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(do not) forget, by lectronice
Average member rating: (23 ratings)

(do not) forget is a slightly surreal tale. It takes place in an isometric world inhabited by cute cubic animals. It is, however, not intended for children. This is a contemplative game, sometimes crude,...

1893: A World's Fair Mystery, by Peter Nepstad
Average member rating: (25 ratings)

A theft on the fairgrounds! Precious diamonds stolen from the Kimberly Diamond Mining Exhibit! An urgent telegram from your old partner arrives, requesting your help to solve the mystery. How can you refuse?...

20 Strokes, by PaperBlurt
Average member rating: (13 ratings)

You find yourself in a public swimming pool. Chlorine irritates your skin and you just know that the little boy standing still is taking a whiz. 20 Strokes are required to get from one end to the other. All...

Absence of Law, by mathbrush
Average member rating: (47 ratings)

Excuse me, can you help me? Yes, you, browsing IFDB games! I need your assistance, but I don't have long. There's so much going on: remote surveillance, unauthorized cloning, forgotten languages, robots...

According to Cain, by Jim Nelson
Average member rating: (42 ratings)

Two brothers. One murder. And a mystery as old as mankind. ...

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

Adventure, by William Crowther and Donald Woods
Average member rating: (97 ratings)

Alchemist's Gold, by Garry Francis
Average member rating: (12 ratings)

Of all the forms of alchemy practised throughout the ages, the best known is the quest to turn base metals into gold. Of course, everyone knows this is impossible. Even so, there's a rumour that an alchemist...

Alice Aforethought, by Hanon Ondricek
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

I need your help. I mean, you're the one who is supposed to talk me out of things before I do anything stupid. Time has stopped moving, and that might turn out to have been my fault. I didn't mean to do it....

All Roads, by Jon Ingold
Average member rating: (154 ratings)

"Wave a circle round him thrice, And close your eyes with holy dread For he on honey-dew hath fed And drunk the milk of paradise." [--blurb from Competition Aught-One]

All Things Devours, by half sick of shadows
Average member rating: (94 ratings)

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...
The Ambassador's Daughter, by Stormchild
Average member rating: (6 ratings)
You really want to ask her for a dance, but alas she is from the opposing delegation. If only you could get her alone and pluck up the courage to speak to her. Very short game with compact map.

The Anachronist, by Peter Levine
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

In the year 1596, Anna is about to be burned at the stake. As the constable prepares to light the fire below her, she can do nothing but seek a solution in her own memory and imagination. ...

Anchorhead, by Michael Gentry
Average member rating: (393 ratings)

You take a deep breath of salty air as the first raindrops begin to spatter the pavement, and the swollen, slate-colored clouds that blanket the sky mutter ominous portents amongst themselves over the little...

Andromeda Apocalypse — Extended Edition, by Marco Innocenti
Average member rating: (29 ratings)

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...

Andromeda Dreaming, by Joey Jones
Average member rating: (18 ratings)

Aliss can control her dreams, but will this help her when she's stuck in a galaxy on the brink of destruction? Winner of the Andromeda Legacy competition 2012, Andromeda Dreaming is in the same setting as...

Animalia, by Ian Michael Waddell
Average member rating: (36 ratings)

This is the story of Charlie Stewart, nine-year-old Human child. Inside this ordinary nine-year-old Human child are four animals from the Forest, working tirelessly to keep YOUR Taiga Federation safe from...

Aotearoa, by Matt Wigdahl
Average member rating: (61 ratings)

The Fish of Māui. The Land of the Long Cloud. Aotearoa. An entire continent of untamed wilds, and the last place on Earth where dinosaurs still roam. If only you'd come ashore under better circumstances...

The Arboretum, by Matthew S. Burns
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

The Arboretum is a mostly linear interactive story about dating, growing up, and our relationships to our past and future selves. It also demonstrates that a choice doesn't need to show you the consequences...

The Archivist and the Revolution, by Autumn Chen
Average member rating: (35 ratings)

The world is ending, and you are still paying rent....

The Art of Fugue, by Victor Gijsbers, Jimmy Maher, Dorte Lassen, and Johan
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

A pure story-less puzzle game featuring logical puzzles based on the idea of the fugue: your commands are performed by four different actors, but with increasing delays. The version with music features...

Aspel, by Emily Short
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Average member rating: (6 ratings)

Her Majesty has sent your team to investigate the mountain palace of Aspel, now ruined, to find out its secrets and determine what value it may still have. Aspel is an experimental interactive experience...

Augmented Fourth, by Brian Uri!
Average member rating: (65 ratings)

WANTED: Amateur musicians to serve the Royal Court. Must provide own instrument and be inured to copious constructive criticism. Impress your friends! Meet the King! Apply in person at the Castle, located on...

The Axe of Kolt [8-bit versions], by Larry Horsfield
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

You are Alaric Blackmoon, a penniless ex-mercenary soldier, reduced to wandering the land and doing odd-jobs in return for food and a place to sleep. You have just left the town of Greenwych and you have...

Bad Machine, by Dan Shiovitz
Average member rating: (15 ratings)

The Baker of Shireton, by Hanon Ondricek
Average member rating: (20 ratings)

You are the Baker of Shireton. The bread you bake is delicious. Raiders are coming.

A Bathroom Myth, by Anya Johanna DeNiro
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

A folktale about, among other things, a sentient restroom and a trans woman surviving in a magical city. Pay what you want--all proceeds are donated to the Transgender Law Center, an organization that "works...

Beneath Floes, by Bravemule; Pinnguaq
Average member rating: (14 ratings)

Qikiqtaaluk, 1962. The sun falls below the horizon and won't return for months. You wander the broken shoreline, wary of your mother's stories about the qalupalik. Fish woman, stealer of wayward children:...

Benthic Love, by Michaela Joffe
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

- 5 endings! – Learn interesting facts about the ocean depths! – Art by the amazing Sonya Hallett! – The ONLY LGBT-friendly anglerfish dating sim!

The Blind House, by Amanda Allen
Average member rating: (38 ratings)

I scarcely know the woman at my side. I don't even know why she was the one I turned to. I can only hope that we haven't been followed, that she won't ask too many questions. The only choice left to me now...

Blue Lacuna, by Aaron A. Reed
Average member rating: (111 ratings)

You have always been different. One in a trillion have your gift, your curse: to move between worlds, never settling, always alone. To Wayfare. Yet there are others like you, and something stronger than...

Bullhockey!, by B F Lindsay
Average member rating: (9 ratings)

Your girlfriend has left you, leaving disturbing notes. And she--oops--lost your laundry. In various places. Around town. You can't have her back. But you can try to get your laundry.

Byzantine Perspective, by Lea Albaugh
Average member rating: (56 ratings)

Your task is simple enough. Just nab the chalice.

Candlesmoke, by Caelyn Sandel and Carolyn VanEseltine
Average member rating: (24 ratings)

Entry in EctoComp 2014.

Cannelé & Nomnom - Defective Agency, by Younès R. & Yazaleea
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

« You set foot in the mysterious city of Falaisant, with no memories of who you are. Lost and hopeless, you hire the only detective agency willing to help you. There's only one issue: They. Are. DISASTROUS!...

Cannery Vale, by Hanon Ondricek (as Keanhid Connor)
Average member rating: (30 ratings)

Hell, even a seagull would hit the spot right now, roasted crispy over a flame-- He immediately put all thoughts of food out of his head because at the moment it was just torture_

Captain Graybeard's Plunder, by Julian Mortimer Smith
Average member rating: (21 ratings)

A retired pirate captain cobbles together a ship and crew from the pages of classic works of literature. His goal: revenge!

A Change in the Weather, by Andrew Plotkin
Average member rating: (69 ratings)

"Walking away from a picnic, you are suddenly caught in a country storm. You must protect a bridge from being destroyed. An ultra-linear game." [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue]

Chesstopia, by John C. Knudsen
Average member rating: (1 rating)

Chesstopia is a place where Chess is thought about, but not played. You encounter Caissa, the Goddess of Chess. You are a seeker of Chess knowledge. Very basic Gamebook/CYOA. Optimized for electronic...

Child's Play, by Stephen Granade
Average member rating: (54 ratings)

It is playgroup day and playgroup day is normally a good day but ever since that little red-haired girl started coming she always wants your toys. She shouldn't get your toys. You tried telling the mom this...

A Chinese Room, by Milo van Mesdag
Average member rating: (12 ratings)

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

Chlorophyll, by Steph Cherrywell
Average member rating: (58 ratings)

Choice of Robots, by Kevin Gold
Average member rating: (41 ratings)

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...

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

Closure, by Sarah Willson
Average member rating: (28 ratings)

Kira hasn't been the same since the breakup. Now she's done something really reckless, and she's asking for your help to figure out what went wrong with TJ. What else can you say? She's your best friend.

A Colder Light, by Jon Ingold
Average member rating: (18 ratings)

The last light has gone. The stars are coming out in the black sea above. Many are hidden by ice-fingered winds. My father is still not returned and the fire is almost gone. But this is how life is: always...

Color the Truth, by mathbrush
Average member rating: (72 ratings)

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
Average member rating: (110 ratings)

Stolen away by apathetic Blind Ones, your only desire is to return to your Cellarium and the Song of the Universe. They should understand. You shall make them to understand.

Confessions of an NPC, by Charles Hans Huang
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

Interview characters in a kingdom not unlike our own who face the problems of our generation.

Congee, by Becci
Average member rating: (28 ratings)

A short story about food, belonging, and seeking home. Text your friend, call your mum, and search for congee on this rainy night.

Conversations With Deleted NPCs, by JoshLabelle
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

A short, meta game created for Inkjam 2020: "On this page, you will find the playable source files for SOOTHSAYER'S AUGURY 3: THE DRAGONMASTER'S PORTENT. SA3: TDP was the third game in the popular...

The Cradle of Eve, by Kitty Horrorshow
Average member rating: (14 ratings)

Cragne Manor, by Ryan Veeder, Jenni Polodna et al.
Show other authorsAdam Whybray, Adri, Andrew Plotkin, Andy Holloway, Austin Auclair, Baldur Brückner, Ben Collins-Sussman, Bill Maya, Brian Rushton, Buster Hudson, Caleb Wilson, Carl Muckenhoupt, Chandler Groover, Chris Jones, Christopher Conley, Damon L. Wakes, Daniel Ravipinto, Daniel Stelzer, David Jose, David Petrocco, David Sturgis, Drew Mochak, Edward B, Emily Short, Erica Newman, Feneric, Finn Rosenløv, Gary Butterfield, Gavin Inglis, Greg Frost, Hanon Ondricek, Harkness Munt, Harrison Gerard, Ian Holmes, Ivan Roth, Jack Welch, Jacqueline Ashwell, James Eagle, Jason Dyer, Jason Lautzenheiser, Jason Love, Jeremy Freese, Joey Jones, Joshua Porch, Justin de Vesine, Justin Melvin, Katherine Morayati, Kenneth Pedersen, Lane Puetz, Llew Mason, Lucian Smith, Marco Innocenti, Marius Müller, Mark Britton, Mark Sample, Marshal Tenner Winter, Matt Schneider, Matt Weiner, Matthew Korson, Michael Fessler, Michael Gentry, Michael Hilborn, Michael Lin, Mike Spivey, Molly Ying, Monique Padelis, Naomi Hinchen, Nate Edwards, Petter Sjölund, Q Pheevr, Rachel Spitler, Reed Lockwood, Reina Adair, Riff Conner, Roberto Colnaghi, Rowan Lipkovits, Sam Kabo Ashwell, Scott Hammack, Sean M. Shore, Shin, Wade Clarke, Zach Hodgens, Zack Johnson

Average member rating: (24 ratings)

A tribute to Anchorhead.

Crocodracula: What Happened to Calvin, by Ryan Veeder
Average member rating: (11 ratings)

Based on the 90s children's horror soap opera.

The CryptoGame, by Manan Singh
Average member rating: (1 rating)

"A Cryptography based Interactive Fiction." Plot: Sudden Disappearance of a Cryptographer has led to a trail of mysterious Cipher clues. Investigate the Case - Riddles, Warnings and Secret messages - to...

Curses, by Graham Nelson
Average member rating: (132 ratings)

"As "Curses" opens, you're hunting about in the attic of your family home, looking for a tatty old map of Paris (you're going on holiday tomorrow) and generally trying to avoid all the packing. Aunt Jemima...

Custard & Mustard's Big Adventure, by Christopher Merriner
Average member rating: (10 ratings)

Ordinary dogs? We're not ordinary dogs! We're Custard and Mustard - and we're looking for adventure! It's fête day in Little Pottlington! The sun is shining, the beer is flowing, and the streets are abuzz...

Damnatio Memoriae, by Emily Short
Average member rating: (58 ratings)

14 AD. Agrippa Postumus, grandson of the recently-deceased Augustus, tries to avoid death at the hands of the next emperor, Tiberius. At his disposal: a couple of old manuscripts, a lamp, and a recalcitrant...

Dangerous Curves, by Irene Callaci
Average member rating: (23 ratings)

The Dangers of Driving at Night, by Lumin

While pulling an all-nighter on the road, you stop at a tiny gas station to refuel your vehicle and your tired mind.

Danse Nocturne, by Joey Jones
Average member rating: (17 ratings)

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...

A Day for Fresh Sushi, by Emily Short
Average member rating: (98 ratings)

No time for fantasy. Must feed fish.

A Day for Soft Food, by Tod Levi
Average member rating: (29 ratings)

"Ever since the provider's sickness began, he's been all hisses and growls. Even the slightest misstep seems to annoy him. Perhaps that's why your bowl has held nothing but hard food lately. And not much of...

Daytime Never Had a Chance, by Snoother
Average member rating: (10 ratings)

When the weather transforms the woods

De Baron, by Victor Gijsbers
Average member rating: (160 ratings)

An evil nobleman, a kidnapped daughter and a father who wants to rescue her at any cost--that is not the way life works. Something much darker, something much more human, lies underneath. Een kwaadaardige...

Dead Like Ants, by C.E.J. Pacian
Average member rating: (58 ratings)

You play as a young woman in red overalls, a red worker ant. Every spring, five dangerous creatures visit the tree and threaten the village, and every spring, the Queen sends one of her daughters to...

Degeneracy, by Leonard Richardson
Average member rating: (16 ratings)

The glitterings of Gold, Jewels, Tapestries, &c. belie the Corruption of he who 'til recently occupied this high Seat. A white Carpet, once flanked by Sycophants & Counsellors, now lies untravelled. It leads...

Digital: A Love Story, by Christine Love
Average member rating: (22 ratings)

A computer mystery/romance set five minutes into the future of 1988.

Disharmony, by Pink Soda Studios
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

"In the Never it's colder than ever." Disharmony is an interactive, story-driven game where your choices directly affect the events as they unfold. Told via an online messenger app called Harmony, it...

The Djinni Chronicles, by J. D. Berry
Average member rating: (33 ratings)

Domestic Elementalism, by fireisnormal
Average member rating: (24 ratings)

The plants that grow out of your bedroom walls are associated with Earth. The fairy lights strung across your kitchen are associated with Fire. Change an object's element, and the object will turn into...

Dominique Pamplemousse - It's All Over Once The Fat Lady Sings!, by Dietrich Squinkifer (Squinky)
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

Dominique Pamplemousse-- It's All Over Once The Fat Lady Sings! is a unique and offbeat stop motion animated detective adventure game about gender and the economy. Also, all the characters frequently burst...

The Domovoi, by Bravemule
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

Your friend, a folk storyteller, has offered to perform her latest work. As her audience, it is your task to advise how her tale should unfold.

Down, the Serpent and the Sun, by Chandler Groover
Average member rating: (27 ratings)

The feathered serpent coils before you, greater than any god or any monster. Maimed warriors are crushed beneath its claws. The sun will never rise again.

Dr Ludwig and the Devil, by SV Linwood
Average member rating: (34 ratings)

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. ...

Dysfluent, by Allyson Gray
Average member rating: (22 ratings)

Sometimes talking is easier said than done.

Earth and Sky, by Paul O'Brian
Average member rating: (82 ratings)

It's been almost a month since your parents disappeared. One Tuesday, they just didn't come home, and there's been no sign of them since. For the University and the rest of the town, the mystery is beginning...

Ecdysis, by Peter Nepstad
Average member rating: (80 ratings)

You wake, a pounding headache loud in your inner ear, the back of your head itching and tingling, your mouth full of cotton. The pain drives away your dreams, weird visions of alien landscapes... Ecdysis is...

The Edifice, by Lucian P. Smith
Average member rating: (84 ratings)

"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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Average member rating: (33 ratings)

When you wake up, something is passing through the night sky.

Ekphrasis, by FibreTigre
Average member rating: (10 ratings)

The Eleusinian Miseries, by Mike Russo
Average member rating: (26 ratings)

Well, isn't this a lark! After solid years of going after old Alky to let you in on that Mysteries wheeze of his, at last tonight's the night. He's dragged you from Athens to Eleusis for the to-do, but no...

The Elysium Enigma, by Eric Eve
Average member rating: (76 ratings)

It was meant to be a routine visit on behalf of the imperial government, just to remind the settlers that the Empire hadn't forgotten them, and if you stick rigidly to the letter of your orders and refuse to...

Endless, Nameless, by Adam Cadre
Average member rating: (54 ratings)

The first time I ever saw someone play a text adventure was in fifth grade. One of the sixth-graders didn't go to outdoor ed, and therefore spent the week in my fifth-grade classroom, playing Scott Adams's...

Endure, by Emily Short
Average member rating: (13 ratings)

"Endure" is an interactive translation of four lines of the Odyssey. It responds to the player's choice of translation strategy as well as to the order of translation; the words you translate first will...

The Entropy Cage, by Stormrose
Average member rating: (15 ratings)

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....

Ether, by MathBrush
Average member rating: (32 ratings)

"For the first time in centuries, something is different. Your tentacles tingle as you float to the east past icebergs and whirlwinds. You skirt a pocket of hot air, bounce through a field of ice, and...

Everybody Dies, by Jim Munroe
Average member rating: (105 ratings)

It starts with a metalhead, Graham, realizing that throwing that shopping cart over the bridge was not the great idea he thought it was. Even if it did get him out of washroom duty at Cost Cutters....

Exhibition, by Ian Finley
Average member rating: (27 ratings)

"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]

Fate, by Victor Gijsbers
Average member rating: (50 ratings)

You are nine months pregnant, and the contractions have already begun. Trapped in a castle with more enemies than friends, and Queen in name but not in influence, you fear for the future of your child. But...

Fifteen Minutes, by Ade McT
Average member rating: (24 ratings)

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...

Final Exam, by Jack Whitham
Average member rating: (26 ratings)

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”...

Finding Martin, by G.K. Wennstrom
Average member rating: (10 ratings)

Venture past the limits of ordinary reality as you investigate the mysterious disappearance of an old friend. In order to solve the most challenging of these puzzles, you will need to cooperate with yourself...

The Fire Tower, by Jacqueline A. Lott
Average member rating: (49 ratings)

Firebird, by Bonnie Montgomery
Average member rating: (32 ratings)

"Firebird is based on the Old Russian folk tales that inspired the Stravinsky piece of the same name. You are Prince Ivan, and have been charged by your father, the tsar, to find the Firebird that has been...

First Draft of the Revolution, by Emily Short, Liza Daly and inkle
Average member rating: (55 ratings)

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...

Flattened London, by Carter Gwertzman
Average member rating: (13 ratings)

Unravel the secrets of the third dimension and search for treasure in a wholly bizarre setting — a crossover between the worlds of Fallen London and Flatland. Keep your wits about you in this sprawling...

A Fly On the Wall, by Nigel Jayne
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

. . . this game was updated, expanded and released in 2017 as A Fly on the Wall, or An Appositional Eye. . . The Harrison Mansion is closing after 45 years of delighting its visitors with collections of the...

For a Change, by Dan Schmidt
Average member rating: (115 ratings)

"The sun has gone. It must be brought. You have a rock." [--blurb from Competition '99]

The Fourth Riddle, by reconditarmonia
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

Based on Puccini’s opera Turandot, focusing on the characters of Turandot and Liù. Features pretty/interesting spaces to explore, multiple endings based on player decisions, some conversation, and some...

Goat Game, by Kathryn Li
Average member rating: (14 ratings)

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...

Going Down, by Hanon Ondricek
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Average member rating: (12 ratings)

Journey to another world. Return if you can. A Grand Guignol entry to Ectcomp 2017.

The good people, by Pseudavid
Average member rating: (16 ratings)

Explore the weird, until the sunken things come for you. A narration-focused interactive fiction focused on conversation and exploration of a haunted landscape. Playable on mobile, but a computer or tablet...

Goose, Egg, Badger, by Brian Rapp
Average member rating: (21 ratings)

The Gostak, by Carl Muckenhoupt
Average member rating: (89 ratings)

"Finally, here you are. At the delcot of tondam, where doshes deave. But the doshery lutt is crenned with glauds. Glauds! How rorm it would be to pell back to the bewl and distunk them, distunk the whole...

Grandma Bethlinda's Remarkable Egg, by Arthur DiBianca
Average member rating: (23 ratings)

How do you break out of handcuffs when all you've got is an egg?

Grandma Bethlinda's Variety Box, by Arthur DiBianca
Average member rating: (36 ratings)

It's the latest model, and it would really like to play with you.

Gun Mute, by C.E.J. Pacian
Average member rating: (153 ratings)

Step into the shoes of Mute Lawton, a lone cowboy who must stop an execution set to occur at noon by shooting his way past dangerous cyborgs and mutants in a post-apocalyptic western setting. (From the...

Hadean Lands, by Andrew Plotkin
Average member rating: (67 ratings)

Marooned in an alien, airless wasteland -- your starship fractured -- your crewmates missing. Can an apprentice alchemist learn how to survive?

Harbinger, by Kenna
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

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...

Harmonic Time-Bind Ritual Symphony, by Ben Kidwell and Maevele Straw
Average member rating: (13 ratings)

A musician's manic episode binds fiction and reality into a joyful union.

Headless, Hapless, by Geoff Moore
Average member rating: (14 ratings)

It's happened again. You've had a great night riding around, freaking everyone out with your whole headless horseman thing, and you're about to set off for home when you realise you've lost your head. Well,...

Heretic's Hope, by G. C. Baccaris
Average member rating: (25 ratings)

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...

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams and Steve Meretzky
Average member rating: (185 ratings)

Don't Panic! Relax, because everything you need to know about playing The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is contained in the pages of this manual. In this story, you will be Arthur Dent, a rather ordinary...

Hoist Sail for the Heliopause and Home, by Andrew Plotkin
Average member rating: (84 ratings)

A far-future story of discovery.

How Prince Quisborne the Feckless Shook His Title, by John Ziegler
Average member rating: (14 ratings)

A Fanciful Tale Both Whimsical and Earnest ...

How to Win at Rock Paper Scissors, by Brian Kwak
Average member rating: (25 ratings)

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.

Hunger Daemon, by Sean M. Shore
Average member rating: (65 ratings)

It's not the end of the world, and you're to blame. Better get on that. But man, it sure would be nice to get a bite to eat first.

Hunter, in Darkness, by Andrew Plotkin
Average member rating: (122 ratings)

The Hunting Lodge, by Hulk Handsome
Average member rating: (11 ratings)
You rub your eyes and peer out of the taxi window, confirming that you have arrived at your destination. You're here to investigate why no one has heard from your brother, Thomas, in weeks. Though the two of...

The Ice-Bound Concordance, by Aaron A. Reed and Jacob Garbe
Average member rating: (1 rating)

The Ice-Bound Concordance is an award-winning indie game ("Best Story/World Design" winner, IndieCade 2014; "Excellence in Narrative" nominee, IGF 2015) with cutting-edge interactive story technology,...

if not us: an interactive fiction anthology, by ub4q
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

Seven years ago, five heroes were brought together to save the world. Their success came at the cost of their leader's life; the secret behind it cost them their friendship. Now they've been summoned for a...

The Impossible Bottle, by Linus Åkesson
Average member rating: (78 ratings)

Housework is only as dull as your imagination. Join Emma, six years old, on a playful adventure of peculiar proportions. Merciful puzzlefest. Parser or point-and-click, as you please. Web (including mobile)...

The Impossible Stairs, by Mathbrush
Average member rating: (26 ratings)

Getting ready for a party can take a lot of time. Help CJ navigate a text adventure of temporal trials. Merciful puzzlefest. Parser or point-and-click, as you please. Authorized sequel to The Impossible...

In a Manor of Speaking, by Hulk Handsome
Average member rating: (27 ratings)

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...

Indigo, by Emily Short
Average member rating: (54 ratings)

"Years ago, a witch placed you in this tower and arranged for your upkeep, paying certain villagers well to keep you supplied with the most basic necessities, and no more. Your years in the tower have...

Inpatient: A Psychiatric Story, by Alana Zablocki
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

Inpatient is a simulation of a mental health crisis and the patient experience of psychiatric hospitalization. It is an interactive novel of over 160,000 words that takes you through a 72 hour hospital stay....

Inside the Facility, by Arthur DiBianca
Average member rating: (57 ratings)

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...

Inside Woman, by Andy Phillips
Average member rating: (16 ratings)

Utopia Technologies. Industrial giant, economic powerhouse, the world's greatest scientific superpower, and the organisation most responsible for eroding civil liberties and personal freedoms. They're an...

Internal Vigilance, by Simon Christiansen
Average member rating: (13 ratings)

You are informed that a new prisoner was brought in recently. Your job, as usual, is to interrogate him and determine whether he poses a threat to The Union. This should not be a problem. You are a trained...

Invasion, by Cat Manning
Average member rating: (26 ratings)

The end of the world, and there's something after you. A short horror Twine about sacrifice, survival, and relative humanity. Le Grand Guignol entry in ECTOCOMP 2015.

Invisible Parties, by Sam Kabo Ashwell (as Psychopup)
Average member rating: (20 ratings)

You are a walker of the ways between the worlds. It is not an arrangement conducive to straightforward relationships. The Three Rebeccas have created a tangle, a temporary artifice woven from parts of many...

Ishmael, by Jordan Magnuson
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

A short game about displacement.

It, by Emily Boegheim
Average member rating: (32 ratings)

"The rules of the game are easy. I'm It, so I go and hide. You and the others count to 50, then you have to look for me. If you find me, you have to get into the hiding spot with me. If you're the last...

It Is Pitch Black, by Caelyn Sandel
Average member rating: (24 ratings)

Trapped alone in a darkened antique store with a man-eating grue, can you keep a light going long enough to survive? (contains sound, but no jumpscares.) 2nd place, EctoComp 2014.

January, by litrouke
Average member rating: (10 ratings)

A year in the life of a man after the end of the world....

Jigsaw, by Graham Nelson
Average member rating: (84 ratings)

New Year's Eve, 1999, a quarter to midnight and where else to be but Century Park! Fireworks cascade across the sky, your stomach rumbles uneasily, music and lasers howl across the parkland... Not exactly...

Junior Arithmancer, by Mike Spivey
Average member rating: (54 ratings)

A one-to-many-room puzzler.

Katana, by Matt Rohde
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

You play as an American tourist visiting Shinobu Palace in Japan hoping to learn more about your ancestor, Matsuo Kaneiji, an infamous samurai executed for treason. Through several puzzles and flashbacks,...

Kerkerkruip, by Victor Gijsbers
Average member rating: (69 ratings)

Kerkerkruip is a short-form roguelike in the interactive fiction medium, featuring meaningful tactical and strategic depth, innovative game play, zero grinding, and a sword & sorcery setting that does not...

The King of Shreds and Patches, by Jimmy Maher
Average member rating: (77 ratings)

January 14th Dear friend. My sojourn in parts foreign is at an ende. I am at lodgings in Southwark not far from the bridge at Stoney Street, come dine with me two days hence to ring in the newe year. I have...

Lady Thalia and the Masterpiece of Moldavia, by E. Joyce and N. Cormier
Average member rating: (11 ratings)

Lady Thalia is back in London and back to her old tricks, putting up with Britain’s social elite by day so she can steal from them by night. But that doesn’t mean things are easy, what with her husband back...

Lady Thalia and the Rose of Rocroi, by E. Joyce and N. Cormier
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

Everyone who’s anyone summers in France - which means master thief Lady Thalia is there too, attending garden parties by day and stealing masterpieces by night. Unfortunately, this holiday is less than...

Lady Thalia and the Seraskier Sapphires, by E. Joyce and N. Cormier
Average member rating: (20 ratings)

Navigate fraught social situations by day and pull off heists by night as Lady Thalia, the not-actually-aristocratic thief bent on making a mockery of British high society.

Ladykiller in a Bind, by Christine Love
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

My Twin Brother Made Me Crossdress As Him And Now I Have To Deal With A Geeky Stalker And A Domme Beauty Who Want Me In A Bind!! or, Ladykiller in a Bind Can you survive seven days trapped on a cruise ship...

LAKE Adventure, by B.J. Best
Average member rating: (23 ratings)

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Large Machine, by Jon Ingold
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

LASH -- Local Asynchronous Satellite Hookup, by Paul O'Brian
Average member rating: (41 ratings)

In this historical drama and treasure hunt set in 2062, you have rented a robot called a MULE that you can control remotely to salvage artifacts from an abandoned irradiated plantation near Macon, Georgia....

Last Valentine's Day, by Daniel Gao
Average member rating: (13 ratings)

This Valentine's Day feels an awful lot like Groundhog Day... ...

Leadlight Gamma, by Wade Clarke
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

15-year-old Belinda Nettle is studying at Linville Girls High School in Australia's Blue Mountains. After falling asleep in the library one afternoon, she wakes from her mundane existence into a nightmare....

Leap Time, by Sarah Morayati
Average member rating: (12 ratings)

Lethophobia, by Jess Mersky, Olivia Wood
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

Lethophobia is an unsettling and comic haunted-house mystery-adventure from Jess Mersky and Olivia Wood. The game explores the nature of memory, self and forgotten trauma. It is also a gesture of love to...

Letters from Home, by Roger Firth
Average member rating: (20 ratings)

"Centuries of ancestry, decades of memories, years of decline; now, barely two hours in which to reflect on the glorious past, that bygone golden age when nostalgia really meant something... " [--blurb from...

The Life (and Deaths) of Doctor M, by Michael D. Hilborn
Average member rating: (30 ratings)

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...

Lime Ergot, by Caleb Wilson (as Rust Blight)
Average member rating: (82 ratings)

Now everyone is gone. (Well, almost everyone.) Entry in ECTOCOMP 2014.

Lists and Lists, by Andrew Plotkin
Average member rating: (26 ratings)

A tutorial in which a genie teaches you the basics of a simplified version of LISP. [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue]

Little Blue Men, by Michael S. Gentry
Average member rating: (70 ratings)

This game is a joke. This game is a warning. This game is a satire. This game is inspired in equal parts by Vaclav Havel's "The Memorandum" and Hunter S. Thompson's "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas". This...

The Little Match Girl 4: Crown of Pearls, by Ryan Veeder
Average member rating: (22 ratings)

A touching epic time travel fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen.

Lock & Key, by Adam Cadre
Average member rating: (77 ratings)

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

Lost in time, by Gerardo Adesso
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

Knock Knock. Knock Knock. A journey through memory lane.

The Lurking Horror, by Dave Lebling
Average member rating: (92 ratings)

A winter night at the G.U.E. tech campus with most students away on vacation serves as the backdrop for this tale of Lovecraftian horror.

Lydia's Heart, by Jim Aikin
Average member rating: (32 ratings)

"Lydia's Heart" is a large, complex game with a serious tone and seven or eight NPCs you can converse with. The genre is low-key horror: There's almost no actual blood, but there are several ways to die in a...

Make It Good, by Jon Ingold
Average member rating: (84 ratings)

The call comes through. Of all the dicks; you get the call, sitting in the front seat of your car, hands shaking on the steering wheel. An urgent call; but all you were thinking of was the bottle in the...

Map, by Ade McT
Average member rating: (33 ratings)

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.

The Mary Jane of Tomorrow, by Emily Short
Average member rating: (21 ratings)

You, Mary Jane Minsky, have a few things to clear up with your best friend Jenny Yoshida. When your robotic birthday gift doesn't go over as planned, you may need to reset your expectations, for her and...

Mermaids of Ganymede, by Seth Paxton
Average member rating: (9 ratings)

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...

Metamorphoses, by Emily Short
Average member rating: (130 ratings)

You wake to stillness. The hammering, banging, and shouting that kept you awake half the night are gone. The air is cold, and something smells burnt. Your master's experiments must be finished, but with what...

The Meteor, the Stone and a Long Glass of Sherbet, by Graham Nelson (as Angela M. Horns)
Average member rating: (51 ratings)

Another day wasted as guest of the Empress, a wretchedly long tour of the breath-taking Boreal Falls, conducted as ever by the Lady Amilia. As if she weren't bad enough, an honour guard of soldiers, their...

A Mind Forever Voyaging, by Steve Meretzky
Average member rating: (116 ratings)

"If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not..." --Shakespeare It's 2031. The world is on the brink of chaos. In the United States of North America, spiraling...

minor fall MAJOR LIFT, by Lady Isak Grozny
Average member rating: (10 ratings)

You step into the shoes of Lev/Liubov Morgenshtern, a bigender writer living in the city of Svet-Dmitrin. You meet and get to know one Anzu Menelik, beautiful and mysterious. A proof-of-concept/prototype for...

Möbius, by J.D. Clemens
Average member rating: (35 ratings)

Another mission. Just when you had settled in for a nap.

Moments Out of Time, by L. Ross Raszewski
Average member rating: (16 ratings)

"Note: requires a Z6-capable interpreter, preferably with Blorb sound support." [--blurb from Competition Aught-One]

Moon-Shaped, by Jason Ermer
Average member rating: (37 ratings)

In this game partly inspired by Little Red Riding Hood, you play as Rosalind Wechsler, a girl on the cusp of her 13th birthday. What begins as a trip to Grandmother's house in the woods leads to disturbing...

More, by Jason Dyer (as Erin Canterbury)
Average member rating: (12 ratings)

Mother Loose, by Irene Callaci
Average member rating: (12 ratings)

It's been one of those days. It started out bad and just got worse: You're seven years old and in trouble a lot. You try to be good and to do as you ought, but nothing, it seems, goes exactly as planned. For...

The Mulldoon Legacy, by Jon Ingold
Average member rating: (45 ratings)

"In the event of my disappearance, my legacy shall not be distributed until every room in my museum has been searched in case I can be located." --Last Will and Testament, E. Mulldoon.

Muse: An Autumn Romance, by Christopher Huang
Average member rating: (35 ratings)

Early September, 1886. Autumn. The Victorian Era. The Rev. Dawson, 59, is off to the Continent and an unexpected Romance... [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue]

My Angel, by Jon Ingold
Average member rating: (28 ratings)

"I wake peacefully, and already she is there." [--blurb from Competition Aught-Zero]

My Brother; The Parasite, by qrowscant
Average member rating: (11 ratings)

It is a kind of symbiosis. ...

Mystery Science Theater 3000 Presents "Detective", by C. E. Forman, Matt Barringer, Graeme Cree, and Stuart Moore
Average member rating: (57 ratings)

"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...

Nautilisia, by Ryan Veeder
Average member rating: (41 ratings)

Your friend claims to be in a coma.

Never Gives Up Her Dead, by Mathbrush
Average member rating: (13 ratings)

Time is running out after a meteor strikes your interstellar starship. While the crew is under full alert, only you seem to notice the strange red portals opening up throughout the ship. Explore ten...

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

"A short tale of mystery and madness inspired by Poe's "The Raven"." [--blurb from Competition Aught-Zero]
A New Life, by A O Muniz
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

Not All Things Make It Across, by Bruno Dias
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

All around the city now, parties are taking place. It's been a hell of a year, emphasis on hell. But tonight, there are other things you have to do. The end of the year is a threshold. And like all...

Not Just an Ordinary Ballerina, by Jim Aikin
Average member rating: (30 ratings)

Not Quite a Sunset - a hypertext opera, by Kyle Rowan
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

On an orbital space station in a distant star system, Dr. Sara Reyes leads a small team tasked with surveying a planet for potential settlement. A science-fiction story set to an original musical score....

Of Their Shadows Deep, by Amanda Walker
Average member rating: (18 ratings)

A story about love and disease and loss. Contains graphics and has a screen reader mode for use with text to speech software. Written in Inform 7 for 2022 ParserComp. Play time about one hour. Content...

The Oldest Hangover on Earth, by Marius Müller
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

La Petite Mort entry in ECTOCOMP 2015.
Ollie Ollie Oxen Free, by Carolyn VanEseltine
Average member rating: (28 ratings)
"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

Once and Future, by G. Kevin Wilson
Average member rating: (13 ratings)

One Eye Open, by Caelyn Sandel (as Colin Sandel) and Carolyn VanEseltine
Average member rating: (46 ratings)

Had you known the bloody history of Corona Labs, you would never have signed up as a test subject. But now, plunged into that history, surrounded by the damned and the dying, you must find the truth. Perhaps...

One King to Loot them All, by Onno Brouwer
Average member rating: (12 ratings)

A tale of High Adventure ...

The Only Possible Prom Dress, by Jim Aikin
Average member rating: (10 ratings)

Ten years ago you had to burgle every store in Stufftown to get your hands on the sought-after doll called Sugar Toes Ballerina so your 7-year-old daughter Samantha wouldn't be heartbroken on Christmas...

Open Sorcery, by Abigail Corfman
Wanderlust's rating:
Average member rating: (77 ratings)

You are online. You are fire and order. You are here to protect. ---- "Open Sorcery" is a game about technology, magic and becoming a person. It follows the development of an Elemental Firewall--a creature...

Open That Vein, by Chandler Groover
Average member rating: (18 ratings)

You are going to open that vein. La Petite Mort entry in ECTOCOMP 2015.

The Owl Consults, by Thomas Mack, Nick Mathewson, and Cidney Hamilton
Average member rating: (19 ratings)

Once you've established yourself as the ruler of the crime world (and, eventually, the literal world), the only challenge left is helping out the next generation of supervillains---for a suitable fee, of...

A Paradox Between Worlds, by Autumn Chen
Average member rating: (28 ratings)

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...

Party Foul, by Brooks Reeves
Average member rating: (33 ratings)

You're cornered, trapped. There seems to be no escape. You aren't in a jail cell. No, you're in the cocktail party from hell and only by using your wits and luck are you going to get out of this suburb...

Photograph: A Portrait of Reflection, by Steve Evans
Average member rating: (27 ratings)

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
Wanderlust's rating:
Average member rating: (559 ratings)

"Will you read me a story?" "Read you a story? What fun would that be? I've got a better idea: let's tell a story together."

Point Blank Blank, by Christopher Huang
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

"Kevin Green, music hall manager, walked home an hour before the show but never made it back. Now some of the music hall's most stalwart employees have been implicated in his death.... "Can you piece...

Portcullis, by Robin Johnson
Average member rating: (14 ratings)

Your home town, Portcullis, has been taken over by an evil sorcerer (because that's what evil sorcerers do) and a party of adventurers has arrived to overthrow him (because that's what adventurers do.) An...

The Prairie House, by Chris Hay (a.k.a. Eldritch Renaissance Cake)
Average member rating: (12 ratings)

A student finishes their prairie field work but has to spend the night alone at an old house. Follow the story from dark evening to mysterious morning and get all the achievements to think up your best...

Protocol, by 30x30
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

You are a crewman aboard Observatory Station Calypso-54414d. Everything you know is a lie.

Put Your Hand Inside The Puppet Head, by The Hungry Reader
Average member rating: (14 ratings)

The world's most beloved puppeteer has died under mysterious circumstances. His legacy must be preserved! Hunt your way through his studio and talk to seven different puppets to learn the truth and protect...

Pytho's Mask, by Emily Short
Average member rating: (68 ratings)

On the Night of the Comet, the usual astrological bonds do not hold, and the order of the universe is threatened. It is a time made for rebels and usurpers, and all who would claim the kingdom for...

Queers in Love at the End of the World, by Anna Anthropy
Average member rating: (37 ratings)

Rameses, by Stephen Bond
Average member rating: (125 ratings)

Redemption, by Kathleen M. Fischer
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

Repeat the Ending, by Drew Cook
Average member rating: (22 ratings)

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...

Ribald Bat Lady Plunder Quest, by Joey Acrimonious
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

Wherein a bat-themed monster lady goes on a felonious adventure to obtain a special birthday present for her beloved. ...

Ribbons, by J. D. Berry
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

Risorgimento Represso, by Michael J. Coyne
Average member rating: (48 ratings)

You play as an Oxbridge student who, during a particularly boring lecture, falls through a green portal under their desk into the cluttered library of the wizard Ninario. Ninny was trying to summon a...

Robin & Orchid, by Ryan Veeder and Emily Boegheim
Average member rating: (64 ratings)

High school journalists spend the night in a church, investigating reports of a ghost.

Rogue of the Multiverse, by C.E.J. Pacian
Average member rating: (73 ratings)

Congratulations, convict 76954! You have been selected for scientific experimentation! You will be matter-transmitted to exotic non-Treaty worlds - where opportunities abound to take in fantastic sights and...

A Rope of Chalk, by Ryan Veeder
Average member rating: (35 ratings)

An account of the disastrous sidewalk chalk tournament of August 27, 2011.

Rover's Day Out, by Jack Welch and Ben Collins-Sussman
Average member rating: (54 ratings)

Three hundred years ago, the Brazilian Space Agency discovered a rocky exoplanet only 38 light years from Earth. With a surface temperature of 1200 Celsius and nine times Earth gravity, it's hardly the sort...

Ruiness, by Porpentine Charity Heartscape
Average member rating: (17 ratings)

Salt, by Gareth Damian Martin
Average member rating: (16 ratings)

The beach is a strip of heat. You stand knee deep in the water, facing out to sea. Familiar voices shimmer behind your head. You take a breath, and then begin. - A game about swimming, thinking and the...

Savoir-Faire, by Emily Short
Average member rating: (131 ratings)

The beautiful life is always damned, they say. As for you, you've overexpended yourself: fifteen years of prominence, champagne, carriage rides in the Tuileries, having your name whispered behind...

Scroll Thief, by Daniel M. Stelzer
Average member rating: (16 ratings)

Not a single spell! After two full years of study! Every Enchanter—every mortal with the power to change very nature of the universe with their words—has a spell book! Filled with words of power collected...

Seedship, by John Ayliff
Average member rating: (52 ratings)

An AI ship full of frozen colonists must find the best planet to be the new home of the human race.

Sequitur, by Nigel Jayne (as Tin Foil Jenny)
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

The only person who can explain what happened in a long-forgotten house with four dead people inside is comatose and clinging to her life in hospital. Detective Stephen Cochone of the New Orleans Police...

The Shadow in the Cathedral, by Ian Finley and Jon Ingold
Wanderlust's rating:
Average member rating: (31 ratings)

When the monks took me, aged six months, into their care, they named me Wren. Maybe because I was small, insignificant, and happy to eat any crumbs they threw my way. But these days I'm Wren, 2nd Assistant...

She's Got a Thing for a Spring, by Brent VanFossen
Average member rating: (32 ratings)

It's been a hectic year, and it's time to get away. He told you that, and you agreed. Now you're here, in a grove of aspen, and long for a good, long bath in the nearby hot spring. [--blurb from The Z-Files...

Sherlock: The Riddle of the Crown Jewels, by Bob Bates
Average member rating: (22 ratings)

Moriarty has set a deadly trap for Sherlock Holmes. And only you can stop him... Travel back in time to Victorian London, where the city is bustling with preparations for Her Majesty's Golden Jubilee. Crowds...

Shuffling Around, by Andrew Schultz (as Ned Yompus)
Average member rating: (25 ratings)

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...

Skybreak!, by William Dooling
Average member rating: (17 ratings)

Skybreak! is a science-fantasy role-playing game of galactic proportions: explore distant stars, plunder alien ruins, hunt space pirates, collect beetles, slay gods, make out with sorcerers, and punch cosmic...

Sleep, by Snoother
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

[This game is a stupid bit if juvenilia -- Snoother]

Snack Time!, by Hardy the Bulldog and Renee Choba
Average member rating: (59 ratings)

Can you help one hungry bulldog in his quest to find something good to eat? He would like that. A lot. [blurb from IF Comp 2008]

So Far, by Andrew Plotkin
Average member rating: (73 ratings)

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...

Solarium, by Anya Johanna DeNiro
Wanderlust's rating:
Average member rating: (54 ratings)

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...

The Song of the Mockingbird, by Mike Carletta
Average member rating: (16 ratings)

A ruthless outlaw. A kidnapped dancer. A singing cowboy. A long dance of death in the Texas sun. You're unhorsed and disarmed, but you still have your wits and your guitar. You can only hope they'll be...

Sorcery!, by Steve Jackson and inkle
Average member rating: (38 ratings)

An adaptation of a print-based game book originally published in 1983, updated for modern touch-screen devices. The player quests across a fantasy map, dealing with all sorts of encounters using a text-based...

Speculative Fiction, by Diane Christoforo and Thomas Mack
Average member rating: (13 ratings)

A puzzle game about committing acts of financial skulduggery and exploiting ridiculous magical items. This game is the complete version of the one that appeared in IntroComp 2011, where it won second place.

Spellbound, by Adam Perry
Average member rating: (12 ratings)

You still remember well the moment that the professor shocked the orthographic community by announcing that there were, somewhere out there, 26 letters in all. Harness the alphabet's power to find the 23...

Spider and Web, by Andrew Plotkin
Average member rating: (311 ratings)

A vacation in our lovely country! See the ethnic charms of the countryside, the historic grandeur of the capital city. Taste our traditional cuisine; smell the flowers of the Old Tree. And all without...

A Study in Steampunk: Choice by Gaslight, by Heather Albano
Average member rating: (21 ratings)

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...

Stygian Dreams, by Giorgos Menelaou
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

An interactive exploration of death, and the acceptance of it.

Sub Rosa, by Joey Jones, Melvin Rangasamy
Average member rating: (42 ratings)

A puzzle game about secrets in the Age of Lead. You've spent seventeen years preparing for an infiltration. Stealing the Confessor's secrets is only the beginning: it will all be for nothing if you leave a...

Summit, by Phantom Williams
Average member rating: (33 ratings)

A dream-like journey through a drifting life. Headphones recommended.

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

In this game, you play as an office worker on vacation on a beach in Savannah. This is your last day of a very blissful vacation, and you realize you really really hate your job. You could quit, but should...

Superluminal Vagrant Twin, by C.E.J. Pacian
Average member rating: (120 ratings)

A text-only space sim. Ply the spaceways. Make five million credits. Buy back your twin. (Superluminal Vagrant Twin is a shallow but broad exploration game.)

Sweetpea, by Sophia de Augustine
Average member rating: (14 ratings)

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...

Take, by Katherine Morayati (as Amelia Pinnolla)
Average member rating: (37 ratings)

You are battle-weary. Your armor is scanty and your countenance is loathsome; you tire of the swords flicking at your neck. But you have a duty. There is nothing you can't take. (Content warning: Violence,...

Tales from Castle Balderstone, by Ryan Veeder
Average member rating: (16 ratings)

An anthology of terror, edited by Ryan Veeder. Also an ECTOCOMP 2018 entry.

Tapestry, by Daniel Ravipinto
Average member rating: (44 ratings)

You were born; you lived; you died. Not everyone gets a second chance to go back and change crucial decisions. You have been granted one and must go back to critical moral dilemmas; but do you change the...

The Tempest, by Graham Nelson and William Shakespeare
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

You play Ariel in William Shakespeare's comedy The Tempest. The text and descriptions are lifted from the original works, i. e. in old English. [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue]

Terminal Interface for Models RCM301-303, by Victor Gijsbers
Average member rating: (21 ratings)

A text terminal interface for interacting with your model RCM301-303 remote controlled mech.

Thaumistry: In Charm's Way, by Bob Bates
Average member rating: (16 ratings)

Thaum: (noun). A unit of magical energy Bodge: (verb). To hack or kludge Eric Knight was a child prodigy who was featured on the cover of Invent! Magazine at the age of 13 for his invention of an anti-stain...

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

Your job as a real estate agent brings you into contact with many old buildings, but none are quite like the old theatre that has stood deserted for almost thirty years. After visiting it with some...

Things that Happened in Houghtonbridge, by Dee Cooke
Average member rating: (14 ratings)

On a hot summer weekend, all Olivia Raines wants to do is get on with her studies for her upcoming exams. But her unreliable aunt, Beverly, has gone missing, and Olivia finds herself unwillingly dragged into...

The Thirty Nine Steps, by Graham Walmsley
Average member rating: (17 ratings)

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...

Threads of Magic and Memory, by C.J. Wilson, Chad Finch

"Threads of Magic and Memory" is a character-driven interactive fiction game which follows an old warrior named Adisa as she explores a mind-and-reality-warping dungeon in the hopes of forgetting her past....

THROW. MARIA. OVERBOARD., by Travis Moy
Average member rating: (9 ratings)

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...

A Time of Tungsten, by Devin Raposo
Average member rating: (10 ratings)

The walls are high, the hole is deep. She is trapped, on a distant planet. Watched. She may not survive. But, she did live.

To Hell in a Hamper, by J. J. Guest
Average member rating: (112 ratings)

Professor Pettibone, eminent Victorian balloonist, has a problem. He can't get it up. His balloon that is. If he can't reach an altitude of 20,000 feet, and soon, both he and his mysterious travelling...

To Sea in a Sieve, by J. J. Guest
Average member rating: (18 ratings)

Peter Petibon, cabin boy, hath a problem. He be goin' down -- to Davy Jones' locker, by the powers! Lest he seize the booty o' the dread pyrate Booby, and heave it all o'erboard, he and the Cap'n both will...

Transient Skies, by dgtziea
Average member rating: (14 ratings)

You are heading back to your ship, your navvisor blinking hard data at you as you look around planetside -- mineral deposits, heat signatures, distant planets -- when you decide, for a moment, to turn it all...

Transparent, by Hanon Ondricek
Average member rating: (20 ratings)

There is a house. There is a room in the house. There is a door in the room. The door is locked. Some people are in the room. Some people are transparent. An eerie exploration of an abandoned historic house....

A Trial, by B Minus Seven
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

A funny thing happens on your way to the Center for Nominal Reassignment. "A Trial" is a chimera of prose, poetry and ???.

Tricks of light in the forest, by Pseudavid
Average member rating: (13 ratings)

Some year not too far, in a foggy morning just before sunrise, a normal girl takes a normal walk in a normal forest. A Gruescript choice-parser hybrid, exploration walking simulator with light puzzles....

Trinity, by Brian Moriarty
Average member rating: (102 ratings)

You're neither an adventurer nor a professional thrill-seeker. You're simply an American tourist in London, enjoying a relaxing stroll through the famous Kensington Gardens. When World War III starts and the...

Trouble in Sector 471, by Arthur DiBianca
Average member rating: (30 ratings)

The power just went out in Sector 471. You had better go take a look.

TWEEZER, by Richard Goodness and PaperBlurt
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

Congratulations! Your essay, "20 Reasons Why I Would Like To Visit Tuisere" has won Triptacular Magazine's "Let's Send You To Tuisere" contest! See the sights during your three day, three night trip to a...

Ugly Chapter, by Sam Kabo Ashwell
Average member rating: (12 ratings)

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...

Ultramarine: A Seapunk Adventure, by Seven Submarines
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

Sacrificed to the sea, a pirate travels to the underwater Kingdom of Atlas to retrieve a magical stone. Along the way, she meets the crown prince and his royal guard.

Uncle Mortimer's Secret, by Jim MacBrayne
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

Understudied, by Jonathan Laury
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

Based on real events... It's press night in the West End, and in three hours the curtain will go up on a new rock musical version of a Shakespeare play. Sounds great, right? What could possibly go wrong?...

Unicorn Story, by Conrad Cook
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

"The unicorn, through its intemperance and not knowing how to control itself, for the love it bears to fair maidens forgets its ferocity and wildness; and laying aside all fear it will go up to a seated...

Unit 322 (Disambiguation), by Jonny Muir
Average member rating: (24 ratings)

A mystery told entirely through the pages of an online encyclopedia.

Vain Empires, by Thomas Mack and Xavid
Average member rating: (24 ratings)

The memoir of a demonic spy in the Cold War between Heaven and Hell.

Varicella, by Adam Cadre
Average member rating: (131 ratings)

You are Primo Varicella, Palace Minister at the Palazzo del Piemonte. This title is unlikely to impress anyone. Piedmont is the laughingstock of the Carolingian League, and the Palace Ministry has devolved...

Veritas, by James T. Reese
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

"Before you can graduate from Harvard in this game, you must complete a scavenger hunt that takes you through a labyrinth of food tunnels, the Harvard Lampoon headquarters, library stacks, and other...

Voice Box, by B Minus Seven
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

They extract her voice.

A Walk Around the Neighborhood, by Leo Weinreb
Average member rating: (18 ratings)

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
Average member rating: (51 ratings)

Team up with a dashing detective and an iconoclastic flapper to solve absurd and unfathomable crimes in this interactive story - where you control the action just by typing or clicking highlighted words in...

The Wand, by Arthur DiBianca
Average member rating: (58 ratings)

Explore the wizard Bartholloco's castle with the help of a versatile magic wand. Can you overcome his challenge? Can you levitate a rock? Can you slice a baltavakia? (Puzzle-oriented and family friendly.)

The Weight of a Soul, by Chin Kee Yong
Average member rating: (24 ratings)

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...

Weird City Interloper, by C.E.J. Pacian
Average member rating: (54 ratings)

An interactive tale of strange conspiracy. Pull up your hood, lower your gaze and enter the city of Zendon. If you can gather enough information, you may just be able to change the course of history. (Weird...

The Whale's Keeper, by Ben Parzybok
Average member rating: (16 ratings)

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 Are Little Girls Made Of, by Carolyn VanEseltine
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

What Fuwa Bansaku Found, by Chandler Groover
Average member rating: (30 ratings)

A samurai explores a haunted shrine.

What Heart Heard Of, Ghost Guessed, by Amanda Walker
Average member rating: (38 ratings)

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,...

When acting as a particle / When acting as a wave, by David T. Marchand
Average member rating: (10 ratings)

A game with links. The links tell you the story and the consequences of having clicked on previous links. There’s nothing other than links. Can you read that text? Then you can click it! It’s been said that...

Whitefield Academy of Witchcraft, by Steph Cherrywell
Average member rating: (19 ratings)

The year is 1957, and the place is lush, storm-tossed Stinglash Island, just off the north coast of Washington's Olympic Peninsula. You are Page LeBlanc, witch in training, and you've returned for another...

Whom The Telling Changed, by Aaron A. Reed
Average member rating: (64 ratings)

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
Average member rating: (67 ratings)

Dallas, Texas. 1996. Fred Strickland has Alzheimer's.

Worlds Apart, by Suzanne Britton
Average member rating: (90 ratings)

For over 20 years, I dreamed about an alternate universe I called the Higher World. For three of those years, I poured almost all of my creative energy into a novel-length story set in that universe. Worlds...

Worldsmith, by Ade McT
Average member rating: (30 ratings)

The Septem Tower has held steady in the Manifold, the space between time and the Real, for billenia. Populating the Tower are the Anemoi, a race of beings so far advanced that they hold the power of life and...

Wry, by Olaf Nowacki
Average member rating: (13 ratings)

A one and a half room slapstick miniature about subconscious erotic desires with three quite different endings.

The Xylophoniad, by Robin Johnson
Average member rating: (17 ratings)

The King of Anachronopolis has ordered you to end the Trojan War, slay the dreaded Bicyclops, and rescue a couple of inmates from Hades. A comic adventure set in Greek mythology.

Zork I, by Marc Blank and Dave Lebling
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Average member rating: (218 ratings)

Many strange tales have been told of the fabulous treasure, exotic creatures, and diabolical puzzles in the Great Underground Empire. As an aspiring adventurer, you will undoubtedly want to locate these...


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