On Wednesday, May 29, 2019, I published new walkthroughs for the games listed below! Some of these were paid for by my wonderful patrons at Patreon. Please consider supporting me to make even more new walkthroughs for works of interactive fiction at patreon.com/dswxyz.
1. Not Just A Game, by John Menichelli (2000) David Welbourn says:
You've arrived at your teacher's home for your weekly Go lesson, but she's missing. And her Go board is missing too. Is this one of her tests?
2. John's Fire Witch, by John Baker (1995) Average member rating: (39 ratings) David Welbourn says:
You play as a friend of John Baker. He didn't show up for a pizza-and-beer night, so you go to his place, let yourself in, and wait overnight for him but he's still missing. Searching his place, you learn there's a new hole in his basement and that he's been dreaming of a fire witch trapped by an ice wizard. Could John really have gone down into that hole to rescue his fire witch?
3. Coke Is It!, by Lucian P. Smith, Adam Thornton, J. Robinson Wheeler, Michael Fessler, Dan Shiovitz, David Dyte (1999) Average member rating: (18 ratings) David Welbourn says:
In this amusing and loving tribute to both Coca-Cola and interactive fiction, you will re-visit six classic games (Adventure, A Bear's Night Out, Curses, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Losing Your Grip, and Planetfall), each re-imagined with refreshing Coca-Cola in very prominent product placements.
4. And Yet it Moves by Orion Zymaris (2014) Average member rating: (12 ratings)
David Welbourn says:
It's 1630, outside a cottage near Florence, Italy. You play as Andrea Sarti, a former student of Galileo. Galileo is currently under house arrest for blasphemy; your first task is to check on his health.
5. Goodbye Cruel Squirrel by Extra Mayonnaise (2017) Average member rating: (10 ratings)
David Welbourn says:
In this game, you play as a gray squirrel. Winter is coming and your gray tribe is starving. To save your tribe, you volunteer to bring a huge supply of acorns from the red squirrel tribe's hoard in the Finchsters' yard.
6. Ariadne in Aeaea by Víctor Ojuel (2016) Average member rating: (24 ratings)
David Welbourn says:
In this game, you play as the wayward Ariadne of Knossos, daughter of Minos, of the royal line of Pasiphaë the Sun-Maiden, and an initiate priestess of the Isle of Aeaea. Returning to the palace after a tryst with two shepherd boys, you discover your younger sister Phaedra has been ordained a potnia before you. Potinaja wept. Phaedra then orders you to convey her respects your aunt Circe, the High Priestess, and if you do not, she'll have you assigned to be her personal handmaiden.
7. Intro to Jabberwocky, by Gregory Weir (2004) Average member rating: (7 ratings) David Welbourn says:
In this game, based on the Lewis Carroll poem "Jabberwocky", you play as a farmer's child, sent out before brillig to deal with the family's animals. You also find a tablet with a pattern of lines and letters; as you complete your chores, the blank lines of the tablet are replaced with words, forming the first stanza of the poem.
8. Ritual of Purification, by Jarek Sobolewski (1998) Average member rating: (4 ratings) David Welbourn says:
In this small surreal fantasy game, you play as a human spellcaster/adventurer who has separated their mind from their body in order to purify themselves. You begin your astral-mythic-dream travels at an ivory gateway under a starless sky. A red-winged Daemon, male and nude, lands on the arch to watch what you do.
9. The Cenric Family Curse, by Jonathan Snyder (2013) Average member rating: (7 ratings) David Welbourn says:
In this light horror game, you play as a cursed nobleman named Robert Cenric IV, cursed because of your father's greed. Unless you can find a way to break the curse in the next two hours, you'll be damned forever.
10. The Kazooist by Charlie Marcou (2012) Average member rating: (5 ratings)
David Welbourn says:
In this silly, whimsical, and thinly-implemented game, you play as someone who is told on their birthday that they are destined to become a great kazooist. So, uh, go through these caves, learn some kazoo songs, and maybe you'll win and maybe you'll die.
11. Please Help Me by Phillip J Rhoades (2018) Average member rating: (4 ratings)
David Welbourn says:
In this small game, you've found a mysterious black box that sends and receives text messages. On its screen, you find a message from someone who doesn't know where they are and desperately needs your help. Will you help them escape?
12. Red Moon, by Jonathan Hay (2008) Average member rating: (8 ratings) David Welbourn says:
In this short one-room game, you play as a young former football player somehow trapped by fear in a wooden hut with your sister. It's frighteningly dark in the hut, save for the red light that shines through holes in the ceiling, hinting at the unimaginable horrors that lurk outside.
