Xanderblar's Wish List

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?...

Ad Verbum, by Nick Montfort 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...

Alabaster, by John Cater, Rob Dubbin, Eric Eve, Elizabeth Heller, Jayzee, Kazuki Mishima, Sarah Morayati, Mark Musante, Emily Short, Adam Thornton, Ziv Wities Average member rating: (121 ratings) The Queen has told you to return with her heart in a box. Snow White has made you promise to make other arrangements. Now that you're alone in the forest, it's hard to know which of the two women to trust....

Alice Aforethought, by Hanon Ondricek Average member rating: (8 ratings) I need your help. I mean, you're the one who is supposed to talk me out of things before I do anything stupid. Time has stopped moving, and that might turn out to have been my fault. I didn't mean to do it....

American Angst, by m3g1dd0 Average member rating: (5 ratings) Imagine a horror novel where you get to make the choices and decide how the story plays out: Welcome to American Angst, a text-based multiple-choice survival horror interactive fiction, combining RPG...

Aotearoa, by Matt Wigdahl Average member rating: (61 ratings) The Fish of Māui. The Land of the Long Cloud. Aotearoa. An entire continent of untamed wilds, and the last place on Earth where dinosaurs still roam. If only you'd come ashore under better circumstances...

The Ascent of the Gothic Tower, by Ryan Veeder Average member rating: (31 ratings) A story of mild and non-debilitating obsession.

A Beauty Cold and Austere, by Mike Spivey Average member rating: (56 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....

Bee, by Emily Short Average member rating: (85 ratings) The story of a home-schooled girl preparing to compete in the national spelling bee, dealing with various small crises with family and friends, and gradually coming to terms with the clash of subcultures...

Beware The Faerie Food You Eat, by Astrid Dalmady Average member rating: (27 ratings) They say that some of the faerie folk can grant wishes, that they can give gifts to that who gain their favor. Now, you’ve found a portal into their world and you’re ready to step through and claim that...

Beyond, by Roberto Grassi, Paolo Lucchesi, and Alessandro Peretti Average member rating: (45 ratings) A mysterious death, a secret to be revealed… and someone who wants to know the truth, at any cost. ...

The Blind House, by Amanda Allen Average member rating: (38 ratings) I scarcely know the woman at my side. I don't even know why she was the one I turned to. I can only hope that we haven't been followed, that she won't ask too many questions. The only choice left to me now...

Blue Lacuna, by Aaron A. Reed Average member rating: (111 ratings) You have always been different. One in a trillion have your gift, your curse: to move between worlds, never settling, always alone. To Wayfare. Yet there are others like you, and something stronger than...

Bring Me A Head!, by Chandler Groover Average member rating: (28 ratings) Better hope you can hack it. A Grand Guignol entry for ECTOCOMP 2016.

Cactus Blue Motel, by Astrid Dalmady Average member rating: (85 ratings) Somewhere between New Mexico and Arizona, three friends were driving through a barren desert of red rocks, and wide empty skies. It was the end of summer, the end of high school, the end of so many things....

Candlesmoke, by Caelyn Sandel and Carolyn VanEseltine Average member rating: (24 ratings) Entry in EctoComp 2014.

Captain Verdeterre's Plunder, by Ryan Veeder Average member rating: (50 ratings) You should carry the bag. I'm more of a delegator.

Castle of the Red Prince, by C.E.J. Pacian Average member rating: (54 ratings) Welcome to Amaranth, foreigner. The Red Prince haunts your dreams, you say? If you want to overthrow our tyrant, you’ll need to consider this whole blighted land at once. (Castle of the Red Prince is a small...

A Castle of Thread, by Marshal Tenner Winter Average member rating: (8 ratings) Your family is known to be expert language keepers in your village. Your specialty is an ancient, dead language called Ixteesh. You never thought it would be useful for much of anything, but then you are...

Christminster, by Gareth Rees
Average member rating: (88 ratings)

City of Secrets, by Emily Short Average member rating: (103 ratings)

A Colder Light, by Jon Ingold Average member rating: (18 ratings) The last light has gone. The stars are coming out in the black sea above. Many are hidden by ice-fingered winds. My father is still not returned and the fire is almost gone. But this is how life is: always...

Coloratura, by Lynnea Glasser Average member rating: (110 ratings) Stolen away by apathetic Blind Ones, your only desire is to return to your Cellarium and the Song of the Universe. They should understand. You shall make them to understand.

Creatures Such As We, by Lynnea Glasser Average member rating: (91 ratings) A dating sim about how humanity connects through art, even out in the vastness of space.

Crocodracula: What Happened to Calvin, by Ryan Veeder Average member rating: (11 ratings) Based on the 90s children's horror soap opera.

CYBERQUEEN, by Porpentine Average member rating: (64 ratings) integration necessitates evisceration

A Dark and Stormy Entry, by Emily Short Average member rating: (26 ratings)

De Baron, by Victor Gijsbers Average member rating: (160 ratings) An evil nobleman, a kidnapped daughter and a father who wants to rescue her at any cost--that is not the way life works. Something much darker, something much more human, lies underneath. Een kwaadaardige...

Deadline Enchanter, by Alan DeNiro Average member rating: (58 ratings)

Domestic Elementalism, by fireisnormal Average member rating: (23 ratings) The plants that grow out of your bedroom walls are associated with Earth. The fairy lights strung across your kitchen are associated with Fire. Change an object's element, and the object will turn into...

Eat Me, by Chandler Groover Average member rating: (98 ratings) In this castle, you'll eat or be eaten. May contain dairy, carnage, puzzles, nuts.

Eidolon, by A.D. Jansen
Average member rating: (33 ratings)

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

Endure, by Emily Short Average member rating: (13 ratings) "Endure" is an interactive translation of four lines of the Odyssey. It responds to the player's choice of translation strategy as well as to the order of translation; the words you translate first will...

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...

Ether, by MathBrush Average member rating: (32 ratings) "For the first time in centuries, something is different. Your tentacles tingle as you float to the east past icebergs and whirlwinds. You skirt a pocket of hot air, bounce through a field of ice, and...

An Evening at the Ransom Woodingdean Museum House, by Ryan Veeder Average member rating: (24 ratings) Karen Chambers gives tours in a restored Victorian home.

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

Fingertips: I Hear the Wind Blow, by Jacqueline A. Lott Average member rating: (22 ratings)

Following Me, by Tia Orisney Average member rating: (16 ratings) Two women take a wrong turn in the woods and make a gruesome discovery. They seek help from a mysterious stranger and are dragged into a vicious trap that they will be lucky to survive. Intended for mature...

Fragile Shells, by Stephen Granade Average member rating: (51 ratings) You don't know how long you've been hammering against the station's wall, but you stop as soon as you realize what you've been doing.

Gamlet, by Tomasz Pudlo
Average member rating: (21 ratings)

Get Lost!, by S. Woodson Average member rating: (17 ratings) You're a suburban teen, sick of the suburbs. You run away to the land of the fairies, prepared for thrills and danger. Absolutely nothing happens the way you expect. A short Twine game with nine endings,...

Glass, by Emily Short Average member rating: (106 ratings) The Prince sits awkwardly on the couch, holding his glass slipper and trying to keep it from crushing. Lucinda and Theodora have the ends of the same couch, and they are taking turns seeing who can bend...

Guttersnipe: St. Hesper's Asylum for the Criminally Mischievous, by Bitter Karella Average member rating: (9 ratings) The year is 1929. You are Lil' Ragamuffin, the roughest toughest urchin in all of Garbagetown DC and the surrounding wastes of Montgomery County, but somehow the constabulary has managed to capture you and...

Hallowmoor, by Mike Snyder Average member rating: (18 ratings) Your quest: infiltrate Castle Hallowmoor, find the potion, and make it out alive. This is a Halloween-themed adventure -- hypertext interactive fiction playable in most modern web browsers.

Horse Master, by Tom McHenry Average member rating: (92 ratings) The Game of Horse Mastery

The Hound of Shadow, by Chris Elliott and Richard Edwards
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

The House on the Cliff, by Emily Short, Richard Evans, Linden Lab Average member rating: (1 rating) An accident to a carriage and mail coach strand a group of strangers in a desolate stretch of coastland. The only source of shelter is an ancient, rambling estate, where neither servants nor master appear to...

Howled House, by B Minus Seven
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

howling dogs, by Porpentine Average member rating: (125 ratings) death cube sim | galactic survey | visionatrix | facet machine | power gardens | women | fascination two significant endings

Hunger Daemon, by Sean M. Shore Average member rating: (65 ratings) It's not the end of the world, and you're to blame. Better get on that. But man, it sure would be nice to get a bite to eat first.

Indigo, by Emily Short Average member rating: (54 ratings) "Years ago, a witch placed you in this tower and arranged for your upkeep, paying certain villagers well to keep you supplied with the most basic necessities, and no more. Your years in the tower have...

Inside Woman, by Andy Phillips
Average member rating: (15 ratings)

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Invasion, by Cat Manning Average member rating: (26 ratings) The end of the world, and there's something after you. A short horror Twine about sacrifice, survival, and relative humanity. Le Grand Guignol entry in ECTOCOMP 2015.

Invisible Parties, by Sam Kabo Ashwell (as Psychopup) Average member rating: (20 ratings) You are a walker of the ways between the worlds. It is not an arrangement conducive to straightforward relationships. The Three Rebeccas have created a tangle, a temporary artifice woven from parts of many...

It Is Pitch Black, by Caelyn Sandel Average member rating: (24 ratings) Trapped alone in a darkened antique store with a man-eating grue, can you keep a light going long enough to survive? (contains sound, but no jumpscares.) 2nd place, EctoComp 2014.

Janitor, by Peter Seebach and Kevin Lynn
Average member rating: (28 ratings)

Kaged, by Ian Finley Average member rating: (54 ratings) ""But my madness speaks: It will but skin and film the ulcerous place, Whilst rank corruption, mining all within, Infects unseen." Welcome to the Citadel of Justice. The Inquisitor is waiting." [--blurb from...

KING OF BEES IN FANTASY LAND, by Brendan Patrick Hennessy Average member rating: (43 ratings) A videogame about space bees.

Leadlight, by Wade Clarke Average member rating: (34 ratings) 15-year-old Belinda Nettle is studying at Linville Girls High School in Australia's Blue Mountains. After falling asleep in the library one afternoon, she wakes from her mundane existence into a nightmare...

Light into Darkness, by Christina Nordlander
Average member rating: (9 ratings)

little, by chandler groover Average member rating: (9 ratings) a tiny yarn for ectocomp

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

Low, by Peregrine Wade Average member rating: (7 ratings) A Petite Mort entry for ECTOCOMP 2016.

Make It Good, by Jon Ingold 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...

Mammal, by Joey Jones Average member rating: (20 ratings) The lizards have taken over. You, a lowly human slave, are tasked with eradicating all mammalian traces from the Don Quixote Memorial Museum. (Written for the Apollo 18+20 tribute album project.)

Marble Madness, by Emily Short Average member rating: (16 ratings)

Mariel, by Michael Baltes Average member rating: (5 ratings) Nothing in this hospital is as usual. After a serious accident you have to figure out what happened and how to escape. Written to showcase the German library extension for Inform 7.

Marika the Offering, by revgiblet
Average member rating: (23 ratings)

Mentula Macanus: Apocolocyntosis, by One of the Bruces and Drunken Bastard Average member rating: (33 ratings) Stiffy Makane, or rather his ancestor Mentula Macanus, is here subjected to an increasingly-unlikely series of crudely sexual romps through the ancient world. It's sort of like the Satyricon, except not...

The Meteor, the Stone and a Long Glass of Sherbet, by Graham Nelson (as Angela M. Horns) 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 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...

Moments Out of Time, by L. Ross Raszewski
Average member rating: (15 ratings)

Average member rating: (61 ratings)

my father's long, long legs, by michael lutz Average member rating: (143 ratings) A weird tale. Some parts make use of sound, so this game is best played with headphones. One ending.

Myriad, by Porpentine Average member rating: (24 ratings) branching outcomes of a fetid day. 115 nodes. suited for treaders, meat-eaters, plant-eaters, students, arthropods, starvers, and victims. inspired by HyperCard shareware adventures packed on cd-roms with...

Mystery House Possessed, by Emily Short Average member rating: (11 ratings) This intricate all-text reworking draws on the Gothic, as well as Clue, to simulate seven characters working to outwit the killer in their midst.

Nevermore, by Nate Cull
Average member rating: (24 ratings)

Nightfall, by Eric Eve Average member rating: (61 ratings) The Enemy is expected to arrive at any moment. Staying behind is either the stupidest or the bravest thing you've ever done. Only one thing - or one person - could have made you stay. So now there's nothing...

Olivia's Orphanorium, by Sam Kabo Ashwell Average member rating: (24 ratings) Sparky young entrepreneur Olivia sets out to fulfil her dream of running an orphanage. The beatings will continue until morale improves.

One Eye Open, by Caelyn Sandel (as Colin Sandel) and Carolyn VanEseltine Average member rating: (46 ratings) Had you known the bloody history of Corona Labs, you would never have signed up as a test subject. But now, plunged into that history, surrounded by the damned and the dying, you must find the truth. Perhaps...

Opening Night, by David Batterham
Average member rating: (28 ratings)

Paradise, by Devine Lu Linvega Average member rating: (3 ratings) A multiplayer library, endless and sleepless.

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.

The Periwink, by Jedediah Berry Average member rating: (23 ratings) It's your last day as her ladyship's groundskeeper—but you still have a little work left to do. A Petite Mort entry for ECTOCOMP 2016.

The Primrose Path, by Nolan Bonvouloir Average member rating: (36 ratings) You've been having a series of nightmares about Leo, standing at the edge of a cliff. No matter what you do, a bell rings and Leo disappears over the edge . . .

The Profile, by Mike Snyder Average member rating: (8 ratings) Rain pours, and with it, distant thunder. You approach the house, perhaps quickly. Your boots leave muddy footprints on the steps. It's cold. It's dark. The time is between 2:30 and 4:00 AM; you're not...

Pytho's Mask, by Emily Short 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...

rat chaos, by Winter Lake Average member rating: (27 ratings)

Rematch, by Andrew D. Pontious
Average member rating: (90 ratings)

Robin & Orchid, by Ryan Veeder and Emily Boegheim Average member rating: (64 ratings) High school journalists spend the night in a church, investigating reports of a ghost.

Rogue of the Multiverse, by C.E.J. Pacian Average member rating: (73 ratings) Congratulations, convict 76954! You have been selected for scientific experimentation! You will be matter-transmitted to exotic non-Treaty worlds - where opportunities abound to take in fantastic sights and...

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

The Shadow in the Cathedral, by Ian Finley and Jon Ingold Average member rating: (31 ratings) When the monks took me, aged six months, into their care, they named me Wren. Maybe because I was small, insignificant, and happy to eat any crumbs they threw my way. But these days I'm Wren, 2nd Assistant...

Sherlock Indomitable, by mathbrush Average member rating: (13 ratings) Join a dying Sherlock Holmes in a journey through his memories. Sherlock Indomitable is a direct adaptation of two Sherlock Holmes stories into a text adventure. At least 90% of the text is taken directly...

Six Gray Rats Crawl Up The Pillow, by Caleb Wilson (as Boswell Cain) Average member rating: (19 ratings) A distressing episode in the life of Rinaldo di Gorgonzola.

Snatches, by Gregory Weir
Average member rating: (15 ratings)

Snowquest, by Eric Eve Average member rating: (47 ratings) You've been on your quest so long you've almost forgotten what it is all about, but now you are nearing your destination -- if only you can stay alive long enough in this frozen wilderness to reach it.

The Space Under the Window, by Andrew Plotkin Average member rating: (98 ratings) A new, experimental game that has no puzzles but uses only words that change your focus on things, thereby adapting the story. [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue]

SPY INTRIGUE, by furkle Average member rating: (44 ratings) IT'S YOUR FIRST DAY AT SPY SCHOOL, AND YOU'RE READY TO COMMENCE A LIFE OF ESPIONAGE, TRADECRAFT, AND INTRIGUE. THE ONLY PROBLEM IS, EVERY HUMAN EMPLOYEE DIED OF MUMPS JUST THE OTHER DAY. CAN YOU AND THE SOLE...

Stone Harbor, by Liza Daly Average member rating: (38 ratings) You're good at what you do: tell tourists pretty lies about love, money, and life after death. That's what people want from a boardwalk psychic, and you deliver. It's not the future you imagined for...

Strayed, by Adventure Cow Average member rating: (4 ratings) Strayed is a dark, atmospheric tale in the tradition of Stephen King or Dean R. Koontz. You're only fifteen miles from home; but those fifteen miles are a lonely road through woods drenched in mystery, that...

Sub Rosa, by Joey Jones, Melvin Rangasamy Average member rating: (42 ratings) A puzzle game about secrets in the Age of Lead. You've spent seventeen years preparing for an infiltration. Stealing the Confessor's secrets is only the beginning: it will all be for nothing if you leave a...

Summit, by Phantom Williams Average member rating: (33 ratings) A dream-like journey through a drifting life. Headphones recommended.

Sunset Over Savannah, by Ivan Cockrum
Average member rating: (54 ratings)

Swigian, by Mathbrush (as Rainbus North) Average member rating: (34 ratings) I don't like talking. Let's build a fire. Swigian is a minimalist game. It is long, but quickly finished, with few words and few complications.

Take, by Katherine Morayati (as Amelia Pinnolla) Average member rating: (37 ratings) You are battle-weary. Your armor is scanty and your countenance is loathsome; you tire of the swords flicking at your neck. But you have a duty. There is nothing you can't take. (Content warning: Violence,...

Theatre, by Brendon Wyber
Average member rating: (89 ratings)

their angelical understanding, by Porpentine Average member rating: (75 ratings) I train to fight angels in a monastery by the sea. Wear headphones. TW: Suicidal ideation, ableism, abuse, possible epilepsy trigger.

Transparent, by Hanon Ondricek Average member rating: (20 ratings) There is a house. There is a room in the house. There is a door in the room. The door is locked. Some people are in the room. Some people are transparent. An eerie exploration of an abandoned historic house....

TUNDRA, by PaperBlurt Average member rating: (8 ratings) You wake up. Walking. On a tundra. You're cold. Where are you? How did you end up here?

TWEEZER, by Richard Goodness and PaperBlurt Average member rating: (6 ratings) Congratulations! Your essay, "20 Reasons Why I Would Like To Visit Tuisere" has won Triptacular Magazine's "Let's Send You To Tuisere" contest! See the sights during your three day, three night trip to a...

Uxmulbrufyuz, by Andrew Schultz Average member rating: (5 ratings) EctoComp 2017 entry. Quick weird abstract puzzle.

The Veeder, by Christopher Brent Average member rating: (10 ratings) All the audience are wearing masks, hoods, veils, vizards, or vestments in order to preserve anonymity. Without anonymity, the entertainments would not be possible. Of all the beings in the arena, only The...

Walker & Silhouette, by C.E.J. Pacian Average member rating: (51 ratings) Team up with a dashing detective and an iconoclastic flapper to solve absurd and unfathomable crimes in this interactive story - where you control the action just by typing or clicking highlighted words in...

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.)

The Warbler's Nest, by Jason McIntosh Average member rating: (91 ratings) Surely the reed bank counts as a wild place. While it gives you so much, you've never tended it, not really, not like you do with your garden. It's something like the forest, then, but much safer to search...

What Fuwa Bansaku Found, by Chandler Groover Average member rating: (30 ratings) A samurai explores a haunted shrine.

When the Land Goes Under the Water, by Bruno Dias (as Nikephoros De Kloet) Average member rating: (8 ratings) The great, powerful elder empire of Atlantis has fallen, though accounts diverge on why. She will soon sink beneath the waves. But there is time, first, to sift through the ashes and catalog some of its...

Will Not Let Me Go, by Stephen Granade Average member rating: (67 ratings) Dallas, Texas. 1996. Fred Strickland has Alzheimer's.

With Those We Love Alive, by Porpentine and Brenda Neotenomie Average member rating: (111 ratings) no dreams written by porpentine scored by brenda neotenomie

Worlds Apart, by Suzanne Britton Average member rating: (90 ratings) For over 20 years, I dreamed about an alternate universe I called the Higher World. For three of those years, I poured almost all of my creative energy into a novel-length story set in that universe. Worlds...

Worldsmith, by Ade McT Average member rating: (30 ratings) The Septem Tower has held steady in the Manifold, the space between time and the Real, for billenia. Populating the Tower are the Anemoi, a race of beings so far advanced that they hold the power of life and...

You Were Made For Loneliness, by Tsukareta Average member rating: (10 ratings) It’s the future. The remnants of humanity, in the aftermath of a cataclysmic event known only as The Fall, have fled a dying homeworld to seek refuge among the colonies of the solar system. Twenty years...

You’re Tiny People. Can You Open The Fridge And Get The Lemon?, by ClickHole Average member rating: (8 ratings) The world is a big place, and today is a huge time.

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