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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.)

All The Games I Would Have Made For Seedcomp If I Had The Time (Which I Did Not) (Oh Well There's Always Next Year), by Cerfeuil
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

It is 6:59 am EST on March 4, 2024, one minute before submissions close for this year's Seedcomp. Fortunately, this is the hypothetical nonexistent world of Seedcomplandia, where time is infinite. You have...
The Amazing Maze, by Zebra
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Welcome to the Amazing Maze, a fun family attraction that is opening near you. It's sponsored by your local interactive fiction archive and the few people in your local area who like interactive fiction...

The Axe of Kolt [2014 ADRIFT version], by Larry Horsfield
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

You are 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 hitched a ride on a...

Best Laid Plans, by David Whyld
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

Your lab partner has been shot dead and you've been locked in a room, likely to face a similar fate. Your chances of escape are pretty slim as you have no weapons or means of opening the door. But, of...

The Bin Bag Theory, by Katie Benson
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Beth is struggling with climate anxiety and brimming over with good intentions. Guide her through the pleasures and pitfalls of meeting new people, choosing which opportunities to embrace, and discovering...

Bugsy, by Priscilla Langridge
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Bus Station, Unbound, by Jenn Ashworth & Richard Hirst
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

Bus Station: Unbound is a fable about about finding yourself in-between places and times: a 'choose your own adventure' for grown-ups, in which the narrative lies in your own hands. Is it about an iconic...

Castle Darkholm, by Randy A. Cook

A great darkness has covered the land. An ancient prophesy reaches out from the grave, “The Sun is dead, and the moon fears his name!” In this gothic horror story, you are the Champion, the tragic hero, sent...

Crumbs 2: The Will of the People, by Katie Benson
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

The UK has taken back control. Business is booming. Brits are thriving. So why aren't you happy? This short game is the sequel to Crumbs: A Brexit Adventure. Can you find a crumb of hope in the empty...

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...

The Fairy Woods, by rosencrantz
Average member rating: (17 ratings)

Someone dear to you has disappeared into the dangerous woods of the fairy realm, and you're already on your way to save them... The Fairy Woods is an interactive fiction created in Twine for no particular...

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...

The Fortress of Fear, by Larry Horsfield
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

Arriving at the vast Marienburg Fortress, headquarters of the Teutonic Knights, you find that that it has been captured by the mad sorceror-prince Wladyslaw. You volunteer to enter the fortress alone and...

Gateway to Karos, by Derek Haslam
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As a local historian, you had been allowed into the great library of Karoway Manor. There between the pages of an ancient book you found a seemingly much older sheet of paper. it told of a stone gateway to...

Greetings from Squalor Holler, by Mark Arenz
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Local bigwig Mr. Zee has bulldozed the hilltop to make way for a gated community, O Mountain Estates, leaving everyone else to eke out a living down here in a depressing little village affectionately known...

Habeas Corpus, by G.C. Baccaris
Average member rating: (1 rating)

Explore the abandoned spaces in the bowels of a wandering fortress; resist or submit to its perpetual motion. Made for Sub-Q Magazine's 2019 game jam; requirements include the theme "ENVIRONMENT" and a limit...

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.

Harold Night (2003), by Will Hines
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

It's 2003, and you're wandering the UCB Theatre in New York City. You learn long-form improv lessons, get high, do crazys 8s, travel back in time and meet Del Close and then do a scene on the stage. And then...

Highnoon, by Christopher Gaylo
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

The game is single player and set in the Wild West. The objective of the game is a show down between you and Black Bart. Turns are taken to either move closer, run or shoot. Both the player and Bart have...

IFDB Spelunking, by Joey Jones
Average member rating: (21 ratings)

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

In the Service of Mrs. Claus, by Mathbrush
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

Let me tell you the true secret of Christmas: Santa Claus died centuries ago. You see, in ancient times, as the Gods began to die, Santa Claus married a goddess. She was worshiped as Bast in Egypt, as...

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...

Let's Go Eat, by Tom McHenry
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

The convention center exhibit hall is closed. Everyone is excited to go to dinner but tired and hungry from a long day of working the convention floor. ‌You are a staggering group of sore-footed friends who...

Lies & Cigars, by Katherine Morayati
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

A mystery story, told in the format of a branching interview with multiple characters, set and photographed in Astoria, Queens. Originally commissioned for Now Play This, 2019.

The Lost Legends of Redwall™: Escape the Gloomer, by Clopas LLC

Lost Legends of Redwall: Escape the Gloomer is based on Mossflower, one of the New York Times best-selling and award-winning Redwall™ books by Brian Jacques, with over 35 million copies sold. Set in the...

Mirror of Khoronz, by Derek Haslam
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Many years have passed since you went on the quest for the Talisman of Khoronz, a journey which led beyond the confines of your own space and time to the enchanted isle of Karos. The adventure was fraught...

Molly and the Butter Thieves, by Alice Grove (as Cosmic Hamster)
Average member rating: (15 ratings)

You are Molly Butterfield, dairy farmer extraordinaire. In the past week there have been two mysterious butter disappearances from your own kitchen. There will not be a third. Molly and the Butter Thieves...

Moondrop Isle, by Ryan Veeder, Nils Fagerburg, Joey Jones, Zach Hodgens, Jason Love, Mark Marino, Carl Muckenhoupt, Sarah Willson, Caleb Wilson

The Third Quadrennial Ryan Veeder Exposition for Good Interactive Fiction invites you to visit Moondrop Isle.

Myriad, by Porpentine
Average member rating: (24 ratings)

branching outcomes of a fetid day. 115 nodes. suited for treaders, meat-eaters, plant-eaters, students, arthropods, starvers, and victims. inspired by HyperCard shareware adventures packed on cd-roms with...

A NEAR DAWN - PROLOGUE, by Leonid Pilchin
Average member rating: (1 rating)

A Near Dawn is a charmingly devastating psychological thriller with amusing highs, gut-wrenching crashes, and mature themes. When Seattle-based attorney Sam Nichols, a victim to some disturbing psychological...

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...

Octopus's Garden, by Michael D. Hilborn
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You have no complaints about your aquarium... except for its view. You’ve been staring out the same window for months on end. It’s time for this octopus to make a change. Author's Comment: "This author's...

queer (re)collections, by Tobias Paul

a short text adventure about finding what’s been lost. created for my undergraduate English capstone; companion to an essay of the same title.

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...

Sherlock Indomitable, by mathbrush
Average member rating: (13 ratings)

Join a dying Sherlock Holmes in a journey through his memories. Sherlock Indomitable is a direct adaptation of two Sherlock Holmes stories into a text adventure. At least 90% of the text is taken directly...

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...

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...

Tass Times in Tonetown, by Michael Berlyn and Muffy Berlyn
Average member rating: (13 ratings)

Tonetown! It's a totally radical dimension where the top tune is Tass by the Daglets, the top Gear is Troppo-Wear, and the UltraTouch haircut is a DieCut by Chaz. What are you doing there? Simple. Your...

Teatime with a Vampire, by manonamora
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

Eir life is slipping away. Ey is forever stuck on this couch, flipping through the channels. But Alex's life will never be the same after tonight. A chance encounter, or a surreal experience, will push em to...

tombs of earth and oak, by Tobias Paul

an arborescent flash fiction piece.

Unscientific Fiction, by Tom Tervoort
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

Unscientific Fiction is a very, very soft science fiction IF in which you are abducted by an alien spaceship and must find a way to get back home. During an epic and sometimes pretty nonsensical adventure...

Cost of Living, by Anonymous
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

If easy payment plans were to be really efficient, patrons' lifetimes had to be extended!

You Can Have It All At The Caperville Mall, by Mark Arenz

The year is 1978, and strange doings are afoot at the new mall. Folks are disappearing, and it's up to you to find out how/why. Along the way, you'll need to impress Tony "Has A Car" Hazacar to get a ride to...

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