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16 Ways to Kill a Vampire at McDonalds, by Abigail Corfman
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You're a vampire hunter on your night off. You're getting a manicure, seeing a movie, and eating fast food. But there's a vampire in this McDonalds. If you don't do something, then in one hour it will eat...

5 Minutes to Burn Something!, by Alex Butterfield
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You're great at burning bridges and midnight oil, but figurative fire can't save you now.

Ad Verbum, by Nick Montfort
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"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...

Aether Apeiron: The Zephyra Chronicles, by Hippodamus & Company
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To understand the life of Zephyra, my Parthenos and protector, I have to take you back many years. We need to return to Kyzikos, the heavily-wooded little moon that orbits Arctonnesus, the giant...

Ailihphilia, by Andrew Schultz (as N. Y. Llewellyn)
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No need for aibohphobia. It's polite on the Zarfian cruelty scale -and- will let you jump to the exciting conclusion if your 2-hour judging period is almost up!

The Airport, by Cascadian_Patriot
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AlethiCorp, by Simon Christiansen
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Do you have what it takes to be an Associate Information Management Consultant with one of the world's largest information management companies? Can you leverage synergies with the best to operationalize our...

All Things Devours, by half sick of shadows
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From the game's about command: "All Things Devours is a short piece of interactive fiction, leaning strongly towards the text-adventure end of the spectrum. It explores an all-too-familiar science fiction...
Alma Mater, by Roger Carbol
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The least you could do for your long-suffering mother is bring her a card once a year.
Almost Goodbye, by Aaron A Reed
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Almost Goodbye is an experiment in minimalist procedural content generation for interactive narratives. It does not try to generate a whole story or plot points from scratch, but instead asks what is the...

Andromeda Apocalypse — Extended Edition, by Marco Innocenti
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Floating in space on a strange vessel, sole survivor of a world... and maybe of the entire human race, Ektor Mastiff must find a way through the cosmos, on a voyage that can change the history of mankind...

Andromeda Awakening - The Final Cut, by Marco Innocenti
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The most important discovery in history. And then, the whole world goes crumbling down. Armed with but a computer and an expired railway ticket, how can one expect to save the day when the doomsday clock has...

Andromeda Dreaming, by Joey Jones
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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...

Antifascista, by Greg Farough
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A picture from life's other side.

Antiquest, by Anton Lastochkin
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Are you tired of fighting an annoying parser and unraveling strange puzzles? Come along, and you and the parser will fight together against logic and common sense! You won't be bored with this game's...

Arcane Intern (Unpaid), by Astrid Dalmady
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Getting coffee, making copies, tampering with powers beyond your control. You know, normal intern things. Now if only you were getting paid for it...

ASCII and the Argonauts, by J. Robinson Wheeler
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In this wonderfully laconic spoof of the Scott Adams style of adventures, you play as Jason of the Argo, tasked by King Pelias to bring the Golden Fleece to him or die. Surprisingly both entertaining and...

Augmented Fourth, by Brian Uri!
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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...

Autumn's Daughter, by Devolution Games
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The smallest choices have drastic consequences in this short story. Follow the girl as she tries to assert independence in a society that tries to cut her down.

The Baker of Shireton, by Hanon Ondricek
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You are the Baker of Shireton. The bread you bake is delicious. Raiders are coming.

A Beauty Cold and Austere, by Mike Spivey
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That survey course in conceptual mathematics seemed like a good idea at the start of the term - no graded homework, no midterm exams - just an oral final at the end. But now that final is tomorrow morning....

Bee, by Emily Short
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The story of a home-schooled girl preparing to compete in the national spelling bee, dealing with various small crises with family and friends, and gradually coming to terms with the clash of subcultures...

Begscape, by Porpentine
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highly randomized fantasy begging sim or bleak slot machine poem

Bell Park, Youth Detective, by Brendan Patrick Hennessy
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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.

Bigger Than You Think, by Andrew Plotkin
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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:...

Black Marker, by Michael Kielstra
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Hidden in the shadows, the Agency works for the safety of the citizens. If your goals or beliefs do not appear to align with those of the Agency, you are liable to find yourself in trouble. There are those...

Blue Lacuna, by Aaron A. Reed
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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...

Bookmoss, by Devon Guinn
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While researching for a novel, a bookworm dad brings his teenage daughter to Houghton Library, Harvard College’s primary repository of rare books and manuscripts. When they meet a strange set of twin...

Bronze, by Emily Short
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When the seventh day comes and it is time for you to return to the castle in the forest, your sisters cling to your sleeves.

Bugged, by Anssi Räisänen
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The conceit of this game is that your cousin has written a very buggy IF game that you are determined to play through to the end. Can you take advantage of the bugs in the game to get around the other bugs...

Building the Right Stuff, by Laura Mitchell
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Nobody likes to mention that space is boring, that's why the OC are willing to pay so much to send you into the great black to press a few buttons. At least they've given you a nice new AI to help you with...

Bullhockey!, by B F Lindsay
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Your girlfriend has left you, leaving disturbing notes. And she--oops--lost your laundry. In various places. Around town. You can't have her back. But you can try to get your laundry.

Byzantine Perspective, by Lea Albaugh
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Your task is simple enough. Just nab the chalice.

Can you stop Jeremy Corbyn from joining ISIS?, by Tom McNally and Ben Edwards
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You’re late for work again. You amble confidently down London’s Whitehall on the way to work. But what’s this? That looks like embattled Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn striding toward you. As always you’re...
Captain Cumshot's Second Adventure: The Rim Job, by Jake Wildstrom
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In the second installment of the Captain Cumshot series, the eponymous major (after a promotion) travels to the furthest reaches of the galaxy to repair a malfunctioning unmanned mining station. Except for...

Captain Verdeterre's Plunder, by Ryan Veeder
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You should carry the bag. I'm more of a delegator.

The Cardew House, by Andrew Brown
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Castle of the Red Prince, by C.E.J. Pacian
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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...

Changes, by David Given
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Chicken and Egg, by Adam Thornton
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"A pastiche of "Spider and Web", which see." [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue]

Coloratura, by Lynnea Glasser
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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.

Constraints, by Martin Bays
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Counterfeit Monkey, by Emily Short
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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...

Custard, by Evin Robertson
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Dad vs. Unicorn, by PaperBlurt
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A day like many others. Dad at the BBQ - his son in an empty house. Remembering childhood as well as adulthood. Disappointment fills the void between the two. A unicorn changes the day..

Darkiss! Wrath of the Vampire - Chapter 1: the Awakening, by Marco Vallarino
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You're the nightmare from which people can't wake. Dead twice. One by the hand of your maker, the second by the fiend who drove a stake through your heart while you were sleeping defenceless in your coffin....

A Day for Fresh Sushi, by Emily Short
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No time for fantasy. Must feed fish.

Dead Like Ants, by C.E.J. Pacian
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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...

Define Far, by N. B. Horvath
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Deshaun Steven's Ship Log, by Marie L. Vibbert
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Deshaun has spent his adult years - all five of them - working on a space cruise ship, setting light and sound cues for untalented Lido deck performers. Waking up hung-over on New Year's Day, he vows that...
Detective, by Matt Barringer
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"Often imitated, never equaled, an unvarnished port of Barringer's "Detective". [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue]

Detectiveland, by Robin Johnson
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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...

Dominique Pamplemousse - It's All Over Once The Fat Lady Sings!, by Dietrich Squinkifer (Squinky)
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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...

Downtown Tokyo, Present Day, by John Kean
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"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...

Dual Transform, by Andrew Plotkin
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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.

Eat Me, by Chandler Groover
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In this castle, you'll eat or be eaten. May contain dairy, carnage, puzzles, nuts.

The Editor, by Matthias Conrady
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You are the editor of a magazine. The next issue is coming up, you have to choose which stories to publish. This was an experiment trying to bring the Twine mechanics closer to the actual way people take...

Electrabot, by Woody Hunt
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The Entropy Cage, by Stormrose
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Sub-sentient computer programs 'subs' coordinate our future society. You, the first cyber-psychiatrist, are drawn into the sub's war for their next evolution. PLAYTIME: ~20mins FORMAT: standalone .html file....

Epitaph, by Max Kreminski
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idle game about existential risks and the death of civilizations

Escape From Summerland, by Joey Jones and Melvin Rangasamy
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Original Blurb: "In the near future a drone war rages in the skies, but below in Summerland there is only one thought: who's going to feed Jacquotte?" - Take Control of Three Characters each with their own...

Eurydice, by Anonymous
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A short game about grief, with occasional snakes.

Ex Nihilo, by Juhana Leinonen
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In the beginning there was nothing. From nothing light and darkness were born.

Excelsior, by Arthur DiBianca
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In this generic puzzlefest that uses a minimalist command set, you play as someone who finds and explores a very tall tower in a forest. There's no story here. Just solve the puzzles and reach the roof to...
Expedition, by Jonathan Rosebaugh
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Fail-Safe, by Jon Ingold
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Fallen 落葉 Leaves, by Adam Bredenberg and Danial Mohammed Khan-Yousufzai
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An interactive ghazal-sonnet on love and longing, fire and passion.

Fifteen Minutes, by Ade McT
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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...

A Figure Met in a Shaded Wood, by Michael Thomét
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In the country of Tuscary, near the town of Clarence, there is a path that runs through the woods and into the nearby mountains. There is a rumor that if you are walking the path at twilight on the night of...

Final Exam, by Jack Whitham
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Final Exam takes place in the near future after an AI revolution has led to the establishment of a new sort of government. You are seeking a job within this government: your performance in the “final exam”...

A Final Grind, by nrsm_ha
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Text-based RPG where your character becomes weaker over time. A game about frustration, regret, and slaying goblins. Use of a calculator is to be considered cheating.

Fingertips: Something Grabbed Ahold of My Hand, by Melvin Rangasamy
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You have been imprisoned but your crime can't have been that bad, as they're giving you a chance to escape- if you're smart enough! A one move parole board for Apollo 18+20: The IF Tribute Album.

Fish Bowl, by Ethan Rupp and Joshua Rupp
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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...

Fragile Shells, by Stephen Granade
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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.

A Freak Accident Leaves Seattle Pantsless III: Endgame, by Admiral Jota
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A Freak Accident Leaves Seattle Pantsless, by Christopher Huang
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Further, by Will Hines
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You are a collection of energy loosely held. You are an echo of a person. Something holds you here.

Galatea, by Emily Short
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Emily Short's description: A conversation with a work of art. "47. Galatea. White Thasos marble. Non-commissioned work by the late Pygmalion of Cyprus. (The artist has since committed suicide.) Originally...

The God Device, by Andy Joel
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What is in the blood-soaked envelope the archaeologist gave Tanya just before she died?

Goodbye Cruel Squirrel, by Extra Mayonnaise
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You are a gray squirrel in a suburban neighborhood. Your mission is to save your tribe from starvation. Enjoy the characters you meet, and be creative in solving puzzles.

Gourmet, by Aaron A. Reed and Chad Barb
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Missing employees, wily crustaceans, malfunctioning kitchen equipment and a terminal food shortage, all on the night the most important culinary critic in the world has chosen to review your debut...

Grimm's Godfather, by WaffleShuai
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This is a retelling based on the Grimm Brothers 'Godfather Death'. What happen if you didn’t choose the Grim Reaper as your godfather? How would your decision affect the story? As a Physician, who shall live...

Guilded Youth, by Jim Munroe
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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...

Gun Mute, by C.E.J. Pacian
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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...

Harmonia, by Liza Daly
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Fuller, A. (b. 1966, d.?) 12 chapters, edited by E. Merchant. 091 Manuscripts—096 Illustrated—098 Prohibited works, forgeries, and hoaxes Signed permission from the Dean required for viewing. No exceptions.

Heroes, by Sean Barrett
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"A most traditional CRPG experience." [--blurb from Competition Aught-One]

Hexteria Skaxis Qiameth, by Gabriel Floriano
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A dinner with your friend. Strange words. Stranger books.

HHH.exe, by Robot Parking
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The disk drive uttered a sickening crack as you tried to access it. Somehow, you were able to run the single program installed on it, HHH.exe. It's a game, apparently. By turns unfun and familiar; foolish...

Hill 160, by Mike Gerwat
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams and Steve Meretzky
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Don't Panic! Relax, because everything you need to know about playing The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is contained in the pages of this manual. In this story, you will be Arthur Dent, a rather ordinary...

Horse Master, by Tom McHenry
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The Game of Horse Mastery

The House at the End of Rosewood Street, by Michael Thomét
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The manor house at the end of Rosewood Street has been vacant for as long as you remember, but a notice in the local newspaper reports that the historic house has been sold. How will this newcomer affect the...

Housekey, Part I, by Ariën Holthuizen
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How to Win at Rock Paper Scissors, by Brian Kwak
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The disgrace and humiliation of last year's defeat is behind you. This time, with the help of the gods, you'll win this competition for sure.

howling dogs, by Porpentine
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death cube sim | galactic survey | visionatrix | facet machine | power gardens | women | fascination two significant endings

I Palindrome I, by Nick Montfort
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I Think The Waves Are Watching Me, by Bob McCabe
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In a mysterious, dream-like world, enormous tidal waves have surrounded an island -- trapping you along with many others. And then the killing starts. What are you going to do? Better decide quickly. You...
I Went to the WTO Ministerial Conference and All I Got Was This Souvenir Delegate From Mauritius, by Matthew Amster-Burton
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Icepunk, by pageboy
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"You are the sole remaining inhabitant of an artificial world above a bizarre, inhospitable earth. A feral child raised by robots, you have just discovered the central computer of your Habitat, and...

IFDB Spelunking, by Joey Jones
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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.

Impostor Syndrome, by Dietrich Squinkifer (Squinky)
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You're giving a talk at a big important tech conference. But do you really deserve to be here, or were you selected just to fill a diversity quota? Originally published under the name "Georgiana...
In a Manor of Speaking, by Hulk Handsome
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In a Manor of Speaking is a punny adventure set in the surreal world of Calembour. Journey through the bizarre Outlands, the bustling streets of Rudeville, and eventually find your way to the manor itself as...

Insignificant Little Vermin, by Filip Hracek
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Escape slavery in Mount Bloodrock, an underground enclave of orcs and goblins preparing for war. What will you discover in these dark caves? What mayhem can you wreak on your way out? And how will your...

Irvine Quik & the Search for the Fish of Traglea, by Duncan Bowsman
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Science fiction adventure! Extinction looms for the fish, people, and entire planet of Traglea. Can one bumbling space cadet rescue enough alien fish before too late? Can he learn the secret of Traglean...

ISIS, by Liz England
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You are ISIS, a space station. You have a crew of one. How long can you two keep each other company before someone snaps? This is a short (10 minute) Choose-Your-Own-Adventure game. It is not explicit, but...
The Island, by Old Andy
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Mysterious story...

It, by Emily Boegheim
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"The rules of the game are easy. I'm It, so I go and hide. You and the others count to 50, then you have to look for me. If you find me, you have to get into the hiding spot with me. If you're the last...

It's election time in Pakistan: Go rich boy, go!, by Jahanzaib Haque
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You're rich, you're privileged and high on democracy in an ultra-poor, ultra-conservative society! Are you ready to vote in the urban badlands of ol' Pakistan? Screw the terrorists, and damn the summer heat...

J'dal, by Ryan Kinsman
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Jacqueline, Jungle Queen!, by Steph Cherrywell
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You are Jacqueline McBean, modern woman for the Thirties and intrepid international correspondent for the Fresno Bee. The good news is that you're on your way to a plum assignment among the glitzy spires and...

jason finds fleece, by Gunther Schmidl
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In this IF abuse modeled after robot finds kitten, you play as Jason of the Argonauts, looking for the Golden Fleece. Jason is represented as a # symbol which you'll manuever around the screen using your...

Jesse Stavro's Doorway, by Marshal Tenner Winter
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Jordan is looking for his friend, Jesse, who is in hiding from the government. Picking up the trail, he discovers that Jesse is following the Grateful Dead on tour, but as Jordan immerses himself into the...

Kerkerkruip, by Victor Gijsbers
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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...

Kicker, by Pippin Barr
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A Killer Headache, by Mike Ciul
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The apocalypse is over. The human race lost. You're hungry. And you have a hell of a headache. Discretionary warning: This game is violent, scatological, and eschatological.

The King of Shreds and Patches, by Jimmy Maher
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January 14th Dear friend. My sojourn in parts foreign is at an ende. I am at lodgings in Southwark not far from the bridge at Stoney Street, come dine with me two days hence to ring in the newe year. I have...

Land of the Mountain King, by Kenneth Pedersen
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This game exists both as an ADRIFT game and as an Eamon CS game. Eamon CS is a modular system so you can bring weapons, armour and stats from one adventure to another. Below is the intro story for the ADRIFT...

Last Minute, by Ruderbager Doppelganger (A.K.A. Hulk Handsome)
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Oh, crap! Crap, crap, crap! Crappity crappy crap! Poop. The deadline for the 2012 Interactive Fiction Competition is only ten minutes away! There's no chance in Hades that I'll finish my Twine magnum opus...

Laterna Magica, by Jens Byriel
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As you seat yourself and turn toward your inner light, you ask that one burning question. "What is laterna magica?"

The Lift, by Colin Capurso
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You wake up in a room with no memory of who you are or what you're doing there. You need to survive, that's all you know.

The Little Lifeform That Could, by Fade Manley
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A little microbe in the primordial ooze has grand dreams! Dreams of survival, by and large, but small goals lead to large ones. Can you climb your way out of the ooze onto the land, into civilization, and up...

Lost Pig, by Admiral Jota
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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

Lunar Base 1, by Michael Phipps
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Two astronauts set out to settle America's first lunar base in the year 2080. You are one of them.

Lux, by Agnieszka Trzaska
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You wander around in darkness – even though the lights are on. Sandra is the only one to survive a mysterious attack on a deep space mining station. She is alive, but has lost her vision. Now Sandra must...

Mainframe, by Liz England, Jurie Horneman
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Mainframe is a procedurally generated game about a spaceship. Something has gone wrong and it needs help. This was developed for Procjam 2015. Content Warning: This game is a piece of horror interactive...

Mammal, by Joey Jones
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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.)

A Minimum Wage Job, by John Cater
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Missive, by Joey Fu
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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...

Moquette, by Alex Warren
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Tuesday morning. London Underground. Hangover. Journey begins.

Much Love, BJP, by Megan Stevens
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A brief look at the life of a fictional war correspondent. "Much Love: BJP" was showcased to a limited audience at the Hope College Celebration for Undergraduate Research.

The Murder in the Fog, by Xiao Ru
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Murphy's Law, by Scott Hammack
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Thing are looking up! After decades of scrimping and saving, you've finally pulled yourself out of debt. The only thing left standing between you and financial independence is one last mortgage payment. What...

My Evil Twin, by Carl Muckenhoupt
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After last night's all-nighter (I had an important report to do for work), I intended to sleep all through the day. But I can't afford to do that. Somewhere out there, my evil twin is plying his schemes, and...
Mystery Science Theater 3000 Presents "Detective", by C. E. Forman, Matt Barringer, Graeme Cree, and Stuart Moore
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"A rewrite of Matt Barringer's incredibly bad game "Detective", this game was ported to Inform and subjected to treatment with Mystery Science Theater 3000 sarcasm. This version is the Silver Screen edition...

Night House, by Bitter Karella
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It looks different in the dark. You're eight years old. You wake up in the middle of the night to use the bathroom, but you soon realize that not everything is as it seems in the house tonight. Where has...

Noir d'Encre, by Nathanaël Marion
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Nous étions poursuivis, mon frère et moi. Par ma faute, nous courions au coeur de la forêt pour lui échapper. Je devais le protéger, il n'avait que huit ans. Il s'agissait de mon devoir de grande soeur. Mais...

Onaar, by Robert DeFord
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Go to Onaar and become an Alchemist. Learn to make potions that allow you to survive and thrive in a dynamic, open-ended game world. Will you elevate your skills and vanquish the rogue wizard who threatens...

One Night Stand, by Giannis G. Georgiou
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After a night of vodka and vague acquaintances, Sandy wakes up in an unknown bedroom, unable to remember the name of the man sleeping next to her. Too proud to leave without a proper goodbye, she will get...

Origins, by Vincent Zeng and Chris Martens
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"Origins" is a story of the individual, potentially convergent paths of two people making their way through Pittsburgh. There are two available modes, a "myopic" view wherein the player controls a single...

Ostrich, by Jonathan Laury
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A new government's coming. A populist government looking to shake up the status quo. Your job in the Advertising Corrections Team is safe enough, but as tensions rise and regulations tighten you know that...

Our Boys in Uniform, by Megan Stevens
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Out of Babylon, by Out of Babylon
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The scraping sound you hear is life as you know it grinding to a halt. Welcome to the New World Order. "Out of Babylon" is an online interactive apocalyptic story of the near future. Make the right choices...

Pantsless in Seattle, by David Cornelson
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The Paper Bag Princess, by Adri
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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.

Paradise, by Devine Lu Linvega
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A multiplayer library, endless and sleepless.

a partial list of things for which i am grateful, by Devon Guinn
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i hope that this list will never be finished

Photopia, by Adam Cadre
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"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."

Pick Up The Phone Booth And Die, by Rob Noyes
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A very short game. Whatever you do, do not pick up the phone booth; well, you can guess from the title what happens if you do. [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue]
Pit of the Condemned, by Matthew Holland
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Hundreds of years ago those who built the city disappeared. Years ago we found the city and stole all we could. Soon after we woke the beast. Now we don't go there, except to send criminals for exile and...

The Price of Freedom, by Wyatt Ryder
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you awake in a cell. you have no idea where you are. you must escape this hell they call a castle.

The Queen's Menagerie, by Chandler Groover
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These beasts won't feed themselves. A puzzleless exhibition. Ten to fifteen minutes.

rat chaos, by Winter Lake
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Re: Dragon, by Jack Welch
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Something went dreadfully wrong in last year's IFFComp. Now a diabolical lawyer representing a cabal of angry dragons threatens to sue the Interactive Fiction Technological Freedom Foundation into oblivion...

Rematch, by Andrew D. Pontious
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You thought you were such a great pool player. But Nick has beaten you once tonight already, and Ines is watching him more closely than you would like. So you challenge him to a rematch. "Sure, Kurt!" Nick...
Revenge of the Nockle : A Speed IF, by Josh Giesbrecht
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Robot Finds Kitten, by David Griffith, Leonard Richardson
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In this game, you are Robot ( # ). Your job is to find Kitten. This task is complicated by the existance of various things which are not Kitten. Robot must touch items to determine if they are Kitten or not....

Rogue of the Multiverse, by C.E.J. Pacian
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Congratulations, convict 76954! You have been selected for scientific experimentation! You will be matter-transmitted to exotic non-Treaty worlds - where opportunities abound to take in fantastic sights and...

Rover's Day Out, by Jack Welch and Ben Collins-Sussman
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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...

Run of the place, by WDx1F479K
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*** CONTENT WARNING *** Game output may contain vile racist language and who knows what else. Note that you may need to download a Floo interpreter for your system. side Beta, "Hot to Trot" edition

Sam and Leo Go To The Bodega, by Richard Goodness
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One day, Sam Dellaria and Leo Akane dropped acid and went to a bodega. This is their story.

Sand-dancer, by Aaron Reed and Alexei Othenin-Girard
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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...

The Sealed Room, by Robert DeFord
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In this tiny game, you play as a man who briefly meets an old man on a park bench before he inexplicably teleports you away. When the magical mist dissolves, you find yourself in an exit-less stone chamber...

The Secret Vaults of Kas the Betrayer, by A.E. Jackson
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Earthquakes have been reported in a region south of the city. A landslide has cleared large swaths of land away from a massive granite wall buried deep under the hillside. This granite wall is merely the...

Shade, by Andrew Plotkin
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"A one-room game set in your apartment." [--blurb from Competition Aught-Zero]

Shrapnel, by Adam Cadre
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Shuffling Around, by Andrew Schultz (as Ned Yompus)
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A weird power to save a weird world. So you just got fired from the best company ever, and it's the best day of your life. New opportunities! New horizons! New ways to look at things! Like calling this...

Sigmund's Quest, by Gregor Holtz
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Sigmund’s Quest is an homage to the classic point-and-click adventure games that inspired me so much as a child. It tells the first part of the story of the Völsunga saga, a Norse myth similar to King Arthur...

Slasher Swamp, by Robot
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Snowblind Aces, by C.E.J. Pacian
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Two aces shelter from a snowstorm under the wing of a biplane. They've duelled and played in the air for years. Love is inevitable. But what kind of relationship will they end up in?

Solarium, by Anya Johanna DeNiro
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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...

Sorcery!, by Steve Jackson and inkle
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An adaptation of a print-based game book originally published in 1983, updated for modern touch-screen devices. The player quests across a fantasy map, dealing with all sorts of encounters using a text-based...

Spider and Web, by Andrew Plotkin
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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...

Spiral, by Justin Morgan
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The Statue Got Me High, by Ryan Veeder
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Your job is to make sure John's party is successful. It won't be, though. Written for the Apollo 18+20 tribute album project.

StupidRPG, by Steven Richards
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A guided role-playing experience with some light puzzles, semi-optional combat, an extremely inexperienced GM and an imminent apocalypse. SRPG is a browser-based parser game with some hyperlinking for...

The Sueño, by Marshal Tenner Winter
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Low on income, you've signed up for a sleep study to test a new medication; one that supposedly causes lucid dreams. What you'll learn, however, is that much more will be revealed on The Sueño.

Sunday Afternoon, by Christopher Huang (as Virgil Hilts)
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It's gloriously sunny outside, and you can smell the grass from in here. It's not fair. All the servants have the day off, and you can bet they're not cooped up indoors in their Sunday best. If only there...

Suveh Nux, by David Fisher
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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.

Taco Fiction, by Ryan Veeder
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Taco Fiction is a game about crime.

Taghairm, by Chandler Groover
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"Perhaps the most horrible of all recorded magical spells." Cruelty. Violence. Sounds. Headphones recommended.

Tea Ceremony, by Naomi Hinchen
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In this game of diplomacy, you play as an inept junior member of the diplomatic corps. This week, you need to convince Brc'nl, who is some sort of noble glob from Glorpon-42, to argue in Earth's favor in a...

Temperamentum, by Matthew Sawchuk
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It's been a rough year for Dolores Worth. She doesn't like to talk about it. But lately her dreams have been getting more and more intense. They keep her up at night. If she doesn't conquer the trauma of her...

The Test is Now READY, by Jim Warrenfeltz
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their angelical understanding, by Porpentine
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I train to fight angels in a monastery by the sea. Wear headphones. TW: Suicidal ideation, ableism, abuse, possible epilepsy trigger.

Threediopolis, by Andrew Schultz
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A wordplay/quasi-maze game.

A Time of Tungsten, by Devin Raposo
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The walls are high, the hole is deep. She is trapped, on a distant planet. Watched. She may not survive. But, she did live.

Transit, by Shaye
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Find your way through a foreign airport in search of your friend, understanding or just a safe flight home.

Transparent, by Hanon Ondricek
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There is a house. There is a room in the house. There is a door in the room. The door is locked. Some people are in the room. Some people are transparent. An eerie exploration of an abandoned historic house....

Treasures of a Slaver's Kingdom, by S. John Ross
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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...

Tuuli, by Daurmith and Ruber Eaglenest
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"The old witch, your teacher Mákke, is dead. If you want to save your village you'll have to destroy the raiding fleet that's coming. Can you do it, young Lenne-who-would-be-the-witch?" ---------- Mákke, la...

The Underoos that Ate New York!, by G. Kevin Wilson
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Looks like that meteor crash from page 12 wasn't as harmless as everyone was expecting: now your clothes are playing mad!...

Unit 322 (Disambiguation), by Jonny Muir
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A mystery told entirely through the pages of an online encyclopedia.

The Urge, by PaperBlurt
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Torture, torture little star You must wonder where you are Hoping that you'll soon will die As I melt your face with lye When your pee mix with your sweat And the floor with blood is wet Then you'll feel a...

Úrquel, the black dragon, by David T. Marchand
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A short hypertext adventure story about a dragon kidnapping a princess and a hero trying to rescue her. But it's also a joke about how silly the typical "you" character is in most IFs. And a commentary on...

Valkyrie, by Emily Forand et al
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This game was authored by the guild, Valkyrie, three students enrolled in a Game-based Learning Developmental English course this Fall semester at Pikes Peak Community College in Colorado Springs, CO.

Violet, by Jeremy Freese
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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]

Vulse, by Rob Parker
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A dead body floats down a river into the heart of an infuriating small town. As the locals grapple with the murder, they must also contend with the breakdown of cause-and-effect and the realization that the...

The Weapon, by Sean Barrett
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A Wind Blown From Paradise, by N.C. Hunter Hayden
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If we live in the past, we aren't living in the present, and may as well be ghosts.

With Those We Love Alive, by Porpentine and Brenda Neotenomie
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no dreams written by porpentine scored by brenda neotenomie

The Wizard's Apprentice, by Alex Freeman
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As the wizard's apprentice, can you complete the challenges set by your master, the wizard Gwydion?
You are a Chef!, by Dan Shiovitz
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You Will Select a Decision, by Brendan Patrick Hennessy
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A pair of knock-off choose your own adventure books from Soviet-era Kyrgyzstan.

You've Got a Stew Going!, by Ryan Veeder
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Your friend has invited you over for stew. He has not bothered to procure most of the ingredients.


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