shornet's Played Games

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69,105 Keys, by David Welbourn 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 shornet's rating: Average member rating: (535 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.

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The Act of Misdirection, by Callico Harrison shornet's rating: Average member rating: (70 ratings) The curtain lifts to a torrent of applause, as the city's gents and ladies lose their decorum for a just few moments in anticipation of something magical. The spotlights drown the glitter of sequins and...

An Act of Murder, by Christopher Huang shornet's rating: Average member rating: (82 ratings)

Ad Verbum, by Nick Montfort shornet's rating: Average member rating: (134 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 shornet's rating: Average member rating: (97 ratings)

Aisle, by Sam Barlow Average member rating: (322 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 shornet's rating: Average member rating: (154 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]

All Things Devours, by half sick of shadows
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Anchorhead, by Michael Gentry shornet's rating: Average member rating: (393 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...

Arthur, by Bob Bates shornet's rating: Average member rating: (29 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...

ASCII and the Argonauts, by J. Robinson Wheeler shornet's rating: Average member rating: (18 ratings) In this wonderfully laconic spoof of the Scott Adams style of adventures, you play as Jason of the Argo, tasked by King Pelias to bring the Golden Fleece to him or die. Surprisingly both entertaining and...

Avon, by Jon Thackray and Jonathan Partington shornet's rating: Average member rating: (4 ratings)

Balances, by Graham Nelson shornet's rating: Average member rating: (38 ratings) "A homage to Infocom's Enchanter Trilogy, at the same time showing some of the things that Inform is capable of doing." [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue]

Ballyhoo, by Jeff O'Neill shornet's rating: Average member rating: (44 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 shornet'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]

Being Andrew Plotkin, by J. Robinson Wheeler shornet's rating: 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,...

Border Zone, by Marc Blank shornet's rating: Average member rating: (26 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,...

Bureaucracy, by Douglas Adams, The Staff of Infocom shornet's rating: Average member rating: (48 ratings) IMPORTANT! Our records show that you do not have a license to operate this software. Normally, you would be required to complete a License Application Form and mail it (with proof of purchase) to our...

Byzantine Perspective, by Lea Albaugh Average member rating: (56 ratings) Your task is simple enough. Just nab the chalice.

Child's Play, by Stephen Granade shornet's rating: Average member rating: (54 ratings) It is playgroup day and playgroup day is normally a good day but ever since that little red-haired girl started coming she always wants your toys. She shouldn't get your toys. You tried telling the mom this...

Christminster, by Gareth Rees
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Corruption, by Rob Steggles, Hugh Steers shornet's rating: Average member rating: (21 ratings) In the real world the good guys rarely win. CAN YOU COPE WITH CORRUPTION? The City of London. Deals and chicanery, Porsches and profit, wild animals in handmade suits. And you. Outwardly, you're on the fast...

Countdown to Doom, by Peter D. Killworth shornet's rating: Average member rating: (3 ratings)

Crobe, by Jonathan Partington
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Curses, by Graham Nelson shornet's rating: 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...

Deadline, by Marc Blank shornet's rating: Average member rating: (58 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 shornet's rating: Average member rating: (58 ratings)

Dinner with Andre, by Liza Daly
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Dual Transform, by Andrew Plotkin shornet's rating: Average member rating: (109 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.

Enchanter, by Marc Blank, Dave Lebling shornet's rating: Average member rating: (109 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...

The Endling Archive, by Kazuki Mishima Average member rating: (30 ratings) Browse the Endling Archive to uncover the purpose of its creation.

Eric the Unready, by Bob Bates shornet's rating: Average member rating: (40 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.

Fail-Safe, by Jon Ingold Average member rating: (112 ratings)

Fish!, by John Molloy, Pete Kemp, Phil South, Rob Steggles shornet's rating: Average member rating: (17 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 shornet's rating: Average member rating: (115 ratings) "The sun has gone. It must be brought. You have a rock." [--blurb from Competition '99]

Galatea, by Emily Short Average member rating: (335 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...

Gateway, by Mike Verdu, Michael Lindner, and Glen Dahlgren shornet's rating: Average member rating: (36 ratings) In the early twenty-second century, adventurous citizens of Earth can travel to a place called "Gateway": a long-abandoned alien space station, now rediscovered by humans and turned into a jumping-off point...

GiantKiller, by Peter D. Killworth Average member rating: (2 ratings) From the Topologika website (retrieved September 2012): 'GiantKiller' is a classic (i.e. text-only) and tongue-in-cheek Maths adventure game based on Jack and the Beanstalk. It's aimed at 8 to 14 year olds -...

The Gostak, by Carl Muckenhoupt shornet's rating: Average member rating: (89 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...

Gourmet, by Aaron A. Reed and Chad Barb shornet's rating: Average member rating: (55 ratings) Missing employees, wily crustaceans, malfunctioning kitchen equipment and a terminal food shortage, all on the night the most important culinary critic in the world has chosen to review your debut...

The Guild of Thieves, by Rob Steggles shornet's rating: Average member rating: (24 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 Average member rating: (153 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...

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams and Steve Meretzky shornet's rating: Average member rating: (185 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 shornet's rating: Average member rating: (84 ratings) A far-future story of discovery.

Hollywood Hijinx, by Dave Anderson, Liz Cyr-Jones shornet's rating: Average member rating: (32 ratings) Vampire Penguins. A Corpse Line. Meltdown on Elm Street. Who could forget these classic Hollywood movies produced by your uncle, Buddy Burbank? But his greatest masterpiece has yet to be experienced......

I Palindrome I, by Nick Montfort
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I-0, by Anonymous shornet's rating: Average member rating: (157 ratings) Stranded on Interstate Zero after your car broke down, you are miles away from the last sign of civilization. It's twenty minutes to noon and the temperature is well over 120°F. It's beginning to look like...

Infidel, by Michael Berlyn shornet's rating: Average member rating: (61 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,...

Jinxter, by Georgina Sinclair, Michael Bywater shornet's rating: Average member rating: (13 ratings) Every silver lining has a cloud... JUST WHEN A MAN THINKS HIS LUCK IS RUNNING OUT... ... things start getting even worse. He gets run over by a bus. Sprayed with cheese sandwich by a supernatural being....

John's Fire Witch, by John Baker
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The King of Shreds and Patches, by Jimmy Maher shornet's rating: Average member rating: (77 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...

Kingdom of Hamil, by Jonathan Partington shornet's rating: Average member rating: (2 ratings)

Large Machine, by Jon Ingold
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Leather Goddesses of Phobos, by Steve Meretzky shornet's rating: Average member rating: (70 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...

Letters from Home, by Roger Firth shornet's rating: Average member rating: (20 ratings) "Centuries of ancestry, decades of memories, years of decline; now, barely two hours in which to reflect on the glorious past, that bygone golden age when nostalgia really meant something... " [--blurb from...

Lists and Lists, by Andrew Plotkin
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Lock & Key, by Adam Cadre shornet's rating: Average member rating: (77 ratings)

Lord Bellwater's Secret, by Sam Gordon shornet's rating: Average member rating: (71 ratings)

Lost Pig, by Admiral Jota shornet's rating: Average member rating: (493 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 shornet's rating: Average member rating: (92 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.

Make It Good, by Jon Ingold shornet's rating: Average member rating: (84 ratings) The call comes through. Of all the dicks; you get the call, sitting in the front seat of your car, hands shaking on the steering wheel. An urgent call; but all you were thinking of was the bottle in the...

The Meteor, the Stone and a Long Glass of Sherbet, by Graham Nelson (as Angela M. Horns) shornet's rating: Average member rating: (51 ratings) Another day wasted as guest of the Empress, a wretchedly long tour of the breath-taking Boreal Falls, conducted as ever by the Lady Amilia. As if she weren't bad enough, an honour guard of soldiers, their...

A Mind Forever Voyaging, by Steve Meretzky shornet's rating: Average member rating: (116 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...

Monsters of Murdac, by Jonathan Partington shornet's rating: Average member rating: (4 ratings) The forests of Murdac are some of the oldest, as well as the wildest and most isolated, in the whole land. Also they don't take kindly to intruders -- although living on the outermost fringes of the great...

Myth, by Paul Findley shornet's rating: Average member rating: (11 ratings) IT'S NOT EASY BEING A GOD... The golden age of Ancient Greece. A time of men and gods. A place of Myths and legends. Where errant Heroes vie with preternatural forces while their gods stand aloof and...

Nord and Bert Couldn't Make Head or Tail of It, by Jeff O'Neill shornet's rating: Average member rating: (59 ratings) You are standing at the edge of a barren field. A steady wind, having secreted away the topsoil, is now drifting sandy dirt across the plain. A scant sign of life here is a freshly-burrowed molehill on the...

Parc, by John Rennie
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The Pawn, by Rob Steggles, Peter Kemp, Hugh Steers, Ken Gordon, and Geoff Quilley shornet's rating: Average member rating: (28 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...

Photopia, by Adam Cadre shornet's rating: Average member rating: (559 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."

Pick Up the Phone Booth and Aisle, by David Dyte, Steve Bernard, Dan Shiovitz, Iain Merrick, Liza Daly, John Cater, Ola Sverre Bauge, J. Robinson Wheeler, Jon Blask, Dan Schmidt, Stephen Granade, Rob Noyes, and Emily Short
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Planetfall, by Steve Meretzky shornet's rating: 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...

Plundered Hearts, by Amy Briggs Average member rating: (66 ratings) In the 17th century, the seas are as wild as the untamed heart of a young woman. But when you set out on the schooner Lafond Deux, bound for the West Indies, your thoughts are only of your ailing father who...

Praser 5, by Andrew Plotkin
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Pytho's Mask, by Emily Short shornet's rating: Average member rating: (68 ratings) On the Night of the Comet, the usual astrological bonds do not hold, and the order of the universe is threatened. It is a time made for rebels and usurpers, and all who would claim the kingdom for...

Quest for the Sangraal, by Jonathan Partington
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Rameses, by Stephen Bond shornet's rating: Average member rating: (125 ratings)

Rematch, by Andrew D. Pontious
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Risorgimento Represso, by Michael J. Coyne shornet's rating: Average member rating: (48 ratings) You play as an Oxbridge student who, during a particularly boring lecture, falls through a green portal under their desk into the cluttered library of the wizard Ninario. Ninny was trying to summon a...

Seastalker, by Stu Galley, Jim Lawrence Average member rating: (28 ratings) There's something down there in the ocean, something terrifying. And you have to face it - because only you can save the Aquadome, the world's first undersea research station. The alarm sounds and your...

Secret Mission, by Scott Adams shornet'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...

Shade, by Andrew Plotkin Average member rating: (413 ratings) "A one-room game set in your apartment." [--blurb from Competition Aught-Zero]

Sherlock: The Riddle of the Crown Jewels, by Bob Bates shornet's rating: Average member rating: (22 ratings) Moriarty has set a deadly trap for Sherlock Holmes. And only you can stop him... Travel back in time to Victorian London, where the city is bustling with preparations for Her Majesty's Golden Jubilee. Crowds...

Shogun, by James Clavell, Dave Lebling shornet's rating: Average member rating: (16 ratings) Experience the sweeping drama and power of James Clavell's Shogun. The year is 1600. You are John Blackthorne, Pilot-Major of a privateering merchant ship and the first Englishman to set foot on Japanese...

Shrapnel, by Adam Cadre Average member rating: (166 ratings)

Sorcerer, by Steve Meretzky shornet's rating: Average member rating: (67 ratings) Sorcerer, the second of a spellbinding fantasy series in the tradition of Zork, takes you on a magical tour through the darker side of Zorkian enchantment. Your journey begins with a cryptic diary - the last...

Spellcasting 101 - Sorcerers Get All The Girls, by Steve Meretzky shornet's rating: Average member rating: (24 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...

Spellcasting 201: The Sorcerer's Appliance, by Steve Meretzky shornet's rating: Average member rating: (8 ratings) Sorcerer University: Dangerously close to a real education! Returning to SU for his sophomore year, Earnie Eaglebeak stumbles across the magical Appliance, survives pledge week, and romps through the...

Spider and Web, by Andrew Plotkin shornet's rating: Average member rating: (311 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...

Spy Snatcher, by Jonathan Partington and Jon Thackray shornet's rating: Average member rating: (3 ratings) Originally written on Cambridge University's "Phoenix" IBM mainframe computer as "Spycatcher". When released commercially by Topologika, it was renamed to "Spy Snatcher".

Starcross, by Dave Lebling shornet's rating: Average member rating: (50 ratings) Starcross, Infocom's science fiction mind-bender, launches you headlong into the year 2186 and the depths of space. And not without good reason, for you are destined to rendezvous with a gargantuan starship...

Stationfall, by Steve Meretzky shornet's rating: Average member rating: (46 ratings) What a trotting krip! Since your incredible heroics in Planetfall, where you risked life and limb to save the planet Resida, things have hardly changed at all. Sure, you were promoted to Lieutenant First...

Suspect, by Dave Lebling shornet's rating: Average member rating: (23 ratings) You're guilty until proven innocent. You have walked into a hotbed of deceit and trickery. And now they're accusing you of something you couldn't have done. But they have proof that you did it. "You're a...

Suveh Nux, by David Fisher shornet's rating: Average member rating: (225 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.

To Hell in a Hamper, by J. J. Guest shornet's rating: 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...

Trinity, by Brian Moriarty shornet's rating: Average member rating: (102 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...

Unnamed Google Easter Egg, by Google
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Varicella, by Adam Cadre shornet's rating: Average member rating: (131 ratings) You are Primo Varicella, Palace Minister at the Palazzo del Piemonte. This title is unlikely to impress anyone. Piedmont is the laughingstock of the Carolingian League, and the Palace Ministry has devolved...

Vespers, by Jason Devlin
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Violet, by Jeremy Freese shornet's rating: Average member rating: (383 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 Weapon, by Sean Barrett shornet's rating: Average member rating: (35 ratings)

Wishbringer, by Brian Moriarty shornet's rating: Average member rating: (109 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...

The Witness, by Stu Galley shornet's rating: Average member rating: (28 ratings) February 1938, Los Angeles. FDR's New Deal is finally rolling. Hitler's rolling, too; this time through Austria. But as Chief Detective for a quiet burgh on the outskirts of L.A., you've got other fish to...

Zork I, by Marc Blank and Dave Lebling shornet's rating: Average member rating: (218 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 shornet's rating: Average member rating: (97 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...

Zork III, by Dave Lebling, Marc Blank shornet's rating: Average member rating: (77 ratings) An old, oddly youthful man turns toward you slowly. His long, silver hair dances about him as a fresh breeze blows. "You have reached the final test, my friend! You are proved clever and powerful, but this...

Zork Zero, by Steve Meretzky shornet's rating: Average member rating: (59 ratings) The Great Underground Empire is in its heyday. Upscale condos crowd the massive caverns. Subterranean highways stretch from Aragain to the Fublio Valley. And no adventurer has yet set foot in the open field...

Zork: The Undiscovered Underground, by Marc Blank, Michael Berlyn, and G. Kevin Wilson
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