salty-horse's Played Games
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| 69,105 Keys, by David Welbourn Average member rating:  (80 ratings)There's just one room. How hard can it be? Just unlock the door. Oh. There's 69,105 keys. |
| 9:05, by Adam Cadre Average member rating: (535 ratings)The phone rings. Oh, no — how long have you been asleep? Sure, it was a tough night, but... This is bad. This is very bad. The phone rings. |
| Academic Pursuits (As Opposed To Regular Pursuits), by ruqiyah Average member rating: (25 ratings)Dear Ms. ████████ We are delighted to offer you a position in our architecture department. After your application and interview we are confident you will really sink your teeth into this role. Your new... |
| Advent Mirror, by Andrew Plotkin Average member rating: (6 ratings)"You had no idea where the portal would take you. That's life in the City of Doors. One more step as always." Created for the Confounding Calendar 2022. |
| Aisle, by Sam Barlow Average member rating: (322 ratings)"Late Thursday night. You've had a hard day and the last thing you need is this: shopping. Luckily, the place is pretty empty and you're progressing rapidly. On to the next aisle... Aisle started out as a... |
| 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... |
| 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:... |
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(19 ratings)| Byzantine Perspective, by Lea Albaugh Average member rating: (56 ratings)Your task is simple enough. Just nab the chalice. |
| 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... |
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(37 ratings)| A Colder Light, by Jon Ingold Average member rating: (18 ratings)The last light has gone. The stars are coming out in the black sea above. Many are hidden by ice-fingered winds. My father is still not returned and the fire is almost gone. But this is how life is: always... |
| 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. |
| CYBERQUEEN, by Porpentine Average member rating: (64 ratings)integration necessitates evisceration |
| Death off the Cuff, by Simon Christiansen Average member rating: (53 ratings)They all stare at you expectantly, like children waiting to be told a bedtime story. Who can blame them? You are, after all, Antoine Saint Germain, the great French detective. No criminal has ever been a... |
| Delightful Wallpaper, by Andrew Plotkin ('Edgar O. Weyrd') Average member rating: (78 ratings) |
| Dominique Pamplemousse - It's All Over Once The Fat Lady Sings!, by Dietrich Squinkifer (Squinky) Average member rating: (8 ratings)Dominique Pamplemousse-- It's All Over Once The Fat Lady Sings! is a unique and offbeat stop motion animated detective adventure game about gender and the economy. Also, all the characters frequently burst... |
| Don't Read the Comments, by Ashton Raze Average member rating: (14 ratings)Short, amusing riff on the niche-audience building capabilities of the internet and the problems with comments. |
| 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. |
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(29 ratings)| Eric the Unready, by Bob Bates Average member rating: (40 ratings)A tongue-in-cheek graphic text adventure/point and click adventure hybrid. You are a chivalrous knight attempting to save a princess; your quest takes you through a mad-cap Douglas Adams-style world. |
| 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.... |
| 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] |
| 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. |
| Gaucho - An Interactive Geek Western, by Dave Bernazzani, Steven Robert, Jason Hanks Average member rating: (6 ratings)Gaucho was written for the RPG Geek / BoardGameGeek site-wide adventure project. Nearly 500 players worked their way through this game in the first full week of August, 2012. Gaucho was written by Dave... |
| Guilded Youth, by Jim Munroe Average member rating: (49 ratings)You play Tony, a fourteen-year old thief who needs some help looting the legendary Oakville Manor. Luckily it's the 1980s and finding fellow adventurers is just a modem squeal away... |
| Hoist Sail for the Heliopause and Home, by Andrew Plotkin Average member rating: (84 ratings)A far-future story of discovery. |
| 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... |
| howling dogs, by Porpentine Average member rating: (125 ratings)death cube sim | galactic survey | visionatrix | facet machine | power gardens | women | fascination two significant endings |
| 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... |
| 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)... |
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(19 ratings)| Lock & Key, by Adam Cadre Average member rating: (77 ratings) |
| Lost Pig, by Admiral Jota salty-horse's rating: Average member rating: (492 ratings)Pig lost! Boss say that it Grunk fault. Say Grunk forget about closing gate. Maybe boss right. Grunk not remember forgetting, but maybe Grunk just forget. -- IFComp 2007 blurb |
| Photopia, by Adam Cadre Average member rating: (558 ratings)"Will you read me a story?" "Read you a story? What fun would that be? I've got a better idea: let's tell a story together." |
| 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 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... |
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(90 ratings)| Sand-dancer, by Aaron Reed and Alexei Othenin-Girard Average member rating: (23 ratings)It figures that your pickup would die on a night like this and leave you stranded in the dark New Mexico desert. But nothing else figures about this night, man. Nothing at all. An example game for Aaron... |
| Shade, by Andrew Plotkin Average member rating: (413 ratings)"A one-room game set in your apartment." [--blurb from Competition Aught-Zero] |
| 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.... |
| Slouching Towards Bedlam, by Star Foster and Daniel Ravipinto Average member rating: (215 ratings)In the beginning was the Word, and it was hungry. ... |
| Suveh Nux, by David Fisher Average member rating: (225 ratings)An entry in the 2007 One Room Game Competition. You play a magician's servant who gets trapped in your master's vault; you'll need to learn some of his tricks if you want to get out. |
| Thaumistry: In Charm's Way, by Bob Bates Average member rating: (16 ratings)Thaum: (noun). A unit of magical energy Bodge: (verb). To hack or kludge Eric Knight was a child prodigy who was featured on the cover of Invent! Magazine at the age of 13 for his invention of an anti-stain... |
| To Hell in a Hamper, by J. J. Guest Average member rating: (112 ratings)Professor Pettibone, eminent Victorian balloonist, has a problem. He can't get it up. His balloon that is. If he can't reach an altitude of 20,000 feet, and soon, both he and his mysterious travelling... |
| TOMBs of Reschette, by Richard Goodness Average member rating: (13 ratings)Hello, young adventurer! If you're looking for the finest treasure, monster, and exploration experience around, why not come on down to the TOMBs of Reschette! --Earn XP, Dubloons, and Gems, like any good... |
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(17 ratings)| Violet, by Jeremy Freese salty-horse's rating: Average member rating: (383 ratings)Calm down. All you have to do is write a thousand words and everything will be fine. And you have all day, except it's already noon. [blurb from IF Comp 2008] |
| 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... |
| 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... |
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