2005: A Game of Macroeconomics is an excellent free game that achieves what many expensive releases have tried and failed: teach basic concepts of macroeconomics in an accessible and fun...

24 Knights is a fun little chess puzzle from NZP.

3059 is a fun and very open-ended sci-fi Roguelike RPG.

One of the best solitaire games I've ever come across, 35 Card Solitaire is an excellent PC version of a challenging solitaire game that requires more skill than it may...

4D Prince of Persia is a solid unofficial version of Jordan Mechner's classic action/adventure that starts off the same as the original version but will stump even action veterans with...

One of the best freeware adventure games I have ever played, 5 Days a Stranger is yet another excellent medium-sized adventure from Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw, the freelance author behind such...

In the niche genre long dominated by extremely challenging epics such as Graham Nelson's Curses and clever games such as Andrew Plotkin's Spider and Web, 9:05 is a refreshing breather.

A well-deserved winner of the first IF Competition, Inform devision, in 1995.

A Crimson Spring, Robb Sherwin's entry in the 2000 IF Competition is, by far, my pick for #1 underdog of that competition.

My favorite entry in the 2001 LOTECHComp for which it won a respectable second place, A Dark and Stormy Entry is a fun and quite clever Choose-Your-Own-Adventure game which puts...