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1-2-3..., by Chris Mudd
Average member rating: (12 ratings)

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)

Alien Abduction?, by Charles Gerlach
Average member rating: (12 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...

Aspel, by Emily Short
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

Her Majesty has sent your team to investigate the mountain palace of Aspel, now ruined, to find out its secrets and determine what value it may still have. Aspel is an experimental interactive experience...
Augustine, by Terrence V. Koch
Average member rating: (13 ratings)
St. Augustine, Florida is a city rich in history. Touted as the Oldest City in the United States, tourists flock to her to learn something of the nation's earliest settlers and get a sense of what life was...

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...

baby tree, by Lester Galin
Average member rating: (33 ratings)

a short horror game

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 Battle of Walcot Keep, by Steve Breslin, Eric Eve, and Lindsey Hair
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

Beat the Devil, by Robert M. Camisa
Average member rating: (17 ratings)
You are some guy who, after a night of drinking and proclaiming that you'd sell your soul for a chance with the lovely Gwyneth, wakes up in a literal "Mall of Hell". It seems Lucifer overheard you and...

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.

Bellclap, by Tommy Herbert
Average member rating: (26 ratings)

Better than Alone, by willitchio
Average member rating: (4 ratings)
Better than Alone is an interactive novella about repetition and death. It is set in the midst of Melbourne's 2020 lockdown. Your name is Lottie Gill-Soren. You care for Carl Quincy Durrant. And the house he...

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?

Blue Chairs, by Chris Klimas
Average member rating: (94 ratings)

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...

The Broken String, by Harel Malka, Ran Kramer, and Anne Jalijali
Average member rating: (1 rating)

"You play the role of Tim, a young punk rocker, livinng in an imaginary city in a squat. In Tim's city, punk rock is dying and along with it all the ideals that true punk represents. Tim's feeling of...

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...

Chancellor, by Kevin Venzke
Average member rating: (16 ratings)

Maturity attained, the daughter is unfurled upon the world, embarked upon a mysterious quest by her father.
Chaos, by John Barker
Average member rating: (4 ratings)
This game is largely plotless, it has an ambiguous player character, and went untested. I was greatly influenced by the wonder of the vast worlds of Zork Zero and Myst as well as the atmospheric worlds...

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...

The Chinese Room, by Harry Josephine Giles and Joey Jones
Average member rating: (34 ratings)

The Chinese Room is a hilarious romp through the world of philosophical thought experiments. Have you ever wanted to win Zeno's race? Free the denizens of Plato's Cave? Or find out what it's really like to...

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 Coast House, by Stephen Newton and Dan Newton
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

"The mystery, for you, started two years ago. "Come here, there's something I want to tell you," your old grandfather had said, "Quick, before your mother comes back in the room." The smell of antiseptic and...

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...

Custard, by Evin Robertson
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

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)

The Dangers of Driving at Night, by Lumin

While pulling an all-nighter on the road, you stop at a tiny gas station to refuel your vehicle and your tired mind.

A Dark and Stormy Entry, by Emily Short
Average member rating: (26 ratings)

A Dark Room, by Michael Townsend
Average member rating: (40 ratings)

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...

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....

Delusions, by C. E. Forman
Average member rating: (40 ratings)

"A trip into virtual reality: all begins with debugging a VR system, but then things get out of hand. Who is Morrodox, what has he to do with your colleagues, and what is going on?" [--blurb from The Z-Files...

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)

Downtown Tokyo, Present Day, by John Kean
Average member rating: (25 ratings)

"In this game you actually play two people - one is the real you, sitting in the dark in a movie theatre, and the other is the hero of the film that you are watching. Originally conceived for Adam Cadre's...

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 Duel in the Snow, by Utkonos
Average member rating: (21 ratings)

A Tale of Old Russia
The Duel That Spanned the Ages, by Oliver Ullmann
Average member rating: (20 ratings)
A frantic struggle for survival in hard vacuum.
Earl Grey, by Rob Dubbin and Allison Parrish
Average member rating: (29 ratings)
A game about a tea party, a monarchy, and the unpredictability of language.

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...

Eidolon, by A.D. Jansen
Average member rating: (33 ratings)

When you wake up, something is passing through the night sky.

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...

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

"Some things should be left undone." [--blurb from Competition Aught-Zero]
Entropy, by David Cornelson
Average member rating: (2 ratings)
Once upon a time in the future an android wakes up amidst the wreckage of a great battle on Earth. There are no survivors except "her", as she was made in the form of her creator. Chrysilya doesn't remember...

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.

Escape to New York, by Richard Otter
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

Your name is Jack Thompson and you are, for want of a better word, a thief. On your latest adventure you have managed to acquire Johnson's 'The Willow Tree', which is worth more than you will be able to...

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.

Excuse Me, Do You Have The Time?, by Jean Childs
Average member rating: (1 rating)

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...

False Mavis, by Ted Casaubon (as Litany Brisket)
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

An entry in ShuffleComp: Disc 2. Inspired by "Burning Rope" by Genesis and "Long Lankin" by Steeleye Span.

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, by Nigel Jayne
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

. . . this game was updated, expanded and released in 2017 as A Fly on the Wall, or An Appositional Eye. . . The Harrison Mansion is closing after 45 years of delighting its visitors with collections of the...

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...

The Frenetic Five vs. Sturm und Drang, by Neil deMause
Average member rating: (13 ratings)

In this game about under-powered superheroes, you play as Improv, leader of the Frenetic Five. You use common objects in surprisingly useful ways. Bob, your contact at Supertemps, hires your team for a new...

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!

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

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

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...

Glass Jar, by elizawriteshere
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

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...

Gossip, by Hugo Labrande
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

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...

The Green Princess, by The Invisible Man
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

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...

Halloween Dance, by MathBrush
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

It's Halloween Night at the highschool gym Your costume's ready, you got a trim It might be time to make some friends But we'll see how the story ends. La Petite Mort entry in ECTOCOMP 2015, with a quick...

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.

Hell: A Comedy of Errors, by John Evans
Average member rating: (9 ratings)

Heroes, by Sean Barrett
Average member rating: (28 ratings)
"A most traditional CRPG experience." [--blurb from Competition Aught-One]

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...

Honeysuckle, by Cat Manning
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

A Petite Mort entry for ECTOCOMP 2016.

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...

House, by Matthew Wiltshire
Average member rating: (1 rating)

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...

Howled House, by B Minus Seven
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

A Petite Mort entry for ECTOCOMP 2016.
Hungry, by Richard Otter
Average member rating: (3 ratings)
You must escape. Must escape. Nothing else matters. Well, almost nothing.

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...

Inside Woman, by Andy Phillips
Average member rating: (15 ratings)

Utopia Technologies. Industrial giant, economic powerhouse, the world's greatest scientific superpower, and the organisation most responsible for eroding civil liberties and personal freedoms. They're an...

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...

Jacks or Better to Murder, Aces to Win, by J. D. Berry
Average member rating: (18 ratings)

In this short game of intrigue, you play as the venerable A, the highest-ranking member of your religion's Hierarchy. During a formal service at a remote holding, you sense a conspiracy to eliminate you is...
Janitor, by Peter Seebach and Kevin Lynn
Average member rating: (28 ratings)

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...

A Journey to Omega Station, by DWaM
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

The year is 2044. A secret branch of the government known only as 'The Agency' has discovered rifts -- codenamed 'Breaches' -- to an alternate dimension. The ones tasked with exploring said unknown areas are...
Jump, by Chris Mudd
Average member rating: (4 ratings)
"The first slivers of light rise from the horizon. Colours, hues gather... A gull rides a thermal to the clouds above. All that has happened seems inconsequential." [--blurb from Competition Aught-One]

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...

Kallisti, by James Mitchelhill
Average member rating: (9 ratings)

"This game may, as they say, contain scenes of a sexual nature and language unsuitable for the young and/or easily offended." [--blurb from Competition Aught-One]

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...

La Seine, by Derek Sutcliffe
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

Visit Paris, France in 1884 and explore a large park on the bank of the river Seine.
A Lady in Waiting, by Knight Errant
Average member rating: (4 ratings)
"A Lady in Waiting" is a historical romance set in 16th century Venice. Won second place in the 2008 minicomp.

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...

Legion, by Jason Devlin
Average member rating: (21 ratings)

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...

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

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

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...

Lost New York, by Neil deMause
Average member rating: (20 ratings)

"They say you can never get to know the true New York as a tourist -- but this is going to turn out to be no ordinary vacation. What you thought would be a quick jaunt to the usual tourist traps instead...

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?

A Matter of Importance, by Valentine Kopteltsev
Average member rating: (10 ratings)

All those scoundrels on The Board Of The Thieves' Guild... How could they? Sure, the last weeks weren't your most successful ones (in fact, you'd be glad to raze them from your memory if you only could), and...

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.

Mental Entertainment, by Thomas Hvizdos
Average member rating: (12 ratings)

Your job is to talk to people. Interview three patrons of the 'Mental Entertainment' virtual reality entertainment center in Dayton, Ohio, and determine if they have a problem. Conversation-driven parser IF.

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...

Missing Since ’77, by Andrew Watt
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

When a derided author vanishes from his home, his incriminated wife hires a prodigious young detective to investigate.
Missive, by Joey Fu
Average member rating: (15 ratings)
It's your birthday today. Your ex-girlfriend brings you a present, and inside are a series of mysterious letters that tell the story of an old love triangle that ended in murder. Solve puzzles, solve the...

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 Angel, by Jon Ingold
Average member rating: (28 ratings)

"I wake peacefully, and already she is there." [--blurb from Competition Aught-Zero]

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...

Mystery Science Theater 3000 Presents "A Fable", by Graeme Cree
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

"A character assassination of an apparently not-very-good AGT game in the style of Mystery Science Theatre 3000." [-- blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue]

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...

Once, by Chris Klimas
Average member rating: (9 ratings)

Out of the TextFire "12-pack", this is an April's Fool game "demo" in which your grandmother has you weed her garden - when you suddenly find something much better to do. [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue]
The One That Got Away, by Leon Lin
Average member rating: (20 ratings)
Go fishing for 'The Old One'. Won 3rd place....

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.

Opening Night, by David Batterham
Average member rating: (28 ratings)

You stepped off the streetcar moments ago, halting before the grand facade of the Marquis Theatre. You have come to see your idol, the Broadway star Miranda Lily, performing in all her dizzying glory. [blurb...
The Orion Agenda, by Ryan Weisenberger
Average member rating: (16 ratings)
In this sci-fi story, you play as Capt. Jon Stark of SciCorps. You're monitoring a promising alien species on Orion 3 from orbit on Station One when the General gives you your first field assignment. Outpost...

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.

A Party to Murder, by David Good
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

In financial difficulties, you go to meet with a neighbor during a party. However, he seems to be missing. Where could he be? And who are these mysterious party guests? Watch out for the police, they seem to...
Pascal's Wager, by Doug Egan
Average member rating: (26 ratings)
"The original Pascal's Wager was essentially a cost/benefit analysis of religious faith. However, Blaise Pascal (a 17th century Catholic) disregarded the possible existence of non-Christian Gods. This game...

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.

Piece of Mind, by Giles Boutel
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

Piece of Mind is a short, humorous work which uses the first person "puppet" concept from Scott Adams and other early games and examines the possible causes and consequences of being so controlled by the...

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.

Pub Adventure!, by Robin & Tom Edwards
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

Your great uncle left you a pub in his will, but the pub is dusty and deserted. Where are all the customers and what is that strange moaning coming from under the floor? The game starts in a broom closet....
Recluse, by Stephen Gorrell
Average member rating: (7 ratings)
A text adventure in the classic Infocom style. It begins with you delivering a sealed package, contents unknown, to J. Daggett Winton, noted archeologist, explorer, inventor, mathematician, philosopher,......
Redemption, by Kathleen M. Fischer
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

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...

The Sacred Shovel of Athenia, by Andy Galilee
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

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...

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...

The Sisters, by revgiblet
Average member rating: (14 ratings)

After crashing your car to avoid hitting a mysterious young girl you awake to find yourself drawn to an abandoned mansion.

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...

Small World, by Andrew D. Pontious
Average member rating: (14 ratings)

Snatches, by Gregory Weir
Average member rating: (15 ratings)

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.

So Far, by Andrew Plotkin
Average member rating: (73 ratings)

Sitting in a cramped theatre, irritated that your partner apparently hasn't turned up, you are strangely intrigued by a current of air. It will lead you to a place very different from your own familiar...

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.

Sting of the Wasp, by Jason Devlin
Average member rating: (36 ratings)

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...

A Stop For The Night, by Joe Mason
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

Strange Geometries, by Phillip Chambers
Average member rating: (19 ratings)

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.

Sunset Over Savannah, by Ivan Cockrum
Average member rating: (54 ratings)

In this game, you play as an office worker on vacation on a beach in Savannah. This is your last day of a very blissful vacation, and you realize you really really hate your job. You could quit, but should...
Swan Hill, by Laura Michet
Average member rating: (23 ratings)
Swan Hill is an interactive story about brothers who have grown apart. It has multiple endings.

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...

The Temple, by Johan Berntsson
Average member rating: (11 ratings)

You play as someone plagued by nightmares of falling, but in tonight's nightmare, you've somehow landed in in a strange alien city. With the time-lost Charles Bristow, you'll uncover the city's dark secrets,...

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...

Tin, by Jim Aikin
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

The Tiny House, by Dan Doyle III
Average member rating: (6 ratings)
Christine comes home from work to her tiny house to find that her son and husband are missing. In searching for clues she discovers a spellbook and must learn various magical spells and go to several...
Toonesia, by Jacob Weinstein
Average member rating: (21 ratings)
From the introduction: "Oooh, that rascally rabbit! You were out hunting him when he somehow got the jump on you, blindfolded you, and dumped you into a cell. Well, you’ll show him. He’ll be hasenpfefer by...

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...

Triune, by Papillon
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

"What are little girls Made of? Sugar and spice And everything nice That's what little girls Are made of." [--blurb from Competition Aught-One]
Tryst of Fate, by G. M. Zagurski
Average member rating: (9 ratings)
Your last trip up the stairs before you can relax in a nice hot bath brings you into rather unfortunate contact with a toy car left carelessly on a stair, and your head connects with the wooden banner near...

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...

Under the Bed, by Dan Doyle III
Average member rating: (10 ratings)

For many years you have hidden from the monster under your bed. Now, with the birth of your baby brother, the monster threatens not only you, but your family. Now it is not a time to hide, now it is time to...

Unit 322 (Disambiguation), by Jonny Muir
Average member rating: (24 ratings)

A mystery told entirely through the pages of an online encyclopedia.

Unraveling God, by Todd Watson
Average member rating: (11 ratings)

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 Are Little Girls Made Of, by Carolyn VanEseltine
Average member rating: (4 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...

Who Among Us, by Tia Orisney
Average member rating: (12 ratings)

A noir-themed murder mystery story inspired by Agatha Christie's novel "And Then There Were None" and set in modern day Russia.

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...

The Windhall Chronicles, Volume 1: The Path to Fortune, by Jeff Cassidy and C. E. Forman
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

You have been volunteered by your master for a quest to save the small city of Windhall from a terrible fate. [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue]

Wisher, Theurgist, Fatalist, by Xavid
Average member rating: (11 ratings)

From the ranks of the people you have been raised up as a Wisher— ...

Without a Clue, by David Whyld
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

Some fools may believe Sherlock Holmes to be the world's greatest detective. You know better, though, and soon you will expose him as the fraud he is. But when you break into his rooms looking for evidence...
Wolfgirls in Love, by Kitty Horrorshow
Average member rating: (10 ratings)
two wolves go out for a night on the town CW: violence, contains music (see if you can keep the rhythm!)
The Woods Are Dark, by Laurence Moore
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

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...

Xen: The Contest, by Ian Shlasko
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

You are John Richardson, an average college student with an average life. Little do you know that forces beyond your comprehension have a plan for your immediate future.

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...

Zero Sum Game, by Cody Sandifer
Average member rating: (19 ratings)

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

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


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