A1RL0CK, by Marco Innocenti Average member rating: (7 ratings) Your hands. They hit the reinforced metal. They're starting to hurt. There's nothing to do. The safety lock is engaged. ----- A1RL0CK is a survival text adventure about a child and some voices. Also, a lot... |
The Absence of Miriam Lane, by Abigail Corfman Average member rating: (38 ratings) Sometimes people give pieces of themselves away.... |
The Addicott Manor, by Intudia Average member rating: (7 ratings) You thought the abandoned manor would be easy to rob. But you were dead wrong. Its many rooms and corridors are filled with evil. You need to be lucky to make it out alive! The Addicott Manor is constructed... |
Advent Door, by Andrew Plotkin Average member rating: (16 ratings) Where’s that door? This game was written for a collaborative 2019 Advent Calendar project. The theme was "The City of Doors" from the Planescape roleplaying setting. That project was never completed, so I... |
Adventurer's Consumer Guide, by Øyvind Thorsby Average member rating: (31 ratings) |
Alone, by Paul Michael Winters Average member rating: (30 ratings) Just you and your car, alone on the open road. You haven't seen another car for weeks. You haven't spoken to another person in months. And if you want to stay alive, you'd better keep it that way. |
The Anachronist, by Peter Levine Average member rating: (7 ratings) 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. ... |
Arborea, by richard develyn Average member rating: (13 ratings) '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... |
The Art of Fugue, by Victor Gijsbers, Jimmy Maher, Dorte Lassen, and Johan Average member rating: (6 ratings) A pure story-less puzzle game featuring logical puzzles based on the idea of the fugue: your commands are performed by four different actors, but with increasing delays. The version with music features... |
The Ascent of the Gothic Tower, by Ryan Veeder Average member rating: (31 ratings) A story of mild and non-debilitating obsession. |
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... |
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. |
The Axe of Kolt [8-bit versions], by Larry Horsfield Average member rating: (6 ratings) You are Alaric Blackmoon, 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... |
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... |
Banneker Boulevard, by KittyDaKat Average member rating: (2 ratings) You are a simple man who decides to explore the quirky streets of Banneker Boulevard in 1920. This is my very first interactive fiction, and thus it is quite short. |
The Beetmonger's Journal, by Scott Starkey Average member rating: (16 ratings) "Victor Lapot and I were miles from base camp on the south continent, once again hacking through previously unsurveyed lands and searching for forgotten cultures. The expedition reminded me of our grand... |
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. |
Blind, by Andrew Metzger Average member rating: (18 ratings) A creep kidnaps you, a blind girl. But you're not as disabled as you look - who says blindness is a handicap? |
Bolivia By Night, by Aidan Doyle Average member rating: (19 ratings) A mystery adventure game set in Bolivia. |
Book and Volume, by Nick Montfort Average member rating: (13 ratings) Your pager tickles you awake. Upstairs in the house of your childhood, in your room, and it must be time for school because -- no, it's the weekend, you remember, but your alarm is going off anyway. You... |
Byzantine Perspective, by Lea Albaugh Average member rating: (56 ratings) Your task is simple enough. Just nab the chalice. |
Cabin Fever, by Dr. Froth Average member rating: (9 ratings) An entry in the 2007 One Room Game competition. You are on vacation in a cabin far from anywhere, snowed in, unable to reach civilization for several hours at least. You are bored. |
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.... |
Candle flames in windless air, by Teaspoon Average member rating: (3 ratings) So you've spent the last fortnight hitchhiking around rugged bits of the Nevada desert, and while it's been fun and all, you'd rather like your time machine back now. ... |
Cape, by Bruno Dias Average member rating: (46 ratings) Cape is a superhero origin story for the cyberpunk dystopia we're all living in. |
Captain Verdeterre's Plunder, by Ryan Veeder Average member rating: (50 ratings) You should carry the bag. I'm more of a delegator. |
Carmen Devine: Supernatural Troubleshooter, by Rob Myall Average member rating: (10 ratings) 'The jet lands smoothly in Harbin. The stink of the city and the bite of the ice-cold air assaults you as you disembark, but your destination is a long jeep ride north, so you'll have to suffer through the... |
A Catalan Summer, by Neibucrion Average member rating: (12 ratings) It's the summer of 1920. Things are going well in Catalonia for the wealthy Vidal family : the Great War just ended that allowed them to greatly improve their profits. But these are modern times full of... |
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... |
City of Dead Leaves, by Felix Pleşoianu Average member rating: (4 ratings) There's nothing left in your life. There's nothing left in anyone's life. Will he even remember you after all this time? Will he want you back? ... |
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) |
The Curious Incident at Blackrock Township, by Bitter Karella Average member rating: (8 ratings) The incident began in 1705 at Blackrock Township in the Province of Massachusetts Bay in the house of the Rev. Steadfast Hopkins. After evenmeal, the reverend's daughter fell into a violent fit. When Ezola... |
D'ARKUN, by Michael Baltes Average member rating: (13 ratings) Long forgotten proceedings have changed the coastal area north of Altenkirchen forever. Now, almost a century later, the proceedings have begun again. You're about to discover the sinister secrets of this... |
Dangerous Curves, by Irene Callaci Average member rating: (23 ratings) |
A Dark and Stormy Entry, by Emily Short Average member rating: (26 ratings) |
Darkiss! Wrath of the Vampire - Chapter 2: Journey to Hell, by Marco Vallarino Average member rating: (17 ratings) Ovranilla: a gloomy land full of traps. And wicked monsters. Carmilla, Millarca and Mircalla: the priestesses of the god Valmar, waiting for you in the devil's hole. Welcome back, Martin Voigt. Will hell be... |
Delphina's House, by Alice Grove Average member rating: (13 ratings) A girl must say goodbye to her home. But there's time for one last adventure.... |
Detectiveland, by Robin Johnson Average member rating: (53 ratings) New Losago, 1929 - a town full of creeps, clowns, mobsters and, if you know where to look, the occasional honest citizen. Guide private investigator Lanson Rose through a series of puzzling cases: solve the... |
DEVOTIONALIA, by G.C. "Grim" Baccaris (as G. Grimoire) Average member rating: (24 ratings) The high priest of an obscure cult is preparing a ritual. Don the priest’s sacred mantle, for these holy labors are yours to direct. You may carve a votive, lead a prayer, or make a sacrifice — but you must... |
Dial C for Cupcakes, by Ryan Veeder Average member rating: (31 ratings) A cantankerous ex-cop calls in a favor from his old partner. |
Domicile, by John Evans Average member rating: (4 ratings) |
The Dreamhold, by Andrew Plotkin Average member rating: (175 ratings) The Dreamhold is interactive fiction — a classic text adventure. No graphics! No point-and-click! You type your commands, and read what happens next. The Dreamhold is designed for people who have never... |
The Edifice, by Lucian P. Smith Average member rating: (84 ratings) "Something new in your everyday hunter-gatherer routine: where did this strange edifice come from? Dare you enter and explore the secrets of this... thing, or do you try to face your enemies? Like you have a... |
The Eleusinian Miseries, by Mike Russo Average member rating: (26 ratings) Well, isn't this a lark! After solid years of going after old Alky to let you in on that Mysteries wheeze of his, at last tonight's the night. He's dragged you from Athens to Eleusis for the to-do, but no... |
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... |
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... |
The Erudition Chamber, by Daniel Freas Average member rating: (26 ratings) |
Escape From Santaland, by Jason Ermer Average member rating: (22 ratings) Ugh. Christmastime at the mall. The last place you want to be, during the worst time of year to be there. |
The Euripides Enigma, by Larry Horsfield Average member rating: (6 ratings) You are Mike Erlin, captain of the Federation of Sentient Planets starship Excelsior. You have been ordered to the planet Euripides in the Sagittarius region of space to investigate why the research station... |
Even Some More Tales from Castle Balderstone, by Ryan Veeder Average member rating: (17 ratings) The fourth one in a series of anthologies of unbelievable terror, edited by Ryan Veeder. Also an ECTOCOMP 2021 entry. |
Evita Sempai, by Florencia Rumpel Rodriguez Average member rating: (11 ratings) A woman in the fifties falls in love with an idealized version of a polemical political figure. |
Fallacy of Dawn, by Robb Sherwin Average member rating: (19 ratings) In a world that never quite got over the '80s, Delarion Yar dispenses quarters for the local arcade... badly. A software pirate from better days, he's crossed the wrong people one too many times. Locked into... |
The Family Record, by sharkinfishnets, pointyshades, AmeKinoko Average member rating: (1 rating) Years ago, a great sickness swept this land. Rich, poor, it didn't matter -- the plague killed indiscriminately. Entire families were wiped out in mere days. Even now, some of the houses still stand empty...... |
Fifteen Minutes, by Ade McT Average member rating: (24 ratings) You're in a tight spot. You have fifteen minutes before the Principal expels you from the cosy world of academia and into the cold harsh reality of the real world. You really should do something about it. A... |
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),... |
A Fly On The Wall, or An Appositional Eye, by Nigel Jayne Average member rating: (4 ratings) The Harrison Mansion is closing after 45 years of delighting its visitors with collections of the weird and recreations of the macabre. The night before, the Fortean Society of New England gathers in the... |
The Fog Knows Your Name, by Clio Yun-su Davis Average member rating: (9 ratings) Step into the fog to confront your terror: the evil that hides within. The Fog Knows Your Name is a 300,000 word interactive teen horror novel by Clio Yun-su Davis, where your choices control the story. It's... |
Fog Lights and Foul Deeds, by Tom Sykes Average member rating: (5 ratings) An interactive horror story set on a supernaturally ruined Victorian canal. You've bought a narrowboat. You've hired a crew. Can you survive the myriad horrors of the fog-drenched Poulton waterway? Play... |
Gaia's Web, by Nigel Jayne Average member rating: (2 ratings) Correcting bugs in video games wasn't supposed to be like this. Then again, S.hip of Theseus isn't a typical game. As a titan, you maintain the real-world experience of the game players. When you lose... |
Galaxy Jones, by Phil Riley Average member rating: (7 ratings) The Solar System’s greatest hero, Galaxy Jones, against the evil Admiral Thallium! |
Ghosts Within, by Kyriakos Athanasopoulos Average member rating: (12 ratings) The smell of damp moss fills the air. Wet grass and dirt surround you while you are lying face down on the cold forest floor. Your clothes are dirty, wet, and slightly torn in places. Your head's left side... |
The Good Ghost, by Sarah Willson, Kirk Damato Average member rating: (18 ratings) A wholesome haunt in five acts. |
The good people, by Pseudavid Average member rating: (16 ratings) Explore the weird, until the sunken things come for you. A narration-focused interactive fiction focused on conversation and exploration of a haunted landscape. Playable on mobile, but a computer or tablet... |
The Gostak, by Carl Muckenhoupt Average member rating: (89 ratings) "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... |
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... |
Gun Mute, by C.E.J. Pacian Average member rating: (153 ratings) Step into the shoes of Mute Lawton, a lone cowboy who must stop an execution set to occur at noon by shooting his way past dangerous cyborgs and mutants in a post-apocalyptic western setting. (From the... |
Hallowmoor, by Mike Snyder Average member rating: (18 ratings) Your quest: infiltrate Castle Hallowmoor, find the potion, and make it out alive. This is a Halloween-themed adventure -- hypertext interactive fiction playable in most modern web browsers. |
Hampstead, by Trevor Lever and Peter Jones Hampstead is a quest, but not for gold. The aim of it is to reach the pinnacle of social status, and acquiring wealth is only one part of the problem. If you wish to go up in the world you also have to gain... |
Harmonic Time-Bind Ritual Symphony, by Ben Kidwell and Maevele Straw Average member rating: (13 ratings) A musician's manic episode binds fiction and reality into a joyful union. |
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams and Steve Meretzky Average member rating: (185 ratings) 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... |
Horse Master, by Tom McHenry Average member rating: (92 ratings) The Game of Horse Mastery |
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... |
The House of Fear, by Gwen Katz Average member rating: (3 ratings) When 19-year-old Leonora Carrington runs away to France with an artist twice her age, she doesn’t know that she’ll end up in a Spanish mental asylum and he in a concentration camp. Follow her on a hermetic... |
The House on Highfield Lane, by Andy Joel Average member rating: (12 ratings) The house at the top of Highfield Lane has always scared Mandy, though she could never say why exactly. Perhaps today is the day she should confront that fear! This is in the style of a classic parser-based... |
I Am Prey, by Joey Tanden Average member rating: (11 ratings) A horror-lite science fiction game of evasion. (Experimental game: Reading the included survival guide before playing is highly recommended.) Inspired by the casual and round-based designs of visual indie... |
I Contain Multitudes, by Wonaglot Average member rating: (7 ratings) You are Chandra Fitz, a young engineer serving on the cruise ship Prinzessin Anna Alexia. This magnificent ship is the first purpose-designed vessel of its kind, meant to take passengers not to an... |
Ice House of Horrors, by Sean M. Shore Average member rating: (9 ratings) In this very short horror story, you play as an injured walleye, lured and caught by monsters who throw you onto a pile of corpses. Your options are extremely limited. You can't breathe. And it's so cold... |
If I Wasn't Shy, by Joey Jones Average member rating: (11 ratings) "I kinda just sit at the checkout, and the place isn't even all that busy. So why'd you want to play a game about my life? I mean, it's not terrible but it would be so much more if I wasn't shy." (Part of... |
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... |
IFDB Spelunking, by Joey Jones Average member rating: (21 ratings) In the depths of the interactive fiction database strange games lurk! This is an emulation of ten random works found on the IFDB, in which inventory carries over between games for unique effect. |
The Impossible Bottle, by Linus Åkesson Average member rating: (78 ratings) 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)... |
In The House of Professor Evil: The HAM HOUSE, by S. John Ross Average member rating: (6 ratings) A sci-fi/pulp satire, extremely brief and slight (it can be beaten in 12 turns) beginning in a cell beneath the house of a mad scientist. The scientist lay dead at your feet, and now you must answer the... |
Inside the Facility, by Arthur DiBianca Average member rating: (57 ratings) 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... |
Internal Vigilance, by Simon Christiansen Average member rating: (13 ratings) You are informed that a new prisoner was brought in recently. Your job, as usual, is to interrogate him and determine whether he poses a threat to The Union. This should not be a problem. You are a trained... |
The Journey of the King, by Peter Nepstad Average member rating: (6 ratings) "The King goeth upon a journey with many horses, yet riding upon none, when the pomp of travelling shall be heard in the streets and the sound of the lute and the drum and the name of the King. And I would... |
Kaged, by Ian Finley Average member rating: (54 ratings) ""But my madness speaks: It will but skin and film the ulcerous place, Whilst rank corruption, mining all within, Infects unseen." Welcome to the Citadel of Justice. The Inquisitor is waiting." [--blurb from... |
Killing Machine Loves Slime Prince, by C.E.J. Pacian Average member rating: (11 ratings) A biomechanical killing machine stalks a strange world. The slime she loves is dying. And the one responsible is out there somewhere. |
KING OF BEES IN FANTASY LAND, by Brendan Patrick Hennessy Average member rating: (43 ratings) A videogame about space bees. |
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. |
The Kuolema, by Ben Jackson Average member rating: (17 ratings) This game has now been entirely 'remastered' and released as part of the Spring Thing 2024 competition. An abandoned ship is found adrift in the South China Sea. Its radio is silent and there's no sign of... |
Laid Off from the Synesthesia Factory, by Katherine Morayati Average member rating: (23 ratings) Synpiece: A wearable technology that changes the wearer's mood. Users of the Synpiece can adjust the 'color' of their experience, which adjusts psychological traits mapped to hue (emotion), saturation... |
last&final, by 1beetle Average member rating: (5 ratings) it's the last day. |
Leadlight, by Wade Clarke Average member rating: (34 ratings) 15-year-old Belinda Nettle is studying at Linville Girls High School in Australia's Blue Mountains. After falling asleep in the library one afternoon, she wakes from her mundane existence into a nightmare... |
Lethophobia, by Jess Mersky, Olivia Wood Average member rating: (4 ratings) Lethophobia is an unsettling and comic haunted-house mystery-adventure from Jess Mersky and Olivia Wood. The game explores the nature of memory, self and forgotten trauma. It is also a gesture of love to... |
little, by chandler groover Average member rating: (9 ratings) a tiny yarn for ectocomp |
Losing Your Grip, by Stephen Granade Average member rating: (22 ratings) |
Lost and Found, by Felicity Drake Average member rating: (12 ratings) Jun lives on a bench in Edogawa Park. He's come to know the neighborhood, and it unsettles him when one of the daily commuters disappears: Ms. Ishii, a schoolteacher. Why did she go missing, and why is no... |
Low, by Peregrine Wade Average member rating: (7 ratings) A Petite Mort entry for ECTOCOMP 2016. |
Lowell Prison, by Emily Short Average member rating: (4 ratings) A small conversation piece between you, an inmate of Lowell Prison, and an old man who crouches beside a wide-open gate. |
Lucid Night, by Dee Cooke Average member rating: (8 ratings) You've always been a lucid dreamer, but these days your dreams never last very long. If only you could get some rest... Lucid Night was created for PunyJam #3 in February 2023. |
Mammal, by Joey Jones Average member rating: (20 ratings) The lizards have taken over. You, a lowly human slave, are tasked with eradicating all mammalian traces from the Don Quixote Memorial Museum. (Written for the Apollo 18+20 tribute album project.) |
The Manor at Whitby, by L. E. Hall Average member rating: (4 ratings) Visiting your British relations for the first time, you discover the secrets of the strange ancestral manor. |
Marie Waits, by Dee Cooke Average member rating: (13 ratings) Three hours. All you can do is wait... or is it? |
Mean Mother Trucker, by Bitter Karella Average member rating: (15 ratings) Big Ester is a mean mother trucker about to take her big rig down The Devil’s Taint, the most treacherous stretch of mountain road on the whole trucking circuit... but first she’s got to win the heart of the... |
Meeting Robb Sherwin, by Jizaboz Average member rating: (10 ratings) A slice-of-life adventure in Denver, Colorado. |
The Meteor, the Stone and a Long Glass of Sherbet, by Graham Nelson (as Angela M. Horns) Average member rating: (51 ratings) 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... |
Mind The Gap, by quackoquack Average member rating: (7 ratings) You're in London for a day, and your friends are all unhelpfully scattered across Zone 1. Can you visit them all before your night bus leaves the city? A quick text adventure game made for Game Dev London's... |
Molly and the Butter Thieves, by Alice Grove (as Cosmic Hamster) Average member rating: (15 ratings) You are Molly Butterfield, dairy farmer extraordinaire. In the past week there have been two mysterious butter disappearances from your own kitchen. There will not be a third. Molly and the Butter Thieves... |
My Name is Jack Mills, by Juhana Leinonen Average member rating: (20 ratings) |
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... |
Narcolepsy, by Adam Cadre Average member rating: (62 ratings) |
Nautilisia, by Ryan Veeder Average member rating: (41 ratings) Your friend claims to be in a coma. |
Never Gives Up Her Dead, by Mathbrush Average member rating: (13 ratings) Time is running out after a meteor strikes your interstellar starship. While the crew is under full alert, only you seem to notice the strange red portals opening up throughout the ship. Explore ten... |
Not Made With Hands, by Emily Short Average member rating: (4 ratings) |
Nothing Could be Further From the Truth, by Adam Wasserman Average member rating: (5 ratings) Welcome to the Bunker, an orderly, underground utopia where everyone’s needs have been satisfied. You, Oliva Mirram, are a dust maid assigned to Research Lab A-U61, a facility in the Developmental... |
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... |
Onna Kabuki: A Tale of Theatre and Revenge, by Victor Ojuel Average member rating: (1 rating) Japan, 1602. A noble lady, betrayed. A loyal samurai, fallen. A mysterious monk, unmasked. A titillating actress, haunted. A wayward drunkard, redeemed. Take your seat, for the curtain is drawn... |
Open That Vein, by Chandler Groover Average member rating: (18 ratings) You are going to open that vein. La Petite Mort entry in ECTOCOMP 2015. |
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. |
Please Sign Here, by Michelle Negron (as "Road") Average member rating: (12 ratings) Jackie Parker's life gets turned upside down after getting involved in a fatal car accident with her best friend. Now, Jackie's signature has been showing up at murder sights across the area and she has to... |
Poppet, by Bitter Karella Average member rating: (12 ratings) A ragdoll awakes in an empty house. You're not sure how long you've been asleep. You're not sure where you are. And, worst of all, you're not sure what happened to the girl who once treasured you as her... |
The Profile, by Mike Snyder Average member rating: (8 ratings) Rain pours, and with it, distant thunder. You approach the house, perhaps quickly. Your boots leave muddy footprints on the steps. It's cold. It's dark. The time is between 2:30 and 4:00 AM; you're not... |
Prospero, by Bruno Dias Average member rating: (10 ratings) A prince and his courtiers retreat to his palace to hide from a deadly plague. Adapted from EA Poe's The Masque of the Red Death. |
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... |
Return to Ditch Day, by M.J. Roberts Average member rating: (30 ratings) It's been a decade since you graduated, but now it looks like you're going to have to solve one more Ditch Day stack. |
Risorgimento Represso, by Michael J. Coyne Average member rating: (48 ratings) You play as an Oxbridge student who, during a particularly boring lecture, falls through a green portal under their desk into the cluttered library of the wizard Ninario. Ninny was trying to summon a... |
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.... |
Search for the Lost Ark, by Garry Francis Average member rating: (7 ratings) The stories about the Ark of the Covenant are well known, but its current location is a mystery. According to French author Louis Charpentier, the Ark was taken to the Chartres Cathedral by the Knights... |
Seedship, by John Ayliff Average member rating: (52 ratings) An AI ship full of frozen colonists must find the best planet to be the new home of the human race. |
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... |
Skies Above, by Arthur DiBianca Average member rating: (20 ratings) Play minigames to get your airship flying, tour the skies, and see what mischief is going on up there. Champion of the Skies: Sarah Adams |
Skybreak!, by William Dooling Average member rating: (17 ratings) Skybreak! is a science-fantasy role-playing game of galactic proportions: explore distant stars, plunder alien ruins, hunt space pirates, collect beetles, slay gods, make out with sorcerers, and punch cosmic... |
Snowhaven, by Tristin Grizel Dean Average member rating: (13 ratings) Alone in the cold wilderness, you hunt and forage to make a stew for a friend's return. |
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... |
Someone Keeps Moving My Chair, by Ryan Veeder Average member rating: (9 ratings) Something is amiss in Garry's office. A prequel to The Statue Got Me High. |
Speculative Fiction, by Diane Christoforo and Thomas Mack Average member rating: (13 ratings) A puzzle game about committing acts of financial skulduggery and exploiting ridiculous magical items. This game is the complete version of the one that appeared in IntroComp 2011, where it won second place. |
Stone Harbor, by Liza Daly Average member rating: (38 ratings) 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 of Legend, by Lance Campbell Average member rating: (21 ratings) The only thing worse than being a village idiot is being an unemployed village idiot. Maybe it’s time to change careers. Maybe it’s time to be a knight. |
Summit, by Phantom Williams Average member rating: (33 ratings) A dream-like journey through a drifting life. Headphones recommended. |
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... |
Tapestry, by Daniel Ravipinto Average member rating: (43 ratings) You were born; you lived; you died. Not everyone gets a second chance to go back and change crucial decisions. You have been granted one and must go back to critical moral dilemmas; but do you change the... |
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. |
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... |
Things that Happened in Houghtonbridge, by Dee Cooke Average member rating: (14 ratings) On a hot summer weekend, all Olivia Raines wants to do is get on with her studies for her upcoming exams. But her unreliable aunt, Beverly, has gone missing, and Olivia finds herself unwillingly dragged into... |
Trapped in Time, by Simon Christiansen Average member rating: (25 ratings) A Science Fiction adventure where YOU are the hero! |
Treasures of a Slaver's Kingdom, by S. John Ross Average member rating: (48 ratings) In the cruel kingdoms north of the Viraxian Empire, a barbarian seeks treasure - and vengeance! Having escaped the clutches of the Slaver King, he has vowed to pillage the wealth of the kingdom ... then... |
The Trials and Tribulation of Edward Harcourt, by MelS and manonamora Average member rating: (16 ratings) Friday February 2nd, 1923 My dearest friend, Such good fortune has befallen me, that I scarcely dare write you in case it is merely some joke played on me by fate. Lord knows that Fortuna has not been kind... |
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... |
Unbecoming, by hexcavator Average member rating: (2 ratings) Unbecoming is sonically-textured interactive horror fiction inspired by point-and-click adventures and American rural mythos. Prominent themes include cycles of trauma, corrupt embodiment, and unspeakable... |
Unit 322 (Disambiguation), by Jonny Muir Average member rating: (24 ratings) A mystery told entirely through the pages of an online encyclopedia. |
Varkana, by Maryam Gousheh-Forgeot Average member rating: (25 ratings) Varkana is the name of a region in a world with a timeless, mildy fantasy/sci-fi setting (some technological and magical elements are present at this moment, but not prevalent), with the city-state of Arg... |
Varronis Museum, by David Garcia Average member rating: (5 ratings) Well! It seemed that the house of Marcus Terentius Varro would be just a brief first stop in your joyful stroll through the city of Rome. But now it is clear that you will have to kill time in the courtyard... |
A Very Hairy Fish-Mess, by Byron Alexander Campbell Average member rating: (3 ratings) Have you ever wondered what Christmas would be like if it were run by your horrible cat, who also happened to be a timeless Lovecraftian horror? Find out in this bloody festive holiday treat! |
Visit Skuga Lake - Masterpiece Edition, by Ryan Veeder Average member rating: (11 ratings) An unpaid intern learns to cast over forty spells as she skulks around a small town, looking for her boss. "Visit Skuga Lake" originally appeared in Even Some More Tales from Castle Balderstone. This... |
Voices, by Aris Katsaris Average member rating: (26 ratings) |
What Fuwa Bansaku Found, by Chandler Groover Average member rating: (30 ratings) A samurai explores a haunted shrine. |
When in Rome 1: Accounting for Taste, by Emily Short Average member rating: (27 ratings) Manhattan, May, 1954. |
Whitefield Academy of Witchcraft, by Steph Cherrywell Average member rating: (19 ratings) The year is 1957, and the place is lush, storm-tossed Stinglash Island, just off the north coast of Washington's Olympic Peninsula. You are Page LeBlanc, witch in training, and you've returned for another... |
Whom The Telling Changed, by Aaron A. Reed Average member rating: (64 ratings) The people had always gathered on moonless nights to hear the stories, since the time of their ancestors' ancestors. The heat of the fire and the glow in the storyteller's eyes made the past present, and the... |
Wisher, Theurgist, Fatalist, by Xavid Average member rating: (11 ratings) From the ranks of the people you have been raised up as a Wisher— ... |
Word of the Day, by Richard Otter Average member rating: (15 ratings) You are the very first Outer Worlder to gain an appointment on a Bio-Drive vessel, let alone as part of the engineering team. Working hard to gain enough credits to secure your future could this be your... |
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... |
Yellow Dog Running, by Sam Kabo Ashwell Average member rating: (10 ratings) |
Yon Astounding Castle! of some sort, by Tiberius Thingamus Average member rating: (8 ratings) In this adventure, findeth ye olde treasures from within yon castle. Maketh friends as ye o'ercome meddlesome goblins! Outwitteth ye riddling gnome! Resizeth ye belts & belt-like things! Can ye getteth all... |
[You wake up itching.], by Michael S. Gentry Average member rating: (6 ratings) This game is an entry in the Mystery House Taken Over project. The story and graphics are adapted from Roberta Williams' original Mystery House. |