Files by Date (past three months)

NOSFERATU, version 1.1, by Hohenstein256. Requires Lua 5.1 or later.

The Range, by Pansy_Skeme.

GET MANIFE$TO, by Matt Bee.

Das Felleisen, ein postalischer Akt im 16. Jahrhundet, by Max Kalus. Release 1 / Serial number 260618. Winner of the 2006 textfire.de Competition.

Das Kopialbuch, das nächtliche Abenteuer eines Schreibers, by Max Kalus. Version 1, Serial number 050330. Winner of the 2005 textfire.de Competition.

NOSFERATU, version 1.0, by Hohenstein256. Requires Lua 5.1 or later.

Pharos Fidelis, by DemonApologist. Version 2, Dec. 5, 2025. (The original IF Comp release is in games/competition2025/Games/Pharos_Fidelis.zip).

Radiance Inviolate, by DemonApologist. Version 2, Dec. 3, 2025. (The original festival release is in games/springthing/2025/RadianceInviolate.zip).

Lazarrien: A Love Story, by DemonApologist. Version 4. The original date of publication is Aug. 15, 2024; most recently updated Dec. 2, 2025.

Brain Activity, by Trognon. Version 3.

Music credits (with permission from Geography of Robots): Delirious Eyes - by Gewgawly I, from the NORCO Original Soundtrack. Apocryphon of Kenner John - by Gewgawly I, from the NORCO Original Soundtrack. Refinery Eyes (Laura's Theme) - by Gewgawly I, from the NORCO Original Soundtrack.

Blood and Silver, by Tabitha O'Connell.

Most of the entries from Ectocomp 2025, in all languages and both categories (La Petite Mort / Le Grand Guignol):

• Beneath the Weeping Willow by Lamp Post Projects
• Chez Dark Shade Ark by Andrew Schultz
• Diary of a Drowned Girl by Autumn Chen
• Dual I: Rhythm by DissoluteSolute
• Dusk, Airy, Does Carry by Andrew Schultz
• Dying A Little (Inside) by N. Cormier
• Escape Room (by Hugo) by One Boat Crew
• Every day I get emails by Emery Joyce
• The Final Stew by Norbez Jones (call me Bez)
• Find and Keeper by Jacic
• Game of Doom and Despair (by Storyteller) by One Boat Crew
• Ghost Hunt II: Haunted Washing Machine by Dee Cooke
• Go-Strange-Ghost Range by Andrew Schultz
• Heatsick by Ormulum
• The Horrible Escape Room of Horror by Nils Fagerburg
• How To Never Talk To Other People Again by AntiPersonnelAnecdote
• I Got You by Kastel
• The Idle Demon by C M Ball
• the lamp of your body by Naarel
• A Life Rewinding by tzbits
• Night of the Living Not-Dead by DissoluteSolute
• A Normal Morning by Damon L. Wakes
• NOTHING IN MY VEINS by Nulla and Naarel
• Pumpkin Patch by tzbits
• Room 88 (by Smurfs) by One Boat Crew
• Slop by Milo van Mesdag
• Super Halloween Horror Show by Adam Biltcliffe
• Unfair Escape from Underground (by Loki) by One Boat Crew
• Walk A Mile In My Shoes by Olaf Nowacki
• a walk in the hallways by augustgloom
• The Walking Man by mathbrush
• What is this place (by Gooseberry) by One Boat Crew
• Annual Country Market by Doug Egan
• Costumes and Candy by Leon Lin
• Dad's Shiva by Cidney Hamilton
• Doctor Morben's Asylum by solipsistgames
• Dual II: Cyclic by DissoluteSolute
• Exorcist Tipline by distractedmosfet
• …Grind exceedingly small… by DissoluteSolute
• I Have No Verbs, and I Must by DissoluteSolute
• Invunche by hechelion
• Kinophobia by Bruno Dias
• Loveless and listless by Coral Nulla
• The Night Ferry by kaetts
• Non-humain by BenyDanette
• One Fifty-Nine: Drowned Secrets by Jacic
• Oz, The Great And Terrible by StarryMountainClimber
• requiescat by RH
• Sparks Fly by RatNibbles
• Stage Fright by Daniel M. Stelzer and Ada Stelzer and Sarah Stelzer
• THINGS THAT GO BUMP IN THE NIGHT by Lazzah
• warden: a (bug)folk horror by Tabitha and baezil
• When the TV decides to Murder your Girlfriend - The Game by Martin Shannon
• Detective en habitación cerrada by Strollersoft
• El sueño del caracol by archtron
• En la Oscuridad by Edu Sánchez Gamedev
• Jailbreak by n-n
• Más perdido que el barco del arroz by Mery
• Mititz by baltasarq
• Muerte de Berta Cáceres by rubereaglenest
• Velatorio by perezperez
• You promise by Aster Fialla and Jake Gardner

Texture, by Rafi Thissen.

Season One Episode 2: May 2026.

Smoking Hot, by HHRichards.

A Quimica é verde, by Lenaq.

All of the entered games, available in one archive.

Information about the competition.

The Coffee Cake Caper, by Darius Foo (Fable)

meminerimus, by diluculum (Inform/Glulx)

The House, by Miles Poehler (Twine)

A Quiet Scurry, by Moss & Quill Studios (Twine)

Latinorum, by Roberto Ceccarelli (Commodore 64)

Strings: a (bug)folk song, by Tabitha & baezil (Inform/Glulx)

The Missing City Council, by Solarius (Inform/Z)

The Universal Robot (Assembled By Hex), by Agnieszka Trzaska (Twine)

Maybe you'll respect this dead person instead, by Ellric Smith (Twine)

Social Democracy: Popular Front, by Autumn Chen (Dendry)

The Perilous Plot, by Carrie Berg (Twine)

Cryptid Hunter, by Adam Wade, Alex Kutza, Skye Murrell (Twine)

Fantasy Opera: The Theater of Memory, by Lamp Post Projects (Ink)

Join the Swarm, by Senica Interactive Fiction Thing (Twine) Entered in the Back Garden.

Unseelie, by Alun Clewe (TADS 3) Entered in the Back Garden.

Before the Snow Melts, by Zach Crowe (Ren'py)

Our Lady of Thorns, by Joel Burton (Inform/Z)

23 Minutes, by George Larkwright (HTML/Javascript)

Enigmart, by Sarah Willson (Twine)

Our Lady of Thorns, by Joel Burton. Version 2 / serial number 260525. (the original competition entry is in games/springthing/2026/OurLadyOfThorns.zip)

Standalone soundtrack for A Smörgåsbord of Pain, by FLACRabbit. Original game: games/competition2025/Games/A_Sm_rg_sbord_of_Pain.zip (Lower quality audio files.)

Wake Cake, by Pansy Skeme. Version 2.

The Last Mystery, by Colin Sanders and others (Andrew Greenhill, Garrett Dowdy, Chris Ormstrup, & Megan Hollowell). Version 1 / serial number 130417.

course correction, by Lucian Smith. Release 2, serial number 260519. Includes cover image, map, source code, and gblorb file. The original competition entry is in games/mini-comps/ironchif/iron-chif-s1e1-20260222.zip

Delphina's House, an Interactive Flight of Fancy, by Alice Grove. Release 3 / Serial number 260519. Contains story file and walkthrough.

The Cats of Crossed Elder, by Jennifer S. Lange.

Standalone soundtrack for A Smörgåsbord of Pain, by FLACRabbit. Original game: games/competition2025/Games/A_Sm_rg_sbord_of_Pain.zip

Road of Darkness, by Aster Fialla

Камень, ножницы, бумага, the "rock paper scissors" game, by Alexey Galkin Release 2 / Serial number 260511

Inform all-in-one Unix source package, put together by David Griffith. The package includes the following:

• Inform 6.44 source
• Inform library 6.12.8
• PunyInform library 6.6
• Demo games (Advent, Balances, Ruins, etc.)
• Tutorials and useful include files
• Other contributed material

PunyInform version of 350 point Adventure by Will Crowther and Don Woods. Adapted by Fredrik Ramsberg from the original Inform 6 version by Graham Nelson et al. Release 9 / Serial number 260512. (compiled z3, z4, and z5 versions are in games/zcode/advent_punyinform.zip)

PunyInform version of 350 point Adventure by Will Crowther and Don Woods. Adapted by Fredrik Ramsberg from the original Inform 6 version by Graham Nelson et al. Release 9 / Serial number 260512. z3. z4, and z5 versions. (source code is in games/source/inform/advent_punyinform.inf)

Dark Pit, by Andy Kosela.

The Amulet, by Peter Lister. Originally released in 1990 for the Atari 800. Includes a list of hints by Roger Durrant.

Tidesinger, by Jennifer Darrell. Release 1 / serial number 260505.

Roulette Russian, by Cleril.

Wake Cake, by Pansy_Skeme.

Glulxe 0.6.1 for the Amiga, built by David Kinder.

A bootable Amiga disk with two games: Treasure Hunt and Kelly's Rescue, Part 1, both by Peter Clement and René van Hasselaar. The games are simple noun/verb text adventures originally written on the Commodore64 and later ported to the Amiga. Treasure Hunt is a simple search for treasures in an abandoned city; Kelly's Rescue is a thriller/spy story. Uploaded by Christian Marriott. Declared to be in the public domain by René.

One King to Loot them All, by Onno Brouwer. Version 2/serial number 260409. An updated version of the IFComp 2023 entry. (IFComp 2023 version is in games/competition2023/Games/One=20=King=20=to=20=Loot=20=them=20=All.zip; a Twine adaptation is in games/springthing/2024/OneKingToLootThemAll.zip)

Source code for Windows Frotz version 1.28, by David Kinder.

Windows Frotz version 1.28, a port of Frotz for Windows, by David Kinder, packaged as an executable installer. Features include support for Blorb graphics (PNG and JPEG, plus Kevin Bracey's extensions for Infocom's V6 games) and sound (AIFF, MOD and Ogg Vorbis), Unicode and non-English languages.

Windows Frotz version 1.28, a port of Frotz for Windows, by David Kinder. Features include support for Blorb graphics (PNG and JPEG, plus Kevin Bracey's extensions for Infocom's V6 games) and sound (AIFF, MOD and Ogg Vorbis), Unicode and non-English languages.

Frankenfingers, by Charles Moore, Jr. Release 1.1 / Serial number 260329. (the original competition entry is in games/competition2025/Games/Frankenfingers.zip)

The Vineyard, by Opal Byrnes.

Walkthrough for Sharpee Dungeon, by David Cornelson. Playable game found in games/html/Sharpee_Dungeon.zip

Sharpee port of the mainframe version of Zork (aka Dungeon), originally written by Tim Anderson, Marc Blank, Bruce Daniels, and Dave Lebling and converted to Sharpee by David Cornelson. Accompanying walkthrough found in solutions/sharpee_dungeon.zip

Kill Wizard, by Dark Star. Release 2/serial number 251202. (Compiled game is in games/zcode/Kill_Wizard.zip)

Kill Wizard, by Dark Star. Release 2/serial number 251202 (Source code at games/source/inform/kill_wizard.zip)