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10pm, by litrouke
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10pm, and dinner is still sitting in the oven. The TV is droning. The front door is closed. You look at the clock. You look at the door. You wait. --- Content warnings: profanity, allusions to sex and...

119, by kate monica, litrouke
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my grandfather called to say they cut down my reading tree this morning. my grandfather never calls me he knows i’d never answer

16 Ways to Kill a Vampire at McDonalds, by Abigail Corfman
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You're a vampire hunter on your night off. You're getting a manicure, seeing a movie, and eating fast food. But there's a vampire in this McDonalds. If you don't do something, then in one hour it will eat...

1958: Dancing With Fear, by Victor Ojuel
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"Dancing with Fear" (1958, directed by Víctor Ojuel). In this forgotten classic of Golden Age Hollywood, a vedette fallen on hard times (Salomé Vélez) finds herself enmeshed in a tangle of political...

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

The Absence of Miriam Lane, by Abigail Corfman
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Sometimes people give pieces of themselves away....

Advent Door, by Andrew Plotkin
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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...

Adventure, by William Crowther and Donald Woods
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The Anachronist, by Peter Levine
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In the year 1596, Anna is about to be burned at the stake. As the constable prepares to light the fire below her, she can do nothing but seek a solution in her own memory and imagination. ...

And Then You Come to a House Not Unlike the Previous One, by B.J. Best
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Title: Infinite Adventure Year: 1986 Genre: Adventure Summary: Wander through an apparently infinite number of spooky mansions, solving a basic puzzle in each one. ForgottenGames.com rating: ★ ★ ★

Antiquest, by Anton Lastochkin
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Are you tired of fighting an annoying parser and unraveling strange puzzles? Come along, and you and the parser will fight together against logic and common sense! You won't be bored with this game's...

Arborea, by richard develyn
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'The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes...

Aspect Traveler, by Zerovirus, Benedict Ide
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Deliver a star to the top of a mountain to deliver a universe. Beware, though- if any of your six Aspects drop to 0, your journey will come to an abrupt end. This is a story-heavy text-based resource...

Assemblage of Angels, by Els White
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Guide a young woman as she visits old friends and gathers what she needs to fulfil her goal: building an angel.
Batman is Screaming, by Porpentine
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Batman is screaming.

Beat Me Up Scotty, by Jkj Yuio
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A bizarre catchphrase word enigma.

Beat Witch, by Robert Patten
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An interactive loneliness ...

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Beyond Zork, by Brian Moriarty
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Dread times have befallen the Kingdom of Quendor. The wizards have mysteriously disappeared. The Enchanter's Guild Hall lies in ruins. Villages are abandoned, drunken men mutter strange tales, and vicious...

Bigfoot Bluff, by P.B. Parjeter
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Ten years ago you renounced Bigfootdom to become a paparazzi. Now it is your job to do an exposé on your reclusive sasquatch father. Welcome to Bigfoot Bluff. A game for Spring Thing 2022.

Birthday Simulator, by Jon Prime
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In this game you simulate some birthdays

Black Marker, by Michael Kielstra
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Hidden in the shadows, the Agency works for the safety of the citizens. If your goals or beliefs do not appear to align with those of the Agency, you are liable to find yourself in trouble. There are those...

The Bones of Rosalinda, by Agnieszka Trzaska
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”Hey, you! Skeleton lady! Can you hear me? You’ve got to pull yourself together and run before the Necromancer turns you into one of his minions!” Rosalinda realised she wasn’t dreaming. She was in a dark...

The Box, by Paul Michael Winters
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You are a collector of rare antiquities, with a special passion for puzzle boxes. You've been searching for one particular box for a long time, but perhaps this box is better left unfound.

Brave Bear, by John Evans
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Your owner is in danger. They must be protected. You are not a cowering toy. You do not shrink from darkness. Your bravery comforts and inspires. You are a Brave Bear.
The Bright Blue Ball, by Clary C.
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You are Max, a beloved golden retriever, and you have to find your bright blue ball with only your sense of smell and your wits amidst danger and peril. Aimed at beginners. Kid friendly.

Bronze, by Emily Short
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When the seventh day comes and it is time for you to return to the castle in the forest, your sisters cling to your sleeves.

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

Cactus Blue Motel, by Astrid Dalmady
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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....

A Castle of Thread, by Marshal Tenner Winter
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Your family is known to be expert language keepers in your village. Your specialty is an ancient, dead language called Ixteesh. You never thought it would be useful for much of anything, but then you are...

The Chieftain, by LeSUTHU
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In the middle of endless prairies, and dynamic mysteries that await you, you are a chieftain of a village you created. You control everything about the village from obtaining food, encounters with the...

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

CODENAME OBSCURA, by Mika Kujala
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It's the year 1987. As an undercover operative Sinus for the T.U.R.T.L.E organization, (Tactical Unit for Rapid and Thorough Lethal Espionage), you have recently been assigned to a task in Italy. A few weeks...

A common enemy, by David de Torres Huerta
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A forgotten spacial project will cause millions of victims and there is nothing that anyone can do, but you are the only one that can save the rest of the world from the first nuclear world in history. Will...

Counterfeit Monkey, by Emily Short
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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...

Crow Quest, by rookerie
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Eat, swear & try to take over the neighbourhood.

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

A Dark Room, by Michael Townsend
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A Dark Room is a famous text-based indie game made by doublespeakgames, which was inspired by Candy Box, but it's much grimmer in tone, with a stronger plot and a more roguelike-like focus on survival. And...

Day of the Djinn, by paperyowl
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As you're forced out of the comfort of your home by an ancient curse, you'll discover new things about old places, and perhaps even yourself. Meet a smattering of figures with more to them than meets the...

Decision Makers, by Mehitabel Glenhaber
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A hypertext fiction based on the They Might Be Giants song of the same name.

Deelzebub, by Morgan Elrod-Erickson, Skyler Grandel, Jan Kim
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Reginald is your average former soap-sniffer: thirty-two, dumped, and unemployed. You are a voice inside his head. Summon demons, bake cookies, and decide the fate of the Hidden Hills Sanctuary.

Delightful Wallpaper, by Andrew Plotkin ('Edgar O. Weyrd')
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Do Good Deeds..., by Sissy
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Modis the elf faces mockery from the forest inhabitants due to his unusual appearance. However, many of the animals struggle to complete their preparations for winter, and it depends on Modis whether they...

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

Dr Ludwig and the Devil, by SV Linwood
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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. ...

Dragon Fate, by Kris Schnee
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In the hills of Gerrick's Boon, strange stories reach your ears. Alchemy, a rare art elsewhere, here seems more commonly taught than reading. Judging from the wordless shop signs lining the four dirt...

The Dragon Will Tell You Your Future Now, by Newsreparter
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The things they say about dragons can't really be true right? Maybe it was a bad idea to come here, maybe the only future the dragon holds is the one that ends with you in it's jaws tonight! Ridiculous,...

Dunnet, by Ron Schnell
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A text adventure that is built into almost every copy of the Emacs text editor. It can be run by running "emacs -batch -l dunnet" in a shell or the key sequence "M-x dunnet" within Emacs, the former being...

Easter Egg Hunt 2020, by David Welbourn
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In this light-hearted scavenger hunt, it's your task to find twelve colorful Easter eggs hidden inside other works of interactive fiction! But who are the eggs for, and what do they really want? Note: The...

Eat Me, by Chandler Groover
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In this castle, you'll eat or be eaten. May contain dairy, carnage, puzzles, nuts.

Elsegar I: Arrival, by Silas Bryson
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After experimenting on a strange object, you are transported to a strange new world. Now you must find a way to get back home. Talk to the locals, fight a monster using a crowbar, listen to the radio, find...

Enchanter, by Marc Blank, Dave Lebling
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In Enchanter, the first of a spellbinding series in the tradition of Zork, you are a novice magician whom Fate has chosen to do singlehanded combat with a dark and fierce power. But worldly weapons will...

Enlightenment, by Taro Ogawa
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"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...

Foo Foo, by Buster Hudson
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Someone's been bopping the field mice on the head, and only Good Fairy, Senior Detective can find out who. A parser-driven noir adventure based on the interactive fiction of Ryan Veeder.

Fourdiopolis, by Andrew Schultz
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A sequel to Threediopolis. It has teleporters!

Goodbye Cruel Squirrel, by Extra Mayonnaise
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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.

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

Grayscale, by D. Fox Harrell, Pablo Ortiz, Sofia Ayala, Laurel Carney, Elizabeth Carre, Peter Downs, Chong-U Lim, Jackie Liu, Loren Sherman, Yao Tong, George Tsiveriotis, Maya Wagoner, Annie Wang, Nadia Wiwatwicha
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Tales of sexism, sexual harassment, and sexual assault are bubbling angrily through the wires. In late 2017, the media attention to this perpetual ill and the harrowing #metoo stories sparked us to share our...

Grooverland, by Mathbrush
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"Magic comes with a price. But on your birthday, all your expenses are paid. Welcome to Grooverland." Grooverland is a large parser game that takes over two hours to complete. It is based on the works of...

The Grown-Up Detective Agency, by Brendan Patrick Hennessy
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The only thing Bell Park likes more than a mystery is solving it on her own. But when a time-traveling 12-year-old version of herself lands face-down on her rented co-working desk, she'll have no choice but...

Grue., by Charles Mangin
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It is pitch black. You are a grue. Can you catch your next meal, or will you succumb to starvation and worse?

Hard Puzzle 4: The Ballad of Bob and Cheryl, by Ade McT
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In the BioDome after the Event, it's all getting a little bit desperate. And Bob isn't much help. He won't even let you use his stool. You know. For milking. A silly little IF puzzler. But can you solve it?

Hexteria Skaxis Qiameth, by Gabriel Floriano
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A dinner with your friend. Strange words. Stranger books.

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

Hive Mind, by Cel Skeggs
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A hypertext fiction based on the They Might Be Giants song of the same name.

Honk!, by Alex Harby
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A Fair Game ...

I Palindrome I, by Nick Montfort
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The Impossible Bottle, by Linus Åkesson
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Housework is only as dull as your imagination. Join Emma, six years old, on a playful adventure of peculiar proportions. Merciful puzzlefest. Parser or point-and-click, as you please. Web (including mobile)...

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

In Good Company, by A.M.
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Take a spellbinding tour through The █████████ ██████████ ████████ and discover the secret of ████████████████████ and ██████████. Find out which █████████ will ████████ the strawberry █████ in the █████...

Insect Hospital, by Loren Sherman
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A hypertext fiction based on the They Might Be Giants song of the same name.

Inside the Facility, by Arthur DiBianca
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Your friend Mike thinks no one can infiltrate THE FACILITY, but you're going to prove him wrong. A light puzzle game. In the author's opinion, it's totally family-friendly. (If you're playing the Browser...

Just Get the Treasure v0.9.1, by Ray B.
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The Chalice of Destiny shines before you. Claim it and you will liberate your people from "the evil" wizard Malvox. It's really a pretty straightforward affair. You can jump in, save the world, and get on...

Known Unknowns, by Brendan Patrick Hennessy
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Nadia Nazari has a lot of unknowns to contend with in her Grade 12 year. Like how can she run an entire school newspaper with only one employee? Why has her estranged ex best friend suddenly come back into...

LAKE Adventure, by B.J. Best
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The Last Night of Alexisgrad, by Milo van Mesdag
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The sky is dark. It is a time of mystery, change and struggle. It is a time of opportunity. In this asymmetric, two-player piece of interactive fiction, you and your partner each take on the role of a leader...

The Legend of Horse Girl, by Bitter Karella
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Welcome to Santa Diablo, Texas, a tiny desert town held in the grip of fear by a corrupt judge and his gang of outlaws. No one dares to stand against these rustlers. No one, that is, until the fateful day...

The Libonotus Cup, by Nils Fagerburg
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“You? Win the Libonotus Cup?” Sammy scoffs. “I'd be impressed if your ship even makes it to the starting line tomorrow morning, let alone Portobello.” “Aye,” you say, “me ship may have taken a beating in...

Little Girl In Monsterland, by Mike Stallone
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Follow the adventures of two six-year-old girls with too much time on their hands as they go on a mission to defeat dangerous monsters, extremely competitive bodybuilders, and hyperinflation.

Lost Pig, by Admiral Jota
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Pig lost! Boss say that it Grunk fault. Say Grunk forget about closing gate. Maybe boss right. Grunk not remember forgetting, but maybe Grunk just forget. -- IFComp 2007 blurb

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

The Meteor, the Stone and a Long Glass of Sherbet, by Graham Nelson (as Angela M. Horns)
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Another day wasted as guest of the Empress, a wretchedly long tour of the breath-taking Boreal Falls, conducted as ever by the Lady Amilia. As if she weren't bad enough, an honour guard of soldiers, their...

The Miller's Garden, by Damon L. Wakes
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When the miller died, he left his garden. And when the mill was torn down, the river changed its course.

A Mind Forever Voyaging, by Steve Meretzky
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"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...

Mind The Gap, by quackoquack
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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...

Moon Base, by Andrew Brown
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This is a sci fi/horror game... I hope you enjoy/are scared by it!!! You'll need to run this using FIREFOX

Moving (On), by quackoquack
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A game about nostalgia, jumping around in time, and clearing out your childhood room. ...

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

My Gender Is a Fish, by Carter Gwertzman
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Magpies from the forbidden woods like to steal things: coins, jewelry, your gender identity. It's starting to get dark, so you'd better find your gender fast. If only you could remember what it looked...

Noirbilis, by Geostatonary
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A twine Nobilis/noir pastiche mashup for all audiences starring Spades Archer, ace dick and Noble-for-hire. Nobilis and associated characters are the property of jennamoran

Nouns, by Andrew Plotkin
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A hypertext fiction based on the They Might Be Giants song of the same name.

Nyna Lives, by Sarah Rhiannon Nowack
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The life of a witch's cat is no stroll in the park. It's more like a stroll through monster-infested woods, over temperamental streams, and across festering swamps. But you can handle it, right? Hurry home,...

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...

Off the Rails, by Katie Benson
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You're on your way to your parents for a very ordinary weekend. But you wish it wouldn't be so ordinary. What secrets are hidden in a mundane magazine? Where will the night take you? How far will you go to...

Off-Season at the Dream Factory, by B.J. Best (writing as “Carroll Lewis")
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As in orcish thought you stand.

Open Sorcery, by Abigail Corfman
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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...

OUT LINE, by Neven Mrgan
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OUT LINE is a short interactive-fiction game about ending an argument. Heated quarrels sometimes seem as if they'll go on forever. They never do, of course; someone always "wins".

The Owl Consults, by Thomas Mack, Nick Mathewson, and Cidney Hamilton
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Once you've established yourself as the ruler of the crime world (and, eventually, the literal world), the only challenge left is helping out the next generation of supervillains---for a suitable fee, of...

Pegasus, by Michael Kielstra
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Pegasus: the best friend of a democracy and the worst enemy of a dictator. Their Agents safeguard the liberty of the people around the world. Trained by and armed with the best humanity has to offer, they...

The Periwink, by Jedediah Berry
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It's your last day as her ladyship's groundskeeper—but you still have a little work left to do. A Petite Mort entry for ECTOCOMP 2016.

Pirateship, by Robin Johnson
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Who doesn't love pirates? Who, that is, apart from the British, the Spanish, the French, the Dutch, innkeepers, crocodiles, flying children, other pirates, merchant seamen with valuable cargoes of gold and...

Portcullis, by Robin Johnson
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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 Queen's Menagerie, by Chandler Groover
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These beasts won't feed themselves. A puzzleless exhibition. Ten to fifteen minutes.

Queers in Love at the End of the World, by Anna Anthropy
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Rainbow Bridge, by John Demeter
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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...

Re: Dragon, by Jack Welch
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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...

Redstone, by Fred
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A VIP's been murdered at the reservation casino. As the deputy on call, it's up to you to find the killer. You have until morning before the FBI turns up the heat. Redstone is a parser/choice hybrid designed...

Reference and Representation: An Approach to First-Order Semantics, by Ryan Veeder
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Violence is the answer to this one.

Repeat the Ending, by Drew Cook
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Explore an all-new "critical edition" of a 1996 Inform 5 game about mental illness, magic, and the second law of thermodynamics. When D, a psychiatrically disabled chaos wizard, learns that an estranged...

The Richard Mines, by Evan Wright
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Czechoslovakia, 1949. Though World War Two has been over for several years, rumors of underground German factories still persist. No one has found found yet, until now...

Ritus Sacri, by quackoquack
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On the desk in front of you: a Latin dictionary, a blank sheet of lined paper, and the photocopied passage you need to translate for class tomorrow. You always leave things too late.

The Roscovian Palladium, by Ryan Veeder
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Humans are constantly appropriating rat culture. King Roscoe thought to use this to his advantage.

The Sacred Shovel of Athenia, by Andy Galilee
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A simple puzzle based IF game in the style of the early Infocom games. The Aim of the game is to find the lost ‘Sacred Shovel’ and return it to the king. We had recently acquired a kitten and my son was a...

Sapphire Lung, by Pleroma
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You are the only union doctor for stretch of mountains. Your job is simple: Every man who works the floor of an aluminum mill gets their lungs checked, once a year. Sapphire Lung is a story of Industrial...

Savoir-Faire, by Emily Short
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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...

Scents & Semiosis, by Sam Kabo Ashwell, Cat Manning, Caleb Wilson, Yoon Ha Lee
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A perfumer keeps a private collection of scents, each tied to a memory. Decide what they mean. Scents & Semiosis makes heavy use of procedural generation to create strange perfumes, full lives, and potent...

A Simple Happening, by Leon Lin
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As a samurai, you have been condemned to die by your own hand. Can you escape your fate?

Smart Theory, by AKheon
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A strange, new thought system has been spreading like wildfire through schools and institutions - it has even taken over the university that you go to. What could this all mean? Perhaps we'll discover the...

Soft Earth, by Jon Sorce
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It's been a long, long summer, and this town has gone longer still without rain. You are ten years old. Your parents are asleep. The window is unlocked, and there's a house in the woods where Grandma's ghost...

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

Sorcerer, by Steve Meretzky
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Sorcerer, the second of a spellbinding fantasy series in the tradition of Zork, takes you on a magical tour through the darker side of Zorkian enchantment. Your journey begins with a cryptic diary - the last...

Space Poop, by Collin Pointon
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Space Poop is a sci fi comedy interactive RPG text game. You play as Space Station Intern Ejest Bindle. Depending on your choices in Space Poop, you will encounter one of TEN different endings. Be careful...

The Spectators, by Amanda Walker
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It is 1560. There are no secrets in the iron-willed Duke d'Este's marriage to his young bride, a girl unprepared for her new role as Duchess. The Duke's army of servants are always present, always watching,...

Speed Demons, by Pleroma
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A short twine game about loss, disconnection, barriers, and the systematic shattering of all three with those most human of tools: whatever there is to hand. Three paths, 9 endings, and hopefully quite a bit...

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

Spellbreaker, by Dave Lebling
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Spellbreaker, the riveting conclusion to the Enchanter trilogy, explores the mysterious underpinnings of the Zorkian universe. A world founded on sorcery suddenly finds its magic failing, and only you,...

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

Stone Cold Coup D'État, by Sam Dukhovni
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A hypertext fiction based on the They Might Be Giants song of the same name.

Stone Harbor, by Liza Daly
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You're good at what you do: tell tourists pretty lies about love, money, and life after death. That's what people want from a boardwalk psychic, and you deliver. It's not the future you imagined for...

Stuff Is Way, by Mehitabel Glenhaber
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A hypertext fiction based on the They Might Be Giants song of the same name.

Stuff of Legend, by Lance Campbell
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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.

Superluminal Vagrant Twin, by C.E.J. Pacian
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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.)

Susurrus: Season of Tides, by Evil Overlord Games
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Hidden in the shadows of our modern society lies a magical world filled with uncanny beasts, walking nightmares, and silent conspiracies. To uncover the truth of the world, you must transform into a vampire,...

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

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

Tavern Crawler, by Josh Labelle
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Most fantasy stories are about slaying the dragon. This one is about what happens after that. When you and your companions are approached by a man in a tavern who offers you more gold than you could spend in...

TextCraft: Alpha Island, by Fabrizio Polo
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You talked big. Now prove it. Survive for a week on Alpha Island with no equipment save a pair of khaki shorts and a cell phone. Bear witness to escalating physical surreality as you come to understand your...

Three-Card Trick, by Chandler Groover
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You're going to perform a three-card trick or your name isn't Morgan the Magnificent.

Threediopolis, by Andrew Schultz
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A wordplay/quasi-maze game.

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

Trouble in Sector 471, by Arthur DiBianca
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The power just went out in Sector 471. You had better go take a look.

Ultimate Escape Room: IF City, by Mark Stahl
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You and your friends have fallen into the escape room craze that has swept the country in recent years. You love the feeling of living out a real life adventure game. You've made plans with your friends to...

Unit 322 (Disambiguation), by Jonny Muir
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A mystery told entirely through the pages of an online encyclopedia.

The Unofficial Sea-Monkey(R) Simulation, by B.J. Best
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Sometime during 1987, your father comes home from work--late, as usual. He tosses a small box onto the kitchen counter. "Here," he says, "you wanted fish. You get these. Let's see how you do first, and then...

Use Your Psychic Powers at Applebee's, by Geoffrey Golden
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You are a Psychic Brand Ambassador for Schtupmeister Beer. Listen to the thoughts of customers at the local Applebee's and convince them to try your syrupy ale. But will being in these peoples' heads...

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

A Walk Around the Neighborhood, by Leo Weinreb
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The sun is filtering hazily through a partly-cloudy sky on this gorgeous Sunday afternoon. You're feeling lazy and a bit glued to the couch, but your partner insists on you getting some exercise. And...

A Walk In The Park, by Extra Mayonnaise
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You're a punk in the park and you've no place to go. Meet some interesting people. Enjoy a bird's company. Don't get lost. And avoid authority.

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

The Weight of a Soul, by Chin Kee Yong
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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...

What Fuwa Bansaku Found, by Chandler Groover
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A samurai explores a haunted shrine.

What Heart Heard Of, Ghost Guessed, by Amanda Walker
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Margaret, are you grieving Over Goldengrove unleaving… Come home to Goldengrove, a beautiful old house haunted by a lost soul. Uncover the secrets of your tormented past in a tale of unrequited love,...

What remains of me, by Jovial Ron
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Sometimes we all dream about old places we visited or places we lived. While dreams can take from the calmest to most hapazhard scenarios, sometimes they help us gather our thoughts that the conscious mind...

Who Iced Mayor McFreeze?, by Damon L. Wakes
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A Bubble Gumshoe Mystery ...

Who Shot Gum E. Bear?, by Damon L. Wakes
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Gum E. Bear lies dead in a pool of his own liquid centre, and only Bubble Gumshoe - private eye extraordinaire - can deliver sweet justice on the rain-sticky streets of Sugar City. Explore the area, seek out...

Will Not Let Me Go, by Stephen Granade
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Dallas, Texas. 1996. Fred Strickland has Alzheimer's.

Wishbringer, by Brian Moriarty
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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...

The Wizard Sniffer, by Buster Hudson
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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...

Wry, by Olaf Nowacki
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A one and a half room slapstick miniature about subconscious erotic desires with three quite different endings.

You Can Only Turn Left, by Emiland Kray and Ember Chan and Mary Kray
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You Can Only Turn Left is a playful exploration of the hypnagogic state between sleeping and wakefulness. Within this liminal space, memories morph into dreams and dreams feather into reality. You, the...

You May Not Escape!, by Charm Cochran
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You are one of the unlucky many to enter the maze. Will you be one of the lucky few to escape?...

Your Utterly Unbeatable Natalya, by Leon Arnott
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A little game of people and magic.
Zork, by Tim Anderson, Marc Blank, Bruce Daniels, and Dave Lebling
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Also known as Dungeon. The original mainframe game that was later split and adapted into the Zork trilogy for microcomputers.

Zork I, by Marc Blank and Dave Lebling
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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...

Zork II, by Dave Lebling, Marc Blank
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The Wizard appears, floating nonchalantly in the air beside you. He grins sideways at you. The Wizard incants "Fantasize," but nothing happens. He shakes his wand. Nothing happens. With a slightly...

Zork III, by Dave Lebling, Marc Blank
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An old, oddly youthful man turns toward you slowly. His long, silver hair dances about him as a fresh breeze blows. "You have reached the final test, my friend! You are proved clever and powerful, but this...

Zork Zero, by Steve Meretzky
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The Great Underground Empire is in its heyday. Upscale condos crowd the massive caverns. Subterranean highways stretch from Aragain to the Fublio Valley. And no adventurer has yet set foot in the open field...

Zork: The Undiscovered Underground, by Marc Blank, Michael Berlyn, and G. Kevin Wilson
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Grubald the Bold, Matchlick the Mighty, Linklaw the Lucky; all of the great Heroes are busy, laid up, contracted or dead. So it is you who gets to explore a never before seen part of the Great Underground...

Zozzled, by Steph Cherrywell
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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...


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