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| 1893: A World's Fair Mystery, by Peter Nepstad Average member rating:  (25 ratings)A theft on the fairgrounds! Precious diamonds stolen from the Kimberly Diamond Mining Exhibit! An urgent telegram from your old partner arrives, requesting your help to solve the mystery. How can you refuse?... |
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(3 ratings)| Acheton, by Jon Thackray, David Seal, and Jonathan Partington Average member rating: (7 ratings) |
| Adventure Quest, by Mike Austin, Nick Austin, and Pete Austin Average member rating: (7 ratings)Adventure Quest is a full scale adventure game with 225 individually described locations. You will have to solve a very large number of problems on your journey to the Black Tower and (perhaps) victory. To... |
| Adventurer's Consumer Guide, by Øyvind Thorsby Average member rating: (31 ratings) |
| Ares, by Michael Baltes Average member rating: (3 ratings)The space team from Europe is very close to their designated target - the first manned exploration of Mars. But an accident strikes the team and one of the two shuttle pilots discovers that the red planet... |
| Augmented Fourth, by Brian Uri! Average member rating: (65 ratings)WANTED: Amateur musicians to serve the Royal Court. Must provide own instrument and be inured to copious constructive criticism. Impress your friends! Meet the King! Apply in person at the Castle, located on... |
| The Axe of Kolt [8-bit versions], by Larry Horsfield Average member rating: (6 ratings)You are Alaric Blackmoon, a penniless ex-mercenary soldier, reduced to wandering the land and doing odd-jobs in return for food and a place to sleep. You have just left the town of Greenwych and you have... |
| Babel, by Ian Finley Average member rating: (155 ratings)In this game, you play as an amnesiac inside Babel, an abandoned Arctic facility devoted to biological research. You soon discover that you have the unusual ability to witness scenes from the past by... |
| Bad Machine, by Dan Shiovitz Average member rating: (15 ratings) |
| A Beauty Cold and Austere, by Mike Spivey Average member rating: (58 ratings)That survey course in conceptual mathematics seemed like a good idea at the start of the term - no graded homework, no midterm exams - just an oral final at the end. But now that final is tomorrow morning.... |
| Beyond Zork, by Brian Moriarty Average member rating: (50 ratings)Dread times have befallen the Kingdom of Quendor. The wizards have mysteriously disappeared. The Enchanter's Guild Hall lies in ruins. Villages are abandoned, drunken men mutter strange tales, and vicious... |
| The Boggit, by Fergus McNeill and Judith Child Average member rating: (6 ratings)This interactive fiction with graphics game thus features reluctant adventurer Bimbo Faggins and devious magician Grandalf attempting to gain treasure, ultimately by appearing on a TV game show. VERB NOUN... |
| Bored of the Rings, by Fergus McNeill Average member rating: (6 ratings) |
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(3 ratings)| Broken Legs, by Sarah Morayati Average member rating: (31 ratings)A blurb? They expect you to write? You're Lottie Plum so you're not going into writing. You sing. And dance and act up a storm while everyone else can only manage a puddle. You belong at Bridger. No matter... |
| Castle of Riddles, by Peter D. Killworth Average member rating: (1 rating) |
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(34 ratings)| Colossal Adventure, by Pete Austin, Mike Austin, Nick Austin, James Horsler Average member rating: (4 ratings)Colossal Adventure is a complete, full-size version of the classic mainframe game "Adventure" with all the treasures, creatures, rooms and puzzles of the original. And we have added 70 bonus locations to the... |
| Counterfeit Monkey, by Emily Short Average member rating: (240 ratings)Anglophone Atlantis has been an independent nation since an April day in 1822, when a well-aimed shot from their depluralizing cannon reduced the British colonizing fleet to one ship. Since then, Atlantis... |
Cragne Manor, by Ryan Veeder, Jenni Polodna et al.Show other authorsAdam Whybray, Adri, Andrew Plotkin, Andy Holloway, Austin Auclair, Baldur Brückner, Ben Collins-Sussman, Bill Maya, Brian Rushton, Buster Hudson, Caleb Wilson, Carl Muckenhoupt, Chandler Groover, Chris Jones, Christopher Conley, Damon L. Wakes, Daniel Ravipinto, Daniel Stelzer, David Jose, David Petrocco, David Sturgis, Drew Mochak, Edward B, Emily Short, Erica Newman, Feneric, Finn Rosenløv, Gary Butterfield, Gavin Inglis, Greg Frost, Hanon Ondricek, Harkness Munt, Harrison Gerard, Ian Holmes, Ivan Roth, Jack Welch, Jacqueline Ashwell, James Eagle, Jason Dyer, Jason Lautzenheiser, Jason Love, Jeremy Freese, Joey Jones, Joshua Porch, Justin de Vesine, Justin Melvin, Katherine Morayati, Kenneth Pedersen, Lane Puetz, Llew Mason, Lucian Smith, Marco Innocenti, Marius Müller, Mark Britton, Mark Sample, Marshal Tenner Winter, Matt Schneider, Matt Weiner, Matthew Korson, Michael Fessler, Michael Gentry, Michael Hilborn, Michael Lin, Mike Spivey, Molly Ying, Monique Padelis, Naomi Hinchen, Nate Edwards, Petter Sjölund, Q Pheevr, Rachel Spitler, Reed Lockwood, Reina Adair, Riff Conner, Roberto Colnaghi, Rowan Lipkovits, Sam Kabo Ashwell, Scott Hammack, Sean M. Shore, Shin, Wade Clarke, Zach Hodgens, Zack JohnsonAverage member rating: (24 ratings)A tribute to Anchorhead. |
| Dangerous Curves, by Irene Callaci Average member rating: (23 ratings) |
| Death off the Cuff, by Simon Christiansen Average member rating: (53 ratings)They all stare at you expectantly, like children waiting to be told a bedtime story. Who can blame them? You are, after all, Antoine Saint Germain, the great French detective. No criminal has ever been a... |
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(40 ratings)| Die Feuerfaust [1995 PAW version], by Larry Horsfield PLOT Alaric Blackmoon returns, travelling to foreign shores in search of a mystical stolen relic. NOTES The first of Larry's Spectrum games not to be published by FSF. It was sold by The Adventure Workshop... |
| Ditch Day Drifter, by Michael J. Roberts Average member rating: (23 ratings)You're an undergraduate at Caltech, and you wake up to find it's Ditch Day, the traditional event when seniors leave the campus for the day, leaving behind puzzles for the underclassmen to solve in order to... |
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(2 ratings)| Dungeon Adventure, by Mike Austin, Nick Austin, and Pete Austin Average member rating: (7 ratings)Complete our Middle Earth Trilogy. The Demon has been defeated and his Dark Tower cast down. But its dangerous remain, filled with hoarded treasure and magic. There are just two snags. Other creatures want... |
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(1 rating)| Endless, Nameless, by Adam Cadre Average member rating: (54 ratings)The first time I ever saw someone play a text adventure was in fifth grade. One of the sixth-graders didn't go to outdoor ed, and therefore spent the week in my fifth-grade classroom, playing Scott Adams's... |
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(11 ratings)| Enlightenment, by Taro Ogawa Average member rating: (42 ratings)"The intrepid Adventurer has escaped the caverns. Nought remains to block a successful escape but this troll here. Hmmm. A one-room adventure. The author recommends this for people who grew up on Zork II and... |
| Final Selection, by Sam Gordon Average member rating: (18 ratings) |
| Finding Martin, by G.K. Wennstrom Average member rating: (10 ratings)Venture past the limits of ordinary reality as you investigate the mysterious disappearance of an old friend. In order to solve the most challenging of these puzzles, you will need to cooperate with yourself... |
| Fine-Tuned, by Dennis Jerz Average member rating: (23 ratings)"Can Troy, the handsome daredevil autoist, live up to his "sterling" reputation? What secret threatens the career of the talented singer, Miss Melody Sweet? With the help of the mechanical genius Aloysius... |
| First Things First, by J. Robinson Wheeler Average member rating: (23 ratings)You’ve just arrived at home from your nightly visit to the science and invention section of the local public library, where you spend each night dreaming your dreamy dreams of one day inventing a time travel... |
| Floarea Soarelui, by Colin Woodcock, Serban Ovidiu Morcan Average member rating: (1 rating) |
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(12 ratings)| The Fortress of Fear, by Larry Horsfield Average member rating: (2 ratings)Arriving at the vast Marienburg Fortress, headquarters of the Teutonic Knights, you find that that it has been captured by the mad sorceror-prince Wladyslaw. You volunteer to enter the fortress alone and... |
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(1 rating)| Gateway 2: Homeworld, by Mike Verdu and Glen Dahlgren Average member rating: (18 ratings)In the early twenty-second century, an immense alien spacecraft, dubbed the "Artifact," arrives in the Earth's solar system. The Artifact ignores all attempts at communication; no one knows whether its... |
| Gateway to Karos, by Derek Haslam Average member rating: (1 rating)As a local historian, you had been allowed into the great library of Karoway Manor. There between the pages of an ancient book you found a seemingly much older sheet of paper. it told of a stone gateway to... |
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(1 rating)| Ghost Town, by Scott Adams Average member rating: (9 ratings)You must explore a once-thriving mining town in search of the 13 hidden treasures. With everything from rattlesnakes to runaway horses, it sure ain't going to be easy! Includes a special bonus scoring system... |
| Gnome Ranger, by Pete Austin Average member rating: (4 ratings)The gnome Ingrid Bottomlow has displeased her family by her un-gnomelike behaviour, such as going off to university and getting an education. She has been teleported from her village by a faulty scroll, and... |
| Hadean Lands, by Andrew Plotkin Average member rating: (67 ratings)Marooned in an alien, airless wasteland -- your starship fractured -- your crewmates missing. Can an apprentice alchemist learn how to survive? |
| Hamlet -- The Text Adventure, by Robin Johnson Average member rating: (18 ratings)Who really killed Hamlet's dad? Can the Prince ever 'get' Gertrude, or is that just wrong? What does Richard III want with a horse anyway? And where did the gravedigger get that gorgeous pink dress? Avenge... |
| Hard Puzzle, by Ade McT Average member rating: (14 ratings)After The Event, there are no easy solutions. A silly little speed-IF puzzler. But can you solve it? Hall of fame: CMG Caleb Wilson Deboriole MaggieMay Doug Orleans Lance Nathan |
| Hard Puzzle 2 : The Cow, The Stool and Other Animals, by Ade McT Average member rating: (6 ratings)On the farm, after The Event, things have gotten more complicated than they ought to be. A silly little Speed-IF. But can you solve it? Hall of Fame: CMG Deboriole |
| Hard Puzzle 3 : Origins, by Ade McT Average member rating: (3 ratings)It's not fair. First day on the new job, and it looks like the end of the world is happening. A silly little Speed-IF. But can you solve it? Hall of Fame: CMG Deboriole |
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(16 ratings)Hexed Adventure, by Matt Gruskin and Alex Rosenthal
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(1 rating)| The Hobbit, by Philip Mitchell and Veronika Megler Average member rating: (28 ratings) |
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(11 ratings)| Illuminismo Iniziato, by Michael J. Coyne Average member rating: (24 ratings)Lovingly handcrafted in Inform6, this overripe sequel to Risorgimento Represso is full of cheese, gunpowder, chemistry and explosions (well, only a little chemistry). Includes automap, sounds and graphical... |
| Ingrid's Back, by Pete Austin, Peter McBride, Godfrey Dowson, Graham Jones Average member rating: (4 ratings)Jasper Quickbuck, insider-dealing lord of Ridley's Manor, plots to steamroller the gnome-belt for yuppie housing. To the gnomes' horror, accident-prone Ingrid Bottomlow, just escaped from her "holiday" in... |
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(16 ratings)| Jigsaw, by Graham Nelson Average member rating: (84 ratings)New Year's Eve, 1999, a quarter to midnight and where else to be but Century Park! Fireworks cascade across the sky, your stomach rumbles uneasily, music and lasers howl across the parkland... Not exactly... |
| Knight Orc, by Pete Austin Average member rating: (20 ratings)Knight Orc casts you as an oppressed orc in a magical world where all is not as it first seems. For generations humans have been persecuting orcs, and now it's time to get your own back. A fantasy adventure... |
| L: A Mathemagical Adventure, by members of the Association of Teachers of Mathematics co-ordinated by Richard Phillips, and including Derek Ball, Tony Corbett, David Rooke, Heather Scott, Alan Shaw, Margaret Stevens, Ruth Townsend, Jo Waddingham, Roger Waddingham, John Warwick, Alan Wigley, John Wood, and David Wooldridge. Average member rating: (4 ratings)It is a very hot day. You are sitting on the grass outside a crumbling palace. Your sister is reading a book called Fractions and the Four Rules — 5000 Carefully Graded Problems. You are bored and the heat... |
| Last Days of Doom, by Peter D. Killworth Average member rating: (1 rating) |
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(8 ratings)| Little Blue Men, by Michael S. Gentry Average member rating: (70 ratings)This game is a joke. This game is a warning. This game is a satire. This game is inspired in equal parts by Vaclav Havel's "The Memorandum" and Hunter S. Thompson's "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas". This... |
| Lords of Time, by Sue Gazzard and Ian Buxton Average member rating: (8 ratings)A band of evil timelords are plotting to alter world history, and Father Time has chosen you to help stop them. This requires 9 symbolic objects from critical times in history. Chill to the ice-age, find the... |
| The Lost Children [1997 PAW version], by Larry Horsfield Average member rating: (1 rating)You are Duke Alaric Blackmoon and since your return from the Marienburg Fortress (see "The Fortress of Fear"), you have settled down to a more peaceful life as Duke of the duchy of Charlton in the kingdom of... |
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(27 ratings)| Lydia's Heart, by Jim Aikin Average member rating: (32 ratings)"Lydia's Heart" is a large, complex game with a serious tone and seven or eight NPCs you can converse with. The genre is low-key horror: There's almost no actual blood, but there are several ways to die in a... |
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(20 ratings)| The Mask of the Sun, by Alan B. Clark, Christopher P. Anson, Margaret Anson Average member rating: (4 ratings)You are Mac Steele, an archaeologist who needs to find the Mask of the Sun in order to obtain an antidote to a poison that afflicts him from an artifact that he found. The game mostly takes place in Mexico... |
| Metamorphoses, by Emily Short Average member rating: (130 ratings)You wake to stillness. The hammering, banging, and shouting that kept you awake half the night are gone. The air is cold, and something smells burnt. Your master's experiments must be finished, but with what... |
| Mindwheel, by Robert Pinsky, William Mataga, Steve Hales Average member rating: (5 ratings)Travel into the minds of four important people to collect the Wheel of Wisdom and save the world: BOBBY CLEMON, assassinated rock star, once called 'half John Lennon and half Janis Joplin'. This charismatic,... |
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(12 ratings)Nidus, by Adam Atkinson
| Not Just an Ordinary Ballerina, by Jim Aikin Average member rating: (30 ratings) |
| Once and Future, by G. Kevin Wilson Average member rating: (13 ratings) |
| Orevore Courier, by Brian Rapp Average member rating: (17 ratings) |
| PataNoir, by Simon Christiansen Average member rating: (58 ratings)The Baron's daughter is missing, and you are the man to find her. No problem. With your inexhaustible arsenal of hard-boiled similes, there is nothing you can't handle. |
| Philosopher's Quest, by Peter D. Killworth and Jonathan Mestel Average member rating: (2 ratings)Originally written on Cambridge University's "Phoenix" IBM mainframe computer as "BrandX". When released by Acornsoft for the BBC B microcomputer, it was renamed to "Philosopher's Quest". |
| The Plant, by Michael J. Roberts Average member rating: (34 ratings)You're on a business trip with your boss, driving down a deserted highway in the middle of nowhere, when the car breaks down. You set off on foot seeking help, but you soon find yourself in the middle of a... |
| The Price of Magik, by Pete Austin, Nick Austin, Mike Austin, and James Horsler Average member rating: (12 ratings)The dying light of the Red Moon has been captured in a crystal by the magicians of Baskalos to act as the last repository of magik. Its guardian for many years has been Myglar, a wise and respected sorcerer.... |
| Quondam, by Rod Underwood and Peter Killworth Average member rating: (1 rating)Originally developed by Rod Underwood in 1980 on Cambridge University’s Phoenix mainframe computer, it was later ported to the BBC Micro by Peter Killworth in 1984. This is one of the rarest and most... |
| The Recruit, by Mike Sousa Average member rating: (11 ratings)Try your hand at the Real Life Interactive Gaming Simulacra! You'll face a variety of challenges and simulations and have a chance to win some money and great prizes. Apply today! |
| Red Moon, by David Williamson, Simon Aspinall, Pete Austin, Pete Austin, and James Horsler Average member rating: (8 ratings)Red Moon re-enacts a tale from the time where Magik still worked and when mythical monsters guarded fabulous treasure. You have the use of many weapons and a dozen different magical spells to help you rescue... |
| Return to Ditch Day, by M.J. Roberts Average member rating: (30 ratings)It's been a decade since you graduated, but now it looks like you're going to have to solve one more Ditch Day stack. |
| Return to Doom, by Peter D. Killworth Average member rating: (1 rating) |
| Return to Eden, by Nick Austin, Chris Queen, and Tim Noyce Average member rating: (6 ratings)You play Kim Kimberley, and have just saved the interstar transport, Snowball 9, from disaster. Unfortunately the control room vidcams show a different story. Kim seems to enter, hurl a bomb and the room is... |
| Savage Island, Part I, by Scott Adams Average member rating: (4 ratings)A small island holds an awesome secret -- will you be able to discover it? This is the beginning of a two-part Adventure. NOTE: This one's a toughie -- for experienced Adventurers only! WARNING! The Z-Code... |
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(7 ratings)| Savoir-Faire, by Emily Short Average member rating: (132 ratings)The beautiful life is always damned, they say. As for you, you've overexpended yourself: fifteen years of prominence, champagne, carriage rides in the Tuileries, having your name whispered behind... |
| Scapeghost, by Pete Austin Average member rating: (3 ratings)Alan Chance was on an undercover mission, trying to infiltrate a drugs gang. All was going well, but then something or someone alerted the gangsters and they killed Alan and escaped, taking his colleague... |
| Scroll Thief, by Daniel M. Stelzer Average member rating: (16 ratings)Not a single spell! After two full years of study! Every Enchanter—every mortal with the power to change very nature of the universe with their words—has a spell book! Filled with words of power collected... |
| Seventh Star, by Dave Hampton The rarest of the Acornsoft adventure series. Below is the blurb from the BBC Micro packaging: In this text adventure game you will explore the mysterious city on the surface of the strange planet known as... |
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(4 ratings)| Snowball, by Mike Austin, Nick Austin, Pete Austin, and Ian Buxton Average member rating: (10 ratings)You play Kim Kimberley, secret agent extraordinary. Your mission: to safeguard the interstar transport, Snowball 9, as a last resort following catastrophic accident or sabotage. Thus when your modified... |
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(73 ratings)| The Spectre of Castle Coris [2015 ADRIFT version], by Larry Horsfield Average member rating: (4 ratings)Having been created a Duke by the grateful King Kelson for recovering the lost "Axe of Kolt", you are touring the towns and villages of your new duchy of Charlton when you hear about some strange goings-on... |
| Spellbreaker, by Dave Lebling Average member rating: (58 ratings)Spellbreaker, the riveting conclusion to the Enchanter trilogy, explores the mysterious underpinnings of the Zorkian universe. A world founded on sorcery suddenly finds its magic failing, and only you,... |
| Spellcasting 301: Spring Break, by Steve Meretzky Average member rating: (7 ratings)Sorcerer University: Dangerously close to a real education! Follow the sun to Fort Naughtytail and party hardy with Ernie and his fraternity brothers. They're hoping to find sand in all the wrong places but... |
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(8 ratings)| Suspended, by Michael Berlyn Average member rating: (43 ratings)They said you would sleep for half a millennium - not an unreasonable length of time, considering you'd be in limited cryogenic suspension. Your body would rest at the planet's nerve center, an underground... |
| T-Zero, by Dennis Cunningham Average member rating: (8 ratings)PROLOGUE A dream came to you as you tossed uneasily upon an unfamiliar bed. In your dream, a time-worn figure waved a scythe in slow arcs across your sky-blue field of vision and picked, out of thin air,... |
| The Temple of Shorgil, by Arthur DiBianca Average member rating: (24 ratings)One day, travel guides will talk about this "masterpiece of the Pirothian architect Kitral" -- but only if you, the first person to visit it in over 1,000 years, can find out what's inside. (Puzzle-oriented... |
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(7 ratings)| TimeQuest, by Bob Bates Average member rating: (11 ratings)You are a private in an organization called the Temporal Corps. As the game begins, a general calls you into his office, explaining that a Corps lieutenant has apparently conceived the insane notion of going... |
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(6 ratings)| The Wand, by Arthur DiBianca Average member rating: (58 ratings)Explore the wizard Bartholloco's castle with the help of a versatile magic wand. Can you overcome his challenge? Can you levitate a rock? Can you slice a baltavakia? (Puzzle-oriented and family friendly.) |
| Warp, by Rob Lucke and Bill Frolik Average member rating: (3 ratings)An extremely large HP3000 mainframe adventure, written in Pascal on an HP3000 circa 1979. It can be run on an HP3000 emulator. The game is set in the sprawling town (and islands off the coast) of Warp and... |
| The White Bull, by Jim Aikin Average member rating: (6 ratings) |
| Wonderland, by David Bishop, Bob Coles, Paul Findley, Ken Gordon, Richard Huddy, Steve Lacey, Doug Rabson, Anita Sinclair, Hugh Steers and Mark Taylor Average member rating: (14 ratings)Dream the dream... EVERYONE HAS READ WONDERLAND...BUT ONLY ONE HAS DREAMED IT... UNTIL NOW! The newest and largest-ever adventure from Magnetic Scrolls draws you into the bizarre logic of Lewis Caroll's... |
| The Worm in Paradise, by Mike Austin, Nick Austin, Pete Austin, and James Horsler Average member rating: (11 ratings)The Worm in Paradise takes place on the planet Eden, 100 years after the time of Snowball and Return to Eden. The robot megalopolis of Enoch may be a paradise for the silent majority, but it's a real... |
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