(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,... |
10pm, by litrouke Average member rating: (27 ratings) 10pm, and dinner is still sitting in the oven. The TV is droning. The front door is closed. You look at the clock. You look at the door. You wait. --- Content warnings: profanity, allusions to sex and... |
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... |
1958: Dancing With Fear, by Victor Ojuel Average member rating: (32 ratings) "Dancing with Fear" (1958, directed by Víctor Ojuel). In this forgotten classic of Golden Age Hollywood, a vedette fallen on hard times (Salomé Vélez) finds herself enmeshed in a tangle of political... |
50 Shades of Jilting, by Rowan Lipkovits (as Lankly Lockers) Average member rating: (13 ratings) The relationship is in a walking dead situation: it's over, only continuing to move onward solely on inertia. One way or another, it ends here. |
9:05, by Adam Cadre Average member rating: (535 ratings) The phone rings. Oh, no — how long have you been asleep? Sure, it was a tough night, but... This is bad. This is very bad. The phone rings. |
Absence of Law, by mathbrush Average member rating: (47 ratings) Excuse me, can you help me? Yes, you, browsing IFDB games! I need your assistance, but I don't have long. There's so much going on: remote surveillance, unauthorized cloning, forgotten languages, robots... |
Accelerate, by The TAV Institute Average member rating: (19 ratings) A multimedia project about the end of everything. This is not a true story. Everything in it happened, and will. Any resemblance to actual events, or actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.... |
The Act of Misdirection, by Callico Harrison Average member rating: (69 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... |
Adventurer's Consumer Guide, by Øyvind Thorsby Average member rating: (31 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 Your Time-Tossed Selves, by Porpentine Average member rating: (16 ratings) a story made in Google Forms |
American Angst, by m3g1dd0 Average member rating: (5 ratings) Imagine a horror novel where you get to make the choices and decide how the story plays out: Welcome to American Angst, a text-based multiple-choice survival horror interactive fiction, combining RPG... |
And the Robot Horse You Rode in On, by Anna Anthropy Average member rating: (19 ratings) Diode emerges from the porta-tent, yawning and cracking open a canteen. She takes a long swig. "Evening, bandita." Then she comes over to you and plants her foot on the top of your head. "i’ll be honest: i... |
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... |
At the Bonfire, by Finny Average member rating: (3 ratings) Semi-autobiographical game about interpersonal conflict. |
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] |
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... |
A Beauty Cold and Austere, by Mike Spivey Average member rating: (56 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: (84 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... |
Bell Park, Youth Detective, by Brendan Patrick Hennessy Average member rating: (61 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. |
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. ... |
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:... |
Blighted Isle, by Eric Eve Average member rating: (42 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... |
Blue Lacuna, by Aaron A. Reed Average member rating: (111 ratings) You have always been different. One in a trillion have your gift, your curse: to move between worlds, never settling, always alone. To Wayfare. Yet there are others like you, and something stronger than... |
Bolivia By Night, by Aidan Doyle Average member rating: (19 ratings) A mystery adventure game set in Bolivia. |
Breakers, by Rodney Smith, Joe Vierra, William Mataga Average member rating: (3 ratings) 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... |
Bronze, by Emily Short Average member rating: (285 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. |
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... |
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... |
Cerulean Stowaway, by Roger Descheneaux Average member rating: (6 ratings) A stowaway gets more of a ride than he bargained for. |
Chapter Zero: Welcome to Cicada Creek, by P. F. Sheckarski Average member rating: (6 ratings) A tornadic storm brews outside an economically faltering town in the Great Plains as a traveling outsider attempts to unravel the town's mysteries. This is Chapter Zero (of 8). Further chapters will be... |
Chemistry and Physics, by Caelyn Sandel (as Colin Sandel) and Carolyn VanEseltine Average member rating: (22 ratings) |
Chlorophyll, by Steph Cherrywell Average member rating: (58 ratings) |
Cis Gaze, by Caelyn Sandel Average member rating: (13 ratings) Cis Gaze is a diary entry told through hypertext effects, an exploration of the intersection of gender dysphoria and depression. It's not really a game. Content warnings: transmisogyny, depression, suicidal... |
City of Secrets, by Emily Short Average member rating: (103 ratings) |
Color the Truth, by mathbrush Average member rating: (72 ratings) Rosalita Morales is dead, and you have to figure out who did it. The four people closest to her had the motive and the means: her partner, her secretary, her ex-husband, and her sister. Re-live their... |
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. |
Counterfeit Monkey, by Emily Short Average member rating: (237 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... |
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. |
Crocodracula: What Happened to Calvin, by Ryan Veeder Average member rating: (11 ratings) Based on the 90s children's horror soap opera. |
Dangerous Curves, by Irene Callaci Average member rating: (23 ratings) |
A Day for Fresh Sushi, by Emily Short Average member rating: (97 ratings) No time for fantasy. Must feed fish. |
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 Cities, by Jon Ingold Average member rating: (31 ratings) 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... |
Deadline Enchanter, by Alan DeNiro Average member rating: (58 ratings) |
Degeneracy, by Leonard Richardson Average member rating: (16 ratings) 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... |
Delightful Wallpaper, by Andrew Plotkin ('Edgar O. Weyrd') Average member rating: (78 ratings) |
Dinner Bell, by Jenni Polodna Average member rating: (54 ratings) 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... |
dis(re)pair, by Gaétan Darquié, Agathe Raymond-Carlo Dis(re)pair is a bilingual web application (French/English) available online at http://interlivre.fr/disrepair/english.html which combines music, animation and text about love separation. The project,... |
The Djinni Chronicles, by J. D. Berry Average member rating: (33 ratings) |
dripping with the waters of SHEOL, by Lady Isak Grozny Average member rating: (10 ratings) A ghost of a peculiar origin stalks the corridor of your flat. Maybe you should go talk to it? A story about gay love and how all things hidden become evident, featuring a bigender protagonist and their... |
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. |
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. |
Eczema Angel Orifice, by Porpentine Average member rating: (6 ratings) Eczema Angel Orifice is a compilation of award-winning hypertext fiction by Porpentine Charity Heartscape. It includes updated/remastered versions of most stories, a viewing guide with recommendations based... |
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... |
El Anillo, by Juan Antonio Paz Salgado Average member rating: (2 ratings) La guerra entre las órdenes de hechiceros ha empezado y finalizado en la misma noche. El mal ha ganado, por supuesto; pero el poderoso nigromante Sady Omú no ha logrado con ello que el mundo esté a sus pies.... |
Endless, Nameless, by Adam Cadre 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... |
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... |
The Erudition Chamber, by Daniel Freas Average member rating: (26 ratings) |
Escape from the Crazy Place, by J. J. Guest, Loz Etheridge and friends Average member rating: (11 ratings) You've been locked in a padded cell for no obvious reason with only a deranged hamburger-eating clown for company. The cell doesn't even have a door. So begins an adventure that will take you to many places... |
Eurydice, by Anonymous Average member rating: (37 ratings) A short game about grief, with occasional snakes. |
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] |
Fabricationist DeWit Remakes the World, by Jedediah Berry Average member rating: (31 ratings) After a sleep of centuries, a synthetic being receives an unexpected visitor—along with a new role in the Great Project. |
Fan Interference, by Andrew Schultz Average member rating: (7 ratings) The 2003 Cubs are on the brink of the World Series. It's game 6, and they're even going to take a late 3-0 lead in the clinching game. They won't keep it. Unless you, who just got kicked off the bus near... |
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... |
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... |
First Draft of the Revolution, by Emily Short, Liza Daly and inkle Average member rating: (55 ratings) It is dangerous to deceive a husband of magic-using rank... Juliette has been banished for the summer to a village above Grenoble: a few Alpine houses, a deep lake, blue sky, and no society. Now she writes... |
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... |
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... |
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] |
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... |
Gigantomania, by Michelle Tirto and Mike Ciul Average member rating: (21 ratings) Living under the Stalin era, in four parts. |
The Gostak, by Carl Muckenhoupt Average member rating: (87 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... |
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... |
Guilded Youth, by Jim Munroe Average member rating: (49 ratings) You play Tony, a fourteen-year old thief who needs some help looting the legendary Oakville Manor. Luckily it's the 1980s and finding fellow adventurers is just a modem squeal away... |
Gun Mute, by C.E.J. Pacian Average member rating: (152 ratings) Step into the shoes of Mute Lawton, a lone cowboy who must stop an execution set to occur at noon by shooting his way past dangerous cyborgs and mutants in a post-apocalyptic western setting. (From the... |
Hadean Lands, by Andrew Plotkin Average member rating: (66 ratings) Marooned in an alien, airless wasteland -- your starship fractured -- your crewmates missing. Can an apprentice alchemist learn how to survive? |
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... |
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. |
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... |
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 House at the End of Rosewood Street, by Michael Thomét Average member rating: (14 ratings) 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... |
howling dogs, by Porpentine Average member rating: (125 ratings) death cube sim | galactic survey | visionatrix | facet machine | power gardens | women | fascination two significant endings |
Human Errors, by Katherine Morayati Average member rating: (19 ratings) A contractor assigned to handle bug reports for a wearable mood-regulation device becomes unwitting witness to trauma and crime. |
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... |
I.A.G. Alpha, by Serhii Mozhaiskyi Average member rating: (15 ratings) You may think this game is about a post-Soviet Research Institute. About an experiment that went out of control. You may think that the initials "I.A.G." are somehow related to the Institute. You may think... |
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... |
Inside the Facility, by Arthur DiBianca Average member rating: (56 ratings) Your friend Mike thinks no one can infiltrate THE FACILITY, but you're going to prove him wrong. A light puzzle game. In the author's opinion, it's totally family-friendly. (If you're playing the Browser... |
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... |
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... |
Ka, by Dan Efran Average member rating: (20 ratings) For an Egyptian mummy's soul - or "Ka" - death is but the first step on a puzzling and perilous journey. The second step? Getting out of all those coffins.... |
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... |
Katana, by Matt Rohde Average member rating: (7 ratings) You play as an American tourist visiting Shinobu Palace in Japan hoping to learn more about your ancestor, Matsuo Kaneiji, an infamous samurai executed for treason. Through several puzzles and flashbacks,... |
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... |
Knight Orc, by Pete Austin Average member rating: (20 ratings) Knight Orc casts you as an oppressed orc in a magical world where all is not as it first seems. For generations humans have been persecuting orcs, and now it's time to get your own back. A fantasy adventure... |
Known Unknowns, by Brendan Patrick Hennessy Average member rating: (68 ratings) Nadia Nazari has a lot of unknowns to contend with in her Grade 12 year. Like how can she run an entire school newspaper with only one employee? Why has her estranged ex best friend suddenly come back into... |
La chambre de Syrion, by Benjamin Roux Average member rating: (3 ratings) Que ne ferait-on pas par défi. Eh oui, pour épater la galerie, vous êtes prêt à tout. Même à cela. Vous venez d’intégrer la prestigieuse École de magie des Elfes. Comme épreuve d’intégration, il vous fallait... |
Las Aventuras de Rudolphine Rur, by Daniel Carbonell Cob (Dwalin) Average member rating: (1 rating) Rudolphine Rur (Rudolph para los amigos) está en una situación envidiable. Es dueño de su propia casa - árbol en la parte más elegante del Valle. Ha conseguido progresar en su profesión hasta llegar a ser... |
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 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.... |
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... |
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.... |
A Long Drink, by Spankminister (as Owen Parks) Average member rating: (7 ratings) The first time I'd met Val was the day before yesterday, on my way out of the hospital. I'd been in a numb stupor for hours. There's no good way to take that kind of news. She'd asked me out for a drink. I... |
Losing Your Grip, by Stephen Granade Average member rating: (22 ratings) |
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... |
Love, Hate and the Mysterious Ocean Tower, by C.E.J. Pacian Average member rating: (42 ratings) |
Lux, by Agnieszka Trzaska Average member rating: (20 ratings) You wander around in darkness – even though the lights are on. Sandra is the only one to survive a mysterious attack on a deep space mining station. She is alive, but has lost her vision. Now Sandra must... |
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 Magpie Takes the Train, by Mathbrush Average member rating: (40 ratings) A millionaire guards a fabulous ruby in her private train car. Countless thieves have failed to steal it. But they weren't the Magpie! |
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... |
Manca solo un verso a quella poesia - capitolo 1, by Diavolo dei crocicchi Average member rating: (1 rating) This is a game that brings you in a fantasy world where you will meet fairies, goblins, killer rabbits and many more strange creatures that will help you to face the Death, who, apparently, is not your worst... |
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... |
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. |
Measureless to Man, by Ivan R. Average member rating: (11 ratings) You're on your way home from Cairo, with nothing but a rumpled suit and an apple for lunch. But the plane passes through dark air, over a fathomless sea. Past the heavens, under the deep, there are secrets... |
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... |
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... |
Mindwheel, by Robert Pinsky, William Mataga, Steve Hales Average member rating: (5 ratings) 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,... |
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. |
The Northnorth Passage., by Caleb Wilson (as Snowball Ice) Average member rating: (25 ratings) Oh no, the old family curse has flared up! This is a short story about limits to action. |
Nostrils of Flesh and Clay, by Porpentine Average member rating: (6 ratings) You are a scent detective, drifting through a world torn apart by greed and nausea. With colors dripping from your nostrils, you flex cartilage and demand to know...what is Project Olympia? Who are the... |
Not Just an Ordinary Ballerina, by Jim Aikin Average member rating: (29 ratings) |
Olivia's Orphanorium, by Sam Kabo Ashwell Average member rating: (24 ratings) Sparky young entrepreneur Olivia sets out to fulfil her dream of running an orphanage. The beatings will continue until morale improves. |
Once and Future, by G. Kevin Wilson Average member rating: (11 ratings) |
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... |
An Open Field, by Chris Daniels Average member rating: (7 ratings) It is a beautiful day to relax and enjoy your surroundings! And yet, it seems something isn't quite right today. What is so disconcerting? |
Open Sorcery, by Abigail Corfman Average member rating: (77 ratings) 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... |
Open That Vein, by Chandler Groover Average member rating: (17 ratings) You are going to open that vein. La Petite Mort entry in ECTOCOMP 2015. |
Oppositely Opal, by Buster Hudson Average member rating: (63 ratings) You've practiced long and hard for PotionComp, but Grusilda won't give up her title so easily. UGH! Curse that Grusilda! A one-room potion-brewing spell-casting parser puzzler, where things might go opposite... |
Orevore Courier, by Brian Rapp Average member rating: (17 ratings) |
The Owl Consults, by Thomas Mack, Nick Mathewson, and Cidney Hamilton Average member rating: (19 ratings) Once you've established yourself as the ruler of the crime world (and, eventually, the literal world), the only challenge left is helping out the next generation of supervillains---for a suitable fee, of... |
Patrick, by michael lutz Average member rating: (25 ratings) A very short game about having an uncomfortable conversation with a vaguely sinister white guy. One ending. Or is there? Ask a friend to play and then compare notes. |
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... |
Philosopher's Quest, by Peter D. Killworth and Jonathan Mestel Average member rating: (2 ratings) 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". |
Photograph: A Portrait of Reflection, by Steve Evans Average member rating: (27 ratings) 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... |
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... |
Queers in Love at the End of the World, by Anna Anthropy Average member rating: (37 ratings) |
Rameses, by Stephen Bond Average member rating: (125 ratings) |
rat chaos, by Winter Lake Average member rating: (26 ratings) |
Rats, by Rémi Verschelde (Akien) Vous rêvez d’un doux plateau garni de fromages variés, français, suisses et hollandais, quand on vient vous réveiller sans ménagement, vous assurant que votre bon roi vous demande de toute urgence dans la... |
The Rats in the Bulkheads, by Bruno Dias Average member rating: (4 ratings) All you have to do is make it inside and fire thrusters to adjust the derelict's course. Content warning: This game contains written depictions of disturbing material, including gore and suicide. |
Reference and Representation: An Approach to First-Order Semantics, by Ryan Veeder Average member rating: (34 ratings) Violence is the answer to this one. |
The Reliques of Tolti-Aph, by Graham Nelson Average member rating: (15 ratings) "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... |
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... |
Reset, by Autumn Nicole Bradley Average member rating: (10 ratings) Always trust your Administratrix. Willing but unwitting, one citizen experiences the new possibilities of kink in a transhuman cyborg future. |
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... |
Roofed, by Jim Munroe Average member rating: (16 ratings) 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... |
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... |
Salt, by Gareth Damian Martin Average member rating: (16 ratings) The beach is a strip of heat. You stand knee deep in the water, facing out to sea. Familiar voices shimmer behind your head. You take a breath, and then begin. - A game about swimming, thinking and the... |
Savoir-Faire, by Emily Short Average member rating: (131 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... |
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... |
Seedship, by John Ayliff Average member rating: (51 ratings) An AI ship full of frozen colonists must find the best planet to be the new home of the human race. |
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.... |
SKATE OUT!, by PaperBlurt Average member rating: (8 ratings) It's time to be skatin' and NOT think about what really happened last summer... ...a spiritual successor to my Twine "20 Strokes"... (a very short little project made for the "Finish A Game" Jam) |
Slap That Fish, by Peter Nepstad Average member rating: (32 ratings) This time, those fishy bastards are finally going to get what's coming to them. |
Sleepless, by Natalia Theodoridou Average member rating: (3 ratings) What happens to dreams if no one sleeps? Humans have stopped sleeping. In nightclubs, helplines, and 24/7 diners, people look for a way to dream. |
Slouching Towards Bedlam, by Star Foster and Daniel Ravipinto Average member rating: (214 ratings) In the beginning was the Word, and it was hungry. ... |
Solarium, by Anya Johanna DeNiro Average member rating: (54 ratings) 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... |
The Space Under the Window, by Andrew Plotkin Average member rating: (98 ratings) A new, experimental game that has no puzzles but uses only words that change your focus on things, thereby adapting the story. [--blurb from The Z-Files Catalogue] |
Spider and Web, by Andrew Plotkin Average member rating: (308 ratings) 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... |
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? |
Star Court, by Anna Anthropy Average member rating: (14 ratings) The laser gavel pounds. The Robailiff boots up. Somewhere, a gong sounds. STAR COURT is now in session. (Inspired by the Mac game Kangaroo Court.) |
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... |
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. |
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.) |
Suveh Nux, by David Fisher Average member rating: (225 ratings) An entry in the 2007 One Room Game Competition. You play a magician's servant who gets trapped in your master's vault; you'll need to learn some of his tricks if you want to get out. |
T-Zero, by Dennis Cunningham Average member rating: (8 ratings) 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,... |
Taco Fiction, by Ryan Veeder Average member rating: (114 ratings) Taco Fiction is a game about crime. |
Tangaroa Deep, by Astrid Dalmady Average member rating: (45 ratings) 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 |
Three-Card Trick, by Chandler Groover Average member rating: (64 ratings) You're going to perform a three-card trick or your name isn't Morgan the Magnificent. |
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... |
The Tiniest Room, by Erik108 Average member rating: (32 ratings) An "Escape the Room" kind of game made with less than 300 words for the Twiny Jam. |
Tonight Dies the Moon, by Tom McHenry Average member rating: (14 ratings) From the author of HORSE MASTER: THE GAME OF HORSE MASTERY, comes a Twine game about life during war between the Earth and Moon in the year 2000. Fall in love, subsistence farm, make spreadsheets, and wear... |
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! |
Treasures of a Slaver's Kingdom, by S. John Ross Average member rating: (48 ratings) In the cruel kingdoms north of the Viraxian Empire, a barbarian seeks treasure - and vengeance! Having escaped the clutches of the Slaver King, he has vowed to pillage the wealth of the kingdom ... then... |
Trinity, by Brian Moriarty Average member rating: (101 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... |
Tuuli, by Daurmith and Ruber Eaglenest Average member rating: (26 ratings) "The old witch, your teacher Mákke, is dead. If you want to save your village you'll have to destroy the raiding fleet that's coming. Can you do it, young Lenne-who-would-be-the-witch?" ---------- Mákke, la... |
Ürs, by Christopher Hayes, Daniel Talsky Average member rating: (23 ratings) You're a regular rabbit who's lived in the same warren your entire life. You have no reason to leave, but the THUD threatens to destroy all the baby kittens. Maybe something in the ancient places of the Ürs... |
ULTRA BUSINESS TYCOON III, by Porpentine Average member rating: (59 ratings) I’ve finally finished porting and cracking an old edutainment game from the 90′s. Please enjoy. |
Unit 322 (Disambiguation), by Jonny Muir Average member rating: (24 ratings) A mystery told entirely through the pages of an online encyclopedia. |
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... |
The Wand, by Arthur DiBianca Average member rating: (57 ratings) Explore the wizard Bartholloco's castle with the help of a versatile magic wand. Can you overcome his challenge? Can you levitate a rock? Can you slice a baltavakia? (Puzzle-oriented and family friendly.) |
When in Rome 1: Accounting for Taste, by Emily Short Average member rating: (27 ratings) Manhattan, May, 1954. |
Will Not Let Me Go, by Stephen Granade Average member rating: (66 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] |
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... |
With Those We Love Alive, by Porpentine and Brenda Neotenomie Average member rating: (111 ratings) no dreams written by porpentine scored by brenda neotenomie |
The Wizard Sniffer, by Buster Hudson Average member rating: (128 ratings) 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... |
Word of the Day, by Richard Otter Average member rating: (15 ratings) You are the very first Outer Worlder to gain an appointment on a Bio-Drive vessel, let alone as part of the engineering team. Working hard to gain enough credits to secure your future could this be your... |
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... |
Yellow Dog Running, by Sam Kabo Ashwell Average member rating: (10 ratings) |
You Are Standing, by Aaron A. Reed Average member rating: (13 ratings) 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 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. |
You Were Made For Loneliness, by Tsukareta Average member rating: (10 ratings) It’s the future. The remnants of humanity, in the aftermath of a cataclysmic event known only as The Fall, have fled a dying homeworld to seek refuge among the colonies of the solar system. Twenty years... |
You Will Select a Decision, by Brendan Patrick Hennessy Average member rating: (77 ratings) A pair of knock-off choose your own adventure books from Soviet-era Kyrgyzstan. |