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What Happened to the Crew?

"I sure wish some preacher would of told me. I sure wish some preacher would of ripped my hide off back when I was a teenager and explain the danger of what video games do to you. But none of them ever did."

- Bryan, former video game addict

Don't suffer the weight of regret like Bryan.

Don't play games.

Don't Play Games

Explore a haunted movie studio. Learn the fates of the tormented souls bound to it. End a 50-year curse inscribed in blood and celluloid.

Kinophobia is a parser game about exorcising ghosts, becoming a rabid cinephile, and the terrible price of success.

Kinophobia

Odd Mirror

What's that? An AI chatbot? I don't remember installing it...

Corpus Machina

A comedy choose-your-own-adventure game written by comedian Guy Kelly, about a man called Martin Jenkins. A man with one goal. One passion: Strangling a horse.

Does he know what a horse is? Is he aware of farms? Find out for yourself, in this 7.5k+ word game of absolute hot nonsense. I mean. Honestly. Even for Guy this is silly.

I Will Strangle A Horse

Kwan Ann Tan

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

drinkrust

A short ghost story interactive poem with 2 endings. Made with chia's "engine.lol".

Winged Joust Into Dawn

Witman Devs

The ouroboros killer has challenged you openly to find him or else he keeps his kill streak. Kill not only challenges you but also mocks the police department. Find him before anyone else is killed.

The Golden Mare

The Tower

I hate trains. I always did. Yet today i awoke at a train station.

A short interactive fiction about trains and stuff.

I hate trains

DOMINO CLUB

A very short interactive fiction game about a bizarre dream about running into a friend who has entered into a relationship with a corporation/creature.

A strange fever dream with themes on how we sell ourselves to corporate interests and how normalized it is.

Meet Fred

More Teeth, Please

The candy jar on my desk is empty again, and that means something horrible is coming for me. A short interactive fiction game with a confusing metaphor and 20 endings.

The Candy Jar On My Desk Is Empty Again

soweliMosiwa

An exploration of the one left behind. There is a way out - more than one, in fact - you just might have to wander a while before you find them.

Content warning for Hamlet-typical explorations of murder, suicide, and death in general, alongside a similarly Shakespeare-typical understanding of "insanity". Also, spoilers for a centuries-old play (bet you can't guess which one).

Hamlet, Act VI, Scene I

The Neon Dream Anthology is a Dreamlike Neo-Noir game, that consists of three short interactive experiences.

All three experiences experiment with game design conventions and pacing as well as the use of the camera.

These short stories focus on exploring similar ideas, moods and themes through the use of both visuals and interactivity.

The Neon Dream Anthology

Marie Vibbert

On your way home one gloomy night, you find a book on the sidewalk titled "Don't Open This Book." Do you?

Your choices will change not just what happens, but what has happened. Is this a mystery, a family story, horror, science fiction? Genre Issues meet Daddy Issues in this meditative fiction journey.

Don't Open This Book

Lya Mgtt

In this short escape game, your objective is to manage problems happening in your Ship Computer System. Will you get rid off the Virus and avoid the Cosmic Storm ?!

Space Virus Escape

Bury me with the rain is an interactive short story about the life, friendship and struggle of Jean and Avery. Follow their journey of hardship, joy and heartfelt conversation as they try to find meaning for their own lives.

Bury Me With The Rain

When your captain dies suspiciously halfway through a hyperspace transit, you know you’re in trouble. Not because you need a captain — as an embodied AI spaceship, you can pilot yourself just fine — but because, as an aficionado of mysteries and detective stories, you know there’s only one explanation: murder most foul.

A Death in Hyperspace

Dust

Chandler Groover

Master Bryce is throwing a party. As his most faithful servant, that means it's your job to make the party run smoothly. But you only have two hands—and far too many duties. You'll have to manage requests from the guests, the master's eccentric demands, and your own composure. All the other staff have quit, unwilling to entertain the master's "moods," but you've served Wyatt Manor for decades; what's one more evening?

A comedy of errors, mild frustrations, and major workplace-safety violations. With limited actions and a limited inventory, juggle hors d'oeuvres, flaming curtains, and radioactive elements—and keep the drinks coming!

The Bat

In Verses, you play as Eca: a data analyst working in a laboratory on the coast of far-future Romania. The land around you is grey and dead, the residents sickened and mutated by the poisonous soil or swept up into endless war. But your job is not to save the world — rather to understand it, digging deeply into the meaning of objects, organisms, and poems. Keep your mind clear and open. Be a conduit. Stay hungry.

Verses

Sophia de Augustine

"The ring is marquis cut, and perfectly sized to fit my hand, five years on."

a test of bitsy and a piece of vent art.

Marquis Cut

KnickKnack PJ

A micro kinetic (no choice) novel about the last things you do and what comes after you're gone. This game was created for the Only One of Any Asset (O2A2) Visual Novel Jam 2024.

I'll Be Home With You

Tymedust Games

A short, interactive visual novel set in the mid-19th Century, in which a poet fights against time as she's writing the most important work of her life. Poetry is the answer, but what is the question?

Inversed

maneki_mushi

Your town calls you a witch, but you're a simple, widowed herbalist. Tonight is your first brush with the supernatural. A man is hunted and finds refuge in your home, and you can tell he's something other than human.

Undying: The Beast

Choice of Games

This is a haunted game about a haunted game. You've played this game before. You may not remember, but the game does.

Open the door. Enter the maze. Ignore the ghosts.

Restore, Reflect, Retry

litrouke

A retelling of the Bluebeard story in less than 500 words.

I Am in This Photograph

lament your fate and write a poem about it

You are an Ancient Chinese Poet in Exile

pixel turkey

An 80KB interactive-fiction text adventure game that begins as you set out with your newly acquired kayak one weekend. Created over 10 days by a team of two.

The Zen of Kayaking

Sarah Willson

Ryan Veeder

Mark Marino

Nils Fagerburg

Zach Hodgens

Caleb Wilson

Carl Muckenhoupt

Joey Jones

Jason Love

The Third Quadrennial Ryan Veeder Exposition for Good Interactive Fiction is proud to present MOONDROP ISLE, a textual adventure location made in collaboration by nine interactive fiction authors.

Moondrop Isle

Can you successfully match descriptions to drawings, then drawings to suspects?

Sketchy Individuals

Dev Diary

IllestPreacha

A piece of Interactive Fiction made for Dialogue Jam.

ConversationalRumblings

A dialog-only interactive fiction game where you play the role of Diplomat Calliope, charged with maintaining good relations with the planet Syzygy.

Syzygy

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 role-playing, steeped in a dark fantasy world inspired by medieval medicine.

Leechcraft

"PoeticRambling" is coded as a layered ramble in Twine. With an interactive fiction approach to a ramble that happens to rhyme.

PoeticRambling

npckc

a chronic illness simulation game.

you think you have a chronic illness, but you don't know what. all you know is you are always in some state of pain. you've been to too many doctors to count... but you still have to live your life.

how long will it take for you to get a diagnosis?

You're Just Imagining It

Trailer

"Can't die just yet- I still want to go fishing and camping with you."

A short, atmospheric twine game.

Stomping Grounds

by Freyja Katra Erlingsdóttir

Two wars have left humanity licking its wounds. Earth is gone, its fleets becoming nomadic, searching the stars for somewhere to call home. In one of the scattered flotilla, a navy pilot meets a wanderer. Their culture and customs, still human, are foreign.

Perhaps a sign of things to come for another part of humanity.

Homeward in the Roil

Remulla Games

Alberto López Felisberto is a normal young man with a problem... Not being able to stop laughing at the most inopportune moments. Today, the event is his grandfather's funeral.

Muerto de Risa

Create a King by choosing the origins, title, and infamous event of a ruler. A unique story will generate that outlines your King's reign, and how it ends...

Kingmaker

A short interactive story about artistic sensibilities, dreams, and the real world.

All My Dreams are the Same!

A short game taking place soon after The Little Match Girl 4: Crown of Pearls.

The Little Match Girl against the Universal Sisterhood of Naughty Little Girls

Niebla Games

Hawk and Puma is a minimalist game that pays tribute to Guaman Poma, the indigenous chronicler of the Andes. Through a research-creation process, this game reimagines Guaman's journey, exploring themes of racism, sovereignty, and religion from decolonial aesthetics and Andean-inspired music.

This project has been developed in collaboration with members of the ÑawpaÑan community in the Sacred Valley of the Incas in Cusco, Peru, allowing us to create the final version in English, Spanish, and Quechua, and plan upcoming ludic workshops with community youth as part of the ethical research-creation process.

Hawk and Puma

Incredulous Interactive

A short, cozy, narrative-driven Halloween game about three friends reuniting to spend a stormy Halloween night together in a haunted house.

Long Time No See

ENDYSIS

It Paints Me is a short Gothic horror visual novel about art, pain, and love.

It Paints Me

Cecile Richard

A tale of primeval forces, unknown, uncaring, and unearthed.

The Devil's Imago

The little match girl goes on a spooky adventure with her friend (a crow).

The Little Match Girl and Her Friend, the Crow

AlmostABetrayal

Just another week at the museum for a friendly local connoisseur of beauty, who just so happens to be a ghost.

Art Appreciation

Ellis Devereux

A collection of thoughts and poems and fragments about whose pieces I'm made of.

Fish Hooks

The year is 2021. Neo-America is prospering under the stern yet wise direction of President for Life, Gaius Julius Ceasar. 330 million souls live, love, and laugh, all working tirelessly for the glory of the American people! But with light comes darkness. With prosperity comes misery. And with law comes crime. Heinous crimes! Shocking crimes! Cunning crimes! And sometimes, very rarely, crimes so devious, so shadowy, so slippery that only Neo-America's greatest detectives can hope to solve them.

For these crimes, the very worst of crimes, America has a special team. Two individuals, both alike in dignity, in fair DC, where we lay our scene. Their names: Antony and Cleopatra.

He's the Vice President.

She's the Queen of Egypt.

Together, they fight crime!

Note that this is a fully synchronous two-player game and requires two people and internet access to work. You cannot download this game and play it offline.

Antony & Cleopatra: Case IV: The Murder of Marlon Brando

Ben Kirwin

Today has been an extraordinarily long day. You picked up the keys to your new apartment in the morning, you went shopping for furniture in the afternoon, and you've spent the evening putting it together.

And you're almost finished -- there's one box left.

ASSEMBLY is a story of magic and adventure. Can you assemble a small table? Can you save the world from the vengeance of ancient gods?

Assembly

SV Linwood

Join esteemed mad scientist Dr Ludwig as he faces the greatest challenge of his nefarious career: making a deal with the Devil and coming out on top.

Research demonology! Read legal documents! Face off against the world's least effective torch and pitchfork-wielding mob! All this and more!

Dr Ludwig and the Devil

A metafictional text adventure game by BJ Best. In-universe, written by young Eddie Hughes in 1993, and annotated by Ed Hughes in 2020.

Lake Adventure

In The Little Match Girl 4 by Hans Christian Andersen, a prince has been born, and the titular little match girl must assemble the subtitular Crown of Pearls.

The Little Match Girl 4: Crown of Pearls

Arthur DiBianca

A light dungeon crawl. Tap spell gems to defeat monsters!

The Vambrace of Destiny

The Great Godstone Bake-off has arrived! As a hapless baker deeply in debt, you finally have the opportunity to rise to fame and fortune! Under the tutelage of famous chefs , you will learn the arts of baking, breading, and dare you whisper it...necromancy?

The Bread Must Rise

Niandra!

Inside this humble museum dedicated to media left behind, you will find 15 pieces on display. The museum should take between 5 and 10 minutes to browse!

The Museum of Mid 2000s Forum Signatures

A short visual novel in which a vampire offers his help

Undying: Reject

The little match girl plays a magical flute.

How the Little Match Girl Met the Queen of Vampires

Dead Pixel Tales

What seems like a normal Tuesday in the life of Myk Raver.

Raver's Rumble

Tales Up is a cooperative role-playing game, a blend of board game and interactive stories such as “choose your own adventure” books.

You’ll find zombies, pirates, vikings… Hijinks and surprises will ensue!

Tales Up

Everest Pipkin

A maintenance text adventure about a person living underground in a limestone mine and their work maintaining the local communication network that has sprung up there.

Stemming from a (real!) visit to a decommissioned limestone mine that is now used to house RVs and boats over the winter (and a subsequent phone notification, under several hundred feet of rock, that the space station was visible overhead), Drift Mine Satellite imagines what a post-apocalyptic community life might look like among sleeping vacation vehicles. It is a utopian apocalypse fantasy, a forever-camping world narrowed to linear miles of RVs parked under a mountain, the people who live in them, and the systems that interconnect them, both social and material.

The game was commissioned for Solar Protocol, a network of solar powered servers that connects from whatever server is in the most sunshine. It is programmed for the browser, with low-energy use and computational power front of mind. The entire story is told via spatialized text - no images, no libraries, just divs and textboxes and basic javascript.

Drift Mine Satellite

Consecrated

PRINCESS INTERNET CAFé

rubereaglenest

Infierno Rubí

A short storybook simulator about wandering through death's shade-filled garden, following the spiraling path of poisonous plants to the center.

Well Tended

drgvdg

hanadulcetjams

Skoprimon

Lord_Peachy

clerium

Explore the stars as you make deliveries for folks all across the galaxy in Constellation Courier!

Play as a mail courier tasked with helping the world’s creatures, big and small, communicate with each other across the vast expanse of space. Uncover their stories along the way as you fly amongst the planets and learn more about their journeys through time.

Constellation Courier

A dogsled Oregon Trail-like originally made in 48 hours.

Serum Run

Search for a friend missing in the woods.

The Mouth Of The Woods

The tagline for this short piece of interactive fiction is, "a lifetime of doubts in an instant of self-destruction." Undone unfolds in the moments between two scenes at a research lab in Antarctica. Text and images explore topics in consciousness, organization, physics, and dreams.

Undone

Drew Cook

Explore an all-new "critical edition" of a 1996 Inform 5 game about mental illness, magic, and the second law of thermodynamics.

Repeat the Ending

E. Joyce

Lady Thalia is back in London and back to her old tricks, putting up with Britain’s social elite by day so she can steal from them by night. But that doesn’t mean things are easy, what with her husband back from abroad and a new detective hot on her trail. Still, she’s not going to let those little things distract her from pulling off the heist of her career, even if she needs a bit of help to do it…

Explore London, match wits with friends and foes, and steal everything that’s not nailed down (and some things that are) in this gripping installment of the Lady Thalia series!

Lady Thalia and the Masterpiece of Moldavia

The ShuffleComp is a musical interactive fiction competition where you make games based on songs, which are submitted by other entrants.

Solkatt_

Neatnik LLC

Follow the zany adventures of the inhabitants of Terminal Land, a universe in the shell. Genre-bending experiences spanning spells and spaceships define this epic multiplayer experience that takes place in a persistent universe.

Terminal Land

The little match girl acquires a Colt Paterson revolver and teaches a virtue to a goblin.

How the Little Match Girl Got Her Colt Paterson Revolver, and Taught a Virtue to a Goblin

"The Snow Queen controls her servants with Shards from the Mirror of Belial," Ebenezer Scrooge explained.

The Little Match Girl 3: The Escalus Manifold

Rebel Jester Studios

Be Honest is a completely normal personality quiz.

Interactive Fiction Browser Games