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18 Rooms to Home, by Carolyn VanEseltine
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

18 Rooms to Home is an experimental work of interactive fiction. It’s a day in the life of Yesenia Reed, whose life is far from ordinary, no matter what she might prefer. This story takes place over the...

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?...

77 Verbs, by MathBrush (as Prismatik)
Average member rating: (21 ratings)

Use every standard verb in the Inform library to escape deadly situations in this introduction to parser games! (This game was formerly known as 85 Verbs.)

A1RL0CK, by Marco Innocenti
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

Your hands. They hit the reinforced metal. They're starting to hurt. There's nothing to do. The safety lock is engaged. ----- A1RL0CK is a survival text adventure about a child and some voices. Also, a lot...

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

Advent Door, by Andrew Plotkin
Average member rating: (16 ratings)

Where’s that door? This game was written for a collaborative 2019 Advent Calendar project. The theme was "The City of Doors" from the Planescape roleplaying setting. That project was never completed, so I...

Advent Mirror, by Andrew Plotkin
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

"You had no idea where the portal would take you. That's life in the City of Doors. One more step as always." Created for the Confounding Calendar 2022.

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

Alco's Infinity, by drakirby
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

Alco's Infinity is a piece of interactive fiction where you make choices that heavily affect which scenes and dialogue you encounter, as well as the final ending. Explore a futuristic universe where Alco and...

All Quiet on the Library Front, by Michael S. Phillips
Average member rating: (15 ratings)

As a student with an IF assignment looming, you need to get a biography out of the library - however, it is a very rare book, and surely you won't be allowed to take it with you... [--blurb from The Z-Files...

Alone, by Paul Michael Winters
Average member rating: (30 ratings)

Just you and your car, alone on the open road. You haven't seen another car for weeks. You haven't spoken to another person in months. And if you want to stay alive, you'd better keep it that way.

and there are no stars., by Cressida St. Claire
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

a tiny, semi-autobiographical game about the stars and the comfort you find in them. content warning: depiction of physical punishment in a home setting. created for Neo-Twiny Jam...

Andelmans' Yard, by Arlan Wetherminster
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

You are an over-zealous boy scout gunning for his Community Service merit badge by finding a lost cat. Things get more complicated from there.

ANDROMEDA 1983, by Marco Innocenti
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

You are Ektor Mastiff, a scientist carrying the most important news in the world! Bring it to the Scientific Committee before it's too late! ANDROMEDA 1983 - An Adventure Game by Marco Innocenti is © 1983 by...

Apartment F209, by Ben Parrish
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

"A small game in which you try to escape from your dull life in Apartment F209. Contains only a small number of puzzles, but lets you learn the hard way if you missed to solve one." [--blurb from The Z-Files...
April in Paris, by Jim Aikin
Average member rating: (16 ratings)
On the first day of your dream vacation, you encounter an exasperating social difficulty. (Game file contains complete hints and walkthrough. Zip file includes pdf map.) [blurb from IF Comp 2008]

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...

Backyard Skulls, by Hazel-Rah

Written for Gothic Novel Jam 2018 Charles Blackwood happens upon a deed for the cliff-side manor known as Gethen Manor, a manor owned by a former mistress of his, Katherine Thorndale. Attached to the deed is...

Baking with Lizzie, by Adri
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

Your friends are arriving soon, and you need to bake a batch of cookies! Now where is that recipe card...? This game was created for the Short & Sweet Jam.

Bali B&B, by Felicity Banks
Average member rating: (16 ratings)

Can you keep a bunch of tourists happy in Paradise? ...

A Bear's Night Out, by David Dyte
Average member rating: (69 ratings)

"Tomorrow is the big Teddy Bear party, and you must definitely not let your owner forget about it..." [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue]

A Beauty Cold and Austere, by Mike Spivey
Average member rating: (58 ratings)

That survey course in conceptual mathematics seemed like a good idea at the start of the term - no graded homework, no midterm exams - just an oral final at the end. But now that final is tomorrow morning....

Bed Time, by Charlie the Spiffy
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

Beneath Fenwick, by Pete Gardner
Average member rating: (9 ratings)

Fenwick is a serene, nineteenth-century township located deep within the wetland regions of western New England. Only a short drive from the storied academy known as Ealdian College, you have long been...

Blighted Isle, by Eric Eve
Average member rating: (43 ratings)

Blockade duty in the Bay of Biscay, vile weather, and an unplanned jaunt over the side of the ship into the tossing waves. But instead of drowning, you end up on an island that has no right to be there - and...

Blue Lacuna, by Aaron A. Reed
Average member rating: (113 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...

Border Reivers, by Vivienne Dunstan
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

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....

Bradford Mansion, by Lenard Gunda
Average member rating: (10 ratings)

A classic IF investigation/mystery set in an old mansion. What could ever go wrong in an old mansion? Lord Bradford just passed away, and his inheritors are eager to get their hands on their inheritance. But...

BYOD, by n-n
Average member rating: (22 ratings)

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

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

Your task is simple enough. Just nab the chalice.

Calliope, by Jason McIntosh
Average member rating: (10 ratings)

Calypso, by Dave Footitt
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

Coming around in a lighthouse with no memory of who you are or how you got there, can you solve the mystery and win the game?

Closed Door; Key?, by KnightAnNi
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

Closed Door; Key? is an interactive fiction game based on the seed "Room; Closed Door" by Charm Cochran. The challenge from this seed was to make an escape room game using Twine and using only nouns or...

Clued In: A Murder Mystery, by Sam Ursu
Average member rating: (1 rating)

Based on the board game "Clue," also known as "Cluedo" in some parts.

The Crimson Terrors of Delamay Manor, by Logan Noble
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

You’re a freelance journalist and you’ve taken on a writing job for your dream website. You’ve agreed to interview Thomas Delamay, a reclusive millionaire that lives in a mansion that the locals...

The Curse of the Scarab, by Nils Fagerburg
Average member rating: (11 ratings)

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.

D'ARKUN, by Michael Baltes
Average member rating: (13 ratings)

Long forgotten proceedings have changed the coastal area north of Altenkirchen forever. Now, almost a century later, the proceedings have begun again. You're about to discover the sinister secrets of this...

Dead Cities, by Jon Ingold
Average member rating: (31 ratings)

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...

Dead Man's Hill, by Arno von Borries
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

Mutual slaughter in northern France, spring 1916.

Deep Space Drifter, by Michael J. Roberts and Steve McAdams
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

Stranded in deep space after running out of fuel, you luck upon a nearby space station. When you get there, though, the place is abandoned, and strange things seem to have been happening lately. And if you...

Delightful Wallpaper, by Andrew Plotkin ('Edgar O. Weyrd')
Average member rating: (78 ratings)

Detective City, by Plus Ultra
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

Detective City is an award-winning Global Game Jam 2015 submission from fake game development studio Plus Ultra. Detective City uses extensive randomization to create a new adventure every time you play.

Detective Osiris, by Adam Burt
Average member rating: (16 ratings)

Death. Conception. Genesis. Mystery. ...

Disenchantment Bay, by Jacqueline A Lott (with a head start from Emily Short)
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

From the about text: "The Inform 7 examples collectively known as Disenchantment Bay were born of a trip that Emily Short made with Dan Shiovitz to Alaska to visit me and Sam Kabo Ashwell, many years ago....

Ditch Day Drifter, by Michael J. Roberts
Average member rating: (23 ratings)

You're an undergraduate at Caltech, and you wake up to find it's Ditch Day, the traditional event when seniors leave the campus for the day, leaving behind puzzles for the underclassmen to solve in order to...

Dr Ludwig and the Devil, by SV Linwood
Average member rating: (35 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. ...

The Dreamhold, by Andrew Plotkin
Average member rating: (175 ratings)

The Dreamhold is interactive fiction — a classic text adventure. No graphics! No point-and-click! You type your commands, and read what happens next. The Dreamhold is designed for people who have never...

The Ebb and Flow of the Tide, by Peter Nepstad
Average member rating: (15 ratings)

You have done a horrible thing, so horrible that burial will be denied you, either in soil or sea, neither can there be any hell for you. You wait for some hours, knowing this. Then your friends come for...

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

The End Means Escape, by Steve Kodat
Average member rating: (11 ratings)

"Some things should be left undone." [--blurb from Competition Aught-Zero]

The Enigma of the Old Manor House, by Daniel M. Stelzer
Average member rating: (9 ratings)

Everyone's heard stories about the old mansion on the hill. Decades ago, they say, old Doctor Black lived up there all alone. Until something happened—nobody knows what—and he vanished without a trace. The...

Entangled, by Dark Star
Average member rating: (12 ratings)

Caught up in a time-travel experiment gone wrong, the actions you perform in the past will ripple forward in time. Can you find your way back without unraveling the universe? A small town stirs in your wake.

Erstwhile, by Aster (formally Maddie) Fialla, Marijke Perry
Average member rating: (63 ratings)

The neighborhood Thanksgiving party was going pretty well until you keeled over and died. Now you're a ghost, and you're going to figure out who killed you. But you can't exactly interview people or search...

Etiolated Light, by Lassiter W.
Average member rating: (12 ratings)

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?

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]

Fairest, by Amanda Walker
Average member rating: (26 ratings)

“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...

Fallacy of Dawn, by Robb Sherwin
Average member rating: (19 ratings)

In a world that never quite got over the '80s, Delarion Yar dispenses quarters for the local arcade... badly. A software pirate from better days, he's crossed the wrong people one too many times. Locked into...

fin de sickleburg, by Caleb Wilson
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

It is nearly dawn, and at last you've come back to your chamber. Written for Gothic Novel Jam 2018 (https://itch.io/jam/gothic-novel-jam).

Fingertips: Mysterious Whispers, by Peter Nepstad
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

First Things First, by J. Robinson Wheeler
Average member rating: (23 ratings)

You’ve just arrived at home from your nightly visit to the science and invention section of the local public library, where you spend each night dreaming your dreamy dreams of one day inventing a time travel...

Floatpoint, by Emily Short
Average member rating: (99 ratings)

It is night on this side of the planet. Settled areas are lit: a jagged crescent in the tropics, lining the inland sea. The bright splatter along the top of the curve is Tanhua, as bright from space as New...

For a Change, by Dan Schmidt
Average member rating: (116 ratings)

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

Frankenstein's Legacy, by John Olsen
Average member rating: (1 rating)

In this horror game, you play as Victor Frankenstein's last living relative. He's invited you to the family estate so you can assist him in bringing his newest creature to life.
Freedom, by Anonymous
Average member rating: (13 ratings)
An ordinary day in the life of an ordinary person. [blurb from IF Comp 2008]

Future Threads, by Xavid
Average member rating: (15 ratings)

You see it. Today is the day they will come. Their ship will crash, but the resulting explosion will trouble them not at all. They will emerge, wrapped in shadows and smoke, from the wreckage. Their senses...

Gestures Towards Divinity, by Charm Cochran
Average member rating: (14 ratings)

Francis Bacon (1909-1992) was a British painter, infamous for his use of brutal imagery and distortions of the human face and body. Well-known for both his violent subject matter and cutting wit, he is...

Ghost, by beecadee
Average member rating: (1 rating)

When the masters of the house left for vacation, you thought you'd finally get some peace and quiet of your own. Then *these* cretins traipsed up the drive. Surely, you'd thought, if you ruined enough...

The Ghosts of Blackwood Manor, by Stefan Vogt
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

Take on the role of novelist Thomas King and his wife Cora as they move into a remote Scottish manor house, just days before Christmas 1986. Seeking inspiration for his next book, Thomas begins to explore...

Glowgrass, by Nate Cull
Average member rating: (99 ratings)

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...

Goodbye Cruel Squirrel, by Extra Mayonnaise
Average member rating: (10 ratings)

You are a gray squirrel in a suburban neighborhood. Your mission is to save your tribe from starvation. Enjoy the characters you meet, and be creative in solving puzzles.

Graduation Day, by One Eyed Jack
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

Sam Shooter is a high school senior and pizza delivery boy in a backwoods town in rural Maine. In One-Eyed Jack's first game of adult interactive fiction, Sam must find a way to graduate from high school and...
A Green Rain, by Jason Love
Average member rating: (2 ratings)
An intentionally ambiguous entry in the Second Annual Metafilter IF Competition (2010).

Gruesome, by Robin Johnson
Average member rating: (11 ratings)

As a grue, it's your duty to keep the underground kingdom safe from vandalism by sorcerers, swordspeople, and other ugly monsters who keep invading the dungeon in hopes of stealing a sackful of your friends'...

Gumshoe, by Mike Oliphant
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

As the owner of a debt-ridden detective agency in the 1920's, you have to find some way of keeping afloat. The case involving suspected infidelity should help with the finances, though... [--blurb from The...

Hangman's Gulch, by Garry Francis
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

You're a grizzled old prospector who's down on his luck. You haven't found any gold in weeks and your supplies have dwindled to practically nothing, so you decide to head to town. When you get there, you...

Hangtown, by John H Doolittle

Come with me on an adventure to Hangtown, home of the gold rush. Cope with mad dogs and Englishmen. Save endangered animals. Get treasures. Make tea. Gather all the treasures hidden throughout Hangtown and...
Harper Manor, by Johnathon Posemato
Horror mystery.

The Haunted Carnival, by Joe Lesko
Average member rating: (1 rating)

The Haunted Carnival is a simple puzzle-based text adventure, suitable for all ages. You are trapped in an abandoned carnival at night and need to collect five magic stars to escape. Author: Joe Lesko Play...

Haunted House, by Pedro Fernández
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

Haunted House is a remake of a 1979 game made by Device Oriented Games for the TRS-80 computer. Written for the 2011 Indigo speed-comp, it features an original plot over the classic game set-up. Its final,...

The Haunting of Corbitt House, by Arlan Wetherminster
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

A private eye investigates a haunted house.

Hell in Highwater, by J. Arthur
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

Home Open, by Emily Boegheim
Average member rating: (9 ratings)
That long-vacant house is up for sale and open for inspection today. Maybe it's just the fixer-upper you've been looking for.
Hotel Tutorial, by Leandro Ribeiro
Average member rating: (3 ratings)
So you are new to Interactive Fiction? You don't even really know what Interactive Fiction is? Well, I'm here to help you. I'm the Tutorial Guide. We're going to play a very small game together, so that you...

The House on Sycamore Lane, by Paul Michael Winters
Average member rating: (9 ratings)

Trapped in an old, abandoned house, you must solve the mystery that has cursed the house for a hundred years... and escape with your life!

Inhumane, by Andrew Plotkin
Average member rating: (21 ratings)

A parody of Infocom's Infidel, written when the author was fifteen, then converted to Inform. To collect a treasure, you must show an ancient guardian how awful an adventurer you are. [--blurb from The...

Jack, by Arlan Wetherminster
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

This game was in Ectocomp 2021. A total of 2 people played it.

Jesse Stavro's Compass, by Arlan Wetherminster
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

This abandoned desert motel had a name once. But the travelers who pass through here now call it Buridan's Bridge. It is a cluster of Doors; portals to anywhere so long as you have the right Key. You've been...

John's Fire Witch, by John Baker
Average member rating: (40 ratings)

A small, witty text adventure. Its clever puzzles received quite a bit of acclaim on rec.arts.int-fiction upon its release. You've come to visit your old friend John Baker, but he's missing, and a blizzard...

The Journey of the King, by Peter Nepstad
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

"The King goeth upon a journey with many horses, yet riding upon none, when the pomp of travelling shall be heard in the streets and the sound of the lute and the drum and the name of the King. And I would...

Juicehead, by Simon Deimel
Average member rating: (1 rating)

You are loaded. You paid your tab. You have to leave. You want one more drink. A game that takes place mostly in one room; featuring an easy conversation system.

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...

Le Morte D'Arthur, by Chris Crawford
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

You play as King Arthur. This is the real world Britain in the 6th century. You have no crown to wear. You dress like everybody else: you wear a simple woolen homespun tunic, loose pants, and a cape in the...

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 Library of Horror, by Pablo Martinez and Fredrik Ramsberg

You just got a job at a library. You're happy for the job, but it's a scary place.

Light My Way Home, by Caelyn Sandel (as Venus Hart)
Average member rating: (18 ratings)

The Light: Shelby's Addendum, by Colm McCarthy
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

You play as Maurice L. Shelby, a laboratory apprentice employed by Commission Research Station 12B. The station is rather important: it houses one of several beacons placed around the world that generate the...

Locked Door IX: Under Obstruction, by Cody Gaisser
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

Can you... RING THE BELL?!

Locked Door V: Switched On, by Cody Gaisser
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

Who turned out the lights?!

Locked Door VI: It Takes Two, by Cody Gaisser
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

Can you balance the scales?!

Locked Door VII: Out Of Line, by Cody Gaisser
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

Can you... CROSS THE BRIDGE?!

Locked Door VIII: Enemy Mine, by Cody Gaisser
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

Can you discover the secret of the dwarven ruins?!

Locked Door X: The Workprint, by Cody Gaisser
Average member rating: (1 rating)

Can you polish a turd?!

Locked Door XI: The US Theatrical Cut, by Cody Gaisser
Average member rating: (1 rating)

Can you beta test this thing?!

The Lookout, by Paul Michael Winters
Average member rating: (14 ratings)

You wanted to get away from it all. And boy, did you ever.

Losing Your Grip, by Stephen Granade
Average member rating: (22 ratings)

The Lost Islands of Alabaz, by Michael Gentry
Average member rating: (12 ratings)

Once upon a time, our Kingdom was much larger than it is now, reaching across all ten islands of the Alabaz Archipelago. But then a terrible curse fell upon us. A thick, gray mist covered the sea, hiding...

The Lost Mountain, by Greg Frost
Average member rating: (1 rating)

A single mountain rises from the plain. All around is dusty desolation. A portal brought you here; for any chance to escape Her wrath, another must be found. This puzzle-light exploration game was originally...

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...

Mansion, by Tercel
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

You have just inherited your great aunt Agatha's English mansion, Gharston Hall, a rambling monstrosity built in the 17th century. But as you start looking around your new home, a Mr. Brookes lets himself...
The Mansion or The Tale of the Adventurous Thief, by The Wildman
Average member rating: (1 rating)

Marie Waits, by Dee Cooke
Average member rating: (13 ratings)

Three hours. All you can do is wait... or is it?

McMurphy's Mansion, by David Martin
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

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...

Metroid, by Billy Rawls
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

Midnight Snack, by I.F. Zerosix
Average member rating: (1 rating)

You awaken in the middle of the night craving a snack. The story can be won in as little as 30 moves, but one misstep along the way could result in a cascading comedy of errors and a night of insomnia.

Mind The Gap, by quackoquack
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

You're in London for a day, and your friends are all unhelpfully scattered across Zone 1. Can you visit them all before your night bus leaves the city? A quick text adventure game made for Game Dev London's...

Mordred Manor, by Pete Gardner
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

- From the packaging: You are lost, on Hallowe'en Night! The only way out of an endless back alley is through a decrepit old house known only to few as Mordred Manor. Are you prepared, in the course of your...

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

The Museum, by Andreas Jörgensen
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

After a long, boring day, you decide to take a well-deserved, relaxing trip to the museum, but going there might get you more than you bargained for. Made for TIGsource's Commonplace Book Competition 2008.

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...

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

Your friend claims to be in a coma.

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)

The Nightmare Maze, by Alex Livingston

Sickly white moonlight floods the Boston night, and from your bedroom window you can see the damp rooftops shine, a static sea of silver and black. The monotonous bells of your downstairs clock inform you it...

Nowheresville, by Morpheus Kitami and Cody Gaisser
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

You are stuck in an oddly perfect town that might be Hell. Are you going to try to escape again?

Off the Trolley, by Krisztian Kaldi
Average member rating: (9 ratings)

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...

Oppositely Opal, by Buster Hudson
Average member rating: (64 ratings)

You've practiced long and hard for PotionComp, but Grusilda won't give up her title so easily. UGH! Curse that Grusilda! A one-room potion-brewing spell-casting parser puzzler, where things might go opposite...

Out, by Viktor Sobol
Average member rating: (26 ratings)

It's a wonderful morning, and you're ready to come out.

Packrat, by Bill Powell
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

Past Present, by Jim Nelson
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

"The agreement is, once the furniture is moved out of the house, each of us goes inside one at a time to collect our remaining things. ...

The Phoenix Move, by Daniele Giardini
Average member rating: (11 ratings)

You are standing on a tall pole. So tall you can't see the ground below. All you see, is a bright blue sky around you. And the sun. And some clouds. And a huge egg, motionlessly floating a couple of feet...

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...

The Plant, by Michael J. Roberts
Average member rating: (34 ratings)

You're on a business trip with your boss, driving down a deserted highway in the middle of nowhere, when the car breaks down. You set off on foot seeking help, but you soon find yourself in the middle of a...

Primer, by Christina Nordlander
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

Pulling the trigger. Winnable. Made in three hours for ECTOCOMP 2017. Content warning: violence against a family member.

The Primrose Path, by Nolan Bonvouloir
Average member rating: (36 ratings)

You've been having a series of nightmares about Leo, standing at the edge of a cliff. No matter what you do, a bell rings and Leo disappears over the edge . . .

The Profile, by Mike Snyder
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

Rain pours, and with it, distant thunder. You approach the house, perhaps quickly. Your boots leave muddy footprints on the steps. It's cold. It's dark. The time is between 2:30 and 4:00 AM; you're not...

Quest, by Roger Plowman, David Betz
Average member rating: (1 rating)

Quest has a very complicated history. The above 1979 date is the first known published version, written in RSTS/E using a time-sharing operating system on the PDP-11 16-bit minicomputer; version 3.0 has a...

Rainbow Bridge, by John Demeter
Average member rating: (13 ratings)

In this tiny game, you play as the angel Gabriel in an isolated cabin with your lover, a mortal man named Demeter. Because of an unexpected crisis, you must now return to the celestial plane. But to get...

Resonance, by Matt Scarpino
Average member rating: (16 ratings)

Return to the Colossal Cave, by Thomas W. Penner

Roofed, by Jim Munroe
Average member rating: (16 ratings)

You and your brother’s job — scouring the city’s highest spots for a rare building material in the year 2040 — is already hard enough. Now Anton’s gone and gotten you trapped on a rooftop. Your acrobat...

Save the Cheshire Cat!, by Marco Vallarino
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

English version of Italian comedy text adventure "Salvate lo Stregatto" by Marco Vallarino. It is a very short and simple 'interactive intrigue' about a missing cat. Your aim is to find the feline before...

Savoir-Faire, by Emily Short
Average member rating: (132 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...

Secret of the Black Walrus, by spaceflounder
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

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

Semi Intelligent Design, by Andrew Dean
Average member rating: (1 rating)

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...

Shelter from the Storm, by Eric Eve
Average member rating: (23 ratings)

It is set in October 1940. Jack is a newly-commissioned sapper officer on his way to his first posting somewhere on Salisbury Plain (in southern England) when his car breaks down. The weather is starting to...

Six Stories, by Neil K. Guy
Average member rating: (25 ratings)

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...

Skies Above, by Arthur DiBianca
Average member rating: (20 ratings)

Play minigames to get your airship flying, tour the skies, and see what mischief is going on up there. Champion of the Skies: Sarah Adams

Slap That Fish, by Peter Nepstad
Average member rating: (32 ratings)

This time, those fishy bastards are finally going to get what's coming to them.

Softporn Adventure, by Chuck Benton
Average member rating: (12 ratings)

The text adventure that became the first of Sierra's long-running "Leisure Suit Larry." [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue] Trivia: Sierra's Roberta Williams appears in the game's cover photo – she's the...

The Space Under the Window, by Andrew Plotkin
Average member rating: (99 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]

The Spooky Mansion, by Tim Jacobs
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

On a walk late one evening, your dog bolts onto the grounds of the old, haunted mansion on the outskirts of town. It is up to you to brave the spooky mansion and all of its ghoulish denizens and find your...
Spyder and Jeb, by Neil deMause
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

Starborn, by Juhana Leinonen
Average member rating: (32 ratings)

The Magellan returned to Earth two weeks ago. I however can never go home. There are two versions of the story: Inform 7 version (2011) that uses a single-keyword parser, and Undum/Vorple version (2012) that...

Stuff of Legend, by Lance Campbell
Average member rating: (21 ratings)

The only thing worse than being a village idiot is being an unemployed village idiot. Maybe it’s time to change careers. Maybe it’s time to be a knight.

The Sueño, by Marshal Tenner Winter
Average member rating: (13 ratings)

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 Sueño.

Sunday Afternoon, by Christopher Huang (as Virgil Hilts)
Average member rating: (20 ratings)

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...

This Old Haunted House, by Jason Love
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

Your show's normally a solo act, but co-ghosting's a nice change of pace.

Trapped in Time, by Simon Christiansen
Average member rating: (25 ratings)

A Science Fiction adventure where YOU are the hero!

The Treasure of Columbia Lake, by Boris Zakharin

You've always wanted to be an adventurer, to explore a colossal cave, slay dragons, be eaten by a Grue... ok, maybe not that last one... but you never thought you'd get the chance, seeing as you live in New...

Treasures of a Slaver's Kingdom, by S. John Ross
Average member rating: (48 ratings)

In the cruel kingdoms north of the Viraxian Empire, a barbarian seeks treasure - and vengeance! Having escaped the clutches of the Slaver King, he has vowed to pillage the wealth of the kingdom ... then...

The Trials and Tribulation of Edward Harcourt, by MelS and manonamora
Average member rating: (17 ratings)

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...

Tristam Island, by Hugo Labrande
Average member rating: (9 ratings)

After crashing your plane at sea, you end up drifting to a small island, with not much to survive. You explore, and find out the island was inhabited, years ago. But why did the people leave? And why is...

Tutorial, by Nereare
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

You are trapped inside your boat for quite some time now. Silent radio, no sight on the horizon. No hope seems to bloom until you see a strange island on the horizon.

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

In the far away Land of IF, there is a curious place called Genre. The town is laid out in a hook shape, at the base of Macro Mountain. Railroad tracks run through the middle of the town. On one side of the...

Undertow, by Stephen Granade
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

Go sailing on a yacht with three friends, and a corpse....

Veiled, by Michael Thomét

There's always been stories about the Atterson Street House. Someone died there. It's built on top of a cemetary. The house is haunted. But you don't care about any of that. Through a series of events, the...

VirtuaTech, by David S. Glasser
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

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.)

Where There's a Will, by Dan Shiovitz
Average member rating: (1 rating)

In this game loosely based on Sierra's Mystery House, you play as Norman, a potential heir to your late Uncle Oscar's estate. You have one day to find a diamond necklace hidden in his "Mystery House" to...

The White Bull, by Jim Aikin
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

The Yellow Stone, by David S. Glasser
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

In this tiny game, you play as someone outside a dark, foreboding bar. If you dare to enter, you may find a golden bottle of beer inside.

Zozzled, by Steph Cherrywell
Average member rating: (45 ratings)

Hotsy-totsy! It's 1928 and you're madcap flapper Hazel Greene, tottering around the city's finest hotel with a gullet full of giggle juice...until a gaggle of ghosts shows up to spoil the fun by turning...

[You wake up itching.], by Michael S. Gentry
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

This game is an entry in the Mystery House Taken Over project. The story and graphics are adapted from Roberta Williams' original Mystery House.


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