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Across The Stars: The Ralckor Incident, by Dark Star and Peter Mattsson
Average member rating: (29 ratings)

In the year 5367 IR, humanity is well established throughout the galaxy. It has been over twenty-thousand years since the Zal'tacs passed through our solar system, trading their technology for our food and...

An Act of Murder, by Christopher Huang
Average member rating: (82 ratings)

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

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]

All Things Devours, by half sick of shadows
Average member rating: (95 ratings)

From the game's about command: "All Things Devours is a short piece of interactive fiction, leaning strongly towards the text-adventure end of the spectrum. It explores an all-too-familiar science fiction...

Allein mit Kai, by Ingo Scharmann and Joana Markus
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

Arndt Koschke is very excited. After a few dates on neutral territory he meets Tanja today in her apartment for the first time. But suddenly she has to go out for half an hour and Arndt has to watch her...

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...

Ares, by Michael Baltes
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

The space team from Europe is very close to their designated target - the first manned exploration of Mars. But an accident strikes the team and one of the two shuttle pilots discovers that the red planet...

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...

Arthur, by Bob Bates
Average member rating: (29 ratings)

"Whoso pulleth out this sword of this stone, is rightwise king of England." In the days before Camelot, when magic and evil rule England, a sword sheathed in stone appears in a quiet churchyard. Engraved...

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...

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

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]

Beet the Devil, by Carolyn VanEseltine
Average member rating: (35 ratings)

Your dog is gone. She must be brought. You have a beet (and some other vegetables).

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,...

Bliss, by Cameron Wilkin
Average member rating: (19 ratings)

Body Bargain, by Amanda Lange
Average member rating: (26 ratings)

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...

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,...

Broken Legs, by Sarah Morayati
Average member rating: (31 ratings)

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...

Bronze, by Emily Short
Average member rating: (286 ratings)

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

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...
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...

City of Secrets, by Emily Short
Average member rating: (103 ratings)

A Colder Light, by Jon Ingold
Average member rating: (18 ratings)

The last light has gone. The stars are coming out in the black sea above. Many are hidden by ice-fingered winds. My father is still not returned and the fire is almost gone. But this is how life is: always...

Counterfeit Monkey, by Emily Short
Average member rating: (240 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...

Cryptozookeeper, by Robb Sherwin
Average member rating: (23 ratings)

Marrow is delicious but that's not why you're here. You're supposed to pick up a single jar of alien bone jelly, which of course can't exist and doesn't exist, so you've convinced yourself that transporting...

Curses, by Graham Nelson
Average member rating: (132 ratings)

"As "Curses" opens, you're hunting about in the attic of your family home, looking for a tatty old map of Paris (you're going on holiday tomorrow) and generally trying to avoid all the packing. Aunt Jemima...

Dangerous Curves, by Irene Callaci
Average member rating: (23 ratings)

Deadline, by Marc Blank
Average member rating: (58 ratings)

Twelve hours to solve the mystery. One false move, and the killer strikes again. It's been called "part of the latest craze in home computing (TIME magazine), an "amazing feat of programming" (THE NEW YORK...

Deadline Enchanter, by Alan DeNiro
Average member rating: (58 ratings)

Death off the Cuff, by Simon Christiansen
Average member rating: (53 ratings)

They all stare at you expectantly, like children waiting to be told a bedtime story. Who can blame them? You are, after all, Antoine Saint Germain, the great French detective. No criminal has ever been a...

Delightful Wallpaper, by Andrew Plotkin ('Edgar O. Weyrd')
Average member rating: (78 ratings)

Die Gerechten Richter, by Werner Rumpeltesz
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

Father Michael investigates for a stolen picture in a cathedral in Belgium.

Die Kathedrale, by Harald Evers, Andreas Niedermeier
Average member rating: (1 rating)

Wie ein schweigendes, steinernes Gebirge steht seit Jahrhunderten die St. Pauls Kathedrale am Domplatz in Schönau - als ein Zeugnis kirchlicher Tradition und mittelalterlicher Baukunst. Doch niemand ahnt,...

Dinner with Andre, by Liza Daly
Average member rating: (23 ratings)

"A date by candlelight in a fine restaurant. Should be a perfect evening." [--blurb from Competition Aught-Zero]

Divis Mortis, by Lynnea Dally
Average member rating: (42 ratings)

The infection has spread. They are coming.

The Duel That Spanned the Ages, by Oliver Ullmann
Average member rating: (20 ratings)

A frantic struggle for survival in hard vacuum.
Earl Grey, by Rob Dubbin and Allison Parrish
Average member rating: (29 ratings)
A game about a tea party, a monarchy, and the unpredictability of language.

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...

The Elysium Enigma, by Eric Eve
Average member rating: (76 ratings)

It was meant to be a routine visit on behalf of the imperial government, just to remind the settlers that the Empire hadn't forgotten them, and if you stick rigidly to the letter of your orders and refuse to...

Erehwon, by Richard Litherland
Average member rating: (10 ratings)

"You are standing next to the only traffic light in the one-horse town of Erehwon, Aksarben. You are 13 years old, and desperate to gain the approval of Smurf and his gang. You will know you have this when...

Eric the Unready, by Bob Bates
Average member rating: (40 ratings)

A tongue-in-cheek graphic text adventure/point and click adventure hybrid. You are a chivalrous knight attempting to save a princess; your quest takes you through a mad-cap Douglas Adams-style world.

Everybody Dies, by Jim Munroe
Average member rating: (105 ratings)

It starts with a metalhead, Graham, realizing that throwing that shopping cart over the bridge was not the great idea he thought it was. Even if it did get him out of washroom duty at Cost Cutters....

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]

Fail-Safe, by Jon Ingold
Average member rating: (112 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...

Fine-Tuned, by Dennis Jerz
Average member rating: (23 ratings)

"Can Troy, the handsome daredevil autoist, live up to his "sterling" reputation? What secret threatens the career of the talented singer, Miss Melody Sweet? With the help of the mechanical genius Aloysius...

Firebird, by Bonnie Montgomery
Average member rating: (32 ratings)

"Firebird is based on the Old Russian folk tales that inspired the Stravinsky piece of the same name. You are Prince Ivan, and have been charged by your father, the tsar, to find the Firebird that has been...

For a Change, by Dan Schmidt
Average member rating: (115 ratings)

"The sun has gone. It must be brought. You have a rock." [--blurb from Competition '99]

Fragile Shells, by Stephen Granade
Average member rating: (51 ratings)

You don't know how long you've been hammering against the station's wall, but you stop as soon as you realize what you've been doing.

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...

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...

The Gostak, by Carl Muckenhoupt
Average member rating: (90 ratings)

"Finally, here you are. At the delcot of tondam, where doshes deave. But the doshery lutt is crenned with glauds. Glauds! How rorm it would be to pell back to the bewl and distunk them, distunk the whole...

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...

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

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

The Hobbit, by Philip Mitchell and Veronika Megler
Average member rating: (28 ratings)

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

A far-future story of discovery.

Hoosegow, by Ben Collins-Sussman, Jack Welch
Average member rating: (40 ratings)

Muddy's plan done landed you and your partner in the hoosegow. Now you're fixing to rectificate the matter before the marshal introduces you to the business end of a hangin' rope at dawn. Created for the...

The Horror of Rylvania, by D. A. Leary
Average member rating: (11 ratings)

"What you expected would be a fun outing in scenic Rylvania turns into a gruesome nightmare, with *you* playing the starring role. Find out what it's like to be alternately the source and challenger of evil...

The Ice-Bound Concordance, by Aaron A. Reed and Jacob Garbe
Average member rating: (1 rating)

The Ice-Bound Concordance is an award-winning indie game ("Best Story/World Design" winner, IndieCade 2014; "Excellence in Narrative" nominee, IGF 2015) with cutting-edge interactive story technology,...

In Darkness, by GoblinBoy
Average member rating: (4 ratings)

The PC wakes up in a dark room, with no idea how he arrived there. He has to work his way through his memories to figure out what happened, and why he has this awful sense of dread. First place in 2009 AIF...
Interface, by Ben Vegiard
Average member rating: (12 ratings)
What happens when your favorite uncle, a successful electronics company owner, has you try out his latest invention? Of course, something goes amiss and you must struggle to set it all right or suffer the...
Janitor, by Peter Seebach and Kevin Lynn
Average member rating: (28 ratings)

Jazz auf Tegemis, by Joerg Rosenbauer
Average member rating: (3 ratings)

You're the captain of a commercial freighter, and you just finished a delivery to the dreary planet Tegemis IV. Looking for a little recreation, you decide to visit a local jazz bar. But how could you settle...

John's Fire Witch, by John Baker
Average member rating: (40 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...

Kaged, by Ian Finley
Average member rating: (54 ratings)

""But my madness speaks: It will but skin and film the ulcerous place, Whilst rank corruption, mining all within, Infects unseen." Welcome to the Citadel of Justice. The Inquisitor is waiting." [--blurb from...

Kerkerkruip, by Victor Gijsbers
Average member rating: (69 ratings)

Kerkerkruip is a short-form roguelike in the interactive fiction medium, featuring meaningful tactical and strategic depth, innovative game play, zero grinding, and a sword & sorcery setting that does not...

The King of Shreds and Patches, by Jimmy Maher
Average member rating: (77 ratings)

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

Klub Karisma, by Christian Bluemke
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

You are the most dashing dog groomer in town and your girlfriend's just dumped you for a male stripper from the Hamburg Reeperbahn. So stop whining and go get her back, for the night has only just begun...

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....

Leadlight, by Wade Clarke
Average member rating: (34 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...

Leather Goddesses of Phobos, by Steve Meretzky
Average member rating: (70 ratings)

And now... the next exciting episode of humanoids in space! How did you, a regular at Joe's Bar in Upper Sandusky, Ohio, end up on a Martian moon? Can you prevent the hideous space creature from abducting...

Les Heures du vent, by Eric Forgeot
Average member rating: (2 ratings)

In a mid-fantasy, medieval world, Zéphyr awakes in the inn of a little village, where the mayor, the magician and the sheriff have strange behaviors. His initial goal is to find a lost book full of...

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...

Lord Bellwater's Secret, by Sam Gordon
Average member rating: (71 ratings)

The Lurking Horror, by Dave Lebling
Average member rating: (92 ratings)

A winter night at the G.U.E. tech campus with most students away on vacation serves as the backdrop for this tale of Lovecraftian horror.

Lydia's Heart, by Jim Aikin
Average member rating: (32 ratings)

"Lydia's Heart" is a large, complex game with a serious tone and seven or eight NPCs you can converse with. The genre is low-key horror: There's almost no actual blood, but there are several ways to die in a...

Make It Good, by Jon Ingold
Average member rating: (84 ratings)

The call comes through. Of all the dicks; you get the call, sitting in the front seat of your car, hands shaking on the steering wheel. An urgent call; but all you were thinking of was the bottle in the...

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...

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...

A Mind Forever Voyaging, by Steve Meretzky
Average member rating: (116 ratings)

"If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not..." --Shakespeare It's 2031. The world is on the brink of chaos. In the United States of North America, spiraling...

Mite, by Sara Dee
Average member rating: (32 ratings)

In this small fantasy adventure game, you play as Mite, a pixy lad, who is carrying an egg-shaped jewel dropped by a cloaked thief who you tripped that morning. The gem belongs to the Fairy Prince! You must...

Möbius, by J.D. Clemens
Average member rating: (35 ratings)

Another mission. Just when you had settled in for a nap.

Moist, by Scarlet Herring
Average member rating: (15 ratings)

Moments Out of Time, by L. Ross Raszewski
Average member rating: (16 ratings)
"Note: requires a Z6-capable interpreter, preferably with Blorb sound support." [--blurb from Competition Aught-One]
The Moonlit Tower, by Yoon Ha Lee
Average member rating: (61 ratings)

Muggle Studies, by M. Flourish Klink
Average member rating: (19 ratings)

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 Mulldoon Legacy, by Jon Ingold
Average member rating: (45 ratings)

"In the event of my disappearance, my legacy shall not be distributed until every room in my museum has been searched in case I can be located." --Last Will and Testament, E. Mulldoon.
My Angel, by Jon Ingold
Average member rating: (28 ratings)
"I wake peacefully, and already she is there." [--blurb from Competition Aught-Zero]
Mystery Science Theater 3000 Presents "Detective", by C. E. Forman, Matt Barringer, Graeme Cree, and Stuart Moore
Average member rating: (57 ratings)
"A rewrite of Matt Barringer's incredibly bad game "Detective", this game was ported to Inform and subjected to treatment with Mystery Science Theater 3000 sarcasm. This version is the Silver Screen edition...

Narcolepsy, by Adam Cadre
Average member rating: (62 ratings)

Necrotic Drift, by Robb Sherwin
Average member rating: (18 ratings)

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...

Nightfall, by Eric Eve
Average member rating: (61 ratings)

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...

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...

P. Mason und der Schlitzerhans und die Busenkathi, by Sophie Fruehling
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

Ein spitzer Schrei. Rumpeln. Schritte... ...lauter... ...leiser... Stille. Unsanft wirst Du aus der Ruhe deines Wellness-Wochenendes herausgerissen und mußt den Mörder der Toten aus dem Heubad finden. 2....

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...

Piracy 2.0, by Sean Huxter
Average member rating: (14 ratings)

Admiral Copeland entrusted you with a mission to bring a pirate to trial. En-route the pirate's band attacks, boards your ship and kills your crew, throwing you into the brig. But you're not going to let...

The Plant, by Michael J. Roberts
Average member rating: (34 ratings)

You're on a business trip with your boss, driving down a deserted highway in the middle of nowhere, when the car breaks down. You set off on foot seeking help, but you soon find yourself in the middle of a...

Plundered Hearts, by Amy Briggs
Average member rating: (66 ratings)

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...

Pytho's Mask, by Emily Short
Average member rating: (68 ratings)

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...

Rameses, by Stephen Bond
Average member rating: (125 ratings)

Rematch, by Andrew D. Pontious
Average member rating: (91 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...

Risorgimento Represso, by Michael J. Coyne
Average member rating: (48 ratings)

You play as an Oxbridge student who, during a particularly boring lecture, falls through a green portal under their desk into the cluttered library of the wizard Ninario. Ninny was trying to summon a...

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...

Roots, by Sophie Fruehling

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...

Savoir-Faire, by Emily Short
Average member rating: (132 ratings)

The beautiful life is always damned, they say. As for you, you've overexpended yourself: fifteen years of prominence, champagne, carriage rides in the Tuileries, having your name whispered behind...

Scavenger, by Quintin Stone
Average member rating: (30 ratings)

Search a war-shattered world for secrets of the past.

The Shadow in the Cathedral, by Ian Finley and Jon Ingold
Average member rating: (31 ratings)

When the monks took me, aged six months, into their care, they named me Wren. Maybe because I was small, insignificant, and happy to eat any crumbs they threw my way. But these days I'm Wren, 2nd Assistant...

Shrapnel, by Adam Cadre
Average member rating: (167 ratings)

Six, by Wade Clarke
Average member rating: (40 ratings)

Your name is Harriet Leitner, and you and your twin sister Demi turned six this morning! You're having a fancy dress birthday party, and this afternoon you'll be playing Hide and Seek Tip over in the park....

Snowquest, by Eric Eve
Average member rating: (47 ratings)

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.

Square Circle, by Eric Eve
Average member rating: (27 ratings)

What is your crime? Why do you feel both guilty and unjustly punished? What has happened to your memory? How will you draw a square circle and get out of your prison? What will you find then?

Starborn, by Juhana Leinonen
Average member rating: (32 ratings)

The Magellan returned to Earth two weeks ago. I however can never go home. There are two versions of the story: Inform 7 version (2011) that uses a single-keyword parser, and Undum/Vorple version (2012) that...

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...

Sting of the Wasp, by Jason Devlin
Average member rating: (36 ratings)

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...

Suspended, by Michael Berlyn
Average member rating: (43 ratings)

They said you would sleep for half a millennium - not an unreasonable length of time, considering you'd be in limited cryogenic suspension. Your body would rest at the planet's nerve center, an underground...

Taco Fiction, by Ryan Veeder
Average member rating: (115 ratings)

Taco Fiction is a game about crime.

The Tale of the Kissing Bandit, by J. Robinson Wheeler (as 'Cary Valentino')
Average member rating: (46 ratings)

Theatre, by Brendon Wyber
Average member rating: (89 ratings)

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...

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...

TimeQuest, by Bob Bates
Average member rating: (11 ratings)

You are a private in an organization called the Temporal Corps. As the game begins, a general calls you into his office, explaining that a Corps lieutenant has apparently conceived the insane notion of going...

Trinity, by Brian Moriarty
Average member rating: (102 ratings)

You're neither an adventurer nor a professional thrill-seeker. You're simply an American tourist in London, enjoying a relaxing stroll through the famous Kensington Gardens. When World War III starts and the...

Uncle Zebulon's Will, by Magnus Olsson
Average member rating: (62 ratings)

Your eccentric Uncle Zebulon considered himself a wizard, and was rumoured to be very wealthy. But when he died, he only left you one single object in his will... Winner in the TADS division of the First...
Unforgotten, by Quintin Pan
Average member rating: (7 ratings)

Varicella, by Adam Cadre
Average member rating: (131 ratings)

You are Primo Varicella, Palace Minister at the Palazzo del Piemonte. This title is unlikely to impress anyone. Piedmont is the laughingstock of the Carolingian League, and the Palace Ministry has devolved...

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...

The Warbler's Nest, by Jason McIntosh
Average member rating: (91 ratings)

Surely the reed bank counts as a wild place. While it gives you so much, you've never tended it, not really, not like you do with your garden. It's something like the forest, then, but much safer to search...

The Weapon, by Sean Barrett
Average member rating: (35 ratings)

Winter Wonderland, by Laura Knauth
Average member rating: (43 ratings)

"Young Gretchen could have only imagined the fanciful events that were to occur before finding herself lost in a winter wonderland." [--blurb from Competition '99]

Wishbringer, by Brian Moriarty
Average member rating: (109 ratings)

It's an ordinary day in your ordinary little town, and you've been performing your ordinary mail clerk's duties in an altogether ordinary way. But there's something quite extraordinary in today's mail. It's...

Words of Power, by Stark Springs
Average member rating: (9 ratings)

Worlds Apart, by Suzanne Britton
Average member rating: (90 ratings)

For over 20 years, I dreamed about an alternate universe I called the Higher World. For three of those years, I poured almost all of my creative energy into a novel-length story set in that universe. Worlds...

Worldsmith, by Ade McT
Average member rating: (30 ratings)

The Septem Tower has held steady in the Manifold, the space between time and the Real, for billenia. Populating the Tower are the Anemoi, a race of beings so far advanced that they hold the power of life and...

You Find Yourself in a Room., by Eli Piilonen
Average member rating: (34 ratings)

YFYIAR is the drunken uncle of text-based adventures: Abusive, abrasive, and maybe a little funny.
Zombie Exodus, by Jim Dattilo
Average member rating: (14 ratings)
Build your character and fight your way out of a zombie-filled city to save your sister in this interactive horror fiction story. Gather supplies and weapons while avoiding the military, bandits, and living...

Zork I, by Marc Blank and Dave Lebling
Average member rating: (218 ratings)

Many strange tales have been told of the fabulous treasure, exotic creatures, and diabolical puzzles in the Great Underground Empire. As an aspiring adventurer, you will undoubtedly want to locate these...

[You wake up itching.], by Michael S. Gentry
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

This game is an entry in the Mystery House Taken Over project. The story and graphics are adapted from Roberta Williams' original Mystery House.


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