"So, About Last Night...", by Elissa Black Average member rating: (1 rating) Los Angeles, CA 1996 Okay, so it’s not the first time you’ve hooked up with a stranger at a party. And it’s certainly not the first time you’ve woken up feeling like death after a party. This is, however,... |
♥Magical Makeover♥, by S. Woodson Average member rating: (61 ratings) "You hold in your hand a pink, heart-shaped card daubed in rosewater and oil of jasmine — an invitation to the Princess Philantha's Grand Equinox Ball. In gilded, sweeping, sweet-smelling calligraphy, the... |
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?... |
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. |
80 DAYS, by inkle, Meg Jayanth Average member rating: (95 ratings) 1872, with a steampunk twist. Phileas Fogg has wagered he can circumnavigate the world in just eighty days. Choose your own route around a 3D globe, travelling by airship, submarine, mechanical camel,... |
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: (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) |
Affairs of the Court: Choice of Romance, by Heather Albano and Adam Strong-Morse Average member rating: (9 ratings) Plunge into court politics and change the course of history, or pursue a love affair that rocks the kingdom to its foundations! "Affairs of the Court" is an epic interactive fantasy novel by Heather Albano... |
Afternoon in the House of Secrets, by Anna Anthropy Average member rating: (10 ratings) You have come to this enigmatic house in search of the secret that you know is here. You shall not leave until you find it! Made in two hours for the 25th Klik of the Month Klub. |
Ailihphilia, by Andrew Schultz (as N. Y. Llewellyn) Average member rating: (8 ratings) No need for aibohphobia. It's polite on the Zarfian cruelty scale -and- will let you jump to the exciting conclusion if your 2-hour judging period is almost up! |
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.... |
Alias 'The Magpie', by J. J. Guest Average member rating: (69 ratings) Sir Rodney Playfair, gentleman thief, has a simple plan: impersonate a psychiatrist, infiltrate a country house, steal a priceless Egyptian scarab and make it back to London in time for cocktails. All in a... |
Alice Aforethought, by Hanon Ondricek Average member rating: (8 ratings) I need your help. I mean, you're the one who is supposed to talk me out of things before I do anything stupid. Time has stopped moving, and that might turn out to have been my fault. I didn't mean to do it.... |
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 Tomorrow's Parties, by Niamh Schönherr Average member rating: (1 rating) Created specifically for anyone who may be questioning and struggling, "All Tomorrow's Parties" is an autobiographical game about the early stages of investigating and questioning one's own gender. Similar... |
All Visitors Welcome, by Bitter Karella Average member rating: (4 ratings) Sloane Rock SHP was established in 1920 to help preserve the legacy of Lazarus Sloane and his many cultural and economic contributions to the history of the state of California. A visit to Sloane Rock SHP is... |
The Anachronist, by Peter Levine Average member rating: (7 ratings) In the year 1596, Anna is about to be burned at the stake. As the constable prepares to light the fire below her, she can do nothing but seek a solution in her own memory and imagination. ... |
Anchorhead, by Michael Gentry Average member rating: (394 ratings) You take a deep breath of salty air as the first raindrops begin to spatter the pavement, and the swollen, slate-colored clouds that blanket the sky mutter ominous portents amongst themselves over the little... |
And Then You Come to a House Not Unlike the Previous One, by B.J. Best Average member rating: (66 ratings) Title: Infinite Adventure Year: 1986 Genre: Adventure Summary: Wander through an apparently infinite number of spooky mansions, solving a basic puzzle in each one. ForgottenGames.com rating: ★ ★ ★ |
another happiness, by Saori & Nitori Average member rating: (1 rating) You see, once you reach my age, you start thinking a lot about things from when you were younger. Places you've been to... people you knew. And in your memories, everything's still exactly as it was back... |
Aquarium, by Harris Powell-Smith Average member rating: (19 ratings) You're seventeen. It's dark in here. Aquarium is a story game about skipping school with a cute boy. There are multiple endings. You can play in your browser on most devices - Internet Explorer will not... |
Arcane Intern (Unpaid), by Astrid Dalmady Average member rating: (44 ratings) Getting coffee, making copies, tampering with powers beyond your control. You know, normal intern things. Now if only you were getting paid for it... |
The Ascent of the Gothic Tower, by Ryan Veeder Average member rating: (31 ratings) A story of mild and non-debilitating obsession. |
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... |
Babyface, by Mark Sample Average member rating: (24 ratings) We are haunted by the houses of our childhood. How unfamiliar they are, when we return. Yet you never forget, do you? You never really forget. A Southern Gothic horror story. Remember, of all the masks we... |
Barry Basic and the Quick Escape, by Dee Cooke Average member rating: (6 ratings) Somewhere near a quiet English village in 1969, a forbidding-looking computer factory looms over the woods. Most of the local kids prefer to avoid the place, but computer-obsessed Barry Basic has decided to... |
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... |
The Beetmonger's Journal, by Scott Starkey Average member rating: (16 ratings) "Victor Lapot and I were miles from base camp on the south continent, once again hacking through previously unsurveyed lands and searching for forgotten cultures. The expedition reminded me of our grand... |
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. |
The Best Man, by Stephen Bond Average member rating: (13 ratings) |
Best of Three, by Emily Short Average member rating: (62 ratings) |
Bogeyman, by Elizabeth Smyth Average member rating: (87 ratings) You can go home when you learn to be good. |
Briar, by Hanon Ondricek Average member rating: (12 ratings) You are young, dumb, and full of hope for the future; on a secret quest that may change your life forever! Or it may end in death and utter humliation. Good thing you're not really all that bright. This is... |
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 Brutal Murder of Jenny Lee, by Daniel Gao Average member rating: (10 ratings) You are sent back in time to investigate a 17-year-old mystery. Who murdered Jenny Lee? |
Byzantine Perspective, by Lea Albaugh Average member rating: (56 ratings) Your task is simple enough. Just nab the chalice. |
Cannelé & Nomnom - Defective Agency, by Younès R. & Yazaleea Average member rating: (4 ratings) « You set foot in the mysterious city of Falaisant, with no memories of who you are. Lost and hopeless, you hire the only detective agency willing to help you. There's only one issue: They. Are. DISASTROUS!... |
Cannery Vale, by Hanon Ondricek (as Keanhid Connor) Average member rating: (30 ratings) Hell, even a seagull would hit the spot right now, roasted crispy over a flame-- He immediately put all thoughts of food out of his head because at the moment it was just torture_ |
Cape, by Bruno Dias Average member rating: (46 ratings) Cape is a superhero origin story for the cyberpunk dystopia we're all living in. |
Childhood Homes (And why we hate them), by qrowscant Average member rating: (1 rating) After over a decade, you return home. A short, interactive-fiction horror story, and my first attempt at making something in Twine. I'm doing my best! Trigger list: Eyestrain + light flashing Descriptions of... |
A Chinese Room, by Milo van Mesdag Average member rating: (12 ratings) A one or two reader experience, A Chinese Room is one story in two. A story of power, control, inhumanity, and love.... |
City of Secrets, by Emily Short Average member rating: (103 ratings) |
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. |
Compassionate Simulation, by Rachel Swirsky, P H Lee, Aster Fialla Average member rating: (4 ratings) —our company mission to provide grieving families with accurate, compassionate simulations of their deceased loved ones— You! Winnifred Meyer. Remember? You are Winnifred Meyer, and you died at age... |
com__et, by SuperBiasedGary Average member rating: (1 rating) Everyone has always shown You the path to follow. And so You do, because you ____ ____ ____ want to end up with Him. But then You can play again, maybe if You say something different ___ ____ ____ to Her, it... |
consciousness hologram, by Kit Riemer Average member rating: (5 ratings) HTML/Twine. a hybrid poetry project turned on-rails game intended to appraise the state of both utopic and dystopic sci fi w/ a specific focus on existence/consciousness, deep futurism, transhumanism, art,... |
Conversations With My Mother, by Merritt Kopas Average member rating: (10 ratings) A brief game about family relationships, in which you can click on words in the dialogue to change them before continuing the conversation. |
The Corridor, by Dog in a Tank A post-apocalyptic story that takes place in an alternative 1990, set on a motorway just south of Leeds. (As of early 2024, a work in progress.) |
Cozy Simulation 2999, by KADW Average member rating: (11 ratings) Short horror game made for SeedComp 2023 in a few days. About fifteen minutes long. (4/25/2023: This game was made in a short period of time, and looking back on it, I like it even less than I did before. I... |
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... |
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... |
CYBERQUEEN, by Porpentine Average member rating: (64 ratings) integration necessitates evisceration |
Damnatio Memoriae, by Emily Short Average member rating: (58 ratings) 14 AD. Agrippa Postumus, grandson of the recently-deceased Augustus, tries to avoid death at the hands of the next emperor, Tiberius. At his disposal: a couple of old manuscripts, a lamp, and a recalcitrant... |
Danse Nocturne, by Joey Jones Average member rating: (17 ratings) Danse Nocturne is interactive blank verse, based on one of the legends of Charlemagne. It is played by dancing in different ways and has over a dozen different endings and understands over 1200 different... |
Dawn of The Soviet Ladybirds, by Christopher Merriner Average member rating: (3 ratings) ‘Ladybirds. What a summer for them! They were simply everywhere. Dorothy was ordinarily happy to see them in her garden, but this year there was such an abundance of them that it really was rather alarming…’... |
De Baron, by Victor Gijsbers Average member rating: (161 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... |
Dead Meat in the Pit, by Christina Nordlander Average member rating: (4 ratings) A dialogue-driven game made in one hour for Weekly Hour Game Jam - W21 2017. Based on the Brothers Grimm's fairy tale "Going A-Travelling". Short, but contains multiple endings. |
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) |
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... |
Detectiveland, by Robin Johnson Average member rating: (53 ratings) New Losago, 1929 - a town full of creeps, clowns, mobsters and, if you know where to look, the occasional honest citizen. Guide private investigator Lanson Rose through a series of puzzling cases: solve the... |
THE DEVIL'S IMAGO, by DOMINO CLUB, cecile richard, and isyourguy Average member rating: (2 ratings) "A tale of primeval forces, unknown, uncaring, and unearthed" made for DOMINO JAM VI — HUMORS & HUMUS |
Dial C for Cupcakes, by Ryan Veeder Average member rating: (31 ratings) A cantankerous ex-cop calls in a favor from his old partner. |
Djibouti Dirigible Discombobulation, by Sam Kabo Ashwell Average member rating: (6 ratings) |
DOL-OS, by manonamora Average member rating: (7 ratings) Year 3XXX, you discover an old computer, an antique, in some ruins. Surprisingly, it still powers up when you press its buttons. Wonder what you found within its files? ~ An 3XXX, vous trouvez un vieil... |
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... |
Dull Grey, by Provodnik Games Average member rating: (17 ratings) An interactive drama in the traditions of Soviet fiction about choosing a profession. Mother and her teenage son live on the edge of the world amid hot springs, steam, mountains, five-story houses and rusty... |
The Eleusinian Miseries, by Mike Russo Average member rating: (26 ratings) Well, isn't this a lark! After solid years of going after old Alky to let you in on that Mysteries wheeze of his, at last tonight's the night. He's dragged you from Athens to Eleusis for the to-do, but no... |
En Garde, by Jack Welch Average member rating: (23 ratings) A man who has lost his mind. A mouse who has lost his realm. A dog who has lost his family. And the scientist who will save the world. |
Endless, Nameless, by Adam Cadre Average member rating: (54 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... |
Entangled, by Dark Star Average member rating: (12 ratings) Caught up in a time-travel experiment gone wrong, the actions you perform in the past will ripple forward in time. Can you find your way back without unraveling the universe? A small town stirs in your wake. |
Even Some More Tales from Castle Balderstone, by Ryan Veeder Average member rating: (17 ratings) The fourth one in a series of anthologies of unbelievable terror, edited by Ryan Veeder. Also an ECTOCOMP 2021 entry. |
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. |
Excalibur, by J. J. Guest, G. C. Baccaris, and Duncan Bowsman Average member rating: (22 ratings) The psychedelic science fantasy series Excalibur was wiped by the BBC. It lives on, in the memories of its fans. Author's Comment: "Welcome to the Excalibur Wiki. This fan-run encyclopaedia preserves the... |
Exhibition, by Ian Finley Average member rating: (27 ratings) "The Hartman Gallery extends their invitation to an exhibition of Anatoly Domokov's "American Paintings." Who draws the line between art and life? HTML enhanced." [--blurb from Competition '99] |
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. |
The Fading City, by KADW Average member rating: (1 rating) There are places at the edge of the Commonwealth where the land falls into silent anonymity. You have been sent to one of those places. |
Fair, by Hanon Ondricek Average member rating: (27 ratings) As the most famous self-published Science Fiction author residing in Hillview, you are eminently qualified to judge their annual Elementary School Science Fair. |
Faithful Companion, by Matt Weiner Average member rating: (22 ratings) The "Play On-line" link should now go to version 2! |
The Family Record, by sharkinfishnets, pointyshades, AmeKinoko Average member rating: (1 rating) Years ago, a great sickness swept this land. Rich, poor, it didn't matter -- the plague killed indiscriminately. Entire families were wiped out in mere days. Even now, some of the houses still stand empty...... |
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... |
Figaro, by Victor Gijsbers Average member rating: (14 ratings) A short example game created to accompany the essay "Co-Authorship and Community". It gives the player a kind of freedom that is not seen in any other interactive fiction: the freedom to determine what the... |
fin de sickleburg, by Caleb Wilson Average member rating: (6 ratings) It is nearly dawn, and at last you've come back to your chamber. Written for Gothic Novel Jam 2018 (https://itch.io/jam/gothic-novel-jam). |
Final Exam, by Jack Whitham Average member rating: (26 ratings) Final Exam takes place in the near future after an AI revolution has led to the establishment of a new sort of government. You are seeking a job within this government: your performance in the “final exam”... |
Final Girl 2.0, by Hanon Ondricek Remake of Final Girl (which see) following the demise of the Storynexus platform. Author's notes on IntroComp 2021 version: This game has not been optimized for mobile play, sorry! This was actually made as... |
Finding Martin, by G.K. Wennstrom Average member rating: (10 ratings) Venture past the limits of ordinary reality as you investigate the mysterious disappearance of an old friend. In order to solve the most challenging of these puzzles, you will need to cooperate with yourself... |
Fingertips: I Hear the Wind Blow, by Jacqueline A. Lott Average member rating: (23 ratings) |
Fingertips: I'm Having a Heart Attack, by Andrew Schultz Average member rating: (13 ratings) It's your time to make a statement. Make sure your nerves don't fail before your heart does. |
The Fire Tower, by Jacqueline A. Lott Average member rating: (49 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... |
Florence, by Anamika Average member rating: (1 rating) Florence lies in bed, cold and still. You watch over her and wait. |
Foo Foo, by Buster Hudson Average member rating: (63 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 Rent: Haunted House, by Gavin Inglis Average member rating: (8 ratings) In For Rent: Haunted House, it's your job to rent out a haunted house before your tyrannical boss has you fired. How will you screw over your tenants? Will you ignore inconvenient supernatural phenomena, or... |
Four Days of Summer, by David Welbourn Average member rating: (3 ratings) In this pleasant and silly game, spend the first four days of July with your friend David, a shameless author insertion character who seems inordinately fond of making interactive fiction references. |
Fugue, by Emily Short Average member rating: (11 ratings) Published by Up Right Down, in response to the following plot prompt: THE PLOT: In a bistro in Paris a young woman (A) tells her three girlfriends (B, C, and D) about the affair she had with an American... |
Future Threads, by Xavid Average member rating: (15 ratings) You see it. Today is the day they will come. Their ship will crash, but the resulting explosion will trouble them not at all. They will emerge, wrapped in shadows and smoke, from the wreckage. Their senses... |
Get Your Gun, Dragonfly, by Palimrya Average member rating: (2 ratings) A sack of stolen guavas. A death drive jammed in reverse. Two brainfucked trans women, an American genocide, and a body to love. Get Your Gun, Dragonfly is an interactive, semipoetical, cyberpunk love story... |
Ghosts Within, by Kyriakos Athanasopoulos Average member rating: (12 ratings) The smell of damp moss fills the air. Wet grass and dirt surround you while you are lying face down on the cold forest floor. Your clothes are dirty, wet, and slightly torn in places. Your head's left side... |
Goblet of Mercy, by S. A. Welland Average member rating: (1 rating) Goblet of Mercy is a short dark fantasy visual novel about your encounter with a woman whose ego is so big she made her own perfect world to contain it. It began with Halloween, a time when the veil between... |
The good people, by Pseudavid Average member rating: (16 ratings) Explore the weird, until the sunken things come for you. A narration-focused interactive fiction focused on conversation and exploration of a haunted landscape. Playable on mobile, but a computer or tablet... |
Gun Mute, by C.E.J. Pacian Average member rating: (153 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... |
Hallowmoor, by Mike Snyder Average member rating: (18 ratings) Your quest: infiltrate Castle Hallowmoor, find the potion, and make it out alive. This is a Halloween-themed adventure -- hypertext interactive fiction playable in most modern web browsers. |
Hanna, We're Going to School, by Kastel Average member rating: (6 ratings) "Hanna, we're going to school." There's nothing to be afraid about going to school, Jing. You know that very well. School is school, as your mom likes to say, it's a rite of passage most adults go through as... |
The Haunted Help Desk, by DSherwood Average member rating: (5 ratings) Survive a maze of oddly themed offices to get IT support. Get help from characters whose unique personalities define the bizarre day you're about to have. One wrong move could mean spending eternity trapped... |
Heart of the House, by Nissa Campbell Average member rating: (14 ratings) Destroy the evil at the heart of a haunted manor! As an orphan, you discovered your ability to commune with the spirit world and ghosts. When your uncle Kent mysteriously disappears, you'll embark on a... |
Her Majesty's Trolley Problem, by Buster Hudson Average member rating: (27 ratings) No one said life in Her Majesty's Service would be easy. Fortunately, you've got everything you need: your officer's handbook, a harpoon cannon, and the indefatigable command of Captain Lionetta herself. If... |
Heretic Dreams, by Harris Powell-Smith Average member rating: (11 ratings) They would call what you did heresy. No one knows you swallowed the power of a god, but it will break you apart. |
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... |
Hidden Gems, Hidden Secrets, by Naomi Norbez, Josh Grams Average member rating: (7 ratings) The members of the Hidden Gems Of Poetry Group are close. Even the move from internet forum to web server can't break their bond. But heartbreaking news could mean the end of things as they know it. A short... |
His Majesty's Royal Space Navy Service Handbook, by Austin Auclair Average member rating: (8 ratings) A text adventure of paperwork, office politics, and sci-fi space battles. It's Friday night and Sheryl hasn't yet left the office. That isn't unusual; she's a dedicated service member of His Majesty Smurg... |
The House on Highfield Lane, by Andy Joel Average member rating: (12 ratings) The house at the top of Highfield Lane has always scared Mandy, though she could never say why exactly. Perhaps today is the day she should confront that fear! This is in the style of a classic parser-based... |
How to Win at Rock Paper Scissors, by Brian Kwak Average member rating: (25 ratings) The disgrace and humiliation of last year's defeat is behind you. This time, with the help of the gods, you'll win this competition for sure. |
HUNTING UNICORN, by Chandler Groover Average member rating: (33 ratings) A maiden leads a unicorn hunt. Sixteen narrative variants. Choose-your-own-adventure style. Mature thematic elements. |
I Told You This Was A Bad Idea, by Jessica Padkin Average member rating: (3 ratings) The Terminal seems to be frustrated with you, but you don't remember a thing. Despite the Terminal's limited ability to understand you, you must attempt to ask the right questions in an effort to find out... |
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... |
IFDB Spelunking 2, by sam Kabo Ashwell Average member rating: (2 ratings) A series of old and obscure parser games, munged together into a loosely-connected pile which I then snark about. |
The Impossible Bottle, by Linus Åkesson Average member rating: (78 ratings) Housework is only as dull as your imagination. Join Emma, six years old, on a playful adventure of peculiar proportions. Merciful puzzlefest. Parser or point-and-click, as you please. Web (including mobile)... |
Improv: Origins, by Neil deMause Average member rating: (9 ratings) In the long-awaited (by someone, surely, maybe) prequel to the Frenetic Five trilogy, your new employer SuperTemps has sent you out into the field with nothing more than your wits and your freshly minted... |
Indigo, by Emily Short Average member rating: (54 ratings) "Years ago, a witch placed you in this tower and arranged for your upkeep, paying certain villagers well to keep you supplied with the most basic necessities, and no more. Your years in the tower have... |
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... |
It Is Pitch Black, by Caelyn Sandel Average member rating: (24 ratings) Trapped alone in a darkened antique store with a man-eating grue, can you keep a light going long enough to survive? (contains sound, but no jumpscares.) 2nd place, EctoComp 2014. |
January, by litrouke Average member rating: (11 ratings) A year in the life of a man after the end of the world.... |
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... |
Jolly Good: Cakes and Ale, by Kreg Segall Average member rating: (11 ratings) Get yourself into and out of another fine mess! As the newest member of London's elite "Noble Gases" social club, you'll win glory, renown, and much-needed money through various cunning schemes that will... |
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... |
Laid Off from the Synesthesia Factory, by Katherine Morayati Average member rating: (23 ratings) Synpiece: A wearable technology that changes the wearer's mood. Users of the Synpiece can adjust the 'color' of their experience, which adjusts psychological traits mapped to hue (emotion), saturation... |
Language Arts, by Jared Jackson Average member rating: (4 ratings) Are you a creative problem solver looking for career in an exciting and fast growing field? Do you seek out intellectual challenges that others are scared to face? Crystal Clear Communications, the world's... |
The Last Night of Alexisgrad, by Milo van Mesdag Average member rating: (10 ratings) The sky is dark. It is a time of mystery, change and struggle. It is a time of opportunity. In this asymmetric, two-player piece of interactive fiction, you and your partner each take on the role of a leader... |
Leechcraft, by Ainsley Sunday Average member rating: (1 rating) As a plague spreads through the isolated village you call home, balance your needs as a newly-turned vampire with your duties as a healer. Leechcraft is interactive fiction with a healthy dose of... |
The Legend of Horse Girl, by Bitter Karella Average member rating: (10 ratings) Welcome to Santa Diablo, Texas, a tiny desert town held in the grip of fear by a corrupt judge and his gang of outlaws. No one dares to stand against these rustlers. No one, that is, until the fateful day... |
Letters from Home, by Roger Firth Average member rating: (20 ratings) "Centuries of ancestry, decades of memories, years of decline; now, barely two hours in which to reflect on the glorious past, that bygone golden age when nostalgia really meant something... " [--blurb from... |
little, by chandler groover Average member rating: (9 ratings) a tiny yarn for ectocomp |
The Little Match Girl 3: The Escalus Manifold, by Ryan Veeder Average member rating: (11 ratings) "The Snow Queen controls her servants with Shards from the Mirror of Belial," Ebenezer Scrooge explained. |
The Little Match Girl 5: The Hunter's Vow, by Ryan Veeder Average member rating: (1 rating) A touching epic time travel fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen. |
The Little Match Girl at the Battle of the Gray Peaks, by Ryan Veeder Average member rating: (4 ratings) The little match girl performs a good deed in the late Cretaceous. |
A Long Way to the Nearest Star, by SV Linwood Average member rating: (44 ratings) A thief on the run from the galactic police finds refuge on an abandoned spaceship. A lonely ship AI finds unexpected company.... |
Lore Distance Relationship, by Naomi "Bez" Norbez Average member rating: (12 ratings) Follow user StaircaseHaven14 on a Neopets-esque site called Ruffians as she faces life's challenges, RPs with her long-distance BFF (or more than BFF?) Bee, and encounters familial hardship, from age 8 to... |
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... |
Map, by Ade McT Average member rating: (33 ratings) The house is growing. Or perhaps it's you who is shrinking. And with all this extra space is coming....time. Time enough, maybe, to make some changes. |
Masks, by Mark Sample Average member rating: (2 ratings) You’re a courier for the resistance, trapped on a university campus under siege. The environment around you is coming apart, fast. Made for subQjam 2019, where works are limited to 1000 words and the overall... |
Masquerade, by Kathleen M. Fischer Average member rating: (36 ratings) "You walk purposefully down the sidewalk, looking neither left nor right. You don't need to look; you can tell you are being watched from whispers overheard as you pass by. "Poor Amelia..." you hear somebody... |
The Master of the Land, by Pseudavid Average member rating: (28 ratings) > An interactive fiction intrigue in an immersive and dynamic world. A world that changes with every action. Freedom to explore. Radically different playthroughs. Lots of dancing. People wearing skulls. > A... |
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 Midsummer Night's Choice, by Kreg Segall Average member rating: (10 ratings) In this Shakespearean comedy adventure, can forbidden love conquer adorable fairy outlaws? "A Midsummer Night's Choice" is a 190,000-word interactive fantasy novel by Kreg Segall, where your choices control... |
The Miller's Garden, by Damon L. Wakes Average member rating: (15 ratings) When the miller died, he left his garden. And when the mill was torn down, the river changed its course. |
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... |
The Missing Ring, by Felicity Drake Average member rating: (22 ratings) Sadie Goldberg-Lawson is celebrating Christmas with her whole dysfunctional family at her Gran's house in Vermont. When Gran's heirloom diamond ring goes missing, can Sadie solve the mystery of the missing... |
Misty Hills, by Giuliano Roverato Martins Pereira Average member rating: (8 ratings) Wait for a tram in a weird fantasy world |
The Moon wed Saturn, by Pseudavid Average member rating: (19 ratings) A simple, if peculiar, love story where not much seems to happen. The Moon wed Saturn is a short narrative experiment. Computer or tablet is recommended. |
Moondrop Isle, by Ryan Veeder, Nils Fagerburg, Joey Jones, Zach Hodgens, Jason Love, Mark Marino, Carl Muckenhoupt, Sarah Willson, Caleb Wilson The Third Quadrennial Ryan Veeder Exposition for Good Interactive Fiction invites you to visit Moondrop Isle. |
Moquette, by Alex Warren Average member rating: (19 ratings) Tuesday morning. London Underground. Hangover. Journey begins. |
More a Haunting than a History, by E. Jade Lomax Average member rating: (2 ratings) MORE A HAUNTING THAN A HISTORY an interactive fiction game from E. Jade Lomax (ink-splotch / dirgewithoutmusic), the writer who brought you Beanstalk, Second Star to the Left podcast, and Stay?. Return to... |
Moving (On), by quackoquack Average member rating: (8 ratings) A game about nostalgia, jumping around in time, and clearing out your childhood room. ... |
A Murder in Fairyland, by Abigail Corfman Average member rating: (21 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... |
Museum Heist, by Kenneth Pedersen Average member rating: (3 ratings) Music by Eric Matyas www.soundimage.org Play as the elegant art thief Gentleman Finn as he robs the finest art museum in the world. An interactive fiction optimization game made for AdventureJam 2020. Made... |
Night Guard / Morning Star, by Astrid Dalmady Average member rating: (20 ratings) My mother made a deal. So here I am, working the night shift, alone with her work. |
Night House, by Bitter Karella Average member rating: (18 ratings) It looks different in the dark. You're eight years old. You wake up in the middle of the night to use the bathroom, but you soon realize that not everything is as it seems in the house tonight. Where has... |
Niney, by Daniel Spitz Average member rating: (8 ratings) Explore the nature of relationships and identity on a weird train. Author's Comment: "We all ask ourselves, "Who am I?" One of the ways we try to answer this question is by examining the effects we have on... |
No One Else Is Doing This, by Lauren O'Donoghue Average member rating: (19 ratings) You are a community organiser. This is your job, four nights out of five; you sell people hope on their doorsteps.... |
Noblesse Oblige, by Harris Powell-Smith Average member rating: (5 ratings) Spark romance amid secrets in a crumbling mansion! What will you sacrifice for love? Can you trust your own heart? Noblesse Oblige: a Crème de la Crème Adventure is a 140,000-word interactive Gothic romance... |
Nord and Bert Couldn't Make Head or Tail of It, by Jeff O'Neill Average member rating: (59 ratings) You are standing at the edge of a barren field. A steady wind, having secreted away the topsoil, is now drifting sandy dirt across the plain. A scant sign of life here is a freshly-burrowed molehill on the... |
Nowhere Near Single, by kaleidofish Average member rating: (20 ratings) A young woman in the entertainment industry struggles with harmonizing her public pop star persona and her private polyamorous life. Warning for mildly graphic content. |
Of Their Shadows Deep, by Amanda Walker Average member rating: (18 ratings) A story about love and disease and loss. Contains graphics and has a screen reader mode for use with text to speech software. Written in Inform 7 for 2022 ParserComp. Play time about one hour. Content... |
The Only Possible Prom Dress, by Jim Aikin Average member rating: (10 ratings) Ten years ago you had to burgle every store in Stufftown to get your hands on the sought-after doll called Sugar Toes Ballerina so your 7-year-old daughter Samantha wouldn't be heartbroken on Christmas... |
Oppositely Opal, by Buster Hudson Average member rating: (64 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... |
Overboard!, by inkle Average member rating: (9 ratings) Overboard! is a whodunnit where you’re the one whodunnit. You have just eight hours to cover the evidence, mislead the witnesses, frame another suspect and escape ... if you can! The Story July, 1935.... |
A Paradox Between Worlds, by Autumn Chen Average member rating: (28 ratings) It is the year 201X and you are a teen online. The Nebulaverse fandom has been your safe place, and it is about to be torn apart. A Paradox Between Worlds is a game about fandoms, internet melodrama, and the... |
Photopia, by Adam Cadre Average member rating: (559 ratings) "Will you read me a story?" "Read you a story? What fun would that be? I've got a better idea: let's tell a story together." |
Pilgrimage, by Víctor Ojuel Average member rating: (12 ratings) Leave Rome in the dead of night. Pursue an hermetic quest throughout Medieval Europe. Find arcane knowledge or utter despair. Blessings of Babylon. |
Plasmorphosis, by Agnieszka Trzaska Average member rating: (5 ratings) Help a plucky rover complete its planetary research mission by studying alien lifeforms... and morphing them into brand new shapes and forms! "Plasmorphosis" is a short game about exploration, with light... |
The Play, by Dietrich Squinkifer (Squinky) Average member rating: (62 ratings) Pull yourself together, Ainsley. Just one more rehearsal until the big day, assuming nothing catastrophic happens. But really, all you have to do is get your motley crew of actors to run their parts once... |
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... |
The Prairie House, by Chris Hay (a.k.a. Eldritch Renaissance Cake) Average member rating: (12 ratings) A student finishes their prairie field work but has to spend the night alone at an old house. Follow the story from dark evening to mysterious morning and get all the achievements to think up your best... |
The Primrose Path, by Nolan Bonvouloir Average member rating: (36 ratings) You've been having a series of nightmares about Leo, standing at the edge of a cliff. No matter what you do, a bell rings and Leo disappears over the edge . . . |
The Princess of Vestria, by K Paulo Average member rating: (16 ratings) ‘Be brave, listen to the voice inside that guides you…’... |
The Problems Compound, by Andrew Schultz Average member rating: (11 ratings) Wherein you, Alec Smart, turn what's-thats into that's-whats. |
Project Arcmör, by Donald Conrad and Peter M.J. Gross Average member rating: (5 ratings) You still remember the initial thrill of receiving your acceptance message: “Greetings, colonizer! We are excited for you to join the StarQuorp™ family, a top 100 company to work for (based on intergalactic... |
Pushing Loyal People, by Bitterly Indifferent Average member rating: (3 ratings) This is a hyper-realistic employee engagement exercise where you work at a highly selective global corporation. See how quickly you can rise to claim the corner office, and do your best to survive the next... |
Quintessence, by Lapin Lunaire Games Average member rating: (6 ratings) Galina has always been Good. How could she not be? Beloved daughter of the town blacksmith, sweetheart of the farmer's most charming son, and envy of her peers—Galina's life is as close to ideal as it can... |
Reclamation, by groggydog Average member rating: (4 ratings) Corporate Space, the Year 21XX. You awaken from a month of cryosleep to discover that a missing research vessel has suddenly surfaced in the deep. There are no signs of life. You are now tasked with... |
Reference and Representation: An Approach to First-Order Semantics, by Ryan Veeder Average member rating: (34 ratings) Violence is the answer to this one. |
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... |
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. |
robotsexpartymurder, by Hanon Ondricek Average member rating: (21 ratings) When suspects and witnesses are “property, not people,” how should those who seek the truth proceed? Date robots. Avert scandal. Bring protection. Content warning: Adult Situations, Language, and Humor,... |
A Rope of Chalk, by Ryan Veeder Average member rating: (35 ratings) An account of the disastrous sidewalk chalk tournament of August 27, 2011. |
Rougi, by Lapin Lunaire Games Average member rating: (2 ratings) The Palais Garnier, home to the renowned Paris Opéra Ballet, is set to premiere Les Souliers Rouges, a ballet whose very name is rumored to carry a formidable curse. As the premiere draws ever nearer, a... |
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. |
The Rye in the Dark City, by manonamora Average member rating: (5 ratings) Entry to the SeedComp! Play Detective Rye, a down-on-the-luck detective about to delve into a strange case... Based on the names, locations, or plot points from following seeds: The Witch's Bakery by Ramona... |
Sage Sanctum Scramble, by Arthur DiBianca Average member rating: (23 ratings) A grab bag of puzzles, mostly word puzzles. Collect keywords and save the Sanctum! |
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... |
Scarlet Sails, by Felicity Banks Average member rating: (22 ratings) Hoist the Jolly Roger and set sail to find the legendary Titan’s Treasure! Do you fight with a cutlass, or with your magical skill? Are you biding your time until you can shoot your captain in the back, or... |
SCREW YOU, BEAR DAD!, by Xalavier Nelson Jr. Average member rating: (24 ratings) SCREW YOU, BEAR DAD! is a game about puns, rampant drug use, learning to enjoy life despite uncertainty, and elderly women in attack helicopters. Also - bears. [Note: game contains strong language, and brief... |
Seascape Paradiso, by Natasha Luna Underwater photographer Jay has always had a passion for the ocean. She'd never tell you that she thinks she's seen it all...but she'd have to admit that she never thought she'd meet a real-life mermaid on a... |
The Second Floor, by litrouke Average member rating: (4 ratings) A survivor scrounges for supplies in a zombie apocalypse. --- Content warnings: lots of corpses, allusions to death and suicide. No real jumpscares. Contains sound. |
Seedship, by John Ayliff Average member rating: (52 ratings) An AI ship full of frozen colonists must find the best planet to be the new home of the human race. |
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... |
Sherlock Indomitable, by mathbrush Average member rating: (13 ratings) Join a dying Sherlock Holmes in a journey through his memories. Sherlock Indomitable is a direct adaptation of two Sherlock Holmes stories into a text adventure. At least 90% of the text is taken directly... |
Shuffling Around, by Andrew Schultz (as Ned Yompus) Average member rating: (25 ratings) A weird power to save a weird world. So you just got fired from the best company ever, and it's the best day of your life. New opportunities! New horizons! New ways to look at things! Like calling this... |
Sidetrack, by Andi C. Buchanan Average member rating: (3 ratings) In Sidetrack you're a teenager who stumbles on an urban railway network that shouldn't be there. Explore at your own pace, changing lines, choosing which stations to stop at, and gathering items which can... |
Six Gray Rats Crawl Up The Pillow, by Caleb Wilson (as Boswell Cain) Average member rating: (19 ratings) A distressing episode in the life of Rinaldo di Gorgonzola. |
Six Shots, by Conor Walsh Average member rating: (1 rating) Six Shots is a Twine-based text-adventure game with a focus on player choice and branching narrative paths. Your cowboy or cowgirl comes equipped with a revolver that can be fired on almost any screen in the... |
Skulljhabit, by Porpentine Average member rating: (17 ratings) kind of like Dampe the gravedigger meets Harvest Moon meets Ligotti. |
Slouching Towards Bedlam, by Star Foster and Daniel Ravipinto Average member rating: (215 ratings) In the beginning was the Word, and it was hungry. ... |
So, You've Never Played a Text Adventure Before, Huh?, by Ryan Veeder Average member rating: (16 ratings) Robin Monaghan and her friends explore a creepy house. |
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... |
Someone Else's Story, by Emery Joyce Average member rating: (1 rating) Naples, 1973. The local Camorra are embroiled in a struggle against Russian mobsters trying to horn in on their territory. The boss thinks Katya Goncharova knows something, and Sofia has been ordered to find... |
The Song of the Mockingbird, by Mike Carletta Average member rating: (16 ratings) A ruthless outlaw. A kidnapped dancer. A singing cowboy. A long dance of death in the Texas sun. You're unhorsed and disarmed, but you still have your wits and your guitar. You can only hope they'll be... |
Sparkle, by Juhana Leinonen (as Karly Di Caprio) Average member rating: (6 ratings) My search for the Pattern has brought me to Mount Shanshan. Now it's just a matter of a short cable car ride up to the top. |
The Spectators, by Amanda Walker Average member rating: (18 ratings) It is 1560. There are no secrets in the iron-willed Duke d'Este's marriage to his young bride, a girl unprepared for her new role as Duchess. The Duke's army of servants are always present, always watching,... |
Speculative Fiction, by Diane Christoforo and Thomas Mack Average member rating: (13 ratings) A puzzle game about committing acts of financial skulduggery and exploiting ridiculous magical items. This game is the complete version of the one that appeared in IntroComp 2011, where it won second place. |
Spider and Web, by Andrew Plotkin Average member rating: (311 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... |
spondre, by Jay Nabonne Average member rating: (5 ratings) Who is the mysterious old man? More importantly, who are you? Thrust into a tiny cell with a stranger, the future looks bleak. But things are not always what they seem. |
Starlight Shadows, by Autumn Chen Average member rating: (5 ratings) Lyra Leblanc has a mission: to save her city from the infiltrating nanotech entities. Help her gather allies to fight the demons that threaten her home. Made in 4 hours for La Petite Morte, Ectocomp 2022. |
Stay?, by E. Jade Lomax Average member rating: (22 ratings) STAY? CHOOSE YOUR OWN HAPPY ENDING Welcome to Elaia, a magical city nestled in a high valley. It's the end of your first year at university & time to choose your major. Find yourself among potential friends... |
Sting, by Mike Russo Average member rating: (18 ratings) Six bees. Five bags of groceries. A four-pound dumbbell. Three sailboats. One twin. Sting is a puzzleless parser memoir about ordinary days and unexpected interruptions. |
Stone Harbor, by Liza Daly Average member rating: (38 ratings) You're good at what you do: tell tourists pretty lies about love, money, and life after death. That's what people want from a boardwalk psychic, and you deliver. It's not the future you imagined for... |
Sub Rosa, by Joey Jones, Melvin Rangasamy Average member rating: (43 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... |
swept up, by Harris Powell-Smith Average member rating: (2 ratings) and she's drumming her fingers on the wheel and watching you sideways, gaze flickering back-forth-back like she doesn't know if she wants to punch you or kiss you or eat you swept up is a game about blood,... |
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,... |
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,... |
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 |
Tavern Crawler, by Josh Labelle Average member rating: (41 ratings) Most fantasy stories are about slaying the dragon. This one is about what happens after that. When you and your companions are approached by a man in a tavern who offers you more gold than you could spend in... |
Tethered, by Linus Åkesson Average member rating: (31 ratings) "I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly, dreaming I am a man."... |
Thanksgiving, by Harris Powell-Smith Average member rating: (17 ratings) You're twenty-one. It's dark in here. Thanksgiving is a story game about being an anxious student with secrets, meeting your boyfriend's folks for the first time. And being Judged. Play in your browser on... |
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. |
Their Time in This World, by Kastel Average member rating: (1 rating) GOOD AT KEEPING TIME? Since the time dislocation phenomena began a few years ago, people all over the universe have been frozen in time. We don't know where the sands of time came from, but we do know that... |
The Thick Table Tavern, by manonamora Average member rating: (21 ratings) One dream. Fourteen days. Serve drinks and gather enough tips to make it happen in time. Or choose chaos and mix whatever you feel like, damned the consequences.... |
Thin Walls, by Wynter Average member rating: (8 ratings) I wonder how long it will take this room to feel like mine, this house to feel like home. I wonder when I will actually get to meet Eddie, the landlord. It's almost as if the house itself is pulsating, its... |
Things that Happened in Houghtonbridge, by Dee Cooke Average member rating: (14 ratings) On a hot summer weekend, all Olivia Raines wants to do is get on with her studies for her upcoming exams. But her unreliable aunt, Beverly, has gone missing, and Olivia finds herself unwillingly dragged into... |
The Thirty Nine Steps, by Graham Walmsley Average member rating: (17 ratings) The man on the floor was quite dead, a knife through his heart skewering him to the floorboards. At a quarter to eight, the train would take me from London, where people would be searching for me, into the... |
This is the game that I wrote, by David Welbourn Average member rating: (6 ratings) Written for SpeedIF Gruff on Jan. 21, 2006; the theme was fractured fairy tales. Vaguely inspired by "This is the house that Jack built." |
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.... |
Trenchline, by JJ McC "Mercenaries make easy money," your army buddies said. "It's all scowls and shows of force. It'll never come to real fighting." Well, they're all dead now, and here you are. Stranded deep in a war zone,... |
A Trial, by B Minus Seven Average member rating: (8 ratings) A funny thing happens on your way to the Center for Nominal Reassignment. "A Trial" is a chimera of prose, poetry and ???. |
The Trials and Tribulation of Edward Harcourt, by MelS and manonamora Average member rating: (17 ratings) Friday February 2nd, 1923 My dearest friend, Such good fortune has befallen me, that I scarcely dare write you in case it is merely some joke played on me by fate. Lord knows that Fortuna has not been kind... |
Trigaea, by Adam Ipsen (RynGM) Average member rating: (9 ratings) Could you survive an alien world? Change your genetics and wander the wasteland for answers, all the while aided by your AI companion. Trigaea is an epic 200,000-word piece of interactive fiction. It's a... |
Tristam Island, by Hugo Labrande Average member rating: (9 ratings) After crashing your plane at sea, you end up drifting to a small island, with not much to survive. You explore, and find out the island was inhabited, years ago. But why did the people leave? And why is... |
TUNDRA, by PaperBlurt Average member rating: (8 ratings) You wake up. Walking. On a tundra. You're cold. Where are you? How did you end up here? |
Turandot, by Victor Gijsbers Average member rating: (45 ratings) An operatic performance. A tale of atonement. A dating sim with a crocodile pit. Content warnings: sex; sexism and other gender issues; suicide; torture; homophobia; xenophobia. |
TWO, by Chris Ainsley Average member rating: (2 ratings) TWO is a treasure-hunt style TEXT ADVENTURE game in which every location description, object description, incidental message & response message consists of a maximum of TWO words. It is also a (very) loose... |
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. |
Under, In Erebus, by Brian Rapp Average member rating: (17 ratings) Board that Drain-Bound El for an adventure that could only happen in Erebus. |
Vampire Ltd, by Alex Harby Average member rating: (26 ratings) Nero Brashov, vampire and failed businessman, has revenge on his mind. He'll pose as a human, infiltrate his arch-enemy's corporation, and sabotage it from the inside. Just as soon as he's invited in, that... |
Varronis Museum, by David Garcia Average member rating: (5 ratings) Well! It seemed that the house of Marcus Terentius Varro would be just a brief first stop in your joyful stroll through the city of Rome. But now it is clear that you will have to kill time in the courtyard... |
Venus Meets Venus, by kaleidofish Average member rating: (26 ratings) Two women meet in a bar. This is not a love story. (Mature content warning.) |
Visit Skuga Lake - Masterpiece Edition, by Ryan Veeder Average member rating: (11 ratings) An unpaid intern learns to cast over forty spells as she skulks around a small town, looking for her boss. "Visit Skuga Lake" originally appeared in Even Some More Tales from Castle Balderstone. This... |
Waiting for the Day Train, by Dee Cooke Average member rating: (13 ratings) It's been a long journey through the night. The last one, you hope. Today is the last chance you have to catch the day train - a train that will take you to a world of eternal daylight, where you will never... |
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... |
we, the remainder, by Charm Cochran Average member rating: (10 ratings) it's been twenty-four days since everyone else floated up. you haven't been out since then; Momma doesn't like you leaving the flat without her, and the effort of getting down the stairs hasn't been worth it... |
The Weight of a Soul, by Chin Kee Yong Average member rating: (24 ratings) In a world of arcane mysteries, a young doctor's apprentice unravels a conspiracy most grim. The Weight of a Soul is a mystery-horror interactive novel inspired by IF classics like Blue Lacuna and... |
Weird City Interloper, by C.E.J. Pacian Average member rating: (54 ratings) An interactive tale of strange conspiracy. Pull up your hood, lower your gaze and enter the city of Zendon. If you can gather enough information, you may just be able to change the course of history. (Weird... |
What Heart Heard Of, Ghost Guessed, by Amanda Walker Average member rating: (38 ratings) Margaret, are you grieving Over Goldengrove unleaving… Come home to Goldengrove, a beautiful old house haunted by a lost soul. Uncover the secrets of your tormented past in a tale of unrequited love,... |
What Isn't Saved (will be lost), by Cat Manning Average member rating: (6 ratings) Zoe is a neuroscientist who's researching methods of resurrecting the dead… by rebuilding them from their memories. When her girlfriend Sara dies, Zoe uses her experimental technology to save her--but there... |
What the Bus?, by Emery Joyce Average member rating: (20 ratings) Your commute is simple enough. Or at least, it should be. But today, the entire public transportation system seems to have it out for you--and is it just you, or does the geography keep... shifting? |
Will Not Let Me Go, by Stephen Granade Average member rating: (67 ratings) Dallas, Texas. 1996. Fred Strickland has Alzheimer's. |
Winter, by communistsister, Elliot Herriman Average member rating: (1 rating) There's something about yourself that you can't live with. Some part you think abhorrent, to be hidden away from sight. It's not a good absence. You've told yourself you feel better. But you don't really... |
Winter Storm Draco, by Ryan Veeder Average member rating: (26 ratings) A chronicle of the events of the winter storm of the same name. |
Witch's Girl, by Geoff Moore Average member rating: (19 ratings) |
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 Wolf and Wheel, by Milo van Mesdag Average member rating: (3 ratings) A collection of interactive vignettes from a town in the grip of darkness, mystery, and horror. As a demo for The Last Night of Lotosk, The Wolf and Wheel introduces you to the rural village of Lotosk two... |
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... |
Writers Are Not Strangers, by Lynda Clark Average member rating: (12 ratings) The meteorite could hit tomorrow, or in an hour, or six months from now. No-one seems to know, and so life goes on as normal. Although, for Alix, normal is relative. Please click the 'Show Stats' button for... |
Yesterday, You Saved the World, by Astrid Dalmady Average member rating: (17 ratings) Today you are only Lucy Newman, eighth grader, C student, nobody. But yesterday, you were cosmic. Yesterday, you were a magical girl. Yesterday, you saved the world. |
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 Gen #9, by Mark Sample This is Chapter 1 of You Gen #9, a counterfactual game that imagines the invention of gene-editing technology in the 1920s. It was the height of the eugenics movement in the United States and your bloodline... |
You May Not Escape!, by Charm Cochran Average member rating: (10 ratings) You are one of the unlucky many to enter the maze. Will you be one of the lucky few to escape?... |
You, Me and Coffee, by Florencia Minuzzi Average member rating: (6 ratings) Catch up with an old friend over coffee, discovering layers to your relationship that would otherwise be forgotten. |
Zozzled, by Steph Cherrywell Average member rating: (45 ratings) Hotsy-totsy! It's 1928 and you're madcap flapper Hazel Greene, tottering around the city's finest hotel with a gullet full of giggle juice...until a gaggle of ghosts shows up to spoil the fun by turning... |