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vestiges of summer, by graymeditations
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created with bitsy & pixsy musical attribution: "questions for your answers" by foresteppe

"I am inventing all this and it is about to disappear, but it does not”, by Dawn Sueoka
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it was always supposed to be like this it was never supposed to be like this, yet here here you are, with your synthetic teeth and rented bee suit...

ポートピア連続殺人事件 | Portopia Renzoku Satsujin Jiken, by 堀井雄二 (Yuji Horii)
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Yuji Horii's second published game (after Love Match Tennis), Portopia Renzoku Satsujin Jiken (Portopia Serial Murder Case) is a first-person murder mystery text adventure, which allows players to input...

♥Magical Makeover♥, by S. Woodson
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"You hold in your hand a pink, heart-shaped card daubed in rosewater and oil of jasmine — an invitation to the Princess Philantha's Grand Equinox Ball. In gilded, sweeping, sweet-smelling calligraphy, the...

(Don't) Save Me, by Coral Nulla
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As a recent recruit to the Agency of Narrative Intervention, you are tasked with playing the role of a "manic pixie dream girl". Following a strict outline, you must use your screwball wackiness to push a...

(s)wordsmyth, by Tristan Jacobs
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Built upon the intention of combining a choose-your-own-adventure game with a beat-em up, (s)wordsmyth is an unconventional, samurai-inspired, revenge story that includes sentient swords and yokai warriors....

1 4 the $, by Charm Cochran
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A story of consumption. 1 4 the $ ("One For the Money") was written in three days as an entry to the SeedComp! 2024 sprouting round. It is intended for mature audiences.

16 Ways to Kill a Vampire at McDonalds, by Abigail Corfman
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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...

17776 , by Jon Bois
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Or, "What Football Will Look Like in the Future." A sci-fi work about three sentient space probes watching humans play extended football games, originally written for SB Nation.

1958: Dancing With Fear, by Victor Ojuel
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"Dancing with Fear" (1958, directed by Víctor Ojuel). In this forgotten classic of Golden Age Hollywood, a vedette fallen on hard times (Salomé Vélez) finds herself enmeshed in a tangle of political...

20 Exchange Place, by Sol FC
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Sink or swim in the concrete pool. ...

20020, by Jon Bois
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Or, "The Future of College Football." A sequel to the 2017 multimedia story 17776.

253: a Novel for the Internet in Seven Cars and a Crash, by Geoff Ryman
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A London tube train, with all seats occupied, carries 252 passengers. The driver makes 253. Each one has a secret history, thoughts about themselves and the world. And each one's story takes one page...

5 Minutes to Burn Something!, by Alex Butterfield
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You're great at burning bridges and midnight oil, but figurative fire can't save you now.

50 Shades of Jilting, by Rowan Lipkovits (as Lankly Lockers)
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The relationship is in a walking dead situation: it's over, only continuing to move onward solely on inertia. One way or another, it ends here.

500 Apocalypses, by Phantom Williams
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500 Apocalypses is a web installation memorializing collapsed civilizations from across our universe. This interactive space is designed to allow contemplative engagement with five hundred curated entries...

500 Word Hotel Escape, by Kobato Games
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Short game about escaping a hotel made for Neo-Twiny Jam. The main rule was that we had to make a Twine game in at most 500 words, so it is very short and I had to cut more words than I would have liked to...

8 Shoes on the Shelves, by Marc Duane
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An account of one soldier's unfortunate attempt to locate a secret buried beneath the war-torn Flemish countryside.

9Lives, by Bill Balistreri, Hal Hinderliter, Sean Klabough, Luke Michalski, Morgan Sokol
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This IF was created as an assignment for ENG 437: Project Management, taught by Prof. Stuart Moulthrop at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee.

> by @, by Aaron A. Reed
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On the surface, > seems to be a traditional adventure game, featuring treasure, an NPC, a puzzle, and a happy ending. However, matters are complicated by the realization that the work's purported author is...

Abandon Them, by Alan Beyersdorf
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What exactly happened during the fairy tale of Hansel and Gretel? How do we separate the fantasy of the folklore from the realities of starvation and abandonment? While often viewed as a fantasy story, my...

Abate: Hide Behind the Curtains, by Rohan
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Leaving the realm of darkness, you wake up among your peers working towards your first project in assisting the welcome ceremony play. Yet unforeseen circumstances in each one of your attempts bring you back...

The Absence of Miriam Lane, by Abigail Corfman
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Sometimes people give pieces of themselves away....

Accelerate, by The TAV Institute
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A multimedia project about the end of everything. This is not a true story. Everything in it happened, and will. Any resemblance to actual events, or actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental....

According to Cain, by Jim Nelson
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Two brothers. One murder. And a mystery as old as mankind. ...

An Act of Murder, by Christopher Huang
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Ad Verbum, by Nick Montfort
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"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...

The Addicott Manor, by Intudia
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You thought the abandoned manor would be easy to rob. But you were dead wrong. Its many rooms and corridors are filled with evil. You need to be lucky to make it out alive! The Addicott Manor is constructed...

The Adventure of Esmeralda and Ruby on the Magical Island, by Marco "Erik108" Anastasio
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A story about two brothers looking for their missing friend, set in a special place. Who or what will they find on their adventure?

Aesthetics Over Plot, by Rohan
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After losing your job as a well paid biologist, you have been living rather ... let’s say frugally. With the oppurtunity of getting invited to one of your buccaneer friend’s party/banquet (really though?),...

Aether Apeiron: The Zephyra Chronicles, by Hippodamus & Company
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To understand the life of Zephyra, my Parthenos and protector, I have to take you back many years. We need to return to Kyzikos, the heavily-wooded little moon that orbits Arctonnesus, the giant...

Affairs of the Court: Choice of Romance, by Heather Albano and Adam Strong-Morse
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Plunge into court politics and change the course of history, or pursue a love affair that rocks the kingdom to its foundations! "Affairs of the Court" is an epic interactive fantasy novel by Heather Albano...

After the Accident, by Amanda Walker
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Relationships can be disastrous. A puzzle-free text game based on the poem seed After the Accident by Sophia de Augustine, written for SeedComp 2023 in Inform 7. Cover and banner art made with Canva. Content...

After-Words, by fireisnormal
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Resolve problems. Open Gates. Free Skycity. Go home. A game where you explore a surreal floating city, in which all room descriptions, lines of dialogue, item descriptions and action text are a maximum of...

Ailihphilia, by Andrew Schultz (as N. Y. Llewellyn)
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No need for aibohphobia. It's polite on the Zarfian cruelty scale -and- will let you jump to the exciting conclusion if your 2-hour judging period is almost up!

Aisle, by Sam Barlow
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"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
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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....

AlethiCorp, by Simon Christiansen
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Do you have what it takes to be an Associate Information Management Consultant with one of the world's largest information management companies? Can you leverage synergies with the best to operationalize our...

All Hands, by Natasha Ramoutar
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The sea is calling you. Its voice is getting louder. ...

All I Do is Dream, by Megan Stevens
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Your girlfriend has gone to work and you're alone in the house. What will you do? Learn a new language? Take up an instrument? Train for a marathon? Or I guess you could take a nap.

All The Games I Would Have Made For Seedcomp If I Had The Time (Which I Did Not) (Oh Well There's Always Next Year), by Cerfeuil
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It is 6:59 am EST on March 4, 2024, one minute before submissions close for this year's Seedcomp. Fortunately, this is the hypothetical nonexistent world of Seedcomplandia, where time is infinite. You have...
All Things Devours, by half sick of shadows
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From the game's about command: "All Things Devours is a short piece of interactive fiction, leaning strongly towards the text-adventure end of the spectrum. It explores an all-too-familiar science fiction...
Almost Goodbye, by Aaron A Reed
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Almost Goodbye is an experiment in minimalist procedural content generation for interactive narratives. It does not try to generate a whole story or plot points from scratch, but instead asks what is the...

Analogue: A Hate Story, by Christine Love
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Back in the 25th century, Earth launched a generation ship into deep space, with the goal of establishing the first interstellar colony. It dropped out of contact and disappeared, never reaching its...

Anchorhead, by Michael Gentry
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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...

And a Hippo New Year, by Adri ("Erin Gigglecreek")
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'Twas the night before Christmas when all through the house, the only creature stirring was a hippo the size of a mouse. This game was created for Yuletide 2012, an annual fanfiction exchange. It is based in...

And Then You Come to a House Not Unlike the Previous One, by B.J. Best
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Title: Infinite Adventure Year: 1986 Genre: Adventure Summary: Wander through an apparently infinite number of spooky mansions, solving a basic puzzle in each one. ForgottenGames.com rating: ★ ★ ★

AND WHEN I SQUINT IT LOOKS LIKE CHRISTMAS, by Norbez
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Oh no! Young Polly has been transported to a strange, magical land by an evil wizard. Help her get back home in this Twine adventure! This game was designed as a young player's first introduction to...

Andromeda Apocalypse — Extended Edition, by Marco Innocenti
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Floating in space on a strange vessel, sole survivor of a world... and maybe of the entire human race, Ektor Mastiff must find a way through the cosmos, on a voyage that can change the history of mankind...

angel numbers, by Sophia de Augustine
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A fragmented 500 word collection of thoughts about you from the world's worst guardian angel. Made for the neotwinyjam.

Anno 1700, by Finn Rosenlřv
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You have taken a job as receptionist at an old hotel on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, hoping to rekindle your interest in history before the final exam at college. Little do you know that you will get...

Another Cabin In The Woods, by Quain Holtey
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Your estranged mother left you the house when she passed. And her piano...

Another Round, by PetricakeGames-IF
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You play as Maddie, a woman in love with a woman named Agnes. Actually, she hates her. Actually, it's complicated. You definitely broke things off with her. And you don't regret it. At least once. Yes. At...

Antony & Cleopatra: Case IV: The Murder of Marlon Brando, by Travis Moy
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The year is 2021. Neo-America is prospering under the stern yet wise direction of President for Life, Gaius Julius Ceasar. 330 million souls live, love, and laugh, all working tirelessly for the glory of the...

Arcane Intern (Unpaid), by Astrid Dalmady
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Getting coffee, making copies, tampering with powers beyond your control. You know, normal intern things. Now if only you were getting paid for it...

Ascension of Limbs, by AKheon
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You are an antique store proprietor trying to make ends meet. Use your wits, manage your resources, play the hand you are dealt. This game features a story with multiple endings, achievements as well as an...

Assembly, by Ben Kirwin
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Today has been an extraordinarily long day. You picked up the keys to your new apartment in the morning, you went shopping for furniture in the afternoon, and you've spent the evening putting it together. ...

At the Poison's Edge, by Natasha Luna
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You and Vincent were lovers. Now you are at death's door with his hand-mixed poison flowing through your veins. ...

Attack of Doc Lobster's Mutant Menagerie of Horror, by Duncan Bowsman
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Havoc is gone. It must be brought. You have a mind-controlled psychopathic veterinarian.
Autumn's Daughter, by Devolution Games
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The smallest choices have drastic consequences in this short story. Follow the girl as she tries to assert independence in a society that tries to cut her down.

Babel, by Ian Finley
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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...

Baggage, by Katherine Farmar
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An exploration of stuckness, change, and the things we can’t let go

The Baker of Shireton, by Hanon Ondricek
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You are the Baker of Shireton. The bread you bake is delicious. Raiders are coming.

The Ballroom, by Liza Daly
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You arrived at the ballroom well after midnight. The End.

Bariscebik, by Anonymous
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Beat Me Up Scotty, by Jkj Yuio
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A bizarre catchphrase word enigma.

Beat Witch, by Robert Patten
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An interactive loneliness ...

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A Beauty Cold and Austere, by Mike Spivey
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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
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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...

Beet the Devil, by Carolyn VanEseltine
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Your dog is gone. She must be brought. You have a beet (and some other vegetables).

Begscape, by Porpentine
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highly randomized fantasy begging sim or bleak slot machine poem

Bell Park, Youth Detective, by Brendan Patrick Hennessy
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A headstrong twelve-year-old detective gets in over her head when she's hired to solve a murder mystery at an internet technology conference.

Beyond, by Roberto Grassi, Paolo Lucchesi, and Alessandro Peretti
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A mysterious death, a secret to be revealed… and someone who wants to know the truth, at any cost. ...

Bigfoot Bluff, by P.B. Parjeter
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Ten years ago you renounced Bigfootdom to become a paparazzi. Now it is your job to do an exposé on your reclusive sasquatch father. Welcome to Bigfoot Bluff. A game for Spring Thing 2022.

Bigger Than You Think, by Andrew Plotkin
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Bigger Than You Think is a choice-based interactive narrative. This game was written for the Yuletide 2012 fanfic exchange. The game was inspired -- perhaps loosely -- by Randall Munroe's comic xkcd-1110:...

Bill's Passage, by Benny Mattis
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Bill’s Passage is a lightweight choice-driven resource management game intended to serve as an educational resource about the process by which bills are passed into law in the United States Federal...

Birdland, by Brendan Patrick Hennessy
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Fourteen-year-old Bridget's summer camp experience takes a turn for the bizarre when her otherworldly bird dreams start bleeding into reality.

Bittersweet Harvest, by DagitabSoft
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Harvesters. These otherworldly beings, having the bodies of humans, are tasked with reaping bad memories of these humans and purging them from their hearts and minds. And in an era where mental health...
bl.ink, by bubez
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Black Closet, by Hanako Games
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A game of boardroom politics, lesbian romance, and schoolgirl noir. 9 AM Monday morning. A report lands on your desk: Jeanette's monogrammed silver locket has gone missing. The last time she definitely...

The Black Lily, by Hannes Schueller
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If you think you are being watched while playing this game, keep telling yourself that it's all in your mind.

BLACKOUT, by Playahead Games
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You are a new arrival to a small town with grand plans to focus on your art. One day, you awaken to an unorthodox message on your screen. The world is ending! What will you do with your last week?

The Blind House, by Amanda Allen
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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...

Bloodless on the Orient Express, by Hannes Schueller
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1899: On the way to your well-earned summer vacation, the Orient Express gets stuck in a snow drift – and there is a murderer on board. Time to get out of your coffin and investigate!
Blue, by Marius Müller
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In a dying world, there is one last choice to make.

Blue Lacuna, by Aaron A. Reed
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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...

Body Bargain, by Amanda Lange
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Your surgery went very well. But you couldn't really afford it... Be aware that this is a work of horror. This game involves situations that may be violent, distressing, disturbing, or triggering. This game...

Bogeyman, by Elizabeth Smyth
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You can go home when you learn to be good.

Boing!, by tumbolia
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Do you want a surreal and mysterious text adventure game in which you type commands and silly things happen? >> YES Then this might be the game for you! Do you like games that start in subway stations? > YES...

Border Reivers, by Vivienne Dunstan
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It's late fifteenth century Scotland, and the dangerous world of the Anglo-Scottish Border Reivers. A murder has been committed, and it's your task as the Warden's son to try to find out who was responsible....

Brain Guzzlers from Beyond!, by Steph Cherrywell
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You are Bonnie Noodleman, Ordinary Well-Adjusted Teen-Ager, on an ordinary well-adjusted drive up Make-Out Mountain--until some gooey monstrosity from beyond the stars guzzles your boyfriend's brains clean...

The Bright Blue Ball, by Clary C.
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You are Max, a beloved golden retriever, and you have to find your bright blue ball with only your sense of smell and your wits amidst danger and peril. Aimed at beginners. Kid friendly.

Broken Legs, by Sarah Morayati
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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...

The Brutal Murder of Jenny Lee, by Daniel Gao
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You are sent back in time to investigate a 17-year-old mystery. Who murdered Jenny Lee?

Buck Rockford Heads West, by J. J. Guest
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"Bored of his life in the East, Buck Rockford heads West to seek the meaning of man's existence." Buck Rockford Heads West is a short interactive Western. It was made in Ink for Neo-Twiny Jam with a final...

Budacanta, by Alianora La Canta
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Seek Szilvia on a boundary-testing voyage of discovery across Europe. A story starting with getting our adventurer, who can’t stand strong smells,through the airport...

Buggy, by Mathbrush
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This game is buggy. It won't really end unless it crashes. Cover art by Starry AI.

Bureaucracy, by Douglas Adams, The Staff of Infocom
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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...

BYOD, by n-n
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You are starting your IT internship. The details you got from the university are scarce: just the address and the date (today).

Cabin in the Forest, by willitchio
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Create a character and run them through a procedurally-generated horror scenario, all guided by Pallas, goddess of creativity!

Cactus Blue Motel, by Astrid Dalmady
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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....

Cage Break, by Jac Colvin
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What's a smart, human-savvy cockatoo to do when a group of dastardly bird traffickers come to the forest? No bars can hold you... Or can they? Make your escape, get your revenge and help the others if you...

A Calling of Dogs, by Arabella Collins
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You don't know where you are, or how you got here, but you do know you've been kidnapped. Trapped in a cage, running out of options. What will you do?

Campfire Tales, by Matthew Deline
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Campfire Tales is an experimental storytelling game that uses procedural generation to change elements of the story each time you play! Gather your friends to play together, with one player reading the story...

Campus Invaders, by Marco Vallarino
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For some time you have been waiting for the open day of the Vigamus Academy to visit the building that also hosts the game design course taught by Professor Mark M. Etal....

Cape, by Bruno Dias
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Cape is a superhero origin story for the cyberpunk dystopia we're all living in.

Capsule II - The 11th Sandman, by PaperBlurt
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There's this pause on the Makida every time the current Sandman goes back into the cryotube, and before the new one awakes. A certain calm where all is still. The Makida's dull hum is heard, but that is all....

Captain Graybeard's Plunder, by Julian Mortimer Smith
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A retired pirate captain cobbles together a ship and crew from the pages of classic works of literature. His goal: revenge!

Captain Verdeterre's Plunder, by Ryan Veeder
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You should carry the bag. I'm more of a delegator.

Carma, by Marnie Parker
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"A Glulx Inform romp (with graphics and music)." [--blurb from Competition Aught-One]

Caroline, by Kristian Kronstrand
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Let Caroline take you by the hand.

Castle Adventure!, by Ben Chenoweth
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Welcome to Castle Adventure! Written and directed by Ben Chenoweth (Copyright 2002 Grinnan Berrit Software). Adapted to Inform 7 by Ben Chenoweth, 2012. You have to rescue a princess of legendary beauty who...

Cat Scratch, by Allyn (Yilling) Chen, Hannah Turner, Laura Weber, Shirley Park, Will Hagen, Chris Klug, Scott Stevens
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The mission of Cat Scratch is to translate a chapter book from print to digital tablet. Cat Scratch will explore the ways using a tablet could benefit storytelling, without breaking the immersive experience...

A Catalan Summer, by Neibucrion
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It's the summer of 1920. Things are going well in Catalonia for the wealthy Vidal family : the Great War just ended that allowed them to greatly improve their profits. But these are modern times full of...

The Cavity of Time, by Sam Kabo Ashwell
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An Undum-fueled CYOA through a surrealistic landscape of intertextuality and logorrhoea, starring Stiffy Makane in his usual pornographic, antiheroic groove.

Cell 174, by Milo van Mesdag
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A micro text-based psychological thriller about a man trying to understand his dreams, his life, and the choices that have led him to seek answers in a prison cell. Written in one afternoon, in four hours,...

The Cellar, by David Whyld
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You were always told not to go into the cellar. Told many, many times. But you were never told why. Today you'll find out...

Changes, by David Given
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CHASE THE SUN, by Frankie Kavakich
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It's the end of the world and everyone's handling it in their own way....

Cheeseshop, by David Welbourn
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An interactive re-creation of Monty Python’s Cheeseshop sketch, where you try to buy some cheese.

The Chieftain, by LeSUTHU
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In the middle of endless prairies, and dynamic mysteries that await you, you are a chieftain of a village you created. You control everything about the village from obtaining food, encounters with the...

Chinese Family Dinner Moment, by Kastel
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Content Warnings: Sexual harassment, racism, transphobia. You haven't even had the chance to tell your parents you've gone vegan... Made for the Single Choice Jam. (Photo credit: Cera)

A Chinese Room, by Milo van Mesdag
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A one or two reader experience, A Chinese Room is one story in two. A story of power, control, inhumanity, and love....

Choice of Broadsides, by Adam Strong-Morse, Heather Albano, and Dan Fabulich
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A swashbuckling naval adventure, in the spirit of C. S. Forester's Hornblower or Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin books, with a dash of Jane Austen. Choice of Broadsides is a 60,000 word interactive novel,...

Choice of Magics, by Kevin Gold
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Your magic can change the world, but at what cost? Battle dragons, skyships, and evil Inquisitors, as you protect your homeland, conquer it, or destroy it forever. Choice of Magics is a 550,000-word...

Choice of Robots, by Kevin Gold
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The robots you design will change the world! Will you show them the true meaning of love, or conquer Alaska with your robot army? "Choice of Robots" is an epic 300,000-word interactive sci-fi novel by Kevin...

Choice of the Deathless, by Max Gladstone
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Battle demons and undead attorneys, and win souls to pay back your student loans! At the elite demonic-law firm of Varkath Nebuchadnezzar Stone, you'll depose a fallen god, find romance, and maybe even make...

Choices, by David Whyld
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You weren't sure what to make of Miss Harris when she first came to the school. She was, after all, seriously hot. Playboy-centrefold hot. From the moment you first saw her walking across the playground, her...

Chuk and the Arena, by Agnieszka Trzaska
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Fight in the Grand Galactic Tournament to get back your planet's stolen moon!

Citizen Makane, by Perry Simm (as "The Reverend")
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In the beginning, you thought it was a simple nightmare. But then it just didn't stop. ...

Civil Seeming Drivel Dreaming, by Andrew Schultz
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Okay, so semi-content warning up front: there's one thing where you are logically cued to say something very bad, but CSDD discourages you strongly beforehand, and hopefully you're rightfully punished for...

A Collegial Conversation, by alyshkalia
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The residents of the City of Zelio’s government complex have gathered for one of their regular soirees. The large, gas-lit hall with its gleaming marble floor, columns supporting the mezzanine, tables piled...

Collision, by manonamora
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Introducing Collision, a tiny Twine game with less than 200 words, made for the Neo Twiny Jam, about... ... well... will you figure that out? CW: animated text, sudden sound (volume slider), implied death

Color the Truth, by mathbrush
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Rosalita Morales is dead, and you have to figure out who did it. The four people closest to her had the motive and the means: her partner, her secretary, her ex-husband, and her sister. Re-live their...

Coloratura, by Lynnea Glasser
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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.

A Comedy of Error Messages, by Adam Le Doux
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A loyal but punctilious PC attempts to save its master from taking part in a disastrous blind-date, set up through the MMORPG Realms of Realmland....

Conduit of the Crypt, by Grim Baccaris
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A tiny text-based dungeon made in Twine for the Neo Twiny Jam. I pared this idea way down to make it playable within 500 words, and I had a lot of fun getting it there. 

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Confectioner's Atelier, by Grim Baccaris
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A short, tooth-rotting experiment made for inkJam '23. I haven't used ink in a few years; I learned a lot this time around! Features 🌴Explore: the environs around the Atelier provide places to search...

Confessing to a Witch, by HeckinRobin
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As a florist in a small village, you weren’t very hopeful that your confession to your witch friend would go well. But you DEFINITELY didn’t expect this...

ConfigurationUploader, by Autumn Chen
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ConfigurationUploader is a program for uploading configurations.

The Contortionist, by Nicholas Stillman
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Prison Escape Plan: 1. Squeeze through the bars. 2. ...

The Copyright of Silence, by Ola Hansson
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A chamber play in a board game. Short play-through time, but victory will require plenty of replaying. You are visiting John Cage, the composer. Use stealth to navigate his apartment as well as his...

The Corsham Witch Trial, by JC Blair
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Headphones blasting in your ears and the bitter taste of stale coffee clinging to your tongue you leaf through the heavy wedge of fraying files on your desk. The rest of your floor long since having...

The Counsel in The Cave, by Josh
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Graduate. Become lost. Imagine what's possible.

Counterfeit Monkey, by Emily Short
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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...

Cozy Simulation 2999, by KADW
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Short horror game made for SeedComp 2023 in a few days. About fifteen minutes long. (4/25/2023: This game was made in a short period of time, and looking back on it, I like it even less than I did before. I...

Cramming, by Chuck Bartholomew
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A brief foray into the world of Interactive Fiction. Mostly a way to learn Inform. Play as a college student minutes away from the due date of their final project. Get it done and hand it in. Pray for a...

Creatures Such As We, by Lynnea Glasser
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A dating sim about how humanity connects through art, even out in the vastness of space.

Crossroads, by Cat Manning
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They say it's death to seek the witch. For you, it's worth the risk. Venture in to the forest in search of relief, but remember that magic is rarely straightforward. A short psychological game about...

Crow Quest, by rookerie
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Eat, swear & try to take over the neighbourhood.

The Crystal Palace, by Peter Orme
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Your decision to spend a quiet weekend in the cabin that belonged to your second cousin (now gone missing) was not so strange. The strange things only started afterwards, when you started poking around the...

The Curse of the Scarab, by Nils Fagerburg
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Archeology licenses are for suckers, not for Rhoda Tarcrew. But now the authorities are closing in and there's only time for one last dig before you have to flee the country. Better make it count.

Cycle, by alyshkalia
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Tiel's partner Heron is the one thing in his life that makes him happy. So when Heron says ey's done with him, how can Tiel not go to desperate lengths to get em to stay? A story game with three possible...

Cygnet Committee, by P.B. Parjeter
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The year is 2049. Your mission is to take down a military cult that has formed around Joan of Arc.

Danse Nocturne, by Joey Jones
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Danse Nocturne is interactive blank verse, based on one of the legends of Charlemagne. It is played by dancing in different ways and has over a dozen different endings and understands over 1200 different...

Dark Deeds, by Justahack
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Written for Ectocomp 2011.

Darkiss! Wrath of the Vampire - Chapter 1: the Awakening, by Marco Vallarino
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You're the nightmare from which people can't wake. Dead twice. One by the hand of your maker, the second by the fiend who drove a stake through your heart while you were sleeping defenceless in your coffin....

Dash Slapney and the Calamitous Candy Corn Cornucopia, by Andrew Schultz
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Written for Ectocomp 2011. A bunch of do-gooders are out to take the chocolate fun out of halloween. You must foil them...without seeming like you did anything right.

A Day for Fresh Sushi, by Emily Short
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No time for fantasy. Must feed fish.

A Day for Soft Food, by Tod Levi
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"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...

De lo que aconteció a Kanwa Tathimizu, by Ruber Eaglenest
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Una fábula sobrenatural para el día de los espíritus, inspirada por el Shodo y los Yōkai japoneses. Historia por Ruber Eaglenest. Kanjis, asesoramiento y edición por Mariela "Scullywen". Ilustración de...

De Novo, by cyb3rmen
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Inspired by 1950s London true crime cases, De Novo is set during an era where capital punishment is still in practice, players are given the power to decide fate on who lives and who dies.

Dead Cities, by Jon Ingold
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The letter you received from Arkwright's nephew Carter was clear enough: when the old man dies the inheritance tax will be too great. It's certain ruin, much like the estate itself. To raise some capital the...

Death off the Cuff, by Simon Christiansen
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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...

Death on the Stormrider, by Daniel M. Stelzer
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You'd had such high hopes, starting out. And now you're limping home, tail between your legs, as all your plans for a new life crashed and burned. You barely had enough money to arrange an airship home, an...

Death Plays Battleship, by Nerd Date Night
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One game of chance to save my soul.
Death Shack, by Mel S
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Written for Ectocomp 2011.

Deathless: The City's Thirst, by Max Gladstone
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Negotiate water rights from scorpion gods in this necromantic legal thriller! Discredit your boss, solve murders, and reanimate your own corpse to keep your city from drying out. “Deathless: The City’s...

Deelzebub, by Morgan Elrod-Erickson, Skyler Grandel, Jan Kim
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Reginald is your average former soap-sniffer: thirty-two, dumped, and unemployed. You are a voice inside his head. Summon demons, bake cookies, and decide the fate of the Hidden Hills Sanctuary.

Defrosted, by Riyadth
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submission for #ECTOCOMP2022 learn random bengali phrases and survive in a world where antarctica is an arboretum of plant monsters based on this weird dream i had. there are three endings. credit to...

Demon Hatching, by Mxelm
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"...a short game converted to Ink for the Single Choice Jam. It was originally published as an interactive snippet on tumblr, and is a side-story connected to a larger WIP"

Depression Quest, by Zoe Quinn, Patrick Lindsey, Isaac Schankler
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"An interactive (non)fiction about living with depression." The player of this multimedia hypertext game is given a series of everyday life events, and has to attempt to manage their illness, relationships,...

Desert Heat, by Papillon
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"WARNING. This game is intended for mature readers and may contain explicit sexual scenes and/or questionable consensuality depending on play. It is possible to complete the game without encountering these...

Detectiveland, by Robin Johnson
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New Losago, 1929 - a town full of creeps, clowns, mobsters and, if you know where to look, the occasional honest citizen. Guide private investigator Lanson Rose through a series of puzzling cases: solve the...

DICK MCBUTTS GETS KICKED IN THE NUTS, by Damon L. Wakes (as "Hubert Janus")
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It's exactly what it sounds like. ...

Dig My Grave, by Ryan Veeder
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For reasons which remain obscure, it is your job to dig a grave. Written for the Apollo 18+20 tribute album project.

Digital: A Love Story, by Christine Love
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A computer mystery/romance set five minutes into the future of 1988.

Dinner Bell, by Jenni Polodna
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You are the involuntary and very hungry test subject of a semi-anthropomorphized dog in a labcoat who wants you to find all sixteen food items mentioned in They Might Be Giants' song Dinner Bell, which have...

Doki Doki Literature Club, by Team Salvato
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Hi, Monika here! Welcome to the Literature Club! It's always been a dream of mine to make something special out of the things I love. Now that you're a club member, you can help me make that dream come true...

Don't Take It Personally, Babe, It Just Ain't Your Story, by Christine Love
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A spiritual sequel of sorts to Digital: A Love Story, set in a prestigious private high school, and on the social networks of 2027. Seven students, three endings, one eavesdropping teacher. A full length...

Door, by Dev Vand
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improvised experimental narrative inspired by a bio from discord that turned into a poem to test music with broken repeated additive loops and multi language on construct 3

Dr Ludwig and the Devil, by SV Linwood
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Join esteemed mad scientist Dr Ludwig as he faces the greatest challenge of his nefarious career: making a deal with the Devil and coming out on top. ...

Dr. Sourpuss Is Not A Choice-Based Game, by P.B. Parjeter
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I, Dr. Sourpuss, talking housecat and test administrator, regret to inform you that your multiple choice test has been misplaced. While I attempt to locate the missing SCANDRON marking machine, please occupy...

Dragon Flies Like Labradorite, by Troy Jones III
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"You're in a right proper mess now. That blasted dragonfly has gone and disappeared, and what's more, you're down to your last farthing..." This game was released as an entrant in the Thanksgiving Speed-IF...

Duck Diary, by Mathbrush
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Your new rubber friend will help you get through this.

Duel, by piato
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But you were the one challenged. Custom dictates that you make the first move.

The Dying of the Light, by Amanda Walker
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Do not go gentle. Rage, rage. Content Warnings: This game is about dementia and violent psychosis.

Dysfluent, by Allyson Gray
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Sometimes talking is easier said than done.

An Earth Turning Slowly, by Mćja Stefánsson
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She ran through her list of findings. “We’ve never had one quite like her. The diversity of simultaneous wounds, I mean, in a surviving specimen. There’s this long-standing hand-wave in paleopathology: we...

Eat Me, by Chandler Groover
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In this castle, you'll eat or be eaten. May contain dairy, carnage, puzzles, nuts.

The Edifice, by Lucian P. Smith
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"Something new in your everyday hunter-gatherer routine: where did this strange edifice come from? Dare you enter and explore the secrets of this... thing, or do you try to face your enemies? Like you have a...

Eidolon, by A.D. Jansen
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When you wake up, something is passing through the night sky.

The Eidolon's Escape, by Mark Clarke
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For untold years you have been trapped, a spirit without a body, incarcerated by an evil mage. Finally your chance has come to free yourself and escape. Run wild in a body-swapping, race against time to...

Eight characters, a number, and a happy ending, by K.G. Orphanides
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"The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting." -- Sun Tzu, The Art of War As you wake to find yourself on the acceleration couch in Control, you can expect the muscle memory of your...

El Museo de las Consciencias, by Mel Hython and Santiago Eximeno and Grendel Khan and Urbatain and Depresiv
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Tu padre te abandonó cuando aún no tenías uso de razón. Te dejó en una casa en la cima de una pequeńa colina, al cuidado de dos mujeres siniestras, eternamente vestidas de negro...

Elftor and the Quest of the Screaming King, by Damon L. Wakes
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You are Elftor, legendary hero! You’re quite accustomed to adoring peasants shouting your name, but now you’ve come across a town where everyone is shouting everything - and it’s getting a little annoying!

Emily is Away, by Kyle Seeley
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Remember a time before Facebook and Skype? When Windows XP was the next big thing and AIM was king. Relive that era with Emily is Away, an interactive story. Create a screenname and browse buddy infos in...

Enceladus, by Robb Sherwin
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There's a werewolf loose on the spaceship known as the HMCS Plagoo!

Endure, by Emily Short
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"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...

The Enigma of Solaris, by jkj yuio
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Amidst the stars, Solaris stands as a beacon of human achievement and discovery. A space station dedicated to unravelling the universe's deepest secrets, it has been a centre of groundbreaking research. ...

Entre-d’śufs coquilles - An Eggcellent Preparation, by manonamora
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Clio, the pretty milkmaid, had been organising a special day for the past few weeks. This is to celebrate the anniversary of your first date. But you won't arrive empty handed. An Eggcellent Preparation is...

The Entropy Cage, by Stormrose
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Sub-sentient computer programs 'subs' coordinate our future society. You, the first cyber-psychiatrist, are drawn into the sub's war for their next evolution. PLAYTIME: ~20mins FORMAT: standalone .html file....

Escape from Hell, by Nils Fagerburg
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You've been trapped in a stupid zombie accountant long enough, tonight you steal another body and... Escape from Hell! A puzzly parserless parser game.

Escape From Summerland, by Joey Jones and Melvin Rangasamy
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Original Blurb: "In the near future a drone war rages in the skies, but below in Summerland there is only one thought: who's going to feed Jacquotte?" - Take Control of Three Characters each with their own...

Ether, by MathBrush
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"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...

Etiolated Light, by Lassiter W.
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A marriage contract, an isolated island, a house that seems to gnash its teeth in waiting. You have saved your family - but at what cost?

Eunice, by Gita Ryaboy
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Eunice is a shadow of its former glory. Hope is lost, just a faint mem-ory Whatever might have brought you here, That Eunice needs you, it is clear. Type out simple commands, and Notice the changes in Eunice...

Euphoria Brighter Than A Comet, by Naomi Norbez (call me Bez)
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Beckj, a Plutonian on earth for beir ornithology degree, has been invited to a fraternity's Halloween party. Can bey stay within humanity's expected gender roles, and navigate beir love for beir best Earth...

Eurydice, by Anonymous
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A short game about grief, with occasional snakes.

eurydice exhumed, by sweetfish
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EURYDICE EXHUMED Orpheus descends into the underworld to retrieve his beloved. Made for Single Choice Jam. Click, tap, or press space/return to advance text.

Even Cowgirls Bleed, by Christine Love
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Evermore, by Adam Whybray and Edgar Allan Poe
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"MISERY is manifold. The wretchedness of earth is multiform. Overreaching the wide horizon as the rainbow, its hues are as various as the hues of that arch". (Edgar Allan Poe, 'Berenice', 1835) This...

Excalibur, by J. J. Guest, G. C. Baccaris, and Duncan Bowsman
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The psychedelic science fantasy series Excalibur was wiped by the BBC. It lives on, in the memories of its fans. Author's Comment: "Welcome to the Excalibur Wiki. This fan-run encyclopaedia preserves the...

Excelsior, by Arthur DiBianca
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In this generic puzzlefest that uses a minimalist command set, you play as someone who finds and explores a very tall tower in a forest. There's no story here. Just solve the puzzles and reach the roof to...

Exhibition, by Ian Finley
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"The Hartman Gallery extends their invitation to an exhibition of Anatoly Domokov's "American Paintings." Who draws the line between art and life? HTML enhanced." [--blurb from Competition '99]

Exoplaneta, by BlueTeapot
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Juego de supervivencia y terror creado para ECTOCOMP 2022. Tu nave se ha estrellado en un planeta desconocido. Desafortunadamente solo te queda oxígeno para 5 días. A partir de aquí, puedes decidir qué hacer...

Extreme Omnivore: Text Edition, by Hazel Gold
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You just got home and you're hungry as a dog. What smells so appetizing? Where can you find a snack?

Faerethia, by Peter Eastman
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It seems as if nothing in this cynical world can be entirely good. Everything must have a dark side, a secret flaw, an ulterior motive. But Faerethia is the exception. This is the story of how it came to be....

Faery: Swapped, by mathbrush
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When you discover that your family has been invaded by faeries, there is only one thing to do: take names, and kick...well, actually, just take names. Cover art by Xing.

Fairest, by Amanda Walker
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“Mirror, mirror, on the wall,” you say dreamily, gazing into its sparkling surface… “You know,” replies the mirror, “I can do a lot more than just reflect fair faces. O, how I long to leap off this wall! I...

The Fall of Asemia, by B.J. Best
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⚔️ 💣 💥 💀 🏴 🏚️ 👪 ⛺ ✍️

The Familiar, by groggydog
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You are a witch's crow familiar, headstrong as anything but still young and untested. What starts as a normal day soon takes a harrowing turn when your pacific caretaker, Valmai, is struck down by a terrible...

FEAST OF SENSES, by graymeditations
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Warning: flashing lights.

Fifteen Minutes, by Ade McT
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You're in a tight spot. You have fifteen minutes before the Principal expels you from the cosy world of academia and into the cold harsh reality of the real world. You really should do something about it. A...

Fight Forever, by Pako
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Fighting is all that matters now.

A Figure Met in a Shaded Wood, by Michael Thomét
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In the country of Tuscary, near the town of Clarence, there is a path that runs through the woods and into the nearby mountains. There is a rumor that if you are walking the path at twilight on the night of...

Final Exam, by Jack Whitham
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Final Exam takes place in the near future after an AI revolution has led to the establishment of a new sort of government. You are seeking a job within this government: your performance in the “final exam”...

The Finders Commission, by Deborah Sherwood
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Fine Felines, by Felicity Banks
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You are a twenty-four-year-old who just inherited $10,000. Can you run a successful cat-breeding business? --------------- There is a spoiler-filled Cheat Sheet option at the very beginning of the game for...

Fingertips: Come On and Wreck My Car, by Paul Laroquod
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Fingertips: Hey Now, Everybody, by Melvin Rangasamy
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Some days a person just has to have a McGuffin fetched, and it's integral that it isn't fetched by Nobody. Today is one such day. A one move game for Apollo 18+20: The IF Tribute Album.

Fingertips: I don't understand you, by Matt Weiner
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Type what you want at the command prompt!

Fingertips: I Found a New Friend, by Adri
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You've had a long day. All you want to do is climb into bed. But why is your pillow quivering like that? Written for the Apollo 18+20 tribute album project, and loosely inspired by the They Might Be Giants...

Fingertips: I Hear the Wind Blow, by Jacqueline A. Lott
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Fingertips: I Heard a Sound, by Kevin Jackson-Mead
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Fingertips: Leave Me Alone, by Kevin Jackson-Mead
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Fingertips: Mysterious Whispers, by Peter Nepstad
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Fingertips: Please Pass the Milk Please, by Adri
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Your brother Sam is sitting across from you. He seems to be waiting for something. Written for the Apollo 18+20 tribute album project, and loosely inspired by the They Might Be Giants track of the same name.

Fingertips: Who's Knockin' On The Wall?, by Melvin Rangasamy
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You live in a vibrant international community, in all senses of the word 'vibrant'. But who is that knocking on the wall? A completely randomised logic puzzle for Apollo 18+20: The IF Tribute Album.

Fingertips: Who's That Standing Out The Window?, by Melvin Rangasamy
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It's a question, a puzzle, a mystery. Who is that standing out the window? A strictly one move game for the Apollo 18+20 The IF Tribute Album.

First Draft of the Revolution, by Emily Short, Liza Daly and inkle
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It is dangerous to deceive a husband of magic-using rank... Juliette has been banished for the summer to a village above Grenoble: a few Alpine houses, a deep lake, blue sky, and no society. Now she writes...

Fish & Dagger, by grave snail games
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You are a secret agent. It’s the end of the world. You are cursed. You came here to rescue your partner, but the mission has taken a turn for the weird. Parody spy thriller. Best played on a computer or...

Fish Bowl, by Ethan Rupp and Joshua Rupp
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You are a beachcomber living by the shore. Today, you wake to find an empty fish bowl in your home, and don't remember how it got there. You try to piece your memory back together, but soon learn what the...

Fix Your Mother's Printer, by Geoffrey Golden
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Flight of the Code Monkeys, by Mark C. Marino
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You have one job: Correct the errors in the System code. It's menial work, but it pays the bills. Only, maybe you'd rather not... What are you? Just a CodeMonkey? Perhaps you could join the Resistance, or at...

Flowers of Mysteria, by David Sweeney
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Your quest is to cure the Fisher King of his illness. When he fell ill, the once fertile land became barren. You must collect the four legendary flowers of Mysteria and make from them a herbal remedy.

Flygskam Simulator, by Katie Benson
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You made a pledge not to fly, but that doesn't mean your adventures are over. The bus journey from London to Hamburg looks simple enough. Just, you know, don't forget your passport, okay?

Following Me, by Tia Orisney
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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...

For the Cats, by Lei
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Your plan for a peaceful day out comes to a halt when you see a person selling cats on the pavement. The cats look sick and require immediate veterinarian help! It’s all legal, but it’s also wrong. You must...

For the Moon Never Beams, by J. Michael
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Springtime, 1993. Prom night. A lonely road on the way to the big dance. This should be a magical evening, but your date suddenly seems distant and withdrawn. Is it something you said? Or perhaps something...

Forever Meow, by Moe Zilla
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You're a warm cat who's about to have a very bad day...

Found Journal, by KnightAnNi
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While there are many unfortunate people who fall into the Backrooms, their artifacts rarely return to the real world. Most of the time these artifacts are videos. But today you have found a journal. A rare...

free bird., by Passerine
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A minimalist hopepunk avian escape game written for SeedComp! 2023. Seeds used: Feathered Fury by Amanda Walker Room; Closed Door by Charm Cochran This story includes mild descriptions of animal neglect and...

Frenemies; or, I Won An Andy Phillips Game!, by B F Lindsay
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When pulling on the door doesn't 'cut it'. A delightfully shameless, unforgivable one-room tribute to the games of Andy Phillips.

Funicular Simulator 2021, by Mary Goodden and Tom Leather
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Every twenty years, the aurora appears over the crystal mountain. Are the celestial lights a miracle? A scientific phenomenon? Or a message from another world? Take a seat beside one of four strangers, ride...

Further, by Will Hines
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You are a collection of energy loosely held. You are an echo of a person. Something holds you here.

Galaxy Jones, by Phil Riley
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The Solar System’s greatest hero, Galaxy Jones, against the evil Admiral Thallium!

GameCeption, by Ruo
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The Gift of What You Notice More, by Xavid and Zan
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Girls' Day, by Nice Gear Games
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Girls' Day A brief memory. 776 words. Written and programmed by Renkon. Royalty-free stock images from FreeImages. This game was originally made for the Single Choice Jam, Narrat Jam 2, and O2A2 2023 in...

Glass, by Emily Short
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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...

Glowgrass, by Nate Cull
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You play as a xenohistorian on an expedition. You've been dropped (more literally than you planned) by a dropship over the ground of the Ancients. Your equipment was scattered and the dropship crashed. Now...

Goat Game, by Kathryn Li
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Empathy, entanglement, and an ethical dilemma. Oh, and everyone is a goat. One year after you land a research assistant position at Yobel Laboratories, a prominent biotech company in Aegis-Liora, the city...

God is in the Radio, by catsket
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HIS LOVE IS ETERNAL. HIS LIGHT IS ETERNAL. CONTENT WARNINGS INCLUDE: death, cults, nonsexual nudity, abuse, and descriptions of body horror and gore. RENPY 8.0 IS NOT ALLOWING WEB BUILDS AT THE MOMENT. THE...

The Golden Heist, by George Lockett and Rob Thorman
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The domus aurea. The Golden House. Nero built his crowning marvel, the greatest folly of his reign, on the strength of your father's genius. And then he cast him aside. It's time to get your own back. And,...

Goncharov, by Stanwixbuster
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just a bunch of boring conversations and shooting? - letterboxd an excuse to mess about with tape window and a dead joke for goncharov jam music by cal credits https://archive.org/details/35mmstockfootage...

Good Bones: A Haunted Housewarming, by Leon Lin
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In this haunted house you'll run the gamut of danger from A to Z...

The Good Ghost, by Sarah Willson, Kirk Damato
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A wholesome haunt in five acts.

The Good Weapon, by Madeline Wu
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A malevolence lurks outside your bunker. Fathomless, omnipotent, and deadly, it devours the world with each passing day. The three of you swore to kill it--no matter the cost. Even if it means you've got to...

The Gostak, by Carl Muckenhoupt
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"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...

Gotomomi, by Arno von Borries
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Gotomomi central station is a place where many dreams and hopes meet. It draws in scores with its many possibilities. To most, it becomes a nightmare. Fortunately, I just needed to change trains there.

Grandma Bethlinda's Variety Box, by Arthur DiBianca
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It's the latest model, and it would really like to play with you.

Graveyard Strolls, by Adina Brodkin
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The sky is grey. The sun is setting. You’ve never been a believer in ghosts, but they still want to tell you all their secrets as you wander their graveyard....

Grimm's Godfather, by WaffleShuai
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This is a retelling based on the Grimm Brothers 'Godfather Death'. What happen if you didn’t choose the Grim Reaper as your godfather? How would your decision affect the story? As a Physician, who shall live...

Grimnoir, by ProP
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It's his biggest selling point and it's a cold, hard fact: occult detective Jacob Morris has never lost a case, and he's been in this business a long time. Join him and his singularly skilled colleague...

GROWBOTICS, by Cha Holland
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A new generation in construction and creativity is finally here! No matter who you are GROWBOTICS will help you channel your inner artist. A short exploration of invention, expectation, learning and context....

The Grown-Up Detective Agency, by Brendan Patrick Hennessy
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The only thing Bell Park likes more than a mystery is solving it on her own. But when a time-traveling 12-year-old version of herself lands face-down on her rented co-working desk, she'll have no choice but...

Guilded Youth, by Jim Munroe
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You play Tony, a fourteen-year old thief who needs some help looting the legendary Oakville Manor. Luckily it's the 1980s and finding fellow adventurers is just a modem squeal away...

The Guitar (The Lion Sleeps Tonight), by Jason B. Alonso, Catherine Havasi, and Val Grimm
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Gun Mute, by C.E.J. Pacian
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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...

Guttersnipe: St. Hesper's Asylum for the Criminally Mischievous, by Bitter Karella
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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...

Half-Alive, by Bellamy Briks
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The clock is ticking... Alfie is running out of time...

Hana Feels, by Gavin Inglis
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Something is bothering Hana. Can you work out what it is? Take the part of four important people in her life and guide their conversations. After each scene, peek at Hana's journal and find out how she felt...

Harbinger, by Kenna
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A week ago a horrible thing emerged and killed the wizard of the tower. You were there; you saw it happen. You are the only one who knows what's coming, and on your own you have no means to stop it. That's...

Harmonia, by Liza Daly
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Fuller, A. (b. 1966, d.?) 12 chapters, edited by E. Merchant. 091 Manuscripts—096 Illustrated—098 Prohibited works, forgeries, and hoaxes Signed permission from the Dean required for viewing. No exceptions.

Hate Plus, by Christine Love
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I can't believe it! My mission was supposed to be routine data recovery on an old derelict generation ship, but instead, I ended up rescuing an adorable AI girl who grew up in a tremendously patriarchal...

The Haunted Help Desk, by DSherwood
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Survive a maze of oddly themed offices to get IT support. Get help from characters whose unique personalities define the bizarre day you're about to have. One wrong move could mean spending eternity trapped...

Heaven's Vault, by Inkle
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An archaeologist uncovers a lost history in an ancient space Nebula. Award-winning narrative adventure game with hieroglyphic language puzzles, from the creators of 80 DAYS.

Help! I Can't Find My Glasses!, by Lacey Green
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(To be updated) ...

Heretic's Hope, by G. C. Baccaris
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Eser is the only human left alive. Gods and monsters, blessings and curses, an island ruled by giant insects — and in their midst: a reluctant human priest. Grief-stricken and bound by oath to obey the...

Heroes Rise: The Hero Project, by Zachary Sergi
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As a contestant on “The Hero Project,” you’ll battle villains and heroes alike with your newly discovered “Infini” powers. Will you vote to eliminate your rivals, or betray your alliance to curry favor with...

HHH.exe, by Robot Parking
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The disk drive uttered a sickening crack as you tried to access it. Somehow, you were able to run the single program installed on it, HHH.exe. It's a game, apparently. By turns unfun and familiar; foolish...

HIGH END CUSTOMIZABLE SAUNA EXPERIENCE, by Porpentine
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designed last minute for a live performance played for a crowd while they shouted out decisions more info (archived): http://aliendovecote.com/?p=4732

Hill Ridge Lost & Found, by Jeremy Pflasterer
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When he fears that a reclusive neighbor’s weird ministrations are leading the locals astray, an old cowboy takes it upon himself to amble back up to Hill Ridge and set things a-right. Note: This game was...

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams and Steve Meretzky
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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...

Horror in the Darkness, by Karmic Shift Studios
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Horror in the Darkness is a short exploration and puzzle solving adventure game inspired by the works of H.P. Lovecraft, where players explore and investigate, putting together clues and solve puzzles to...

Horse Master, by Tom McHenry
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The Game of Horse Mastery

The House of Fear, by Gwen Katz
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When 19-year-old Leonora Carrington runs away to France with an artist twice her age, she doesn’t know that she’ll end up in a Spanish mental asylum and he in a concentration camp. Follow her on a hermetic...

The House, by Finn Rosenlřv
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Written for Ectocomp 2011.

how do i love you?, by Sophia de Augustine
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A fictionalized account of how things might've happened between lovers sick to the teeth of one another. Made for the Anti-Romance Jam, 2023.

How to Win at Rock Paper Scissors, by Brian Kwak
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The disgrace and humiliation of last year's defeat is behind you. This time, with the help of the gods, you'll win this competition for sure.

howling dogs, by Porpentine
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death cube sim | galactic survey | visionatrix | facet machine | power gardens | women | fascination two significant endings

HSL Type Ω MEWP Certification Exam, by Duncan Bowsman
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Thank you for your interest in driving and operating haunted scissor lifts. These files include documentation for the haunted scissor lift certification exam ("Haunted Scissor Lift Manual") and the exam...

Hunger Daemon, by Sean M. Shore
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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.

Hungry, by Richard Otter
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You must escape. Must escape. Nothing else matters. Well, almost nothing.
Hypnotist of Ladies, by David Cornelson
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In this small one-note game, you play as the Hypnotist of Ladies. Your plan is to hypnotize all the ladies.

I Am Prey, by Joey Tanden
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A horror-lite science fiction game of evasion. (Experimental game: Reading the included survival guide before playing is highly recommended.) Inspired by the casual and round-based designs of visual indie...

I Contain Multitudes, by Wonaglot
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You are Chandra Fitz, a young engineer serving on the cruise ship Prinzessin Anna Alexia. This magnificent ship is the first purpose-designed vessel of its kind, meant to take passengers not to an...

I Palindrome I, by Nick Montfort
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I pressed on, being chased by a stapler with my name on it., by Charlie Marcou
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"I pressed on, being chased by a stapler with my name on it. This was unbelievable. Liz was turning my on stationary against me. What would she throw at us next?" - Garth Marenghi --- Based off of Garth...

I Think The Waves Are Watching Me, by Bob McCabe
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In a mysterious, dream-like world, enormous tidal waves have surrounded an island -- trapping you along with many others. And then the killing starts. What are you going to do? Better decide quickly. You...

I Told You This Was A Bad Idea, by Jessica Padkin
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The Terminal seems to be frustrated with you, but you don't remember a thing. Despite the Terminal's limited ability to understand you, you must attempt to ask the right questions in an effort to find out...

Iamb(ici), by Jo Lourdez
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Welcome to The Poetic Platform! Here, you can share, give feedback and view original poetry from and with other users. Rest assured that here at The Poetic Platform, we take your intellectual property...

If You Had One Shot, by Wade Clarke, Victor Gijsbers, Hanon Ondricek, Brian Rushton
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What if you had only one shot? Made for the One Choice Jam by Wade Clarke, Victor Gijsbers, Hanon Ondricek and Brian Rushton. A brief parser game with a single choice. Take your time and read carefully:...

IFDB Spelunking, by Joey Jones
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In the depths of the interactive fiction database strange games lurk! This is an emulation of ten random works found on the IFDB, in which inventory carries over between games for unique effect.

Ignis Fatuus, by DCBSupafly
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Written for Ectocomp 2011.
In a dream I told my mother, by Milo van Mesdag
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An oil platform worker takes a journey to the bottom of the ocean, where he loses everything but his past. Content warning in game. A game for Seedcomp! 2023
In a Manor of Speaking, by Hulk Handsome
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In a Manor of Speaking is a punny adventure set in the surreal world of Calembour. Journey through the bizarre Outlands, the bustling streets of Rudeville, and eventually find your way to the manor itself as...

In a minute there is time, by Aster
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A gamified love song to J. Alfred Prufrock and T. S. Eliot. Walk through half-deserted streets and muttering retreats, listen to odd conversations, and take in the evening. You only have 60 seconds, but...

In The Friend Zone, by Brendan Vance
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A horror-parody in the tradition of Franz Kafka. Many regard 'the friend zone' as a metaphorical penal colony in which well-intentioned Nice Guys™ frequently find themselves trapped. But what if it were a...

Infinite Space Battle Simulator, by Autumn Chen
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A game for the neo-twiny jam, exactly as the title describes. Approximately 300-400 words of text, not including code. Cover/background image source: NASA/ESA/Wikimedia Commons Content Warnings violence,...

InGirum_English, by BenyDanette
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InGirum is an unfinished game. It's a game in ruins, just like its creator.

INK, by Sangita V Nuli
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After the death of someone important, a mysterious letter is found that changes everything....

The Insect Massacre, by Tom Delanoy
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A short murder mystery set aboard a space station.

Inside, by Ira Vlasenko
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We were sentenced to trial by ordeal....

Inside the Facility, by Arthur DiBianca
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Your friend Mike thinks no one can infiltrate THE FACILITY, but you're going to prove him wrong. A light puzzle game. In the author's opinion, it's totally family-friendly. (If you're playing the Browser...

Insomnia: Twenty-Six Adventures After Dark, by Leon Lin
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What adventures will you have when you can’t sleep at night? An enthralling tale with more than 25 endings!

Intake, by Maddox Pratt
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A game about mental health care and the parts of oneself that has to be given up in order to get recognition and help, treatment and respect. It's about double binds and victimization, oppression at the...

Intelmission, by Martyna "Lisza" Wasiluk
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What do you do when you get stuck in a cell with that annoying rival agent of yours who's been the bane of your existence for years? In the world where words are weapons and secrets are worth more than gold,...

The Intercept, by Jon Ingold and inkle
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Bletchley Park, 1942. A component from the Bombe machine, used to decode intercepted German messages, has gone missing. One of the cryptographers is waiting to be interviewed, under direst suspicion. Is he...

Inward Narrow Crooked Lanes, by B Minus Seven
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Before we begin, we have a sharp-- I mean short intake form for you to fill out.

The Island (Valand), by Ann Hugo
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When you, a ten year old called Sam, fell into the ocean you expected to drown. Instead you find yourself on an island that's nothing like where you came from. The forests are vibrant, there's white sand...

The Island, by Old Andy
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J'dal, by Ryan Kinsman
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Jabberwocky, by Outgrabe
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The "Jabberwocky" nonsense verse was originally released in Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There" (1871), detailing one boy's adventure in the mysterious Tulgey Wood. This...

Jacqueline, Jungle Queen!, by Steph Cherrywell
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You are Jacqueline McBean, modern woman for the Thirties and intrepid international correspondent for the Fresno Bee. The good news is that you're on your way to a plum assignment among the glitzy spires and...

Janitor, by Peter Seebach and Kevin Lynn
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Jay Schilling's Edge of Chaos, by Robb Sherwin, Mike Sousa
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There was an aye-aye behind the bar, staring at me horribly. Or maybe its face just froze that way. I was waiting for my client at ten at night in a dusty, dirty town in the middle of nowhere. Clouds out...

Jesse Stavro's Doorway, by Marshal Tenner Winter
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Jordan is looking for his friend, Jesse, who is in hiding from the government. Picking up the trail, he discovers that Jesse is following the Grateful Dead on tour, but as Jordan immerses himself into the...

Jigsaw, by Graham Nelson
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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...

Journey to Ultimate Fightdown!, by Havilah "mwahahavilah" McGinnis
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Right in the middle of the final climactic showdown of Journey to Ultimate Fightdown!, the connection suddenly goes out, stranding the characters in the black. This unexpected break gives the player a chance...

June 1998, Sydney, by Kastel
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(Cover Photo: Christopher Burns) Your family is moving in, whether you like it or not. Year 1998. 499 words. A double entry for Anti-Romance Jam 2023 and Neo-Twiny Jam.

Kane County, by Michael Sterling, Tia Orisney
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Kane County, Southern Utah: A severe storm crashes your Jeep in the middle of the night and leaves you stranded. Come morning, you find yourself alone and surrounded by an endless expanse of open desert....

Keepsake, by Savaric
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The planning was easy. Committing the murder was easy. But getting away with it? That's another thing. Keepsake is a short, surreal story about vengeance and its consequences.

Kicker, by Pippin Barr
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A Killer Headache, by Mike Ciul
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The apocalypse is over. The human race lost. You're hungry. And you have a hell of a headache. Discretionary warning: This game is violent, scatological, and eschatological.

The King and the Crown, by Wes Lesley
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'The King and the Crown' is a very very very short game where you are the king. The goal of the game is to receive your subjects and end up doing all sorts of boring king stuff like passing judgement,...

The King of Shreds and Patches, by Jimmy Maher
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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...

Koustrea's Contentment, by Jeremy Pflasterer
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A tiny community of immortals receives a newcomer named Koustrea, who makes an unsettling discovery while struggling to find a paradisial niche, as the others have long ago.

Krypteia, by Kateri
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Since ancient times, the wise men explained to you, young warriors have learned to subjugate the Other in order to become men. To face what they should despise, in order to become what they must be. That's...

The Kuolema, by Ben Jackson
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This game has now been entirely 'remastered' and released as part of the Spring Thing 2024 competition. An abandoned ship is found adrift in the South China Sea. Its radio is silent and there's no sign of...

Kyrie Eleison, by Lapin Lunaire Games
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La noche del protector, by Cobra626
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La noche del Protector es una pequeńa obra de ficción interactiva donde seguimos al capitán Raúl Montes, oficial del ejército sublevado durante la Guerra Civil Espańola, en una incursión en un pequeńo pueblo...

La noche en la ciudad, by Juan Antonio Paz Salgado
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Nueva mini aventura de Héctor el Inquisidor, con motivo de la ECTOCOMP 2020. Pasa una ardiente noche con Héctor y sus fantasmas del pasado.

Laid Off from the Synesthesia Factory, by Katherine Morayati
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Synpiece: A wearable technology that changes the wearer's mood. Users of the Synpiece can adjust the 'color' of their experience, which adjusts psychological traits mapped to hue (emotion), saturation...

Land of the Mountain King, by Kenneth Pedersen
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This game exists both as an ADRIFT game and as an Eamon CS game. Eamon CS is a modular system so you can bring weapons, armour and stats from one adventure to another. Below is the intro story for the ADRIFT...

Language Arts, by Jared Jackson
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Are you a creative problem solver looking for career in an exciting and fast growing field? Do you seek out intellectual challenges that others are scared to face? Crystal Clear Communications, the world's...

Las Cartas de Mery, by Mery
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Disclaimer: Esta ficción interactiva puede contener faltas de ortografía ya que no ha podido ser testeada aún. Se ha creado en 4 horas para la Petit Morte de la #Ectocomp2022 Disfruta de más de quince...

Last Minute, by Ruderbager Doppelganger (A.K.A. Hulk Handsome)
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Oh, crap! Crap, crap, crap! Crappity crappy crap! Poop. The deadline for the 2012 Interactive Fiction Competition is only ten minutes away! There's no chance in Hades that I'll finish my Twine magnum opus...

The Last Monster Master, by Ben Serviss
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Will your monsters save the world, or destroy it? As a Monster Master, you'll telepathically train wild monsters to be treasure guardians, royal pets, or giant stone masons. As war breaks out with the...

The Last Mountain, by Dee Cooke
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You're out on the mountain again for the Merrithorne Mountain Race, your friend Susan by your side as ever. But something is different this time. Susan is struggling, and your chances of finishing the race...

The Last Night of Alexisgrad, by Milo van Mesdag
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The sky is dark. It is a time of mystery, change and struggle. It is a time of opportunity. In this asymmetric, two-player piece of interactive fiction, you and your partner each take on the role of a leader...

Last Valentine's Day, by Daniel Gao
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This Valentine's Day feels an awful lot like Groundhog Day... ...

Latter-Day Pamphlets, by Robert from High Tower Games
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A Victorian horror of decline and ruin

Leadlight, by Wade Clarke
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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...

The Legend of Horse Girl, by Bitter Karella
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Welcome to Santa Diablo, Texas, a tiny desert town held in the grip of fear by a corrupt judge and his gang of outlaws. No one dares to stand against these rustlers. No one, that is, until the fateful day...

Let Them Eat Cake, by Alicia Morote
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The small riverside town of Sangnoire holds a deep and dear tradition: the Saving Day Festival. Each year, the citizens gather and offer their best tributes to celebrate the town and its continued existence....

LET'S ROB A BANK, by Bethany Nolan
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Hey there, potential bank robber, today's your lucky day. Richman's Circle Bank is ready, waiting, and unsuspecting. All you have to do is choose a team and try not to get caught (or die - dying is...

Let's Talk Alex, by Stephanie Smith
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A simulation of what it’s like to try and leave a relationship after emotional & mental abuse. Players confront their significant other about unhealthy behaviors, using memories to support their claims.

The Life (and Deaths) of Doctor M, by Michael D. Hilborn
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Your vision clears as you gently land in an endless landscape. There is the wind, a bleak and chill thing. And there is your sense of uncertainty: You don't know which way to go. Or, maybe, which way you...

Life On Mars?, by Hugo Labrande
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The first mission to colonize Mars ended with a horrible shuttle crash, and it's a miracle you're still alive... Now you just have to wait until the second shuttle gets here. Five more months...

The Lift, by Colin Capurso
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You wake up in a room with no memory of who you are or what you're doing there. You need to survive, that's all you know.

Limerick Heist, by Pace Smith
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Rule 1 is that no one gets iced. Rule 2: the loot's evenly sliced. There's only two rules. Now listen up, fools! We're pulling a...

Linear Love, by Tom Delanoy
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And old-school love story set where else but in France.

Little Girl In Monsterland, by Mike Stallone
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Follow the adventures of two six-year-old girls with too much time on their hands as they go on a mission to defeat dangerous monsters, extremely competitive bodybuilders, and hyperinflation.

Little Glass Slipper, by vileidol
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... and the gold shoe fitted; but ugly she was, and so loathly she looked, the prince only kept his word sore against his will. Still they got ready the wedding feast, and she was dressed up and decked out...
Living Will, by Mark Marino
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As an heir to the fortune of the Coltan-magnate ER Millhouse, you can expand your inheritance or become buried in medical and legal fees as you peruse his living will and discover the story behind the...

Lonehouse, by Ayu Sekarlangit Mokoginta
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After your estranged sister's death, you face difficulty sorting through her personal belongings. As you navigate your grief through these objects, you begin to reminisce about old times and learn about her...

Long Live the Queen, by Hanako Games
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Being a Princess is not an easy job. Being a Queen is even harder. Especially when you're only fourteen years old, and the reason you've inherited the throne is that your royal mother has just met an...

The Long Nap, by Paul Michael Winters
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Sometimes you just need some rest. But don't sleep too deeply! Developed in under four hours for Ectocomp La Petite Mort category.

Lost and Found, by Felicity Drake
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Jun lives on a bench in Edogawa Park. He's come to know the neighborhood, and it unsettles him when one of the daily commuters disappears: Ms. Ishii, a schoolteacher. Why did she go missing, and why is no...

Lost Pig, by Admiral Jota
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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 Lost Spellmaker, by Neil James Brown
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Spells are in short supply, and spellmakers are disappearing one by one. So your boss T sends you on a mission to find the famous Drew Tungshinach so that he may entertain the community further with his...

Love, Hate and the Mysterious Ocean Tower, by C.E.J. Pacian
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Lovely Assistant: Magical Girl, by Bitter Karella
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A magician's assistant has two very important duties, to point at things and to look good in a form-fitting evening gown. But when Mugwort the Magician is kidnapped by his devious riddle-obsessed...

Low-Key Learny Jokey Journey, by Andrew Schultz
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The Burning Bright Spurning Sprite had nothing better to do than dumping you here. Maybe they'll give you a backhanded compliment if you stumble through!

The Loyal Doom - A PowerPoint Game, by Dev Vand
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The Loyal Doom - Tręs Demônios Livres is a short mysterious narrative played on PowerPoint featuring: -English and Portuguęs do Brasil translations -a range of 100 (fast readen) slides -about 5 endings...

Lucid Coma, by Eden Meridia
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Will you escape the nightmare, or will fear break your Will to Live? You are trapped in an endless cycling nightmare of waking up and being killed by a shadow. Soon, you will achieve lucidity and will be...

Lucid Night, by Dee Cooke
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You've always been a lucid dreamer, but these days your dreams never last very long. If only you could get some rest... Lucid Night was created for PunyJam #3 in February 2023.

Lunar Base 1, by Michael Phipps
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Two astronauts set out to settle America's first lunar base in the year 2080. You are one of them.

LUNIUM, by Ben Jackson
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Can you escape your chains before the killer strikes again? You wake to find yourself trapped in a room filled with locks and strange contraptions. Someone has locked you in here and identifying them may...

Lux, by Agnieszka Trzaska
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You wander around in darkness – even though the lights are on. Sandra is the only one to survive a mysterious attack on a deep space mining station. She is alive, but has lost her vision. Now Sandra must...

Ma Tiger's Terrible Trip, by Travis Moy
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The last time Ma Tiger’s children spoke was thirteen years ago. Now, with nowhere else to turn, she asks for their aid. Requires two players.

Magor Investigates..., by Larry Horsfield
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Adventures In The World Of Alaric Blackmoon - Episode 4 ...

Make It Good, by Jon Ingold
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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 Mamertine, by K Vella
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The Mamertine is a rather confusing cult escape story that evolved out of a tech demo for the upcoming second iteration of the VIBAE engine for Twine.

Mammal, by Joey Jones
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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.)

The Man Who Killed Time, by Claudia Doppioslash
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In the shabby, dusty office, just overlooking one of the least busy streets in town, sat the Detective owner of the establishment. You wouldn’t think it by looking at his head, as usual lowered as to almost...

Manlandia, by Rob Chateau
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Manlandia is a utopian interactive fiction that describes an isolated society composed entirely of men, who reproduce via parthenogenesis (asexual reproduction). The result is an ideal social order: free of...

Map, by Ade McT
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The house is growing. Or perhaps it's you who is shrinking. And with all this extra space is coming....time. Time enough, maybe, to make some changes.

Marie Waits, by Dee Cooke
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Three hours. All you can do is wait... or is it?

The Master of the Land, by Pseudavid
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> An interactive fiction intrigue in an immersive and dynamic world. A world that changes with every action. Freedom to explore. Radically different playthroughs. Lots of dancing. People wearing skulls. > A...

A Matter of Heist Urgency, by FLACRabbit
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"CROWN JEWELS STOLEN!" scream the headlines of the Meighsalot newspapers. Anastasia the Power Pony is no ordinary horse, and she's not going to let the Smashy Llamas get away with their latest villainous...

Maverick Hunter: Scandalous Mission, by Noah Si
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This project is not endorsed by nor affiliated with Capcom, Sega and Nintendo in any way. All Mega Man X / Rockman X material including but not limited to game, characters, images, names, and music are (c)...

maybe make some change, by Aaron A. Reed
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Inspired by the Maywand district killings in Afghanistan, 'maybe make some change' explores a frozen battlefield moment from six violently conflicting perspectives.

Mean Mother Trucker, by Bitter Karella
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Big Ester is a mean mother trucker about to take her big rig down The Devil’s Taint, the most treacherous stretch of mountain road on the whole trucking circuit... but first she’s got to win the heart of the...

Medicum Veloctic, by Lawrence M Marable
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the city’s hero: Veloctic. A man of great skill and great power who pushes his body to the brink every night to beat criminals. Veloctic’s boyfriend: you, a man who is desperately trying to use your medical...

A Meeting in the Dark, by Autumn Chen
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3AM, March 2020 - or is it April already? You are so, so lonely. A short game for the Single-Choice Jam 2023, ~2000 words This game is part of the "Pageantverse", a semi-canonical sequel to Pageant and New...

Meeting Robb Sherwin, by Jizaboz
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A slice-of-life adventure in Denver, Colorado.

Mermaids of Ganymede, by Seth Paxton
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Trapped at the bottom of Ganymede's ocean, beneath a thick layer of ice, your survey ship has crash landed. Your crew has begun to see things swimming out there in the dark, and no one has ever made if off...

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

metrolith, by Porpentine
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I made this in a day for BIG TRASHY TWINE JAM. This is a micro-story generating CYOA inspired by Zdzisław Beksiński, about a traveler coming to a massive stone ruin. The selection of travelers you can pick...

Midnight. Swordfight., by Chandler Groover
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A fool receives a challenge from a countess. Violence. Sex. Profanity. Sausage.

The Milgram Parable, by Peter Eastman
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Your job is simple: do whatever you are told, without question or hesitation. If you don't, people will die. Probably including you.

Milk Party Palace, by Alon Karmi & Glenn Parker
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Alec Baldwin gets what Alec Baldwin wants, and when he wants six gallons for a Milk Party, you better believe he's getting six gallons. Includes 3 Endings.

A Mind Forever Voyaging, by Steve Meretzky
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"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...

Mirror, by Ondrej Odokienko and Senica Thing
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All four Mirror game books are a result of an assignment for the Senica Thing creative writing event which had taken place just before Spring Thing and at which the participating students and teachers were...
Mirrorwife, by Yoon Ha Lee (as Virgil Caine)
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Miss No-Name, by Bellamy Briks
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A really popular kid is trying to find out the name of the mysterious girl that sits in the front of the class. Your goal is to help him achieve this! Or risk his life trying

The Missing Ring, by Felicity Drake
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Sadie Goldberg-Lawson is celebrating Christmas with her whole dysfunctional family at her Gran's house in Vermont. When Gran's heirloom diamond ring goes missing, can Sadie solve the mystery of the missing...

Missive, by Joey Fu
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It's your birthday today. Your ex-girlfriend brings you a present, and inside are a series of mysterious letters that tell the story of an old love triangle that ended in murder. Solve puzzles, solve the...

The Moon wed Saturn, by Pseudavid
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A simple, if peculiar, love story where not much seems to happen. The Moon wed Saturn is a short narrative experiment. Computer or tablet is recommended.

Moonland, by BillyJaden
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Kims love smells like a poppy, sedating your body and senses until only darkness is left. But something is whispering from beyond; a long since forgotten memory of consciousness . A poetic sci-fi story with...

The Mouse Who Woke Up For Christmas, by Luke A. Jones
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'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse... Well, that's not quite true, there was a mouse stirring, not in the house, but in the shed at the...

The Mouse, by Naomi Z (as Norbez)
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Better get home quick if you don't want to get hurt, Evelyn Grey. **This game contains mature language, alcohol, abuse, and a brief scene of violence. Player discretion is advised.**

Much Love, BJP, by Megan Stevens
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A brief look at the life of a fictional war correspondent. "Much Love: BJP" was showcased to a limited audience at the Hope College Celebration for Undergraduate Research.

Muggle Studies, by M. Flourish Klink
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You play as Alice Armstrong, the new Professor of Muggle Studies at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in Scotland, even though you've never heard of "muggles" before and never knew magic was real...

Murder at the Manor, by Jkj Yuio
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Major Stephenson has been shot dead in his study! A case for the indomitable Detective Inspector Lance Picton, who gets the cases no one else can solve. Who shot the Major? Charles, his brother and business...

Murphy's Law, by Scott Hammack
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Thing are looking up! After decades of scrimping and saving, you've finally pulled yourself out of debt. The only thing left standing between you and financial independence is one last mortgage payment. What...

my father's long, long legs, by michael lutz
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A weird tale. Some parts make use of sound, so this game is best played with headphones. One ending.

My Gender Is a Fish, by Carter Gwertzman
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Magpies from the forbidden woods like to steal things: coins, jewelry, your gender identity. It's starting to get dark, so you'd better find your gender fast. If only you could remember what it looked...

my heart, bared., by Sophia de Augustine
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A tiny tribute to the Nemesis Ambition in Fallen London. Made for the One Choice Jam.

My night, by Ivsaez
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You pick up a coach and you go with your best friends and the guy you like to your town house. You buy food, alcohol and tobacco. You are planning to have a party alone all weekend. Can there be a better...

The Mysterious Stories of Caroline, by Soham S
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Years ago, orphan Henry Smyth was saved off the streets when he was adopted by Katherine Kellner - only to run away a few years later. Now, he’s finally made a decent life for himself. His world is turned...

Mystery Science Theater 3000 Presents "Detective", by C. E. Forman, Matt Barringer, Graeme Cree, and Stuart Moore
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"A rewrite of Matt Barringer's incredibly bad game "Detective", this game was ported to Inform and subjected to treatment with Mystery Science Theater 3000 sarcasm. This version is the Silver Screen edition...
The Nemean Lion, by Anonymous
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NEST, by Ryan Veeder
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Written for Day 2 of #EnigMarch 2023.
Nevermore, by Nate Cull
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"A short tale of mystery and madness inspired by Poe's "The Raven"." [--blurb from Competition Aught-Zero]

Night Guard / Morning Star, by Astrid Dalmady
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My mother made a deal. So here I am, working the night shift, alone with her work.

Nightmare Adventure, by Laurence Emms, Vibha Laljani
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A clock, a wizard and a delicious secret. Solve the riddle to restore life to a town that has all but disappeared.

Nightmares Within Nightmares, by Grahamw
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Every night, the dream is the same. I am running through my hometown, with a vast fleshy mass pursuing me, and I know I will die. Then I wake up. And then the nightmare continues. This is a short game...

No One Else Is Doing This, by Lauren O'Donoghue
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You are a community organiser. This is your job, four nights out of five; you sell people hope on their doorsteps....

No Space at the Movies, by Kobato Games
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The new "Space Trek Wars" movie had limited space and you arrived too late to get a ticket. Find another way in!

Nose Bleed, by Stanley W. Baxton
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Please, stop embarassing us....

Not Another Hero, by Cecilia Rosewood
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You're probably familiar with those stories where people suddenly develop mysterious powers, and save the day. Well, this isn't one of those. Not the 'saving the day' part, at least. In this game you'll play...

Not Another Sad Meal, by manonamora
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After a difficult breakup, and a long night of drinking, you decide to take your life back and put things back in order. Starting with a simple meal. Treat yourself! Not Another Sad Meal is a parser cooking...

Now We're Clickin', Team, by Andrew Schultz
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This is at very most 350 words for the Twine Jam. There is a lot of JavaScript for calculating scores and such, but I tried to be aggressive about actual word count.

Nowhere Near Single, by kaleidofish
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A young woman in the entertainment industry struggles with harmonizing her public pop star persona and her private polyamorous life. Warning for mildly graphic content.

Nyna Lives, by Sarah Rhiannon Nowack
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The life of a witch's cat is no stroll in the park. It's more like a stroll through monster-infested woods, over temperamental streams, and across festering swamps. But you can handle it, right? Hurry home,...

Occhiolism, by DagitabSoft
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John Oscar has just rescued Patty Nicole from a traumatic experience, and the two stick together like glue ever since. However, during one of their dates, he discovers something distressing about her, which...

Ocean Beach, by James Banks
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You are waiting for the end of day.

Olivia's Orphanorium, by Sam Kabo Ashwell
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Sparky young entrepreneur Olivia sets out to fulfil her dream of running an orphanage. The beatings will continue until morale improves.

Ollie Ollie Oxen Free, by Carolyn VanEseltine
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"War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children." - Jimmy Carter

Onaar, by Robert DeFord
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Go to Onaar and become an Alchemist. Learn to make potions that allow you to survive and thrive in a dynamic, open-ended game world. Will you elevate your skills and vanquish the rogue wizard who threatens...

One Does Not Simply Fry, by Stewart C Baker and James Beamon
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One Ring of onion and flour, One Ring that's frying, One Ring to bring them all, and to the menu bind them... ...

One More Page, by PRINCESS INTERNET CAFé
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Your friend Ash and you were up to no good last night. You agreed to meet up at yours tonight, but it seems like you may have bitten more than you could chew. What is that mysterious tome you've been trying...

One Night Stand, by Giannis G. Georgiou
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After a night of vodka and vague acquaintances, Sandy wakes up in an unknown bedroom, unable to remember the name of the man sleeping next to her. Too proud to leave without a proper goodbye, she will get...

Orbital Decay, by Kayvan Sarikhani
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An astronaut’s life is wondrous; sometimes, space has other ideas.

origin of love, by Sophia de Augustine
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heretical poetry for your undead lover. 23:4 - though i walk through the valley of the shadow of death, i will fear no evil: for you are with me. entry for ectocomp 2022 in the "la petite mort" category: 4...

The Origin of Madame Time, by Mathbrush
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As an avid fan of superheroes and a harsh critic of villains, the battle over the abandoned amusement park captured your imagination. But when the nuclear airship Mephistopheles exploded above you, it seemed...

Origins, by Vincent Zeng and Chris Martens
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"Origins" is a story of the individual, potentially convergent paths of two people making their way through Pittsburgh. There are two available modes, a "myopic" view wherein the player controls a single...

Out, by Viktor Sobol
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It's a wonderful morning, and you're ready to come out.

Palazzo Heist, by Julien Z / smwhr
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Your mission, should you accept it, is to penetrate the Palazzo Moltieri tonight. Made for the Neo-Twiny Jam : an interactive fiction in less than 500 words. Made using the Porcelaine framework in the...

The Paper Bag Princess, by Adri
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Princess Elizabeth is about to marry the love of her life when a dragon attacks the castle and kidnaps her betrothed. Based on a book of the same name by Robert Munsch, with permission.

The Paper Magician, by Soojung Choi
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"The cat leapt for the star." Every time I conjured a cat and a star from the words I penned on paper, I found myself more and more like the cat. Longing for something bright and hopeful, but forever out of...

A Paradox Between Worlds, by Autumn Chen
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It is the year 201X and you are a teen online. The Nebulaverse fandom has been your safe place, and it is about to be torn apart. A Paradox Between Worlds is a game about fandoms, internet melodrama, and the...

Passages, by Jared W Cooper
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These are all the weekends that will have passed when you read this.

PataNoir, by Simon Christiansen
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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.

Perihelion, by Tim White
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What comets may come

The Peter and Paul Case, by jkj yuio
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Phantasmagoria, by Jac Colvin
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Where dreams can be more lethal than the waking world​.

Photograph: A Portrait of Reflection, by Steve Evans
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Photograph was an entry in the 2002 IFComp, in which it placed 3rd out of 38 entries. It was also nominated for two XYZZY awards, "Best Player Character" & "Best Use Of Medium". It's a story-driven, almost...

Photopia, by Adam Cadre
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"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 Cookie and Sigh, by P.B. Parjeter
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I originally meant to announce this as an April Fool’s joke (ie. a lost Douglas Adams game that doesn’t really exist) but I ended up turning it into a straight adaptation of the story. Adapted from Douglas...

Pilgrimage, by Víctor Ojuel
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Leave Rome in the dead of night. Pursue an hermetic quest throughout Medieval Europe. Find arcane knowledge or utter despair. Blessings of Babylon.

The Pinecone, by Joseph Pentangelo
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A breath born of boredom rises in the wintry sky. Hooves and bells approach. The school bus is late.

Pit of the Condemned, by Matthew Holland
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Hundreds of years ago those who built the city disappeared. Years ago we found the city and stole all we could. Soon after we woke the beast. Now we don't go there, except to send criminals for exile and...

Planet C, by Mark Carew
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Welcome to planet C and its small but growing colony of survivors from Earth. YOU are in charge of power generation, food production and limiting pollution. Land the ships carrying the colonists and...

The Play, by Dietrich Squinkifer (Squinky)
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Pull yourself together, Ainsley. Just one more rehearsal until the big day, assuming nothing catastrophic happens. But really, all you have to do is get your motley crew of actors to run their parts once...

Please Sign Here, by Michelle Negron (as "Road")
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Jackie Parker's life gets turned upside down after getting involved in a fatal car accident with her best friend. Now, Jackie's signature has been showing up at murder sights across the area and she has to...

Poetic Justice, by Onno Brouwer
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Step into the shoes of a legendary poet defending yourself against accusations of plagiarism from iconic poets of history. Will you prevail and secure your rightful place in the annals of poetic history, or...

Pogoman GO!, by Jack Welch and Ben Collins-Sussman
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The world is full of Pogomen, and now that you don’t have a job or family to worry about, you might as well get back to it!

The Pool, by Jacob Reux
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You work at a research institute that studies aquatic life. But you swear you just saw something strange in the water....

Popstar Idol Survival Game, by CrunchMasterGowon
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Compete against other contestants to become star popstar idol!

POV: You're a Teenage Girl in a Conservative Christian Family, by alyshkalia
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A little piece of my religious trauma.

prepare for return, by Travis Moy
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Entry for SeedComp 2023, sprouting stage. The seed is "other thing" by slugzuki: https://slugzuki.itch.io/seedcomp2

The Problems Compound, by Andrew Schultz
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Wherein you, Alec Smart, turn what's-thats into that's-whats.

A Pumpkin, by fos1
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A mostly light hearted Halloween fiction. It should be fun. Be careful in the dark side of Pumpkin World!

Put-Peep(tm), by Sean Huxter
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A brief interactive autobiography by Sean Huxter The rules are simple. Someone hides the Peep(tm). It's your turn to find it. Then you Put-Peep(tm) the next person on the list. You're it, and you have no...

Queenlash, by Kaemi Velatet
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Queenlash is an interactive novel about the life of Cleopatra told from the perspectives of eight women.

Questor's Quest, by Mark Stahl
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You’re a young man, on an adventure far from home, in search of a legendary treasure locked up inside an ivory tower. Forgot to pack? Incredibly deep pockets, but nothing in them? No problem. I’m sure...

Quintessence, by Lapin Lunaire Games
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Galina has always been Good. How could she not be? Beloved daughter of the town blacksmith, sweetheart of the farmer's most charming son, and envy of her peers—Galina's life is as close to ideal as it can...

Raik, by Harry Giles
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A Scots fantasia about anxiety Featuring kelpies, lost keys, mysteriously-lit underground caverns, boring work, panic attacks and red hair. Raik is written in Scots, one of the languages of Scotland, with a...

Rameses, by Stephen Bond
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Rat Chasm, by Hatless
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Recorded, by Nick Junius
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Sometimes we lose the things most precious to us and must look for them in unlikely, or sometimes likely places. You have lost your voice and find yourself in a place you do not recognize with its own loss...

Red Door Yellow Door, by Charm Cochran
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Guide your sister through a game of visualization, adventure, and danger, and perhaps discover truths about each other along the way. This was originally intended for SeedComp!, but winded up being a bigger...

Red Haze / Bruma Roja, by Ruber Eaglenest
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An interactive nightmare Content warning: War scenes, lifeless corpses, blood. / Advertencia de contenido: Escenas de guerra, cuerpos sin vida, sangre.

Red Radish Robotics, by Gibbo
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On the seventh floor of HQ, the professor rushed into the games room as people yelled and slammed doors in the corridor outside. He hugged you to sleep. That is your last memory. You wake to discover that...

Repeat the Ending, by Drew Cook
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Explore an all-new "critical edition" of a 1996 Inform 5 game about mental illness, magic, and the second law of thermodynamics. When D, a psychiatrically disabled chaos wizard, learns that an estranged...

Río Alto: Forgotten Memories, by Ambrosio
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Luis couldn't stop reliving that day, the very same day he decided to dig into Felisa's silences, into Juana's sadness, into Marta's lies, into Mr. Eustaquio's cowardice... into his own troubled life. What...

Riot, by Taylor Johnson
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Your city is burning. Parker, a riot control officer, is thrust into the heat of his first riot when one mistake changes everything. Now he wanders through the bedlam, harbouring a deadly secret.

Rite of Passage, by Arno von Borries
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A comedy in four parts about exciting games of instinct and wits, set in childhood. Not necessarily for children.

Ritus Sacri, by quackoquack
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On the desk in front of you: a Latin dictionary, a blank sheet of lined paper, and the photocopied passage you need to translate for class tomorrow. You always leave things too late.

Roads Not Taken, by Doug Egan
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A lesson on finding one's path through the trees.

The Roads not Taken, by manonamora
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The Ritual awaits... Are you ready to make your choice? The one that will shape the rest of your life? Or will regret the roads not taken? This game was submitted to the 2023 Edition of the SpringThing, an...

Robbery Reverie, by Natasha Luna
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As a new thief, you might be wet behind the ears, but you're not going to let that stop you from carrying out daring heists! ...

Robin & Orchid, by Ryan Veeder and Emily Boegheim
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High school journalists spend the night in a church, investigating reports of a ghost.

The Rocket Man From The Sea, by Janos Honkonen
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On the old pilot station island, where you live with your parents, the war fought with Earth and Martian rocket-ships and Atomic Heat Rays exist only in the sonorous voice of the newscaster on the radio, and...

Rogue of the Multiverse, by C.E.J. Pacian
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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...

Room 206, by Byron Alexander Campbell
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The wedding is over, but the bride is nowhere to be found. You receive a phone call from a mysterious stranger. Things are not always as simple as they seem, and as you pursue the woman of your dreams you...

The Rye in the Dark City, by manonamora
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Entry to the SeedComp! Play Detective Rye, a down-on-the-luck detective about to delve into a strange case... Based on the names, locations, or plot points from following seeds: The Witch's Bakery by Ramona...

The Sacred Shovel of Athenia, by Andy Galilee
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A simple puzzle based IF game in the style of the early Infocom games. The Aim of the game is to find the lost ‘Sacred Shovel’ and return it to the king. We had recently acquired a kitten and my son was a...

Sage Sanctum Scramble, by Arthur DiBianca
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A grab bag of puzzles, mostly word puzzles. Collect keywords and save the Sanctum!

Sand-dancer, by Aaron Reed and Alexei Othenin-Girard
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It figures that your pickup would die on a night like this and leave you stranded in the dark New Mexico desert. But nothing else figures about this night, man. Nothing at all. An example game for Aaron...

Save the Date, by Chris Cornell
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"It’s a perfectly normal evening, and you have a quiet dinner planned with one of your friends. And so begins one of my weirder games. Save the Date is a game about a lot of things. Friendship. Stories....

Savoir-Faire, by Emily Short
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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...

Scale, by lavieenmeow
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The aquarium: 29 gallons of water, black gravel, a large, moss-covered rock on one side of the tank, a dense grove of Vallisneria grass on the other. In the foreground, a treasure chest lazily opens, then...

Scarlet Sails, by Felicity Banks
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Hoist the Jolly Roger and set sail to find the legendary Titan’s Treasure! Do you fight with a cutlass, or with your magical skill? Are you biding your time until you can shoot your captain in the back, or...

The Sculptor, by Yakoub Mousli
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Sways of an artist's delicate spirit. An 82 year old sculptor with no achievements to his name or a penny in his pocket now seeks to make the masterpiece of his dreams before his life fades. ...

The Sealed Room, by Robert DeFord
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In this tiny game, you play as a man who briefly meets an old man on a park bench before he inexplicably teleports you away. When the magical mist dissolves, you find yourself in an exit-less stone chamber...

Seasonal Apocalypse Disorder, by Zan and Xavid
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As cities around the world turn to ash, the Federal Bureau of Druids sends you back in time to the autumnal equinox to stop the Order of the Fiery Doom. Find plants for your mystical cocoon and travel to...

Second Story, by Fred Snyder
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You retired from The Game six years ago. Your brother had other ideas. Now he's in big trouble with a crew that won't hesitate to kill him, and the only way to save his skin is to dust off the old tools...

The Secret of Nara, by Ralfe Rich
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Matters of life from the viewpoint of a deer

Secret of the Black Walrus, by spaceflounder
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A wicked plot is afoot in Victorian London. Are you a clever enough to discover the Secret of the Black Walrus?

The Secret Vaults of Kas the Betrayer, by A.E. Jackson
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Earthquakes have been reported in a region south of the city. A landslide has cleared large swaths of land away from a massive granite wall buried deep under the hillside. This granite wall is merely the...

Seedship, by John Ayliff
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An AI ship full of frozen colonists must find the best planet to be the new home of the human race.

Seeking Ataraxia, by Glass Rat Media
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A simulation of what it's like to live with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, balancing life, relationships and neurosis on your quest toward peace.

Several Other Tales from Castle Balderstone, by Ryan Veeder
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Third in a series of anthologies of unbelievable terror, edited by Ryan Veeder, again. Also an ECTOCOMP 2020 entry.

Shade, by Andrew Plotkin
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"A one-room game set in your apartment." [--blurb from Competition Aught-Zero]

The Shadow Witch, by Healy
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It's a beautiful new morning. Time to work some evil into the world.

shadows on the mirror, by Chrysoula Tzavelas
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I am falling, I am fading, I am drowning, help me to breathe...

She's Actual Size, by Jake Eakle
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Shelter from the Storm, by Eric Eve
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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...

The Ship, by Sotiris Niarchos
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An interactive novel about reaching out to others and finding oneself ...

Shrapnel, by Adam Cadre
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Shuffling Around, by Andrew Schultz (as Ned Yompus)
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A weird power to save a weird world. So you just got fired from the best company ever, and it's the best day of your life. New opportunities! New horizons! New ways to look at things! Like calling this...

Sigil Reader (Field), by verityvirtue
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I am a sigil reader. I work in a city where sigils are a matter of public health, for a maliciously inscribed sigil could mean the ruin of a business - or a soul. Except today I wake to a changed world. The...

Sigmund's Quest, by Gregor Holtz
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Sigmund’s Quest is an homage to the classic point-and-click adventure games that inspired me so much as a child. It tells the first part of the story of the Völsunga saga, a Norse myth similar to King Arthur...

Signos, by Mauricio Diaz Garcia a.k.a. "M4u"
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Siluetas, by Fran_Kane
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Pequeńo aporte para la Ectocomp 2022, en su categoria La Petite Mort. Es la primera vez que hago algo en Binksi y no he aprovechado para nada las características del programa, así que olvidaos de cinemáticas...

Six, by Wade Clarke
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Your name is Harriet Leitner, and you and your twin sister Demi turned six this morning! You're having a fancy dress birthday party, and this afternoon you'll be playing Hide and Seek Tip over in the park....

Six Stories, by Neil K. Guy
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After losing control of your car during a blizzard in the mountains of British Columbia, you make your way to a rundown shack and sleep. You wake up elsewhere and soon encounter a mouse, a pair of drawing...

Slasher Swamp, by Robot
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Slicker City, by Andrew Schultz
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Years after the Problems Compound, Alec Smart still runs into reverses.

Slouching Towards Bedlam, by Star Foster and Daniel Ravipinto
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In the beginning was the Word, and it was hungry. ...

Slugocalypse, by Charlotte Blatchford
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Giant slugs have mysteriously taken over your town and they just keep on growing and multiplying. Can you escape from the slugs, find out where they came from, or maybe even find a way to destroy them? This...

Smart Theory, by AKheon
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A strange, new thought system has been spreading like wildfire through schools and institutions - it has even taken over the university that you go to. What could this all mean? Perhaps we'll discover the...

So Far, by Andrew Plotkin
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Sitting in a cramped theatre, irritated that your partner apparently hasn't turned up, you are strangely intrigued by a current of air. It will lead you to a place very different from your own familiar...

So You Have a Knife at Your Throat, by Natasha Luna
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So You Have a Knife at Your Throat is a sapphic mini-thriller created for Neo-Twiny Jam, a game jam for tiny interactive fiction games. You are an assassin whose hard work has been rudely interrupted—by the...

Solarium, by Anya Johanna DeNiro
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The year is 1954. One year after mutually assured destruction. And I am trying to find you, through memory and alchemy. Not many people know how the nuclear devastation really happened. But we do. We were...

Solkatt_ (english version), by BenyDanette
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Solkatt (n.) Pronunciation : sole-cat Meaning : the spot of light from sunlight reflecting off a shiny surface. December 2023 - Game created on Decker by BenyDanette - submitted to ShuffleComp 2023,...

Sonder Snippets, by Sana
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Dadi meanders gently through the gnarls of her brain to pick apart threads of memory from story.

Sonnet, by TaciturnFriend
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Written very quickly for the SeedComp 2024, entirely over the extra weekend... The seeds I used: Reverse a poem Palates Content warnings: Mildly nsfw for kissing and sexual references. In some playthroughs,...

SOUND, by CynthiaP
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You embark to find that voice You embark to find that voice You embark to find that voice You embark to find that voice You embark to find that voice

Space Punk Moon Tour, by J_J
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You are nineteen-year-old Tina Tessler: missing father, dead mother, and plagued by nightmares of things you can’t quite remember. You just won a ticket to see your favorite band. So, pack your bags and...

Space Wizard Rendezvous, by WizzBizz
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A wizard going through a bad breakup gets recruited into a space heist. Based on the song Charlemagne by Blossoms for Shufflecomp 2023 Features - Cast spells - Commit treason - Get over your ex or die trying...

The Speaker, by Norbez
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Daniel Riviera lives on an Earth very different from our own, populated by both aliens and humans. A. A. Arthur is one of those aliens, a popular blogger and adviser for all of the planet's residents. Every...

The Spectators, by Amanda Walker
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It is 1560. There are no secrets in the iron-willed Duke d'Este's marriage to his young bride, a girl unprepared for her new role as Duchess. The Duke's army of servants are always present, always watching,...

Spider and Web, by Andrew Plotkin
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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...

Spiral, by Justin Morgan
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SPY INTRIGUE, by furkle
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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...

SQUARE ENIX AI Tech Preview: THE PORTOPIA SERIAL MURDER CASE, by Yuji Horii
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This software is an educational demonstration of Natural Language Processing (NLP), an AI technology, as applied to the text adventure game “The Portopia Serial Murder Case” (created by Yuji Horii and first...

Stand Up / Stay Silent, by Y Ceffyl Gwyn
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The revolution begins with you.

Starlight Shadows, by Autumn Chen
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Lyra Leblanc has a mission: to save her city from the infiltrating nanotech entities. Help her gather allies to fight the demons that threaten her home. Made in 4 hours for La Petite Morte, Ectocomp 2022.

The Statue Got Me High, by Ryan Veeder
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Your job is to make sure John's party is successful. It won't be, though. Written for the Apollo 18+20 tribute album project.

Stone Harbor, by Liza Daly
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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...

Structural Integrity, by Tabitha O'Connell
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You are Yaan, a well-off government official romantically involved with former messenger boy Kel. Uncover the cracks in your relationship, and decide what you're going to do about them... Author's Comment:...

Stuck Piggy, by Mike Desert
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Written for Ectocomp 2011.

A Study in Steampunk: Choice by Gaslight, by Heather Albano
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Steam-powered mechs meet forbidden sorcery! Inspired by Sherlock Holmes, Dracula, Jekyll & Hyde, and Jack the Ripper, "A Study in Steampunk: Choice by Gaslight" is an epic 277,000-word interactive mystery...

Stupid Creek. Stupid Christmas., by Troy Jones III
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Stupid Mom made you take your stupid little brother to town for stupid Christmas shopping in the freezing cold. And now you have to cross this stupid freezing-cold creek in a stupid boat to get back home.

Successor, by 30x30
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A love letter to ecology and the promise of new worlds. Created for the Neo-Twiny Game Jam, with the stipulation that the game be shorter than 500 words in length. Successor is a brief work of speculative...

The Sueńo, by Marshal Tenner Winter
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Low on income, you've signed up for a sleep study to test a new medication; one that supposedly causes lucid dreams. What you'll learn, however, is that much more will be revealed on The Sueńo.

Sugarlawn, by Mike Spivey
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With a loud "click," the door closes behind you. Finally! You are locked inside an antebellum Southern mansion, alone, wearing only a chicken costume. You've fantasized about this moment for years.

Summer Night City, by ghoti
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But even the most potent of prayers are prone to overuse, and my life, I'm sure, would sooner or later have been extinguished by my own hand. That the timing of their arrival precluded this fate came...

A Summer's Rose, by Adri (as Jed Brockett)
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Summers with the Sea King, by Dry Cappuccino Games
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Summers with the Sea King is a short interactive story written for ShuffleComp 2023. It was inspired by the songs "Sea King" by Eisley and "white summer and green bicycle, red hair with black guitar" by The...

Summit, by Phantom Williams
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A dream-like journey through a drifting life. Headphones recommended.

The Sun Doesn't Shine Here, by Stanley W. Baxton
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You're on an archeological expedition to the Lost City, and the sun doesn't shine here.

Sunday Afternoon, by Christopher Huang (as Virgil Hilts)
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It's gloriously sunny outside, and you can smell the grass from in here. It's not fair. All the servants have the day off, and you can bet they're not cooped up indoors in their Sunday best. If only there...

Suveh Nux, by David Fisher
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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.

The Sweetest Honey, by Mauro Couto
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Anima is an unsure man, terrified by the idea of dying. But one day discovers that he cannot die. Instead, he wakes up from the beginning of the day, as if nothing had happened. żWill be Anima able to...

Sweetpea, by Sophia de Augustine
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Someone claiming to be your father is trying to break in. Following the eponymous Sweetpea is: a mosaic faced guardian angel, something wearing her father’s guise, and the detritus of life in their gently...

Switcheroo, by The Marino Family
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When Derik went to sleep, he was a boy who could not walk, but today he awoke to find more than one thing had changed. Will he be able to find his way in the world as a girl? Will he be able to go back to...

Taco Fiction, by Ryan Veeder
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Taco Fiction is a game about crime.

Taghairm, by Chandler Groover
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"Perhaps the most horrible of all recorded magical spells." Cruelty. Violence. Sounds. Headphones recommended.

Take the Dog Out, by ell
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It’s nine A.M., and your (perfect, responsible) girlfriend needs (flighty, distractible) you to take the dog out. Take the Dog Out is a brief game asking you to do one simple task.

Tally Ho, by Kreg Segall
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Only a perfect servant can solve a perfect mess! Being the perfect gentleman's gentleman or lady's lady doesn't make you an angel. Can you untangle your employer's knottiest problems with elegance and...

Temperamentum, by Matthew Sawchuk
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It's been a rough year for Dolores Worth. She doesn't like to talk about it. But lately her dreams have been getting more and more intense. They keep her up at night. If she doesn't conquer the trauma of her...

The Temple of Shorgil, by Arthur DiBianca
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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...

Tentaculon, by Ned Vole
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The Test is Now READY, by Jim Warrenfeltz
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Thanatophobia, by Robert Goodwin
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A session with Madeline....

That's It Again, by Dev Vand
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improvised interactive narrative procedural unsynced music . made for "Mini Jame Gam #15" (last 13h), themes: together shovel . not enoughxc time .

Theatre People, by Michael Kielstra
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The dazzle of the theatre: the footlights, the bows, the adoring crowd! It's your job, as a tech crew member, to make sure that the actors and, especially, the actresses, get enough of that. Not for you the...

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

There Those Dare Doze, by Andrew Schultz
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Thicket, by Damon Stanley
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A Twine Dream Emulator

The Thirty Nine Steps, by Graham Walmsley
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The man on the floor was quite dead, a knife through his heart skewering him to the floorboards. At a quarter to eight, the train would take me from London, where people would be searching for me, into the...

This Old Haunted House, by Jason Love
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Your show's normally a solo act, but co-ghosting's a nice change of pace.

Threads of Snow, by Butter Blanc
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Stars-crossed by time itself, will you still fight for your love as pure as snow? SYNOPSIS You are unable to find sleep in the night, looking at your enchanting lover sleeping on your lap. Yet, in the...

Three More Visitors , by Paul Stanley
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Christmas Eve! You tell Bob to go home early; tidy up a little, and lock up the office shortly after four. You look on the old brass plate, which still reads “Scrooge & Marley”, probably for the last time....

Three Things, by Lapin Lunaire Games
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From the Desk of Professor J. Chernilskaya Dear RUSS/ENGL 3150 students, The documents for your final exam have been sent to your university email addresses. If you have not received the original text and...

Threediopolis, by Andrew Schultz
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A wordplay/quasi-maze game.

THROW. MARIA. OVERBOARD., by Travis Moy
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A story of the sea. Made in four hours for the La Petite Mort category of EctoComp 2022. Story adapted from the Byzantium and Friends, episode 40, "Byzantine tales of horror and the macabre." Cover image...

Time's Gap, by mxelm
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This is a game about holes. In time, in body, in memory. It's also my first attempt at making something with Ink, and was written for Orifice Jam. ...

To Burn in Memory, by Orihaus
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To Burn in Memory, an ahistorical and atemporal Interactive Fiction work originally submitted for IFComp 2015. Explore a city that never existed, and uncover its secret history through the memories of a...

To Persist/Exist/Endure, Press 1, by Anthony O
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Thank you for calling the Agency Of Neverending Happiness and Clearing Out Monsters From Under Your Bed! We offer assistance in all matters related to your well-being and any supernatural troubles you might...

To The Wolves, by Els White
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Offered up as sacrifice to the wolf-gods of the forest, hunted by beasts and man alike, Ella must find a way to survive.

Toadstools, by Bitter Karella
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Greetings, fellow mushroom enthusiast! If you're reading these words, it's because you too have decided to join the exciting and rewarding world of mushroom hunting. The Pamogo Forest is well known...

TOMBs of Reschette, by Richard Goodness
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Hello, young adventurer! If you're looking for the finest treasure, monster, and exploration experience around, why not come on down to the TOMBs of Reschette! --Earn XP, Dubloons, and Gems, like any good...

Tragic, by Jared Jackson
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It's a game within a game within a game. Come see what the cards hold in store for you.

Transit, by Shaye
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Find your way through a foreign airport in search of your friend, understanding or just a safe flight home.

The Trials and Tribulation of Edward Harcourt, by MelS and manonamora
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Friday February 2nd, 1923 My dearest friend, Such good fortune has befallen me, that I scarcely dare write you in case it is merely some joke played on me by fate. Lord knows that Fortuna has not been kind...

Trick or Treat or Trick or Treat or Trick, by Stewart C Baker
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This is your first year trick or treating alone. Will it be your last? A short parser game about time loops written for Ectocomp 2022 in just under four hours.

Troll's Tale 2023, by Outgrabe
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Troll's Tale 2023 is a remake/demake of a classic Sierra On-line graphical text adventure game originally released in 1983 for the Apple II computer. This point-and-click adventure game demonstrates what is...

Trouble in Sector 471, by Arthur DiBianca
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The power just went out in Sector 471. You had better go take a look.

Truck Quest, by Donald Conrad and Peter M.J. Gross
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You only need one low-budget truck (and one high-interest loan) to start your own delivery service. It’ll be an adventure, hauling military-grade narcotics to the megachurches of Bean Station and driving...

Trusting My Mortal Enemy?! What a Disaster!, by Storysinger Presents
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When a hero & a villain start planning their battles over coffee, they come to trust each other more than they ever expected.

Turandot, by Victor Gijsbers
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An operatic performance. A tale of atonement. A dating sim with a crocodile pit. Content warnings: sex; sexism and other gender issues; suicide; torture; homophobia; xenophobia.

Tuuli, by Daurmith and Ruber Eaglenest
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"The old witch, your teacher Mákke, is dead. If you want to save your village you'll have to destroy the raiding fleet that's coming. Can you do it, young Lenne-who-would-be-the-witch?" ---------- Mákke, la...

U.S. Route 160, by Sangita V Nuli
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A runaway bride is forced to confront her deepest desires as she flees the demons of her dangerously religious hometown and considers what - and who - she left behind....

Ugly Chapter, by Sam Kabo Ashwell
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In this short story, you play as Leti, a rich woman and a patron of the arts, who travels from Hawaii to Mars, as told by an angry and bitter male poet who knew her. What you did in the most ugly chapter of...

Ultimate Escape Room: IF City, by Mark Stahl
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You and your friends have fallen into the escape room craze that has swept the country in recent years. You love the feeling of living out a real life adventure game. You've made plans with your friends to...

Unbeknown, by A. DeNiro
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You ran from the Z-Mules but they caught you. Took what little you had. Now you're their prisoner. At some point you have to log off. But maybe not quite yet. You'll see.

Unit 322 (Disambiguation), by Jonny Muir
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A mystery told entirely through the pages of an online encyclopedia.

The Unofficial Sea-Monkey(R) Simulation, by B.J. Best
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Sometime during 1987, your father comes home from work--late, as usual. He tosses a small box onto the kitchen counter. "Here," he says, "you wanted fish. You get these. Let's see how you do first, and then...

Untitled Ghost Game, by Damon L. Wakes
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Not to be confused with goose game of similar name.

Untold Riches, by Jason Ermer
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You were reluctant to undertake another adventure with Professor d'Squarius (especially after the last near-catastrophe, in the Tomb of the Screaming Mummies), and from the moment you agreed to join the...

Use Your Psychic Powers at Applebee's, by Geoffrey Golden
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You are a Psychic Brand Ambassador for Schtupmeister Beer. Listen to the thoughts of customers at the local Applebee's and convince them to try your syrupy ale. But will being in these peoples' heads...

Vain Empires, by Thomas Mack and Xavid
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The memoir of a demonic spy in the Cold War between Heaven and Hell.

Valkyrie, by Emily Forand et al
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This game was authored by the guild, Valkyrie, three students enrolled in a Game-based Learning Developmental English course this Fall semester at Pikes Peak Community College in Colorado Springs, CO.

The Vambrace of Destiny, by Arthur DiBianca
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A light dungeon crawl. Tap spell gems to defeat monsters! In this game, all your commands are single keystrokes. You don't even have to press the enter key.

vanitas, by sweetfish
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VANITAS Conversations about being online, in 495 words. Written in an hour for Neo-Twiny Jam and coded in Twine for a lot longer. Warning for very brief sexual language. Click, tap, or press space/return to...

Varicella, by Adam Cadre
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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...

Ventilator, by Peregrine Wade
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The heat is stifling, the hotel room is vastly overpriced, and your heart is in pieces. But the worse is yet to come... WARNING: This story contains potentially humorous depictions of Mexican headgear.

Venus Meets Venus, by kaleidofish
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Two women meet in a bar. This is not a love story. (Mature content warning.)

A Very Dangerous Criminal, by C.C. Hill
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You take the road for a new beginning, what could go wrong?
Vespers, by Jason Devlin
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It has been five days, now. Five days since I made the choice. Five days since I closed the gate. Really, there was no choice. Rovato was damned when the first spot appeared: when the first bloody cough...

VESPERTINE, by Sophia de Augustine
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A fangame for the greatest mafia movie that never existed, Goncharov (1973). Or- a closer look at Andrey and Goncharov's tumultuous, doomed romance and the little black book he's never seen without. Made for...

A Vine on a House, by Outgrabe
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A multimedia storybook of Ambrose Bierce's "A Vine on a House" (1905), curated by Tyler Wright with photographs by Kimberly Renee. Music by Dylan Wright. I recently read a little story written by Ambrose...

Violet, by Jeremy Freese
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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]

Voices of Spoon River, by Jon Scoresby, Tim Stowell, Tom Caswell, Jared Bernotski, Marie Duncan, Marian Jensen, Jennifer Jorgensen, and Brett Shelton
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"Every cemetery has a plot, a series of secrets that some would prefer stayed buried. This graveyard is haunted. It wouldn’t be, except that unresolved issues torment Spoon River’s former inhabitants and...

Vulse, by Rob Parker
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A dead body floats down a river into the heart of an infuriating small town. As the locals grapple with the murder, they must also contend with the breakdown of cause-and-effect and the realization that the...

The Waiting Room, by Billy Krolick
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A haunted nursing home. A mysterious past. And life-or-death choices that actually matter. Can you solve the mystery of Back Hall before it's too late?

A Walk Around the Neighborhood, by Leo Weinreb
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The sun is filtering hazily through a partly-cloudy sky on this gorgeous Sunday afternoon. You're feeling lazy and a bit glued to the couch, but your partner insists on you getting some exercise. And...

Walker & Silhouette, by C.E.J. Pacian
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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 War of the Willows, by Adam Bredenberg
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Did you see the clean air of the hilltops? Wind waves tumbled down through the trees, tore the drift of lavender smoke... Did you see then, in the cinder that glowed in the pewter cup, did you see how Death...

We Know the Devil, by Aevee Bee and Mia Schwartz
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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...

The Weight of a Soul, by Chin Kee Yong
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In a world of arcane mysteries, a young doctor's apprentice unravels a conspiracy most grim. The Weight of a Soul is a mystery-horror interactive novel inspired by IF classics like Blue Lacuna and...

The Whale's Keeper, by Ben Parzybok
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You appear to have been swallowed by a whale. Expect to find wonders and horrors, mythical and real, inside the cavernous belly of the greatest mammal on Earth. Fortunately, you're a cetologist. ...

What Heart Heard Of, Ghost Guessed, by Amanda Walker
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Margaret, are you grieving Over Goldengrove unleaving… Come home to Goldengrove, a beautiful old house haunted by a lost soul. Uncover the secrets of your tormented past in a tale of unrequited love,...

What They Don't Know, by alyshkalia
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Lady Highchester, widowed shortly after the birth of her daughter, has raised said daughter to take over the family estate one day. Chelle, the daughter in question, was 18 when her mother announced a change...

Which Describes How You're Feeling, by Adam Parrish
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The Whisperers, by Milo van Mesdag
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Who Iced Mayor McFreeze?, by Damon L. Wakes
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A Bubble Gumshoe Mystery ...

Who Shot Gum E. Bear?, by Damon L. Wakes
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Gum E. Bear lies dead in a pool of his own liquid centre, and only Bubble Gumshoe - private eye extraordinaire - can deliver sweet justice on the rain-sticky streets of Sugar City. Explore the area, seek out...

WHOM I SHOULD LOVE ABOVE ALL THINGS, by Sophia de Augustine
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A priest is confronted with the sudden return of his former lover. My God, I am sorry for my sins with all my heart, and I detest them. In choosing to do wrong and failing to do good, I have sinned against...

Whom The Telling Changed, by Aaron A. Reed
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The people had always gathered on moonless nights to hear the stories, since the time of their ancestors' ancestors. The heat of the fire and the glow in the storyteller's eyes made the past present, and the...

Will Not Let Me Go, by Stephen Granade
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Dallas, Texas. 1996. Fred Strickland has Alzheimer's.

Winchester's Nightmare, by Nick Montfort
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Witch's Girl, by Geoff Moore
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Witchfinders, by Tania Dreams
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Middle ages left their footprints on the history of humankind: rich and poor, steel and wood, pest and wild celebrations mixed together in a one wild sauce. Technology was far from our days, but a true power...

With Those We Love Alive, by Porpentine and Brenda Neotenomie
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no dreams written by porpentine scored by brenda neotenomie

The Withering Gaze of the Earth, by Emily Worm
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On an island where the world ended, away from the judgmental eyes of the world, a new god (your terrible mother) is waking up.

Within a circle of water and sand, by Romain
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A tropical archipelago with countless islands, a young woman on a quest with no clear goal, a strange tribe living on an isolated atoll, a race... Is your journey merely beginning or is it already about to...

Yandere-chan, by Maple
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Yandere-chan is a short horror game where you meet the award winning yandere cosplayer. - 2 super easy to get endings -1 movie reference -a yandere This was my first time doing art(zero knowledge lol). I had...

The Lottery Ticket, by Anonymous
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A fool and his money will soon depart, but a fool and his thoughts will lose more than that!

Restitution, by Anonymous
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What's left of a man after he buries his past deeds?

You Are a Zombie Yelp Reviewer, by Geoffrey Golden
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Tell the post-apocalyptic internet about your brain-eating experience in this funny, short, choice-based interactive fiction game where you play an outspoken zombie with opinions on cuisine. You've just...

You are SpamZapper 3.1, by Leon Arnott
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DISTINGUISH TRUTH AND SCAMS IN OVER 130 UNIQUE EMAILS • PROTECT THE INBOX FROM URBAN LEGENDS • EXCHANGE WITTY REPARTEE WITH YOUR PLUGIN COWORKERS • CROSS SWORDS WITH A DEADLY EMAIL WORM • LEARN WAY TOO MUCH...

You are standing in a cave..., by Caroline Berg
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... you do not know how you got here. The last thing you remember is going out to eat at a fancy restaurant. Perhaps you were drugged. Perhaps you had a bad case of food poisoning and wandered off, feverish,...

You Couldn't Have Done That, by Ann Hugo
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Your first day on the job wasn't going to be pleasant. Such was inevitable. It's a big change. And, you are autistic. But this was a different story, far worse than unpleasant.

You Will Select a Decision, by Brendan Patrick Hennessy
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A pair of knock-off choose your own adventure books from Soviet-era Kyrgyzstan.

You're a Time Agent!, by Tabitha O'Connell
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A silly, light-hearted puzzle game in which you play an agent trying to get through a guarded door using your ability to reset time.

You, Me and Coffee, by Florencia Minuzzi
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Catch up with an old friend over coffee, discovering layers to your relationship that would otherwise be forgotten.

Your Body a Temple, or the Postmodern Prometheus, by Charm Cochran
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Oh, my dear, they’ve destroyed you, haven’t they? They could never understand a being such as yourself. Not to worry. We’ll build you a new body, with which you will take your revenge. A tale of...

Your Post-Apocalyptic To-Do List, by Geoffrey Golden
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You’ve inherited a mutant hog farm from your Uncle Crackpot. Take care of those hogs and check items off your to-do list, because the hog farm is your launching pad for a bigger and better endtimes career!

Your World According to a Single Word, by Kastel
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A word wants to say more than words about your world

Zero Summer, by Gordon Levine, Tucker Nelson, Becca Noe
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Zero Summer is a wordy western card-playing RPG set in the post-apocalyptic American southwest. Nearly two decades after monsters poured out of Corpus Christi and divided the United States between...

Zest, by Fear of Twine (Richard Goodness, lectronice, PaperBlurt)
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Hello young Limonista! It's the hottest week of the year, and ordinarily this would be a problem! But you work at the most popular lemonadery in Sufferette City, and the citizens depend on you to keep cool!

Zigamus: Zombies at Vigamus, by Marco Vallarino
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Vigamus, the Video Game Museum of Rome, has been attacked by zombies. To save it from the monsters, you can only count on your brain and the relics and gadgets exhibited in the building. This game is also...

ZIT, by Amanda Walker
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A freshly divorced mother of two, at age 50 you are preparing for your first job interview in twenty years. There's a problem. A big one. A petite mort game written in 4 hours for Ectocomp 2022. Play time...

Zombie Eye, by Dee Cooke
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You find yourself facing down the Zombie Eye... again. Can you cure it this time?

Zombie Eye: Campfire Tales, by Dee Cooke
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Just your average Hallowe'en night telling tales around the campfire...

[IFComp 22 - Beta] Cannelé & Nomnom - Defective Agency, by Younčs R. & Yazaleea
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Set foot in Falaisant, an enigmatic city full of magic and mysteries. You are an amnesiac individual who, in a desperate attempt to find out who you are, hires the only agency willing to take the case....

[I] doesn't exist, by Anna-Lena Pontet, Luzia Hüttenmoser
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The cold stone floor beneath your hands brings you to a moment of consciousness. A gentle gust of wind brushes past your cheeks. Back again? Or have you never left? A heartbeat - not your own but of a safe....

[PYG]MALION*, by C.J.
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A story about you — The Murdered God — and your attempt to solve the mystery of your death in places beyond.

~~~Into Darkness~~~, by Jac Colvin
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Straying into the dark is easy, returning is far harder.


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