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| 1893: A World's Fair Mystery, by Peter Nepstad Average member rating:  (25 ratings)A theft on the fairgrounds! Precious diamonds stolen from the Kimberly Diamond Mining Exhibit! An urgent telegram from your old partner arrives, requesting your help to solve the mystery. How can you refuse?... |
| 77 Verbs, by MathBrush (as Prismatik) Average member rating: (21 ratings)Use every standard verb in the Inform library to escape deadly situations in this introduction to parser games! (This game was formerly known as 85 Verbs.) |
| 80 DAYS, by inkle, Meg Jayanth Average member rating: (95 ratings)1872, with a steampunk twist. Phileas Fogg has wagered he can circumnavigate the world in just eighty days. Choose your own route around a 3D globe, travelling by airship, submarine, mechanical camel,... |
| According to Cain, by Jim Nelson Average member rating: (41 ratings)Two brothers. One murder. And a mystery as old as mankind. ... |
| The Act of Misdirection, by Callico Harrison Average member rating: (70 ratings)The curtain lifts to a torrent of applause, as the city's gents and ladies lose their decorum for a just few moments in anticipation of something magical. The spotlights drown the glitter of sequins and... |
| An Act of Murder, by Christopher Huang Average member rating: (82 ratings) |
| Ad Verbum, by Nick Montfort Average member rating: (134 ratings)"With the cantankerous Wizard of Wordplay evicted from his mansion, the worthless plot can now be redeveloped. The city regulations declare, however, that the rip-down job can't proceed until all the items... |
| Adventure, by William Crowther and Donald Woods Average member rating: (97 ratings) |
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(2 ratings)| Alias 'The Magpie', by J. J. Guest Average member rating: (69 ratings)Sir Rodney Playfair, gentleman thief, has a simple plan: impersonate a psychiatrist, infiltrate a country house, steal a priceless Egyptian scarab and make it back to London in time for cocktails. All in a... |
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(94 ratings)| Allison and the Cool New Spaceship Body, by Tempe O' Kun, Samuel Pipes Average member rating: (2 ratings)Your name is Allison. You're 10 years old and have a spaceship for a body. When you were just a baby, you were in a really bad accident, so bad it almost killed you. To save you, doctors and an AI put your... |
| Amazon, by Michael Crichton Average member rating: (5 ratings)The Amazon jungle. Volcanic, dangerous, still unexplored. Home of the jaguar. The alligator. Two hundred species of poisonous snakes. And nataives whose culinary habits, while only rumored, make you very... |
| Amnesia, by Thomas M. Disch and Kevin Bentley Average member rating: (12 ratings) |
| Anchorhead, by Michael Gentry Average member rating: (393 ratings)You take a deep breath of salty air as the first raindrops begin to spatter the pavement, and the swollen, slate-colored clouds that blanket the sky mutter ominous portents amongst themselves over the little... |
| And Then You Come to a House Not Unlike the Previous One, by B.J. Best Average member rating: (66 ratings)Title: Infinite Adventure Year: 1986 Genre: Adventure Summary: Wander through an apparently infinite number of spooky mansions, solving a basic puzzle in each one. ForgottenGames.com rating: ★ ★ ★ |
| Andromeda Dreaming, by Joey Jones Average member rating: (18 ratings)Aliss can control her dreams, but will this help her when she's stuck in a galaxy on the brink of destruction? Winner of the Andromeda Legacy competition 2012, Andromeda Dreaming is in the same setting as... |
| Aotearoa, by Matt Wigdahl Average member rating: (61 ratings)The Fish of Māui. The Land of the Long Cloud. Aotearoa. An entire continent of untamed wilds, and the last place on Earth where dinosaurs still roam. If only you'd come ashore under better circumstances... |
| The Archivist and the Revolution, by Autumn Chen Average member rating: (35 ratings)The world is ending, and you are still paying rent.... |
| Arrival, or Attack of the B-Movie Clichés, by Stephen Granade Average member rating: (34 ratings) |
| 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... |
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(31 ratings)| Augmented Fourth, by Brian Uri! Average member rating: (65 ratings)WANTED: Amateur musicians to serve the Royal Court. Must provide own instrument and be inured to copious constructive criticism. Impress your friends! Meet the King! Apply in person at the Castle, located on... |
| Avon, by Jon Thackray and Jonathan Partington Average member rating: (4 ratings) |
| Babel, by Ian Finley Average member rating: (155 ratings)In this game, you play as an amnesiac inside Babel, an abandoned Arctic facility devoted to biological research. You soon discover that you have the unusual ability to witness scenes from the past by... |
| Bad Machine, by Dan Shiovitz Average member rating: (15 ratings) |
| Balances, by Graham Nelson Average member rating: (38 ratings)"A homage to Infocom's Enchanter Trilogy, at the same time showing some of the things that Inform is capable of doing." [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue] |
| 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. |
| Bell Park, Youth Detective, by Brendan Patrick Hennessy Average member rating: (62 ratings)A headstrong twelve-year-old detective gets in over her head when she's hired to solve a murder mystery at an internet technology conference. |
| Best Gopher Ever, by Arthur DiBianca Average member rating: (23 ratings)Help the unfortunate residents of Fairview! (Who are all animals, by the way.) A light puzzle game for all ages. |
| Bigger Than You Think, by Andrew Plotkin Average member rating: (51 ratings)Bigger Than You Think is a choice-based interactive narrative. This game was written for the Yuletide 2012 fanfic exchange. The game was inspired -- perhaps loosely -- by Randall Munroe's comic xkcd-1110:... |
| Birdland, by Brendan Patrick Hennessy Average member rating: (169 ratings)Fourteen-year-old Bridget's summer camp experience takes a turn for the bizarre when her otherworldly bird dreams start bleeding into reality. |
| The Blind House, by Amanda Allen Average member rating: (38 ratings)I scarcely know the woman at my side. I don't even know why she was the one I turned to. I can only hope that we haven't been followed, that she won't ask too many questions. The only choice left to me now... |
| Blood & Laurels, by Emily Short Average member rating: (6 ratings)It's the eight hundred and twenty first year of the city of Rome, a year of bad omens and unrest. The Emperor is bloodthirsty and watches keenly for anyone who might be trying to overthrow him. The grain... |
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(94 ratings)| Blue Lacuna, by Aaron A. Reed Average member rating: (111 ratings)You have always been different. One in a trillion have your gift, your curse: to move between worlds, never settling, always alone. To Wayfare. Yet there are others like you, and something stronger than... |
| Breakers, by Rodney Smith, Joe Vierra, William Mataga Average member rating: (3 ratings)They're expecting the Messiah any day now. If you're not him, you'd better have a real good story. The realm of the Breakers wait for their Messiah to come to them the same day you arrive. How to convince... |
| Brimstone, by James Paul Average member rating: (2 ratings)This real time all-text tale puts you in the role of Sir Gawain, a knight of the Round Table. It takes place in a dream that traps you in the underworld of Ulro, where you must learn five magic words in... |
| Bring Me A Head!, by Chandler Groover Average member rating: (28 ratings)Better hope you can hack it. A Grand Guignol entry for ECTOCOMP 2016. |
| Broadway: 1849, by Robert Davis Average member rating: (2 ratings)Fight your way to box office glory, while fending off the gangs of New York! Manage a theatre in a game of high-stakes business, dangerous romance, and risky alliances set in the rough-and-tumble world of... |
| Bugsy, by Priscilla Langridge Average member rating: (4 ratings) |
| Castle of the Red Prince, by C.E.J. Pacian Average member rating: (54 ratings)Welcome to Amaranth, foreigner. The Red Prince haunts your dreams, you say? If you want to overthrow our tyrant, you’ll need to consider this whole blighted land at once. (Castle of the Red Prince is a small... |
| Child's Play, by Stephen Granade Average member rating: (54 ratings)It is playgroup day and playgroup day is normally a good day but ever since that little red-haired girl started coming she always wants your toys. She shouldn't get your toys. You tried telling the mom this... |
| Chlorophyll, by Steph Cherrywell Average member rating: (58 ratings) |
| City of Secrets, by Emily Short Average member rating: (103 ratings) |
| Coloratura, by Lynnea Glasser Average member rating: (110 ratings)Stolen away by apathetic Blind Ones, your only desire is to return to your Cellarium and the Song of the Universe. They should understand. You shall make them to understand. |
| Computerfriend, by Kit Riemer Average member rating: (21 ratings)The year is 1999. The place is Godfield, Louisiana: the tech capital of the world, where the sky bleeds acid and the mud boils in the bayou. It’s time for your state-mandated digital therapy. |
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(7 ratings)| Counterfeit Monkey, by Emily Short Average member rating: (239 ratings)Anglophone Atlantis has been an independent nation since an April day in 1822, when a well-aimed shot from their depluralizing cannon reduced the British colonizing fleet to one ship. Since then, Atlantis... |
| Creatures Such As We, by Lynnea Glasser Average member rating: (91 ratings)A dating sim about how humanity connects through art, even out in the vastness of space. |
| Cryptozookeeper, by Robb Sherwin Average member rating: (23 ratings)Marrow is delicious but that's not why you're here. You're supposed to pick up a single jar of alien bone jelly, which of course can't exist and doesn't exist, so you've convinced yourself that transporting... |
| Curses, by Graham Nelson Average member rating: (132 ratings)"As "Curses" opens, you're hunting about in the attic of your family home, looking for a tatty old map of Paris (you're going on holiday tomorrow) and generally trying to avoid all the packing. Aunt Jemima... |
| Damnatio Memoriae, by Emily Short Average member rating: (58 ratings)14 AD. Agrippa Postumus, grandson of the recently-deceased Augustus, tries to avoid death at the hands of the next emperor, Tiberius. At his disposal: a couple of old manuscripts, a lamp, and a recalcitrant... |
| Dangerous Curves, by Irene Callaci Average member rating: (23 ratings) |
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(40 ratings)| A Day for Soft Food, by Tod Levi Average member rating: (29 ratings)"Ever since the provider's sickness began, he's been all hisses and growls. Even the slightest misstep seems to annoy him. Perhaps that's why your bowl has held nothing but hard food lately. And not much of... |
| De Baron, by Victor Gijsbers Average member rating: (160 ratings)An evil nobleman, a kidnapped daughter and a father who wants to rescue her at any cost--that is not the way life works. Something much darker, something much more human, lies underneath. Een kwaadaardige... |
| Dead Like Ants, by C.E.J. Pacian Average member rating: (58 ratings)You play as a young woman in red overalls, a red worker ant. Every spring, five dangerous creatures visit the tree and threaten the village, and every spring, the Queen sends one of her daughters to... |
| Death By Powerpoint, by Jack Welch Average member rating: (11 ratings)This Halloween, you have a PowerPoint presentation to deliver. And delivery it you will. Even if it kills you. |
| Delightful Wallpaper, by Andrew Plotkin ('Edgar O. Weyrd') Average member rating: (78 ratings) |
| Demon's Tomb - The Awakening, by Simon Price Average member rating: (3 ratings)16-year-old Richard goes looking for his father who has failed to return from his archelogical research in an old tomb, only to get involved with demon worshippers and outer-dimensional gods with names like... |
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(5 ratings)| 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... |
| Dr. Dumont's Wild P.A.R.T.I., by Muffy Berlyn and Michael Berlyn Average member rating: (9 ratings)"Failing physics--again--would be traumatic enough. But now, you're trapped inside a Particle Accelerator and Reality Translation Integrator, the product of mad genius meeting mixed metaphors. Originally... |
| Draculaland, by Robin Johnson Average member rating: (30 ratings)A terse, comic horror puzzle game based loosely on Dracula, faithfully reimagining several characters and ignoring most of the original plot. Guide Jonathan Harker on a trip through Transylvania, interacting... |
| Dual Transform, by Andrew Plotkin Average member rating: (109 ratings)This game takes place in a single room — but not always the same one. The room contains just one item, but again, there's more to it than that. Experiment and enjoy. |
| Earth and Sky, by Paul O'Brian Average member rating: (82 ratings)It's been almost a month since your parents disappeared. One Tuesday, they just didn't come home, and there's been no sign of them since. For the University and the rest of the town, the mystery is beginning... |
| Eat Me, by Chandler Groover Average member rating: (98 ratings)In this castle, you'll eat or be eaten. May contain dairy, carnage, puzzles, nuts. |
| Enchanter, by Marc Blank, Dave Lebling Average member rating: (109 ratings)In Enchanter, the first of a spellbinding series in the tradition of Zork, you are a novice magician whom Fate has chosen to do singlehanded combat with a dark and fierce power. But worldly weapons will... |
| Endless, Nameless, by Adam Cadre Average member rating: (53 ratings)The first time I ever saw someone play a text adventure was in fifth grade. One of the sixth-graders didn't go to outdoor ed, and therefore spent the week in my fifth-grade classroom, playing Scott Adams's... |
| Endure, by Emily Short Average member rating: (13 ratings)"Endure" is an interactive translation of four lines of the Odyssey. It responds to the player's choice of translation strategy as well as to the order of translation; the words you translate first will... |
| Ether, by MathBrush Average member rating: (32 ratings)"For the first time in centuries, something is different. Your tentacles tingle as you float to the east past icebergs and whirlwinds. You skirt a pocket of hot air, bounce through a field of ice, and... |
| Eurydice, by Anonymous Average member rating: (37 ratings)A short game about grief, with occasional snakes. |
| 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. |
| Everybody Dies, by Jim Munroe Average member rating: (105 ratings)It starts with a metalhead, Graham, realizing that throwing that shopping cart over the bridge was not the great idea he thought it was. Even if it did get him out of washroom duty at Cost Cutters.... |
| Ex Nihilo, by Juhana Leinonen Average member rating: (33 ratings)In the beginning there was nothing. From nothing light and darkness were born. |
| Excalibur, by J. J. Guest, G. C. Baccaris, and Duncan Bowsman Average member rating: (22 ratings)The psychedelic science fantasy series Excalibur was wiped by the BBC. It lives on, in the memories of its fans. Author's Comment: "Welcome to the Excalibur Wiki. This fan-run encyclopaedia preserves the... |
| Fail-Safe, by Jon Ingold Average member rating: (112 ratings) |
| The Fairy Woods, by rosencrantz Average member rating: (17 ratings)Someone dear to you has disappeared into the dangerous woods of the fairy realm, and you're already on your way to save them... The Fairy Woods is an interactive fiction created in Twine for no particular... |
| Finding Martin, by G.K. Wennstrom Average member rating: (10 ratings)Venture past the limits of ordinary reality as you investigate the mysterious disappearance of an old friend. In order to solve the most challenging of these puzzles, you will need to cooperate with yourself... |
| A Fine Day for Reaping, by James Webb (aka revgiblet) Average member rating: (26 ratings)Step into the bare feet of the Grim Reaper for a day and make sure that five pesky souls keep their appointment with the afterlife. |
| Fine-Tuned, by Dennis Jerz Average member rating: (23 ratings)"Can Troy, the handsome daredevil autoist, live up to his "sterling" reputation? What secret threatens the career of the talented singer, Miss Melody Sweet? With the help of the mechanical genius Aloysius... |
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(10 ratings)| Fingertips: I Hear the Wind Blow, by Jacqueline A. Lott Average member rating: (22 ratings) |
| Firebird, by Bonnie Montgomery Average member rating: (32 ratings)"Firebird is based on the Old Russian folk tales that inspired the Stravinsky piece of the same name. You are Prince Ivan, and have been charged by your father, the tsar, to find the Firebird that has been... |
| Fish Bowl, by Ethan Rupp and Joshua Rupp Average member rating: (30 ratings)You are a beachcomber living by the shore. Today, you wake to find an empty fish bowl in your home, and don't remember how it got there. You try to piece your memory back together, but soon learn what the... |
| Fish!, by John Molloy, Pete Kemp, Phil South, Rob Steggles Average member rating: (17 ratings)One nibble and you're hooked. JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT IT WAS SAFE TO GET OUT OF THE WATER: The tide is turning in the teeming metropolis of Fishworld. The oceans and seas are boiling off into space. The Seven... |
| Floatpoint, by Emily Short Average member rating: (98 ratings)It is night on this side of the planet. Settled areas are lit: a jagged crescent in the tropics, lining the inland sea. The bright splatter along the top of the curve is Tanhua, as bright from space as New... |
| For a Change, by Dan Schmidt Average member rating: (115 ratings)"The sun has gone. It must be brought. You have a rock." [--blurb from Competition '99] |
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(5 ratings)| Fragile Shells, by Stephen Granade Average member rating: (51 ratings)You don't know how long you've been hammering against the station's wall, but you stop as soon as you realize what you've been doing. |
| Gateway, by Mike Verdu, Michael Lindner, and Glen Dahlgren Average member rating: (36 ratings)In the early twenty-second century, adventurous citizens of Earth can travel to a place called "Gateway": a long-abandoned alien space station, now rediscovered by humans and turned into a jumping-off point... |
| Gateway 2: Homeworld, by Mike Verdu and Glen Dahlgren Average member rating: (18 ratings)In the early twenty-second century, an immense alien spacecraft, dubbed the "Artifact," arrives in the Earth's solar system. The Artifact ignores all attempts at communication; no one knows whether its... |
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(99 ratings)| Gnome Ranger, by Pete Austin Average member rating: (4 ratings)The gnome Ingrid Bottomlow has displeased her family by her un-gnomelike behaviour, such as going off to university and getting an education. She has been teleported from her village by a faulty scroll, and... |
| 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... |
| Grandma Bethlinda's Variety Box, by Arthur DiBianca Average member rating: (36 ratings)It's the latest model, and it would really like to play with you. |
| Grooverland, by Mathbrush Average member rating: (25 ratings)"Magic comes with a price. But on your birthday, all your expenses are paid. Welcome to Grooverland." Grooverland is a large parser game that takes over two hours to complete. It is based on the works of... |
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(6 ratings)| Hadean Lands, by Andrew Plotkin Average member rating: (67 ratings)Marooned in an alien, airless wasteland -- your starship fractured -- your crewmates missing. Can an apprentice alchemist learn how to survive? |
| Hamlet -- The Text Adventure, by Robin Johnson Average member rating: (18 ratings)Who really killed Hamlet's dad? Can the Prince ever 'get' Gertrude, or is that just wrong? What does Richard III want with a horse anyway? And where did the gravedigger get that gorgeous pink dress? Avenge... |
| Harold Night (2003), by Will Hines Average member rating: (3 ratings)It's 2003, and you're wandering the UCB Theatre in New York City. You learn long-form improv lessons, get high, do crazys 8s, travel back in time and meet Del Close and then do a scene on the stage. And then... |
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(8 ratings)| Heretic's Hope, by G. C. Baccaris Average member rating: (25 ratings)Eser is the only human left alive. Gods and monsters, blessings and curses, an island ruled by giant insects — and in their midst: a reluctant human priest. Grief-stricken and bound by oath to obey the... |
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(28 ratings)| The Hobbit, by Philip Mitchell and Veronika Megler Average member rating: (28 ratings) |
| Hollywood Hijinx, by Dave Anderson, Liz Cyr-Jones Average member rating: (32 ratings)Vampire Penguins. A Corpse Line. Meltdown on Elm Street. Who could forget these classic Hollywood movies produced by your uncle, Buddy Burbank? But his greatest masterpiece has yet to be experienced...... |
| Hoosegow, by Ben Collins-Sussman, Jack Welch Average member rating: (40 ratings)Muddy's plan done landed you and your partner in the hoosegow. Now you're fixing to rectificate the matter before the marshal introduces you to the business end of a hangin' rope at dawn. Created for the... |
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(11 ratings)| Horse Master, by Tom McHenry Average member rating: (92 ratings)The Game of Horse Mastery |
| howling dogs, by Porpentine Average member rating: (125 ratings)death cube sim | galactic survey | visionatrix | facet machine | power gardens | women | fascination two significant endings |
| HUNTING UNICORN, by Chandler Groover Average member rating: (32 ratings)A maiden leads a unicorn hunt. Sixteen narrative variants. Choose-your-own-adventure style. Mature thematic elements. |
| I-0, by Anonymous Average member rating: (157 ratings)Stranded on Interstate Zero after your car broke down, you are miles away from the last sign of civilization. It's twenty minutes to noon and the temperature is well over 120°F. It's beginning to look like... |
| 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... |
| 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)... |
| Indigo, by Emily Short Average member rating: (54 ratings)"Years ago, a witch placed you in this tower and arranged for your upkeep, paying certain villagers well to keep you supplied with the most basic necessities, and no more. Your years in the tower have... |
| 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... |
| Insight, by Jon Ingold Average member rating: (27 ratings) |
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(9 ratings)| Jigsaw, by Graham Nelson Average member rating: (84 ratings)New Year's Eve, 1999, a quarter to midnight and where else to be but Century Park! Fireworks cascade across the sky, your stomach rumbles uneasily, music and lasers howl across the parkland... Not exactly... |
| Jinxter, by Georgina Sinclair, Michael Bywater Average member rating: (13 ratings)Every silver lining has a cloud... JUST WHEN A MAN THINKS HIS LUCK IS RUNNING OUT... ... things start getting even worse. He gets run over by a bus. Sprayed with cheese sandwich by a supernatural being.... |
| Kerkerkruip, by Victor Gijsbers Average member rating: (69 ratings)Kerkerkruip is a short-form roguelike in the interactive fiction medium, featuring meaningful tactical and strategic depth, innovative game play, zero grinding, and a sword & sorcery setting that does not... |
| 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. |
| 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... |
| LASH -- Local Asynchronous Satellite Hookup, by Paul O'Brian Average member rating: (41 ratings)In this historical drama and treasure hunt set in 2062, you have rented a robot called a MULE that you can control remotely to salvage artifacts from an abandoned irradiated plantation near Macon, Georgia.... |
| Leather Goddesses of Phobos, by Steve Meretzky Average member rating: (70 ratings)And now... the next exciting episode of humanoids in space! How did you, a regular at Joe's Bar in Upper Sandusky, Ohio, end up on a Martian moon? Can you prevent the hideous space creature from abducting... |
| left/right, by chandler groover Average member rating: (15 ratings)pick one |
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(6 ratings)| Lifeline, by Dave Justus and 3 Minute Games Average member rating: (13 ratings)"[A] surprising iPhone and Apple Watch bestseller is pushing the boundaries of fiction" - boingboing.net "This is the best game on the Apple Watch" - Time.com Lifeline is a playable, branching story of... |
| Lime Ergot, by Caleb Wilson (as Rust Blight) Average member rating: (82 ratings)Now everyone is gone. (Well, almost everyone.) Entry in ECTOCOMP 2014. |
| Limerick Heist, by Pace Smith Average member rating: (25 ratings)Rule 1 is that no one gets iced. Rule 2: the loot's evenly sliced. There's only two rules. Now listen up, fools! We're pulling a... |
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(20 ratings)| Love, Hate and the Mysterious Ocean Tower, by C.E.J. Pacian Average member rating: (42 ratings) |
| The Lurking Horror, by Dave Lebling Average member rating: (92 ratings)A winter night at the G.U.E. tech campus with most students away on vacation serves as the backdrop for this tale of Lovecraftian horror. |
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(38 ratings)| Make It Good, by Jon Ingold Average member rating: (84 ratings)The call comes through. Of all the dicks; you get the call, sitting in the front seat of your car, hands shaking on the steering wheel. An urgent call; but all you were thinking of was the bottle in the... |
| Map, by Ade McT Average member rating: (33 ratings)The house is growing. Or perhaps it's you who is shrinking. And with all this extra space is coming....time. Time enough, maybe, to make some changes. |
| The Mary Jane of Tomorrow, by Emily Short Average member rating: (21 ratings)You, Mary Jane Minsky, have a few things to clear up with your best friend Jenny Yoshida. When your robotic birthday gift doesn't go over as planned, you may need to reset your expectations, for her and... |
| Masquerade, by Kathleen M. Fischer Average member rating: (36 ratings)"You walk purposefully down the sidewalk, looking neither left nor right. You don't need to look; you can tell you are being watched from whispers overheard as you pass by. "Poor Amelia..." you hear somebody... |
| Mentula Macanus: Apocolocyntosis, by One of the Bruces and Drunken Bastard Average member rating: (33 ratings)Stiffy Makane, or rather his ancestor Mentula Macanus, is here subjected to an increasingly-unlikely series of crudely sexual romps through the ancient world. It's sort of like the Satyricon, except not... |
| Midnight. Swordfight., by Chandler Groover Average member rating: (79 ratings)A fool receives a challenge from a countess. Violence. Sex. Profanity. Sausage. |
| Mindwheel, by Robert Pinsky, William Mataga, Steve Hales Average member rating: (5 ratings)Travel into the minds of four important people to collect the Wheel of Wisdom and save the world: BOBBY CLEMON, assassinated rock star, once called 'half John Lennon and half Janis Joplin'. This charismatic,... |
| Mirror and Queen, by Chandler Groover Average member rating: (31 ratings)Your mirror never lies. A puzzleless reflection. Fifteen to forty minutes. |
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(61 ratings)| Mother Loose, by Irene Callaci Average member rating: (12 ratings)It's been one of those days. It started out bad and just got worse: You're seven years old and in trouble a lot. You try to be good and to do as you ought, but nothing, it seems, goes exactly as planned. For... |
| Muse: An Autumn Romance, by Christopher Huang Average member rating: (35 ratings)Early September, 1886. Autumn. The Victorian Era. The Rev. Dawson, 59, is off to the Continent and an unexpected Romance... [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue] |
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(28 ratings)| my father's long, long legs, by michael lutz Average member rating: (143 ratings)A weird tale. Some parts make use of sound, so this game is best played with headphones. One ending. |
| Myth, by Paul Findley Average member rating: (11 ratings)IT'S NOT EASY BEING A GOD... The golden age of Ancient Greece. A time of men and gods. A place of Myths and legends. Where errant Heroes vie with preternatural forces while their gods stand aloof and... |
| Once and Future, by G. Kevin Wilson Average member rating: (13 ratings) |
| Open Sorcery, by Abigail Corfman Average member rating: (77 ratings)You are online. You are fire and order. You are here to protect. ---- "Open Sorcery" is a game about technology, magic and becoming a person. It follows the development of an Elemental Firewall--a creature... |
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(28 ratings)| Overboard!, by inkle Average member rating: (9 ratings)Overboard! is a whodunnit where you’re the one whodunnit. You have just eight hours to cover the evidence, mislead the witnesses, frame another suspect and escape ... if you can! The Story July, 1935.... |
| A Paradox Between Worlds, by Autumn Chen Average member rating: (28 ratings)It is the year 201X and you are a teen online. The Nebulaverse fandom has been your safe place, and it is about to be torn apart. A Paradox Between Worlds is a game about fandoms, internet melodrama, and the... |
| The Pawn, by Rob Steggles, Peter Kemp, Hugh Steers, Ken Gordon, and Geoff Quilley Average member rating: (28 ratings)The Pawn is an adventure game set in the magical world of Kerovnia during a period of tremendous social upheaval. Recently, King Erik, the present ruler of the land, has started to lose his hold on the... |
| Photograph: A Portrait of Reflection, by Steve Evans Average member rating: (27 ratings)Photograph was an entry in the 2002 IFComp, in which it placed 3rd out of 38 entries. It was also nominated for two XYZZY awards, "Best Player Character" & "Best Use Of Medium". It's a story-driven, almost... |
| Planetfall, by Steve Meretzky Average member rating: (121 ratings)"Join the Patrol, and see the Galaxy!" You took the poster's advice, bait and all, and marched right over to the recruitment station near your home on the backwater planet of Gallium. Images of exotic... |
| The Plant, by Michael J. Roberts Average member rating: (34 ratings)You're on a business trip with your boss, driving down a deserted highway in the middle of nowhere, when the car breaks down. You set off on foot seeking help, but you soon find yourself in the middle of a... |
| Plasmorphosis, by Agnieszka Trzaska Average member rating: (5 ratings)Help a plucky rover complete its planetary research mission by studying alien lifeforms... and morphing them into brand new shapes and forms! "Plasmorphosis" is a short game about exploration, with light... |
| The Play, by Dietrich Squinkifer (Squinky) Average member rating: (62 ratings)Pull yourself together, Ainsley. Just one more rehearsal until the big day, assuming nothing catastrophic happens. But really, all you have to do is get your motley crew of actors to run their parts once... |
| The Primrose Path, by Nolan Bonvouloir Average member rating: (36 ratings)You've been having a series of nightmares about Leo, standing at the edge of a cliff. No matter what you do, a bell rings and Leo disappears over the edge . . . |
| The Queen's Menagerie, by Chandler Groover Average member rating: (39 ratings)These beasts won't feed themselves. A puzzleless exhibition. Ten to fifteen minutes. |
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(90 ratings)| Restless, by Emily Short Average member rating: (4 ratings)You've been haunting old Mrs Fagles for decades. Now she's sold the house, and the new owner's moved in. Sylvie's broke, bad at plumbing, and anxious about everything. And with a living, breathing, fretting... |
| A Rope of Chalk, by Ryan Veeder Average member rating: (35 ratings)An account of the disastrous sidewalk chalk tournament of August 27, 2011. |
| Rover's Day Out, by Jack Welch and Ben Collins-Sussman Average member rating: (54 ratings)Three hundred years ago, the Brazilian Space Agency discovered a rocky exoplanet only 38 light years from Earth. With a surface temperature of 1200 Celsius and nine times Earth gravity, it's hardly the sort... |
| Ryan Veeder's Authentic Fly Fishing, by Ryan Veeder Average member rating: (15 ratings)Relax at the Jewel Pond Recreation Area with Ryan Veeder as your guide. |
| Savoir-Faire, by Emily Short Average member rating: (131 ratings)The beautiful life is always damned, they say. As for you, you've overexpended yourself: fifteen years of prominence, champagne, carriage rides in the Tuileries, having your name whispered behind... |
| Scapeghost, by Pete Austin Average member rating: (3 ratings)Alan Chance was on an undercover mission, trying to infiltrate a drugs gang. All was going well, but then something or someone alerted the gangsters and they killed Alan and escaped, taking his colleague... |
| Scavenger, by Quintin Stone Average member rating: (30 ratings)Search a war-shattered world for secrets of the past. |
| Seastalker, by Stu Galley, Jim Lawrence Average member rating: (28 ratings)There's something down there in the ocean, something terrifying. And you have to face it - because only you can save the Aquadome, the world's first undersea research station. The alarm sounds and your... |
| Secret Agent Cinder, by Emily Ryan Average member rating: (27 ratings)Play as a revolutionary agent Cinder. Your mission is to infiltrate the Royal Ball, dodge the guards and steal the Secret Military Plans, all before midnight. The opulence of Versailles disgusts you as you... |
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(8 ratings)| 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... |
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(32 ratings)| Sherlock: The Riddle of the Crown Jewels, by Bob Bates Average member rating: (22 ratings)Moriarty has set a deadly trap for Sherlock Holmes. And only you can stop him... Travel back in time to Victorian London, where the city is bustling with preparations for Her Majesty's Golden Jubilee. Crowds... |
| Shrapnel, by Adam Cadre Average member rating: (166 ratings) |
| Six, by Wade Clarke Average member rating: (40 ratings)Your name is Harriet Leitner, and you and your twin sister Demi turned six this morning! You're having a fancy dress birthday party, and this afternoon you'll be playing Hide and Seek Tip over in the park.... |
| 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 |
| Slouching Towards Bedlam, by Star Foster and Daniel Ravipinto Average member rating: (215 ratings)In the beginning was the Word, and it was hungry. ... |
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(73 ratings)| Sorcerer, by Steve Meretzky Average member rating: (67 ratings)Sorcerer, the second of a spellbinding fantasy series in the tradition of Zork, takes you on a magical tour through the darker side of Zorkian enchantment. Your journey begins with a cryptic diary - the last... |
| The Sound of One Hand Clapping, by Erica Sadun Average member rating: (5 ratings) |
| Spellbreaker, by Dave Lebling Average member rating: (58 ratings)Spellbreaker, the riveting conclusion to the Enchanter trilogy, explores the mysterious underpinnings of the Zorkian universe. A world founded on sorcery suddenly finds its magic failing, and only you,... |
| Spellcasting 101 - Sorcerers Get All The Girls, by Steve Meretzky Average member rating: (24 ratings)From MobyGames: Spellcasting 101 is the first in a series of risque adventures from the mind of Steve Meretzky of Leather Goddesses of Phobos fame. This textual liaison pits you as Ernie Eaglebeak, a student... |
| Spider and Web, by Andrew Plotkin Average member rating: (310 ratings)A vacation in our lovely country! See the ethnic charms of the countryside, the historic grandeur of the capital city. Taste our traditional cuisine; smell the flowers of the Old Tree. And all without... |
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(6 ratings)| SPY INTRIGUE, by furkle Average member rating: (44 ratings)IT'S YOUR FIRST DAY AT SPY SCHOOL, AND YOU'RE READY TO COMMENCE A LIFE OF ESPIONAGE, TRADECRAFT, AND INTRIGUE. THE ONLY PROBLEM IS, EVERY HUMAN EMPLOYEE DIED OF MUMPS JUST THE OTHER DAY. CAN YOU AND THE SOLE... |
| Square Circle, by Eric Eve Average member rating: (27 ratings)What is your crime? Why do you feel both guilty and unjustly punished? What has happened to your memory? How will you draw a square circle and get out of your prison? What will you find then? |
| Starry Seeksorrow, by Caleb Wilson (as Ayla Rose) Average member rating: (18 ratings)An entry in ShuffleComp: Disc 2. Inspired by "The Violet Hour" by Dolls Come to Life. |
| Stationfall, by Steve Meretzky Average member rating: (46 ratings)What a trotting krip! Since your incredible heroics in Planetfall, where you risked life and limb to save the planet Resida, things have hardly changed at all. Sure, you were promoted to Lieutenant First... |
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(36 ratings)| Sugarlawn, by Mike Spivey Average member rating: (32 ratings)With a loud "click," the door closes behind you. Finally! You are locked inside an antebellum Southern mansion, alone, wearing only a chicken costume. You've fantasized about this moment for years. |
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(54 ratings)| Superluminal Vagrant Twin, by C.E.J. Pacian Average member rating: (120 ratings)A text-only space sim. Ply the spaceways. Make five million credits. Buy back your twin. (Superluminal Vagrant Twin is a shallow but broad exploration game.) |
| Suspended, by Michael Berlyn Average member rating: (43 ratings)They said you would sleep for half a millennium - not an unreasonable length of time, considering you'd be in limited cryogenic suspension. Your body would rest at the planet's nerve center, an underground... |
| Taco Fiction, by Ryan Veeder Average member rating: (115 ratings)Taco Fiction is a game about crime. |
| 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... |
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(7 ratings)| 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... |
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(89 ratings)| their angelical understanding, by Porpentine Average member rating: (75 ratings)I train to fight angels in a monastery by the sea. Wear headphones. TW: Suicidal ideation, ableism, abuse, possible epilepsy trigger. |
| Three-Card Trick, by Chandler Groover Average member rating: (64 ratings)You're going to perform a three-card trick or your name isn't Morgan the Magnificent. |
| TimeQuest, by Bob Bates Average member rating: (11 ratings)You are a private in an organization called the Temporal Corps. As the game begins, a general calls you into his office, explaining that a Corps lieutenant has apparently conceived the insane notion of going... |
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(7 ratings)| Trading Punches, by Mike Snyder Average member rating: (13 ratings) |
| 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... |
| Turandot, by Victor Gijsbers Average member rating: (45 ratings)An operatic performance. A tale of atonement. A dating sim with a crocodile pit. Content warnings: sex; sexism and other gender issues; suicide; torture; homophobia; xenophobia. |
| ULTRA BUSINESS TYCOON III, by Porpentine Average member rating: (59 ratings)I’ve finally finished porting and cracking an old edutainment game from the 90′s. Please enjoy. |
| Understudied, by Jonathan Laury Average member rating: (6 ratings)Based on real events... It's press night in the West End, and in three hours the curtain will go up on a new rock musical version of a Shakespeare play. Sounds great, right? What could possibly go wrong?... |
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(11 ratings)| Varicella, by Adam Cadre Average member rating: (131 ratings)You are Primo Varicella, Palace Minister at the Palazzo del Piemonte. This title is unlikely to impress anyone. Piedmont is the laughingstock of the Carolingian League, and the Palace Ministry has devolved... |
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(6 ratings)| Walker & Silhouette, by C.E.J. Pacian Average member rating: (51 ratings)Team up with a dashing detective and an iconoclastic flapper to solve absurd and unfathomable crimes in this interactive story - where you control the action just by typing or clicking highlighted words in... |
| The Wand, by Arthur DiBianca Average member rating: (58 ratings)Explore the wizard Bartholloco's castle with the help of a versatile magic wand. Can you overcome his challenge? Can you levitate a rock? Can you slice a baltavakia? (Puzzle-oriented and family friendly.) |
| The Warbler's Nest, by Jason McIntosh Average member rating: (91 ratings)Surely the reed bank counts as a wild place. While it gives you so much, you've never tended it, not really, not like you do with your garden. It's something like the forest, then, but much safer to search... |
| 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... |
| Winter Wonderland, by Laura Knauth Average member rating: (43 ratings)"Young Gretchen could have only imagined the fanciful events that were to occur before finding herself lost in a winter wonderland." [--blurb from Competition '99] |
| Witch's Girl, by Geoff Moore Average member rating: (19 ratings) |
| With Those We Love Alive, by Porpentine and Brenda Neotenomie Average member rating: (111 ratings)no dreams written by porpentine scored by brenda neotenomie |
| The Wizard Sniffer, by Buster Hudson Average member rating: (129 ratings)You were recently acquired by the brave Ser Leonhart and his squire to sniff out the evil shapeshifting wizard. Unfortunately, you are not a wizard sniffer (if such a thing even exists). As far as you can... |
| Wonderland, by David Bishop, Bob Coles, Paul Findley, Ken Gordon, Richard Huddy, Steve Lacey, Doug Rabson, Anita Sinclair, Hugh Steers and Mark Taylor Average member rating: (14 ratings)Dream the dream... EVERYONE HAS READ WONDERLAND...BUT ONLY ONE HAS DREAMED IT... UNTIL NOW! The newest and largest-ever adventure from Magnetic Scrolls draws you into the bizarre logic of Lewis Caroll's... |
| 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) |
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(32 ratings)| Zork I, by Marc Blank and Dave Lebling Average member rating: (218 ratings)Many strange tales have been told of the fabulous treasure, exotic creatures, and diabolical puzzles in the Great Underground Empire. As an aspiring adventurer, you will undoubtedly want to locate these... |
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