under Mrs. Wobbles & The Tangerine House Cover art for The Land Down Under The Marino Family markcmarino@gmail.com Through a glass in the floor of the Tangerine House, Lin has marveled at the perfect miniature world of The Land Down Under. But when her two foster siblings go missing, Lin must pursue them into this world only to learn the price of perfection. Fantasy, young adult/children • One hour • Choice-based • Web-based Download Play online Last House on the Block Cover art for Last House on the Block Jason Olson ifiction@outlook.com Mr. Harrison was a quiet old man who lived in the house at the end of the block. No one really knew him, but everyone said he was rich; anyone who lived like as much like a hermit as he did *had* to be a millionaire. After lunch one day when you overheard your parents talking about how the old man had died with no family and how the city was coming to take the house and everything inside you decided on the spot that they wouldn't take *everything*...if there was any cash in there it was coming home with *you*. This game is suitable for people of all ages. Slice of life • One hour • Parser-based • Glulx (See guide) Download Play online Walkthrough Limerick Quest Cover art for Limerick Quest Pace Smith @PaceSmith pace@pacesmith.com "To Russia!" you boldly suggest. "This riddle has got me obsessed. We'll search 'till we're blind, and loot what we find! Let's go on a... Adventure • One hour • Choice-based • Web-based Download Play online Walkthrough Little Girl In Monsterland Cover art for Little Girl In Monsterland Mike Stallone littlegirlinmonsterland@gmail.com Follow the adventures of two six-year-old girls with too much time on their hands as they go on a mission to defeat dangerous monsters, extremely competitive bodybuilders, and hyperinflation. -- Keywords: comedy, point and click, open world, puzzles, Dracula, Frankenstein, evil wizard, evil bodybuilders, pirates, dragon, witch, graphical map, 15 hours long, mild profanity, strange interface, hint system, multilanguage (English / Italian). Comedy, point and click, open world • Longer than two hours • Web-based Download Play online Lore Distance Relationship Welcome to the 2000s. Cover art for Lore Distance Relationship Naomi "Bez" Norbez @NaomiNorbez mninorbez@gmail.com Follow user StaircaseHaven14 on a Neopets-esque site called Ruffians as she faces life's challenges, RPs with her long-distance BFF (or more than BFF?) Bee, and encounters familial hardship, from age 8 to 18. Content warning: This game contains discussions of domestic violence and abuse, and depictions of teenagers exploring their sexuality. Romance, Realistic Fiction, Slice-of-life • One hour • Choice-based • Web-based Download Play online Lovely Assistant: Magical Girl Cover art for Lovely Assistant: Magical Girl Bitter Karella @bitterkarella thenewmeat@hotmail.com A magician's assistant has two very important duties, to point at things and to look good in a form-fitting evening gown. But when Mugwort the Magician is kidnapped by his devious riddle-obsessed arch-nemesis and imprisoned somewhere on his opulent magician's estate with no way to find him other than a series of obtuse riddles, it's up to consummate magician's assistant Trixie to save the day! Comedy • One hour • Parser- by Arno von Borries 2020

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At some point, going back would have been inevitable anyway. And why should I not have been allowed a bit of rest? After all, no one could say I hadn't tried to run. But when you're running, you need to stop eventually, or else you risk running into people.

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