Games

Another Goddamn Escape the Locked Room Game

Filename: escape.z8
System: Z-code
Walkthru: available in-game
Blurb: A satire of the popular genre of flash-based webgames. It's my first attempt at authoring IF, so please don't hesitate to send me reviews, reports of bugs I missed, and so forth.

The Apolcalypse Clock

A Race Against Time
By GlorbWare

Filename: apocalypse.z5
System: Z-code
Walkthru: In file apocalypse_walk.txt
Blurb: You must stop the end of the world. Your tools in this task: A crayon and a cat.

Aunts and Butlers

By Robin Johnson

Filename: auntsandbutlers.html
System: Web-Based
Walkthru: In file walkthru.html
Blurb: It's 1920s England, you're a near-bankrupt minor aristocrat, and your only elderly heirless aunt is coming to tea. A PG Wodehouse-inspired farce of bad Manors, good fortunes, and mysterious servants.

Ballymun Adventure

By Brendan Cribbin

Filename: School.gam
System: TADS 2
Walkthru: In file schoolwalk.txt
Blurb: A small adventure written to introduce students to the world of text adventures

Beam

By Madrone Eddy

Filename: Beam.asl
System: QUEST
Walkthru: In file Beam Help.htm
Blurb: Beam is a short escape adventure.

The Bible Retold

The Bread and the Fishes
By Justin Morgan and "Celestianpower"

Filename: BibleRetold.z5
System: Z-code
Walkthru: In file baf_walkthrough.txt
Blurb: A light-hearted adaptation of the classic Bible story, The Feeding the Five Thousand. Not for the fundamentalist!

A Broken Man

A story of revenge.
By Geoff Fortytwo

Filename: ABrokenMan.t3
System: TADS 3
Walkthru: In file walkthrough.cmd
Blurb: Your little girl has been mercilessly killed at the hands of a heartless terrorist.

The police won't even admit that it happened.

It's time for revenge.

Carmen Devine: Supernatural Troubleshooter

File CH357 (Northern China)
By Rob Myall

Filename: CDST.zblorb
System: Z-code
Walkthru: available in-game

Delightful Wallpaper

A Cozy Mansion Mystery in the Making
By Andrew Plotkin (writing as Edgar O. Weyrd)

Filename: Wallpaper.zlb
System: Z-code
Walkthru: In file walkthrough.txt

The Elysium Enigma

By Eric Eve

Filename: Elysium.t3
System: TADS 3
Walkthru: In file EEWalkthru.txt
Blurb: It was meant to be a routine visit on behalf of the imperial government, just to remind the settlers that the Empire hadn't
forgotten them. But maybe there's more going on on Elysium than your orders bargained for.

Enter the Dark

By Peter R. Shushmaruk

Filename: EnterTheDark.a3c
System: ALAN
Walkthru: In file EnterTheWalkthrough.txt
Blurb: My first complete IF game. An interactive thriller, where you find yourself in an unexplainable situation with the memories of your sister’s murder haunting you. There is something waiting for you. You can feel its presence watching your every move.

Fetter's Grim

(or, how I became a zombified hitman for Jesus Christ)
By Paul Panks (writing as Dunric)

Filename: fgrim.exe
System: Windows
Walkthru: available in-game
Blurb: You are on a beach with the LORD.

You've got a headache, but you're with Jesus and he's not nailed to a cross (he's having one of his better weeks).

The goal is to find out why you ended up here with a guy who eats locusts, honey and speaks oddly.

Fight or Flight

By Sean Krauss (writing as geelpete)

Filename: FightorFlight.z8
System: Z-code
Walkthru: In file FightorFlight.sol
Blurb: The counselors at Open Arms Academy, a camp for troubled youth, celebrate after closing the camp for the season. An unexpected visitor crashes the party, and someone loses his head...

Floatpoint

By Emily Short

Filename: Floatpoint.zblorb
System: Glulx
Walkthru: In file Walkthrough.txt
Blurb: Note: Floatpoint requires a Glulx interpreter; I recommend Spatterlight on MacOS X or Gargoyle on Windows/Unix.

Game Producer!

By jason bergman

Filename: producer.z5
System: Z-code
Walkthru: In file walkthrough_docs.zip
Blurb: You're a producer at AXL Games. Today is the day your game goes gold, but you've overslept!
Rush to the office, get your developers paid, coordinate QA and marketing efforts and do it all before time runs out!

Green Falls

The Curse of Eldor
By Paul Panks (writing as Dunric)

Filename: greenfl.exe
System: Windows
Walkthru: available in-game
Blurb: A mysterious shadow demon has taken the countryside of Eldor captive. It is up to you, brave one, to rescue it!

Hedge

By Steven Richards

Filename: Hedge.z5
System: Z-code
Walkthru: In file Walkthrough.txt
Blurb: Hedge is a modern fantasy piece revolving around the legendary Hedge, a very exclusive club with a nasty reputation. You try to get in, and then out again, without dying. The duality of man may make an appearance.

The Initial State

By Matt Barton

Filename: Initial_State.exe
System: Windows
Blurb: Initial State is a deeply psychological text adventure set in deep space. You play as an amnesiac who finds himself stranded aboard an immense ship drifting through space. The game is also a literary exercise in the "unreliable narrator" tradition.

Labyrinth

An Adventure in Symmetry
By Samantha Casanova Preuninger

Filename: labyrinth.z8
System: Z-code
Walkthru: In file labwalk.html
Blurb: Puzzle-heavy game set in an Escherian environment. The zip file contains a hints file in addition to the z8 file and the walkthrough. The hints file provides gentle nudges only, without explicit instructions.

Lawn of Love

A Santoonie Romance
By Santoonie Corporation

Filename: Lawn of Love.gam
System: TADS 2
Walkthru: available in-game
Blurb: Santoonie Corporation's first ever romantic adventure.

Legion

By Jason Devlin (writing as Ian Anderson)

Filename: legion.z5
System: Z-code
Walkthru: In file legionwalk.txt
Blurb: She will not triumph. We are strong. We are legion.

Madam Spider's Web

By Sara Dee

Filename: MadamSpider.z5
System: Z-code
Walkthru: In file SpiderWalkthru.txt

MANALIVE, A Mystery of Madness - I

Part I: Enigma
By Bill Powell

Filename: manalive1.z5
System: Z-code
Walkthru: In file manalive1-walkthrough.rec
Blurb: London, 1912. When you invade a bored boarding house and proceed to climb the garden tree, stage an impromptu concert, and propose to a stranger, your fellow lodgers assume you're eccentric, rather than insane. Until you show them your revolver.

MANALIVE, A Mystery of Madness - II

Part II: Explanation
By Bill Powell

Filename: manalive2.z5
System: Z-code
Walkthru: In file manalive2-walkthrough.rec
Blurb: Having attempted murder in your landlady's front garden in Edwardian London, you receive a private trial in the dining room. Enemies expose your wretched past: burglary, desertion, polygamy, murder...but you remember these incidents a bit differently...

Mobius

An Interactive Twist
By John Clemens (writing as J.D. Clemens)

Filename: Mobius.zblorb
System: Z-code
Walkthru: In file solution.txt
Blurb: Another mission. Just when you had settled in for a nap.

Moon-Shaped

By Jason Ermer

Filename: Moon-Shaped.z8
System: Z-code
Walkthru: In file Moon-Shaped Walkthru.txt

Pathfinder

By Tony Woods

Filename: pathfinder.z8
System: Z-code
Walkthru: In file walkthrough.txt

Polendina

By Christopher Lewis

Filename: polendina.z5
System: Z-code
Walkthru: In file Polendina walk through.txt

The Primrose Path

By Nolan Bonvouloir

Filename: Primrose.z8
System: Z-code
Walkthru: available in-game
Blurb: You've led a fairly uneventful life, perhaps; certainly you never planned on having to save your best friend's life. Now, it's up to you to unearth the secrets he's been concealing from you, perhaps learning a thing or two about yourself in the process...

PTGOOD 8*10^23

How the Worst was Won
By Sartre Malvolio

Filename: PTGOOD.taf
System: ADRIFT
Blurb: In this uncut version that YOU DID NOT SEE IN THEATRES, you'll laugh your arse off at Xorax's evil stupidity, and get to play the role of his murderer.
The most meanspirited IF parody to date!
DOWN WITH PTBAD!

Requiem

By david whyld

Filename: requiem.taf
System: ADRIFT
Walkthru: available in-game
Blurb: "She told me she needed my help. She told me someone was after her and that he would kill her. She told me where to find him, told me what needed doing... and left the choice in my hands. What I didn't know was that there was a lot more to the story..."

Simple Adventure

By Paul Panks (writing as dunric)

Filename: simpadv.exe
System: Windows
Walkthru: available in-game
Blurb: Simple Adventure is a basic Scott Adams-like adventure game written for the 12th annual interactive fiction contest. The goal is to slay the ice dragon.

The Sisters

By revgiblet

Filename: TheSisters.taf
System: ADRIFT
Walkthru: In file walkthru.txt
Blurb: 'The Sisters' is a haunted house game written with ADRIFT. It's my first ever entry and one of my first efforts, so go easy on me.

Sisyphus

By Theo Koutz

Filename: sisyphus.z8
System: Z-code
Blurb: You are Sisyphus, a Greek king who is being punished in the underworld by being forced to push a huge boulder up a hill for all eternity. Can you figure out a way to weasel out of your predicament, escape from Hades, and get your job as king back?

Star City

By Mark Sachs

Filename: starcity.z8
System: Z-code
Walkthru: In file walkthru.txt
Blurb: The looming future. An Earth recovering from alien occupation. A mysterious object is approaching our put-upon planet and it's up to one explorer to discover its secrets.

Strange Geometries

By Phillip Chambers

Filename: geometries.z8
System: Z-code
Walkthru: In file geometries.log

Tentellian Island

Professor's Request
By Zack Wood (writing as Waru)

Filename: Tentellian
System: Java
Walkthru: In file Tentellian_Help.txt
Blurb: With nothing but a note from the Professor in hand, your are sent to an unusual Island to obtain a special artifact. You'll need to be creative and clever to solve the puzzles and unlock all four endings.

The Tower of the Elephant

By Tor Andersson

Filename: The Tower of the Elephant.zblorb
System: Z-code
Walkthru: In file solution.txt
Blurb: An adaptation of the classic sword & sorcery tale by Robert E. Howard, first published in 1933.

The Traveling Swordsman

By Mike Snyder (writing as Anonymous)

Filename: tales_ts.hex
System: Hugo
Walkthru: available in-game
Blurb: You are the traveling swordsman; the strong and silent stranger; the wandering vanquisher of villainy. Damsels swoon for you. Good men respect and envy you. Scoundrels learn to fear you. Even so, you are but a rumor throughout the land.

Unauthorized Termination

By Richard Otter

Filename: unauthorized.taf
System: ADRIFT
Walkthru: In file walkthru.txt
Blurb: You are a senior investigator with the police force of what is basically a totalitarian state. On a world where nearly all forms of crime are punishable by execution, you have been called on to investigate someone who has been unlawfully killed.

Visocica

By Thorben Bürgel

Filename: Visocica.zip
System: Windows
Walkthru: In file RunThroughVisocica.txt
Blurb: A Game made with TAG from Martin Oehm.
Unfortunaly only in german.
Dieses Spiel ist komplett nur in deutsch.

Wumpus Run

By Elfindor

Filename: wumpusRun.taf
System: ADRIFT
Walkthru: In file wumpusReadMe.txt
Blurb: Wumpus Hunting will never become "the sport of Kings" ... too many risks involved for royalty (although, they've been known to allow any number of fools, er, adventurers, to partake on their behalf). Let's not be under any delusions here - you could die!

Xen: The Hunt

By Ian Shlasko

Filename: xthunt.t3
System: TADS 3
Walkthru: In file walkthru.txt
Blurb: John Richardson returns in this sequel to Xen: The Contest. Two years later, he finds himself caught again in the crossfire. This time, however, his life may be forfeit.