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+=3, by Carl de Marcken and David Baggett
Average member rating: (22 ratings)
This one-puzzle game was Dave Baggett's response to a discussion (flame war?) in rec.arts.int-fiction and specifically to Russ Bryan's claim that there could be no puzzles which are logical yet unsolvable....

1958: Dancing With Fear, by Victor Ojuel
Average member rating: (32 ratings)

"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...

500 Apocalypses, by Phantom Williams
Average member rating: (25 ratings)

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...

69,105 Keys, by David Welbourn
Average member rating: (80 ratings)

There's just one room. How hard can it be? Just unlock the door. Oh. There's 69,105 keys.

9:05, by Adam Cadre
Average member rating: (535 ratings)

The phone rings. Oh, no — how long have you been asleep? Sure, it was a tough night, but... This is bad. This is very bad. The phone rings.

Ad Verbum, by Nick Montfort
Average member rating: (135 ratings)

"With the cantankerous Wizard of Wordplay evicted from his mansion, the worthless plot can now be redeveloped. The city regulations declare, however, that the rip-down job can't proceed until all the items...

Adventurer's Consumer Guide, by Øyvind Thorsby
Average member rating: (31 ratings)

Arcane Intern (Unpaid), by Astrid Dalmady
Average member rating: (44 ratings)

Getting coffee, making copies, tampering with powers beyond your control. You know, normal intern things. Now if only you were getting paid for it...

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...

At the Bonfire, by Finny
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

Semi-autobiographical game about interpersonal conflict.

The Axolotl Project, by Samantha Vick
Average member rating: (49 ratings)

As a lowly intern on Sadler Pharmaceutical’s high-security lunar research base, you set out to find an escaped test subject before your boss does. Along the way, you’ll unravel the mystery of your coworker’s...

Captain Verdeterre's Plunder, by Ryan Veeder
Average member rating: (50 ratings)

You should carry the bag. I'm more of a delegator.

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]

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...

The Chinese Room, by Harry Josephine Giles and Joey Jones
Average member rating: (34 ratings)

The Chinese Room is a hilarious romp through the world of philosophical thought experiments. Have you ever wanted to win Zeno's race? Free the denizens of Plato's Cave? Or find out what it's really like to...

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

Code 7 Prologue, by Kevin Glaap, Zein Okko
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

Code 7 is the idea of a modern text adventure by german game design students Kevin Glaap and Zein Okko. It combines the text adventure genre with cinematic fully-voiced storytelling. You have to play to it...

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.

The Cube in the Cavern, by Andrew Schultz
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

A round world is scientifically ridiculous, of course, but a cube floating in air? You just might find a great scientific secret. Don't be too square to give it a try!
A Dark Room, by Michael Townsend
Average member rating: (40 ratings)
A Dark Room is a famous text-based indie game made by doublespeakgames, which was inspired by Candy Box, but it's much grimmer in tone, with a stronger plot and a more roguelike-like focus on survival. And...

Depression Quest, by Zoe Quinn, Patrick Lindsey, Isaac Schankler
Average member rating: (61 ratings)

"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,...

Detectiveland, by Robin Johnson
Average member rating: (53 ratings)

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...

Dial C for Cupcakes, by Ryan Veeder
Average member rating: (31 ratings)

A cantankerous ex-cop calls in a favor from his old partner.

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

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

Distress, by Mike Snyder
Average member rating: (23 ratings)

Lieutenant Huchess came to, an hour or so ago. That was around the time Runoma, blazing orange-hot so near this, its second planet, fell below the distant, jagged crag line. Ensign Covegn died not long after...

Draculaland, by Robin Johnson
Average member rating: (30 ratings)

A terse, comic horror puzzle game based loosely on Dracula, faithfully reimagining several characters and ignoring most of the original plot. Guide Jonathan Harker on a trip through Transylvania, interacting...

Dual Transform, by Andrew Plotkin
Average member rating: (109 ratings)

This game takes place in a single room — but not always the same one. The room contains just one item, but again, there's more to it than that. Experiment and enjoy.

electro primitive girl, by Sloane Leong
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

The Erudition Chamber, by Daniel Freas
Average member rating: (26 ratings)

An Evening at the Ransom Woodingdean Museum House, by Ryan Veeder
Average member rating: (24 ratings)

Karen Chambers gives tours in a restored Victorian home.

Ex Nihilo, by Juhana Leinonen
Average member rating: (33 ratings)

In the beginning there was nothing. From nothing light and darkness were born.

Fabricationist DeWit Remakes the World, by Jedediah Berry
Average member rating: (31 ratings)

After a sleep of centuries, a synthetic being receives an unexpected visitor—along with a new role in the Great Project.

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

Galatea, by Emily Short
Average member rating: (335 ratings)

Emily Short's description: A conversation with a work of art. "47. Galatea. White Thasos marble. Non-commissioned work by the late Pygmalion of Cyprus. (The artist has since committed suicide.) Originally...

Gleaming the Verb, by Kevin Jackson-Mead
Average member rating: (23 ratings)

In this very short one-room game, you play as someone abducted to solve a series of related word puzzles.

Gourmet, by Aaron A. Reed and Chad Barb
Average member rating: (55 ratings)

Missing employees, wily crustaceans, malfunctioning kitchen equipment and a terminal food shortage, all on the night the most important culinary critic in the world has chosen to review your debut...

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.

Guess the Verb!, by Leonard Richardson
Average member rating: (28 ratings)

"Now you too can GUESS THE VERB for fun and prizes! Read evocative and amusing room descriptions while manipulating interesting objects! Interact with the simulated motives and desires of quirky NPCs! No...

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...

A Halo, Flaring, by audo

a short twine game about a widow contacted by an AI version of his former partner a year after they've died.

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.

The Horrible Pyramid, by Ryan Veeder
Average member rating: (31 ratings)

Something weird is going on in this pyramid.

The House Abandon, by jonNoCode
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

A unique horror game, inside another horror game. 80’s text-adventure by way of psychological horror and meta-representation. A short story, free, for PC and Mac. Created for Ludum Dare 36, this 72 hour game...

howling dogs, by Porpentine
Average member rating: (125 ratings)

death cube sim | galactic survey | visionatrix | facet machine | power gardens | women | fascination two significant endings

Jacqueline, Jungle Queen!, by Steph Cherrywell
Average member rating: (24 ratings)

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
Average member rating: (28 ratings)

Jetbike Gang, by C.E.J. Pacian
Average member rating: (23 ratings)

You're a member of a jetbike gang. Tiny Twine game for the Twiny Jam. Exactly 300 words.

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

A one-to-many-room puzzler.

Killing Time at Lightspeed, by Gritfish
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

You never know what will be the last thing you say to someone. On a transport ship leaving earth, a passenger kills time by scrolling through the messages of their social media feed. As the ship leaves and...

Labour's Letters Lost, by Christopher Huang
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

"The dinner party is small, select, and discreet. But when a packet of sensitive letters disappears from Sir Arthur Cox's safe, the implications are severe...." --blurb from <http://www.ricordius.com/game/index.html>

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

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...

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

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

Midnight. Swordfight., by Chandler Groover
Average member rating: (79 ratings)

A fool receives a challenge from a countess. Violence. Sex. Profanity. Sausage.

Mushroom Hunt, by Polyducks
Average member rating: (14 ratings)

By exploring your surroundings you will discover not only the mushrooms needed to help Granny make her stew, but information about your life.

Mustard, Music, and Murder, by Christopher Huang
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

"Daniel Hopkins, investment broker, has been murdered. The police are on their way, and meanwhile you are locked in with the other suspects.... "Can you piece together the clues, apply a little logic, and...

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

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

my father's long, long legs, by michael lutz
Average member rating: (143 ratings)

A weird tale. Some parts make use of sound, so this game is best played with headphones. One ending.

PataNoir, by Simon Christiansen
Average member rating: (58 ratings)

The Baron's daughter is missing, and you are the man to find her. No problem. With your inexhaustible arsenal of hard-boiled similes, there is nothing you can't handle.

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...

Progression, by Alex Kriss
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

You descend.

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

The Recruit, by Mike Sousa
Average member rating: (11 ratings)

Try your hand at the Real Life Interactive Gaming Simulacra! You'll face a variety of challenges and simulations and have a chance to win some money and great prizes. Apply today!

Reference and Representation: An Approach to First-Order Semantics, by Ryan Veeder
Average member rating: (34 ratings)

Violence is the answer to this one.

Rematch, by Andrew D. Pontious
Average member rating: (91 ratings)

You thought you were such a great pool player. But Nick has beaten you once tonight already, and Ines is watching him more closely than you would like. So you challenge him to a rematch. "Sure, Kurt!" Nick...

rendition, by nespresso
Average member rating: (38 ratings)

They caught Abdul during an insurgency in the east. He tried to take out a regiment with some home-made explosives strapped to his chest. They didn't explode, so pretty soon the coalition had a real live...

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...

SABBAT, by Eva
Average member rating: (11 ratings)

A game about transition from powerless to powerful. Has freeware and commercial versions. The commercial version contains unique pixel art and a soundtrack.

Save the Date, by Chris Cornell
Average member rating: (32 ratings)

"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....

The Seers Catalogue, by Sean Michaels
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

"Accomplices wanted. Don't weight." ...

Shade, by Andrew Plotkin
Average member rating: (413 ratings)

"A one-room game set in your apartment." [--blurb from Competition Aught-Zero]

Shower Sim, by chrisamaphone
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

~~cutting edge, cinematic crappy apartment shower realism~~

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...

Six, by Wade Clarke
Average member rating: (40 ratings)

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....

A Small Talk at the Back of Beyond, by scriptwelder
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

You wake up. Alone, in a dark room. Alone? No, there is someone talking to you through a console. Will you respond?

Solarium, by Anya Johanna DeNiro
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 Space Under the Window, by Andrew Plotkin
Average member rating: (98 ratings)

A new, experimental game that has no puzzles but uses only words that change your focus on things, thereby adapting the story. [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue]

SPY INTRIGUE, by furkle
Average member rating: (44 ratings)

IT'S YOUR FIRST DAY AT SPY SCHOOL, AND YOU'RE READY TO COMMENCE A LIFE OF ESPIONAGE, TRADECRAFT, AND INTRIGUE. THE ONLY PROBLEM IS, EVERY HUMAN EMPLOYEE DIED OF MUMPS JUST THE OTHER DAY. CAN YOU AND THE SOLE...

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.)

Suveh Nux, by David Fisher
Average member rating: (225 ratings)

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.

Taco Fiction, by Ryan Veeder
Average member rating: (115 ratings)

Taco Fiction is a game about crime.

Tangaroa Deep, by Astrid Dalmady
Average member rating: (45 ratings)

We know more about space than we do about the ocean. Isn’t it time to start changing that? Released for the 2016 Spring Thing

Threediopolis, by Andrew Schultz
Average member rating: (28 ratings)

A wordplay/quasi-maze game.

TOMBs of Reschette, by Richard Goodness
Average member rating: (13 ratings)

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...

the uncle who works for nintendo, by michael lutz
Average member rating: (108 ratings)

You are 11 years old. You are sleeping over at your best friend's house. You and your friend like videogames. Your friend has a lot of cool games. And, believe it or not, an uncle who works for Nintendo. And...

Violet, by Jeremy Freese
Average member rating: (383 ratings)

Calm down. All you have to do is write a thousand words and everything will be fine. And you have all day, except it's already noon. [blurb from IF Comp 2008]

Winter Storm Draco, by Ryan Veeder
Average member rating: (26 ratings)

A chronicle of the events of the winter storm of the same name.

You are standing in a cave..., by Caroline Berg
Average member rating: (15 ratings)

... 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 Find Yourself in a Room., by Eli Piilonen
Average member rating: (34 ratings)

YFYIAR is the drunken uncle of text-based adventures: Abusive, abrasive, and maybe a little funny.
Your Utterly Unbeatable Natalya, by Leon Arnott
Average member rating: (2 ratings)
A little game of people and magic.

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