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 game made for SeedComp 2023. The writing is by Naomi Norbez, and the game was programmed by Josh Grams.

Please note that Hidden Gems, Hidden Secrets contains discussion of sexual harassment/coercion, and people in positions of power taking advantage of their place.

Hidden Gems, Hidden Secrets

Media that wants to stay lost.

A horror blogger stumbles upon a series of lost media finds that leads them to uncover the mystery of characters "escaping" from their source material.

Cut Strings

You just came home from an extra-long day of work, and you're starving!
Of course, you are what you eat after all, especially on a full moon...

Wolf Night Evening

It's bleak out there. No one would blame you for turning away.

Glimmer

Sometimes people give pieces of themselves away.
Sometimes they give too much and who they are wears thin.
They become an absence. A hole in the world.
And a terrible Light shines through.

The Absence of Miriam Lane

The only thing Bell Park likes more than a mystery is solving it on her own. But when a time-travelling 12-year-old version of herself lands face-down on her rented co-working desk, she'll have no choice but to take the displaced kid detective along on her latest case.
Follow the trail of a missing heterosexual on the strange streets of Toronto! Investigate a quirky cast of drag kings, chicken wing enthusiasts, and women in elaborate cat make-up! Thrill in the pervasive ennui of your early twenties! Struggle to remember where your preteen self was at with the whole being gay thing!
Will Adult Bell make peace with the figurative and literal ghosts of her past? Can Kid Bell navigate the uncanny world of the 2020s and find her way back home? How's the chicken in that creepy basement food court? These questions and more will be answered in THE GROWN-UP DETECTIVE AGENCY.

The Grown-Up Detective Agency

Survive as a monster that has taken up residence underneath a bridge, interact with strangers who pass over your bridge and see if you can not only survive the encounters, but create a home for yourself.

Under the Bridge

An entry for Cozy Autumn Game Jam 2022.

A bite-sized text-based game about what happens when you meet online friends for the first time.

Post-Disclosure, Devil's Night

“We Are Not All Alone Unhappy” is a short interactive narrative piece made in Twine which interrogates the idea of the Shakespearean happy ending. It asks players to create a pairing between two characters who received canonically unhappy endings in Shakespeare’s plays.

We Are Not All Alone Unhappy

The year is 1999. The place is Godfield, Louisiana: the tech capital of the world, where the sky bleeds acid and the mud boils in the bayou. It’s time for your state-mandated digital therapy.

Computerfriend is a text-based interactive fiction game by Kit Riemer. 20-60 minute playtime, 6 endings.

Computerfriend

Eat, swear & try to take over the neighbourhood.

Crow Quest

The world might be crumbling underneath your feet, but you've still got to feed yourself somehow. Make a delivery, flirt with a catgirl, Stick It To The Man.

Catgirl Truckers

A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle Decoded

Two bastards beat the shit out of each other and kiss kiss fall in love. Or maybe not.

Feverfew

Strings/Threads/Burdens is a game about being suspended in place by tension. It is a game about releasing that tension and what happens next. It could very well be a game about you. You are free.

Strings/Threads/Burdens

Adventure waits for you in a procedurally generated Archipelago! Discover strange new lands. Make a fortune from trading. Swing a Really Big Sword at a dragon. Fight wild beasts – or turn them into your allies. Meet the puffins (if you're really lucky). With dozens of possible enemies, quests, and items, no two visits to the Archipelago are the same.

4x4 Archipelago

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 of a great nation on the last night of a war. A war one side did not even know it was fighting. Will you play as the general of the King’s army, riding north to retake the lands that rebelled against the royal line hundreds of years ago? Or will you play the Dictator of the Republic, who finds herself abandoned in a city wholly unprepared for war, now apparently only able to decide what her last few hours will look like in the city that she loves?

Both have little doubt that the city of Alexisgrad will fall tonight. The question that both must ask is how it will fall.

The Last Night of Alexisgrad

A queer erotic scifi-fantasy game about being stranded on a perverse part of an alien planet with an alien companion.

Honeypot

Esthiru, a 24-year-old truck driver, is waiting for their friend Aston to arrive so they can play fighting games. But what waits for them is more than that.

Aston May Die is a piece of yuri interactive fiction about being in love with someone that is dying and about not caring about that, living in the moment.

Aston May Die

Ramiel is a short game about wings, hope, and living in a body that is very clearly not your own.

It's a game for the angels in our lives who just can't bear living without their wings any longer.

One day, we will all find our wings.

Ramiel

Null Event is an 18+ smutgame set in a cyberpunk world with a mystery to solve, and a load of kinks to explore.

The Cygnet Building is finding it's dronified personnel going mysteriously missing, and they need someone to look into it. That's where Synesthesia comes in.

Null Event

A Memoriam to a Fallen Furry Friend

genderfelt is a short interactive zine, in which you read the blog of young person called Anon, going through the process of discovering himself. It focuses on the issue of transmedicalism, and how one can help to pull their peers away from a harmful ideology.

Genderfelt

A twine game about a tired, closeted office worker's struggles with sexuality and lucid nightmares.

Fantasy Cascade: Episode 1 - Overspill

A 7k word Twine game about working retail and dealing with magic managers who hate each other. So, a normal shift.

Witches and Stitches

A game about disability and attempting to achieve the usual. Explore Elery as a 10 year old kid just trying to finish their town history project, and uncover the town's secrets, or don't. Bring Your Own Oxygen is a story about a chronically ill child trying to do what every other kid in Elery does, only to find some strange truths about the world around them. Whether you report it or not, the consequences may be more than you think.

Bring Your Own Oxygen

Experience a great journey with famous poet Dante and his super "reliable" narrator Virgil.

A Hell of a Journey

Ascendance is a text-based fantasy love story about the first contact between humanity and the extraterrestrial beings known as The Y.

Though the premise is a very fertile (and fun!) ground for sci-fi, Ascendance is inspired by several concepts from different spiritualist philosophies, as well as by great fantasy stories, so it might bring a different perspective for you!

Ascendance

Explore a mysterious graveyard and its secrets before your time runs out. But be wary — not everything is as it seems.

More Bones Than You Can Count

Flight 155's landing gear has jammed and it's stuck in limbo, burning fuel ahead of an emergency landing. As flight attendant Evie, you can learn about your passengers, and about yourself, as you ease their fears during the crisis.

The Attendant

5 dias com Tony Bumbum

Welcome to the Excalibur Wiki. This fan-run encyclopedia preserves the details of an obscure science fantasy television series from the 1970s. Though much of its footage was lost, a group of dedicated fans still have strong memories of the show — as well as unique theories, occasional arguments, and lingering questions.

Excalibur is a hypertext-based interactive fiction piece written and developed by J.J. Guest and G.C. Baccaris, with contributions from co-creator Duncan Bowsman and others.

Excalibur

You are a secret agent. It’s the end of the world. You are cursed. You came here to rescue your partner, but the mission has taken a turn for the weird. Parody spy thriller.

Fish & Dagger

Navigate fraught social situations by day and pull off heists by night as Lady Thalia, the not-actually-aristocratic thief bent on making a mockery of British high society.

Lady Thalia and the Seraskier Sapphires

A Twisted Place

You are Mo, the cat! Be cute, listen to and advise your friends, and knock some plants over if you feel like it.

Violeta

Burn Pulse Detach is a project written over a couple of years, in bits and pieces, and finally stitched together to form the project above, reflections on disjointed chaotic jumbles of potentially disordered/non-neurotypical thoughts, usually stemming from moments of emotional extremity.

Burn. Pulse. Detach.

A small interactive fiction about the day of a writer, their routine, their work, their fears, and anxieties...

A Day in the Life of a Writer

So, Agent! Are you a bad enough Trusted Internet Investigator to conduct a "Knock-and-Talk" with ███████ (henceforth known as "The Subject")?

The Iron Hand in the Velvet Glove

Set in an otherworldly tailor shop, Casey's just there for an interview for an interest blog she runs. Pretty soon she finds herself wrapped up in something she'd never asked for.

Clothing & Alterations

Earth Year 2952: the corsair crew of the Oblivion spaceship gets attacked by some mysterious kidnappers, but they leave behind the Captain, Ivory Joyner, who is determined to take them back; in the meantime, her Second in Command, Nathaniel Shada, is making up a plan to get everyone back on the Oblivion. Will the two of them succeed?

Fight // Flight is a short interactive novel divided in 6 chapters, with two POVs.

Fight // Flight

An interactive story about gay teens falling in love on a boat by Brendan Patrick Hennessy, with art by Beck Kubrick.

Boat Prom

ALL @ ONCE is a twine based interactive novel. Take the role of Wyatt Reynolds, your average everyday black teen in the small lake-centered town of Primwood a town where the world is quiet and the mornings are hazed. Where Devils walk the street with pockets full of spice. This young man whose life blinked by without a second thought becomes something more when his mind takes on something new. When the thoughts in his head aren't his own and the reality of reading people's minds comes into play.

All @ Once

Trailer

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 the suspects are clamoring to be accused.

A Murder in Fairyland

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 wear, it's the final one that matters.

Babyface

A short story about food, belonging, and seeking home. Text your friend, call your mum, and search for congee on this rainy night.

Congee

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 18.

Lore Distance Relationship

You have many faces. Your form is multiple. You are the cards. Created many years ago, infused with dark magic, you have seen many things. What secrets do you contain? What visions have you conjured up? How will you nudge the hands of fate?

Minor Arcana

A breath born of boredom rises in the wintry sky. Hooves and bells approach. The school bus is late.

The Pinecone

Although this is an interactive interface, your choices do NOT matter. They really do not. Before you quit, I want you to understand why. I am a believer of absurdity, that our actions in the end have no meaning in the interacting force between humans and universe. Choices lead you to different paths, but in the end, it's to a place where we share the common ground. But hey, life is about enjoying the journey, right? I hope you enjoy the choices being made along the way.

The Place

A hole-based economy and a venison-based diet. You and your dog. And a turnip.

The Turnip

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?

What the Bus?

This work is a collaboration with GPT-2, a neural network model designed to predict the next word in a block of given text based on its study of eight million web pages. In this application, I input a text file of my own prose from the past twenty years into GPT-2. It then generated new writing in a similar style. I selected, arranged, and lightly edited the resulting output.

You Will Thank Me as Fast as You Thank a Werewolf

Space Frog! is an indie adventure game about a frog in space.

Space Frog!

Gamma, Delta, and Epsilon have seen more than enough to last a life time. They've been given hardly any information on what they are supposed to investigate and are also bringing some fresh recruits along.

A sci-fi narrative game made in Twine.

Unto the Night

You are Lucas: a runaway teen in New York City’s Union Square, trying to make it to the hospital— with a dead phone and no money —before your father dies from cancer. This is a story about losing the fear to ask others for help, and the dangers of going it alone.

Kaleidoscope

—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 twenty-six in a car accident.

Compassionate Simulation

In a quiet library on the World, a history book spills its sordid secrets.

The End of Decay

When someone falls into a late afternoon nap, they will invariably wake to find their mind vacated of the ability to comprehend time.

Short twine game about communication and loneliness.

Radio Fall

You are a Chrono Agent, dispatched across space and time on sensitive missions to alter the course of history. You have arrived on board an abandoned spaceship, the only living crewmember preserved in a cryo-stasis pod, with 59 seconds until the reactor surges and fries the pod. 
 
You have already failed twice. 
 
Your operator resets you back to the anchor point, and you try again. And again. And again.

Cryoloop

Glistening is a short sci-fi horror text adventure.

Glistening

Necessary Bimbos is an illustrated branching story written by Limerick and illustrated/coded by Sortimid.

The game follows about a young guy who wakes up with a headache after a fight with his girlfriend. While trying to smooth things over, he keeps inadvertently changing reality --- her background, clothes, even how the world works!

How far will he go?

You get to decide!

There are twelve different endings and over 60 illustrations covering 38,000 words!

Necessary Bimbos

A choice-based horror/romance text adventure game.

Entry in The 2020 Spring Thing Festival of Interactive Fiction. Winner of Best in Show, Best Twine Abuse, Most Exceptional Storywise Navigation, and Most Original.

Jelly: A love story

A hybrid of a choose-your-own adventure type computer game and a pen-and-paper roleplaying game. Compatible with the 5th edition of the world's most popular tabletop RPG, this solo adventure introduces players to the dice-rolling action and problem-solving intrigue of a pen-and-paper role-playing game using text-based descriptions.

The Saint's Tomb

it speaks to you in a voice of a birdmany-limbed bird like an angel

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You're missing in the forest and you have to leave... but it won't that easy. You'll have to survive during the dark night next to a bonfire you find... Will you get it?

A Tale at the Bonfire

To a town by a crater lake, a traveller comes.

Under a Caustic Snow, I Danced

A gothic mystery game in which you rely on your environment to uncover the truth. Contains religious content, multiple endings, optional audio, and lots of Latin.

Domvs

You’re a courier for the resistance, trapped on a university campus under siege. The environment around you is coming apart, fast.

Masks

A horror game about surveys and stalking.

Please Answer Carefully

A budget management simulator inspired by the low salaries and high living costs in Chile.

Nanopesos

A short, interactive text game about game development, art, and love.

Video Game Feminization Hypnosis

In the future, robots cater to man’s every want and need. That is, unless you’re a lowly line cook like Irene Turnsole. After Irene travels to her late father’s home, she discovers that her sister has gone missing and nobody is coming to help find her. To solve the mystery, Irene must dig into the secrets of her father’s corporation, a world on the edge of the Singularity, and her family's own painful past – before precious time runs out.

A cyberpunk point-and-click mystery brought to Twine.

Black Sheep

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 Queen’s newest divine decree, Eser will seek advice, encounter strange visitors, draw the attention of powers beyond comprehension, and surely make mistakes.

As a baby, they were brought to Achthoven to save their life.

As an adult, they must decide what kind of life is worth living.

Heretic's Hope

A game made in Twine, based on the tabletop game of the same name.

Your Body, an Altar

Play as Hua Mulan, a young lesbian who is conscripted into the First Opium War against the British Empire. Run a flower shop, kiss a girl, shoot a matchlock rifle, and uncover a military conspiracy! Your actions will lead you to one out of four different endings. Will you get the girl, or will you die an inglorious death?

Lionkiller

The final game in the Tower series: a reframing of the original story, partially from a different protagonist; it is again about trans women, time loops, and finding the strength to confront your own self-loathing.

The Horizon

A conversation with Emma Goldman about gentrification, Amazon and my subscription box problem.

Conversations with Emma

Draw Nine puts you in the role of a magician whose powers depend on a pack of magic cards. These can help or harm, but the selection available to you is determined randomly at the start of the game. Since you cannot choose your cards, you must find the path through the world that makes the most of the powers at your disposal.

Draw Nine

These dark, deep woods are home to wild creatures and wild magic, and they're only dangerous if you disrespect either one. They're also your home. Here, you're safe, loved, and free, and tonight is a very special night; a good one for a ritual.

Until a stranger interrupts your plans, and turns your night, and your life in an entirely new direction.

The Three-Body Problem

Push:Block is a misshapen puzzle game about pushing blocks. Instead of being represented visually (which would have been sensible), everything is represented via text (which is not sensible). Push:Block features 30 levels of block-pushing action, original music, deep lore about a cult obsessed with cudgelling watermelons, and an allegorical narrative about friendship and community. 
 
I'm not sure if Push:Block is the kind of thing that can be enjoyed. But I hope that it is, and I hope you enjoy it.

Push:Block

A short experience around cultural identity.

Half

Help Spudz the dog find his precious bone in this short, silly game!

Who Stole My Bone?

A random-based pet care game. Choose an egg and take care of your new plantgotchi pet until your pet raises to 40 points of growth. There are 12 possible plantgotchi final forms.

Plantgotchi

A cute game about high school junior varsity tennis. An autobiographical game. Inspired by bahiyya khan's blood under the bridge.

Falling is Not the Same Thing as Dying

Twine game about being 15 during the 2010 World Cup.

Blood Under the Bridge

Remmie's bestie Nunu invited them both to her friend Mira's housewarming party. Not only is Remmie waking up hours late, completely forgotten all about the thing until just now. Nunu isn't responding to her messages, so maybe she's there already? With only one way to find out, Remmie ends up leaving and thinks to herself.

Housewarming Gift

Gameplay Video

A simple text-based adventure exploring the age-old question: What would you do if you had more money than any single human being should ever have?

You Are Jeff Bezos

A short interactive narrative set in a fictional country that has recently been invaded. You have the role of the protector – though who you are protecting is part of the choices you make.

Palisade

This is the story of Charlie Stewart, nine-year-old Human child.

Inside this ordinary nine-year-old Human child are four animals from the Forest, working tirelessly to keep YOUR Taiga Federation safe from Human intervention.

Animalia

You can go home when you learn to be good.

Bogeyman

The high priest of an obscure cult is preparing a ritual. Don the priest’s sacred mantle, for these holy labors are yours to direct. You may carve a votive, lead a prayer, or make a sacrifice — but you must see to the task with care. Unearthly eyes gaze down upon you from the sea above. Will your devotion reach them?

Does it matter?

Devotionalia

The neighborhood Thanksgiving party was going pretty well until you keeled over and died.

Now you're a ghost, and you're going to figure out who killed you. But you can't exactly interview people or search for clues when you're dead, can you? All you can do is piece together memories about what happened.

No one said the memories had to be yours.

Erstwhile

A game about trans women, tarot, therapy, and alien abduction.

The Tower

Four trans girlfriends go on a road trip to a dark sky park, to see the perseid meteor shower. A 6.5k-long story, with small branches but a single ending. There's very little conflict, drama, no-one dies. Just a good time.

Perseids, or, All This Will Go on Forever

A contractor assigned to handle bug reports for a wearable mood-regulation device becomes unwitting witness to trauma and crime.

Human Errors

The invasion is here and your only chance is to travel around the city recruiting different gangs. It is not about fighting them, violence is not going to help you this time: you will have to negotiate, know what to say and how to say it to bring them to your side and be ready once the invasion arrives.

No Cortarás a tu Hermana con el Filo de Esta Espada

A new case has come to the police station. A man has appeared in shock, stammering inconsistencies about his friend's disappearance. You must question him and discover what is true in what counts.

El Interrogatorio

Seven years ago, five heroes were brought together to save the world. Their success came at the cost of their leader's life; the secret behind it cost them their friendship.

Now they've been summoned for a new heroic quest.

if not us is about the moment when they realise everything isn't going to be okay.

If Not Us

Teaser

You are Max, a sentry aboard The Coriolis who has been stationed on the outskirts of Galaxy B16X. You review files every day cycle with the help of your Artificial Intelligence bot C.R.U.D.D.Y to ensure the colonization of planet PK-Centauri goes smoothly.

There shouldn't be anyone within range to contact you, or have a reason to contact you. But one day it happens anyway.

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