nosferatu's Wish List

16 Ways to Kill a Vampire at McDonalds, by Abigail Corfman Average member rating: (96 ratings) You're a vampire hunter on your night off. You're getting a manicure, seeing a movie, and eating fast food. But there's a vampire in this McDonalds. If you don't do something, then in one hour it will eat...

1893: A World's Fair Mystery, by Peter Nepstad Average member rating: (25 ratings) A theft on the fairgrounds! Precious diamonds stolen from the Kimberly Diamond Mining Exhibit! An urgent telegram from your old partner arrives, requesting your help to solve the mystery. How can you refuse?...

77 Verbs, by MathBrush (as Prismatik) Average member rating: (21 ratings) Use every standard verb in the Inform library to escape deadly situations in this introduction to parser games! (This game was formerly known as 85 Verbs.)

Aayela, by Magnus Olsson
Average member rating: (26 ratings)

The Act of Misdirection, by Callico Harrison Average member rating: (70 ratings) The curtain lifts to a torrent of applause, as the city's gents and ladies lose their decorum for a just few moments in anticipation of something magical. The spotlights drown the glitter of sequins and...

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

Afflicted, by Doug Egan
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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....

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]

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...

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...

Attack of the Yeti Robot Zombies, by Øyvind Thorsby
Average member rating: (31 ratings)

The Axolotl Project, by Samantha Vick Average member rating: (49 ratings) As a lowly intern on Sadler Pharmaceutical’s high-security lunar research base, you set out to find an escaped test subject before your boss does. Along the way, you’ll unravel the mystery of your coworker’s...

Babel, by Ian Finley Average member rating: (155 ratings) In this game, you play as an amnesiac inside Babel, an abandoned Arctic facility devoted to biological research. You soon discover that you have the unusual ability to witness scenes from the past by...

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

Balances, by Graham Nelson Average member rating: (38 ratings) "A homage to Infocom's Enchanter Trilogy, at the same time showing some of the things that Inform is capable of doing." [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue]

A Beauty Cold and Austere, by Mike Spivey Average member rating: (58 ratings) That survey course in conceptual mathematics seemed like a good idea at the start of the term - no graded homework, no midterm exams - just an oral final at the end. But now that final is tomorrow morning....

Bee, by Emily Short Average member rating: (85 ratings) The story of a home-schooled girl preparing to compete in the national spelling bee, dealing with various small crises with family and friends, and gradually coming to terms with the clash of subcultures...

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,...

Bell Park, Youth Detective, by Brendan Patrick Hennessy Average member rating: (62 ratings) A headstrong twelve-year-old detective gets in over her head when she's hired to solve a murder mystery at an internet technology conference.

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

The Best Man, by Stephen Bond Average member rating: (13 ratings)

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

Beyond, by Roberto Grassi, Paolo Lucchesi, and Alessandro Peretti Average member rating: (45 ratings) A mysterious death, a secret to be revealed… and someone who wants to know the truth, at any cost. ...

Beyond Zork, by Brian Moriarty 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...

The Bibliophile, by Marshal Tenner Winter Average member rating: (10 ratings) “Azathoth is a cosmic horror; a force outside of known physics, Higgins.” Doctor Coffey explains, “It is the embodiment of chaos and destruction and now Dennison has found a way to bring this nightmare to...

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:...

Birmingham IV, by Peter Emery Average member rating: (11 ratings) A solitary scholar, his purpose and presence in the world a mystery even to himself, ventures abroad in a dream state. He finds a land of sunny lanes and dark forests, steeped in the blood of Celt, Saxon,...

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...

Bonehead, by Sean M. Shore Average member rating: (15 ratings) 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...

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,...

Bureaucracy, by Douglas Adams, The Staff of Infocom Average member rating: (48 ratings) 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...

Castle Ralf, by Doug Clutter and Steve Vance
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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...

Chlorophyll, by Steph Cherrywell Average member rating: (58 ratings)

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

The Copyright of Silence, by Ola Hansson Average member rating: (15 ratings) A chamber play in a board game. Short play-through time, but victory will require plenty of replaying. You are visiting John Cage, the composer. Use stealth to navigate his apartment as well as his...

Cragne Manor, by Ryan Veeder, Jenni Polodna et al. Show other authors Adam 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.

Creatures Such As We, by Lynnea Glasser Average member rating: (91 ratings) A dating sim about how humanity connects through art, even out in the vastness of space.

Crème de la Crème, by Harris Powell-Smith Average member rating: (15 ratings) 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...

Crocodracula: The Beginning, by Ryan Veeder and Harrison Gerard Average member rating: (12 ratings) The first Taleframe game based on the 90s children's horror soap opera.

Crocodracula: What Happened to Calvin, by Ryan Veeder Average member rating: (11 ratings) Based on the 90s children's horror soap opera.

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...

Darkiss! Wrath of the Vampire - Chapter 1: the Awakening, by Marco Vallarino Average member rating: (24 ratings) 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....

De Baron, by Victor Gijsbers Average member rating: (160 ratings) 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 Like Ants, by C.E.J. Pacian Average member rating: (58 ratings) 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...

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

Delusions, by C. E. Forman
Average member rating: (40 ratings)

Desert Heat, by Papillon Average member rating: (10 ratings) "WARNING. This game is intended for mature readers and may contain explicit sexual scenes and/or questionable consensuality depending on play. It is possible to complete the game without encountering these...

Ditch Day Drifter, by Michael J. Roberts Average member rating: (23 ratings) You're an undergraduate at Caltech, and you wake up to find it's Ditch Day, the traditional event when seniors leave the campus for the day, leaving behind puzzles for the underclassmen to solve in order to...

Don't Take It Personally, Babe, It Just Ain't Your Story, by Christine Love Average member rating: (6 ratings) 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...

Downtown Tokyo, Present Day, by John Kean
Average member rating: (25 ratings)

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...

Dungeon Detective, by Wonaglot, Caitlin Mulvihill Average member rating: (17 ratings) You're a gnoll. Whether that's a blessing or a curse is up to you. Unlike other gnolls, you're trying to eke out a simple existence by plying your trade - that of the world's first Dungeon Detective. Amass...

Earth and Sky 2: Another Earth, Another Sky, by Paul O'Brian Average member rating: (54 ratings)

Eclosion, by Buster Hudson
Average member rating: (8 ratings)

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...

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...

Eurydice, by Anonymous Average member rating: (37 ratings) A short game about grief, with occasional snakes.

An Evening at the Ransom Woodingdean Museum House, by Ryan Veeder Average member rating: (24 ratings) Karen Chambers gives tours in a restored Victorian home.

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)

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...

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...

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...

Fifteen Minutes, by Ade McT Average member rating: (24 ratings) You're in a tight spot. You have fifteen minutes before the Principal expels you from the cosy world of academia and into the cold harsh reality of the real world. You really should do something about it. A...

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...

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

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

First Things First, by J. Robinson Wheeler Average member rating: (23 ratings) You’ve just arrived at home from your nightly visit to the science and invention section of the local public library, where you spend each night dreaming your dreamy dreams of one day inventing a time travel...

Foo Foo, by Buster Hudson Average member rating: (62 ratings) 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]

Glowgrass, by Nate Cull
Average member rating: (99 ratings)

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...

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.

Grue., by Charles Mangin Average member rating: (13 ratings) It is pitch black. You are a grue. Can you catch your next meal, or will you succumb to starvation and worse?

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...

Hard Puzzle, by Ade McT Average member rating: (14 ratings) After The Event, there are no easy solutions. A silly little speed-IF puzzler. But can you solve it? Hall of fame: CMG Caleb Wilson Deboriole MaggieMay Doug Orleans Lance Nathan

Hard Puzzle 3 : Origins, by Ade McT Average member rating: (3 ratings) 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

Heretic's Hope, by G. C. Baccaris Average member rating: (25 ratings) Eser is the only human left alive. Gods and monsters, blessings and curses, an island ruled by giant insects — and in their midst: a reluctant human priest. Grief-stricken and bound by oath to obey the...

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.

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

Horse Master, by Tom McHenry Average member rating: (93 ratings) The Game of Horse Mastery

howling dogs, by Porpentine Average member rating: (125 ratings) death cube sim | galactic survey | visionatrix | facet machine | power gardens | women | fascination two significant endings

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

I-0, by Anonymous Average member rating: (157 ratings) Stranded on Interstate Zero after your car broke down, you are miles away from the last sign of civilization. It's twenty minutes to noon and the temperature is well over 120°F. It's beginning to look like...

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,...

The Impossible Stairs, by Mathbrush Average member rating: (26 ratings) Getting ready for a party can take a lot of time. Help CJ navigate a text adventure of temporal trials. Merciful puzzlefest. Parser or point-and-click, as you please. Authorized sequel to The Impossible...

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

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...

Jigsaw, by Graham Nelson Average member rating: (84 ratings) New Year's Eve, 1999, a quarter to midnight and where else to be but Century Park! Fireworks cascade across the sky, your stomach rumbles uneasily, music and lasers howl across the parkland... Not exactly...

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...

La Noche del Ensayo, by Guillermo Crespi Average member rating: (2 ratings) "La Noche del Ensayo" tiene sus raíces en los relatos de misterio con un grupo de extraños aislados en una lujosa casa donde algo sale muy mal. En este caso, sin embargo, no se trata de la aristocracia de...

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....

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...

The Legend Lives!, by David Baggett
Average member rating: (6 ratings)

Lime Ergot, by Caleb Wilson (as Rust Blight) Average member rating: (82 ratings) Now everyone is gone. (Well, almost everyone.) Entry in ECTOCOMP 2014.

Lists and Lists, by Andrew Plotkin
Average member rating: (26 ratings)

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...

The Little Match Girl, by Hans Christian Andersen, by Ryan Veeder Average member rating: (19 ratings) A touching short story.

Losing Your Grip, by Stephen Granade Average member rating: (22 ratings)

Lost New York, by Neil deMause
Average member rating: (20 ratings)

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...

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...

The Matter of the Great Red Dragon, by Jonas Kyratzes Average member rating: (13 ratings) As is written in the Book of the Carvings of Narm, every one hundred years the Great Red Dragon rises from his lair in the Clawed Mountain, and descends with terrible fire on all the people of the Land of...

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.

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...

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...

Midnight. Swordfight., by Chandler Groover Average member rating: (79 ratings) A fool receives a challenge from a countess. Violence. Sex. Profanity. Sausage.

The Moonlit Tower, by Yoon Ha Lee
Average member rating: (61 ratings)

Moonmist, by Stu Galley, Jim Lawrence Average member rating: (48 ratings) 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...

More, by Jason Dyer (as Erin Canterbury) Average member rating: (12 ratings)

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

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A Murder in Fairyland, by Abigail Corfman Average member rating: (20 ratings) Prince Blacktree is dead. All of the other fairy nobles are trying to claim credit. You're a traveling Open Sorcerer, and a convenient neutral party who just wants to get out of Fairyland. A whodunit where...

Muse: An Autumn Romance, by Christopher Huang Average member rating: (35 ratings) Early September, 1886. Autumn. The Victorian Era. The Rev. Dawson, 59, is off to the Continent and an unexpected Romance... [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue]

My Angel, by Jon Ingold
Average member rating: (28 ratings)

my father's long, long legs, by michael lutz Average member rating: (143 ratings) A weird tale. Some parts make use of sound, so this game is best played with headphones. One ending.

My Name is Jack Mills, by Juhana Leinonen Average member rating: (20 ratings)

Mystery Science Theater 3000 Presents "Detective", by C. E. Forman, Matt Barringer, Graeme Cree, and Stuart Moore
Average member rating: (57 ratings)

Napier's Cache, by Vivienne Dunstan Average member rating: (13 ratings) Scotland, 1594: You're used to strange requests in your role as servant to John Napier. He's not just famous as a mathematician, but is also known for his occult skills and knowledge, still valued in these...

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

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...

Not Just an Ordinary Ballerina, by Jim Aikin Average member rating: (30 ratings)

Off-Season at the Dream Factory, by B.J. Best (writing as “Carroll Lewis") Average member rating: (16 ratings) As in orcish thought you stand.

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...

Paint!!!, by David Whyld
Average member rating: (10 ratings)

Pas De Deux, by Linus Åkesson Average member rating: (8 ratings) Striding into the spotlight, you smile as you look out over the crowd. It's a good turnout tonight. Now it is up to the Bournebrook Rill Community Orchestra and you, maestro Nevada Elmsbee, to deliver a...

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.

Perdition's Flames, by Michael J. Roberts Average member rating: (23 ratings) 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...

Quickfire, by Sean M. Shore Average member rating: (2 ratings) 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...

Ralph, by Miron Schmidt
Average member rating: (16 ratings)

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

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

Repeat the Ending, by Drew Cook Average member rating: (22 ratings) Explore an all-new "critical edition" of a 1996 Inform 5 game about mental illness, magic, and the second law of thermodynamics. When D, a psychiatrically disabled chaos wizard, learns that an estranged...

Restless, by Emily Short Average member rating: (4 ratings) You've been haunting old Mrs Fagles for decades. Now she's sold the house, and the new owner's moved in. Sylvie's broke, bad at plumbing, and anxious about everything. And with a living, breathing, fretting...

Return to Ditch Day, by M.J. Roberts Average member rating: (30 ratings) 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.

Robin & Orchid, by Ryan Veeder and Emily Boegheim Average member rating: (64 ratings) High school journalists spend the night in a church, investigating reports of a ghost.

Ryan Veeder's Authentic Fly Fishing, by Ryan Veeder Average member rating: (15 ratings) Relax at the Jewel Pond Recreation Area with Ryan Veeder as your guide.

Scavenger, by Quintin Stone Average member rating: (30 ratings) Search a war-shattered world for secrets of the past.

Scents & Semiosis, by Sam Kabo Ashwell, Cat Manning, Caleb Wilson, Yoon Ha Lee Average member rating: (9 ratings) A perfumer keeps a private collection of scents, each tied to a memory. Decide what they mean. Scents & Semiosis makes heavy use of procedural generation to create strange perfumes, full lives, and potent...

Scroll Thief, by Daniel M. Stelzer Average member rating: (16 ratings) Not a single spell! After two full years of study! Every Enchanter—every mortal with the power to change very nature of the universe with their words—has a spell book! Filled with words of power collected...

The Secret of St. Brides, by Priscilla Langridge Average member rating: (1 rating) St. Brides is a real school. As a matter of fact, I'm sitting at a desk in St. Brides right now, writing this. But it isn't an ordinary school. Even though it exists today, it's just like a girls boarding...

Sense of Harmony, by Scenario World Average member rating: (15 ratings) Cybernetically enhanced Elizabeth Boldan tries to find herself while working part-time at the Crown Diamond, an erotic massage parlor and brothel in the year 2029. On television and in the movies,...

Sequitur, by Nigel Jayne (as Tin Foil Jenny) Average member rating: (5 ratings) 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 Average member rating: (1 rating) 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...

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...

She's Got a Thing for a Spring, by Brent VanFossen
Average member rating: (32 ratings)

Shogun, by James Clavell, Dave Lebling Average member rating: (16 ratings) Experience the sweeping drama and power of James Clavell's Shogun. The year is 1600. You are John Blackthorne, Pilot-Major of a privateering merchant ship and the first Englishman to set foot on Japanese...

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

Silverwolf, by Anonymous

Sins Against Mimesis, by Adam Thornton
Average member rating: (25 ratings)

Six Stories, by Neil K. Guy Average member rating: (25 ratings) 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...

So Far, by Andrew Plotkin
Average member rating: (73 ratings)

The Sound of One Hand Clapping, by Erica Sadun Average member rating: (5 ratings)

Spellcasting 101 - Sorcerers Get All The Girls, by Steve Meretzky Average member rating: (24 ratings) 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 Average member rating: (8 ratings) 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...

Spring 2020, by Phillip J Rhoades Average member rating: (6 ratings) All you can do is eat or wait. There are two endings. There are no good endings. Based on a random idea in a Twitter conversation. https://twitter.com/howtophil/status/1250219872019197954 I joked I was...

The Statue Got Me High, by Ryan Veeder Average member rating: (29 ratings) Your job is to make sure John's party is successful. It won't be, though. Written for the Apollo 18+20 tribute album project.

Sub Rosa, by Joey Jones, Melvin Rangasamy Average member rating: (42 ratings) A puzzle game about secrets in the Age of Lead. You've spent seventeen years preparing for an infiltration. Stealing the Confessor's secrets is only the beginning: it will all be for nothing if you leave a...

Sugarlawn, by Mike Spivey Average member rating: (32 ratings) With a loud "click," the door closes behind you. Finally! You are locked inside an antebellum Southern mansion, alone, wearing only a chicken costume. You've fantasized about this moment for years.

Sunset Over Savannah, by Ivan Cockrum
Average member rating: (54 ratings)

Superluminal Vagrant Twin, by C.E.J. Pacian Average member rating: (120 ratings) A text-only space sim. Ply the spaceways. Make five million credits. Buy back your twin. (Superluminal Vagrant Twin is a shallow but broad exploration game.)

Swigian, by Mathbrush (as Rainbus North) Average member rating: (34 ratings) I don't like talking. Let's build a fire. Swigian is a minimalist game. It is long, but quickly finished, with few words and few complications.

Take, by Katherine Morayati (as Amelia Pinnolla) Average member rating: (37 ratings) You are battle-weary. Your armor is scanty and your countenance is loathsome; you tire of the swords flicking at your neck. But you have a duty. There is nothing you can't take. (Content warning: Violence,...

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

Tapestry, by Daniel Ravipinto Average member rating: (44 ratings) 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...

The Temple of Shorgil, by Arthur DiBianca Average member rating: (24 ratings) One day, travel guides will talk about this "masterpiece of the Pirothian architect Kitral" -- but only if you, the first person to visit it in over 1,000 years, can find out what's inside. (Puzzle-oriented...

Terminal Interface for Models RCM301-303, by Victor Gijsbers Average member rating: (21 ratings) A text terminal interface for interacting with your model RCM301-303 remote controlled mech.

Thaumistry: In Charm's Way, by Bob Bates Average member rating: (16 ratings) Thaum: (noun). A unit of magical energy Bodge: (verb). To hack or kludge Eric Knight was a child prodigy who was featured on the cover of Invent! Magazine at the age of 13 for his invention of an anti-stain...

their angelical understanding, by Porpentine Average member rating: (75 ratings) I train to fight angels in a monastery by the sea. Wear headphones. TW: Suicidal ideation, ableism, abuse, possible epilepsy trigger.

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...

Transparent, by Hanon Ondricek Average member rating: (20 ratings) 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....

Trapped in Time, by Simon Christiansen Average member rating: (25 ratings) A Science Fiction adventure where YOU are the hero!

The Unofficial Sea-Monkey(R) Simulation, by B.J. Best Average member rating: (13 ratings) Sometime during 1987, your father comes home from work--late, as usual. He tosses a small box onto the kitchen counter. "Here," he says, "you wanted fish. You get these. Let's see how you do first, and then...

Vain Empires, by Thomas Mack and Xavid Average member rating: (24 ratings) The memoir of a demonic spy in the Cold War between Heaven and Hell.

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)

Voices, by Aris Katsaris Average member rating: (26 ratings)

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...

When Help Collides, by J. D. Berry
Average member rating: (16 ratings)

Whitefield Academy of Witchcraft, by Steph Cherrywell Average member rating: (19 ratings) 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...

Will Not Let Me Go, by Stephen Granade Average member rating: (67 ratings) Dallas, Texas. 1996. Fred Strickland has Alzheimer's.

Winter Storm Draco, by Ryan Veeder Average member rating: (26 ratings) A chronicle of the events of the winter storm of the same name.

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]

With Those We Love Alive, by Porpentine and Brenda Neotenomie Average member rating: (111 ratings) no dreams written by porpentine scored by brenda neotenomie

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 are Standing at a Crossroads, by Astrid Dalmady Average member rating: (29 ratings) You are Standing at a Crossroads is a short Twine story about being lost, being changed, and being stagnant.

The Zen Garden, by Privateer Average member rating: (6 ratings) This is a text-only brainteaser (with some sound) inspired by Japanese art and haiku. ...

Zork: The Undiscovered Underground, by Marc Blank, Michael Berlyn, and G. Kevin Wilson
Average member rating: (31 ratings)

Zorkian Stories 1: G.U.E., by Marshal Tenner Winter Average member rating: (15 ratings) Finally making it to the Eastlands, you find a shaft leading to the depths of the Great Underground Empire where, supposedly, lost treasures that have been forgotten for centuries are waiting to be found...

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