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| 16 Ways to Kill a Vampire at McDonalds, by Abigail Corfman Average member rating:  (96 ratings)You're a vampire hunter on your night off. You're getting a manicure, seeing a movie, and eating fast food. But there's a vampire in this McDonalds. If you don't do something, then in one hour it will eat... |
| 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?... |
| 80 DAYS, by inkle, Meg Jayanth Average member rating: (95 ratings)1872, with a steampunk twist. Phileas Fogg has wagered he can circumnavigate the world in just eighty days. Choose your own route around a 3D globe, travelling by airship, submarine, mechanical camel,... |
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(3 ratings)| An Act of Murder, by Christopher Huang Average member rating: (82 ratings) |
| 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... |
| Adventure, by William Crowther and Donald Woods Average member rating: (97 ratings) |
| Adventurer's Consumer Guide, by Øyvind Thorsby Average member rating: (31 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... |
| 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.... |
| All Hope Abandon, by Eric Eve Average member rating: (37 ratings)Your day got off to a good enough start when you met that blonde in the breakfast queue, but it's all downhill from there: you may be wishing you could escape a particularly dire lecture, but not by the one... |
| All Roads, by Jon Ingold 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] |
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(94 ratings)| Anchorhead, by Michael Gentry 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... |
| 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) |
| Ballyhoo, by Jeff O'Neill 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... |
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(17 ratings)| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| Book and Volume, by Nick Montfort Average member rating: (13 ratings)Your pager tickles you awake. Upstairs in the house of your childhood, in your room, and it must be time for school because -- no, it's the weekend, you remember, but your alarm is going off anyway. You... |
| Bronze, by Emily Short Average member rating: (286 ratings)When the seventh day comes and it is time for you to return to the castle in the forest, your sisters cling to your sleeves. |
| Bureaucracy, by Douglas Adams, The Staff of Infocom 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... |
| Child's Play, by Stephen Granade 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... |
| Chlorophyll, by Steph Cherrywell Average member rating: (58 ratings) |
| City of Secrets, by Emily Short Average member rating: (103 ratings) |
| 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. |
| Curses, by Graham Nelson 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... |
| A Day for Soft Food, by Tod Levi Average member rating: (29 ratings)"Ever since the provider's sickness began, he's been all hisses and growls. Even the slightest misstep seems to annoy him. Perhaps that's why your bowl has held nothing but hard food lately. And not much of... |
| Deadline, by Marc Blank 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 Average member rating: (58 ratings) |
| The Dreamhold, by Andrew Plotkin Average member rating: (175 ratings)The Dreamhold is interactive fiction — a classic text adventure. No graphics! No point-and-click! You type your commands, and read what happens next. The Dreamhold is designed for people who have never... |
| Dual Transform, by Andrew Plotkin 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. |
| Earth and Sky, by Paul O'Brian Average member rating: (82 ratings)It's been almost a month since your parents disappeared. One Tuesday, they just didn't come home, and there's been no sign of them since. For the University and the rest of the town, the mystery is beginning... |
| Earth and Sky 2: Another Earth, Another Sky, by Paul O'Brian Average member rating: (54 ratings) |
| Earth And Sky 3: Luminous Horizon, by Paul O'Brian Average member rating: (41 ratings) |
| Enchanter, by Marc Blank, Dave Lebling 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... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| Fail-Safe, by Jon Ingold Average member rating: (112 ratings) |
| Final Selection, by Sam Gordon Average member rating: (18 ratings) |
| For a Change, by Dan Schmidt Average member rating: (115 ratings)"The sun has gone. It must be brought. You have a rock." [--blurb from Competition '99] |
| 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. |
| Frankenstein, by Dave Morris and inkle Average member rating: (6 ratings)This unique literary app places you in conversation with Frankenstein himself as his story unfolds. He will be your guide, and you his advisor. Console, counsel or condemn him: the choice is yours. Written... |
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(7 ratings)| 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... |
| Geist - An Interactive Geek Horror, by Dave Bernazzani, Dean Svendsen, Jonna Hind and Steven Robert Average member rating: (11 ratings)Geist was used as a site-wide adventure for Board Game Geek in January of 2014. During the week of the event, nearly 700 players worked their way through this game. The community rallied around the players... |
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(99 ratings)| The Gostak, by Carl Muckenhoupt 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... |
| 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 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... |
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(3 ratings)| 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. |
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(122 ratings)| Insight, by Jon Ingold Average member rating: (27 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... |
| The King of Shreds and Patches, by Jimmy Maher 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... |
| LASH -- Local Asynchronous Satellite Hookup, by Paul O'Brian Average member rating: (41 ratings)In this historical drama and treasure hunt set in 2062, you have rented a robot called a MULE that you can control remotely to salvage artifacts from an abandoned irradiated plantation near Macon, Georgia.... |
| Lifeline 2: Bloodline, by Dave Justus and 3 Minute Games Average member rating: (4 ratings)The original Lifeline took the App Store by storm, reaching #1 Top Paid Game on iPhone and Apple Watch in 29 countries. Its compelling mix of real-time storytelling and Dave Justus’s suspenseful writing... |
| 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... |
| Lock & Key, by Adam Cadre Average member rating: (77 ratings) |
| Losing Your Grip, by Stephen Granade Average member rating: (22 ratings) |
| The Lurking Horror, by Dave Lebling 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 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 Mary Jane of Tomorrow, by Emily Short Average member rating: (21 ratings)You, Mary Jane Minsky, have a few things to clear up with your best friend Jenny Yoshida. When your robotic birthday gift doesn't go over as planned, you may need to reset your expectations, for her and... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| Moonmist, by Stu Galley, Jim Lawrence Average member rating: (48 ratings)More ghosts haunt the misty sea-coast and stone ramparts of Cornwall than anyplace else on earth. One such soul roams Tresyllian Castle: a pale phantom with flaxen hair and a luminous, flowing gown. It seems... |
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(12 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. |
| 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... |
| Nord and Bert Couldn't Make Head or Tail of It, by Jeff O'Neill 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... |
| Nothing But Mazes, by Greg Boettcher Average member rating: (7 ratings)In this large game, you play as Gary Randall, a man who had a heart attack in 2026, was frozen in a cryogenic tube, then revived in 2189 by green aliens from Oo. Humanity bombed itself back to the Iron Age... |
| Oppositely Opal, by Buster Hudson Average member rating: (64 ratings)You've practiced long and hard for PotionComp, but Grusilda won't give up her title so easily. UGH! Curse that Grusilda! A one-room potion-brewing spell-casting parser puzzler, where things might go opposite... |
| Photopia, by Adam Cadre 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." |
| Planetfall, by Steve Meretzky 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... |
| 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 . . . |
| 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... |
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(90 ratings)| Savoir-Faire, by Emily Short Average member rating: (131 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... |
| 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... |
| Shelter from the Storm, by Eric Eve Average member rating: (23 ratings)It is set in October 1940. Jack is a newly-commissioned sapper officer on his way to his first posting somewhere on Salisbury Plain (in southern England) when his car breaks down. The weather is starting to... |
| Shrapnel, by Adam Cadre Average member rating: (166 ratings) |
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(1 rating)| Slouching Towards Bedlam, by Star Foster and Daniel Ravipinto Average member rating: (215 ratings)In the beginning was the Word, and it was hungry. ... |
| Sorcerer, by Steve Meretzky 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... |
| Sorcery!, by Steve Jackson and inkle Average member rating: (38 ratings)An adaptation of a print-based game book originally published in 1983, updated for modern touch-screen devices. The player quests across a fantasy map, dealing with all sorts of encounters using a text-based... |
| Sorcery! 2, by Steve Jackson and inkle Average member rating: (21 ratings)Per the first game in this series, this is an adaptation of a print-based game book originally published in 1983, updated for modern touch-screen devices. The player quests across a fantasy map (this time of... |
| Sorcery! 3, by Steve Jackson and inkle Average member rating: (11 ratings)The land of Kakhabad is a wilderness - a ruined desert, a tangled forest, cruel mountains and fissures, all guarded by seven fearsome serpents. But you must cross this land if you are to reach Mampang and... |
| 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,... |
| Spider and Web, by Andrew Plotkin 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... |
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(5 ratings)| Starcross, by Dave Lebling 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 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... |
| Sunless Sea, by Failbetter Games Average member rating: (20 ratings)LOSE YOUR MIND. EAT YOUR CREW. Take the helm of your steamship and set sail for the unknown! Sunless Sea is a game of discovery, loneliness and frequent death, set in the award-winning Victorian Gothic... |
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(10 ratings)| To Hell in a Hamper, by J. J. Guest 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... |
| the uncle who works for nintendo, by michael lutz Average member rating: (108 ratings)You are 11 years old. You are sleeping over at your best friend's house. You and your friend like videogames. Your friend has a lot of cool games. And, believe it or not, an uncle who works for Nintendo. And... |
| Varicella, by Adam Cadre 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... |
| Violet, by Jeremy Freese 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] |
| We Know the Devil, by Aevee Bee and Mia Schwartz Average member rating: (17 ratings)Anyone can kill the devil; that's why they always make teens the vampire slayers, the magical girls. But some kids can't even get that right; and that's why meangirl Neptune, tomboy Jupiter, and shy shy... |
| Weird City Interloper, by C.E.J. Pacian Average member rating: (54 ratings)An interactive tale of strange conspiracy. Pull up your hood, lower your gaze and enter the city of Zendon. If you can gather enough information, you may just be able to change the course of history. (Weird... |
| Wishbringer, by Brian Moriarty 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... |
| 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... |
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(32 ratings)| Zork I, by Marc Blank and Dave Lebling 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 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 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 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... |
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