'Mid the Sagebrush and the Cactus, by Victor Gijsbers Average member rating: (19 ratings) They shot you in the leg, the sheriff or one of his men, but you still managed to get away. You always manage to get away. And while they're off pursuing you to, who knows, perhaps Colorado, you have quietly... |
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?... |
Abgesang: Der Tag der Toten, by L. C. Frey Average member rating: (2 ratings) »Du erwachst ohne Erinnerung in einem verlassenen Krankenhaus. Du bis nicht allein.« Ein Interaktives Horror-Abenteuer. |
Absturzmomente, by Jörg Rosenbauer Average member rating: (3 ratings) You climb a mountain without any equipment and plunge down into the depths. The free fall ends in a pact with a voice from beyond: To spare your life you have to save some person's life. Henceforth, you have... |
The Act of Misdirection, by Callico Harrison Average member rating: (70 ratings) The curtain lifts to a torrent of applause, as the city's gents and ladies lose their decorum for a just few moments in anticipation of something magical. The spotlights drown the glitter of sequins and... |
An Act of Murder, by Christopher Huang Average member rating: (82 ratings) |
Adventurer's Consumer Guide, by Øyvind Thorsby Average member rating: (31 ratings) |
Ailihphilia, by Andrew Schultz (as N. Y. Llewellyn) Average member rating: (8 ratings) No need for aibohphobia. It's polite on the Zarfian cruelty scale -and- will let you jump to the exciting conclusion if your 2-hour judging period is almost up! |
Alias 'The Magpie', by J. J. Guest Average member rating: (69 ratings) Sir Rodney Playfair, gentleman thief, has a simple plan: impersonate a psychiatrist, infiltrate a country house, steal a priceless Egyptian scarab and make it back to London in time for cocktails. All in a... |
All Visitors Welcome, by Bitter Karella Average member rating: (4 ratings) Sloane Rock SHP was established in 1920 to help preserve the legacy of Lazarus Sloane and his many cultural and economic contributions to the history of the state of California. A visit to Sloane Rock SHP is... |
Andromeda Awakening - The Final Cut, by Marco Innocenti Average member rating: (42 ratings) The most important discovery in history. And then, the whole world goes crumbling down. Armed with but a computer and an expired railway ticket, how can one expect to save the day when the doomsday clock has... |
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... |
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... |
Ares, by Michael Baltes Average member rating: (3 ratings) The space team from Europe is very close to their designated target - the first manned exploration of Mars. But an accident strikes the team and one of the two shuttle pilots discovers that the red planet... |
Arrival, or Attack of the B-Movie Clichés, by Stephen Granade Average member rating: (34 ratings) |
ASCII and the Argonauts, by J. Robinson Wheeler Average member rating: (18 ratings) In this wonderfully laconic spoof of the Scott Adams style of adventures, you play as Jason of the Argo, tasked by King Pelias to bring the Golden Fleece to him or die. Surprisingly both entertaining and... |
The Ascot, by Duncan Bowsman Average member rating: (26 ratings) Anything might happen to you on the way to the convenience store. You might even run into a guy handing out cursed ascots that lead you to lost fortunes guarded by terrible monsters. Can you nab 100% of the... |
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... |
Aunts and Butlers, by Robin Johnson Average member rating: (44 ratings) It's 1920, you're a minor aristocrat fallen on hard times, and your wretched Aunt Cedilla is on the warpath. A Wodehousean comedy of manners, manors, mysterious butlers and unfriendly poodles. |
Aurora, by katz Average member rating: (3 ratings) It doesn't take you long after awakening to realize that your intersidereal mission has not reached its destination. Stranded in deep space and with the rest of the crew still asleep in cryo, you must... |
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... |
Back to the Future: Marty Quest, by George Gipe, Ryan North and Hulk Handsome Average member rating: (6 ratings) You are Marty McFly, 80s teen! You are stuck in a detention room after school. You need to escape the room otherwise you can’t play in your band for tryouts tonight! The YMCA is counting on you! Inspired by... |
Bad Machine, by Dan Shiovitz Average member rating: (15 ratings) |
The Ballroom, by Liza Daly Average member rating: (24 ratings) You arrived at the ballroom well after midnight. The End. |
Baluthar, by Chris Molloy Wischer Average member rating: (20 ratings) In this game of horror, you play as an old man of a tribal culture. For months, you've been weary of life and kept to your bed. But when you learn that your adult son, Rykhard, has foolishly gone into the... |
Basic Train-ing, by bpsp Average member rating: (5 ratings) An infantryman finds himself trapped on a peculiar train traveling through an even stranger forest. But could the situation be more than what it appears? |
Beautiful Dreamer, by S. Woodson Average member rating: (35 ratings) "Outside, the chill wind wails and tears the leaves from their branches. Gusts of wind scour the muddy sidewalks; gusts of wind roar through the alleys between buildings. Before one gust can fade, another... |
Bedtime story, by Marius Müller Average member rating: (4 ratings) "Daddy, will you tell me a story?" asks your son, Danny. Your wife, Randa, started the story of Prince George and his quest to rescue a princess while you were away for six months. Now it's your turn to... |
Beet the Devil, by Carolyn VanEseltine Average member rating: (35 ratings) Your dog is gone. She must be brought. You have a beet (and some other vegetables). |
Being Andrew Plotkin, by J. Robinson Wheeler Average member rating: (58 ratings) "Zarf? you think to yourself. Could it be? The one and only Zarf? Xyzzy Award winner? IF Competition winner? The mighty Inscruitable One? Gosh. What it must be like to be Zarf... You begin to crawl forward,... |
Being There, by Jordan Magnuson Average member rating: (14 ratings) Being There is an extremely experimental little work of interactive fiction with pictures, about existence and Korea. Only requires a few minutes to play through, but you are encouraged to take your time. |
Beyond, by Roberto Grassi, Paolo Lucchesi, and Alessandro Peretti Average member rating: (45 ratings) A mysterious death, a secret to be revealed… and someone who wants to know the truth, at any cost. ... |
The Bible Retold: Following a Star, by Justin Morgan Average member rating: (13 ratings) You are Balthasar, a magus from Babylon. You and your companions, Gaspar and Melchior, are about to embark on a journey to Judea, a client kingdom of the Roman Empire, to venerate a newborn king. You'll need... |
The Bibliophile, by Marshal Tenner Winter Average member rating: (10 ratings) “Azathoth is a cosmic horror; a force outside of known physics, Higgins.” Doctor Coffey explains, “It is the embodiment of chaos and destruction and now Dennison has found a way to bring this nightmare to... |
Bigger Than You Think, by Andrew Plotkin Average member rating: (51 ratings) Bigger Than You Think is a choice-based interactive narrative. This game was written for the Yuletide 2012 fanfic exchange. The game was inspired -- perhaps loosely -- by Randall Munroe's comic xkcd-1110:... |
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... |
Bogeyman, by Elizabeth Smyth Average member rating: (85 ratings) You can go home when you learn to be good. |
Boogle, by Buster Hudson Average member rating: (15 ratings) |
Brain Guzzlers from Beyond!, by Steph Cherrywell Average member rating: (72 ratings) You are Bonnie Noodleman, Ordinary Well-Adjusted Teen-Ager, on an ordinary well-adjusted drive up Make-Out Mountain--until some gooey monstrosity from beyond the stars guzzles your boyfriend's brains clean... |
Cactus Blue Motel, by Astrid Dalmady Average member rating: (85 ratings) Somewhere between New Mexico and Arizona, three friends were driving through a barren desert of red rocks, and wide empty skies. It was the end of summer, the end of high school, the end of so many things.... |
Calm, by Joey Jones and Melvin Rangasamy Average member rating: (17 ratings) Since the spores came life has been happier. How could it not be? For now stress is fatal and all who remain alive must remain calm... |
Captain Verdeterre's Plunder, by Ryan Veeder Average member rating: (50 ratings) You should carry the bag. I'm more of a delegator. |
Castle of the Red Prince, by C.E.J. Pacian Average member rating: (54 ratings) Welcome to Amaranth, foreigner. The Red Prince haunts your dreams, you say? If you want to overthrow our tyrant, you’ll need to consider this whole blighted land at once. (Castle of the Red Prince is a small... |
Chapter Zero: Welcome to Cicada Creek, by P. F. Sheckarski Average member rating: (6 ratings) A tornadic storm brews outside an economically faltering town in the Great Plains as a traveling outsider attempts to unravel the town's mysteries. This is Chapter Zero (of 8). Further chapters will be... |
Chlorophyll, by Steph Cherrywell Average member rating: (58 ratings) |
ChoiceScript Interactive Tutorial, by Lynnea Glasser Average member rating: (5 ratings) ChoiceScript is a game-writing tool that creates choice and variable-based games, but like any game-writing tool, it can be intimidating for new authors, and perhaps have some nuance that even old hands... |
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. |
The Corn Identity, by Carl Muckenhoupt, Serhei Makarov, Tama Wise, J. Robinson Wheeler, A O Muniz, Admiral Jota, Andrew Schepler, Jacqueline A. Lott, Sam Kabo Ashwell, Dan Shiovitz, John Cater, Duchess, and Mark Musante Average member rating: (4 ratings) |
Counterfeit Monkey, by Emily Short Average member rating: (239 ratings) Anglophone Atlantis has been an independent nation since an April day in 1822, when a well-aimed shot from their depluralizing cannon reduced the British colonizing fleet to one ship. Since then, Atlantis... |
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 JohnsonAverage member rating: (24 ratings) A tribute to Anchorhead. |
creak, creak, by chandler groover Average member rating: (35 ratings) "You have to look." 111 words. Made for Porpentine's Twiny Jam. |
Creatures Such As We, by Lynnea Glasser Average member rating: (91 ratings) A dating sim about how humanity connects through art, even out in the vastness of space. |
Critical Breach, by Grey Average member rating: (9 ratings) A science fiction/horror game, set in an underground laboratory. Something is breaking free... This is my first game, it should be pretty short and easy. |
Crossroads, by Cat Manning Average member rating: (15 ratings) They say it's death to seek the witch. For you, it's worth the risk. Venture in to the forest in search of relief, but remember that magic is rarely straightforward. A short psychological game about... |
The Crystal Palace, by Peter Orme Average member rating: (6 ratings) Your decision to spend a quiet weekend in the cabin that belonged to your second cousin (now gone missing) was not so strange. The strange things only started afterwards, when you started poking around the... |
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... |
Dark Carnival, by Marshal Tenner Winter Average member rating: (13 ratings) There have been unexplained murders and disappearances at a seemingly innocent amusement area just north of Providence, Rhode Island. Due to your strange investigations in the past, you are the one called in... |
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... |
Death and Dissonance, by Matthew Parsons Average member rating: (2 ratings) In 1935, 1945 and 1951, a tight-knit trio of weird, controversial composers all died spectacular deaths. The first died of blood poisoning, after a botched DIY surgery. The second was caught in the crossfire... |
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... |
Dinner Bell, by Jenni Polodna Average member rating: (54 ratings) You are the involuntary and very hungry test subject of a semi-anthropomorphized dog in a labcoat who wants you to find all sixteen food items mentioned in They Might Be Giants' song Dinner Bell, which have... |
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... |
Eat Me, by Chandler Groover Average member rating: (97 ratings) In this castle, you'll eat or be eaten. May contain dairy, carnage, puzzles, nuts. |
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... |
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 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... |
The Empty Chamber: A Celia Swift Mystery, by Tom Sykes Average member rating: (13 ratings) A game of observation, conversation, and deduction, set inside a run-down terrace flat in post-war Essex. |
End Millennium, by Geography of Robots Average member rating: (2 ratings) [demo] You and your sister break into Wal-Mart in the aftermath of a devastating hurricane with a stranger you met on Craigslist. As the evening descends into madness and hallucination, you must decide who... |
Endless, Nameless, by Adam Cadre Average member rating: (53 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... |
Enlightenment, by Taro Ogawa Average member rating: (42 ratings) "The intrepid Adventurer has escaped the caverns. Nought remains to block a successful escape but this troll here. Hmmm. A one-room adventure. The author recommends this for people who grew up on Zork II and... |
Episode in the Life of an Artist, by Peter Eastman Average member rating: (27 ratings) |
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... |
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. |
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] |
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. |
A Face Like Mine, by daedalactic Average member rating: (3 ratings) A short interactive story based on the myth of Shahmeran. Made using inklewriter for the One Game a Month site. |
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... |
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... |
Final Girl, by Hanon Ondricek Average member rating: (8 ratings) ===NOTE: FINAL GIRL is no longer available due to technical issues with the Storynexus engine that cannot be resolved. A sequel/remake is in the works.=== Everyone is dead. You are still alive. The Skull... |
A Fine Day for Reaping, by James Webb (aka revgiblet) Average member rating: (26 ratings) Step into the bare feet of the Grim Reaper for a day and make sure that five pesky souls keep their appointment with the afterlife. |
Fingertips: I'm Having a Heart Attack, by Andrew Schultz Average member rating: (13 ratings) It's your time to make a statement. Make sure your nerves don't fail before your heart does. |
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... |
First Times, by Hero Robb Average member rating: (11 ratings) This is my first foray into IF, so be gentle. I used a simplified language for inputs on this game. You pretty much only need to type look, take, use "whatever" (on "whatever"), go (north/east/south/west),... |
Fish Bowl, by Ethan Rupp and Joshua Rupp Average member rating: (30 ratings) You are a beachcomber living by the shore. Today, you wake to find an empty fish bowl in your home, and don't remember how it got there. You try to piece your memory back together, but soon learn what the... |
Floatpoint, by Emily Short Average member rating: (98 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 Rent: Haunted House, by Gavin Inglis Average member rating: (8 ratings) In For Rent: Haunted House, it's your job to rent out a haunted house before your tyrannical boss has you fired. How will you screw over your tenants? Will you ignore inconvenient supernatural phenomena, or... |
The Four Masters, by Mario Cavalcanti According to an ancient legend, from time to time The Four Masters, a group of four beings involved with life on Earth and the creation of the human race, choose an individual to be tested. If this human... |
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... |
The Fox, The Dragon, and The Stale Loaf of Bread, by David Welbourn Average member rating: (4 ratings) This is the beginning of an unusual fairy tale. Written for IntroComp 2005. Eleven locations. |
Get Lost!, by S. Woodson Average member rating: (17 ratings) You're a suburban teen, sick of the suburbs. You run away to the land of the fairies, prepared for thrills and danger. Absolutely nothing happens the way you expect. A short Twine game with nine endings,... |
Ghosterington Night, by Wade Clarke Average member rating: (13 ratings) Danger-filled Ghosterington Manor appears atop the same cliff each year on Samhain night. Hidden inside are the last four works of the dead bad poet Vigilance Ghosterington. Those four poems are worth a... |
Goose, Egg, Badger, by Brian Rapp Average member rating: (21 ratings) |
Gorxungula's Curse, by Duncan Bowsman Average member rating: (2 ratings) Help us, Lophese. A misspoken word has birthed Gorxungula, who now terrorizes the absurd voids above our beloved faraway Rabbits. Make a proper sacrifice to Elder Moose, the Great Antlered One, and rid us of... |
The Griffin and the Minor Canon, by Frank Stockton, Chandler Groover Average member rating: (14 ratings) A griffin pays an unwanted visit to a town. Adapted from Frank Stockton's classic short story. |
Grimnoir, by ProP Average member rating: (28 ratings) It's his biggest selling point and it's a cold, hard fact: occult detective Jacob Morris has never lost a case, and he's been in this business a long time. Join him and his singularly skilled colleague... |
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... |
Guilded Youth, by Jim Munroe Average member rating: (49 ratings) You play Tony, a fourteen-year old thief who needs some help looting the legendary Oakville Manor. Luckily it's the 1980s and finding fellow adventurers is just a modem squeal away... |
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? |
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... |
Heretic Dreams, by Hannah Powell-Smith Average member rating: (11 ratings) They would call what you did heresy. No one knows you swallowed the power of a god, but it will break you apart. |
Hoist Sail for the Heliopause and Home, by Andrew Plotkin Average member rating: (84 ratings) A far-future story of discovery. |
Home Sweetie-Bot Home, by Jacques Frechet Average member rating: (6 ratings) |
Homunculus, by Michael Baltes Average member rating: (6 ratings) Du bist klein und unscheinbar, ein Nichts in den Augen der Mächtigen. Sie hassen dich, sie verachten dich und sie zwingen dir ihren Willen auf. Und doch sind sie auf dich angewiesen, weil nur du den Lauf... |
The Hours, by Robert Patten Average member rating: (25 ratings) Your new job as a time traveler may be harder than you thought. A simple heist in the ancient Library of Alexandria turns into a murder mystery. ONLINE PLAY: The status bar is essential to the game, but may... |
I Expect You To Die, by Anthony Schuster Average member rating: (6 ratings) Help the secret agent escape from the villain's deathtrap. Or is there more? |
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 Whispers 5, by Chris Conley, Joey Jones, Marius Müller, Tom Blawgus Average member rating: (4 ratings) Travel down into an abandoned Antarctic Base and unveil the mysteries within. A game made in the paper-telephone style, with each person only having access to the section before, with a co-ordinated ending... |
Inheritance, by rosencrantz Average member rating: (9 ratings) If you inherited a ring and discovered that it made invisible portals turn visible, would you walk through? Yulia would. Tiny exploration of a portal concept, with multiple endings. Originally written for a... |
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... |
The Island of Doctor Wooby, by Ryan Veeder Average member rating: (16 ratings) Explore an island populated by tiny felt dinosaurs. |
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... |
Ka, by Dan Efran Average member rating: (20 ratings) For an Egyptian mummy's soul - or "Ka" - death is but the first step on a puzzling and perilous journey. The second step? Getting out of all those coffins.... |
A Killer Headache, by Mike Ciul Average member rating: (21 ratings) The apocalypse is over. The human race lost. You're hungry. And you have a hell of a headache. Discretionary warning: This game is violent, scatological, and eschatological. |
The King 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... |
Kotodama, by Aidan Doyle Average member rating: (7 ratings) A robot is sent to deal with an outbreak of poetry in Tokyo. |
Koustrea's Contentment, by Jeremy Pflasterer Average member rating: (8 ratings) A tiny community of immortals receives a newcomer named Koustrea, who makes an unsettling discovery while struggling to find a paradisial niche, as the others have long ago. |
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.... |
The letter M, by Froga Average member rating: (1 rating) My first gamebook, and original story. (Whoohoo!) I've tried making this game to where you can decide what happens behind each door. You make up the theory, and I do everything else. (Report any fishy stuff... |
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... |
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 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... |
Light My Way Home, by Caelyn Sandel (as Venus Hart) Average member rating: (18 ratings) |
LOCALHOST, by Matilde Park and Penelope Evans Average member rating: (2 ratings) Today’s task? It’s simple. We need to format and prepare these spare drives for refurbishment. Please use that personal assistant gynoid model for investigation purposes. And remember, above all, no... |
Lord Bellwater's Secret, by Sam Gordon Average member rating: (71 ratings) |
Losing Your Grip, by Stephen Granade Average member rating: (22 ratings) |
Low, by Peregrine Wade Average member rating: (7 ratings) A Petite Mort entry for ECTOCOMP 2016. |
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. |
Mariel, by Michael Baltes Average member rating: (5 ratings) Nothing in this hospital is as usual. After a serious accident you have to figure out what happened and how to escape. Written to showcase the German library extension for Inform 7. |
The Master of the Land, by Pseudavid Average member rating: (28 ratings) > An interactive fiction intrigue in an immersive and dynamic world. A world that changes with every action. Freedom to explore. Radically different playthroughs. Lots of dancing. People wearing skulls. > A... |
A 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... |
Möbius, by J.D. Clemens Average member rating: (35 ratings) Another mission. Just when you had settled in for a nap. |
Monday, 16:30, by Alexander "Mordred" Andonov Average member rating: (10 ratings) How long is half an hour when you are bored and miserable? How about when it's Monday, and it's 16:30? How about when you're in love? |
More, by Jason Dyer (as Erin Canterbury) Average member rating: (12 ratings) |
Mortlake Manor, by Ben Chenoweth Average member rating: (6 ratings) Rumour has it that a valuable treasure has been hidden somewhere in Mortlake Manor. It is your task to find the treasure. However, you must be careful; rumour also says the place is haunted... Mortlake Manor... |
my own paper walls, by fia glas Average member rating: (5 ratings) Tara is an introverted girl who shares an interest in horror and the paranormal with her friend Becca. Unfortunately for them, they live in a painfully boring small town in the Pacific Northwest. The only... |
Necron's Keep, by Dan Welch Average member rating: (3 ratings) Bluex the divine king of Surya has decreed for you to locate the Arch Mage Wizard Necron. Necron built an enchanted castle deep within an ancient forest to protect himself and his people. Esentially, you are... |
New Cat, by Poster Average member rating: (7 ratings) You are the new cat, but you do not have a name. Today, He has left the door to your place open. If you explore the new world, can you get a name? |
Night House, by Bitter Karella Average member rating: (18 ratings) It looks different in the dark. You're eight years old. You wake up in the middle of the night to use the bathroom, but you soon realize that not everything is as it seems in the house tonight. Where has... |
Nightfall, by Eric Eve Average member rating: (61 ratings) The Enemy is expected to arrive at any moment. Staying behind is either the stupidest or the bravest thing you've ever done. Only one thing - or one person - could have made you stay. So now there's nothing... |
Nocked! True Tales of Robin Hood, by Andrew G. Schneider Average member rating: (8 ratings) You are Robin of Locksley. Hounded from your home by the Sheriff of Nottingham, take control of your fate in this extravagant choose-your-own-adventure style role-playing game. Rob from the rich, rally the... |
Nostrils of Flesh and Clay, by Porpentine Average member rating: (6 ratings) You are a scent detective, drifting through a world torn apart by greed and nausea. With colors dripping from your nostrils, you flex cartilage and demand to know...what is Project Olympia? Who are the... |
Not Just an Ordinary Ballerina, by Jim Aikin Average member rating: (30 ratings) |
Nothing But Mazes, by Greg Boettcher Average member rating: (7 ratings) In this large game, you play as Gary Randall, a man who had a heart attack in 2026, was frozen in a cryogenic tube, then revived in 2189 by green aliens from Oo. Humanity bombed itself back to the Iron Age... |
Olivia's Orphanorium, by Sam Kabo Ashwell Average member rating: (24 ratings) Sparky young entrepreneur Olivia sets out to fulfil her dream of running an orphanage. The beatings will continue until morale improves. |
On the Farm, by Lenny Pitts Average member rating: (17 ratings) "Visiting Grandma and Grandpa on the farm for the weekend is not your idea of a good time. Mom has told you countless stories about the great adventures she had growing up there. Days spent feeding the... |
Open Sorcery, by Abigail Corfman 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... |
Orevore Courier, by Brian Rapp Average member rating: (17 ratings) |
Pale Blue Light, by Kazuki Mishima Average member rating: (8 ratings) "Sophie actually enjoyed the festival every year. She enjoyed the lights, the songs, and the crispness of the air. It was only the crowds that made her uneasy and drove her into the solitude she had learned... |
Pantomime, by Robb Sherwin Average member rating: (11 ratings) Pantomime takes place on the Martian moon of Phobos, in the year 2044. Mankind has developed colonies on Mars, Titan, Ganymede and installed a life bubble on the closer, larger Martian satellite. Mankind has... |
The Paper Bag Princess, by Adri Average member rating: (21 ratings) Princess Elizabeth is about to marry the love of her life when a dragon attacks the castle and kidnaps her betrothed. Based on a book of the same name by Robert Munsch, with permission. |
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. |
Patrick, by michael lutz Danielle's rating: Average member rating: (25 ratings) A very short game about having an uncomfortable conversation with a vaguely sinister white guy. One ending. Or is there? Ask a friend to play and then compare notes. |
The Peccary Myth, by Gerardo Aerssens (as Pergola Cavendish) Average member rating: (5 ratings) Please to visit Guillermo, New Mexico USA, home of Trendly's Cyber Trends the makers of Cliikus. Scenic wonders, hip neighborhoods, and the more viral memes are there. Grunk Zork Opp Meep! Guillermo Tourist... |
Pinched, by Anonymous Average member rating: (8 ratings) "Pinched" is an interactive episode of Firefly -- the one where Simon screws up (of course) and Jayne has to fill in for him at a society wedding in order to carry off a daring heist. Light puzzles,... |
Pirate's Plunder!, by Tiberius Thingamus Average member rating: (12 ratings) In this game, it be yer goal to findeth ye olde, cursed treasure on Loot Island and taketh it fer yer own. Not even that evil Captain Hookhead can stoppeth ye once ye put ye mind to it. Know why? If ye... |
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... |
The Play, by Dietrich Squinkifer (Squinky) Average member rating: (62 ratings) Pull yourself together, Ainsley. Just one more rehearsal until the big day, assuming nothing catastrophic happens. But really, all you have to do is get your motley crew of actors to run their parts once... |
Plundered Hearts, by Amy Briggs Average member rating: (66 ratings) In the 17th century, the seas are as wild as the untamed heart of a young woman. But when you set out on the schooner Lafond Deux, bound for the West Indies, your thoughts are only of your ailing father who... |
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 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 . . . |
Raising the Flag on Mount Yo Momma, by Juhana Leinonen Average member rating: (21 ratings) Gus is a smug numbskull who doesn't deserve to have the insult battle championship. You are here to take the title from him with the best yo momma insults there are. You just have to find them first. Raising... |
Re: Dragon, by Jack Welch Average member rating: (13 ratings) Something went dreadfully wrong in last year's IFFComp. Now a diabolical lawyer representing a cabal of angry dragons threatens to sue the Interactive Fiction Technological Freedom Foundation into oblivion... |
Redactor, by Austin Auclair, Katie Atkinson, Laura Buda, Teddy Rodger, Catherine Shook, Brent Stansell Average member rating: (7 ratings) Redactor was created as the author's excuse to incorporate interactive fiction into his day job. It was created to promote the Shakespeare Theatre Company's presentation of "1984" in early 2016. You play as... |
The Reluctant Resurrectee, by David Whyld Average member rating: (7 ratings) The Further Adventures Of The King Who Wanted To Die But Whose Subjects Just Weren't Ready To Let Him Go… You’re alive. Again. And not too happy about it. During your current period of deadness, your son has... |
Restless, by Emily Short Average member rating: (4 ratings) You've been haunting old Mrs Fagles for decades. Now she's sold the house, and the new owner's moved in. Sylvie's broke, bad at plumbing, and anxious about everything. And with a living, breathing, fretting... |
Retro Fatale, by Aaron Arendt For so long now that you can't even remember, some technological entity has stolen you, a la Captain N, into your collection of Video Games. Over and over again he's made you the protagonist, only to kill... |
Rites of a Mailmare, by Owlor Average member rating: (8 ratings) You are a Mailmare, delivering letters across the Lucidious Archipelago. Using the art of Oneiromancy you can remove the obstacles that stand in your way. The game sends you on a randomized journey across an... |
Roberta Williams Eats a Sandwich, by Bitter Karella Average member rating: (12 ratings) The year is 1983. You are Roberta Williams -- Imagineer, Dream Weaver, and Renegade Adventure Game Designer. Sierra, the fledgling video game company that you founded with your husband Ken Williams, is in... |
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. |
The Rocket Man From The Sea, by Janos Honkonen Average member rating: (17 ratings) On the old pilot station island, where you live with your parents, the war fought with Earth and Martian rocket-ships and Atomic Heat Rays exist only in the sonorous voice of the newscaster on the radio, and... |
Room 206, by Byron Alexander Campbell Average member rating: (6 ratings) The wedding is over, but the bride is nowhere to be found. You receive a phone call from a mysterious stranger. Things are not always as simple as they seem, and as you pursue the woman of your dreams you... |
The Roscovian Palladium, by Ryan Veeder Average member rating: (21 ratings) Humans are constantly appropriating rat culture. King Roscoe thought to use this to his advantage. |
Sand-dancer, by Aaron Reed and Alexei Othenin-Girard Average member rating: (23 ratings) It figures that your pickup would die on a night like this and leave you stranded in the dark New Mexico desert. But nothing else figures about this night, man. Nothing at all. An example game for Aaron... |
Save the Date, by Chris Cornell 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.... |
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... |
Scavenger, by Quintin Stone Average member rating: (29 ratings) Search a war-shattered world for secrets of the past. |
The Sea Eternal, by Lynnea Glasser Average member rating: (8 ratings) In the enchanted underwater City of Glass, what will you sacrifice for immortality? Love, memories, freedom? Will you take freedom from others to win your heart's desire? Dive into a world of mermaids,... |
The Shadow in the Cathedral, by Ian Finley and Jon Ingold 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... |
shadows on the mirror, by Chrysoula Tzavelas Average member rating: (27 ratings) I am falling, I am fading, I am drowning, help me to breathe... |
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... |
Siren for Hire, by Maddy Myers Average member rating: (2 ratings) Siren For Hire tells a story of magical girls living in a future Earth governed by a Dragon who doles out powered gemstones to the deserving. But who "deserves" super-powers? Meanwhile, hacker cults and... |
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.... |
Skulljhabit, by Porpentine Average member rating: (17 ratings) kind of like Dampe the gravedigger meets Harvest Moon meets Ligotti. |
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... |
spondre, by Jay Nabonne Average member rating: (5 ratings) Who is the mysterious old man? More importantly, who are you? Thrust into a tiny cell with a stranger, the future looks bleak. But things are not always what they seem. |
The Spotlight, by MANIAC Studios A simple yet quick murder mystery that revolves around 5 people in a single room. The game is as quick or long as the player makes it. For instance, the murderer will display odd characteristics from the... |
Square Circle, by Eric Eve Average member rating: (27 ratings) What is your crime? Why do you feel both guilty and unjustly punished? What has happened to your memory? How will you draw a square circle and get out of your prison? What will you find then? |
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... |
Starry Seeksorrow, by Caleb Wilson (as Ayla Rose) Average member rating: (18 ratings) An entry in ShuffleComp: Disc 2. Inspired by "The Violet Hour" by Dolls Come to Life. |
stone, by Penny Stirling Average member rating: (6 ratings) Can calcific amatonormativity be cured? An aromantic student struggles with stone and friendship. |
Stuff and Nonsense, by Felicity Banks Average member rating: (10 ratings) The year is 1860. The place is Bearbrass, Australia: a sprawling metropolis of tin, steel, brick, stone and brass. Queen Victoria is visiting Bearbrass for Australia's own Great Exhibition. All the sharpest... |
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. |
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.) |
Surface, by Geoff Moore Average member rating: (11 ratings) You breathe, and the vessel breathes with you. The pod attempts to bind with you as you shift, restless, weak with hunger and exhaustion. Too long now, far too long since Xil left. She should have returned... |
The Surprising Case of Brian Timmons, by Marshal Tenner Winter Average member rating: (24 ratings) You listen to the old broad on the other end of the phone as she finishes her plight. "Brian has gone insane. I've had to have him committed.", she tells you. You haven't seen Brian Timmons in several years... |
Taco Fiction, by Ryan Veeder Average member rating: (114 ratings) Taco Fiction is a game about crime. |
Tailypo, by Chandler Groover Average member rating: (20 ratings) Alone in his cabin, a hungry man eats something he shouldn't. |
Tales of the Traveling Swordsman, by Mike Snyder Average member rating: (47 ratings) You are the traveling swordsman; the strong and silent stranger; the wandering vanquisher of villainy. Damsels swoon for you. Good men respect and envy you. Scoundrels learn to fear you. Even so, you are but... |
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... |
Ted Paladin And The Case Of The Abandoned House, by Anssi Räisänen Average member rating: (14 ratings) Known for your text adventure skills, you have been called in for help to reveal the secrets of a locked, abandoned house scheduled to be demolished soon. Can you manage the task bestowed upon you? |
Teeth and Ice, by Hannah Powell-Smith Average member rating: (10 ratings) A selkie will do anything to reclaim their skin. |
The Temple of Shorgil, by Arthur DiBianca Average member rating: (24 ratings) One day, travel guides will talk about this "masterpiece of the Pirothian architect Kitral" -- but only if you, the first person to visit it in over 1,000 years, can find out what's inside. (Puzzle-oriented... |
Tenth Plague, by Lynnea Dally Average member rating: (28 ratings) You are thrust into earthly existence to fulfill the tenth and final plague. |
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. |
Tethered, by Linus Åkesson Average member rating: (31 ratings) "I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly, dreaming I am a man."... |
Textfire Golf, by Adam Cadre Average member rating: (23 ratings) Stand steady at the tee... head down... slow backswing. Now, drive your tee shot 220 yards down the fairway, splitting a pair of sandtraps. Loft a five iron onto the green. And sink a twenty foot putt for a... |
They Will Not Return, by John Ayliff Average member rating: (14 ratings) A post-apocalyptic tale of lonely robots. |
Toby's Nose, by Chandler Groover Average member rating: (109 ratings) A murder most foul has been committed and Sherlock Holmes is on the case. You are his dog. |
Top Hat, by Duncan Bowsman You are an elf inside a magic hat. Your boss's magic show is going badly. Your boss reaches into the hat expectantly. What can you do to make sure the Boss puts on an awesome show? |
Trading Punches, by Mike Snyder Average member rating: (13 ratings) |
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.... |
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... |
Trinity, by Brian Moriarty Average member rating: (101 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... |
TrolleyMania, by Gareth Pitchford 'Oh, the wonderful life of a supermarket trolley collector... Not for you, the confines of a checkout chair, laboriously swiping goods over a laser. Nor the neverending task of plugging gaps on shelves... |
Twine Story, by Mike69420666 Average member rating: (12 ratings) Experience a first person perspective into what it means to be a Twine story creator. |
Ürs, by Christopher Hayes, Daniel Talsky Average member rating: (23 ratings) You're a regular rabbit who's lived in the same warren your entire life. You have no reason to leave, but the THUD threatens to destroy all the baby kittens. Maybe something in the ancient places of the Ürs... |
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... |
Unit 322 (Disambiguation), by Jonny Muir Average member rating: (24 ratings) A mystery told entirely through the pages of an online encyclopedia. |
unmemory, by Daniel Calabuig Average member rating: (1 rating) A game you can read. A book you can play. |
The Usher, by Branden Rishel and Daphne Gabrieli Average member rating: (2 ratings) You are Lalu, a young woman who is buried alive—entombed. Your job is to lead the dead queen to the afterlife in this multi-dimensional tale of escape. |
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... |
The Very Old Witch and the Turnip Girl, by Megan Stevens Average member rating: (9 ratings) The witch on the hill outside of town is retired. She threw in the towel long ago, when it became obvious that the humans don't need her help blighting and smiting each other. But the world isn't quite done... |
The Voodoo You Do 2, by Marshal Tenner Winter Average member rating: (10 ratings) The casket opens and the pitch blackness is replaced with the sight of the moon; full in the night sky. Then, someone leans over, facing you and smiling a lunatic grin. He wears a dirty black top hat 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 Weapon, by Sean Barrett Average member rating: (35 ratings) |
Wearing the Claw, by Paul O'Brian Average member rating: (32 ratings) A traditional fantasy quest in which you and your village have been cursed with a slow transformation into various animals. The only way to stop the curse is to retrieve the Pendant of Elinor from the... |
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... |
Wetlands, by Clara Raubertas Average member rating: (8 ratings) Wetlands is an interactive quagmire that leads you from the image of a fantastical city to a choice about the actual city's future, via a collection of mechanical puzzles in a watery setting. |
What Isn't Saved (will be lost), by Cat Manning Average member rating: (6 ratings) Zoe is a neuroscientist who's researching methods of resurrecting the dead… by rebuilding them from their memories. When her girlfriend Sara dies, Zoe uses her experimental technology to save her--but there... |
Where You and I Must Go, by Cash DeCuir, Failbetter Games Average member rating: (1 rating) The Northern Witch hunted lifebergs in the distant north, until - one grim day - her quarry got the best of her. The Severe Bluejacket needs something retrieved from her wreck. Travel north with a crew and a... |
Winter Storm Draco, by Ryan Veeder Average member rating: (26 ratings) A chronicle of the events of the winter storm of the same name. |
Wishbringer, by Brian Moriarty Average member rating: (109 ratings) It's an ordinary day in your ordinary little town, and you've been performing your ordinary mail clerk's duties in an altogether ordinary way. But there's something quite extraordinary in today's mail. It's... |
Within a circle of water and sand, by Romain Average member rating: (8 ratings) A tropical archipelago with countless islands, a young woman on a quest with no clear goal, a strange tribe living on an isolated atoll, a race... Is your journey merely beginning or is it already about to... |
Within a Wreath of Dewdrops, by Sam Kabo Ashwell and Jacqueline A. Lott Average member rating: (5 ratings) In this small game, you are the only actor onstage in Within a Wreath of Dewdrops, a historical opus which has entered its final act. Using just four pathetic props, can you act as the hero, the heroine, and... |
The Wizard Sniffer, by Buster Hudson Average member rating: (128 ratings) You were recently acquired by the brave Ser Leonhart and his squire to sniff out the evil shapeshifting wizard. Unfortunately, you are not a wizard sniffer (if such a thing even exists). As far as you can... |
Wolfsmoon, by Marco Innocenti Average member rating: (4 ratings) It is the fifteenth corpse. Among those they found. More than twenty people have disappeared in the last few months. Some say it's a wild animal, stalking the outskirts of town. Some say it's a killer, a new... |
Works of Fiction, by FibreTigre Average member rating: (4 ratings) |
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... |
Worship the Pig, by Heal Butcher Average member rating: (4 ratings) The city at the edge of the clay desert held a strange bazaar... |
Wrenlaw, by Ryan Veeder Average member rating: (24 ratings) It would be nice to know what you're looking for. |
Writers Are Not Strangers, by Lynda Clark Average member rating: (12 ratings) The meteorite could hit tomorrow, or in an hour, or six months from now. No-one seems to know, and so life goes on as normal. Although, for Alix, normal is relative. Please click the 'Show Stats' button for... |
Yellow Dog Running, by Sam Kabo Ashwell Danielle's rating: Average member rating: (10 ratings) |
Yeti's Parole Officer, by KT Bryski Average member rating: (6 ratings) The Yeti, Loch Ness Monster, Chupacabra, and Mothman are aliens, sentenced to prison on Earth by the Pan-Galactic Prisons Bureau. As the Yeti's parole officer, you must defend the galaxy from these convicts,... |
YOU ARE A MACHINE CORPSE, by Virgula Leal Average member rating: (4 ratings) YOU ARE A MACHINE CORPSE; This is how you’ve died. |
You've Got a Stew Going!, by Ryan Veeder Average member rating: (36 ratings) Your friend has invited you over for stew. He has not bothered to procure most of the ingredients. |
Zero Summer, by Gordon Levine, Tucker Nelson, Becca Noe Average member rating: (8 ratings) Zero Summer is a wordy western card-playing RPG set in the post-apocalyptic American southwest. Nearly two decades after monsters poured out of Corpus Christi and divided the United States between... |
Zork I, by Marc Blank and Dave Lebling 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... |