The Year Is Yesterday's Played Games

9:05, by Adam Cadre The Year Is Yesterday's rating: 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.

The Act of Misdirection, by Callico Harrison The Year Is Yesterday's rating: 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...

Ad Verbum, by Nick Montfort The Year Is Yesterday's rating: 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...

Aisle, by Sam Barlow The Year Is Yesterday's rating: 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...

Attack of the Terror Tabby!!!, by Eric Mayer
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Average member rating: (10 ratings)

Beanstalk the and Jack, by David Welbourn The Year Is Yesterday's rating: Average member rating: (4 ratings) The story of "Jack and the Beanstalk" - but backwards!

Bigger Than You Think, by Andrew Plotkin The Year Is Yesterday's rating: 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:...

Blue Lacuna, by Aaron A. Reed The Year Is Yesterday's rating: 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...

A Change in the Weather, by Andrew Plotkin
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Average member rating: (69 ratings)

Coloratura, by Lynnea Glasser The Year Is Yesterday's rating: 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.

Counterfeit Monkey, by Emily Short The Year Is Yesterday's rating: 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...

The Day I stabbed Stalin, by Marius Müller
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Average member rating: (4 ratings)

Deadline Enchanter, by Alan DeNiro The Year Is Yesterday's rating: Average member rating: (58 ratings)

Death off the Cuff, by Simon Christiansen The Year Is Yesterday's rating: 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') The Year Is Yesterday's rating: Average member rating: (78 ratings)

The Dog/House, by Byron Alexander Campbell The Year Is Yesterday's rating: Average member rating: (9 ratings) A slight revision of the author's first foray into interactive fiction, "The Dog/House" is a dream-like exploration game on a very small scale. Discover the goal for yourself. Release 2 includes improved...

The Dreamhold, by Andrew Plotkin The Year Is Yesterday's rating: 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...

Dual Transform, by Andrew Plotkin The Year Is Yesterday's rating: 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.

Fail-Safe, by Jon Ingold The Year Is Yesterday's rating: Average member rating: (112 ratings)

Hadean Lands, by Andrew Plotkin The Year Is Yesterday's rating: 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?

Hoist Sail for the Heliopause and Home, by Andrew Plotkin The Year Is Yesterday's rating: Average member rating: (84 ratings) A far-future story of discovery.

Hunter, in Darkness, by Andrew Plotkin
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Average member rating: (122 ratings)

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...

Lost Pig, by Admiral Jota The Year Is Yesterday'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

The Matter of the Monster, by Andrew Plotkin
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Average member rating: (21 ratings)