When the emperor himself summons you to write a poem about the state of things, who are you to refuse? Torn between two factions, led by the emperor's half-sister and his most loyal general, you have the unenviable job of unpicking the complex threads of political conspiracies and absurdist ideologies.

Write a poem, compete to become the official court poet, possibly uncover a plot to usurp the throne, and try not to offend anyone... unless?

An entry for IFComp 2025, and a sequel of sorts to you are an ancient chinese poet in exile.

You are an ancient poet at the neo-orchid pavilion

A mouse-based game where you have three days to prove you’re the best maid in the mansion.

Maid to Work

FeatureKreep

Last Chess Standing is a casual chess puzzle game, perfect for beginners. The goal is to capture pieces until only one remains on the board.

Last Chess Standing

Gracias

Matching App de Shiriatta Otoko wo Shinyou shite ha Ikemasen.

Konbini Baito to Stalker

lament your fate and write a poem about it

You are an Ancient Chinese Poet in Exile

Rebel Jester Studios

Be Honest is a completely normal personality quiz.

Be Honest

litrouke

January is a dynamic fiction novel detailing one year in the life of a man after the apocalypse.

January

Wenderly Games

Thanks for applying to the Authenticity Assessment Department.

We wish you luck on your upcoming examination!

You will need it.

Assessment Examination

Trailer

woodsmoke

Switch the walls to keep your ball in the sector, TO SMASH ALL THE INSECTS!!

Smash Sector

elsif

Swipe to move in each of the four directions. Ram into things to destroy them, but avoid the dangerous projectiles.
Upgrade your ship with multiple levels of each of the FOUR upgrades.
Discover each of the FIVE endings, and unlock new music tracks!
Overcome 11 different enemy types, each with a distinct 'elite' form.
Watch replays of your attempts, and see your long-term statistics.
Earn your freedom!
This is an enhanced version of my game 'Salvage', remade and expanded in Godot. On top of new features (listed above), it is now available as a native application on mobile and PC. This should allow it to keep running smoothly into much longer runs, something the original game definitely had trouble with!

Salvagette

Virgula Leal

Jogo Satanista para Praticar o Mal is a visual novel that tells the story of creating a website for your friend.

Jogo Satanista para Praticar o Mal

Cosmic Adventure Squad

Venture deep into the Cavern of Longing. Plunge your sword deep into the dragon’s heart! How deep is your resolve?

- Feel the weight of a giant sword!
- Move in ways you never thought possible.
- Overcome your deepest struggles.

Deepest Sword

Gameplay Video

nizakashii

A short free game in the style of Fantasy Zone.

Snail World

Gameplay Trailer

xLand Sp

Deco Digital

Epic MegaGames

Heartlight is a puzzle video game originally developed by Janusz Pelc for the Atari 8-bit computers in 1990. In 1994, an MS-DOS port (Heartlight PC) was published by Epic MegaGames along with two other games by Janusz Pelc in the Epic Puzzle Pack. The shareware version has 20 levels and the full version (Heartlight Deluxe) has 70 levels. In 2006, Maciej Miąsik, co-author of the MS-DOS version, released it under the Creative Commons CC BY-SA 2.5 license as freeware. The source code became available too. In 2020, a web browser remake was released with updated graphics.

Heartlight

Save the galaxy Danioy from invasion of army corps Doscoponian.

Spolous Ex

Mizushiki

A short story about a boy who has been held captive by his "older sister" Elshe ever since he remembers.

Elshe no Shounen

a friendly horror game in your neighborhood

A man outside

A horror game about surveys and stalking.

Please Answer Carefully

Raindrinker

Rook

CHARON

Your destiny will change depending on the path you choose.
Is it a beast that attacks the two? A witch? Or...
Please guide them to the ultimate "hunt" ending.

Hansel and Gretel DS

Trigger Rally is a 3D car racing game written in C++ by Jasmine Langridge and Richard Langridge. It is licensed under the GPL and a BSD-like license.

It supports keyboard, joystick, or joypad control, and anaglyph stereo output.

Trigger Rally

The Empyrean Campaign is a game made by the Flare team. The story begins with the player being exiled from their homeland of Empyrean, resulting in them embarking on a quest to regain entry. This journey takes the player through many regions, with plenty of side quests along the way.

Flare: Empyrean Campaign

Auroriax

Mobility! is an acrobatic precision platformer. Platform throughout various levels, while you fall on, slide off, or otherwise touch every block on the level. Every level is part of a larger spaceship, which has broken down in one way or another. It's up to you to get them back up running as part of your training for the Mobility, an elite-class league of master repairmen. In an age of starships and public space travel, they're often the saviors when major problems occur. Mobility is designed to appeal to a large range of players: it's not as punishing as your usual precision platformer.

Mobility!

Stefano Gualeni

Players are presented with 20 concoctions and are asked to determine whether they are soup or not.

Something Something Soup Something

Little Alchemy, the crafting game enjoyed by millions of players, is back with more items, fresh, new art style and charming music!

Mix items and create the world from scratch! Discover exciting items accompanied by funny descriptions and lose yourself exploring the huge, new library!

Little Alchemy 2

Teaser

Matthew Seiji Burns

We’ve all suffered inadequate apologies, or wished for apologies that never came...

Apology Simulator

Suhail Habib

A mini-metroidvania platformer in the style of old Game Boy games.

Tower of the Wizard: Gameboy Adventure

Nickelodeon

Super Brawl World is a browser-based fighting game starring Nickelodeon characters.

Super Brawl World

cool and new hiveswap - now one the internent!

The House Swich Places

Kikiyama

DeNA Co., Ltd.

PLAYISM

Yume Nikki is a 32-Bit freeware game created by Kikiyama, a Japanese solo game designer. The game was made using RPGMaker 2003. The game is regarded as one of the most original applications of RPGMaker 2003, and the start of a possible new genre of games.

"Yume Nikki" means "Dream Diary" in Japanese, and the game follows a young girl named Madotsuki as she dreams. The goal is to seek out and acquire all 24 'Effects'.

The game otherwise has no plot, and nearly the entire game is left up to speculation.

Yume Nikki

Jumble Blocks

Players help the eponymous Mr Henry collect gems whilst struggling against the floors which seem to have a mind of their own.

Mr Henry and his Magical Hat

A 2D pixel-art fighting game featuring 8 of the greatest scientists in history You got to choose 8 scientists to fight with each other. Albert Einstein, Charles Darwin, Isaac Newton, Marie Curie, Alan Turing, Pythagoras, Nikola Tesla and Stephen Hawking. Each one of them have a special move based on their real life legacy.

Science Kombat

Lowtech Studios

Steve Howse

Slither.io is a massively multiplayer browser game where players control a snake-like avatar, which consumes multicolored pellets from other players, and ones that naturally spawn on the map in the game to grow in size. The objective of the game is to grow the longest snake in the server.

Slither.io

A tie-in game to Adult Swim's "This House Has People in It".

Boomy the Cat

A game about never-ending problem of loading screens. We've all experienced it while playing games, while downloading something, while installing an operating system ect. And now you can experience it once again in Loading Screen Simulator: Steam edition

Loading Screen Simulator

Super Snowball Sunday is a remake of Snowball Sunday by Ash & Dave Released in 1988 on the Commodore 64.

This remake version has up to six human players and two computer players.

Super Snowball Sunday

Capcom

A rhythm browser game released by Capcom in 2015 to promote the Japan Cup.

Japan Sumo Cup: Yokozuna vs. Street Fighter

Bohemia Interactive

It is you against the world in Mini DAYZ: explore a randomly generated map and scavenge for food, ammo and supplies. Use anything you find to craft advanced items. Protect yourself against aggressive infected and ferocious wolves. But most important of all: make sure to stay dry, warm and well fed at all times. The weather out there can quickly get under your skin and your wounds will not heal without you treating them…

Mini DayZ

Launch Trailer

Nickelodeon's best dress up like superheroes to tussle with one another.

Super Brawl 4

Proton Studio Inc

Time Clickers is what's called an 'incremental game'. There's always a fun upgrade to look forward to, and the numbers keep getting bigger! Hire a team to fight for you, even when you're offline!

Time Clickers

As a street vendor, players attempt to outsell the competition by creating progressively more garish signage.

Grab Them by the Eyes

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shadow Heroes is a stealth platformer game loosely based on an episode of the 2012 CGI animated series that parodied "Big Trouble in Little China", called "A Chinatown Ghost Story".

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shadow Heroes

Platdude beans odd crocodiles in the head with golf balls and tees.

Platdude in Swamp Golf

Platdude drives a go kart and collects stars.

Platdude in a Go Kart

Jayenkai's 8-bit-ish mascot takes to the skies on flying ostriches in this deathmatch battle game.

Platdude in Battling Ostriches

Hyper Hippo Entertainment

AdVenture Capitalist is the world’s greatest capitalism simulator. Start with a humble lemonade stand, and squeeze your way to total fiscal domination! Earn ridiculous sums of cash, diversify your investments, and attract smarmy Angel Investors to give your businesses a boost!

And the best part is, AdVenture Capitalist can even play itself! Get your businesses booming, then hire a manager to keep making the dough while you’re gone. Money keeps accumulating while you’re offline, just waiting for you to come back and spend spend spend! IT’s so easy, even a socialist could do it!

AdVenture Capitalist

Platdude kicks off an interstellar mission in this space-based platformer.

Platdude in Space

Sega of America produced this Flappy Bird clone as its 2014 April Fool's joke.

Rappy Bird

Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead (aka Cataclysm DDA or CataDDA) is an open source survival horror roguelike set in a post-apocalyptic and fictional New England.

Unlike most roguelikes, it has no goal: the player is free to explore the procedurally generated map, clear areas of monsters, work with NPCs, and build shelters and vehicles. The gameplay is mainly based on day-to-day survival, and the game tracks parameters like hunger, thirst, morale, illness and temperature which the player must manage to stay alive. Like most roguelikes Cataclysm: DDA follows turn based gameplay.

The world has support for seasons and dynamic weather conditions and the season lengths can be modified during world generation. A typical world has cities, towns, rivers, forests, bridges and other landmarks. Cities and towns generally have all the common establishments generally found in real world such as houses, departmental stores, malls, parking lots, swimming pools, hospitals, malls, etc. Exotic locations such as Science Labs, Military installations, missile silos can be found in remote places throughout the whole world. Latest versions have support for experimental 3-D buildings.

Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead

origamihero games

A Game with a Kitty 6: Moon Minion

Herbert's Island Adventure

AGwaK Adventures

Here's what happens when kitties go treasure hunting.

A Game with a Kitty 3

Askiisoft

A Molyjam inspired platformer from Askiisoft, which seeks to answer the question "What if the pause button was a weapon?"

Pause Ahead

Stuart Madafiglio

4 people are trapped in a building fire and need your help to escape.

No-one has to Die

Pretty Simple

Criminal Case - the #1 free hidden object game! Are you ready to solve murder cases?
Download now and discover who killed Rosa Wolf...

Criminal Case

The Border Lands is a 2D top-down browser version of the popular console game Borderlands 2. The game has cool 2D 16-bit graphics and authentic map locations to explore. Before starting, you can choose from 4 of the original characters from Borderlands 2 – Salvador, Maya, Zero or Axton - each character has unique abilities and differing skills.

The Border Lands

Armor Games Studios

Super Adventure Pals is a comedic action RPG platformer, in which you travel the land and battle monsters-a-plenty in an epic quest to track down the evil Mr B who has stolen your pet rock. But fear not, for you are not alone; you have the help of your good friend the Giraffe!

Super Adventure Pals

Dasshutsu Tarou

Tsumattemasu.

Cary Huang

A platformer with a twist: players must earn 500 achievements.

Goime 500

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup is a roguelike dungeon crawler.
Available as pure ascii or with tile graphics, playable offline or as a web version.

DCSS let's the player create a hero from a large number of races and classes, then sends him off into the dungeon to fetch the Orb of Zot.
While descending through the dungeon, players will encounter a variety of different enemies to kill, sneak around, or even befriend.

The game features very in depth mechanics, comparatively simple controls and poses a very hard but fair challenge.

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup

Soap Creative

Players from around the world create their own mazes, which connect with other players' mazes to form one continuous monster of a game.

The World's Biggest Pac-Man

Raptisoft Games

Hamumu Software

A remake of the classic mini-metroidvania for iOS and Android.

Robot Wants Kitty

PETA

A parody of Super Meat Boy / propaganda title made by the animal rights organization PETA. Save Bandage Girl from Meat Boy's bloody, jealous rage!

Super Tofu Boy

Tower of Heaven is a retro-style platformer with black and green color palette reminiscent of GameBoy games and a chiptune soundtrack.

You play as a lone traveler trying to ascend the Tower of Heaven despite the will of a spiteful deity residing at the top of the world. There are no enemies, but the levels are full of obstacles like spikes or buzz-saws which you need to overcome by careful jumping. Each level is timed. To make things harder as you ascend the deity introduces new rules, like "you can't touch golden blocks" or "you can't go left".

Browser version features some additions to the original Windows game:

- A new secret area;
- Extended ending for finding all secrets;
- Additional music, sounds, and graphics;
- Various gameplay / graphical fixes;
- Level creator that lets the players make and import custom levels.

Tower of Heaven

Sylvie

A 2D platformer featuring an angel that must explore a planet full of cats.

Cat Planet

Farbs

A swirling glitch-soup of classic videogames, reforming every 10 seconds into a new playable mass.

ROM Check Fail

Vivendi Games

Spyro the Dragon: Wings of Fury is a browser-based shoot-'em-up starring Spyro the Dragon.

Spyro the Dragon: Wings of Fury

Gaia Interactive, Inc.

ZOMG!

Tom Fulp

MindChamber

Madness Regent is a game based on the Madness Combat series, developed by Newgrounds guru Tom Fulp.

Madness Regent

urbgames

Mud and Blood 2 is a real-time tactical level strategy game. The player takes command of a squad of American soldiers during World War II (operation Lüttich, August 1944), who will face endless waves of German troops.

Mud and Blood 2

A browser game involving jeeps and unsuspecting raptors.

Off-Road Velociraptor Safari

The Coca-Cola Company

An MMO browser chatroom, lasting from 2002 to 2007, with properties akin to Habbo Hotel. Though a majority of this title's purpose was for promotional reasons, the focus of the game was to socialize, mix music, and decorate various interiors.

MyCoke

Gameplay video

SCIMOB

Elokence

Akinator, the Web Genie (formerly Akinator, the web Genius) is an internet game and mobile app based on Twenty Questions that attempts to determine which character the player is thinking of by asking them a series of questions. It is an artificial intelligence program that can find and learn the best questions to ask the player. Created by three French programmers in 2007, it became popular worldwide in November 2008, according to Google Trends. In Europe popularity peak was reached in 2009 and Japan in 2010 with the launch of mobile apps by French mobile company SCIMOB, reaching highest ranks on app store . While playing "Akinator", questions are asked by a cartoon genie.

Freeware Browser Games