Detective Fiction

Vera Blanc is a mystery / detective game. Take on the role of Vera Blanc, a young and beautiful woman with an extraordinary power: the ability to read other people's minds! Daughter of Emmanuel Blanc, one of the richest people on Earth, she left her life of luxury to use her powers to work...

A free science fiction novel for your Mac Fallacy of Dawn is a free interactive fiction novel with a science fiction theme. Benji???*a*?s Arcade is an anachronistic and wholly out-of-place vermin lair that has affixed itself to the body of the city like an itchy, raw lesion. It???*a*?s also one...

A free science fiction novel for your Mac The Evil Chicken of Doom is a free and fun interactive fiction novel with a science fiction theme.


Platforms: Mac

A free science fiction novel for your Mac The Elysium Enigma is a free interactive fiction novel with a science fiction theme. It was meant to be a routine visit on behalf of the imperial government, just to remind the settlers that the Empire hadn't forgotten them, and if you stick rigidly to...


Platforms: Mac

The Carthage Corn Maze is a free interactive fiction novel with a surreal theme. You are standing at the entrance to the Maize Maze of Carthage, North Africa. All around you is desolation, apart from the prize-filled corn maze which was constructed by local officials at great expense to boost...


Platforms: Mac

A free interactive fiction novel for your Mac Cranial Pounding is a free interactive fiction novel with a medical theme. Awaiting interrogating, your planning was to drug interrogatable so he would be truthful. But while waiting for his arrival at eating be served, the cranial pounding began....


Platforms: Mac

A free social novel for your Mac Diorama is a free interactive fiction novel with a social theme. In one corner is your diorama, which is way cool ... except for the missing toy cow, that is. That cow cost 4 dollars out of your allowance. It was there when you brought in the diorama yesterday,...


Platforms: Mac

The Case of Samuel Gregor is a free interactive fiction novel with a surreal and travel theme. There is a knock at the door of your office. Without waiting for an answer, the Dean of the university walks into your working quarters, followed by three gentlemen sharply dressed in charcoal suits....


Platforms: Mac

A free horror novel for your Mac Dining With the Alien is a free interactive fiction novel with a horror theme. You pry your eyes open. The room is a bit blurry. Mouth feels like an already dead bird died in it again. What the hell happened last night? Oh. Yeah. That happened. Xrys???*a*? alien...


Platforms: Mac

A free science fiction novel for your Mac Digging thru Doctrine of the Dead is a free interactive fiction novel with a science fiction theme. In our not-too-distant past, some mathematicians, drunk and noodling one night, discovered that within our genes was an equation. Ironic that it was they...


Platforms: Mac

A free science fiction novel for your Mac Destiny of the Chihuahua is a free interactive fiction novel with a science fiction theme. Jupiter looms above you, huge and ominous, lord of planets, driving home the magnitude of your task. To the north is the great Palace of the Chihuahua family, old...


Platforms: Mac

The Mage Wars:Statue is a free interactive fiction novel with a science fiction theme. A small bedroom with two beds, one for each of your children. The illumination spell, a common casting available these days in every home in Darisia, is set very low so as to facilitate their falling asleep.


Platforms: Mac

Eric's Gift is a linear and rather stilted example of interactive fiction. The mood it presents is faintly wistful, but too tranquil to inspire much interaction. I suppose that works after a fashion, but what interaction is required is cryptic and not well-clued. As a result you must guess the...


Platforms: Mac

A free fiction novel for your Mac The Coast House is a free interactive fiction novel full of mystery and plot twists. The mystery, for you, started two years ago. "Come here, there's something I want to tell you," your old grandfather had said, "Quick, before your mother comes back in the...


Platforms: Mac

A straight-forward way in getting information from the browser window. Just start from any point and move on from there. The way to use this add-on is as said on the Firefox Add-on page. But here are some other pointers. Some points: 1. Foxy Detective is quick to gather new information,...


Platforms: *nix

Inform 7 is a design system for interactive fiction based on natural language.


Platforms: *nix

This screensaver shows real 3D models of biological molecules rotating. Your screen will look like screens of computers in science fiction films! Six molecules are available in the current version: four prototypes of DNA (Deoxyribonucleis Acid - storage of genetics information) and two proteins -...


Platforms: Windows

WSD is a flexible HTTP proxy which displays and records network traffic. WSD also handles SOAP and XML-RPC. It enables you to 'listen' and record the transactions on any nominated port and send the traffic to any other nominated port. You can view headers and data for every request and response...


Platforms: Windows

It is AD 2502 and the millenia old battle between science and religion has ruined a once-great society. The line between human and machine grows thinner as people walk the streets of Metapolis "enhanced" by cybernetic technologies. The city of Metapolis has been sealed off, its government...


Platforms: Windows

A cryptic interactive story with 20 illustrations ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO, in the time of top hats, London pea-souper fogs and seedy opium dens the first and greatest consulting detective of them all exercised his genius. Could you take on his role as super sleuth? Do you have an eye...


Platforms: Palm OS