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alias, by nyassidy
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

an interactive fiction game for the Neo-Twiny Jam about the fae and the importance of a name.

Distance & Mirage, by HeartForge
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

Laurel disappeared when the two of you were just stupid kids, playing out past your curfew. The thing at the molten heart of the desert? It knows something. Enjoy my entry for the 2023 Neo-Twiny Jam !! Total...

Please Don't Take This The Wrong Way, by Crosshollow
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

A rambling one-sided conversation about the past, the present, and the future. Interactive... non-fiction? Idk. There's nothing poetic about this. Content warning for frank discussion of self harm. This is...

TERMINAL VELOCITY, by 30x30
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

A CONVERSATION ABOUT GRAVITY, AMBITION, AND FLIGHT. Created for the Neo-Twiny Game Jam, with the stipulation that the game be shorter than 500 words in length. TERMINAL VELOCITY is precisely 499 words in...

"I am inventing all this and it is about to disappear, but it does not”, by Dawn Sueoka
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

it was always supposed to be like this it was never supposed to be like this, yet here here you are, with your synthetic teeth and rented bee suit...

♥Magical Makeover♥, by S. Woodson
Average member rating: (61 ratings)

"You hold in your hand a pink, heart-shaped card daubed in rosewater and oil of jasmine — an invitation to the Princess Philantha's Grand Equinox Ball. In gilded, sweeping, sweet-smelling calligraphy, the...

(12:35), by I'm L
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

It's 12:35 am, and a solar panel is broken (A submission for the 2023 Neo-Twiny Jam)

(almost eleven), by spacedfoxes
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

an interactive prose poem about breaking up with a friend, written for the neo twiny jam. content warnings: mentions (very) vague references to queerphobia

(do not) forget, by lectronice
Average member rating: (23 ratings)

(do not) forget is a slightly surreal tale. It takes place in an isometric world inhabited by cute cubic animals. It is, however, not intended for children. This is a contemplative game, sometimes crude,...

(not so) strangers in the night, by manonamora
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

Zach and Irene decide to play a little game tonight. What could go wrong with pretending to be strangers... ? This short interactive fiction piece was created for the SeedComp!, ShuffleComp and the Zach Jam....

...from the Files of Sigmund Sigmund Praxis, Guerrilla Therapist, by Mark Silcox

The 12:54 to Asgard, by J. Robinson Wheeler
Average member rating: (17 ratings)

Your mood is foul as you drive down to the studio in the middle of the night to fix a leak that's threatening to short circuit the entire studio. A chilling feeling haunts you tonight, and you feel pushed to...

18 Cadence, by Aaron A. Reed
Average member rating: (16 ratings)

18 Cadence is an iPad/PC storymaking platform that lets its readers explore the history of a house through the hundred years of the twentieth century. Moving through space and time, a reader encounters...

180 Files: The Aegis Project, by Karelia Hall
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

Uncover a web of evil as an elite superspy! You might break a few rules—or a few hearts—but you won’t break cover. As Agent 180, a star secret agent, you've never found a problem you couldn't solve with...

1981, by Anonymous
Average member rating: (30 ratings)

(author is Adam Cadre, but game is unsigned)
2112, by George K. Algire
Average member rating: (4 ratings)
"A woman's voice crackles over the intercom of the Boeing 797 you are strapping yourself into securely. You've never traveled in space before, and the prospect has been turning your guts inside out since you...

31. Oktober (Danish version), by Finn Rosenløv

Danish description: Du er på ferie hos noget familie i USA, og din fætter har lokket dig til at indgå et væddemål om at tilbringe natten i byens berømte hjemsøgte hus. Midt på dagen, i højt solskin og med...

4x4 Archipelago, by Agnieszka Trzaska
Average member rating: (25 ratings)

Adventure waits for you in a procedurally generated Archipelago! Discover strange new lands. Make a fortune from trading. Swing a Really Big Sword at a dragon. Fight wild beasts – or turn them into your...

The 5-Second Simulation, by alyshkalia
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

A one-move parser game where your actions will unlock the clues needed to win. (This game was written in less than two weeks for the 2023 Single-Choice Jam, and is the second game I've ever made with Inform...

6Quest - a new brand of interactive fiction, by Milán Bukovics
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

Hey guys. We are a Hungarian team of fantasy and interactive fiction enthusiasts. We have created our own game system and have written several stories in our native language that we are trying to bring to an...

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,...

> by @, by Aaron A. Reed
Average member rating: (24 ratings)

On the surface, > seems to be a traditional adventure game, featuring treasure, an NPC, a puzzle, and a happy ending. However, matters are complicated by the realization that the work's purported author is...

A1RL0CK, by Marco Innocenti
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

Your hands. They hit the reinforced metal. They're starting to hurt. There's nothing to do. The safety lock is engaged. ----- A1RL0CK is a survival text adventure about a child and some voices. Also, a lot...

Abandon Them, by Alan Beyersdorf
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

What exactly happened during the fairy tale of Hansel and Gretel? How do we separate the fantasy of the folklore from the realities of starvation and abandonment? While often viewed as a fantasy story, my...

The Abbey, by Art LaFrana
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

France, 1347. You are sent on a special mission by the king and the pope to investigate the Abbey of Montglane. The recent fire damaged the abbey and burned several old manuscripts, you're tasked to recover...

aberrance, by litrouke
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

An accusation against the voiceless. 500-word game made in a couple days for Neo Twiny Jam. Sort of multiple endings, but they all lead to the same place. Cover art is a composite of the wall of a Roman...

Abracadabra, by Jorge Blecua
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

Baja Renania, durante el otoño de 1209... Clus d'Eledorf era un caballero de la Orden de Dottersen y pasaba sus dias apaciblemente en su castillo organizando torneos y grandes banquetes hasta que una noche...

The Absence of Miriam Lane, by Abigail Corfman
Average member rating: (38 ratings)

Sometimes people give pieces of themselves away....

Acheton, by Jon Thackray, David Seal, and Jonathan Partington
Average member rating: (7 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...

The Adam and Eve Project, by Brian Kwak
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

In this incomplete game, you play as Adam and Eve, two amnesiac people selected to participate in an experiment by an unknown third entity. The entity offers a choice: spend the rest of your lives here in...

Admiration Point, by Rachel Helps
Average member rating: (22 ratings)

You work as a virtual exhibit artist at a digital culture museum. There is a glimmer of attraction to your co-worker. You are married and Mormon.

ADRIFT Maze, by Dana Crane
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

ADRIFT-O-Rama, by Dana Crane
Average member rating: (3 ratings)
You might be anyone carrying a token and a golf club. You've come to the ADRIFT-O-Rama to play a round of ADRIFT-themed mini-golf and have fun. Just buy a golf ball from the machine in the ball room, then...

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.

Adventura, by Leighton Swannell
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

Completely user defined game, made to inspire creativity in player. Many mysteries will force the player to come to their own conclusion as to what actually happens and develop their own backstory.

Adventure 200, by C. J. Coombs
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

Adventure in the Fifth Dimension!, by Brian Moriarty

Few of our national treasures are more secure than the original Declaration of Independence. It's kept at the Library of Congress in a closely guarded display case, sealed in an atmosphere of inert gas to...

Adventure Quest, by Mike Austin, Nick Austin, and Pete Austin
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

Adventure Quest is a full scale adventure game with 225 individually described locations. You will have to solve a very large number of problems on your journey to the Black Tower and (perhaps) victory. To...

Adventurer's Consumer Guide, by Øyvind Thorsby
Average member rating: (31 ratings)

The Adventurers' Museum, by Lee Chapel
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

The Adventures of Peter Patzer, Who Sought Masterhood and Returned Not Quite the Same, by John C. Knudsen
Average member rating: (1 rating)

You are Peter Patzer, on a quest, seeking chess mastery. Patzer you are, in name and being. Many are the legends told of your rotten moves at the chessboard. You are so lousy that your good moves cause...

Aegis, by Lumin
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

"...to hand out justice and mercy in balanced measures, to uphold the law of Greatwater and of its Council, and above all to never tarnish the honor of the Aegis that I hold and swear all this by."
Afflicted, by Doug Egan
Average member rating: (52 ratings)
This isn't the safest neighborhood. A young woman was abducted near here only recently. But as a city sanitarian you are obligated to complete your annual inspection of the local dive. [blurb from IF Comp...

After Shock, by David M. Banner, Terry Greer

An earthquake wreaks havoc on your city! Even worse, the earthquake has damaged the nuclear powerplant. In the chaos, can you cross town and get to the powerplant in time to save the city from a second...

Aftermath of the Asimovian Disaster, by Andrew Nelson
Average member rating: (1 rating)

From the book "Greeting Adventure Programs." Versions are also available for the Commodore C64 and the Sinclair QL.

Aisle, by Sam Barlow
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Average member rating: (321 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...

Akkoteaque, by Anthony Casteel
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

It is a wet, disgusting day in the middle of April. You are just about sick of the rain. You're just about sick of everything. They keep telling you, when you turn sixteen you can do what you like and live...

Alabaster, by John Cater, Rob Dubbin, Eric Eve, Elizabeth Heller, Jayzee, Kazuki Mishima, Sarah Morayati, Mark Musante, Emily Short, Adam Thornton, Ziv Wities
Average member rating: (121 ratings)

The Queen has told you to return with her heart in a box. Snow White has made you promise to make other arrangements. Now that you're alone in the forest, it's hard to know which of the two women to trust....

Albert is Lost!: An Adventure in Real Life, by Tiberius Thingamus

As the jauntily attired author, Tiberius Thingamus, you must find your lost brother Albert somewhere at the Oldeland Fall Festival through fabulously contrived means. A thematic sequel of some sort to Yon...

The Alchemist, by Jim MacBrayne (as Older Timer)
Average member rating: (9 ratings)

Ezekiel Throgmeister, commonly referred to by the villagers as The Alchemist, has left you in charge of his currently-running experiment while he attends to other pressing business. Can you succeed in...

Alco's Infinity, by drakirby
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

Alco's Infinity is a piece of interactive fiction where you make choices that heavily affect which scenes and dialogue you encounter, as well as the final ending. Explore a futuristic universe where Alco and...

Aldebaran III, by Peter Langston
Average member rating: (1 rating)

You are traveling as First Under-secretary to the Ambassador for the Corps Diplomatique Terrestrienne, (CDT). You have been sent to Aldebaran III where you are to avert an uprising against Terran nationals...
Alesian Plains, by Paul Allen Panks
This is a text adventure with a complex plot. You awake on the Alesian Plains with no memory of who you are or what your goals are. This quickly becomes a story of survival! Unravel the mystery and explore...
Algernon's Conundrum, by Nick Gauthier
Algernon is trying desperately to get some royal jelly for the Queen, but he doesn't know how to do it without getting stung!

Alias 'The Magpie', by J. J. Guest
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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...

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

Alien Research Centre 2: Return to Oblivion, by John Wilson

As Anderson stepped through the airlock and the door clanged shut behind him, he looked around and thought, "I've been here before - why have they sent me back again? I was sure they had de-commissioned this...

All Alone, by Ian Finley
Average member rating: (70 ratings)

All Hope Abandon, by Eric Eve
Average member rating: (37 ratings)

Your day got off to a good enough start when you met that blonde in the breakfast queue, but it's all downhill from there: you may be wishing you could escape a particularly dire lecture, but not by the one...

All Roads, by Jon Ingold
Average member rating: (154 ratings)

"Wave a circle round him thrice, And close your eyes with holy dread For he on honey-dew hath fed And drunk the milk of paradise." [--blurb from Competition Aught-One]

Alone in the Void, by Gareth Meyrick
Average member rating: (1 rating)

The Starship Amaethon floats alone in the frigid emptiness of space, its engines humming softly as it hurtles further and further from its intended destination. What catastrophe befell the fully manned...

Altered Destiny, by Bob Smith, Michael Berlyn, Steve Cartwright

One minute you're just a guy eating nacho-flavored popcorn. The next you're sucked through a TV into a fantastic alien world filled with exotic landscapes and lifeforms. Welcome to the strange destiny of P....

Am I My Brother's Keeper?, by Nadine Rodriguez
Average member rating: (11 ratings)

Your sister is missing, and the answers lie within your dreams....

American Juror, by SeanPaulONeill
Average member rating: (1 rating)

Alan Dershowitz is quoted as describing a criminal trial as follows: "The defendant wants to hide the truth because he's generally guilty. The defense attorney's job is to make sure the jury does not arrive...

Amnesia, by Thomas M. Disch and Kevin Bentley
Average member rating: (12 ratings)

Among the Seasons, by Kieran Green
Average member rating: (9 ratings)

A fleeting glimpse of the seasons from a magpie's perspective.

Analogue: A Hate Story, by Christine Love
Average member rating: (11 ratings)

Back in the 25th century, Earth launched a generation ship into deep space, with the goal of establishing the first interstellar colony. It dropped out of contact and disappeared, never reaching its...

And So It Goes, by Adam Conover
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

In this short game, you play as Failure, the literal embodiment of failure. It's your job to make people experience failure, and soon, your boss will call you, ordering you to your new assignment.

And the Waves Choke the Wind, by Gunther Schmidl
Average member rating: (10 ratings)

"some thing inside of me has opened up its eyes why did you put it there? did you not realize?" [--blurb from Competition Aught-Zero]

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 3, by Graeme Poole
Average member rating: (1 rating)

Published as a type-in listing in ZX Computing magazine.

Andromeda Acolytes, by Wade Clarke
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In the Andromeda galaxy, humanity doesn't know why it is on the planet Monarch or how it got there. When an underwater accident in Monarch Harbour awakens a strange power, four very different women are drawn...

Another Round, by PetricakeGames-IF
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

You play as Maddie, a woman in love with a woman named Agnes. Actually, she hates her. Actually, it's complicated. You definitely broke things off with her. And you don't regret it. At least once. Yes. At...

The Anttilis Mission, by Jon R. Lemmon
Average member rating: (1 rating)

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...

Apprentice of the Demonhunter, by The Mad Monk
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

April in Paris, by Jim Aikin
Average member rating: (16 ratings)
On the first day of your dream vacation, you encounter an exasperating social difficulty. (Game file contains complete hints and walkthrough. Zip file includes pdf map.) [blurb from IF Comp 2008]

Arborea, by richard develyn
Average member rating: (13 ratings)

'The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes...

Archaeological Fiction: Sagfjordbotn, by Laurie Lax, Lucila Mayol
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Archaeological Fiction: Sagfjordbotn invites you to experience sounds and stories from a remote fjord in Nordland. As reflected in the pathways within the narrative, the fjord seems secluded and quiet at...

The Archers, by Pete Austin and Joan Lamb
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If they put you in charge of The Archers, how would you change life in Ambridge? Here's your chance to find out. In this four-part, illustrated, text game you are the story editor, taking the plot decisions...

The Archivist and the Revolution, by Autumn Chen
Average member rating: (35 ratings)

The world is ending, and you are still paying rent....

The Arkham Abomination, by catventure
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Average member rating: (6 ratings)

"THE ARKHAM ABOMINATION" (aka: "The Vileness Under The Henge") An interactive 'Lovecraftian' horror fanfic story. Author: catventure ©2021. A free, short, offline, downloadable, parser-based text adventure...
Arnold the Adventurer II, by Scott Denyer
Average member rating: (1 rating)

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...

Artful Deceit, by James O'Reilly and Dian Mills O'Reilly
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

For the C64 ...

Arthur Yahtzee: The Curse of Hell's Cheesecake, by Ben Croshaw
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

In this comedic espionage game, you play as Agent Arthur Yahtzee of the Special Secret Service. Your mission is to stop the most evil and sadistic human in the multiverse, Doctor Diablo, from ever using...

The Ascot, by Duncan Bowsman
Average member rating: (26 ratings)

Anything might happen to you on the way to the convenience store. You might even run into a guy handing out cursed ascots that lead you to lost fortunes guarded by terrible monsters. Can you nab 100% of the...

Astrolab, by Eckhard Borkiet

Es war eine beschwerliche Reise durch den Weltraum, die dich schließlich hier an diesen unwirtlichen Ort, am Rande des Sonnensystems brachte. Der Auftrag schien diesmal sehr lukrativ zu werden. Dein Ziel:...

At Wit's End, by Mike Sousa
Average member rating: (15 ratings)

"A case study of Murphy's Law in action. In-game hints available." [--blurb from Competition Aught-Zero]

Atalan, by Mandy Rodrigues
Average member rating: (1 rating)

You are a poor sailor inside a crew of a ship sailing through the Pacific for months. You encounter the unknown island Atalan and your ship captain wants to claim it for Britain. But as the ships get close...

Ataraxia, by Lauren O'Donoghue
Average member rating: (11 ratings)

Ataraxia is a neighbourhood simulator in text adventure form. Inspired by folk horror, mystery and landscape narratives, you play as a newly-arrived traveller on a remote island. Explore the world. Settle...

Attack of Doc Lobster's Mutant Menagerie of Horror, by Duncan Bowsman
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

Havoc is gone. It must be brought. You have a mind-controlled psychopathic veterinarian.

Attack of the Clockwork Army, by Felicity Banks
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

Win the Steam-Powered Fight for a Nation! When the battle for Australia begins, will you join Her Majesty’s new clockwork army to keep Australia peacefully British once and for all—or will you cast your lot...

Attack of the Mutaydid Meat Monsters, by Duncan Bowsman
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

A mysterious murder after a meateor shower. A butcher suffers nightmares and strange deliveries. Can you save the world from the impending Attack of the Mutaydid Meat Monsters?
Attack of the Yeti Robot Zombies, by Øyvind Thorsby
Average member rating: (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...

August, by Matt Fendahleen
Average member rating: (24 ratings)

Augustine, by Terrence V. Koch
Average member rating: (13 ratings)
St. Augustine, Florida is a city rich in history. Touted as the Oldest City in the United States, tourists flock to her to learn something of the nation's earliest settlers and get a sense of what life was...

Aurora, by katz
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

It doesn't take you long after awakening to realize that your intersidereal mission has not reached its destination. Stranded in deep space and with the rest of the crew still asleep in cryo, you must...

Autumn Spirit, by Ayael and Benjamin Régniez
Average member rating: (1 rating)

The world is slowly crumbling and you are falling apart with it. In an attempt to find a semblance of peace and to rethink your future you go into exile in a remote corner to enjoy the calm of nature. But...

Avon, by Jon Thackray and Jonathan Partington
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

Awake, by Josh Giesbrecht (as joshg)
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

A story of searching.
The Awakening, by Dennis Matheson
Average member rating: (30 ratings)
"You remember darkness. And the cold. Cold and darkness. And silence. Those memories are all that you have. That, and a feeling that something you never knew you possessed has been lost. Suddenly, oblivion...

The Axe of Kolt [8-bit versions], by Larry Horsfield
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

You are Alaric Blackmoon, a penniless ex-mercenary soldier, reduced to wandering the land and doing odd-jobs in return for food and a place to sleep. You have just left the town of Greenwych and you have...

Back Home, by James Webb (a.k.a. revgiblet)
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

A holiday at the family home seems like a good idea, but you have a nagging feeling that something is wrong...

Back to the Future: Marty Quest, by George Gipe, Ryan North and Hulk Handsome
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

You are Marty McFly, 80s teen! You are stuck in a detention room after school. You need to escape the room otherwise you can’t play in your band for tryouts tonight! The YMCA is counting on you! Inspired by...

Bad Machine, by Dan Shiovitz
Average member rating: (15 ratings)

The Ballroom, by Liza Daly
Average member rating: (24 ratings)

You arrived at the ballroom well after midnight. The End.

Ballyhoo, by Jeff O'Neill
Average member rating: (44 ratings)

Spangleland! Sawdust and glitter, buffoons and cotton candy! It's a place where your wildest dreams come true! At least, that's what you think... until you get behind the scenes at the big top. Then you...

Ballymun Adventure, by Brendan Cribbin
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

In this game, you play as a new male student at the school. As an orientation exercise, Mr Byrne, the principal, has organized a small competition. The winner will be the first student to bring four specific...
Bane of the Builders, by Bogdan Baliuc
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

The Bannochburn Legacy, by Tim Hartnell
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

Hartnell wrote several compendiums of computer games, such as the Giant Book of Computer Games which usually contained several categories of games which the user could type-in. Bannochburn Legacy is one of...

Barroom Brawl, by Mathbrush
Average member rating: (9 ratings)

Barroom Brawl is inspired by Super Smash Brothers. Battle multiple NPC's in an all-out brawl! Use PUNCH, KICK, or direction-based smash moves to brawl your way to success!

Barry Basic and the Quest for the Perfect Port, by Dee Cooke
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

It's 1987, and Barry Basic is keen to reach a whole new fanbase by porting his BBC Micro computer game to the ZX Spectrum. However, he needs to convert his code first! As Barry, you need to find everything...

Barry Basic and the Quick Escape, by Dee Cooke
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

Somewhere near a quiet English village in 1969, a forbidding-looking computer factory looms over the woods. Most of the local kids prefer to avoid the place, but computer-obsessed Barry Basic has decided to...

Be There!, by William Dooling
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

"I will be honest: I am disappointed by how this was handled. There is still some chance to fix this, we have a meeting with the client at 1:45 today, in the Starbucks at the IDS center. BE THERE!"

Beached! (Prelude), by Theodore C. Lim and Ewald Bal
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After shipwrecking your yacht on a reef, you find yourself on a deserted beach somewhere in the Caribbean. At first sight, there's nowhere you can go. Use your wit and common sense to escape anyway, without...

The Bean Stalker, by Jack Welch
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

Caught in an economic downturn, can Jack leverage his starving cow and climb the economic ladder? ...

A Bear's Night Out, by David Dyte
Average member rating: (69 ratings)

"Tomorrow is the big Teddy Bear party, and you must definitely not let your owner forget about it..." [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue]

The Beast of Torrack Moor - 30th Anniversary Edition, by Linda Doughty and Chris Ainsley and Andy Green
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

An authorized port of the classic ZX Spectrum game by Linda Doughty. The Beast casts the player as an intrepid reporter, sent to investigate sightings of a wild beast on Torrack Moor. Featuring new graphics...

the beating of my heart, by eckardlise

Molly wants to leave you. And you want to know why. Then she tells you... A satiric anti-love Interactive Fiction story written for the anti-love jam 2023, complete with all the clichés of the Romance genre....

Beatle Quest, by Garry Marsh

An adventure based on Beatles lyrics.

Beautiful Dreamer, by R. John Griffiths

Beautiful Dreamer, by S. Woodson
Average member rating: (35 ratings)

"Outside, the chill wind wails and tears the leaves from their branches. Gusts of wind scour the muddy sidewalks; gusts of wind roar through the alleys between buildings. Before one gust can fade, another...

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...

Before the End of the World, by Silverstring Media
Average member rating: (13 ratings)

The sky is tearing itself open. Fire rains from the heavens. And you've returned home to reflect on the person you fell in love with in your dreams. Before the End of the World is a Twine game created to...

Behold - Atlantis, by Laurence Creighton
Average member rating: (1 rating)

Being Andrew Plotkin, by J. Robinson Wheeler
Average member rating: (58 ratings)

"Zarf? you think to yourself. Could it be? The one and only Zarf? Xyzzy Award winner? IF Competition winner? The mighty Inscruitable One? Gosh. What it must be like to be Zarf... You begin to crawl forward,...

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

Beneath Floes, by Bravemule; Pinnguaq
Average member rating: (14 ratings)

Qikiqtaaluk, 1962. The sun falls below the horizon and won't return for months. You wander the broken shoreline, wary of your mother's stories about the qalupalik. Fish woman, stealer of wayward children:...

Beneath the Temple of Zeus, by Ken Rose
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

Published in Softline Magazine November-December 1983 Published in Page 6 Magazine 1984 for the Atari Computer Ported to TRS-80 Micro Color Compuer 2016

Berrost's Challenge, by Mark Hatfield
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

Light-hearted (semi-)heroic fantasy. Can an aging apprentice end his apprenticeship with a flourish (and a few new spells to cast)? Just an old-school text adventure with a tip of the cap to Infocom's...
The Best Man, by Rob Menke
Average member rating: (9 ratings)

Best of Three, by Emily Short
Average member rating: (62 ratings)

Beyond Zork, by Brian Moriarty
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Average member rating: (50 ratings)

Dread times have befallen the Kingdom of Quendor. The wizards have mysteriously disappeared. The Enchanter's Guild Hall lies in ruins. Villages are abandoned, drunken men mutter strange tales, and vicious...

Beythilda the Night Witch, by DCBSupafly
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

The Bible Retold: Following a Star, by Justin Morgan
Average member rating: (13 ratings)

You are Balthasar, a magus from Babylon. You and your companions, Gaspar and Melchior, are about to embark on a journey to Judea, a client kingdom of the Roman Empire, to venerate a newborn king. You'll need...

The Bible Retold: The Lost Sheep, by Ben Pennington
Average member rating: (18 ratings)

There is dissent in the ranks! One of your sheep makes a run for the next field, jumping gracefully over the hedgerows. You stand up quickly and collect your crook. You need that sheep!

Big Barbarian's Tiny Adventure, by nlem
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

A Mini Dungeon Crawl

Big Brains in Little Jars, by Ashlee Sierra

Become a brain-for-hire in this mad-science adventure! Help clients, befriend fellow brains, and make the scientists wish they’d left you in your body.

The Big Mama, by Brendan Barnwell
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

"Three or four sailboats cruise lazily in the glow of the setting sun, which casts a poetic shimmer across the swells. In the distance, about 15 km offshore, you can discern the dim, hunched shapes of the...
The Big Scoop, by Johan Berntsson
Average member rating: (13 ratings)

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:...

Binary, by Stephen Granade
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

A wrecked star. A ruined space station in orbit. A digitally-uploaded mind. A decision left in your hands.

Birdland, by Brendan Patrick Hennessy
Average member rating: (168 ratings)

Fourteen-year-old Bridget's summer camp experience takes a turn for the bizarre when her otherworldly bird dreams start bleeding into reality.

Birthright, by Xiulan

The letter comes at the peak of summer, interrupting the calm tedium of your everyday life with news of loss and sending you on a journey that will challenge everything you know about yourself and those...

Bittersweet Harvest, by DagitabSoft
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Harvesters. These otherworldly beings, having the bodies of humans, are tasked with reaping bad memories of these humans and purging them from their hearts and minds. And in an era where mental health...

The Black Lily, by Hannes Schueller
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If you think you are being watched while playing this game, keep telling yourself that it's all in your mind.

The Black Sanctum, by Stephen O'Dea & Bob Withers
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

"Encounter the forces of black magic as you roam around an old 18th century monastery. See all the evil locations in this spooky adventure in full hi-res detail. If you like suspense, you’ll love searching...

Blackout Crysis, by Giggling_Kiste
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You wake up just to find yourself in a world which is a nightmare itself. ...

Blade of Blackpoole, by Tim Wilson

Methinks if I live 'till the seas have withered I'll ne'er know of more adventure than befalleth those that quest for the sword bearing the name Myraglym. Many have abandoned their earthly toils to pursue...

The Blank Wall, by Richard Otter
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When all the others had given up, you carried on. Everyone told you to call it a day; your boss, your colleagues, your family, your friends. Everyone said the same, he was gone, long gone, escaped. But, you...

Blighted Isle, by Eric Eve
Average member rating: (43 ratings)

Blockade duty in the Bay of Biscay, vile weather, and an unplanned jaunt over the side of the ship into the tossing waves. But instead of drowning, you end up on an island that has no right to be there - and...

Blood and Company, by alyshkalia
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Your name is Zach. You’re 23, you were an art major in the two years of college you completed, oh, and you’re a vampire. Play as Zach, who has survived his blood-sucking life so far by keeping to himself,...

Blood Island, by Billy Krolick
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Become the Final Girl or Guy (or anything in between) of your dreams on Blood Island....

Bloodless on the Orient Express, by Hannes Schueller
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1899: On the way to your well-earned summer vacation, the Orient Express gets stuck in a snow drift – and there is a murderer on board. Time to get out of your coffin and investigate!
A Bloody Life, by Ravi Rajkumar
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

Bloody Raoul, by Caleb Wilson (as Ian Cowsbell)
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Summer in Saturnine. What a night for knife punks!

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

A boat ride., by Unexpected_Dreams
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Embark on a short journey with a somewhat taciturn companion and discover how you came to arrive on the shores. A silly short, inspired by the silly ideas of some friends, based off a flash fiction I wrote...

Bobby and Bonnie, by Xavid
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A light children's-story-ish adventure inexplicably starring rabbits.

Body Bargain, by Amanda Lange
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Your surgery went very well. But you couldn't really afford it... Be aware that this is a work of horror. This game involves situations that may be violent, distressing, disturbing, or triggering. This game...

The Boggit, by Fergus McNeill and Judith Child
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This interactive fiction with graphics game thus features reluctant adventurer Bimbo Faggins and devious magician Grandalf attempting to gain treasure, ultimately by appearing on a TV game show. VERB NOUN...

Boing!, by tumbolia
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Do you want a surreal and mysterious text adventure game in which you type commands and silly things happen? >> YES Then this might be the game for you! Do you like games that start in subway stations? > YES...

Bolivia By Night, by Aidan Doyle
Average member rating: (19 ratings)

A mystery adventure game set in Bolivia.

Bonehead, by Sean M. Shore
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September 23, 1908. Win this game, and your Giants will have the National League pennant almost within reach. You've done your part. You've just made a base hit, putting McCormick on third with the winning...

The Bones of Rosalinda, by Agnieszka Trzaska
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”Hey, you! Skeleton lady! Can you hear me? You’ve got to pull yourself together and run before the Necromancer turns you into one of his minions!” Rosalinda realised she wasn’t dreaming. She was in a dark...

Book and Volume, by Nick Montfort
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Your pager tickles you awake. Upstairs in the house of your childhood, in your room, and it must be time for school because -- no, it's the weekend, you remember, but your alarm is going off anyway. You...

Book of Mormon Adventures, by Mathbrush
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This is a collection of short Twine games for children that are based on stories in the Book of Mormon. These stories use images from the Gospel Art Kit:...

Book of the Dead, by Mark Davies, Andrew Dean, Lee Hodgson
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Border Zone, by Marc Blank
Average member rating: (26 ratings)

Where the Iron Curtain divides East and West, the frontier is a no man's land between freedom and captivity, a place where moments lost or precautions not taken exact a toll in men's lives. In Border Zone,...

The Boulder, by DrOctothorpe
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A short interactive fiction (IF) piece created for Neo-Twiny Jam 2023 with Ink/Calico out of very nearly 500 words. It loops, but don't worry, there's an end point--and you'll know you've found it when you...

The Box, by Jordan Jones
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A short puzzle game that challenges the player to use his or her powers of observation and association to unlock the mysteries of a strange safe.

the boy who died, alive, by vvvild
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Poetry, Dynamic Fiction. The relationship between a child and their brother.  An entry for Neo-Twiny Jam 2023. final word count: 394

The Boyd File, by Alex Williams

The Brave African Huntress, by Jan Vorlicek, Martin Vondracek

Breakers, by Rodney Smith, Joe Vierra, William Mataga
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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...

Brian and the Dishonest Politician, by The Spud

Briefcase, by Woodfish

"You get into the house. You go up to the study. You look on the top shelf of the cupboard. You take the briefcase. You bring me the briefcase. I give you the money. You do not, under any circumstances, try...

Broken Legs, by Sarah Morayati
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A blurb? They expect you to write? You're Lottie Plum so you're not going into writing. You sing. And dance and act up a storm while everyone else can only manage a puddle. You belong at Bridger. No matter...

Buck Rockford Heads West, by J. J. Guest
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"Bored of his life in the East, Buck Rockford heads West to seek the meaning of man's existence." Buck Rockford Heads West is a short interactive Western. It was made in Ink for Neo-Twiny Jam with a final...

Building, by Poster
Average member rating: (14 ratings)

Bump In The Night, by Tori Smith

Bump In The Night: An Interactive Fiction Game by Tori Smith A young child awoken in the night by a shadowy presence at the end of your bed: Monty the Monster. Friend or foe? Perhaps he is just as scared as...

Bureaucracy, by Douglas Adams, The Staff of Infocom
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IMPORTANT! Our records show that you do not have a license to operate this software. Normally, you would be required to complete a License Application Form and mail it (with proof of purchase) to our...

Burglar!, by Doug Roberts
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

Burlish Adventure, by Andrew Bogue
By Jove, by Neil Mallett
This is definitely not the room you went to sleep in last night, you would have noticed that record floating about five feet off the floor in the corner before now. There is a door west... Published on the...

Byzantine Perspective, by Lea Albaugh
Average member rating: (56 ratings)

Your task is simple enough. Just nab the chalice.

Cage Break, by Jac Colvin
Average member rating: (10 ratings)

What's a smart, human-savvy cockatoo to do when a group of dastardly bird traffickers come to the forest? No bars can hold you... Or can they? Make your escape, get your revenge and help the others if you...

Calm, by Joey Jones and Melvin Rangasamy
Average member rating: (17 ratings)

Since the spores came life has been happier. How could it not be? For now stress is fatal and all who remain alive must remain calm...

Camelot, by Finn Rosenløv
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This is the revised version of Camelot. Published after the end of the 2010 Adrift Summer Competition. After a number of years your membership of the distinguished club of the unemployed has finally expired....

Campus Invaders, by Marco Vallarino
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For some time you have been waiting for the open day of the Vigamus Academy to visit the building that also hosts the game design course taught by Professor Mark M. Etal....

Cancel Cable Or Die Trying, by Tony Smith
Average member rating: (9 ratings)

The year is 2020. All of the nation's cable companies have merged into a single conglomerate. Your monthly cable bill has soared while the quality of service has deteriorated. You've concluded that your only...

Candle flames in windless air, by Teaspoon
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

So you've spent the last fortnight hitchhiking around rugged bits of the Nevada desert, and while it's been fun and all, you'd rather like your time machine back now. ...

Candlesmoke, by Caelyn Sandel and Carolyn VanEseltine
Average member rating: (24 ratings)

Entry in EctoComp 2014.

Cannelé & Nomnom - Defective Agency, by Younès R. & Yazaleea
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« You set foot in the mysterious city of Falaisant, with no memories of who you are. Lost and hopeless, you hire the only detective agency willing to help you. There's only one issue: They. Are. DISASTROUS!...

Cannery Vale, by Hanon Ondricek (as Keanhid Connor)
Average member rating: (30 ratings)

Hell, even a seagull would hit the spot right now, roasted crispy over a flame-- He immediately put all thoughts of food out of his head because at the moment it was just torture_

Captain Piedaterre's Blunders, by Wade Clarke
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

"You are Captain Piedaterre, proud rat, scourge of a good number of seas and collector of amazing things that people forget to nail down and don't seem to care about when they go missing." Captain...

Carmine and Charcoal, by tapestryjuice
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Luka Mellor is not the detective the Flashpowder Agency's newest clients expected, but he's the one they're going to get. (...Even if he would much rather just go home.) Vanhoult House holds many quirks,...

A Case of Murder, by Edward P. Toovey

You are Sam Boon, an L.A. private detective, or so your permit says. As yet, you haven't had any cases. You might be a good detective, a great detective or a total flop. Your actions will decide your future....

The Case of the Mixed-Up Shymer, by Sandra Sharkey

The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes, by Michael W. Bayley, David Malmberg, and Jim Vickonoff
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Take on the role of Sherlock Holmes to solve 18 different cases in a menu-driven game inspired by the popular board game 221b Baker Street.

Castle Adventure, by Kevin Bales
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

Castle Adventure!, by Ben Chenoweth
Average member rating: (16 ratings)

Welcome to Castle Adventure! Written and directed by Ben Chenoweth (Copyright 2002 Grinnan Berrit Software). Adapted to Inform 7 by Ben Chenoweth, 2012. You have to rescue a princess of legendary beauty who...

Castle Blackstar, by Mark Sheppard, Andrew Cummins, Geoff Richardson
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Castle Elsinore, by Charles A. Crayne, Dian Crayne
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

Castle of Riddles, by Peter D. Killworth
Average member rating: (1 rating)

Castle of Terror, by Graeme Willis
Average member rating: (3 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...

Castle Ralf, by Doug Clutter and Steve Vance
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

Castlequest, by Michael S. Holtzman and Mark Kershenblatt
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This game, previously thought lost, has been recovered from the US Copyright Office. Late 1980 Holtzman made a print-out of the source code and submitted it to USCO. During 2020 Kershenblatt starts a USCO...

Castronegro Blues, by Marshal Tenner Winter
Average member rating: (12 ratings)

You listen to the dame on the other end of the phone as she finishes her plight. "My brother has gone missing. I want you to find him." You promised yourself a vacation, but this broad sounds a bit dishy....

Causality Couriers, by David Yates

You’re standing in front of barricade built of stone and rusted steel, a twisted plastic collection tag in your hands. The dizzy nausea you get after teleporting has yet to subside. It’s always worse when...

The Cave of Montauk, by MarWinStudios
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The Cave of Morpheus, by Mark Silcox
Average member rating: (4 ratings)
"Peer Through The Looking Glass - and watch breathlessly as the two most original thinkers of the 20th Century - Sigmund Freud and Willie Crowther - wage a pitched battle for the soul of a defenseless...

The Cavity of Time, by Sam Kabo Ashwell
Average member rating: (11 ratings)

An Undum-fueled CYOA through a surrealistic landscape of intertextuality and logorrhoea, starring Stiffy Makane in his usual pornographic, antiheroic groove.

The Cellar, by David Whyld
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

You were always told not to go into the cellar. Told many, many times. But you were never told why. Today you'll find out...

Celtic Carnage, by The Traveller in Black
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The Great Temporal Struggle Continues :- "Know you, that over 2000 years ago there lived a proud race of warriors in the land of ERIN. Many were the heroic deeds of the CELTS in battle and many were the...

Century, by Zuuri
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

Cerulean Stowaway, by Roger Descheneaux
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

A stowaway gets more of a ride than he bargained for.

The Challenge, by Jack Lockerby
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Average member rating: (2 ratings)

Chambers of Xenobia, by Steven Sacks
You are in the 15th century and have decided to seek your fortune. You have been told of a certain dungeon which used to be inhabited by an evil warlock. You have also heard that there are frightening...
Champion of Guitars, by Bill Meltsner
Average member rating: (4 ratings)
A text adventure parody of Guitar Hero.
Chancellor, by Kevin Venzke
Average member rating: (16 ratings)
Maturity attained, the daughter is unfurled upon the world, embarked upon a mysterious quest by her father.
Changes, by David Given
Average member rating: (18 ratings)
The Chasing, by Anssi Räisänen
Average member rating: (10 ratings)
Checkpoint, by Daniel River
Average member rating: (1 rating)
This fiction is set in Grovlia, a country in Eastern Europe. 1989 has been a difficult year in Grovlia. Cracks are starting to appear in the edifice of socialism built up over decades. Protesters look to the...

Cheeseshop, by David Welbourn
Average member rating: (24 ratings)

An interactive re-creation of Monty Python’s Cheeseshop sketch, where you try to buy some cheese.

Chemistry and Physics, by Caelyn Sandel (as Colin Sandel) and Carolyn VanEseltine
Average member rating: (22 ratings)

Chesstopia, by John C. Knudsen
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Chesstopia is a place where Chess is thought about, but not played. You encounter Caissa, the Goddess of Chess. You are a seeker of Chess knowledge. Very basic Gamebook/CYOA. Optimized for electronic...

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...

Chinese Family Dinner Moment, by Kastel
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

Content Warnings: Sexual harassment, racism, transphobia. You haven't even had the chance to tell your parents you've gone vegan... Made for the Single Choice Jam. (Photo credit: Cera)

A Chinese Room, by Milo van Mesdag
Average member rating: (12 ratings)

A one or two reader experience, A Chinese Room is one story in two. A story of power, control, inhumanity, and love....

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

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

Choice of Alexandria, by Kevin Gold
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

Change the course of history! Can your scientific discoveries save the ancient Library of Alexandria? Will you defend the empire's legacy, or your own? "Choice of Alexandria" is an interactive novella by...

Choice of Robots, by Kevin Gold
Average member rating: (41 ratings)

The robots you design will change the world! Will you show them the true meaning of love, or conquer Alaska with your robot army? "Choice of Robots" is an epic 300,000-word interactive sci-fi novel by Kevin...

Choice of the Deathless, by Max Gladstone
Average member rating: (30 ratings)

Battle demons and undead attorneys, and win souls to pay back your student loans! At the elite demonic-law firm of Varkath Nebuchadnezzar Stone, you'll depose a fallen god, find romance, and maybe even make...

Choices, by Sophie3
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

You find yourself in charge of a small group of people who survived the zombie outbreak, making decisions that decide whether not you and your group survive. There are the good choices...and the bad ones.

Choices: And The Sun Went Out, by Tin Man Games: KG Tan, Alyce Potter, and Felicity Banks
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

Three months ago, the sun went out. After three hours it came back, but the effects of its absence are global. You are a Private Investigator hired to research this phenomenon. Moti is the AI worn on your...

Christminster, by Gareth Rees
Average member rating: (88 ratings)

"When your brother Malcolm sends you a telegram inviting you to visit him at Biblioll College in the ancient university town of Christminster, you imagine that the mysterious `discovery' he alludes to is...
The Citadel, by Jack Lockerby
For centuries now the peoples of this land had been at odds with each other and every now and again this "uneasy" peace would erupt into bitter conflict. This time the conflict had been going on for almost...

City of Dead Leaves, by Felix Pleşoianu
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

There's nothing left in your life. There's nothing left in anyone's life. Will he even remember you after all this time? Will he want you back? ...

The Civil Service - Part II, by Jack Lockerby

Such was the success rate of the applicants with the original entrance test that a new test has now been drawn up that is felt will present an even stiffer challenge for anybody daring to gain entrance into...

The Civil Service, by Jack Lockerby

Clarence Street, 14., by manonamora
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

Leya looked furtively around her.... Clarence Street, 14, is just ahead. ... what if someone sees her. A short story made in Twine, in 3h.

A Clockwork Noir, by Jeremy Lee Harden
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

Welcome to New Jag City, the City of Gears and Cogs. You are Detective Adaran Valance, who is looking for a new case. What waits for you in the city that never sleeps?

Closed Door; Key?, by KnightAnNi
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

Closed Door; Key? is an interactive fiction game based on the seed "Room; Closed Door" by Charm Cochran. The challenge from this seed was to make an escape room game using Twine and using only nouns or...

Code 7 Prologue, by Kevin Glaap, Zein Okko
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Code 7 is the idea of a modern text adventure by german game design students Kevin Glaap and Zein Okko. It combines the text adventure genre with cinematic fully-voiced storytelling. You have to play to it...

The Cogs of Westminster, by Zebra
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

Cold Iron, by Andrew Plotkin (as Lyman Clive Charles)
Average member rating: (37 ratings)
Your good axe has gone missing. Reverd Pearson would say you're a careless lunkhead who'd lose his ear if it wasn't nailed on. You figure he's right, a man of the cloth, but that doesn't mean piskeys didn't...

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...

Colonists, by Andrew Fuller
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You signed up for the United Space Exploration Federation in the hopes that you would be one of the proud few chosen to head a colonization mission to Alpha Centauri Six. When the rosters were announced and...

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.

Colour Beyond Time, by Jamie Bradbury

"There is surely only one man in the world who could get me to drop everything and fly halfway around the globe at a moments notice. Frederik S. Carble. An investigator in matters of the occult. A Maverick,...

The Colour of Magic, by Judith Child, Fergus McNeill, and Colin Buckett
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The Colour Pink, by Robert Street
Average member rating: (15 ratings)
In this game, you are a spaceman sent to investigate an out-of-contact colony on an abandoned planet. Your mission is to find out what happened to the scientists and report back to the Captain. But what do...
Coming Out Simulator 2014, by Nicky Case
Average member rating: (37 ratings)
A half-true game about half-truths. You play as a semi-fictional version of me, on a night that changed my life forever. Choose your (my?) words wisely. Every character will remember everything you say - or...

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.

Concrete Paradise, by Tyson Ibele
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

ConfigurationUploader, by Autumn Chen
Average member rating: (13 ratings)

ConfigurationUploader is a program for uploading configurations.

Conflicting Histories, by Siobhan McGuinness

You arrive at the address that the strange note had detailed: 66 Avenue Street, City. You read the note again to ease your doubts: “Historian, we need your expertise. Come to the Museum at 66 Avenue Street...

Constellation, by Irremann

"Constellation" is the Battle spaceship of Earth Federation confidently conquer the universe. Powerful engines carried him through hyperspace at speeds many times faster than light. However, the purpose of...

Constraints, by Martin Bays
Average member rating: (22 ratings)

Convention Blues, by Dorothy Millard
You've read all about the Adventurer's Convention held every year and don't feel qualified to attend. You feel sure someone will make fun of you, even though underneath you're sure adventurers aren't like...
Conversation with a Hitchhiker, by James Webb
Conversations With A Cape, by Alice Chen
Average member rating: (2 ratings)
Welcome to a world where superheroes are commonplace and integrated into the fabric of society. You are a journalist who desperately needs to pull together a profile to fill out the daily paper and you’ve...

The Corn Identity, by Carl Muckenhoupt, Serhei Makarov, Tama Wise, J. Robinson Wheeler, A O Muniz, Admiral Jota, Andrew Schepler, Jacqueline A. Lott, Sam Kabo Ashwell, Dan Shiovitz, John Cater, Duchess, and Mark Musante
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

Corruption, by Rob Steggles, Hugh Steers
Average member rating: (21 ratings)

In the real world the good guys rarely win. CAN YOU COPE WITH CORRUPTION? The City of London. Deals and chicanery, Porsches and profit, wild animals in handmade suits. And you. Outwardly, you're on the fast...

CosmoServe: an Adventure Game for the BBS-Enslaved, by Judith Pintar
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

Countdown to Doom, by Peter D. Killworth
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

Counterfeit Monkey, by Emily Short
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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 Coveted Mirror, by Eagle Berns and Holly Thomason
Average member rating: (1 rating)

Cozy Simulation 2999, by KADW
Average member rating: (11 ratings)

Short horror game made for SeedComp 2023 in a few days. About fifteen minutes long. (4/25/2023: This game was made in a short period of time, and looking back on it, I like it even less than I did before. I...

Cragne Manor, by Ryan Veeder, Jenni Polodna et al.
Show other authorsAdam Whybray, Adri, Andrew Plotkin, Andy Holloway, Austin Auclair, Baldur Brückner, Ben Collins-Sussman, Bill Maya, Brian Rushton, Buster Hudson, Caleb Wilson, Carl Muckenhoupt, Chandler Groover, Chris Jones, Christopher Conley, Damon L. Wakes, Daniel Ravipinto, Daniel Stelzer, David Jose, David Petrocco, David Sturgis, Drew Mochak, Edward B, Emily Short, Erica Newman, Feneric, Finn Rosenløv, Gary Butterfield, Gavin Inglis, Greg Frost, Hanon Ondricek, Harkness Munt, Harrison Gerard, Ian Holmes, Ivan Roth, Jack Welch, Jacqueline Ashwell, James Eagle, Jason Dyer, Jason Lautzenheiser, Jason Love, Jeremy Freese, Joey Jones, Joshua Porch, Justin de Vesine, Justin Melvin, Katherine Morayati, Kenneth Pedersen, Lane Puetz, Llew Mason, Lucian Smith, Marco Innocenti, Marius Müller, Mark Britton, Mark Sample, Marshal Tenner Winter, Matt Schneider, Matt Weiner, Matthew Korson, Michael Fessler, Michael Gentry, Michael Hilborn, Michael Lin, Mike Spivey, Molly Ying, Monique Padelis, Naomi Hinchen, Nate Edwards, Petter Sjölund, Q Pheevr, Rachel Spitler, Reed Lockwood, Reina Adair, Riff Conner, Roberto Colnaghi, Rowan Lipkovits, Sam Kabo Ashwell, Scott Hammack, Sean M. Shore, Shin, Wade Clarke, Zach Hodgens, Zack Johnson

Average member rating: (24 ratings)

A tribute to Anchorhead.

Crash, by Phil Riley
Average member rating: (10 ratings)

Space Station Omicron-5 in the Deneb system is the biggest Space Authority outpost for many light years. You have the honor of being a member of the Repair Corps, repairing appliances and the like on Space...

Crash Dive!, by Brian Moriarty

You're on maintenance duty aboard the USS Sea Moss, patrolling the icy North Atlantic waters with an arsenal of twenty nuclear missiles. The Sea Moss is no ordinary sub. She's the first to carry the Navy's...

crash-landed, by Cyra Ezekeli
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A short story completed in Twine for the Neo-Twiny Jam, which requires 500 words or less. Final word count: 496 words Features two possible endings Contains offensive language and implied possible death. BG...

Creating Goncharov, by Albie
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Creating Goncharov is a surreal game where you play as a filmmaker creating a pitch for a Goncharov (1973) remake with the help of Al, an indecisive peer. Premise Everyone knows Goncharov. Martin Scorsese's...

Creative Cooking, by dott. Piergiorgio
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an interactive cooking ...

Creatures Such As We, by Lynnea Glasser
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A dating sim about how humanity connects through art, even out in the vastness of space.

Crème de la Crème, by Hannah Powell-Smith
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Climb to the very top of the class at your exclusive private school for socialites! Will you study hard, find a perfect match, or embrace scandal? "Crème de la Crème" is a 440,000-word interactive novel by...

Crime Stopper, by Dan Kitchen and Barry Marx

It's 9 am and your phone's ringing, Al Clubs, private eye. The woman's name is Cartier-Blanche Sizemore, and she's screaming. She's got reason to scream. She's been kidnapped. Her mother wants her back, the...

The Crimson Crown, by Antonio Antiochia
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Crimson Rose & White Lily, by manonamora
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After waking up from the weirdest dream, you find yourself in a strange place, among strange people. Realizing that you barely remember anything, you soon learn of your noble position in this world, and of...

Critical Mass, by Bob Blauschild

You have four days to stop a madman from firing five thermonuclear missiles at eighty locations in major cities around the world. Everything you do takes time, including flying from city to city, riding cabs...

Crobe, by Jonathan Partington
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Crocodracula: The Beginning, by Ryan Veeder and Harrison Gerard
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The first Taleframe game based on the 90s children's horror soap opera.

Crocodracula: The Enigma of Crocodracula, by Ryan Veeder
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The only extant material for the fifth entry in Taleframe's "Crocodracula" series is a solution file by "BLP."
The Crown of Ramhotep, by Gladys Officer, Gerry Officer

A Crown of Sorcery and Steel, by Josh Labelle
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Swing a sword, delve dungeons, and explore a warring fantasy realm full of orcs, elves, dwarves, and humans.

Cryptozookeeper, by Robb Sherwin
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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...

Crystal and Stone, Beetle and Bone, by Jenny Brennan
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You are God! The last God and Lornedei is your only true believer. You need her to stand against the coming dark. Can you guide her? Will she follow?

The Crystal Frog, by David Brown
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Crystal Quest, by C. Malin, Scott Jones

Crystals of Kings, by Keith Burnard

For hundreds of years, the races of the world have been at peace under the rule of the "House of Brenn". The mighty kings of this ancient line have used the "CRYSTALS OF KINGS" to keep control and order...
The Cup, by Jack Lockerby
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The Curse of Dragon Shrine, by Dana Crane
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The Curse Of DragonShrine, by Dana Crane

Curse of the Bat's Tomb, by fsi
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Short (498 words) walk in the tomb in the form of a Twine game made for Neo-Twiny Jam. Twee source code is included for perusal.

Curse of Vengeance, by Scott McNab
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Fairly typical Dungeons & Dragons meets text adventure. Includes extremely simple combat system, armor and weapon classes, and a 'Save the princess' plot. (blurb from The (Other) TADS Games List version 1.2)...

Custerd's Quest, by Craig Davies
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Cutthroats, by Michael Berlyn, Jerry Wolper
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You're about to get yourself into very deep trouble. You're a backwater island's top diver and foremost expert on local shipwrecks. Which makes you perfect for the job a band of the island's shadiest...

Cyborg, by Michael Berlyn
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When NASA 11 told you that becoming a cyborg was a painless experience, you believed them, didn't you?-and you volunteered. The operation was painless. Until you woke up.

D'ARKUN, by Michael Baltes
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Long forgotten proceedings have changed the coastal area north of Altenkirchen forever. Now, almost a century later, the proceedings have begun again. You're about to discover the sinister secrets of this...

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..

Damnatio Memoriae, by Emily Short
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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...

Danger Mouse in the Black Forest Chateau, by Brian Belson, Edgar Belka, Kevin Buckner

".....We have traced the source of the puzzling Pi-beam to a place deep in the Black Forest.....and that is where we want you to go....." You may think that this DANGER MOUSE adventure is going to be a piece...

Danger! Adventurer at Work!, by Simon Avery
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The Dare, by Dorothy Millard and Mario Moeller
You are Frederick Davies and you have been studying hard for a degree in law. The examinations are now over and it is Friday night, so you and your friends decide to "let down your hair" and go out for a...

The Dark Crystal, by Roberta Williams

In a fantasy world, an event of cosmic importance is about to occur: a Great Conjunction of the planet's Three Suns. A thousand years ago, when the Suns last came together, a cruel and selfish tribe known as...

Dark Realm, by D.B.T
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A dark psychological horror game, to which you play a nameless character, who finds themselves in a world of death and darkness. Where you must find a way out of the madness before it engulfs you. With every...
A Dark Room, by Michael Townsend
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A Dark Room is a famous text-based indie game made by doublespeakgames, which was inspired by Candy Box, but it's much grimmer in tone, with a stronger plot and a more roguelike-like focus on survival. And...

Darker Paths, by UCSBbigbrothers
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Part of our project for our English 149 class ...

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....

Darkwood, by Elise C. Boucher

Darkwood III: The Tramontane Alliance, by Elise C. Boucher

Davy Jones Locker, by Jack Lockerby

Dawn of The Soviet Ladybirds, by Christopher Merriner
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‘Ladybirds. What a summer for them! They were simply everywhere. Dorothy was ordinarily happy to see them in her garden, but this year there was such an abundance of them that it really was rather alarming…’...

Dawn of the Warlock, by Wade Clarke
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One night in your sleep you are granted (plagued with?) a vision: In your vision a vague hooded figure, wreathed in ethereal vapours, beckons to you from the western kingdom of Agimen. Its voice is familiar,...
A Day at the Office, by David Whyld
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The best worker in the office, Bob Newbold, has been tragically run down and only YOU - the company tea boy - has a hope of getting everything shipshape before the Japanese businessmen arrive. Are you up to...

A Day for Soft Food, by Tod Levi
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"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...

The Day I mauled ..., by Marius Müller
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In this game, you once again play as Alex, a young gay man attending another New Year's Eve party at your boyfriend Paul's. Paul keeps having unexpected problems at his parties, like this Thompson's gazelle...

Day of the Sleigh, by Dee Cooke
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It's Christmas Eve, and 17-year-old Eilidh has taken her young neighbour, Deirdre, shopping in town.  But when the department store suffers a power cut and Deirdre goes missing, Eilidh must help not only her...

The Day time stood still, by Marius Müller
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Dear Abbie, I have a problem with my marriage and I don't know what to do. My husband Paul and I had our troubles in the past, but now he is possessed by the spirit of his evil Uncle Wally, while the forest...
Daybreak RL, by Frank Duff/DF McCourt
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You are the bodyguard to Prince Illum. Prince Illum is blind and carries the Daybreak Shard. He needs to get it to the top of the tower. You are currently at the bottom of the tower. And you had best hurry,...

De Baron, by Victor Gijsbers
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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 Cities, by Jon Ingold
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The letter you received from Arkwright's nephew Carter was clear enough: when the old man dies the inheritance tax will be too great. It's certain ruin, much like the estate itself. To raise some capital the...

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...

Dead Man's Hill, by Arno von Borries
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Mutual slaughter in northern France, spring 1916.

The Dead of Winter, by William Dooling
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You are a poor fisherman, trapped in a war you have no hope of understanding. In the dead of winter, it falls to you to deliver a message to one side...or another. Does the choice even matter? Are you doomed...
Dead Reckoning, by David Whyld
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Drawn back to your childhood town of Morrow after a distraught call from a friend, you find yourself in a life-or-death struggle against an ancient evil intent on lifting an ages old curse.

Deadline Enchanter, by Alan DeNiro
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Deadline, or, Being Douglas Adams, by Gunther Schmidl
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In this short one-room tribute to Douglas Adams, you play as someone in the bath with a rubber ducky. The phone is ringing, but it's quite far away from you.
Death Checks In, by H.W. Williams
DATELINE...The Gray Owl Inn, once the place for tired travelers is now the scene of a baffling murder. A young lady with the whole world before here was taken away recently. The residents of the Inn, are now...
The Death of Two Great Minds, by Alex Watson
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In this small tribute game to Douglas Adams, you play as Arthur Dent. Together with Fenchurch and Ford, you have travelled to the planet Preliumtarn to read God's Final Message To His Creation, which is said...

Death off the Cuff, by Simon Christiansen
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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...

Death on the Stormrider, by Daniel M. Stelzer
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You'd had such high hopes, starting out. And now you're limping home, tail between your legs, as all your plans for a new life crashed and burned. You barely had enough money to arrange an airship home, an...

Death Shack, by Mel S
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Written for Ectocomp 2011.

Deathless: The City's Thirst, by Max Gladstone
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Negotiate water rights from scorpion gods in this necromantic legal thriller! Discredit your boss, solve murders, and reanimate your own corpse to keep your city from drying out. “Deathless: The City’s...

Degeneracy, by Leonard Richardson
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The glitterings of Gold, Jewels, Tapestries, &c. belie the Corruption of he who 'til recently occupied this high Seat. A white Carpet, once flanked by Sycophants & Counsellors, now lies untravelled. It leads...

Delegated, by S. P. Hurlsmith

Delightful Wallpaper, by Andrew Plotkin ('Edgar O. Weyrd')
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Delphina's House, by Alice Grove
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A girl must say goodbye to her home. But there's time for one last adventure....

Delron, by Richard Otter

Delron is set on the space cargo ship Orion, three days out from space dock something has gone seriously wrong. Just an accident or was it sabotage?

The Delusion Dilemna, by Nathaniel Holle
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The Delusion Dilemna is a 60,000+ word twine game, where you are stuck in a maze of dreams and have to figure out what is real. Your actions in a previous world will have no effect on the current world, but...

Delusions, by C. E. Forman
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"A trip into virtual reality: all begins with debugging a VR system, but then things get out of hand. Who is Morrodox, what has he to do with your colleagues, and what is going on?" [--blurb from The Z-Files...
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]
Detective 1: Blacksea Island, by Will11
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The first in a new series of stories featuring the teenage amateur detective Susan Knox as the reader's character. Set in open world locations where the reader is free to choose where to look for clues, who...
The Detective's Bot, by C.E.J. Pacian
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He was the best detective you could hope to find on the shadowy streets of this forsaken moon, and now he's dead. You're just his secretary bot. You can type five hundred words a minute and look damn good...
The Devil in the Details, by Jerry Ford
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You have just arrived in San Francisco, no job, no family, no friends, just a letter of introduction addressed to Lucy, who offers you a lifetime of everlasting fame, fortune, happiness, or power, if you...
Die Polarstation, by Jürgen Popp
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After a plane crash near an old polar station, a way out of arctic hell must be found.

Dinner Bell, by Jenni Polodna
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You are the involuntary and very hungry test subject of a semi-anthropomorphized dog in a labcoat who wants you to find all sixteen food items mentioned in They Might Be Giants' song Dinner Bell, which have...

Disenchantment Bay, by Jacqueline A Lott (with a head start from Emily Short)
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From the about text: "The Inform 7 examples collectively known as Disenchantment Bay were born of a trip that Emily Short made with Dan Shiovitz to Alaska to visit me and Sam Kabo Ashwell, many years ago....

Divis Mortis, by Lynnea Dally
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The infection has spread. They are coming.

DO NOT KILL THE SLEEPING BEAST, by mogar
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every day is a battle, but every night is a warzone. for neo-twiny jam. final wordcount: 500, exactly.

Dog Star Adventure, by Lance Micklus
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"You are the only hope of saving Princess Leia and the Freedom Fighting Force. Disguised as a trading ship, you have just landed on Darth Vader's ship. You must rescue the princess, her necklace, and the...

The Domes of Sha, by Jack Lockerby

Don't Mind My Apocalypse Head, by Bruno Dias
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A social anxiety body horror short story about surviving a dinner party when you are just a little bit possessed by an entity that wants to bring about the end of the universe. Features nine official endings...

Don't Take It Personally, Babe, It Just Ain't Your Story, by Christine Love
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A spiritual sequel of sorts to Digital: A Love Story, set in a prestigious private high school, and on the social networks of 2027. Seven students, three endings, one eavesdropping teacher. A full length...

Doomsday Lost Echoes, by Alberto Riera and Daniel Castaño
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The game was programmed specifically for the Amstrad CPC using the Professional Adventure Writing System (PAWS). It makes use of most of the PAWS capabilities and, although it is a text adventure, it relies...

Dorm: Adventure at the 8-Bit Assembly , by Carrington Vanston
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PLOT You’ve heard about the 8-Bit Assembly for ages: a retro Apple II computer convention where attendees stay in a university dorm along with fellow vintage computer nerds. You’ve been looking forward to it...

Double Agent, by Tom Frost
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Down, the Serpent and the Sun, by Chandler Groover
Average member rating: (27 ratings)

The feathered serpent coils before you, greater than any god or any monster. Maimed warriors are crushed beneath its claws. The sun will never rise again.

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...

Dr Horror's House of Terror, by Ade McT
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The Grave cannot hold them...Nothing human can stop them...Torn from their tombs to terrify the world, the cravings of their undead blood made them kill...kill...KILL! Feel the chill of the crypt in your...

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...

Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Andrew Dean, Lee Hodgson, Mark Davies
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(Note: This game was originally listed on IFDB as being by Rod Pike... It is not by Rod Pike... it was by the Essential Myth)

Dracula - Prince of Darkness (formerly "House of the Midnight Sun"), by Paul T. Johnson
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Dragnet, by Unknown
Published by Taskmaster Software.
Dragon Fate, by Kris Schnee
Average member rating: (15 ratings)
In the hills of Gerrick's Boon, strange stories reach your ears. Alchemy, a rare art elsewhere, here seems more commonly taught than reading. Judging from the wordless shop signs lining the four dirt...

Dragon Flies Like Labradorite, by Troy Jones III
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"You're in a right proper mess now. That blasted dragonfly has gone and disappeared, and what's more, you're down to your last farthing..." This game was released as an entrant in the Thanksgiving Speed-IF...

Dragon Hunt, by Joachim Froholt and Markus Merilainen
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Dragon Quest, by Jack Lockerby
Dragon Resources Stories, by Anonymous
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

Dragon's Pass, by Wade Clarke
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An envoy of the Dcasicil braves E'marka's mountain domain. A short interactive episode. Author's comment: Dragon's Pass is one of several demonstration projects I wrote for a never-completed CYOA Framework...

Dragonworld, by J. Brynne Stephens
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You are Amsel of Fandora. Scientist. Researcher. And somewhat of a visionary. Until now, you have led your life as a hermit. But a lot has happened, and your life has changed. You can no longer afford to...

The Dream Concert, by Ken Webb

Dream Pieces, by Iam Curio
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You are in a dream but if you stay you'll miss out on a great birthday! If you like the rhyme... It's hammer time!

The Dreamhold, by Andrew Plotkin
Average member rating: (175 ratings)

The Dreamhold is interactive fiction — a classic text adventure. No graphics! No point-and-click! You type your commands, and read what happens next. The Dreamhold is designed for people who have never...

Dreamscape CYOA, by Cerfeuil
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Short wish fulfillment inspired by r/makeyourchoice and Cat Break. Made for the Neo Twiny Jam, with less than 500 words. All art is handdrawn except the background and images for 'Interdimensional...

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.

Duck Diary, by Mathbrush
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Your new rubber friend will help you get through this.

Duckman, by Wade
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Can you save the city? Without opposable thumbs? Probably not. But you're still going to try. Not because you can do it... but because no one else will. [Author's Note: Please do not play this game. It was a...
The Duel in the Snow, by Utkonos
Average member rating: (21 ratings)
A Tale of Old Russia
The Duel That Spanned the Ages, by Oliver Ullmann
Average member rating: (20 ratings)
A frantic struggle for survival in hard vacuum.

Dungeon Adventure, by Mike Austin, Nick Austin, and Pete Austin
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

Complete our Middle Earth Trilogy. The Demon has been defeated and his Dark Tower cast down. But its dangerous remain, filled with hoarded treasure and magic. There are just two snags. Other creatures want...

Dungeon Text, by Richard Cromwell
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An unfinished project exploring the use of RPG elements in a text-based adventure setting. You are a ranger. Captured by the Dark Lord Aranoth's minions, you must escape from the dungeon and warn the king!...
The Dungeons of Dunjin, by Magnus Olsson
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Dunnet, by Ron Schnell
Average member rating: (8 ratings)
A text adventure that is built into almost every copy of the Emacs text editor. It can be run by running "emacs -batch -l dunnet" in a shell or the key sequence "M-x dunnet" within Emacs, the former being...
Dutch Dapper IV: The Final Voyage, by Harry Hol
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You play as the great space-time detective Dutch Dapper near the end of his career. Despondent after the events of the prologue, he goes on one last adventure.

The Dying of the Light, by Amanda Walker
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Do not go gentle. Rage, rage. Content Warnings: This game is about dementia and violent psychosis.

Eamon 7.0 Demo Adventure, by Tom Zuchowski

The "Eamon 7.0 Demo Adventure" was written by Tom Zuchowski to test his Classic Eamon 7.0 system for the Apple II series of computers. It is pointless as a Eamon Deluxe adventure and was only converted for...

Easter Egg Hunt 2020, by David Welbourn
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In this light-hearted scavenger hunt, it's your task to find twelve colorful Easter eggs hidden inside other works of interactive fiction! But who are the eggs for, and what do they really want? Note: The...

Eat Me, by Chandler Groover
Average member rating: (97 ratings)

In this castle, you'll eat or be eaten. May contain dairy, carnage, puzzles, nuts.

The Ebb and Flow of the Tide, by Peter Nepstad
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You have done a horrible thing, so horrible that burial will be denied you, either in soil or sea, neither can there be any hell for you. You wait for some hours, knowing this. Then your friends come for...

Ecdysis, by Peter Nepstad
Average member rating: (80 ratings)

You wake, a pounding headache loud in your inner ear, the back of your head itching and tingling, your mouth full of cotton. The pain drives away your dreams, weird visions of alien landscapes... Ecdysis is...

The Edifice, by Lucian P. Smith
Average member rating: (84 ratings)

"Something new in your everyday hunter-gatherer routine: where did this strange edifice come from? Dare you enter and explore the secrets of this... thing, or do you try to face your enemies? Like you have a...

Eight Feet Under, by Stefan Vogt
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Have you ever wondered what the robot spider did when it went into the wall to help Olivia? In this Hibernated 1 addon, you will see the events on the stranded alien ship through the eyes of an unusual and...

The Elements, by Andy Lee
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In this game, you play as the grandchild of Stradivarius. Your musical career begins when you find one of his violins. Ten years after retiring, you get a summons from the queen to perform. Now you must find...

The Eleusinian Miseries, by Mike Russo
Average member rating: (26 ratings)

Well, isn't this a lark! After solid years of going after old Alky to let you in on that Mysteries wheeze of his, at last tonight's the night. He's dragged you from Athens to Eleusis for the to-do, but no...

The Ellisnore Diamond, by Jack Lockerby

Elsinore: After Hamlet, by Lapin Lunaire Games
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

Story The year is 2021—or maybe 1602? Hamlet the Younger has just tragically died and Fortinbras the Younger, King of Norway and newly-conquered Denmark, has a lot of cleaning up to do. Elsinore: After...

The Elves of Maroland, by Daniel Carbonell Cob

A new era begins in Maroland... The Ancient Talking Dragons have nearly all been annihilated... The Elves hide in their ancient mansions. The future belongs to humans... However, naive human wizards long for...

Emerald Isle, by Shaun D. Abbott and James Horsler
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Emerald Isle lies in the Bermuda Triangle, hidden by fogs and treacherous waters and peopled by remnants of a strange civilisation. You play the part of an aircraft pilot, employed to ferry urgent...

Emergence, by James Lewis

In this sci-fi/otome game you play as a brilliant, if emotionally challenged, young math whiz recruited by NASA to look into an AI that's been misbehaving. But NASA isn't being totally honest with you and...

Emily, by MuffiTuffiWuffi
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

Made for Neo-Twiney Jam 2023. 499 words.

The Enchanted Castle, by Gregg Roberts
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You fall asleep and wake up in a castle. Find the princess and the hidden treasure.

End Of History, by n-n
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

An interdimensional visitation narrative.

Endless, Nameless, by Adam Cadre
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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...

The Endling Archive, by Kazuki Mishima
Average member rating: (30 ratings)

Browse the Endling Archive to uncover the purpose of its creation.

Enemies, by Andy Phillips
Average member rating: (11 ratings)

"It will forever remain one of life's mysteries: why should a simple man like yourself get on the wrong side of anybody? You are, after all, just a typical accountant. A little sideline romance with the...
Enhanced, by Hans Persson and Dominik Zemmler
Average member rating: (3 ratings)
"Here you are, trying to survive yet another day in the big city with no money, no job and no hope. As you walk down the street in the government research project area, you suddenly see a sign reading:...

Enigma, by Simon Deimel
Average member rating: (20 ratings)

Eyes can see, and a mind can think. Insanity is just one step away. You are in a room. That's where you are, and you know exactly what is going on. But the truth is hard to take. The game file includes hints...

The Enigma of Solaris, by jkj yuio
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Amidst the stars, Solaris stands as a beacon of human achievement and discovery. A space station dedicated to unravelling the universe's deepest secrets, it has been a centre of groundbreaking research. ...

Enlightened Master, by Ben Kidwell and Maevele Straw
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

Years of questing have brought you to the mountain where you will find the Enlightened Master.

Enlightenment, by Taro Ogawa
Average member rating: (42 ratings)

"The intrepid Adventurer has escaped the caverns. Nought remains to block a successful escape but this troll here. Hmmm. A one-room adventure. The author recommends this for people who grew up on Zork II and...

Enveloping Darkness, by John Muhlhauser, Helen Pluta, and Othniel Aryee
Average member rating: (13 ratings)

Your brother is dead. Well, that’s what everyone tells you. He was taken by orcs when you were eleven, and since then, you’ve been living on your own.

Eon of the Green, by Miky Kray
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

In this text based RPG you play as an agent exploring Earth's far future. Receive weird visuals from lifeforms on the brink of extinction. Can you decipher their meaning? Eon of the Green is a game about the...

Episode in the Life of an Artist, by Peter Eastman
Average member rating: (27 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.

Eric's Gift, by Joao Mendes
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

Eric's Gift - A short interactive story about painting the future.

The Erudition Chamber, by Daniel Freas
Average member rating: (26 ratings)

Eruption, by Richard Bos
Average member rating: (15 ratings)

You have just woken up, in a cave, with a hangover, and something is rumbling. And it isn't your stomach.
Escape From Mystery Mansion, by CityXen
Originally written in 1985 in BASIC, but never released. Optimised and made available in 2022.
Escape from Prison Planet, by Peter Clark

Escape from Pulsar 7, by Brian Howarth and Wherner Barnes
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"As last surviving crew member of this ill-fated space freighter you must somehow manage to make your escape in the frail shuttle craft without being eaten by the mutant monster now roaming free." [--blurb...

Escape From Summerland, by Joey Jones and Melvin Rangasamy
Average member rating: (16 ratings)

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...

Escape From the Deep, by John Blythe
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Welcome to the Deep... You arrive on the deep ocean research and mining facility, Neptune Base. You've been sent with a team to investigate strange incidents on the station. Erratic behaviors and dangerous...
Escape to New York, by Richard Otter
Average member rating: (4 ratings)
Your name is Jack Thompson and you are, for want of a better word, a thief. On your latest adventure you have managed to acquire Johnson's 'The Willow Tree', which is worth more than you will be able to...
The Escaping Habit, by Jack Lockerby
The time is January 1942 - the place a P.O.W. camp, somewhere in Italy. You were captured when en route to a meeting with the various Allied commanders in North Africa. You were carrying highly-confidential...

Esther's, by Brad Buchanan and Alleson Buchanan
Average member rating: (25 ratings)

At Esther's cafe your adorable host Served cheese to the mice when they wanted toast! That won't bother Harold's robust appetite, But Janie insists that the order's not right. Author's Postmortem

Eurydice, by Anonymous
Average member rating: (37 ratings)

A short game about grief, with occasional snakes.

Evacuate, by Jeff Rissman
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

Everybody Loves a Parade, by Cody Sandifer
Average member rating: (15 ratings)
You play as a woman driving a moving van across the United States to her new job as New York City's Assistant to the Chief Engineer. Your gas runs out when you arrive at Chewton, Arizona which is having its...

Everything We Do Is Games, by Doug Orleans
Average member rating: (9 ratings)

A null game, inspired by John Cage's 4′33″.

The Evil Chicken of Doom, by Mel S
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

"God. That chicken does have two noses!?" "We have to do something, a chicken like that must evil magic powers." "How do you think that?" "Well, he has two noses! Imagine what other unimaginable evil things...
The Evil Sorcerer, by Gren Remoz
Average member rating: (3 ratings)
The Evolution of Trust, by NICKY CASE
Average member rating: (2 ratings)
This interactive guide is heavily based off Robert Axelrod's groundbreaking 1984 book, The Evolution of Cooperation! I was also heavily inspired by his 1997 sequel, The Complexity of Cooperation, and Robert...
Ex Materia, by Juhana Leinonen
Average member rating: (4 ratings)
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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...

Exhibition, by Ian Finley
Average member rating: (27 ratings)

"The Hartman Gallery extends their invitation to an exhibition of Anatoly Domokov's "American Paintings." Who draws the line between art and life? HTML enhanced." [--blurb from Competition '99]

Explore Nocta, by NocturnNo9

Explore Nocta is a mystery exploration game with horror themes. The Player's goal is to search through the enigmatic town of Nocta to uncover its secrets and find their missing friend.

EXTERMINATE!, by Michael Martin
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

The Eye of Bain, by Simon Wadsworth
Average member rating: (1 rating)

Fabled Journey, by John C. Knudsen
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A minimalist text adventure. You are Magnus, the Protector of Morr, in the Kingdom of Oshen. Fabled Journey is an experiment in the deployment of a Gamebook/CYOA using a lite-weight javascript game engine,...

Façade, by Michael Mateas, Andrew Stern
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Façade is an artificial intelligence-based art/research experiment in electronic narrative—an attempt to move beyond traditional branching or hyper-linked narrative to create a fully-realized, one-act...

The Faeries Of Haelstowne, by Christopher Merriner
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“Hailstone," announced the Chief. “Round Ashton way. A little job for you, Arthur - their vicar's gone missing. They're a funny lot over in those parts. Superstitious. Someone's hiding something; don't let...

Fahrenheit 451, by Len Neufeld and Ray Bradbury
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The time is not too long from now. The place is New York City. Yet it is a setting few of us would ever recognize. For this is a world where simply owning a book is dangerously illegal. Where Firemen come...

Fairest, by Amanda Walker
Average member rating: (26 ratings)

“Mirror, mirror, on the wall,” you say dreamily, gazing into its sparkling surface… “You know,” replies the mirror, “I can do a lot more than just reflect fair faces. O, how I long to leap off this wall! I...

Faithful Companion, by Matt Weiner
Average member rating: (22 ratings)

The "Play On-line" link should now go to version 2!

Fallacy of Dawn, by Robb Sherwin
Average member rating: (19 ratings)

In a world that never quite got over the '80s, Delarion Yar dispenses quarters for the local arcade... badly. A software pirate from better days, he's crossed the wrong people one too many times. Locked into...

Fallen London, by Failbetter Games
Average member rating: (56 ratings)

Poet or Assassin? Lover or Spy? Choose your fate in Fallen London, a gothic metropolis a mile beneath the surface of the earth. An epic adventure where you live a sometimes horrific, often curious, but...

The Familiar, by groggydog
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You are a witch's crow familiar, headstrong as anything but still young and untested. What starts as a normal day soon takes a harrowing turn when your pacific caretaker, Valmai, is struck down by a terrible...

The Farthest Shore, by Stewart J. McAbney
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Fate, by Victor Gijsbers
Average member rating: (50 ratings)

You are nine months pregnant, and the contractions have already begun. Trapped in a castle with more enemies than friends, and Queen in name but not in influence, you fear for the future of your child. But...

Feathery Christmas, by OK Feather
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

A text adventure to save Christmas with the help of your feathery friends.

Fellowship of the Ring, by Adam Thornton
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

Ferret, by FerretAuthors@jugglingsoot.com
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A game inspired by Zork, written in the 1980s in PL/I for Data General mini-computers, and ported to IBM Visual Age PL/I for Windows. Ferret is a Windows text mode executable.

Ferryman's Gate, by Daniel Maycock
Average member rating: (18 ratings)

You punctuation-obsessed uncle has died, leaving your family his house, but leaving you, a mere kid, with his unfinished business. As you follow the clues left by your uncle, you quickly discover that while...

Fight Club Reborn, by Magma
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Fight Club is the story of a female fighter making a living in a Dark Near Future - 2024 Warning - This version of the game is yet to be completed. The game is mostly text based,playable in a web browser...

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...

Film at Eleven, by Bowen Greenwood
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"Welcome to a day in the life of Betty Byline! Two months out of journalism school you enter the workplace with big time dreams of network television news. Fame, fortune and glory, all writ large under the...
The Final Demand, by Steve J. Clay
Twice before you had sallied forth to do battle with a bunch of 'evaders' and twice before you had returned triumphant ... the 'dues' clutched tightly in your sweaty little paw. Why, you had even been...

Final Exam, by Jack Whitham
Average member rating: (26 ratings)

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”...

The Final Question, by David Whyld

Final Selection, by Sam Gordon
Average member rating: (18 ratings)

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...

Fingertips: Fingertips, by Michael D. Hilborn
Average member rating: (9 ratings)

Fingertips: The Day That Love Came To Play, by S. John Ross
Average member rating: (14 ratings)

You're a lounge singer. Time to knock 'em dead. (Written for the Apollo 18+20 tribute album project)

Fire in the Blood, by Richard Otter
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Since that night your life has seemed like a living dream or to be more accurate a living nightmare. Coming home and finding her like that, her still form lying in your lounge. Even now, two months later,...
The Fire Ruby, by Laurence Creighton

The Fire Tower, by Jacqueline A. Lott
Average member rating: (49 ratings)

First Person, by Buster Hudson
Average member rating: (13 ratings)

Entry in EctoComp 2014.

fix it, by Lily Boughton
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

there are many things for you to do today but first, there is a slight issue

Fix Your Mother's Printer, by Geoffrey Golden
Average member rating: (18 ratings)

Laugh, Cry, Troubleshoot ...

The Flames That Take, by OkayMayoGames
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You're with each other at the beginning and you with each other till the end. You'll let the flames consume you. Together at least. Word Count: 409 words  This game was made for the Neo-Twiny Jam.

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...

The Fluid of Life, by Carl Muckenhoupt
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

A Flustered Duck, by Jim Aikin
Average member rating: (12 ratings)
You play as Elliott, a pig-boy. It starts when Granny Grabby orders you to get Mabel the duck down from the roof. You try, but a series of unfortunate events ensue ending with Mabel swallowing the diamond...
A Fly On the Wall, by Nigel Jayne
Average member rating: (4 ratings)
. . . this game was updated, expanded and released in 2017 as A Fly on the Wall, or An Appositional Eye. . . The Harrison Mansion is closing after 45 years of delighting its visitors with collections of the...

Foo Foo, by Buster Hudson
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Someone's been bopping the field mice on the head, and only Good Fairy, Senior Detective can find out who. A parser-driven noir adventure based on the interactive fiction of Ryan Veeder.

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]

For Eternity, Again and Again, by TheChosenGiraffe
Average member rating: (11 ratings)

Two lovers. A hero, who's reborn over and over into a new life. A higher being that must love and lose again and again. The cracks start to form as the Universe keeps them from living happily together....
Forcas, by Unexpected_Dreams
Forcas (Alpha) ...
The Forest House, by Seciden Mencarde
Average member rating: (5 ratings)
Only you can see the house in your backyard. What secrets might it hold?

Forever and Ever, by PetricakeGames-IF
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

A father will do anything to keep his son safe.

forever, an echo, by wilderlingdev
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two beings out of time, again and again. an entry for neo twiny jam. slightly inspired by destiny 2. if you know, you know. word count: 500 cover image credit: thomas bormans

forever, interrupted - interactive fiction version, by wilderlingdev
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companion game to forever, an echo. slightly longer, interactive fiction version of this. the entity destroying the universe pauses for a conversation. entry for the single choice game jam this time. again,...

The Forgotten Nightmare I, by Chris Radford
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The Forgotten Nightmare series is a series of IF games designed for mobile devices. It incorporates classic IF interaction with the ease of a modern interface and an automatically "drawn" map. This Christian...

Fort Aegea, by Francesco Bova
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

Forum, by Woodfish
Average member rating: (2 ratings)
It started with a seemingly innocent message, entitled 'HELLO!!! I AM A NEWBIE PLZ HELP!!!!!'. Drifters around the world, being the kind souls that they are, clicked on the title, eager to help, but little...

Forward, by Naomi Norbez (call me Bez)
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CW: Discussion of anxiety & self-hatred. Developed for SeedComp 2024.  I made this because I needed it.  I hope it can help someone else, too. Seeds used: https://amanda-walker.itch.io/memory-quilt...

The Four Symbols, by The Grue!
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"A seemingly simple quest, but with a sting in its tail! Can you prove yourself innocent of witchcraft? Will you curse the day you encountered the black cat? Will you survive? Only time will tell as your...
Fox, Fowl and Feed, by Chris Conroy
Average member rating: (12 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.

Frankenstein, by Dave Morris and inkle
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This unique literary app places you in conversation with Frankenstein himself as his story unfolds. He will be your guide, and you his advisor. Console, counsel or condemn him: the choice is yours. Written...

free bird., by Passerine
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A minimalist hopepunk avian escape game written for SeedComp! 2023. Seeds used: Feathered Fury by Amanda Walker Room; Closed Door by Charm Cochran This story includes mild descriptions of animal neglect and...

The Frenetic Five vs. Mr. Redundancy Man, by Neil deMause
Average member rating: (9 ratings)

In this game about under-powered superheroes, you play as Improv, leader of the Frenetic Five. You use common objects in surprisingly useful ways. While queueing for stamps at the Post Office, you receive...
The Frenetic Five vs. Sturm und Drang, by Neil deMause
Average member rating: (13 ratings)
In this game about under-powered superheroes, you play as Improv, leader of the Frenetic Five. You use common objects in surprisingly useful ways. Bob, your contact at Supertemps, hires your team for a new...
The Frenetic Five vs. the Seven Deadly Dwarves, by Neil deMause
Average member rating: (8 ratings)
Friendly Foe, by Mike Sousa
Average member rating: (3 ratings)
That bunny has done enough damage to your garden. Today is the day you're finally going to catch him. Armed with carrots and a fishing net, you set your sights on its home. This is going to be easy...
Frobozz Magic Support, by Nate Cull
Average member rating: (7 ratings)
You play as a novice glyph support clerk but no one's around but an animated burin. It seems the more experienced support clerks are either lost, got themselves un-implemented, or got stuck in a timeloop....
Frustrated Interviewee, by Robert Street
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Frustration, by Jim MacBrayne
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

Chasing after a wayward shopping list given to you by your Aunt Maud, you accidentally plummet down an open manhole. What adventures await you at the other end? [blurb from The (Other) TADS Games List...

Future Boy!, by Kent Tessman, Derek Lo, Dan Langan, and Nate Laguzza
Average member rating: (10 ratings)

Galatea, by Emily Short
Average member rating: (335 ratings)

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...

Galaxy Trek Adventure #1, by Howard Batie
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You are captain of the starship Enterprise and awoke moments ago to find an empty ship. No one responds-- Spock, Chekhov, Sulu, Scotty, Uhuru... Is this the Klingon's final victory? From Hot Coco Magazine...

Galaxy Trek Adventure #2, by Howard F. Batie
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In response to a call for emergency medical assistance, the Enterprise has arrived at the planet Tycho IV carrying a vaccine for use against the deadly Parmelian fever. Because of the vaccine's magnetic...

The Galleon, by Robert Olessak

One of the largest, longest and most difficult text adventure games ever made. You must control two characters at the same time in a surrealistic fantasy world. (If you need more information about the...

Game Producer!, by Jason Bergman
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

Gamlet, by Tomasz Pudlo
Average member rating: (21 ratings)
The Garden of Earthly Regrets, by solipsistgames
A mystery game of garden exploration — you are in a garden, or are you? Things have happened here, or have they? Electronic adaptation of an entry for the 2022 Lindenbaum prize for short gamebook fiction.
The Garden of Verging Paths, by Quinn Spence
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The Garden Party, by Larry Horsfield
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You have to get things ready for a party in your newly-landscaped garden, as requested by your partner Pru - otherwise known as SWMBO (She Who Must Be Obeyed). This small, one-location game was created to...

Gatefold, by Axile Studio, Holly Boson, Alex McGivern

Investigate the mysteries of the citadel of Gallos. Get into logical debates with stone carvings. Clear your name from a maddening legal system, and return to the world. A novella-length interactive fantasy...

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...

The Gateway of the Ferrets, by Feneric
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So life lately has been traveling through one portal after another, each with its own risks and rewards. Sometimes portals lead to dead ends. Sometimes they close and lock behind you. Sometimes it's...

Gateway to Karos, by Derek Haslam
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As a local historian, you had been allowed into the great library of Karoway Manor. There between the pages of an ancient book you found a seemingly much older sheet of paper. it told of a stone gateway to...

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...

GC: A Thrashing Parity Bit of the Mind, by Pearl Tsai, Carl de Marcken, and David Baggett
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Not much plot but filled with ingenious puzzles. Set at MIT, and written for the MIT AI Laboratory Winter Olympics 1994. The first game to use David Baggett's WorldClass library instead of ADV.T....

Geist - An Interactive Geek Horror, by Dave Bernazzani, Dean Svendsen, Jonna Hind and Steven Robert
Average member rating: (11 ratings)

Geist was used as a site-wide adventure for Board Game Geek in January of 2014. During the week of the event, nearly 700 players worked their way through this game. The community rallied around the players...

Gestures Towards Divinity, by Charm Cochran
Average member rating: (14 ratings)

Francis Bacon (1909-1992) was a British painter, infamous for his use of brutal imagery and distortions of the human face and body. Well-known for both his violent subject matter and cutting wit, he is...

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

Ghost King, by Jason Compton
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Your father is dead and you’re sure your uncle is responsible. You tried to tell your mother so. Instead of believing you, she married him. Now you’re going to uncover the truth and set things right... GHOST...

Ghost Simulator, by Morton Newberry
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You've never known what would happen after death. And now that you have woken up in a dusty attic, it is time to figure out what happened to you and meet the family living in your home. Ghost Simulator is a...

Ghost Town, by Finn Rosenløv
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The premise of Ghost Town is to fulfill the final wishes of your Great Grandfather and inherit his entire estate and visit the abandoned gold mining town of Battle Creek. It sounds like a simple task, until...

Ghosterington Night, by Wade Clarke
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Danger-filled Ghosterington Manor appears atop the same cliff each year on Samhain night. Hidden inside are the last four works of the dead bad poet Vigilance Ghosterington. Those four poems are worth a...

Ghosts Within, by Kyriakos Athanasopoulos
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The smell of damp moss fills the air. Wet grass and dirt surround you while you are lying face down on the cold forest floor. Your clothes are dirty, wet, and slightly torn in places. Your head's left side...

GiantKiller, by Peter D. Killworth
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From the Topologika website (retrieved September 2012): 'GiantKiller' is a classic (i.e. text-only) and tongue-in-cheek Maths adventure game based on Jack and the Beanstalk. It's aimed at 8 to 14 year olds -...

Gifts of Phallius 2: The Key to Eternity, by GoblinBoy
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WARNING: The game contains scenes of a sexual nature. QUIT if you don't want to read about sexual scenes. The title card features a collage of young nude girls. The prologue begins with a small picture of a...

Gigantomania, by Michelle Tirto and Mike Ciul
Average member rating: (21 ratings)

Living under the Stalin era, in four parts.

Glimmer, by Katie Benson
Average member rating: (18 ratings)

It's bleak out there. No one would blame you for turning away.

Goblet of Mercy, by S. A. Welland
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Goblet of Mercy is a short dark fantasy visual novel about your encounter with a woman whose ego is so big she made her own perfect world to contain it. It began with Halloween, a time when the veil between...

The Golden Apple, by Simon Wadsworth
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In this adventure you find yourself on a quest to find the Golden Apple. Your adventuring will take you through a large mansion, to sea on board a ship, and to a mountainous island. You will pick up...

The Golden Baton, by Brian Howarth
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Your mission is to recover the Golden Baton, a priceless artefact that holds within it a kind of life force that maintains the equilibrium between good and evil. Stolen from the Palace of King Ferrenuil, the...

The Golden Locket, by Keith Burnard

Sitting in your favourite armchair - the half-empty box of chocolates on your lap - watching a late-night western on the telly, you suddenly hear a voice say ... "PUT YOUR HANDS UP!" Much to your surprise...

Golden Seas, by Paul Weller

Take to the seas and discover the islands and people who inhabit the Clasp. Can you find the meaning behind your dreams? Golden Seas is a traditional text adventure with a huge open world (over 120...

The Golden Sword of Bhakhor, by Dennis Francombe
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Raised by a wandering tribe of nomadic herdsmen and brought up in the simple style of their existence, you know very little about the world of the great 'walled-cities' and of the inhabitants who dwell...

Goldilocks is a FOX!, by J. J. Guest
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Staggering back from yet another wild student party, blonde bombshell Goldilocks decides to take a shortcut through the enchanted forest. All she really wants is a nice hot bowl of porridge and somewhere to...

Goncharov, by Stanwixbuster
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just a bunch of boring conversations and shooting? - letterboxd an excuse to mess about with tape window and a dead joke for goncharov jam music by cal credits https://archive.org/details/35mmstockfootage...

GONCHAROV 2073, by sweetfish
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

GONCHAROV 2073...

Goncharov Escapes!, by manonamora
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Play Goncharov, a Russian mobster having moved to Naples, Italy, for... err... reasons. A meeting with the local Don goes haywire, forcing you into a car chase to save your... well, Goncharov's life. As you...

Goncharov: Coda, by Lapin Lunaire Games
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Best played in fullscreen (click the button at the bottom right of the game frame or press F11) Goncharov (1973) stole your heart the very first time you saw it — and now you're living the dream, playing one...

Gonzague, by Oscar Arcane
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Gonzague is an interactive fiction game made with Twine, based on the novel Le Bossu by Paul Féval. It is a court intrigue and swashbuckling story set in early 18th-century France. The game has two versions:...

The Good Ghost, by Sarah Willson, Kirk Damato
Average member rating: (18 ratings)

A wholesome haunt in five acts.

Good Grub!, by Damon L. Wakes
Average member rating: (9 ratings)

Good Grub! is a brief, comedic interactive narrative about insects as a sustainable food source.

Goodbye Doggy, by Goodbye Doggy, Meri and Mark
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

The goodbye doggy cemetery is full of mystery.
The Gordello Incident, by Tom Frost

Gorxungula's Curse, by Duncan Bowsman
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Help us, Lophese. A misspoken word has birthed Gorxungula, who now terrorizes the absurd voids above our beloved faraway Rabbits. Make a proper sacrifice to Elder Moose, the Great Antlered One, and rid us of...

The Gostak, by Carl Muckenhoupt
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"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...

Got ID?, by Marc Valhara
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

"Continue to believe it: you are not a loser. In fact, this evening, you'll be a hero. According to Article C, Section Eight of the Tennessee State Criminal Code, it is illegal for any person under...

Goteras, by Incanus
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

Best Story, Best Literature and Best Puzzle Winner on spanish Premios Hispanos 2006. You're onboard a small starship, on route to a mining asteroid... and there's an accident. The Master Computer decides to...

Gotomomi, by Arno von Borries
Average member rating: (18 ratings)

Gotomomi central station is a place where many dreams and hopes meet. It draws in scores with its many possibilities. To most, it becomes a nightmare. Fortunately, I just needed to change trains there.

Gourmet, by Aaron A. Reed and Chad Barb
Average member rating: (55 ratings)

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...

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.

The Granite Book, by James Mitchelhill
Average member rating: (12 ratings)

IFComp 2002 entry.
Grayscale, by Daniel Freas
Average member rating: (4 ratings)
""We really think you'll like this one, see you on the other side!" ...and suddenly the room is ripped away. Air slams into your chest as you struggle to breathe and inky blackness swirls in at the edge of...

Grief, by Simon Christiansen
Average member rating: (14 ratings)

Gris et Jaune, by Jason Devlin
Average member rating: (25 ratings)

She wanted answers. He wanted a cure. You just wanted to live.

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...

Ground Zero, by Colin Smith

Can you survive a nuclear attack?

Gruds in Space, by Joseph A. Dudar and Chuck Sommerville
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

There I was, like, cool to the max, man, crusing in my totally awesome Space-Commuter. I was turned on to some tunes when a blast came in over the computer/wet bar. Like wow! It was direct from President...

Guess the Verb!, by Leonard Richardson
Average member rating: (28 ratings)

"Now you too can GUESS THE VERB for fun and prizes! Read evocative and amusing room descriptions while manipulating interesting objects! Interact with the simulated motives and desires of quirky NPCs! No...

Guns of Infinity, by Paul Wang
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Return to the battlefield as a gentleman-officer of the Royal Tierran Army in a rich, low-fantasy world where gunpowder and magic rule the battlefield. Keep your men alive, or sacrifice them in your bid for...

Guttersnipe: Carnival of Regrets, by Bitter Karella
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

Guttersnipe: Carnival of Regrets is a humorously grotesque (or grotesquely humorous) game about a circa 1929 street urchin and her pet sewer rat trying to survive a trip through a dark carnival full of sin,...

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?

Hailey's Aesop, by Hailey, Edme Vuntak

Find out who you are...or get distracted trying! Some time, in some country, in some town, there are hundreds if not thousands of people going about their lives, happy and content with who they are....
Halothane, by Ravi Rajkumar
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"You're having a hard enough time getting your second novel to work; how could it ever be possible that you, Harold Banks - world's most unsuccessful published author - could actually be sent on a quest to -...

Hamlet -- The Text Adventure, by Robin Johnson
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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...

The Hammer of Grimmold, by Jack Lockerby
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Average member rating: (2 ratings)

Hana Feels, by Gavin Inglis
Average member rating: (63 ratings)

Something is bothering Hana. Can you work out what it is? Take the part of four important people in her life and guide their conversations. After each scene, peek at Hana's journal and find out how she felt...

Hand Me Down, by Brett Witty
Average member rating: (11 ratings)

Ruby Walker takes a hesitant bus ride to the hospital where her father has spent the last nine months. But he has not called her there to discuss his condition. With James, her supportive partner by her...

Hangar 22, by Rob O'Hara
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An out-of-luck computer programmer finds more than just a job opportunity in a mysterious government facility.

the happiness jar, by cairirie
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459 words - Everything began, and ended, when we made a happiness jar. Simply put, a happiness jar is when you write a little note at the end of the day about one thing that made you happy or you are...

A Happy End for Liars, by Ayin

You are an ordinary person with a not so ordinary secret - one that could possibly ruin your entire life if someone were to discover it. You’ve gone through great lengths to avoid telling anyone only to make...

Hard Puzzle 3 : Origins, by Ade McT
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It's not fair. First day on the new job, and it looks like the end of the world is happening. A silly little Speed-IF. But can you solve it? Hall of Fame: CMG Deboriole

Harmonia, by Liza Daly
Average member rating: (72 ratings)

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.

Harmonic Time-Bind Ritual Symphony, by Ben Kidwell and Maevele Straw
Average member rating: (13 ratings)

A musician's manic episode binds fiction and reality into a joyful union.

Harrison Squared Dies Early, by Daryl Gregory
Average member rating: (9 ratings)

A Lovecraftian choose-your-own-adventure through a creepy school. There's a monster on the loose, and the only one who can track it down is you, Harrison Harrison, teenage monster detective. This is a...

Harvey Birdman: Habeas Dorkus!, by Adult Swim
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Hate Plus, by Christine Love
Average member rating: (10 ratings)

I can't believe it! My mission was supposed to be routine data recovery on an old derelict generation ship, but instead, I ended up rescuing an adorable AI girl who grew up in a tremendously patriarchal...

Haunted House, by Pedro Fernández
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Haunted House is a remake of a 1979 game made by Device Oriented Games for the TRS-80 computer. Written for the 2011 Indigo speed-comp, it features an original plot over the classic game set-up. Its final,...

The Haunted House, by Campbell Wild
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Find the treasure, if the spooks don’t get you first. Originally released using ADRIFT V3.8, it was updated for ADRIFT v4 a few years later.

Headless, Hapless, by Geoff Moore
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It's happened again. You've had a great night riding around, freaking everyone out with your whole headless horseman thing, and you're about to set off for home when you realise you've lost your head. Well,...

Headlights, by Jordan White and Eric Zinda
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You’ve made some poor decisions and they’ve brought you to this place. The clock is ticking but you still have time. Time to make some better choices. Time to turn things around. Time to get on the right...

Heart of Ice, by Dave Morris, SD Separa
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Legend says that the one who possesses the Heart of Volent shall wield ultimate power. Created in the searing fires of the Big Bang, this fabulous gemstone focuses the cosmic forces which shape the universe...

Hedda Strikes Again, by Edwina Brown

Heist, by Andy Phillips
Average member rating: (11 ratings)

Your unloved uncle has died. At his funeral, you are given a curious note from him, asking you to finish his dream for him. But what is it he wants you to do? One thing is clear: it won't be easy. The choice...

Her Majesty's Trolley Problem, by Buster Hudson
Average member rating: (27 ratings)

No one said life in Her Majesty's Service would be easy. Fortunately, you've got everything you need: your officer's handbook, a harpoon cannon, and the indefatigable command of Captain Lionetta herself. If...

Heretic Dreams, by Hannah Powell-Smith
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They would call what you did heresy. No one knows you swallowed the power of a god, but it will break you apart.

The Heritage, by Finn Rosenløv
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It has been over a year since you received the letter from your uncle’s lawyer informing you of his passing. Unfortunately your posting abroad didn’t allow you to return home until now. Your uncle was your...

The Hero of Kendrickstone, by Paul Wang
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Can a wanna-be hero like you rescue the city of Kendrickstone, held hostage by an evil wizard and his troop of black-clad soldiers? Face down fierce foes with spell, sword, or silver tongue. Outwit cunning...

Heroes, by Sean Barrett
Average member rating: (28 ratings)

"A most traditional CRPG experience." [--blurb from Competition Aught-One]

Hex, by Geoff. H. Larsen
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Whilst on a hiking holiday in Cornwall, you find yourself in Padstow during the Hobby Horse celebrations. These take place on May Day when the hobby horse dances through the crowd grabbing at and bumping...

Hexed Adventure, by Matt Gruskin and Alex Rosenthal

A browser-based text adventure game written for the 2017 MIT Mystery Hunt. It's a complete, self-contained game: you are an adventurer exploring an island of four kingdoms and completing various quests....

Hibernated 1 (Director's Cut), by Stefan Vogt
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Have you ever dreamed about a journey far beyond the known regions of the universe? Close to Alpha Centauri, Olivia Lund is on the trail of one of mankind's greatest secrets and a thousand-year-old mystery....

Hidden Gems, Hidden Secrets, by Naomi Norbez, Josh Grams
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The members of the Hidden Gems Of Poetry Group are close. Even the move from internet forum to web server can't break their bond. But heartbreaking news could mean the end of things as they know it. A short...

The Hidden King, by Dcsross

The city makes kings of wolves, and wolves of kings. The narrator descends into lycanthropy, only to be further disoriented by life inside a Psychiatric Facility.

High Stakes, by John R. Sansevere and Dick Francis

You are Steven Scott, English gentleman, self-made millionaire, creator and designer of the world famous Rola toys. You have a flashy Lamborghini, a winning racehorse, and a big problem. Jody Leeds, the...

Highnoon, by Christopher Gaylo
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The game is single player and set in the Wild West. The objective of the game is a show down between you and Black Bart. Turns are taken to either move closer, run or shoot. Both the player and Bart have...

His Majesty's Royal Space Navy Service Handbook, by Austin Auclair
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

A text adventure of paperwork, office politics, and sci-fi space battles. It's Friday night and Sheryl hasn't yet left the office. That isn't unusual; she's a dedicated service member of His Majesty Smurg...

Hoist Sail for the Heliopause and Home, by Andrew Plotkin
Average member rating: (84 ratings)

A far-future story of discovery.

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......

The Holy Grail, by Jim MacBrayne

The consequences to be faced if you fail in your mission are dire indeed. Are you up to the challenge? [blurb from The (Other) TADS Games List version 1.2] Originally published as a HiSoft BASIC game for...

HOLY ROBOT EMPIRE, by Caleb Wilson (as Ralph Gide)
Average member rating: (16 ratings)

You are going to find the Robopope and then kiss its papal ring, or your name isn’t Morgen Santamore.

Homecoming, by Carolyn VanEseltine
Average member rating: (13 ratings)

"Homecoming" is a short, twisted comedy about a newly awakened AI.

Honk!, by Alex Harby
Average member rating: (15 ratings)

A Fair Game ...

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...

The Hoppit, by Gareth Pitchford
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'Can you escape from the famous Goblin's dungeon?' This is a remake of original The Hoppit mini-adventure from Microfair Madness, remade using the Adventuron system.

Horse Master, by Tom McHenry
Average member rating: (91 ratings)

The Game of Horse Mastery

Hotel Tutorial, by Leandro Ribeiro
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

So you are new to Interactive Fiction? You don't even really know what Interactive Fiction is? Well, I'm here to help you. I'm the Tutorial Guide. We're going to play a very small game together, so that you...

The Hours, by Robert Patten
Average member rating: (25 ratings)

Your new job as a time traveler may be harder than you thought. A simple heist in the ancient Library of Alexandria turns into a murder mystery. ONLINE PLAY: The status bar is essential to the game, but may...

The House Abandon, by jonNoCode
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A unique horror game, inside another horror game. 80’s text-adventure by way of psychological horror and meta-representation. A short story, free, for PC and Mac. Created for Ludum Dare 36, this 72 hour game...

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...

The House of Mystery, by James G. Lynch (Jimmy Joe)
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Description:...

The House on the Tor, by Alan Davis

The House, by Jack Lockerby
Your attention was drawn by an unusual advertisement in the Times, outlining a competition, the prize for which was a fine house, set in its own grounds. You quickly unearthed a writing pad and an envelope...
How do we approach the singularity?, by Mark Cook
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Turbonerd studio's third game, a choose your own adventure story set in an alien war. ...
How Many Roads Must a Man Walk Down?, by Tom Waddington
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In this tribute game to Douglas Adams, you play as someone at an asylum. There's a sandy sea-shore to the south, and a curious inside-out house to the north. It's a beautiful day.

How Prince Quisborne the Feckless Shook His Title, by John Ziegler
Average member rating: (14 ratings)

A Fanciful Tale Both Whimsical and Earnest ...

How the Little Match Girl Got Her Colt Paterson Revolver, and Taught a Virtue to a Goblin, by Ryan Veeder
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

Written for Day 13 of #EnigMarch 2023.

How to Conquer the World, by Jason Mac Innes

NB: Please do NOT play this game with Adrift 5 Runner as it was made with Adrift 4 and backwards compatibility is very low. Instead use the Play Online button in the upper right corner or download another...

howling dogs, by Porpentine
Average member rating: (125 ratings)

death cube sim | galactic survey | visionatrix | facet machine | power gardens | women | fascination two significant endings

The Hugo Clock, by Jason McWright
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

Two men, one a brusque bowling ball; the other a murderous dandy, discuss their fate and the fate of the world. They've chosen someone to send. He's clever, but hopefully not too clever.
Hugo's House of Horrors, by David P. Gray
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

Hunger Daemon, by Sean M. Shore
Average member rating: (65 ratings)

It's not the end of the world, and you're to blame. Better get on that. But man, it sure would be nice to get a bite to eat first.

Hunt the Wumpus, by Gregory Yob, Magnus Olsson, and David Ahl
Average member rating: (17 ratings)

Hunter, in Darkness, by Andrew Plotkin
Average member rating: (122 ratings)
A Hymn Long Silenced, by Lapdog
Average member rating: (1 rating)
A short fantasy game, exploring the long undisturbed ruins of a forgotten temple. My first game so comments are welcome. Written in Twine 2.

I Am Prey, by Joey Tanden
Average member rating: (11 ratings)

A horror-lite science fiction game of evasion. (Experimental game: Reading the included survival guide before playing is highly recommended.) Inspired by the casual and round-based designs of visual indie...

I Gave You a Key and You Opened the Darkness, by Nelly Geraldine García-Rosas

Nostalgia brought you back to your childhood home where your name was left behind long ago. It's up to you to re-appropriate that name, celebrate the one you have chosen, or encounter something else... An...

I Pet My Cat and Worry, by Amara E
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

A 479 word window into the mind of an anxious cat owner with OCD.

I Think The Waves Are Watching Me, by Bob McCabe
Average member rating: (9 ratings)

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 Was a Teenage Headless Experiment, by Duncan Bowsman
Average member rating: (7 ratings)
"... but he has the element of surprise and a bonesaw, and you do not." You are your decapitated head standing on a metal tray in a mad doctor's laboratory. The doctor's four-armed assistant blocks your...

i wish you were dead., by Sofía Abarca
Average member rating: (13 ratings)

you can’t take the burden of it anymore, no matter how strong your love is for her. but how do you tell the person you love that you can’t – or won’t – love them anymore?...

I'm Fine, by Rokashi
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

The game is about a young man who is trying to cope with depression, sexual frustration and friendship.

I've Attached My CV And Cover Letter, by Jaime Monedero March
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

A game about the experience of writing cover letters and rewriting them over and over to target them to each job application.

i've been drinking again, by yuveim
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

i've been drinking again a 500 word conversation for the neo-twiny jam this story contains audio elements. audio will autoplay after clicking listen. CONTENT WARNINGS: strong language, themes of alcoholism...

Iceweb, by Gil Williamson
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A beginner-level text-only Infocom-style game with a cyberpunk theme. It was written for the e-zine Mythaxis (issue 17 Feb 2016) http://mythaxis.co.uk/11issuev17.htm It was published with a Parchment...
Identity, by Dave Bernazzani
Average member rating: (19 ratings)
Identity Thief, by Rob Shaw-Fuller
Average member rating: (12 ratings)
In this game, you play as a thief who uses cyber implants to steal identities and commit crimes. A "Mr. Johnson" hired you to steal a datachip from Senator Barbara Tarlette's mansion, but things went south...

If I Wasn't Shy, by Joey Jones
Average member rating: (11 ratings)

"I kinda just sit at the checkout, and the place isn't even all that busy. So why'd you want to play a game about my life? I mean, it's not terrible but it would be so much more if I wasn't shy." (Part of...

if not us: an interactive fiction anthology, by ub4q
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

Seven years ago, five heroes were brought together to save the world. Their success came at the cost of their leader's life; the secret behind it cost them their friendship. Now they've been summoned for a...

IF Whispers 5, by Chris Conley, Joey Jones, Marius Müller, Tom Blawgus
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

Travel down into an abandoned Antarctic Base and unveil the mysteries within. A game made in the paper-telephone style, with each person only having access to the section before, with a co-ordinated ending...

If You Had One Shot, by Wade Clarke, Victor Gijsbers, Hanon Ondricek, Brian Rushton
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

What if you had only one shot? Made for the One Choice Jam by Wade Clarke, Victor Gijsbers, Hanon Ondricek and Brian Rushton. A brief parser game with a single choice. Take your time and read carefully:...

Illuminate, by Chris Conley (as Summer Del Mono)
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

How odd, you don't remember seeing this exhibit highlighted anywhere, and yet it has such an elaborate presentation. Well, perhaps you have a few minutes to spare before lunch...
Impact, by Reid Gillis
Average member rating: (2 ratings)
As life flashes before his eyes during a car accident, Stan relives the ups and downs of his life in search of meaning in the ordinary.
Impostor Syndrome, by Dietrich Squinkifer (Squinky)
Average member rating: (18 ratings)
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...

Imprisoned, by Myth Thrazz
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

Use your incredible wits, fantastic skills and/or magnificent strength to choose your way out of a heavily guarded prison! Reveal the secrets of the dungeon, meet the mysterious co-prisoner and determine...

In a Manor of Speaking, by Hulk Handsome
Average member rating: (27 ratings)

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...

In a Tomb with a Donkey, by Dee Cooke
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

Evidence Sweet has been defeated in battle during the Annual Spellcasting Competition... again. Blasted into ancient Egypt with her spells seemingly scattered to the winds, she finds herself chased down by...

In Memory, by Jacqueline A. Lott
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

Written for the Indigo New Language Speed-IF

In the Deep, by Styxcolor
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

Embark on an exciting adventure as John Harper, an experienced saturation diver in the oil industry. With one of the most hazardous occupations in the world, John is used to danger. But the clean-up under...

In the End, by Joe Mason
Average member rating: (17 ratings)

Your best friend has just died, and life drags on miserably. Would death be better than this? [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue]

In The House of Professor Evil: The HAM HOUSE, by S. John Ross
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

A sci-fi/pulp satire, extremely brief and slight (it can be beaten in 12 turns) beginning in a cell beneath the house of a mad scientist. The scientist lay dead at your feet, and now you must answer the...

In the Service of Mrs. Claus, by Mathbrush
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

Let me tell you the true secret of Christmas: Santa Claus died centuries ago. You see, in ancient times, as the Gods began to die, Santa Claus married a goddess. She was worshiped as Bast in Egypt, as...

In the Snowy Winter's Wake, by Josh "Cheeseness" Bush
Average member rating: (1 rating)

In the Snowy Winter's Wake is an single verb, text only adventure game with first person mouselook style controls. In it, you play as an adventurer who becomes trapped in a snowy mountain pass. Positional...

Inca Curse, by Charles Cecil

You find yourself in a South American jungle near an as yet undisturbed Inca temple. Your aim is to get out of the temple with as much treasure as you can and your adventure is complete when you have...

Indiana Jones in Revenge of the Ancients, by Anonymous

Hack your way through the steaming, tangled Mexican jungle. Fight off the onrush of vertigo as you grope through the treacherous, tunnel maze in the treasure-laden Tepotzteco Pyramid. Tighten your grip as...

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...

Inevitable, by Kathleen M. Fischer as Timothy Lawrence Heinrich
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

Infidel, by Michael Berlyn
Average member rating: (60 ratings)

Infidel finds you marooned by your followers in the heart of the deadly Egyptian Desert. A soldier of fortune by trade, you've come hither in search of a great lost pyramid and its untold riches. Now, alone,...

Infil-traitor, by Chris Charla
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

"This is a vintage 1981, never released, adventure game. Check out the read me for more info. Take a trip back in time with Infil-Traitor! (Note: this should take you about 20 minutes to complete.) An exe...

Infinite Adventure, by B.J. Best (writing as “A. Scotts”)
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

The Abort/Retry/Fail team is proud to present the famously lost INFINITE ADVENTURE. This game is a visionary pioneer in procedural text generation, randomly generating rooms, maps, items, descriptions, and...

Infinite Space Battle Simulator, by Autumn Chen
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

A game for the neo-twiny jam, exactly as the title describes. Approximately 300-400 words of text, not including code. Cover/background image source: NASA/ESA/Wikimedia Commons Content Warnings violence,...

Inform School, by William J. Shlaer
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

NOTE: This "game" warns about the possibility (certainty!) of eventually crashing your interpreter. This will happen. It also warns about possibly locking up your entire computer. This is highly unlikely in...

InGirum_English, by BenyDanette
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

InGirum is an unfinished game. It's a game in ruins, just like its creator.

Inhumane, by Andrew Plotkin
Average member rating: (21 ratings)

A parody of Infocom's Infidel, written when the author was fifteen, then converted to Inform. To collect a treasure, you must show an ancient guardian how awful an adventurer you are. [--blurb from The...

Initiation, by Benjamin Roux
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Vous vous levez. Vous êtes seul, dans une étrange salle. Après quelques instants, la mémoire vous revient : votre initiation enfin terminée, cette étrange flûte et vos épreuves à passer… Y parviendrez-vous ?...

Insight, by Jon Ingold
Average member rating: (27 ratings)

Instruction Set, by Jared Jackson
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

How do you run a mind that cannot run itself? Enter the mind of Nora Atwood and with the help of a little science, you may be able to puzzle out her situation.

Internal Documents, by Tom Lechner
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

In this odd, large, and sparsely-implemented game, you play as a civil servant sent by the incumbent governor to the tiny township of Sebastian to examine the records of the John B. Holden estate. There's...

Internal Vigilance, by Simon Christiansen
Average member rating: (13 ratings)

You are informed that a new prisoner was brought in recently. Your job, as usual, is to interrogate him and determine whether he poses a threat to The Union. This should not be a problem. You are a trained...

Intersigne, by manonamora
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

Intersigne Def: Relation apparaissant entre deux faits simultanés (par télépathie, seconde vue), dont l'un est considéré comme le signe de l'autre. ~ A short story about the end of a relationship, and how it...

Into That Good Night, by Iain Merrick
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

In this game dedicated to the memory of Douglas Adams, you play as a holistic detective who believes in the fundamental interconnectedness of all things. Your client, Mrs Antrobus, has hired you to find her...
Into the Dragon's Den, by Xanmag
If Dr. Seuss designed on Quest, this may what became his best. The adventures within this game, will bring you danger, gold, and fame. Your job's to join an elite crew of thieves, of cons, and bandits, too....

Into the Mystic, by Jack Lockerby

Into The Sun, by Dark Star
Average member rating: (13 ratings)

Sitting on the cold side of Mercury, you've waited two months for space debris to drift through the system, caught in the sun's gravity well. Satellites make for great salvage, and you've earned enough...

Intro to Jabberwocky, by Gregory Weir
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

In this game, based on the Lewis Carroll poem "Jabberwocky", you play as a farmer's child, sent out before brillig to deal with the family's animals. You also find a tablet with a pattern of lines and...

Invisible Parties, by Sam Kabo Ashwell (as Psychopup)
Average member rating: (20 ratings)

You are a walker of the ways between the worlds. It is not an arrangement conducive to straightforward relationships. The Three Rebeccas have created a tangle, a temporary artifice woven from parts of many...

Ironheart, by Lee Williams
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

Pilot and customize a giant iron war mech in this alternate medieval history! In 1182 AD, the Papacy, the Caliphate, and the Mongols are at war, and they all have mechs--hulking war robots, powered by energy...

Island, by Kevan Thurstans

(Aka: Island Adventure) A beginners text adventure for the ZX Spectrum 48K. The player has been ship wrecked on a mysterious island with no memory of how they got there. Your aim is to help the player get...
The Islands of Sinbad, by Jack Lockerby
The Isle of the Cult, by Rune Berg
Average member rating: (4 ratings)
The Isolato Incident, by Alan DeNiro
Average member rating: (4 ratings)
"We need to save the kingdom! But...where is the kingdom? What are its bounds? Can history be distilled? Why do ghosts feign friendliness? We will make a quest of questions!" [--blurb from Competition...
It Could Only Happen To You, by Mike Sousa
Average member rating: (3 ratings)
Jack and the Beanstalk, by Jack Lockerby
Average member rating: (1 rating)

Jack the Ripper, by Priscilla Langridge,Jared Derrett
Average member rating: (1 rating)

It was December 1888. Everyone in London was talking about the Ripper. As I came out into the cold night air, a heavy hand fell on my shoulder. I turned to face a white-haired man with a face that looked as...

Jack Toresal and The Secret Letter, by Mike Gentry and David Cornelson
Average member rating: (9 ratings)

Jack Toresal and The Secret Letter is the first game published by Textfyre. You are a fourteen year old orphan in the northern town of Toresal. Minding your own business, about to sit down with a recently...

Jacqueline, Jungle Queen!, by Steph Cherrywell
Average member rating: (24 ratings)

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...

The Jade Necklace, by Jack Lockerby

James Bond 007: A View to a Kill, by Raymond Benson, Michael G. Wilson and Richard Maibaum
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

An adventure that takes you from Siberia to Paris to San Fransisco as you pursue the evil industrialist Max Zorin. Silicon Valley's fate rests in your hands ... because your name is Bond, James Bond. And...

James Bond 007: Goldfinger, by Raymond Benson and Ian Fleming

As Bond, James Bond, you are faced with one of your trickiest assignments: uncovering the fiendish plot of the brilliant but treacherous international financier, Auric Goldfinger. You are the only one who...

Janitor, by Peter Seebach and Kevin Lynn
Average member rating: (28 ratings)

January, by litrouke
Average member rating: (10 ratings)

A year in the life of a man after the end of the world....

january frost, by mogar
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is it an argument if no one wins? for neo-twiny jam. final wordcount: 500, exactly. Trigger/Content Warning mental illness/depression (general), romantic turmoil

Jeenin Tonn-nx, by Anonymous
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In this one-room tribute to Douglas Adams, you play as someone at a pub. The bartender tells you he can make an alcoholic beverage that you eat instead of drink. It's called a Jeenin Tonn-nx.

Jetbike Gang, by C.E.J. Pacian
Average member rating: (23 ratings)

You're a member of a jetbike gang. Tiny Twine game for the Twiny Jam. Exactly 300 words.

The Jewel of Knowledge, by Francesco Bova
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

"A somewhat traditional cave crawl." Possession of the long-lost Jewel of Knowledge is said to bring fame, wealth, power, and of course knowledge, but you'll have to beat the extraordinarily high mortality...

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....

John's Fire Witch, by John Baker
Average member rating: (39 ratings)

A small, witty text adventure. Its clever puzzles received quite a bit of acclaim on rec.arts.int-fiction upon its release. You've come to visit your old friend John Baker, but he's missing, and a blizzard...

Journey, by Marc Blank
Average member rating: (24 ratings)

Have you mettle enough to make siege on the Dread Lord himself? ...We shall see. If you've ever been spellbound by a fantasy story, captivated by a role playing game, or enthralled by interactive fiction,...

Journey from an Islet, by Mario Becroft
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

In this small game, you play as an adventurer. You have traveled long and far and have now fallen onto an island in the darkness before dawn. How will you escape from there and continue your journey?

The Journey of the King, by Peter Nepstad
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

"The King goeth upon a journey with many horses, yet riding upon none, when the pomp of travelling shall be heard in the streets and the sound of the lute and the drum and the name of the King. And I would...

Just Another Christmas Day, by Zachary Worcester
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A short comedy game about Christmas day as you always didn't remember it. This game is filled with slapstick humor, and silly easter eggs to find throughout. Have fun!

Just Another Day, by Theodore "Ted" C. Lim
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So this is the first game I've ever written, save for one I wrote just to teach myself how to use Inform 7. I'm still learning, obviously. Over the winter break, I saw how hard my sister works to be a...

Just Listen Up, Kid!, by Andrew Schultz
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This was written for Single Choice Jam. You'll probably guess the gimmick pretty quickly. There is a happy ending. I wrote structures that would help flesh out the dialogue, but I hit time constraints...

Kaboom, by anonymous, artwork by Vera Pohl
Average member rating: (11 ratings)

Translated from Russian ...

Keepsake, by Savaric
Average member rating: (26 ratings)

The planning was easy. Committing the murder was easy. But getting away with it? That's another thing. Keepsake is a short, surreal story about vengeance and its consequences.

Kentilla, by Derek Brewster
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

GRAKO had grand designs in CARALAND. It could be a perfect playground of hate, torture, walking dead and eternal darkness. The inhabitants of the land, however, had other ideas. Making his castle on 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...

Kidnapped, by Jack Lockerby

The year is 1751, some 25 years after the Battle of Culloden and there is still a very strong feeling of passion for "BONNIE PRINCE CHARLIE" in the Highlands. However, having lived all your life in the...

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.

Killing Time at Lightspeed, by Gritfish
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

You never know what will be the last thing you say to someone. On a transport ship leaving earth, a passenger kills time by scrolling through the messages of their social media feed. As the ship leaves and...

Kinder Morgan, by Jim Gerrie

You are vacationing in the beautiful Rocky Mountains of Canada. You decide to go on a hike through the forest. You head west on the main trail. In the distance you see a pipeline running through the forest....

Koustrea's Contentment, by Jeremy Pflasterer
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

A tiny community of immortals receives a newcomer named Koustrea, who makes an unsettling discovery while struggling to find a paradisial niche, as the others have long ago.

Kurusu City, by Kevin Venzke
Average member rating: (12 ratings)

An IFComp 2004 Entry

Kwah!, by Simon Price, Mike Lewis
Average member rating: (1 rating)

Kyrie Eleison, by Lapin Lunaire Games
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

Kyrie Eleison (Κύριε, ἐλέησον) ...

L: A Mathemagical Adventure, by members of the Association of Teachers of Mathematics co-ordinated by Richard Phillips, and including Derek Ball, Tony Corbett, David Rooke, Heather Scott, Alan Shaw, Margaret Stevens, Ruth Townsend, Jo Waddingham, Roger Waddingham, John Warwick, Alan Wigley, John Wood, and David Wooldridge.
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

It is a very hot day. You are sitting on the grass outside a crumbling palace. Your sister is reading a book called Fractions and the Four Rules — 5000 Carefully Graded Problems. You are bored and the heat...

La Casa al Otro Lado de la Tormenta | The House on the Other Side of the Storm, by Pablo Martínez Merino (AKA Depresiv)
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The house, on the other side of the storm, keeps the terrible secret of a family, and the origin of the known universe. The English version of 'La casa al otro lado de la tormenta'.

Labour Pains, by Jonathan Scott and Stephen Boyd
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The Labours of Hercules, by Terry Taylor
As penance for killing his own family ... done in a moment of pure weakness and something he would never he able to forgive himself for ... HERCULES is forced to undertake twelve hazardous "labours" - all of...

Labyrinth of Crete, by Cliff Johnson and Allen Pinero

The player is in control of two powerful warriors, the stalwart Jason, and the mighty-thewed Hercules. Straight from the mythology of ancient Greece they come, and their quest is a most dangerous one,...

Lady Thalia and the Rose of Rocroi, by E. Joyce and N. Cormier
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Everyone who’s anyone summers in France - which means master thief Lady Thalia is there too, attending garden parties by day and stealing masterpieces by night. Unfortunately, this holiday is less than...

Lair of the Necromancer, by Rob Rudd
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A short text adventure included in issue #10 of Loadstar, a disk-based magazine for the Commodore 64. The player enters a dungeon to find the Necromancer and destroy him. Along the way you'll solve a few...

The Lake, by John Cater
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In this one-room game, you play as a stressed museum employee taking a break. You're hoping some time at the lake reading and relaxing will help.
The Land Beyond the Picket Fence, by Martin Oehm
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

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....

The Last Hero, by Wayde Butsim-Bairstow

A text adventure game created by Wayde Butsim-Bairstow for IND302 Independent Project for the SAE Qantm Bachelor of Interactive Entertainment, Major in Games Design.

The Last Sanctuary, by SjoerdHekking
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The Last Sanctuary is a game about humanity, doomed and forsaken in the future. A large community has been secured deep underground in a bunker of sorts. To prevent favoritism, you will oversee all...

Last Valentine's Day, by Daniel Gao
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This Valentine's Day feels an awful lot like Groundhog Day... ...

Last Vestiges, by thesleuthacademy
Average member rating: (10 ratings)

Hertfordshire Avenue. A body. ...

The Laughing Gnome, by Teaspoon
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'You were walking, down the high street...' A tribute to David Bowie and one of his first singles. Also contains ghome invasion, Surbiton Railway Station, Mick and Keith's corner shop off 'Stella Street',...

The Lazst Resort, Part 1, by B.J. Best

You awaken in a bed, not having any idea who you are, where you are, or why you might be there... ...

Lazy Wizard's Guide, by Lenard Gunda
Average member rating: (14 ratings)

It is time to take the final exam in your magician studies. The only problem is, for all the years you have spent in this prestigious school of magic, you have been really lazy. Really, really, "you don't...

Leadlight Gamma, by Wade Clarke
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

15-year-old Belinda Nettle is studying at Linville Girls High School in Australia's Blue Mountains. After falling asleep in the library one afternoon, she wakes from her mundane existence into a nightmare....

Learning to Be Human, by Lynnea Glasser
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Learning to Be Human was a commissioned piece as part of an anti-bullying campaign for the North London Collegiate School Jeju in South Korea. The interactive piece is designed to discuss different aspects...

Leas: City of the Sun, by SailingShells

Enter the city of Leas, where humans dwell in safety behind city walls while strange and powerful Fey roam the wilds. Play as one of a rare few skilled enough to explore the outside world, an agent of Den...

A Legacy for Alaric, by Palmer P. Eldritch
Average member rating: (1 rating)

The Legend Lives!, by David Baggett
Average member rating: (6 ratings)
"A new chapter in the history of Unnkulia and the Valley unfolds. Find out what life is like on planet Tode (home to Unnkulia and the Valley) and the rest of the Unnkulian Universe 500 years after UU1....

The Legend of Apache Gold, by Peter Torrance
Average member rating: (1 rating)

The Lesson of the Tortoise, by G. Kevin Wilson
Average member rating: (19 ratings)

In this short game, you play as Wang Lo, a Chinese farmer. Alas, you shall learn that your wife has been unfaithful and desires your death.

Let's Talk Alex, by Stephanie Smith
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A simulation of what it’s like to try and leave a relationship after emotional & mental abuse. Players confront their significant other about unhealthy behaviors, using memories to support their claims.

Lethe Flow Phoenix, by Dan Shiovitz
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

Camping out at night takes you into a strange otherworld peopled with, among other things, several biblical references, objects of a symbolic nature, and a talking tree. Started as an entry for the first IF...

The letter M, by Froga
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My first gamebook, and original story. (Whoohoo!) I've tried making this game to where you can decide what happens behind each door. You make up the theory, and I do everything else. (Report any fishy stuff...

Letters from Home, by Roger Firth
Average member rating: (20 ratings)

"Centuries of ancestry, decades of memories, years of decline; now, barely two hours in which to reflect on the glorious past, that bygone golden age when nostalgia really meant something... " [--blurb from...

The Library of Knowledge, by Elle Sillitoe
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

Peruse an ancient library in which all learnt things reside, including Shaanxi - the omniscient spirit of knowledge. Shaanxi offers you three interweaving tales, one of which is yours. Discover where you...

Lies Under Ice, by Joey Jones
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Lead the first settlement on Jupiter's frozen moon, Europa! What alien life lurks beneath the ice? Who is sabotaging your mission? Who can you trust? Lies Under Ice is a 200,000-word interactive science...

Life Is Short, by axmn
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

A compact interactive fiction game created with Twine for Neo-Twiny Jam 2023. Life Is Short is 500 words exactly, excluding code and sidebar/menu content. The game features instances of timed text and works...

Life of a Mobster, by Mike Walter
Average member rating: (1 rating)

Join the mob and rule the city! Will you become a celebrity mobster, or rule from the shadows? "Life of a Mobster" is a thrilling interactive novel where your choices control the story. The game is entirely...

Life On Mars?, by Hugo Labrande
Average member rating: (18 ratings)

The first mission to colonize Mars ended with a horrible shuttle crash, and it's a miracle you're still alive... Now you just have to wait until the second shuttle gets here. Five more months...

Lifeboat, by Jack Lockerby
Average member rating: (1 rating)

The Light in the Forest, by Emily Worm
Average member rating: (6 ratings)
A lesbian, haunted by an otherworldly light, tries to find people who will support her, while dealing with quite a lot, really.
Light into Darkness, by Christina Nordlander
Average member rating: (9 ratings)
An ordinary woman faces an inexplicable event while staying at her summer house with her family. Fantasy/horror. Content warnings: domestic violence; some gore. A Petite Mort entry for ECTOCOMP 2016....
Light up, by The Dominant Species
Average member rating: (4 ratings)
I love the Lord, but if he doesn't send me a nice woman to me soon, I'm going to be mighty unhappy. I'm sorry. The alcohol is talking again. Let me get a grip. I put my hand on the wheel and put the bottle...
The Light: Shelby's Addendum, by Colm McCarthy
Average member rating: (8 ratings)
You play as Maurice L. Shelby, a laboratory apprentice employed by Commission Research Station 12B. The station is rather important: it houses one of several beacons placed around the world that generate the...

Limerick Quest, by Pace Smith
Average member rating: (18 ratings)

"To Russia!" you boldly suggest. "This riddle has got me obsessed. We'll search 'till we're blind, and loot what we find! Let's go on a...

LISEY, by Marco Innocenti
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

Love has no boundaries. Not even life itself. Entry in EctoComp 2014.

Lists and Lists, by Andrew Plotkin
Average member rating: (26 ratings)

A tutorial in which a genie teaches you the basics of a simplified version of LISP. [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue]

Little Blue Men, by Michael S. Gentry
Average member rating: (70 ratings)

This game is a joke. This game is a warning. This game is a satire. This game is inspired in equal parts by Vaclav Havel's "The Memorandum" and Hunter S. Thompson's "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas". This...

Little Falls, by Alessandro Schillaci, Roberto Grassi, Simonato Enrico
Average member rating: (12 ratings)

Minnesota, September 2005. A serial killer hunting young women. A policeman with nightmares in his past. “To all units near Little Falls, there’s a 5150 code. A woman called 911, saying she’s in trouble....

Little Girl In Monsterland, by Mike Stallone
Average member rating: (14 ratings)

Follow the adventures of two six-year-old girls with too much time on their hands as they go on a mission to defeat dangerous monsters, extremely competitive bodybuilders, and hyperinflation.

The Little Match Girl 2: Annus Evertens, by Ryan Veeder
Average member rating: (12 ratings)

The little match girl is hired to assassinate a disgusting old man.

The Little Match Girl 3: The Escalus Manifold, by Ryan Veeder
Average member rating: (11 ratings)

"The Snow Queen controls her servants with Shards from the Mirror of Belial," Ebenezer Scrooge explained.

The Little Match Girl against the Universal Sisterhood of Naughty Little Girls, by Ryan Veeder
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

This one takes place very soon after The Little Match Girl 4: Crown of Pearls.

The Little Match Girl, by Hans Christian Andersen, by Ryan Veeder
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Average member rating: (19 ratings)

A touching short story.

Lock & Key, by Adam Cadre
Average member rating: (77 ratings)

Lockdown, by Richard Otter
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

It is only a few hours until sunrise. By then you will have proved to everyone that you are right!

Lockdown, by gamerpotato
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Average member rating: (3 ratings)

You are stuck in a time loop room all by yourself with no idea what to do.

Locked Door III: Crate Expectations, by Cody Gaisser
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

Can you... OPEN THE CRATE?!

Locked Door With Water Trap, by Daniel Buckley

2nd Place: ADRIFT Summer Comp 2001

Locked Door XI: The US Theatrical Cut, by Cody Gaisser
Average member rating: (1 rating)

Can you beta test this thing?!

Lone Wolf Saga, by GDV, Joe Dever, Gary Chalk, Project Aon
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

The most famous Game book Saga, the world of Lone Wolf, the Kai Master created by Joe Dever, on your Android Phone. The Saga is complete! This application is a complete collection of the saga, starting from...

The Long Nap, by Paul Michael Winters
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

Sometimes you just need some rest. But don't sleep too deeply! Developed in under four hours for Ectocomp La Petite Mort category.

A Long Way to the Nearest Star, by SV Linwood
Average member rating: (44 ratings)

A thief on the run from the galactic police finds refuge on an abandoned spaceship. A lonely ship AI finds unexpected company....

Look Around the Corner, by Doug Orleans (as Robert Whitlock)
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A short game inspired by the song "Look Around the Corner" by Quantic & Alice Russell with the Combo Bárbaro.

Loose Ends, by Daniel Stelzer and Anais Sommerfeld

As a fledgling vampire, you’ve been ordered by your elders to investigate a murder and clean up any loose ends. A simple enough task — until you discover that you might be a loose end yourself.

Lord Bellwater's Secret, by Sam Gordon
Average member rating: (71 ratings)

Lords of Infinity, by Paul Wang
Average member rating: (1 rating)

Take your place at the head of a noble house in a kingdom on the verge of ruin. Seek your fortune as a politician, industrialist, rabble-rouser, or conspirator to bring wealth and power to your family—or to...

Lore Distance Relationship, by Naomi "Bez" Norbez
Average member rating: (12 ratings)

Follow user StaircaseHaven14 on a Neopets-esque site called Ruffians as she faces life's challenges, RPs with her long-distance BFF (or more than BFF?) Bee, and encounters familial hardship, from age 8 to...

Lost, by Eric Mayer
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

"A short story about a man stopping by a woods on a snowy evening..." [From Carl Muckenhoupt's review at Baf's]

Lost and Found, by Felicity Drake
Average member rating: (12 ratings)

Jun lives on a bench in Edogawa Park. He's come to know the neighborhood, and it unsettles him when one of the daily commuters disappears: Ms. Ishii, a schoolteacher. Why did she go missing, and why is no...

Lost Coastlines, by William Dooling
Average member rating: (11 ratings)

> SHARE all your stories...

The Lost Islands of Alabaz, by Michael Gentry
Average member rating: (12 ratings)

Once upon a time, our Kingdom was much larger than it is now, reaching across all ten islands of the Alabaz Archipelago. But then a terrible curse fell upon us. A thick, gray mist covered the sea, hiding...

The Lost Mountain, by Greg Frost
Average member rating: (1 rating)

A single mountain rises from the plain. All around is dusty desolation. A portal brought you here; for any chance to escape Her wrath, another must be found. This puzzle-light exploration game was originally...

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

"They say you can never get to know the true New York as a tourist -- but this is going to turn out to be no ordinary vacation. What you thought would be a quick jaunt to the usual tourist traps instead...
The Lost Spellmaker, by Neil James Brown
Average member rating: (13 ratings)
Spells are in short supply, and spellmakers are disappearing one by one. So your boss T sends you on a mission to find the famous Drew Tungshinach so that he may entertain the community further with his...

The Lost Tomb of Ananka, by Jon R. Lemmon

The Lost World, by Walter Pooley

Love, Hate and the Mysterious Ocean Tower, by C.E.J. Pacian
Average member rating: (42 ratings)

Low, by Peregrine Wade
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

A Petite Mort entry for ECTOCOMP 2016.

Lucid, by Caliban's Revenge
Average member rating: (13 ratings)

"The train stops at the rain slick station. ...

Lucid Night, by Dee Cooke
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

You've always been a lucid dreamer, but these days your dreams never last very long. If only you could get some rest... Lucid Night was created for PunyJam #3 in February 2023.

Lumpies of Lotis IV, by John and Jeff Klein
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

First published in COMPUTE! Issue 77 October 1986 this whimsical game casts you in the role of a spy on a hostile planet and features a realistic, three-dimensional maze. It runs on the PC, TRS-80 Color...

Lunar Base 1, by Michael Phipps
Average member rating: (15 ratings)

Two astronauts set out to settle America's first lunar base in the year 2080. You are one of them.

Lunatix - The Insanity Circle, by Mike Snyder
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

"The escapes continue. The patients are out of control. The asylum is terribly understaffed. As Dr. Hammer (the hospital administrator) you must uncover the truth about the so-called "Insanity Circle" in the...

Machine of Death, by Hulk Handsome
Average member rating: (22 ratings)

In the near future, the world will be changed by a machine that predicts how a person will die with 100% accuracy... but not clarity. Would knowing your demise change the way you lived your life? A...

Madam Spider's Web, by Sara Dee
Average member rating: (38 ratings)

Madness & the Minotaur, by Tom Rosenbaum
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

A treasure hunt through a randomized dungeon, navigated with the help of magical items with randomly assigned names and effects.

The Magic Show, by Jason Mac Innes
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

A skilled magician, you expect it'll just be another night working at the dinner theatre. Or so the evening begins as you head out onto the stage to perform your usual feats of magic. But the night will be...

The Magic Word, by B.J. Best
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

"AND LEMME TELL YA, THE MAGIC WORD ISN'T 'PLEASE.'" —The imp. A fiendishly difficult limited-verb puzzle box. Created for SeedComp '23, based on a seed by Rovarsson.

The Magician's Workshop, by Kate Heartfield
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

When your master is murdered, you must uncover the magical secrets of Renaissance Italy, before your rival apprentices expose them first! "The Magician’s Workshop" is a 190,000-word interactive historical...

Magocracy, by Joseph Rheaume
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

Mahadev, by Bob Reeves
Average member rating: (3 ratings)
A deity discovers and meets his destiny ... or not.

Mainland, by Vasily Voronkov
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«Mainland» is a text adventure game about a traveller of a 19th century, who lives on a ship which entire crew died from plague. The game focuses on an original unconventional story and atmosphere rather...

Malleus Maleficarum, by Keith Dechant
Average member rating: (1 rating)

A nearby land has outlawed magic. You have heard rumors about religious fanatics there accusing people of witchcraft. Join a young adventurer friend on a quest to save her grandmother from persecution. At...

The Mamertine, by K Vella
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

The Mamertine is a rather confusing cult escape story that evolved out of a tech demo for the upcoming second iteration of the VIBAE engine for Twine.

Mango, by Aaron Reed, Duncan Bowsman, and Alexei Othenin-Girard
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

You are stuck inside a creepy hotel room in Boston and need to escape. How can losing precious brain parts learning learning occult magicks, former president Millard Fillmore, and time traveling to the Irish...
Mansion Quest, by Walter Pooley
The Mansion, by Nick Dablin
Average member rating: (3 ratings)
Your wealthy uncle has just died of a heart attack. You're his only living relative. What's strange is that your family has never had any history of heart problems and he was fit and healthy up until his...
The Mapper, by Karl Bunyan
Pollux 3 (third planet orbiting the Pollux star in the constellation of Gemini) has been classed as potentially habitable. Before settlers arrive there the scientists must know everything possible about the...

Marla, by mina
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

A story about a hopeless romantic. CWs: Blood, heartbreak, mention of alcohol use, gore, cheating, skin picking.

Marooned, by Bruce Davis
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

"After finishing with some afternoon fishing, you notice some rather dark and menacing clouds have snuck up on you. While preparing to head back to port, the wind picks up and jagged streaks of lightning...

The Martian Job, by M. Darusha Wehm
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

Rob the first Martian casino and find out who really rules the planet! Crack a safe, break some hearts, start a revolution, or get rich beyond the stars! The Martian Job is a 155,000-word interactive novel...

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...

Matchmaker, by Jack Lockerby

A Matter of Heist Urgency, by FLACRabbit
Average member rating: (16 ratings)

"CROWN JEWELS STOLEN!" scream the headlines of the Meighsalot newspapers. Anastasia the Power Pony is no ordinary horse, and she's not going to let the Smashy Llamas get away with their latest villainous...

Max Blaster and Doris de Lightning Against the Parrot Creatures of Venus, by Dan Shiovitz and Emily Short
Average member rating: (15 ratings)

Someplace on Venus a secret weapon is being built that threatens Earth with total destruction. You and your comrade must penetrate the Xavian base and save the world -- before it's too late!

maybe make some change, by Aaron A. Reed
Average member rating: (13 ratings)

Inspired by the Maywand district killings in Afghanistan, 'maybe make some change' explores a frozen battlefield moment from six violently conflicting perspectives.

Maze of Madness, by Lurkio/Ant
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

A solvable demo of a rather cruel puzzle idea. Playable online. Written for the 8-bit BBC Micro computer.

Memory Lane, by ComSha
Average member rating: (1 rating)

Story ❝ Huh, where is everyone? ❞ ❝ My home... it's gone. ❞ This game is a story-based textadventure where you can explore the town and discover mysterious places. Collect multiple items and interact with...

Menagerie!, by David Good
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

In this game you are an animal lover who works for PETA. It is your mission to videotape mistreated animals at the local circus. But the circus is not what it seems – can you do it and escape with your life?...

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...

Mere Anarchy, by Bruno Dias
Average member rating: (19 ratings)

“The box is cardboard, a file box; it looks like it should contain years of tax returns. Except the holes on the sides have been shut with black masking tape. Except the lid is held in place with the same...

MetaHuman Inc., by Paul Gresty
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

As the CEO of a multinational corporation that sells superpowers to the highest bidder ("the finest superpowers money can buy"), you'll cast powerful magic, invent futuristic technologies, and manipulate...

Metamorphoses, by Emily Short
Average member rating: (130 ratings)

You wake to stillness. The hammering, banging, and shouting that kept you awake half the night are gone. The air is cold, and something smells burnt. Your master's experiments must be finished, but with what...

metastasis, by Playahead Games
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

the last days of your internship prod by playahead written by suldrun 499 words 4 possible endings neo twiny jam

The Meteor, the Stone and a Long Glass of Sherbet, by Graham Nelson (as Angela M. Horns)
Average member rating: (51 ratings)

Another day wasted as guest of the Empress, a wretchedly long tour of the breath-taking Boreal Falls, conducted as ever by the Lady Amilia. As if she weren't bad enough, an honour guard of soldiers, their...

Mhairie Sioux Escrivain and the Dracula of Hogwarts, by Roger Carbol (as M Grablowsky)
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

You were just a regular girl living a regular life in North Dakota when a letter arrived that changed your life. You had been accepted as an exchange student to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry,...

Microfair Madness, by Gareth Pitchford and Scott Denyer (The Spud)

Today was the day of the 'Personal Computer Whirled Show', the 100th Microfair, and you eagerly held a copy of your latest adventure in your sweaty little hands to give to the publisher, who had a stall...

Midnight. Swordfight., by Chandler Groover
Average member rating: (79 ratings)

A fool receives a challenge from a countess. Violence. Sex. Profanity. Sausage.

The Million-Dollar Great Jewel Heist, by Dorothy Millard
Average member rating: (1 rating)

In this old-fashioned treasure hunt you awake with a headache and blurry memory in the living room of a large mansion. As your memory returns you realise there has been a jewel heist. You must find all the...

Milliways: the Restaurant at the End of the Universe, by Max Fog
Average member rating: (11 ratings)

In Milliways: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, every step you take has an equal probability of sending you over the edge of perilous cliff drops or spinning into the stratosphere. But before that...

The Mind Electric, by Jason Dyer
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Set in an unusual cyber/virtual reality background, you play a disembodied consciousness trapped in an electron prison of the mind. [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue]

Mind The Gap, by quackoquack
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You're in London for a day, and your friends are all unhelpfully scattered across Zone 1. Can you visit them all before your night bus leaves the city? A quick text adventure game made for Game Dev London's...

Mindshadow, by Brian Fargo
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You find yourself lost in the middle of nowhere. In the middle of a mystery. Who are you? Where will you go? What will you do? London. Luxembourg. Across oceans and continents. You struggle for answers. For...

Mindwheel, by Robert Pinsky, William Mataga, Steve Hales
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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,...

Mingsheng, by Deane Saunders
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Mini-Zork II, by Dave Lebling, Marc Blank
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A refurbished version of the work-in-progress, never-released Mini-Zork II found in Infocom's archives. Primarily restored by Torbjörn Andersson. Compared to the full game, the map and some of the puzzles...
Mirror of Khoronz, by Derek Haslam
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Many years have passed since you went on the quest for the Talisman of Khoronz, a journey which led beyond the confines of your own space and time to the enchanted isle of Karos. The adventure was fraught...
The Miser, by Jack Lockerby
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Down through the years one man's name has conjured up great visions of cold-heartedness towards others and a flagrant disregard for the suffering of fellow human-beings ... that man's name was EBENEZER...
The Misplaced Young Persons, by Larry Horsfield
According to the UK Adventurers Convention: "We managed to persuade him to come out of a self-imposed exile from programming to write 2006's Megapoints game, The Misplaced Young Persons." * This was an...
The Mission, by Jim MacBrayne
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A quest for a shoelace? Well, there's a lot at stake here...and it's up to you whether or not you win the bet and succeed at your mission. [blurb from The (Other) TADS Games List version 1.2] Originally...

The Mist, by Raymond Benson and Stephen King
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Another Saturday. Another stop at the market. And another wait in the checkout line. Until a shadow descends and someone shouts: "The fog! You oughta see it!" And you do: a mist advancing toward Federal...

Möbius, by J.D. Clemens
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Another mission. Just when you had settled in for a nap.

Molly and the Butter Thieves, by Alice Grove (as Cosmic Hamster)
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You are Molly Butterfield, dairy farmer extraordinaire. In the past week there have been two mysterious butter disappearances from your own kitchen. There will not be a third. Molly and the Butter Thieves...

Mom Guilt, by Lindsay Slattery
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Mom Guilt is a Twine experience that tells the story of a single mom doing her best. I made it in part because the mom gamer community is HUGE and particularly supportive and wonderful. Plus, we all have one...

Moments Out of Time, by L. Ross Raszewski
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"Note: requires a Z6-capable interpreter, preferably with Blorb sound support." [--blurb from Competition Aught-One]

Monk by the Sea, by Elizabeth Decoste
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An interaction fiction based on the artwork of Caspar David Friedrich. You begin in a oak forest and must discover how to prevent a tragedy from happening by exploring the world around you and solving simple...

Monkey and Bear, by Carolyn VanEseltine (as the opposite of sublimation)
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Monkey Island Adventure, by Patrick Furlong, Neil Parsons
Based on the game "The Secret of Monkey Island". Originally coded in 1999 but remained unfinished. Unearthed and demo version finished off. Full game in pre-production with target release date of November...
Monster, by David M. Haggarty
Monster Age: Trials of Dustorn DEMO, by Kilobyte227
DEMO STORY: It is the year of 300 BC... in the country of Veskea. gruesome monsters start appearing. A malignant force might be clouding the country... ​Will you be the champion to save Veskea​, or will the...

Monsters of Murdac, by Jonathan Partington
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The forests of Murdac are some of the oldest, as well as the wildest and most isolated, in the whole land. Also they don't take kindly to intruders -- although living on the outermost fringes of the great...

Monty Python & Holy Grail, by Nate Segerlind

This adventure is part of the Eamon universe. Like all Eamon adventures, it is an RPG-style game, mostly using a two-word parser. Because Eamon is a modular system, you may bring a character and equipment...
Moon Over Jupiter, by Admiral Jota
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Moon-Shaped, by Jason Ermer
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In this game partly inspired by Little Red Riding Hood, you play as Rosalind Wechsler, a girl on the cusp of her 13th birthday. What begins as a trip to Grandmother's house in the woods leads to disturbing...

Moonbase, by Mike Eckardt
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You play as an employee of Earth Control. Moonbase Alpha hasn't contacted Earth for three days; it's your job to teleport over there and find out what's happening up there. Good luck!

Moonmist, by Stu Galley, Jim Lawrence
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More ghosts haunt the misty sea-coast and stone ramparts of Cornwall than anyplace else on earth. One such soul roams Tresyllian Castle: a pale phantom with flaxen hair and a luminous, flowing gown. It seems...

Moonwrecked, by Caelyn Sandel (as Colin Sandel) and Carolyn VanEseltine
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You are an employee of Prometheus Corp, on the Moon, wearing a pressure suit but carrying nothing. Following a bogus distress call into some ruins, you discover your moon buggy has been sabotaged by someone...

Mordon's Quest, by Peter Moreland, Peter Donne, and John Jones-Steele
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This adventure takes place over many thousands of years, and it is your quest to save the universe from destruction. In the beginning, you find yourself in a curiously familiar house, looking for a way out....

More, by Jason Dyer (as Erin Canterbury)
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Mortality, by David Whyld
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Mortality is the story of a man called Steven James Rogers and the events that follow his taking a job working for ageing multi-millionaire, Wilfred Gamble. The job involves acting as the personal bodyguard...

Mountains of Ket, by R. A. McCormack
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Your society is suffering from frequent attacks by forces from the east, lead by Vran Verusbel and princess Delphia. You have been charged with murder, and have only one option to escape death - travel east...

Mr Cuddle Cuddle, Bop Bop, by Nils Fagerburg (as Inverted Normals)
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Mr Seguin's Goat, by auraes
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The goats of Mr Seguin liked the open air and freedom. They were all eaten by the wolf. Based on a story by Alphonse Daudet.

Mrs. Pepper's Nasty Secret, by Jim Aikin and Eric Eve
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Walking home from school is mostly okay, except for one big problem: Every day you have to pass right by Mrs. Pepper's house. She may not actually be a witch, but she sure acts like one. And now she's stolen...

Mud Warriors, by Ryan Veeder
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General Shaquille has a mission for you.

Muggle Studies, by M. Flourish Klink
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You play as Alice Armstrong, the new Professor of Muggle Studies at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in Scotland, even though you've never heard of "muggles" before and never knew magic was real...

The Multi-Dimensional Thief, by Joel Finch
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Murder - he said., by Jack Lockerby
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Sitting in your office on a lovely sunny summer's day, your reverie is broken by the shrill ring of the telephone. You rise to your feet and cross the office to the large mahogany desk where the phone sits...
The Murder at the Crows Party, by Darren Lye
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Work in progress murder mystery
Murder Hunt 2, by Craig Davies

Murder Off Miami, by Jason Somerville and Fergus McNeill

Based on the original Dennis Wheatley crime dossier, "Murder off Miami" casts you in the role of Detective Officer Kettering. Kettering is assigned to investigate the the death of Bolitho Blane, a wealthy...

Murmellius II, by VDSB
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It is Saturday, and you wake up to the realisation that your chemistry experiment is due Monday morning. So you'll have to break into school and do the experiment. But in the school other things seem to be...

Mustard, Music, and Murder, by Christopher Huang
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"Daniel Hopkins, investment broker, has been murdered. The police are on their way, and meanwhile you are locked in with the other suspects.... "Can you piece together the clues, apply a little logic, and...

Mutant, by Jack Lockerby

My Angel, by Jon Ingold
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"I wake peacefully, and already she is there." [--blurb from Competition Aught-Zero]
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...

my heart, bared., by Sophia de Augustine
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A tiny tribute to the Nemesis Ambition in Fallen London. Made for the One Choice Jam.

My Mind's Mishmash, by Robert Street
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My Pseudo-Dementia Exhibition, by Naomi Norbez (call me Bez, he/they)
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a personal & public museum ...

The Myothian Falcon, by Andy Joel
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"That day, the 9th of June, 3145, started out like any other, perhaps a little hotter than usual. Then Maisy DeValle entered his office." Vic Gantry, P.I., has a new client. She is wanted for the murder of...

Mystery Fun House, by Scott Adams
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As Adventure #7 begins, you find yourself hopelessly lost in the middle of a carnival fun house. While escape may elude you, one thing is very clear -- you're NOT here to have a good time! Converted from...

Mystery Island, by Anonymous
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The Mystery of Markham Manor, by Edward P. Toovey

PLOT Welcome to The Mystery of Markham Manor. You are Sam Boon, an L.A. private detective. Over the years your fame has spread across the globe. The case begins on the night of the 18th June 1963, at Markham...

The Mystery of Winchester High, by Garry Francis
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Frederick H Winchester III was a rich man who lived in the city of Dunedin in New Zealand. When he died, his mansion was bequeathed to the city to be turned into a high school. Apart from the mansion, the...

Mystery!, by Gene Welborn
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A homage to the Parker Brother's game CLUE™. The first half of the game is the 'setup' for the murder, the second half is the search for the murderer. Since the solution is randomly generated, it can be...

Myth, by Paul Findley
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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...

Mythion Adventures, by Brynn Mountain, Ian Fowler and Kyle Aulerich
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Mythion Adventures is a mobile, multiplayer, interactive-fiction gamebook set in a hand crafted world expanded month-over-month. Players will encounter new characters in adventures as they navigate their way...
MythTale, by Temari Seikaiha
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In this game about Greek myths, you play as several characters. In the prologue and endgame, you are a hero who wants to make his destiny with the Golden Bowl of Artemis. In the main game, you are a...

Necklace of Skulls, by Dave Morris, SD Separa

Learning of the disappearance of your twin brother in the trackless desert, you resolve to set out and discover his fate. Leaving the hub of your elaborate Mayan civilization far behind, your quest takes you...

Necron's Keep, by Dan Welch
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Bluex the divine king of Surya has decreed for you to locate the Arch Mage Wizard Necron. Necron built an enchanted castle deep within an ancient forest to protect himself and his people. Esentially, you are...

Necrotic Drift, by Robb Sherwin
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Necrotic Drift is a survival horror text adventure... but with graphics and sound! An homage to the old Magnetic Scrolls game in presentation, Necrotic Drift follows the story of gaming store employee Jarret...

The Nemean Lion, by Anonymous
Average member rating: (28 ratings)

Nesterin Trail, by Marco Giorgini
You are the youngest member of the Garrot Guild, or what is left of it. Most of those loyal to the Duke were killed after the brutal and unexpected Lyrin invasion that so changed the land in which you were...

Never Ending Story, by Parcaran

Never Gives Up Her Dead, by Mathbrush
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Time is running out after a meteor strikes your interstellar starship. While the crew is under full alert, only you seem to notice the strange red portals opening up throughout the ship. Explore ten...

Nevermore, by Nate Cull
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"A short tale of mystery and madness inspired by Poe's "The Raven"." [--blurb from Competition Aught-Zero]
A New Life, by A O Muniz
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New Year's Eve, 2019, by Autumn Chen
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Social gatherings are not your preferred activity. But this one is obligatory, and it threatens to ruin you. You are Karen Zhao, a senior in college who is home for winter break, and seeing your old high...

Newton, by Tiberius Thingamus
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Intended as a game whose entire transcript would be tweetable to @Thingamus, the player takes on the role of Isaac Newton sitting under a tree. The first game credited to Tiberius Thingamus, it lacks the...
The Ngah Angah School of Forbidden Wisdom, by Anssi Räisänen
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In this fantasy romance, you are a new arrival at the very secretive Ngah Angah School of Forbidden Wisdom. Now prove you have the right to be there by completing three extreme tests. The penalty for failure...
The Night Market, by Zinnia Demitasse
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The Night Market is an interactive fiction novel in which you awaken to a lantern filled world with no memory of how you got there. Desperate to get home, you must find the gate that leads back to your...

The Night of the Vampire Bunnies, by Jason Dyer
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Can you save your town from the curse of the terrible vampire bunny? [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue]

Nightfall, by Eric Eve
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The Enemy is expected to arrive at any moment. Staying behind is either the stupidest or the bravest thing you've ever done. Only one thing - or one person - could have made you stay. So now there's nothing...

Nine Princes in Amber, by Byron Preiss and Roger Zelazny
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Based on the Amber series by Roger Zelazny So that was the game. They tried to kill you--and when that failed, they stuck you in a private hospital with enough drugs to keep you out cold for the rest of your...

Ninja's Fate, by Hannes Schueller
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Sent by his village elders to retrieve a stolen gold idol, a ninja finds himself in a Panksian world. Little does he know his true destiny is waiting for him here...

No One Else Is Doing This, by Lauren O'Donoghue
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You are a community organiser. This is your job, four nights out of five; you sell people hope on their doorsteps....

No Time To Squeal, by Mike Sousa and Robb Sherwin
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"He thought he saw a pantomime That queried his own deal: He looked again, and found it was A ticket to a meal. He thought he saw infanticide Per chance to make it real. 'I have but one regret,' he said:...

Noah, by Mike Young
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Norman's Lament, by Jack Lockerby
YOU are to play the part of NORMAN LAMENT ... ex-member of Parliament ... having just lost your seat in the "House Of Commons" following the recent publication of the "Boundary Commission's" findings and the...

Not All Things Make It Across, by Bruno Dias
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All around the city now, parties are taking place. It's been a hell of a year, emphasis on hell. But tonight, there are other things you have to do. The end of the year is a threshold. And like all...

Not Another Sad Meal, by manonamora
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After a difficult breakup, and a long night of drinking, you decide to take your life back and put things back in order. Starting with a simple meal. Treat yourself! Not Another Sad Meal is a parser cooking...

Not Just A Game, by John Menichelli
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You've arrived at your teacher's home for your weekly Go lesson, but she's missing. And her Go board is missing too. Is this one of her tests?

Not Just an Ordinary Ballerina, by Jim Aikin
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Nothing But Mazes, by Greg Boettcher
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In this large game, you play as Gary Randall, a man who had a heart attack in 2026, was frozen in a cryogenic tube, then revived in 2189 by green aliens from Oo. Humanity bombed itself back to the Iron Age...

Nothing Could be Further From the Truth, by Adam Wasserman
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Welcome to the Bunker, an orderly, underground utopia where everyone’s needs have been satisfied. You, Oliva Mirram, are a dust maid assigned to Research Lab A-U61, a facility in the Developmental...

Nuclear Submarine Adventure, by Robert J. Retelle
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You are trapped in a crippled nuclear missile submarine and must make your escape. Don't get the bends on the way up!

Offensive Probing, by Ben Croshaw
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In Offensive Probing, you play Martin McSondheim, a post-graduate ensign of the Space Federation who, due to lack of openings, finds himself trying to cling onto a dirty little life on one of the downmarket...

Olivia's Orphanorium, by Sam Kabo Ashwell
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Sparky young entrepreneur Olivia sets out to fulfil her dream of running an orphanage. The beatings will continue until morale improves.

Ollie Ollie Oxen Free, by Carolyn VanEseltine
Average member rating: (28 ratings)

"War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children." - Jimmy Carter

Once and Future, by G. Kevin Wilson
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One Eye Open, by Caelyn Sandel (as Colin Sandel) and Carolyn VanEseltine
Average member rating: (46 ratings)

Had you known the bloody history of Corona Labs, you would never have signed up as a test subject. But now, plunged into that history, surrounded by the damned and the dying, you must find the truth. Perhaps...

One Final Pitbull Song (at the End of the World), by Paige Morgan
Average member rating: (10 ratings)

"this is for you, a playlist for our adventures"...

One King to Loot them All, by Onno Brouwer
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A tale of High Adventure ...

One Way Ticket, by Vitalii Blinov
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I was heading for a new life and my train brought me here. Nice town: friendly people, corn cuisine, mysterious architecture... ...

The Only Possible Prom Dress, by Jim Aikin
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Ten years ago you had to burgle every store in Stufftown to get your hands on the sought-after doll called Sugar Toes Ballerina so your 7-year-old daughter Samantha wouldn't be heartbroken on Christmas...

Onna Kabuki: A Tale of Theatre and Revenge, by Victor Ojuel
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Japan, 1602. A noble lady, betrayed. A loyal samurai, fallen. A mysterious monk, unmasked. A titillating actress, haunted. A wayward drunkard, redeemed. Take your seat, for the curtain is drawn...

Oo-Topos, by Michael Berlyn, Muffy Berlyn, Raimund Redlich, and Brian Poff
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It's 1995 A.D., Earth time. An Interstellar Transport carrying power transfusion waste collided with a meteor, scattering its contents towards Earth's Sun. The transfusion waste is so deadly that all life on...

Open Flame, by Damon L. Wakes
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Created for Shufflecomp 2023. I ended up with a great range of songs on which to base a work of interactive fiction and could have used some combination of them, but in the end I went exclusively with...

Open Sorcery, by Abigail Corfman
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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...

Opening Night, by David Batterham
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You stepped off the streetcar moments ago, halting before the grand facade of the Marquis Theatre. You have come to see your idol, the Broadway star Miranda Lily, performing in all her dizzying glory. [blurb...
The Orb of Polaris, by John Nelson
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A warlock sends you on a quest to find the Orb of Polaris, in a cave in the frozen arctic. Bring your winter coat! This adventure is part of the Eamon universe. Like all Eamon adventures, it is an RPG-style...
Orchid Species of the Erastian, by Ryan Veeder
You begin on a beach on Ankers Island. You have a sketchbook to which you may paint or sketch any examples of orchids that you may find. You have no particular goals except to relax, explore, and draw...

Orevore Courier, by Brian Rapp
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Out of Scope, by Drew Castalia
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

Zoe and her brother Joe grew up close. Too close, according to their parents. ...

Out the Window, by Molly Geene (as Bramble Bobonong)
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

Over Here!, by auraes
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Help the ghosts escape from here, before the yellow bulldozer destroys everything in its path, to replant and restore a primary rainforest instead. This game was written for The Next Adventure Jam of june...

Overboard!, by inkle
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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....

Oxygen, by Benjamin Sokal
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An explosion rattles the Aegis mining station and the oxygen tanks are leaking. Who gets the remaining oxygen and who will perish? The choice is up to you, a lowly technician trapped in an access conduit.

Pantomime, by Robb Sherwin
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Pantomime takes place on the Martian moon of Phobos, in the year 2044. Mankind has developed colonies on Mars, Titan, Ganymede and installed a life bubble on the closer, larger Martian satellite. Mankind has...

The Paper Bag Princess, by Adri
Average member rating: (21 ratings)

Princess Elizabeth is about to marry the love of her life when a dragon attacks the castle and kidnaps her betrothed. Based on a book of the same name by Robert Munsch, with permission.

Paradise, by Devine Lu Linvega
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

A multiplayer library, endless and sleepless.

A Paradox Between Worlds, by Autumn Chen
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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...

Parallel, by Ethan Crosthwaite

You wake up in a basement-like room that seems to defy the laws of physics. After you escape the room you find that the rest of the building is normal. Or so it seems. Part-way through the game, you will...

Parc, by John Rennie
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

The Parenting Simulator, by Matt Simpson
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

A unique story that lets you experience all the highs and lows of raising a child. Watch your little one grow and change from the choices you make!

Parley!, by GammaEpsilonCrimson
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

Pascal's Wager, by Doug Egan
Average member rating: (25 ratings)

"The original Pascal's Wager was essentially a cost/benefit analysis of religious faith. However, Blaise Pascal (a 17th century Catholic) disregarded the possible existence of non-Christian Gods. This game...
Passages, by Jared W Cooper
Average member rating: (14 ratings)
These are all the weekends that will have passed when you read this.

Past Present, by Jim Nelson
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"The agreement is, once the furniture is moved out of the house, each of us goes inside one at a time to collect our remaining things. ...

PataNoir, by Simon Christiansen
Average member rating: (58 ratings)

The Baron's daughter is missing, and you are the man to find her. No problem. With your inexhaustible arsenal of hard-boiled similes, there is nothing you can't handle.

Path to Knighthood, by Ian Lai

Path To Knighthood is a 250,000-word interactive fantasy novel written by Ian Lai, where your choices control the story. It's entirely text-based—without graphics or sound effects—and fueled by the vast,...

The Path, by Chris Ainsley
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Overcome a series of illustrated obstacles on The Path. The path is a linear parser-based puzzle game that strips away many of the tropes of traditional text adventures that beginners may feel overwhelming....

Pathway to Destruction, by Richard Otter
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You have worked at the Institute of Transportation for nearly five years. As one of the engineering team in the Research and Development section, it is considered a highly respected position and is...

Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich: The Text Adventure, by Rex Mundane
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

You struggle against fate itself to create, and consume, a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.

The People's Glorious Revolutionary Text Adventure Game, by Taylor Vaughan
Average member rating: (56 ratings)

Sure, there's only five of you against a world full of reactionaries, but you have Revolutionary Spirit! You can't possibly fail. Nothing can stand in your way! Now if only you could find your Revolutionary...

Perdition's Flames, by Michael J. Roberts
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The afterlife isn't what you expected. Explore a strangely modernized and bureaucratic underworld, replete with strip malls, government offices, and science labs, as well as the occasional lake of molten...

Perry Mason: The Case of the Mandarin Murder, by Byron Preiss and Erle Stanley Gardner
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The first interactive mystery to use the world-famous criminal lawyer created by Erle Stanley Gardner. It also represents a major breakthrough in interactive fiction: the cooperation of the characters and...

Persistence of Memory, by Jason Dyer
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Pesky Kids!, by Gareth Pitchford

Your life as a security guard would be so much easier if it wasn't for those pesky kids! Every year it's the same story. Every year those pesky kids break into Old Man Hagerty's mansion to hold their annual...
Pete's Punkin Junkinator, by DCBSupafly
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For months you have looked forward to exercising your invention, the Universal Insta-grow Punkin Junkinator. Find stuff to put into the machine and crank out instant, amazing jack-o'-lanterns to sell to...

Phantom, by Peter Eastman
Average member rating: (13 ratings)

You have recently begun taking lessons from a new voice teacher. Under his expert instruction, your opera career is flourishing. If only he would let you see his face. This work includes music which is an...

Philosopher's Quest, by Peter D. Killworth and Jonathan Mestel
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Originally written on Cambridge University's "Phoenix" IBM mainframe computer as "BrandX". When released by Acornsoft for the BBC B microcomputer, it was renamed to "Philosopher's Quest".

Phoenix, by The Traveller in Black

Your lifeforce fades ..... the visions dim. All that remains are the tenuous memories. You recall a time of tranquility and contentment in the bosom of your family. Lost forever, through treachery and greed,...

Photograph: A Portrait of Reflection, by Steve Evans
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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...

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."

The Physiognomist's Office, by Christina Nordlander
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

Find a way to escape the clinic. Try not to think about the things you see. A short escape-the-room game, created in three hours. La Petite Mort entry in ECTOCOMP 2015.
Pick Up the Phone Booth and Aisle, by David Dyte, Steve Bernard, Dan Shiovitz, Iain Merrick, Liza Daly, John Cater, Ola Sverre Bauge, J. Robinson Wheeler, Jon Blask, Dan Schmidt, Stephen Granade, Rob Noyes, and Emily Short
Average member rating: (107 ratings)
The Pickpocket, by Alex Weldon
Average member rating: (3 ratings)
"A short game, with about 20 rooms and 10 puzzles, in which you are attempting to chase down the pickpocket who stole your money pouch. The author's first attempt at IF." [--blurb from Competition...

Pilgrimage, by Víctor Ojuel
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Leave Rome in the dead of night. Pursue an hermetic quest throughout Medieval Europe. Find arcane knowledge or utter despair. Blessings of Babylon.

Pirate's Plunder!, by Tiberius Thingamus
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In this game, it be yer goal to findeth ye olde, cursed treasure on Loot Island and taketh it fer yer own. Not even that evil Captain Hookhead can stoppeth ye once ye put ye mind to it. Know why? If ye...

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 Plague - Redux, by Laurence Moore
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Planet of Death, by Francisco Javier Lopez
An unofficial remake of the Charles Cecil adventure of the same name.

Planet of Death, by Richard Turner, Chris Thornton
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The player is stranded on an alien planet. The aim is to escape from this planet by finding the captured and disabled spaceship. A version in BASIC also exists for the TRS-80 MC-10, COCO and Dragon 32.

Planet of the Infinite Minds, by Alfredo Garcia
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""All that is secular is given over to rudeness and capricious violence. The Mohammedan principle -- the enlightenment of the Oriental World -- is the first to contravene this barbarism and caprice." (G.W.F....

Planetfall, by Steve Meretzky
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"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
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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
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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...

Play Nice, by alicethornburgh
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Navigate the choppy waters of intergalactic politics using your smart social skills and a series of bizarre cultural rules.

Plundered Hearts, by Amy Briggs
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In the 17th century, the seas are as wild as the untamed heart of a young woman. But when you set out on the schooner Lafond Deux, bound for the West Indies, your thoughts are only of your ailing father who...

Polendina, by Christopher Lewis
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In this game, you play as an adult who inexplicably wakes up in an abbreviated and sparsely furnished version of their childhood home. The story will touch on the dog you wanted but never had, the way your...

Pon Para and the Great Southern Labyrinth, by Kyle Marquis
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Chosen by the gods, you must battle savage monsters, corrupt priests, and mad philosophers to save reality from the dark god of destruction! Pon Para and the Great Southern Labyrinth is an interactive Bronze...

Postponing Destiny, by Lindsey Gregor
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Captain Jack Freeman relives his days in Norway during WWII where his destiny was postponed until his retiring from the CIA.
A Potion Labeled 'Time', by Finn Fabish
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You wake up with your brain in a foggy haze. Where have you been the past few days? You don't seem to remember. You find that you're in an ugly room with an ugly door and an ugly mailbox with an ugly key...
The Potter and the Mould, by Robert Street
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The Prawn, by Martin Hopkins (Mert)
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Originally published by Talent Computer Systems for the Sinclair QL computer, this game is a spoof adventure based on The Pawn written by Magnetic Scrolls. The game remains available through RWAP Adventures ...

Present Quest, by Errol Elumir
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A Visual Novel Life Simulator Mini Escape Room Christmas Adventure

Price of Freedom: Innocence Lost (expanded 2019 version), by Briar Rose
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You are ten years old when you first feel the weight of shackles around your wrists. In a matter of hours, your whole world is turned upside down as you and your brother are dragged away from your home in...

The Price of Freedom: Innocence Lost, by Briar Rose
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(The original version, as seen in Spring Thing 2014, is no longer online, having been replaced by the expanded 2019 version.)

The Price of Magik, by Pete Austin, Nick Austin, Mike Austin, and James Horsler
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The dying light of the Red Moon has been captured in a crystal by the magicians of Baskalos to act as the last repository of magik. Its guardian for many years has been Myglar, a wise and respected sorcerer....

The Primrose Path, by Nolan Bonvouloir
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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 Prince's Tavern, by Robert Davis
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You are traveling in a distant kingdom when King Radaar's ruffians capture you and send you into the Prince's Tavern to retrieve a bottle of 600-year-old Scotch. Inside, you encounter a horde of colorful...

Prism, by Eliot M.B. Howard
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Born to a city of wonders beyond your reach, scarcity has always been a close friend. As a courier, the city’s human infrastructure, you scale its roofworks, evade its constables, risk death every day for...

The Prism of Shadows, by Wade Clarke and James Anderson
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In his search for the greatest warrior in the realm, the powerful archmage Marduz is holding a contest. Renowned for your previous exploits in the Free Adventurers' Guild you have been invited as a...

The Prisoner, by David Mullich
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Inspired by the highly acclaimed television series, your Apple puts you in a nightmare 1984 world whose rulers seek to break you down by an extensive array of brainwashing techniques, while you are armed...

Private Eye, by David Whyld
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Prized Possession, by Kathleen M. Fischer
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"Winter, 1182 "Stay close," your mother whispers, wrapping her arms around you, pulling you back into the folds of her silky blue kirtle. She rests her check upon your head. "It will all be over soon."...

The Promise, by Sean Huxter
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Your village lives a harsh life of perpetual winter and has for as long as you can remember. As a young boy unable to go on the hunt, you may find that, with almost everyone away, you can be of some use to...

Promoted, by Mike DeSanto and Johannes Steingraeber
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This is a port of a REXX-Adventure, copying the menu-based OS/2 user interface. Oh no! You've been promoted! Now what can you do to ever get your phone working without violating any of the corporation's...
Pryde And The Pink Flamingo, by Christopher Huang
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Welcome to Suburbia. It's a magical land of pristine green lawns, stretching as far as the eye can see. Of pesticides and strict conformity and grass, grass, grass. But not if you can help it. The plastic...
Punk Points, by Jim Munroe
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"It's the first day of high school and you've decided to give yourself a mohawk. Now you've gotta stand up to teachers, impress peers and make a name for yourself until you've earned enough Punk Points to...

The Puppet-Man, by Geoff. H. Larsen

Towards the end of the last century, there lived a puppeteer whose puppet shows always attracted large crowds wherever he performed. Such was the skill of the puppeteer that rumours abounded that the puppets...

The Purple Pearl, by Amanda Walker
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A stolen treasure. A desperate king. Two valorous volunteers will prove their worth as a team to recover the luck of the kingdom, or die trying. This is a 2-player text adventure. You will need a partner to...

Pyramid, by Walter Pooley

Pyramid 2000, by Robert Arnstein

Having discovered the Great Lost Pyramid beneath the desert sand, with the seal on its entrance still intact, you set up your computer to explore the undisturbed tomb. This modern "Astral Projection"...

The Pyramid of Anharos, by Pat Hurst
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Pyramid of Doom, by Scott Adams and Alvin Files
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This is an Adventure that will transport you to a dangerous land of crumbling ruins and trackless desert wastes into the PYRAMID OF DOOM! Jewels, gold -- it's all here for the plundering -- IF you can find...

Pytho's Mask, by Emily Short
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On the Night of the Comet, the usual astrological bonds do not hold, and the order of the universe is threatened. It is a time made for rebels and usurpers, and all who would claim the kingdom for...

The Queen Of Phobos, by William R. Crawford and Paul L. Berker

Two weeks ago a derelict starliner was discovered circling one of the moons of Scalus III. The ship was found to be of Martian origin, making it over ten thousand years old. This alone would be enough to...

The Queen's Footsteps, by Davide Bucci
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Today is August 27th, 1904. Nine months ago, you, Emilia Vittorini, joined the Italian Archeological Expedition in Egypt led by Ernesto Schiaparelli, the director of the Egyptian Museum of Turin. You are now...

Queers in Love at the End of the World, by Anna Anthropy
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Quest Adventure, by Kim W. Topley
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The object of QUEST ADVENTURE is to find a map, hidden in a world inhabited by gruesome monsters guarding their territory and various pieces of treasure. On the way, you must also locate an ancient scroll...

The Quest for the Holy Snail, by Gareth Pitchford

'Embark on a quest to retrieve the legendary Holy Snail!' This is a remake of original The Quest for the Holy Snail mini-adventure from Microfair Madness, remade using the Adventuron system

The Quest for the Sacred Flame of Hestia, by Simon D. Allan

You are Jason the son of Aeson of Lolcus. Your Father needs to meet with you urgently at the Palace to discuss the new Temple he has built in honour of the Goddess Hestia. The Temple will have a hearth...

Quest for the Sangraal, by Jonathan Partington
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The Quest, by Dallas Snell, Joe Toler, Joel Ellis Rea

You, as the king's newest advisor, must accompany his champion, Gorn, on a mission to rid the kingdom of a vengeful dragon terrorizing the southern provinces. The king has instructed Gorn to heed your...

Questor's Quest, by Mark Stahl
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You’re a young man, on an adventure far from home, in search of a legendary treasure locked up inside an ivory tower. Forgot to pack? Incredibly deep pockets, but nothing in them? No problem. I’m sure...

Quickfire, by Sean M. Shore
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The sun has not even risen when the Elves rouse you from your rest. You've slept far too little since last night's bloodbath, but it's time once again for battle. You sharpen your blades and head to the...

Quing's Quest VII: The Death of Videogames!, by Dietrich Squinkifer (Squinky)
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You are a young monarch of mysterious and indistinct gender, valiantly trying to survive exile from your home planet -- or whatever's left of it since the invasion, anyway.

Quintessence, by Lapin Lunaire Games
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Galina has always been Good. How could she not be? Beloved daughter of the town blacksmith, sweetheart of the farmer's most charming son, and envy of her peers—Galina's life is as close to ideal as it can...

R.J.'s Ultimatum, by Dorothy Millard

Your parents have thrown you out, vowing never to let you return until you prove yourself worthy – they want you to go out an get a job!

Raaka-Tu, by Robert Arnstein

On a research grant for your Ph.D. project, you are searching for the lost Khazhadim tribe in the jungles of Nepal. An ancient woman interrupts your morning coffee both to point out the direction of the...

Radiomania, by Keith Burnard

Lying cosily tucked up in bed you start to drift into a sleep. Suddenly you hear a noise from the nearby window and peering through half shut eyes you notice a small elf-like figure tiptoe towards your bed....

Rambo First Blood Part 2, by Sylvester Stallone and James Cameron
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Your war was never over. And now you're going back. The parachute drops you into the middle of enemy territory. Your mission: * Prove the existence of American POWs in Vietnam * Don't engage the enemy *...

Rameses, by Stephen Bond
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rat chaos, by Winter Lake
Average member rating: (26 ratings)

Ravine, by Joanna Berry
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You are a corporate investigator sent to get answers from a remote research station. The staff there are hiding a dark secret. But then again, so are you...
A Reading in May, by Anonymous
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The Realm of A'oria, by Sylen
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You are young student and is one day asked out by a girl. You reject her, and as punishment she casts a magical spell on you. You end up inside an erotic fantasy/medieval book, with no way to find a way out....
Realm of Darkness, by Jack Lockerby

Reclamation, by groggydog
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

Corporate Space, the Year 21XX. You awaken from a month of cryosleep to discover that a missing research vessel has suddenly surfaced in the deep. There are no signs of life. You are now tasked with...

Recluse, by Stephen Gorrell
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A text adventure in the classic Infocom style. It begins with you delivering a sealed package, contents unknown, to J. Daggett Winton, noted archeologist, explorer, inventor, mathematician, philosopher,......

The Recruit, by Mike Sousa
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Try your hand at the Real Life Interactive Gaming Simulacra! You'll face a variety of challenges and simulations and have a chance to win some money and great prizes. Apply today!

Recursion., by Adrian Belmes
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A digital-born hypertext produced in Twine for the San Diego State University 2018 Electronic Literature Competition. The work is a non-linear exploration of the extremes to which individuals will go in...

Red, by Thomas Insel
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"Don't forget," your mother said, "your Granny's arthritis has been acting up since the weather last week. She's been in bed since Thursday. I need you to take her this basket first thing. When you get back,...

Red Door Yellow Door, by Charm Cochran
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Guide your sister through a game of visualization, adventure, and danger, and perhaps discover truths about each other along the way. This was originally intended for SeedComp!, but winded up being a bigger...

Red Moon, by David Williamson, Simon Aspinall, Pete Austin, Pete Austin, and James Horsler
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Red Moon re-enacts a tale from the time where Magik still worked and when mythical monsters guarded fabulous treasure. You have the use of many weapons and a dozen different magical spells to help you rescue...

Red Moon, by Jonathan Hay
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

In this short one-room game, you play as a young former football player somehow trapped by fear in a wooden hut with your sister. It's frighteningly dark in the hut, save for the red light that shines...

Red Radish Robotics, by Gibbo
Average member rating: (9 ratings)

On the seventh floor of HQ, the professor rushed into the games room as people yelled and slammed doors in the corridor outside. He hugged you to sleep. That is your last memory. You wake to discover that...

Redhawk, by Simon Price, Mike Lewis
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Reflecting my face in the mirror, by Aster Fialla
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A dynamic poem for the Neo-Twiny Jam. (Note: this poem is not meant to be played on mobile, as it has whitespace and hovertext.)

The Relentless Adventures of Captain Speedo, Episode 42: So Long, and Thanks for All the Books, by Gilles Duchesne
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In this tribute to Douglas Adams, you once again play as Captain Speedo, the hero of a popular sci-fi radio series. In the last episode, our hero's spaceship was captured by the evil crime lord, Lord...

The Reliques of Tolti-Aph, by Graham Nelson
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"It used to be said that there are two kinds of magic-user: those who have been to Tolti-Aph, and charlatans. It used to be generally understood that the attempt to prove oneself in the unforgiving society...

The Reluctant Resurrectee, by David Whyld
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The Further Adventures Of The King Who Wanted To Die But Whose Subjects Just Weren't Ready To Let Him Go… You’re alive. Again. And not too happy about it. During your current period of deadness, your son has...

Rematch, by Andrew D. Pontious
Average member rating: (90 ratings)

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...
Rent-A-Spy, by John Eriksson
Average member rating: (5 ratings)
Repeat : Return : Reprise, by Michael Coorlim
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Repeat : Return : Reprise is a choice-based interactive fiction game about time loops, otherworldly horror, and good enough being good enough. A game written and implemented in one week.
The Resident, by Mike DeSanto
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This is a port of a REXX-Adventure, copying the menu-based OS/2 user interface. After being assaulted and cut in half, you are kept alive on the WEB by a person called Ringer. He offers you a deal: you...

Resonance, by Matt Scarpino
Average member rating: (16 ratings)

Retro-Nemesis, by Robb Sherwin
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

Return of Red Hood, by Antokolos
Did You ever think how the fate of the characters would turn out, if not Red Hood, but her mother would go to grandmother? Or if Red Hood would swerve off the path? Or if her mother would bake pasties with...

Return of the Diamond, by R. McGregor
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A very short, type-in game in which you have to find the Great Diamond and return it to Diamond Castle. Publishing history (from the Complete BBC Micro Games Archive): Published in Beebug magazine, volume 2,...

Return to Ditch Day, by M.J. Roberts
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It's been a decade since you graduated, but now it looks like you're going to have to solve one more Ditch Day stack.

Return to Eden, by Nick Austin, Chris Queen, and Tim Noyce
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You play Kim Kimberley, and have just saved the interstar transport, Snowball 9, from disaster. Unfortunately the control room vidcams show a different story. Kim seems to enter, hurl a bomb and the room is...

Return to the Forest House, by Seciden Mencarde
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You're 17 now, five years after your first visit to this mysterious house in the forest. You're trapped inside. How will you escape?
The Returning of the Quantum Cat, by Peter Kosyh
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Outside my cabin the snow is white again. The wood crackles in the fireplace just like that day... It's the third winter already. Two winters have passed, but the events I want to tell about are in front of...
Reverberations, by Russell Glasser
Average member rating: (10 ratings)
Surely it is too much to expect for you, a mere pizza delivery boy and surfing fanatic, to foil the attempted escape of a notorious criminal from custody, avoid numerous murder attempts, find the gang the...
The Ribos Operation, by Kelsey Lewis
Average member rating: (2 ratings)
Dr Who themed game. The Doctor and Romana must find the first segment of the key to time on the pre-technological planet of Ribos
The Rifts of Time, by David Walls
Rimworld, by Russel A. Duderstadt
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During the Great Conflict, the people of Rimworld shut off their planet from the rest of humanity behind an impenetrable forcefield. They were not heard from again. Now, 300 years after the War, you are on a...

Rite of Passage, by Arno von Borries
Average member rating: (10 ratings)

A comedy in four parts about exciting games of instinct and wits, set in childhood. Not necessarily for children.

Roads Not Taken, by Doug Egan
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A lesson on finding one's path through the trees.

The Roads not Taken, by manonamora
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The Ritual awaits... Are you ready to make your choice? The one that will shape the rest of your life? Or will regret the roads not taken? This game was submitted to the 2023 Edition of the SpringThing, an...

Robin of Sherwood - The Touchstones of Rhiannon, by Mike Woodroffe, Brian Howarth, and Teoman Irmak
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The Rocket Man From The Sea, by Janos Honkonen
Average member rating: (17 ratings)

On the old pilot station island, where you live with your parents, the war fought with Earth and Martian rocket-ships and Atomic Heat Rays exist only in the sonorous voice of the newscaster on the radio, and...

Rogue of the Multiverse, by C.E.J. Pacian
Average member rating: (73 ratings)

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...

Roofed, by Jim Munroe
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You and your brother’s job — scouring the city’s highest spots for a rare building material in the year 2040 — is already hard enough. Now Anton’s gone and gotten you trapped on a rooftop. Your acrobat...

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...

Run, Bronwynn, Run! [1992 PAW version], by Larry Horsfield
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You, Princess Bronwynn of Alizon, learn that your parents plan to marry you off to Prince Timothy, the middle-aged son of the King and Queen of Karsten, a neighbouring kingdom. You decide to escape from your...

Runestone, by Alan Davis
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Runestone is one very unique adventure, combining the parser and NPCs of The Hobbit with the graphics and large playing area of The Lords of Midnight (not IF). The story is simple: Controlling your three...

Sabotage, by Felix Plesoianu
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Sabotage! is a set-piece story in a space opera setting. It was an entry in the IntroComp 2006. As such, the game ends on a cliffhanger. It's otherwise complete within its own framework, but YMMV. The source...

Sabres of Infinity, by Paul Wang
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Fight for glory as an officer of the Royal Tierran Army in a rich, low-fantasy world where gunpowder and magic rule the battlefield side-by-side. Choose a horse, pick a sergeant and lead a unit of Royal...

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

A simple puzzle based IF game in the style of the early Infocom games. The Aim of the game is to find the lost ‘Sacred Shovel’ and return it to the king. We had recently acquired a kitten and my son was a...

Safe, by Charlie the Spiffy
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Your friend gave the cops an anonymous tip, so break the safe open quickly

The Saga of Erik the Viking, by Pete Austin
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The player controls Erik the Viking, and when his family is kidnapped by the evil Dogfighters, it becomes Erik's task to find them. The game is loosely based on the 1983 children's novel of the same name by...

Saint City Sinners, by dgallagher
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Hey you! Yeah, you! You think you have what it takes to be a detective? I mean a real, steel-oats-eating kind of detective that names your fists and barely cries at the end of Marley and Me? If so, prepare...

The Saint's Tomb, by Seth Jones
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The Saint's Tomb is a hybrid of a choose-your-own adventure type computer game and a pen-and-paper roleplaying game. It is compatible with the fifth edition of the most popular tabletop roleplaying game in...

Salutations, by Lumin
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You've always fancied yourself an outdoorsman and are quick to tell anyone who asks that your hobby is hiking. Now, you've spotted a dessicated deer's corpse and something dropped from the trees to attack...
Samhain, by Marc Valhara
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San Francisco, 2118, by Leah Case
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The sun is disappearing, your mother is lost. You don’t know why.

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...

Santa's Sleigh Ride, by Molly Geene
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It's late Christmas Eve, and Santa is on the last house of his ride. Help Santa make this delivery!

SANTAPUNK 2076, by Gymcrash
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

Xmas 8-bit illustrated cyberpunk Text Adventure Short story

Sardoria, by Anssi Räisänen
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

You play as a young villager who is attempting warn the king about an imminent attack at nightfall. The castle guards, not believing your tale, have imprisoned you in the castle's wine cellar. You must...

Save Princeton, by Jacob Weinstein and Karine Schaefer
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"Have you ever wanted to kill somebody by feeding them school food? To hobnob with F. Scott Fitzgerald? To be single-handedly responsible for the salvation or destruction of one of the oldest universities in...

Save the Date, by Chris Cornell
Average member rating: (32 ratings)

"It’s a perfectly normal evening, and you have a quiet dinner planned with one of your friends. And so begins one of my weirder games. Save the Date is a game about a lot of things. Friendship. Stories....

Savoir-Faire, by Emily Short
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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...

Scary House Amulet!, by Ricardo Dague
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You have green hair! Your name is Britney!! Legend says there is a valuable, powerful Amulet in the house, which may be retrieved by anyone who is daring! Do you dare?

Schief, by Olaf Nowacki
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Insurance agent Kai-Uwe Hase would like to win a prominent lady as a customer, which requires a very special kind of sensitivity.

Schizoidia, by Bob the Developer
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Schizoidia is a mental health simulator. The goal of the game is to survive for as long as you can. - Tackle issues like depression, anxiety, and psychosis - Socialize or live a life of isolation - Find the...

School Dreams 2: Forfeit Fantasy, by GoblinBoy
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

SCLERA, by MeiZi
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

Hong Kong, 19XX. You're stuck in a nightclub where dream and memory intertwine. You're a strange thing in a stranger land, with no place to go. Might as well dance. • Part Text ADV, part fever dream, and...

The Screen Savers On Planet X, by Josh Lawrence

You're going to be a guest on the Screen Savers! Not only that, you're going to be part of the historic first Screen Savers episode to be broadcast galaxy-wide. You're being flown by luxury space cruiser to...

SCREW YOU, BEAR DAD!, by Xalavier Nelson Jr.
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SCREW YOU, BEAR DAD! is a game about puns, rampant drug use, learning to enjoy life despite uncertainty, and elderly women in attack helicopters. Also - bears. [Note: game contains strong language, and brief...

The Sculptor, by Yakoub Mousli
Average member rating: (15 ratings)

Sways of an artist's delicate spirit. An 82 year old sculptor with no achievements to his name or a penny in his pocket now seeks to make the masterpiece of his dreams before his life fades. ...

Sea Coral, by Jeff Greer
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A seaborne crime with a search and rescue sub-drama, written with the Punyinform library for entry into PunyJam #3.

The Sea of Night, by G. Kevin Wilson
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In this small game, you play as a cargo driver of a one-person spaceship, The Shooting Star. While en route to Io, your ship collides with something and you crash inside the landing bay of an alien ship....
The Sealed City, by Unknown
Published by Central Solutions.

The Search for the Nether Regions, by Gareth Pitchford

In the stereotypical magical kingdom of Kwargz, the peace and quiet had been shattered by the arrival of the evil orc-lord Beydm - a being with far too many consonants in his name! The orc-lord and his...

Seastalker, by Stu Galley, Jim Lawrence
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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...

Second Chance, by David Whyld
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I'm injured! I want to shout. Don't move me! I'm injured! But none of them hear me. They turn me over. Still no pain. Just a detached feeling. Someone starts crying; someone else asks me questions that...
The Secret of Flint Smith, by trexanddrago
The Secret of Flint Smith The Secret of Flint Smith is a short kinetic parser and entry for Bare Bones Jam. In 1999, Anthony Fitzgerald has helped a boy named Nathan Smith to escape from his abusive uncle....
Selma's Will, by Dana Crane
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Sequitur, by Nigel Jayne (as Tin Foil Jenny)
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The only person who can explain what happened in a long-forgotten house with four dead people inside is comatose and clinging to her life in hospital. Detective Stephen Cochone of the New Orleans Police...

Sergeant Guffy's Day, by TheDefiant
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In this comedy mystery text adventure, you play the time-traveling assistant to bumbling detectives, at the ready wherever and whenever you're needed. Suspense, deduction, forensic science, three-dimensional...

serious, dude?, by prince of the clouds
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(cw: transphobia, depression, emotional manipulation, allusion to suicide) this one's for da boizz musings of a trans guy in personal poetry-story-fiction-thing form, clocking in at 498 words for the Neo...

Seven Bullets, by Cloud Buchholz
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You're a skilled assassin ready to retire, but before you can call it quits, the Boss kidnaps your little sister, and now you need to use your arsenal of deadly skills to get her back. Will you make the...

Seven Steps To Limbo, by LemonPoppyseedGames and Sleepyhart
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Welcome to Limbo . . . now play well or go to hell. You're dead, Player.  Welcome to Limbo, the grooviest jazz bar to ever grace the pits of purgatory. But don't think you have it easy -- you still gotta...

Shades of Gray, by Mark Baker, Steve Bauman, Belisana, Mike Laskey, Judith Pintar, Cindy Yans, and Hercules
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You wake painfully, from a fitful sleep, to find yourself surrounded by three shadowy figures… After a horrible dizzying moment, the shapes come into focus — vampires, they are vampires, and they are...
Shadowgate, by David Feldman, David Marsh, Terry Schulenburg, David Griffith
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Within the castle Shadowgate lies your quest. The dreaded Warlock Lord will use his black magic to raise the Behemoth from the dark depths. The combination of his evil arts and the great titan's power will...
Shadows in the Night, by Dorothy Millard
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Discover hidden passages and other secrets in a haunted mansion - or is it?

Shadows of Mordor, by Philip Mitchell, John Haward
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The second part of Beam Software's adaptation of Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. The game basically covers the adventures of Frodo and Sam in Tolkien's book The Two Towers. The player can play either as Sam...

shadows on the mirror, by Chrysoula Tzavelas
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I am falling, I am fading, I am drowning, help me to breathe...

Shady Brook, by Unimatrix Productions
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Delve into a dark mystery set in a small town with Shady Brook, a brand new text adventure inspired by Twin Peaks. In Shady Brook, author Jake Torrent moves to the small, peaceful country town of Shady...

Shattered Memory, by Andrés Viedma Peláez (as 'Akbarr')
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The first English translation of Andrés Viedma Peláez's Olvido Mortal. (The second translation was Nick Montfort's Dead Reckoning.) This translation was entered in the 2001 IF comp.
She's Got a Thing for a Spring, by Brent VanFossen
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It's been a hectic year, and it's time to get away. He told you that, and you agreed. Now you're here, in a grove of aspen, and long for a good, long bath in the nearby hot spring. [--blurb from The Z-Files...

Shelter from the Storm, by Eric Eve
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It is set in October 1940. Jack is a newly-commissioned sapper officer on his way to his first posting somewhere on Salisbury Plain (in southern England) when his car breaks down. The weather is starting to...

Shenanigans, by Bob Withers & Steven O'Dea

"Countless legends tell of a magnificent Pot of Gold and enormous wealth hidden by leprechauns at the end of the rainbow. Many have attempted to find the marvelous treasure but success has eluded them and it...
Sherlock Holmes: The Lamberley Mystery, by Ian Eveleigh
It was Tuesday 3rd November, 1887. It had been a long two weeks for Holmes and Watson. Not a single case had come along since Holmes had solved the problem of the five orange pips, and Watson feared that...

Sherlock: The Riddle of the Crown Jewels, by Bob Bates
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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...

Sherwood Forest, by Dale Johnson and Dav Holle

Join Robin Hood and his merry men in a madcap chase through Sherwood Forest to win the heart of the elusive Maid Marian.

The Shield of Oran, by Pierre Faure/Loriciels

Released on Philips VG5000 Citadel is a text adventure game consisting of one part puzzles, one part role playing adventure and one part treasure hunt. David Bourg David has ported it to the Sanyo PHC-25. It...

The Ship, by Sotiris Niarchos
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An interactive novel about reaching out to others and finding oneself ...

Shipwreck, by Gladys Officer, Gerry Officer

Shore Leave, by Michael Bellamy
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The aim of the game is to escape from your spaceship so you can claim the shore leave you have been saving up for 18 months. Your Captain can neither spare the time nor find the intelligence to actually...

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...

Sidewise, by C. Scott Davis
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You’re starting an exciting new job today… then everything goes sidewise. Now you’re trying to figure out where, and when, you are and how to get back home. Contains the game file, game manual, and quick...

Signal Hill, by Crosshollow
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A text-based RPG set in the post-apocalyptic utopia of Signal Hill. You came here with a caravan, set on starting a new life- but when you're ambushed outside the city, shot, your cargo stolen and your...

Sirens in the Distance, by Astrid Dalmady
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You're sitting on a boat a few miles off shore when, suddenly, you hear sirens in the distance. An interactive short story for #mermay2019.

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

Six, by Wade Clarke
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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....

Six Gray Rats Crawl Up The Pillow, by Caleb Wilson (as Boswell Cain)
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A distressing episode in the life of Rinaldo di Gorgonzola.

The Six Keys of Tangrin, by Geoff M. Phillips
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Travel through a maze of caves to retrieve the six keys of Tangrin and the treasure which they can unlock. Published by Tansoft as a BASIC type-in listing in Tansoft Gazette, issue 1, October/November 1981,...

Six Stories, by Neil K. Guy
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After losing control of your car during a blizzard in the mountains of British Columbia, you make your way to a rundown shack and sleep. You wake up elsewhere and soon encounter a mouse, a pair of drawing...

Six-Chamber Champion, by C.E.J. Pacian
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Derelict Warehouse (sitting on the hard plastic chair) Crammed full of bloodthirsty spectators, the air is heavy with cigarette smoke and body odour. You sit at a simple plastic table opposite your opponent....

Sixth Grade Detective, by Laura Hughes
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Round up the usual suspects—the mean girl, the new kid, the bully, the nerd, maybe even your best friend! As the sixth grade detective, you'll spy on classmates for cash—will you keep their secrets or take...

Skyland's Star, by Daniel Berke and Matthew Engle
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SLAMMED!, by Paolo Chikiamco
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Turn a scripted steel-cage wrestling match into a real fight in this 250,000-word interactive novel! You’ve always dreamed of becoming pro wrestling’s biggest star…but a wrestler’s world is fraught with...

Slap That Fish, by Peter Nepstad
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This time, those fishy bastards are finally going to get what's coming to them.

The Sleeping Princess, by Molly Engelberg, Alex Engelberg, and Mark Engelberg
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You are a pageboy, well, actually you're more like a janitor. Can you wake the sleeping princess? An entry in the IFBeginnersComp.
Small World, by Andrew D. Pontious
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Smuggler's Cove, by John R. Keneally
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The year is 1753. Two miles off the North Cornish coast, huge waves pound the latest victim of the notorious Doombar, the Cutter captained by the ruthless pirate Black Beard. For many years he had terrorised...

Snack Time!, by Hardy the Bulldog and Renee Choba
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Can you help one hungry bulldog in his quest to find something good to eat? He would like that. A lot. [blurb from IF Comp 2008]

Snare, by Andrew Williams
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A Blake's 7 adventure. You play as a group of rebels in the future who have discovered an alien ship, the Liberator. Based off of the British TV series.
Snatches, by Gregory Weir
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Snow Dogs Trilogy part 1: Crack City, by Garry Cappuccini

It is the year 2003. The player is a secret agent for a private investigations organisation with its Headquarters in New Washington, a new city, built to support Washington's overspill of political and...

Snowball, by Mike Austin, Nick Austin, Pete Austin, and Ian Buxton
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You play Kim Kimberley, secret agent extraordinary. Your mission: to safeguard the interstar transport, Snowball 9, as a last resort following catastrophic accident or sabotage. Thus when your modified...

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?

Snowquest, by Eric Eve
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You've been on your quest so long you've almost forgotten what it is all about, but now you are nearing your destination -- if only you can stay alive long enough in this frozen wilderness to reach it.

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

Social Lycanthropy Disorder, by E. Joyce
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You're a werewolf, it's Halloween, and you totally forgot that tonight is the full moon. If you're not careful, you're going to turn into a wolf in front of all your friends... but if you leave the party...

The Sofa At The End Of The Universe, by Sean Barrett
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In this homage to Douglas Adams, you play as Dirk Gently, the world's only holistic detective. Your landlord has ordered you to move your new sofa that the movers left in the stairwell, but there doesn't...

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...

Solkatt_ (english version), by BenyDanette
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Solkatt (n.) Pronunciation : sole-cat Meaning : the spot of light from sunlight reflecting off a shiny surface. December 2023 - Game created on Decker by BenyDanette - submitted to ShuffleComp 2023,...

Somewhere, Somewhen, by Jim MacBrayne
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Somewhere, Somewhen is a large text-only interactive fiction fantasy game (with some humour) written for the PC using qBasic64. It is uploaded as a zip file, and all contents of this file (with the exception...

Sophia or Wisdom Defined, by damageTXT
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You are not here to defeat anybody. No princess needs saving and no spaceship crashed while you were mopping floors. You're only goal is to understand and understanding comes through experience....

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...

Sorcery! 2, by Steve Jackson and inkle
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Per the first game in this series, this is 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 (this time of...

Sorcery! 3, by Steve Jackson and inkle
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The land of Kakhabad is a wilderness - a ruined desert, a tangled forest, cruel mountains and fissures, all guarded by seven fearsome serpents. But you must cross this land if you are to reach Mampang and...

Sorcery! 4, by Steve Jackson and inkle
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You have reached the gates of Mampang, the ancient Fortress of Sorcerers. It is guarded by Birdmen, mutants, traps and ancient, wild magic. But inside is the Crown of Kings and the only hope for peace in the...

The Sound of One Hand Clapping, by Erica Sadun
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Spaceship!, by The Guardian's Gamesblog Community
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Spaceship! is a collaborative project of the Guardian's Gamesblog community. The aim was simply to create the greatest group-generated text adventure in the world ever.

Spacestation, by David Ledgard
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Based on the example transcript that came with Infocom's Stationfall, with extensions and improvements, of course. [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue]

Sparkle, by Juhana Leinonen (as Karly Di Caprio)
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My search for the Pattern has brought me to Mount Shanshan. Now it's just a matter of a short cable car ride up to the top.

The Spectators, by Amanda Walker
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It is 1560. There are no secrets in the iron-willed Duke d'Este's marriage to his young bride, a girl unprepared for her new role as Duchess. The Duke's army of servants are always present, always watching,...

Speculative Fiction, by Diane Christoforo and Thomas Mack
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A puzzle game about committing acts of financial skulduggery and exploiting ridiculous magical items. This game is the complete version of the one that appeared in IntroComp 2011, where it won second place.

Spellbound, by Adam Perry
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You still remember well the moment that the professor shocked the orthographic community by announcing that there were, somewhere out there, 26 letters in all. Harness the alphabet's power to find the 23...

Spellcasting 101 - Sorcerers Get All The Girls, by Steve Meretzky
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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...

Spellcasting 201: The Sorcerer's Appliance, by Steve Meretzky
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Sorcerer University: Dangerously close to a real education! Returning to SU for his sophomore year, Earnie Eaglebeak stumbles across the magical Appliance, survives pledge week, and romps through the...

Spellcasting 301: Spring Break, by Steve Meretzky
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Sorcerer University: Dangerously close to a real education! Follow the sun to Fort Naughtytail and party hardy with Ernie and his fraternity brothers. They're hoping to find sand in all the wrong places but...

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...

SPIRITWRAK, by D. S. Yu
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Set in the universe of Zork, this game starts off in a monastery. The evil Anabis fools Brother Joseph into releasing him from his prison. He shatters the Rod of the Ancients, and the only way to save the...
Splashdown, by Paul J. Furio
Average member rating: (9 ratings)
Spodgeville Murphy and the Jewelled Eye of Wossname, by David Fillmore
Average member rating: (5 ratings)

spondre, by Jay Nabonne
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Who is the mysterious old man? More importantly, who are you? Thrust into a tiny cell with a stranger, the future looks bleak. But things are not always what they seem.

Spy EYE, by The Marino Family
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Juan and Ichel are recruited for a spy mission to find their birth parents, only to find that the reunion is not what they expected. As they navigate the gadgets, villains, and flying beds, they must also...

SPY INTRIGUE, by furkle
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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...

Spy Snatcher, by Jonathan Partington and Jon Thackray
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Originally written on Cambridge University's "Phoenix" IBM mainframe computer as "Spycatcher". When released commercially by Topologika, it was renamed to "Spy Snatcher".

Square Circle, by Eric Eve
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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?

The Staff of Zaranol, by M. J. Gearing

Be the Sorcerer's apprentice who releases an evil demon in his master's absence. Can you banish the demon before your master returns?

Star City, by Mark Sachs
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Star Hunter, by Chris Kenworthy
Average member rating: (9 ratings)
An interstellar treasure-hunting puzzle game. Explore amazing ruins. Seek out mysterious treasures. Risk all you own in trade at the Android Bazaar - to find the priceless lying Bear of Deneb.

Star Tripper, by Sam Ursu
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

Inspired by the Palm Pilot game "Space Trader"...

Starcross, by Dave Lebling
Average member rating: (50 ratings)

Starcross, Infocom's science fiction mind-bender, launches you headlong into the year 2186 and the depths of space. And not without good reason, for you are destined to rendezvous with a gargantuan starship...

Starfisher, by lnmmnl
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

You've returned home, but it's not that bad. ...

Stargazer, by Jonathan Fry
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The prologue to a much longer game, Stargazer features you as a young lad trying to escape the everyday routine of life underground. [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue]

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.

Stars, by Zoe H
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

Hello, an welcome to my very first game. As I am just trying this out, this game won't be very good or interesting. It's really just me having fun and playing around with stuff.

Starship Escape, by Darren Miller and Errol
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You are awakened from cold sleep to respond to unexpected damage to your colony transport ship. Can you successfully save the crew, repair the crippled vessel, and get back on course to the distant colony on...

Stationfall, by Steve Meretzky
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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...

Stay?, by E. Jade Lomax
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STAY? CHOOSE YOUR OWN HAPPY ENDING Welcome to Elaia, a magical city nestled in a high valley. It's the end of your first year at university & time to choose your major. Find yourself among potential friends...

Staying Put, by verityvirtue
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After hell went down over the Grémillet thing, Subramaniam helped you find this place. You'll have to lay low for a while, so that means not getting out of this room — or at least downstairs — until all this...

Stone Harbor, by Liza Daly
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You're good at what you do: tell tourists pretty lies about love, money, and life after death. That's what people want from a boardwalk psychic, and you deliver. It's not the future you imagined for...

The Storm, by Stephane F.
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At home, safe and warm. Everywhere : the night. Outside, the storm. « The Storm » is the english version of « La Tempête » released for the French comp 2018. Translation by Stéphane F. and Jack Welch.

The Story of Mr. P, by Hannes Schueller
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One morning, when P. woke from peaceful dreams, he found himself in his bed – still his old self. A translation of Die Geschichte des Herrn P. from German to English.

Stranded, by Rich Cummings
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"(How long have I been unconscious?......What happened?) Suddenly it all comes rushing back to you...the pilot...the plane blindly drifting towards the ocean...jumping...That's all you can remember before...

Stranded, by Dave Hawkins

Despite what you may or may not have read in the "comic-books", interplanetary travel is not all that exciting... at least it is not if you are the pilot of a simple transport ship like the "TALISMAN" and...

Strange Geometries, by Phillip Chambers
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Strike Force, by Christopher Drum
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Strike Force is a homage to the after-school cartoons of the 80s, most especially G.I. Joe. In this game, you'll lead two elite agents of Strike Force against the forces of HAVOC as they infiltrate a secret...

A Study in Steampunk: Choice by Gaslight, by Heather Albano
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Steam-powered mechs meet forbidden sorcery! Inspired by Sherlock Holmes, Dracula, Jekyll & Hyde, and Jack the Ripper, "A Study in Steampunk: Choice by Gaslight" is an epic 277,000-word interactive mystery...

Stupid Creek. Stupid Christmas., by Troy Jones III
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

Stupid Mom made you take your stupid little brother to town for stupid Christmas shopping in the freezing cold. And now you have to cross this stupid freezing-cold creek in a stupid boat to get back home.
Stupid Kittens, by Marc Valhara
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"You are standing in Karen's room. >POOP ON COMPUTER Woo, bad kitten!" [--blurb from Competition Aught-Zero]

Submarine Sabotage, by Garry Francis
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You are currently serving aboard the USS Ibis, the first of the US Navy's top-secret Puny class submarines. The Puny class is an attack submarine that packs maximum firepower into a minimum-sized hull. It...

Subsunk Adventure, by Peter Torrance and Colin Liddle
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

Sun Empire: Quest For The Founders, by Daniel Hiebert

As chief engineer of the Rosemon Genetics Institute on Rhiannon, you, Tangee Simone, oversee a large group of scientists working on uncovering the genetic secrets of the Kantenese race.
Sunday Afternoon, by Christopher Huang (as Virgil Hilts)
Average member rating: (20 ratings)
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...
Sunset Over Savannah, by Ivan Cockrum
Average member rating: (54 ratings)
In this game, you play as an office worker on vacation on a beach in Savannah. This is your last day of a very blissful vacation, and you realize you really really hate your job. You could quit, but should...
Surfboard, by Zebra
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This game takes place in Surfboard Technologies, a fictional software company. The game also references the cyberpunk genre.

Suspect, by Dave Lebling
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You're guilty until proven innocent. You have walked into a hotbed of deceit and trickery. And now they're accusing you of something you couldn't have done. But they have proof that you did it. "You're a...

Swan Hill, by Laura Michet
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Swan Hill is an interactive story about brothers who have grown apart. It has multiple endings.

Sweetpea, by Sophia de Augustine
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Someone claiming to be your father is trying to break in. Following the eponymous Sweetpea is: a mosaic faced guardian angel, something wearing her father’s guise, and the detritus of life in their gently...

Swiss Family Robinson, by Johann David Wyss, Gabrielle Savage, David Dockterman, and Tom Snyder
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As Fritz, you and your family face the challenge of survival on a deserted tropical island.

The Sword of Inari, by Matthew Clark
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The Sword of Inari, a powerful artifact of antiquity, has reappeared and is in the possession of an evil army in the city of Tornio. The Guild of Magicians needs a savvy adventurer to retrieve it from behind...

System Processing, by Albie
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Content Warning: This story contains mature themes including depression, death, grief, and suicide. The Story "I appreciate a degree of nebulous uncertainty when it comes to my past: I was born. I lived. My...

T-Zero, by Dennis Cunningham
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PROLOGUE A dream came to you as you tossed uneasily upon an unfamiliar bed. In your dream, a time-worn figure waved a scythe in slow arcs across your sky-blue field of vision and picked, out of thin air,...

The Tailgator, by NegSec
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A little game I made about somewhat tailgating you, and how things can go horribly wrong. I came up with the idea during a driver's ed course. You are a normal person, who is driving and has to deal with an...

Take One, by Robert Street
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

A Tale of the Cave, by Snoother
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No longer are William McGonagall's ruinous effects confined to poetry. A Tale of the Cave is the unlikely marriage between Scotland's notoriously bad poet and the classic cave-crawl genre. Made for the Ruin...

The Tale of the Kissing Bandit, by J. Robinson Wheeler (as 'Cary Valentino')
Average member rating: (46 ratings)

The Tales Of Mathematica (remake), by The Glass Fractal and Karl Bunyan

Do battle with mighty Bears, brave Knights and awesome beasts. Trick your way past wary guards and negotiate tricky puzzles in your search for the objects of power. Only when you have all FOUR objects will...

Tales of the Traveling Swordsman, by Mike Snyder
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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...

Talisman: Challenging the Sands of Time, by Bruce Hoffman, Raimund Redlich, and Brian Poff

Talk to him about love, by auraes
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

It's a story about The King of Ravens, a troll and a pearl. Kids, don't play this game: it was the Troll who guided my hand to write it and as he never went to school, there are a lot of syntax, grammar,...

Tally Ho, by Kreg Segall
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Only a perfect servant can solve a perfect mess! Being the perfect gentleman's gentleman or lady's lady doesn't make you an angel. Can you untangle your employer's knottiest problems with elegance and...

Tangaroa Deep, by Astrid Dalmady
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We know more about space than we do about the ocean. Isn’t it time to start changing that? Released for the 2016 Spring Thing

Tapestry, by Daniel Ravipinto
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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...

Tass Times in Tonetown, by Michael Berlyn and Muffy Berlyn
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Tonetown! It's a totally radical dimension where the top tune is Tass by the Daglets, the top Gear is Troppo-Wear, and the UltraTouch haircut is a DieCut by Chaz. What are you doing there? Simple. Your...

Taunting Donut, by Kalev Tait
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One-room game where you need to get an out-of-reach donut tied to the ceiling of your exitless room.

Tauvigjuaq, by BenyDanette
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North of the Arctic Circle, the Great Darkness reigns for several months. Just before it sweeps across the world, you must unravel the mystery of the murder of your tribe's matriarch. -------- Au nord du...

Tavern Crawler, by Josh Labelle
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Most fantasy stories are about slaying the dragon. This one is about what happens after that. When you and your companions are approached by a man in a tavern who offers you more gold than you could spend in...

Temple of Apshai (TRS-80 Version), by John Connelley, Jon Freeman and Jeff Johnson
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"And now, my friend," Merlis continued, "only the bravest or most foolhardy dare enter the cavern under the coastal bluff when the tide is at its ebb, and few of them return. Those who do grow in legend to...

The Temple of No, by Dominik Johann, William Pugh, Crows Crows Crows
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The Best Game Ever Made (but in twine form). Author website - http://crowscrowscrows.com/ Hey! We’re a new studio directed by William Pugh (Designer behind The Stanley Parable) creating experimental things....

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

Terminator Chaser, by Bruno Dias
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Cycle 87. Last work shift of the quarter. And you're left behind to tidy up so the rest of the crew has time to settle into the new site. Make sure Mining Site 43 won't be a half-melted wreck by the time the...

Terraota, by Sriram
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You are the president of a recently independent planet. One question is running through your mind now. How to turn an unsafe, fragile planet in a declining economic climate with politically motivated...

Terrormolinos, by Peter Jones, Trevor Lever, Mike Robinson, James Byrne, and Roger Taylor
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When chubby-cheeked Cliff Richard first sang "We're all going on a summer holiday" it's unlikely that he was referring to the Costa Brava resort of Terrormolinos, because Terrormolinos is the kind of place...

The Terrors of Trantoss, by Anonymous

Tex Bonaventure and the Temple of the Water of Life, by Truthcraze
Average member rating: (17 ratings)

In this homage to Indiana Jones, you play as Tex Bonaventure, an adventurer and treasure hunter. After three days of exploring the deep dark swamps of the Everglades, you've finally found your destination....
Text Adventure Collector, by Rex Mundane
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You moved to the northern outskirts of Questlvania for one reason, and one reason alone. You heard the legends that in this town are no fewer than Ten Legendary Text Adventure Games, scattered about the...

Text Quest, by Chris Ingerson, Sleepy Owl Software
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Text Quest is a first person text-based adventure where everything in the world is made up of words. Trees are the word "tree," clouds are the word "cloud," and giant spiders- well, you get the idea. Travel...

That Forest Inside, by onepanda
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Submission to Neo-Twiny Jam My depression summarized in 500 words. Many things left unsaid. Cover image photo by Fabian Oelkers at Unsplash

Thaumistry: In Charm's Way, by Bob Bates
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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...

Theatre, by Brendon Wyber
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Your job as a real estate agent brings you into contact with many old buildings, but none are quite like the old theatre that has stood deserted for almost thirty years. After visiting it with some...

Their Time in This World, by Kastel
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GOOD AT KEEPING TIME? Since the time dislocation phenomena began a few years ago, people all over the universe have been frozen in time. We don't know where the sands of time came from, but we do know that...

Theme Park U.K., by Jack Lockerby

Theme Park USA, by Jack Lockerby

Theo, by prince of the clouds
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A short 500-word game for the Neo-Twiny Jam, based on a dream I once had. Dreams are weird but man, I sure was sad to wake up that morning.

The Thirty Nine Steps, by Graham Walmsley
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The man on the floor was quite dead, a knife through his heart skewering him to the floorboards. At a quarter to eight, the train would take me from London, where people would be searching for me, into the...

The Thirty-Nine Steps, by Jack Lockerby

Your same is RICHARD HANWAY, a retired mining engineer, bored with having a life of inactivity in London. That is all about to change when one evening in early May an American named Scadder, who lived in the...
The Thorn, by Eric Mayer
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The search for a mysterious, mystical thorn bush brings you to a ruined abbey in a desolate part of the Fens.
Three Monkeys, One Cage, by Robert Goodwin
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Three More Visitors , by Paul Stanley
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Christmas Eve! You tell Bob to go home early; tidy up a little, and lock up the office shortly after four. You look on the old brass plate, which still reads “Scrooge & Marley”, probably for the last time....

Three Things, by Lapin Lunaire Games
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From the Desk of Professor J. Chernilskaya Dear RUSS/ENGL 3150 students, The documents for your final exam have been sent to your university email addresses. If you have not received the original text and...

Threediopolis, by Andrew Schultz
Average member rating: (28 ratings)

A wordplay/quasi-maze game.

Through Time, by Finn Rosenløv

THROW. MARIA. OVERBOARD., by Travis Moy
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A story of the sea. Made in four hours for the La Petite Mort category of EctoComp 2022. Story adapted from the Byzantium and Friends, episode 40, "Byzantine tales of horror and the macabre." Cover image...

Thy Dungeonman, by Videlectrix
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Thy Dungeonman 3, by Videlectrix
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

Thy Dungeonman II, by Videlectrix
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

Tic-Tac-Toe, by jatekos101
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It's a simple tic-tac-toe game with a near-perfect AI and a two-player mode.

A Tight Spot, by Quim K. Holland
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Till Death Makes a Monk-Fish Out of Me, by Mike Sousa and Jon Ingold
Average member rating: (34 ratings)

Dr. Taylor's looking worried. Dr. Kurner's looking exhausted. Zak is grinning with glee. Today is the big day, and you're about to try out the crowning experiment of your life, and in AtlantisLab's chequered...

Time Before Memory, by Cecilia Dougherty
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This is a story about human life in prehistory. The characters are a band of Neanderthals, led by the woman Haizea, and a band of Cro-Magnons, one of whom is Haizea's lover, Esti. The two groups live in a...

The Time Machine, by Brian Howarth
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Trapped in a thick fog on the moors whilst searching for the house of Dr. Potter, you begin to wonder just what sort of a story will unfold for your newspaper about the strange goings on that have been...

The Time Travelling Watch, by smolblooky
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After your mother died, a pocket watch was passed down to you. How you use it is up to you. First game! Feedback is much appreciated!

TimeQuest, by Bob Bates
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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...

Tinseltown Blues, by Chip Hayes
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The Tiny House, by Dan Doyle III
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Christine comes home from work to her tiny house to find that her son and husband are missing. In searching for clues she discovers a spellbook and must learn various magical spells and go to several...

To Burn in Memory, by Orihaus
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To Burn in Memory, an ahistorical and atemporal Interactive Fiction work originally submitted for IFComp 2015. Explore a city that never existed, and uncover its secret history through the memories of a...

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...

To Sea in a Sieve, by J. J. Guest
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Peter Petibon, cabin boy, hath a problem. He be goin' down -- to Davy Jones' locker, by the powers! Lest he seize the booty o' the dread pyrate Booby, and heave it all o'erboard, he and the Cap'n both will...

Toadstools, by Bitter Karella
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Greetings, fellow mushroom enthusiast! If you're reading these words, it's because you too have decided to join the exciting and rewarding world of mushroom hunting. The Pamogo Forest is well known...

Today is the Same as Any Other, by Adam Wasserman
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Welcome to the Bunker, an orderly, underground utopia where everyone's needs have been satisfied. You, Cory Resden, are a population tweaker in I-12 sector. You don't aspire to much, and your life is fairly...

The Tomb of Molinar, by Donald Brown
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"Molinar was", the King told you, "the last of the Great Wizard--Kings. He ruled wisely for centuries, util he finally grew weary of this life. He prepared himself a special chamber to sleep the endless rest...

Tomlin's Little Life, by Coleman Andersen
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The Ultimate Story of Life! Guide Tomlin as he gets older and older, and has to make complicated life decisions! Hooray!!!! There are no unhappy endings :)

Tonciven, by Donald Conrad and Peter M.J. Gross
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The ageless city of Tonciven is built on a foundation of cruelty, bloodshed, and exploitation. Many inhabitants of today's bustling city are unaware that relics from its dark past lie beneath the busy...

Tookie's Song, by Jessica Knoch
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Cat aliens from the planet Purrsimmon have stolen your pet dog, Tookie! Rescue him by solving all the various light-hearted puzzles they've set up for you!
Toonesia, by Jacob Weinstein
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From the introduction: "Oooh, that rascally rabbit! You were out hunting him when he somehow got the jump on you, blindfolded you, and dumped you into a cell. Well, you’ll show him. He’ll be hasenpfefer by...
Torn, by Joe Chedburn
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First released in 2004 by Torn’s founder Joe Chedburn, Torn was one of the first massively multiplayer text-based online RPGs of its kind. Joe is still an active part of the 12 strong design and development...
Tough Beans, by Sara Dee
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Tower, by Simon Deimel
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Out of the blue, and into the blue. And there you are, in a chamber, trying to find out what is going on. Everything is so unreal... what has happened to you? TOWER is a short interactive fiction with...

Tower of Despair, by Steve Williams, Jamie Thomson, Russell Clarke, Mike McKeown
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The Tower of Eamon, by Frank Black, Thomas Ferguson, and Huw Williams

This is a collaborative piece that resulted from a contest started by Eamon authors Frank Black and Thomas Ferguson to build an "exquisite corpse" adventure, with each contributor providing a small set of...
The Tower of the Elephant, by Tor Andersson
Average member rating: (18 ratings)
An adaptation of the classic sword & sorcery tale by Robert E. Howard, first published in 1933.

The Tracer Sanction, by Rebecca Heineman
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Dossier: The Wing We'd like to describe the gentleman you're pursuing. Except we can't. No one can. Your adversary is a virtual legend when it comes to maintaining a low profile. He never leaves a trail....

Trading Punches, by Mike Snyder
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Transfer, by Tod Levi
Average member rating: (19 ratings)

"The staff's jubilant anticipation of the first human transfer was now replaced with dread. Why had the Professor fallen ill so suddenly? And how callous of the Overseers to insist on proceeding without...

Transit, by Shaye
Average member rating: (17 ratings)

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....

Transplant, by Caelyn Sandman
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You awaken feeling very peculiar. You can't remember very much.

Transylvania, by Antonio Antiochia
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Transylvania III: Vanquish the Night, by Antonio Antiochia, Veronika Slintak

Trapped in Time, by Simon Christiansen
Average member rating: (25 ratings)

A Science Fiction adventure where YOU are the hero!

Traveller's Log, by Null Sandez
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

Content warning: please do not use file upload or cheats

Treasure Island, by Ann Weil, Lee Jacknow and Robert Louis Stevenson

As Jim Hawkins, search for pirate gold and for a way to outwit Long John Silver, a clever and cunning buccaneer.

Treasure Island, by Jack Lockerby

Two rival groups of pirates are searching for the treasure on Treasure Island, one consisting of pirates led by LONG JOHN SILVER and the other by SQUIRE TRELAWNEY. You of course play the part of JIM HAWKINS,...

Trek Adventure, by Robert J. Retelle
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"This adventure takes place aboard a familiar starship and is a must for trekkies, The problem is a familiar one-- The ship is in a "decaying orbit" (the Captain never could learn to park!) and the engines...

Trial of the Inuop, by Jordan Jones
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You find yourself on board an alien space vessel, tasked with escaping it. The fate of the Earth is at stake. This is intended to be a short puzzle game which may take around 20 - 30 minutes. Experienced IF...

Trials of the Thief-Taker, by Joey Jones
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In London, 1729, before they had police, they had you: thief-takers, hunting criminals for cash! Fire a flintlock and sip gin in the age of powdered wigs. Will you grow rich catching smugglers and...

Tricks of light in the forest, by Pseudavid
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Some year not too far, in a foggy morning just before sunrise, a normal girl takes a normal walk in a normal forest. A Gruescript choice-parser hybrid, exploration walking simulator with light puzzles....

Trigaea, by Adam Ipsen (RynGM)
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Could you survive an alien world? Change your genetics and wander the wasteland for answers, all the while aided by your AI companion. Trigaea is an epic 200,000-word piece of interactive fiction. It's a...

Trinity, by Brian Moriarty
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You're neither an adventurer nor a professional thrill-seeker. You're simply an American tourist in London, enjoying a relaxing stroll through the famous Kensington Gardens. When World War III starts and the...

Triune, by Papillon
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"What are little girls Made of? Sugar and spice And everything nice That's what little girls Are made of." [--blurb from Competition Aught-One]

A Troll's Revenge, by Gareth Pitchford
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Can you help retrieve the treasure stolen from the Cave of Magic? An Adventuron mini-adventuron. A Troll's Revenge was written as part of CaveJam 2019; where it placed 2nd. The aim of the gamejam was to...

The Trope Exploit, by John C. Knudsen

Go for a walk in the forest. Invent a time machine. Steal alien technology as a secret agent. Be an enforcer for a criminal organization. Hunt monsters professionally. Rebuild your emotionally wrecked life....

Trouble From the Past, by Michael Kennedy

PLOT As the world's leading symbologist, you are awaiting the recognition you deserve in your humble Paris apartment. An unexpected knock on the door leads you into the most thrilling case of your career....

Trouble in Sector 471, by Arthur DiBianca
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The power just went out in Sector 471. You had better go take a look.

The Truth of the Nightmare, by TrexandDrago Development
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"Ben has been acted strangely. Not only lack of sleep, he's acted like he always been stalked every night. I'm his best friend, I need to know something. He need my help." A second submission for Neo Twiny...

Tryst of Fate, by G. M. Zagurski
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Your last trip up the stairs before you can relax in a nice hot bath brings you into rather unfortunate contact with a toy car left carelessly on a stair, and your head connects with the wooden banner near...

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.

Twice Shy, by Anonymous

In this adventure based on Dick Francis' thriller, you play the part of Johnathan Derry, physics teacher at East Middlesex Comprehensive. For reasons which will become clear as you progress through the...

Two Days to the Race, by Davide Bucci
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Your name is Emilia Vittorini, You're the daughter of Augusto Vittorini, who founded the Industria Torinese Automobili (ITA) with his brother Tullio. Your father is abroad trying to raise funds, but...

Tyler's Great Cube Game, by Tyler Bindon
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Unauthorized Termination, by Richard Otter
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NB: Do not play with the ADRIFT 5 Runner as the game will appear to work but can't be completed. Play online or use the Adrift 4 interpreter instead as this is an Adrift 4 game. You are a senior investigator...

Uncle Mortimer's Secret, by Jim MacBrayne
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

the uncle who works for nintendo, by michael lutz
Average member rating: (107 ratings)

You are 11 years old. You are sleeping over at your best friend's house. You and your friend like videogames. Your friend has a lot of cool games. And, believe it or not, an uncle who works for Nintendo. And...

Under the Bed, by Dan Doyle III
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For many years you have hidden from the monster under your bed. Now, with the birth of your baby brother, the monster threatens not only you, but your family. Now it is not a time to hide, now it is time to...
Under They Thunder, by Andrew Schultz
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Save OkayCo from the Flame-Lame Fey and Ed Spray-Spread! With thanks to my imaginary friends Amos and Abel Fay.
Underground, by Phlegethon
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You wake from many dreams, soon after you notice you are no longer in your bedroom. What happened? Are you still dreaming? With not much else to do, you should go explore. Underground
The Underoos that Ate New York!, by G. Kevin Wilson
Average member rating: (28 ratings)
Looks like that meteor crash from page 12 wasn't as harmless as everyone was expecting: now your clothes are playing mad!...
Unforgotten, by Quintin Pan
Average member rating: (7 ratings)
The Unholy Grail, by Stuart Allen
Average member rating: (5 ratings)
Strange, unexplained deaths have been occuring in the marine life surrounding a remote island military base and you have been sent to investigate. Your investigation will ultimately lead you to the other...
Uninvited, by Craig Erickson, Jay Zipnick, Billy Wolfe, David Griffith
Average member rating: (6 ratings)
You crashed into a tree next to a creepy old mansion. Before you know it, your kid brother wandered off, probably into the mansion. Find your brother and call a tow truck or taxi before the evil spirits of...
Universe Has No Favorites, by DSI Softworks
A modern text-based illustrated adventure game with point & click controls. Just click on the interactive link in the text and you can explore the environment, use and collect items and store them in your...
Unraveling God, by Todd Watson
Average member rating: (11 ratings)

Until Tomorrow, by BenyDanette
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Take a look at a piece of life through a few digital traces. Experimental Interactive fiction written during a nocturnal jam organized from 10pm to 10am made with Decker The N.U.I.E 2023 Reading Committee...

Untitled Ghost Game, by Damon L. Wakes
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

Not to be confused with goose game of similar name.

Untold Riches, by Jason Ermer
Average member rating: (22 ratings)

You were reluctant to undertake another adventure with Professor d'Squarius (especially after the last near-catastrophe, in the Tomb of the Screaming Mummies), and from the moment you agreed to join the...

Urquahart Castle, by Colin Sellwood

You enter a village one day to discover that the peasants are being terrorised by a monster that lives in the castle to the south. They have persuaded you to destroy this thing. They say there is only one...

Use Your Psychic Powers at Applebee's, by Geoffrey Golden
Average member rating: (36 ratings)

You are a Psychic Brand Ambassador for Schtupmeister Beer. Listen to the thoughts of customers at the local Applebee's and convince them to try your syrupy ale. But will being in these peoples' heads...

Vague, by Richard Otter
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With amnesia it is quite possible to have a complete or partial loss of memory, but this isn't like that. It is not that you can't remember who you are or anything about your life, you have no thoughts...

Valkyrie 17, by Tony Barber
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Varkana, by Maryam Gousheh-Forgeot
Average member rating: (25 ratings)

Varkana is the name of a region in a world with a timeless, mildy fantasy/sci-fi setting (some technological and magical elements are present at this moment, but not prevalent), with the city-state of Arg...

The Very Big Cave Adventure, by Anonymous
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

Vespers, by Jason Devlin
Average member rating: (174 ratings)

It has been five days, now. Five days since I made the choice. Five days since I closed the gate. Really, there was no choice. Rovato was damned when the first spot appeared: when the first bloody cough...

VESPERTINE, by Sophia de Augustine
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A fangame for the greatest mafia movie that never existed, Goncharov (1973). Or- a closer look at Andrey and Goncharov's tumultuous, doomed romance and the little black book he's never seen without. Made for...

Veteran Experience, by Robert Street
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Veteran Knowledge, by Robert Street
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An ex-wrestler, who wastes all their money, has no friends left to rely on. They have no skills that are useful outside the ring. They have nothing. You have learnt this lesson the hard way
Vicious Cycles, by Simon Mark
Average member rating: (17 ratings)
Video.Tape / Decay, by The Dominant Species
Winner: Ecotocomp 2007.
The Vile Grimoire of Jaldi'al, by Michael Penner
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A nameless graveyard near the ruins of Bahyrst has become a wellspring for all manner of dark creatures. Legends hold deep in one of the crypts lurks an evil presence. It exerts a malign influence on the...
VirtuaTech, by David S. Glasser
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

Virtue, by Oliver Revolta
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

A Satire on Indulgence ...

Voices, by Aris Katsaris
Average member rating: (26 ratings)

Voodoo Island, by M.J. Sayer

You awaken on a Caribbean island, surrounded by a powerful feeling of evil. Footsteps in the sand tell you that you're not alone. Your spine tingles; your pulse races; your goal is clear: find the source of...

Wakemare, by Richard Otter

The plot is simple, may be you shouldn’t have kicked that poor old Gipsy Lady into the street yesterday (and thrown her things after her). Has the curse she put on you come true?

A Walk Around the Neighborhood, by Leo Weinreb
Average member rating: (18 ratings)

The sun is filtering hazily through a partly-cloudy sky on this gorgeous Sunday afternoon. You're feeling lazy and a bit glued to the couch, but your partner insists on you getting some exercise. And...

A Walk At Dusk, by Eric Mayer
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You search for the tree frog you can hear trilling in the growing darkness. An interactive essay.

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...

Walled City of Darkness, by Tom Zuchowski
Average member rating: (1 rating)

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...

Warp, by Rob Lucke and Bill Frolik
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An extremely large HP3000 mainframe adventure, written in Pascal on an HP3000 circa 1979. It can be run on an HP3000 emulator. The game is set in the sprawling town (and islands off the coast) of Warp and...

Wax Worx, by Eric Mayer
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Whoever you are, you're trapped in a wax museum exhibit devoted to famous murderers.

Wayhaven Chronicles: Book One, by Mishka Jenkins
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Your first case as a detective is forcing you to open your eyes to a world bigger than you thought. But maybe it's better to keep them closed. Knowing too much doesn’t help anyone sleep at night! Seems the...

Wayhaven Chronicles: Book Two, by Mishka Jenkins
Average member rating: (18 ratings)

Two months have passed since the bloody showdown with Murphy. Wayhaven has returned to its peaceful routine, and you've returned to your less-than-thrilling job as detective. But with your new role as human...

The Wayward Story, by Ralfe Rich (as Cristmo Ibarra)
Average member rating: (10 ratings)

It starts with you sitting down, eyes glued to your laptop as the credits roll on the penultimate episode of your favorite series. It's 2:00 AM on a weekday, and your bed's looking pretty good, but it's the...

We All Fall Together, by Camron Gonzalez
Average member rating: (18 ratings)

You wake up. You're falling. A ceaseless sky and a never ending cyclone greets you. Others fall all around you. No where else to go but down. ...

We Are Unfinished, by Ade McT
Average member rating: (10 ratings)

The last of the day's light is fading. And, without light, how can he see? A very short piece of Interactive Fiction for the TinyUtopia jam.

The Weapon, by Sean Barrett
Average member rating: (35 ratings)

Wearing the Claw, by Paul O'Brian
Average member rating: (32 ratings)

A traditional fantasy quest in which you and your village have been cursed with a slow transformation into various animals. The only way to stop the curse is to retrieve the Pendant of Elinor from the...

The Weight of a Soul, by Chin Kee Yong
Average member rating: (24 ratings)

In a world of arcane mysteries, a young doctor's apprentice unravels a conspiracy most grim. The Weight of a Soul is a mystery-horror interactive novel inspired by IF classics like Blue Lacuna and...

Werner's Quest, by Jan Åberg
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This is a series of four games, called Werner's Quest. The games are parodies of Zork 1, 2, 3 and Enchanter respectively. 1. The Black Ladder 2. Revenge of the Thing-Fish 3. Rance the Dungeonkeeper 4....
The Westbury Mystery, by Dorothy Millard
A horror story set in the derelict Westbury House.
Westfront Omega: The Amulet of Vega, by Paul Allen Panks
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Westfront PC: The Trials of Guilder, by Paul Allen Panks
Average member rating: (3 ratings)
I wish to discuss with you the nature of my game “Westfront PC: The Trials of Guilder”. It has been called a cross between Zork, Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Star Wars and several online MUDs...

Wetlands, by Clara Raubertas
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

Wetlands is an interactive quagmire that leads you from the image of a fantastical city to a choice about the actual city's future, via a collection of mechanical puzzles in a watery setting.

What Fuwa Bansaku Found, by Chandler Groover
Average member rating: (30 ratings)

A samurai explores a haunted shrine.

What Heart Heard Of, Ghost Guessed, by Amanda Walker
Average member rating: (38 ratings)

Margaret, are you grieving Over Goldengrove unleaving… Come home to Goldengrove, a beautiful old house haunted by a lost soul. Uncover the secrets of your tormented past in a tale of unrequited love,...

What Isn't Saved (will be lost), by Cat Manning
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

Zoe is a neuroscientist who's researching methods of resurrecting the dead… by rebuilding them from their memories. When her girlfriend Sara dies, Zoe uses her experimental technology to save her--but there...

The Wheels Must Turn, by Heal Butcher
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

"The city was one of many Cities, and like its brethren, it had Corners, and in each Corner there were gilded cages that contained the Miseries of the World." Second-place winner of the Official ADRIFT...

When acting as a particle / When acting as a wave, by David T. Marchand
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A game with links. The links tell you the story and the consequences of having clicked on previous links. There’s nothing other than links. Can you read that text? Then you can click it! It’s been said that...

When Help Collides, by J. D. Berry
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When in Rome 1: Accounting for Taste, by Emily Short
Average member rating: (27 ratings)

Manhattan, May, 1954.

Where is Everybody?, by D.B.T
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A town of silence, placed somewhere in the mid-west of a country much like our own. Once a population in the thousands and now its only resident is yourself. For it is like everyone just vanished from what...

While Rome Burns, by CSR
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You are the fifth Roman Emperor, Nero, and today is a special day - you have a concert to make. Now, if only your guards and servants could stop crying about a little fire for one second and focus on what's...

The Whisperers, by Milo van Mesdag
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An Interactive Play ...

Whitefield Academy of Witchcraft, by Steph Cherrywell
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The year is 1957, and the place is lush, storm-tossed Stinglash Island, just off the north coast of Washington's Olympic Peninsula. You are Page LeBlanc, witch in training, and you've returned for another...

Who Shot Gum E. Bear?, by Damon L. Wakes
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Gum E. Bear lies dead in a pool of his own liquid centre, and only Bubble Gumshoe - private eye extraordinaire - can deliver sweet justice on the rain-sticky streets of Sugar City. Explore the area, seek out...

Whom The Telling Changed, by Aaron A. Reed
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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...

Why Am I Exist?, by TrexandDrago Development
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A 470 words story made as an entry for Neo Twiny Jam.Baron Magmawalker is a hybrid of Tyrannosaurus and tiger. His father left him before he was born.

The Wicker Woman, by Kevin McGrorty

May, 1973. A young police sergeant is dispatched to a deeply religious island off the west coast of Scotland to investigate the disappearance of a young girl; he then mysteriously vanishes himself. Almost...

wild oats, by Lapin Lunaire Games
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A tale of two men and the father who brings them face-to-face to break bread. This is not a love story, but it could be one. This is not a love story, but it may look like one. This is not a love story. It...

Winchester's Nightmare, by Nick Montfort
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The Windhall Chronicles, Volume 1: The Path to Fortune, by Jeff Cassidy and C. E. Forman
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You have been volunteered by your master for a quest to save the small city of Windhall from a terrible fate. [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue]

Winter Storm Draco, by Ryan Veeder
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A chronicle of the events of the winter storm of the same name.

Winter Wonderland, by Laura Knauth
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"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]

Wisher, Theurgist, Fatalist, by Xavid
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From the ranks of the people you have been raised up as a Wisher— ...

Witch Hunt, by Jack Lockerby

A Witch Tale, by Dan Blazquez
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A waitress learns that her unusual purple eyes are the hexenmark, the mark of a witch! Eager to claim her heritage, she had best be observant if she wants to learn her first spell!

The Witch's Apprentice, by Garry Francis
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Your name is Susan. You are 14 years old and you have ambitions of becoming a witch. You have just completed two years of study at the Spooksville Academy of Witchcraft. You reckon you know all the theory...

Without a Clue, by David Whyld
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Some fools may believe Sherlock Holmes to be the world's greatest detective. You know better, though, and soon you will expose him as the fraud he is. But when you break into his rooms looking for evidence...

The Witness, by Stu Galley
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February 1938, Los Angeles. FDR's New Deal is finally rolling. Hitler's rolling, too; this time through Austria. But as Chief Detective for a quiet burgh on the outskirts of L.A., you've got other fish to...

The Wizard of Akyrz, by Brian Howarth and Cliff J. Ogden
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Twice defeated by a mere mortal it has taken the evil wizard some time to recover his powers. Now he forms a new plan to trap and utterly destroy the earthly being that dares to thwart him. Games converted...

The Wizard of Oz, by Jack Lockerby

Dorothy lived with her Aunt Em and her Uncle Henry on a farm in the midst of the great Kansas prairies ... a vast expanse of flat-lands subject to frequent cyclones and sudden storms but nonetheless capable...

The Wizard Sniffer, by Buster Hudson
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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...

Wolfman, by Rod Pike, Jared Derrett, HO
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Wolfsmoon, by Marco Innocenti
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It is the fifteenth corpse. Among those they found. More than twenty people have disappeared in the last few months. Some say it's a wild animal, stalking the outskirts of town. Some say it's a killer, a new...

Wonderland, by David Bishop, Bob Coles, Paul Findley, Ken Gordon, Richard Huddy, Steve Lacey, Doug Rabson, Anita Sinclair, Hugh Steers and Mark Taylor
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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...

The Woods Are Dark, by Laurence Moore
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Workers In Progress, by Konstantinos Dimopoulos
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A political simulation in which you play the consciousness of the Greek working class. (Work in progress.) An entry in the 2014 Fear of Twine exhibition.

World, by J. D. McDonald
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On a scientific mission, your starship found that its long-range scanners could not penetrate the atmosphere of an unknown planet due to a shimmering forcefield. A landing party was sent down to investigate,...
The Worst Game in the World... Ever!!!, by David Whyld
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U find urself inn a small roome. here their is a tabul an a chur. on 1 wall iz a leva. There dont luk tobe anee exits;
Wreckage, by Daniel Hiebert
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Wrecked, by Campbell Wild
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"A few months ago, I got talking to a mate, who got me interested in shipwrecks. I never knew there was so much unclaimed treasure lying at the bottom of the oceans. All you need to do is find a wreck,...

Wrenlaw, by Ryan Veeder
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It would be nice to know what you're looking for.

Writing Program Five, by Dan Cox
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The story has already been written. But you can change it.
Wumpus Run, by Elfindor
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Wychwood, by Geoffrey Hans Larsen
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You have served your six months' sentence for burglary and now you hope to benefit from what you have learned. Old Jones was a good mate to you. Mind you, Jonesy doesn't realise how much information was...

The Wyldkynd Project, by Robert DeFord
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In this sci-fi/fantasy game you are Nick Wayne, a recent college graduate with one of those degrees that does not lead to a job. While flipping burgers to pay the rent, you manage to get a new, high-paying...

Xen: The Contest, by Ian Shlasko
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You are John Richardson, an average college student with an average life. Little do you know that forces beyond your comprehension have a plan for your immediate future.

Yellow Dog Running, by Sam Kabo Ashwell
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Yellow Peril, by Dorothy Millard
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A fantasy where you have continued your experiments against all advice and this time find yourself in a world where everything is Yellow. You must return before it is too late.

Yeti's Parole Officer, by KT Bryski
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The Yeti, Loch Ness Monster, Chupacabra, and Mothman are aliens, sentenced to prison on Earth by the Pan-Galactic Prisons Bureau. As the Yeti's parole officer, you must defend the galaxy from these convicts,...

Yon Astounding Castle! of some sort, by Tiberius Thingamus
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In this adventure, findeth ye olde treasures from within yon castle. Maketh friends as ye o'ercome meddlesome goblins! Outwitteth ye riddling gnome! Resizeth ye belts & belt-like things! Can ye getteth all...

You Are Here, by Roy Fisher
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"Dragons. Demons. Undead. An adventurer's perils are many. But in the world of MUDs, nothing is more dangerous than electronic sex... "You Are Here" is a short, simple diversion promoting "MultiUserDungeon",...

You Are Standing, by Aaron A. Reed
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A bonus text game created specifically for the Ultimate Collector's Edition of 50 Years of Text Games; initially, available exclusively to backers on 3.5" floppy disc and/or as a download. The game was...

You are standing in a cave..., by Caroline Berg
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... you do not know how you got here. The last thing you remember is going out to eat at a fancy restaurant. Perhaps you were drugged. Perhaps you had a bad case of food poisoning and wandered off, feverish,...

You Could Stay Here Forever, by KnightAnNi
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An eerie, 500-word interactive fiction created for the Neo-Twiny Jam. Revisit your childhood mall on the night before the bulldozers come to destroy it. Enjoy it while you can.

You Couldn't Have Done That, by Ann Hugo
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Your first day on the job wasn't going to be pleasant. Such was inevitable. It's a big change. And, you are autistic. But this was a different story, far worse than unpleasant.

You Feel Like You've Read this in a Book, by Austin Lim
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A time-sensitive mystery puzzle game with multiple endings. As you explore your surroundings, you get the feeling that your surroundings are vaguely familiar.

You May Not Escape!, by Charm Cochran
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You are one of the unlucky many to enter the maze. Will you be one of the lucky few to escape?...

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’re A Computer. Can You Pass The Turing Test?, by ClickHole
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You’re A Single-Celled Organism. Can You Evolve Into A Duck?, by ClickHole
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You are a single-celled organism that has had a vision of a duck. You don’t know how to do it, but it’s still billions of years ago, so you’re optimistic.

Zeitgeist 1980 ep 1: Rascal and the Boxer, by Michael Coorlim

In a sudden break with familial tradition, you’re sent away to stay with your irresponsible cousin Colt over the winter holidays while your parents enjoy their second honeymoon. What starts out as a charming...

The Zen Garden, by Privateer
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This is a text-only brainteaser (with some sound) inspired by Japanese art and haiku. ...

Zen Quest, by Jack Lockerby

Zero Chance of Recovery, by Andrew Schultz
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You're way behind the last enemy pawn. The enemy king's close to yours. So it's over, right?

Zero Sum Game, by Cody Sandifer
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Zombie Apocalypse .:It's Only The Beginning:. ~Part One~, by Sophie3
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You wake up in a suspiciously empty hospital, having no memory of how you got there. You're not going to lie around and wait for something to happen...when faced in extraordinary situations, you find out...

Zork 285, by Tim Anderson, Marc Blank, Bruce Daniels, and Dave Lebling
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This is an attempt to make a truthful as possible ZIL-version of the very first MDL version of Zork from June 14th, 1977. Please type 'about' in game for more info about this version.

Zork: The Cavern of Doom, by Steve Meretzky and Manfred Pfeiffer
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The gamebook was initially published by Tor Books in September 1983 in the US (later by Puffin in the UK) as the third in a Zork gamebook series, part of the fledgling "What-Do-I-Do-Now" gamebooks line. It...

ZRacer, by David Fisher
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A racing game using ASCII graphics with 31 different levels. Colours, controls and game speed may be customised, and real time mode can be turned on or off. Entered in the C-40 competition (which limited...

zRogue, by Gevan Dutton
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The Z-machine port of "Rogue," also known as "Nethack." The object of this text role-playing game is to find the Amulet of Yendor, fighting hundreds of monsters in the quest. [--blurb from The Z-Files...
Zugzwang, by Magnus Olsson
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Out of the TextFire "12-pack", this is an April's Fool game "demo" in which you get to play a pawn in a chess game - at the very end. Incorporates a very nifty variation on the status line to show the...

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