On Friday, September 29, 2023, I published new walkthroughs for the games and stories listed below! Some of these were paid for by my wonderful patrons at Patreon. Please consider supporting me to make even more new walkthroughs for works of interactive fiction at Patreon and Ko-fi.
Visit Skuga Lake – Masterpiece Edition (2023) by Ryan Veeder (writing as “Leah Naidu”)
In this spooky magical game, you begin as Ryan interviewing author Leah Naidu about her story Visit Skuga Lake. Within her story, you play as Charybdis Argile, an intern for a travel magazine, locked in a closet by a suspicious motel manager. Use totemic magic to escape the closet, find your missing boss, and fix what’s wrong with this town.
Killing Machine Loves Slime Prince (2023) by C.E.J. Pacian
In this odd sci-fi romance where your options are defined by your inventory, you play as a biomechanical and taciturn killing machine whose solar sail has just crashed on the Eighth Moon of Forsaken Edge. Your love, the Decoy Prince, is dying. Your quarry, the True Third Prince, is somewhere nearby. He will not escape you.
This game was written in Dialog.
Arthur’s Day Out (2021) by Jason “Waulok” Oakley
In this small game, you play as Arthur. After a drinking binge, you wake up in the pub’s broom closet with a headache. When you stumble out into the pub proper, there’s no barman. There isn’t anyone. What happened?
This game was an entry in Puny Jam #1 where it took 7th place.
The Asian Challenge (1989) by Conrad Button
In this educational game, you are playing as a Special Investigator for the Senate Foreign Aid Committee. Your mission is to obtain information about the Asian continent, the largest in the world. You begin your tour in Instanbul, Turkey, carrying only a compass and a scrap of paper.
This game was written in GW-BASIC.
A Clean Getaway (2023) by Michael Bub
In this small escape game, you play as a PhD student and research scientist in an exciting new field. While working late after midnight in the clean room, you notice you’re alone, which should be impossible. It’s time to go home, but leaving will prove to be more difficult than usual.
This game was an entry in PunyJam #3, where it took 8th place.
Death Number Four (2021) by Dave Footitt
In this short game, you play as a heavily bandaged supernatural entity, summoned back into existence inside a pub’s broom closet. The local police inspector needs you to get inside the locked graveyard and speak to the dead.
This game was an entry in PunyJam #1 where it took 4th place.
The Fantasy Dimension (2023) by Johan Berntsson
In this small game, you play as an office worker in a high-tech airlock. How did you got there? A speaker voice asks you to pick a dimension to travel to. “Home” is rejected, but “fantasy world” works. Enjoy your generic fantasy adventure!
This game was an entry in PunyJam #3.
The Milk of Paradise (2009) by Josh Graboff
In this short game, you are the Khan in your pleasure dome. You are a ruler, a conqueror, handsome, excellent, eternal, yet your memories are strangely gone. O, my Khan, I am but your humble servant, and I shall guide you well.
This story was an entry in Spring Thing 2009 where it took 4th place (of four entries).
Pub Adventure! (2021) by Tom and Robin Edwards
In this small adventure, your pub is deserted. Your customers were scared away by the ghost of the previous landlord, and he won’t stop haunting the place until he gets a zombie cocktail. Easy.
This game was an entry in PunyJam #1 where it took 5th place.
Reg and the Kidnapped Fairy (2022) by William and Olivia BE Moore
In this small silly game, you play as Reg, the Good Werewolf. You love your family, you love your tacos, and you love to punch bad guys into space. And that’s all you need to know.
This game was an entry in La Petite Mort, English division of Ectocomp 2022 where it took 19th place.
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