ZiNc Games - LaunchBox Games Database

9:05

ZiNc

Homebrew

1999

Community Rating: 3.39
Total Votes: 9

3.4

The phone rings at 9:05 AM after a rough night. It's up to you to get up and get moving in this short piece of...

A Beauty Cold & Austere

ZiNc

Homebrew

October 1, 2017

Community Rating: 4.60
Total Votes: 5

4.6

That survey course in conceptual mathematics seemed like a good idea at the start of the term - no graded homework,...

A New Day

ZiNc

Released

1997

Community Rating: 3.00
Total Votes: 1

3.0

For some reason, the author of this game died while writing it, and so you're stuck in an unfinished room. The...

Afuera

ZiNc

Homebrew

December 21, 2007

Community Rating: 2.67
Total Votes: 3

2.7

You're a prisoner, a convicted criminal, doing time on the upper levels of the Pyramid, and now you must get ready...

Aisle

ZiNc

Homebrew

May 28, 1999

Community Rating: 3.00
Total Votes: 1

3.0

"Late Thursday night. You've had a hard day and the last thing you need is this: shopping. Luckily, the place is...

All Roads

ZiNc

Homebrew

2001

Community Rating: 2.17
Total Votes: 3

2.2

Supernatural espionage thriller set in a quasi-medieval Venice. You jump around in space and time through a series...

Amanda

ZiNc

Released

2009

Community Rating: 2.00
Total Votes: 2

2.0

Dos hombres altos, adustos y bien vestidos, casi de etiqueta, se sitúan en mitad de un puente escoltando a un...

An Act of Murder

ZiNc

Homebrew

September 30, 2007

Community Rating: 3.60
Total Votes: 5

3.6

Late at night, two men at a house party find their host lying dead on the beach below the study window. The police...

Anchorhead

ZiNc

Released

1998

Community Rating: 4.50
Total Votes: 2

4.5

It is November 1997. A month ago your husband, Michael, had learned about a heretofore unknown branch of his...

Break-In

ZiNc

Released

1999

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

The game begins with a quote from 109, your former boss at MI7, telling you you're fired. You're a professional...

Bronze: A Fractured Fairy Tale

ZiNc

Homebrew

January 21, 2006

Community Rating: 2.00
Total Votes: 1

2.0

When the seventh day comes and it is time for you to return to the castle in the forest, your sisters cling to your...

Bureaucracy

ZiNc

Released

1987

Community Rating: 1.00
Total Votes: 1

1.0

Bureaucracy! Everyone, at one time or another, feels bound up in an endless swathe of red tape. In Bureaucracy,...

Counterfeit Monkey

ZiNc

Homebrew

December 30, 2012

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

Anglophone Atlantis has been an independent nation since an April day in 1822, when a well-aimed shot from their...

Curses

ZiNc

Homebrew

1993

Community Rating: 3.50
Total Votes: 1

3.5

In this game, you play the current owner of Meldrew Hall, a stately home of England. You start innocently enough,...

Deadline

ZiNc

Released

1982

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

It's Deadline, and it puts you, the keen-eyed sleuth, against a 12-hour time limit to solve a classic locked-door...

Degeneracy

ZiNc

Homebrew

2001

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

A knight stands above his slain foe, his quest accomplished. But the dead man has planned a posthumous revenge....

Enchanter

ZiNc

Released

August 10, 1983

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

In ENCHANTER, the first of a spellbinding series in the tradition of ZORK, you are a novice magician whom Fate has...

For a Change

ZiNc

Homebrew

1999

Community Rating: 5.00
Total Votes: 1

5.0

"The sun is gone. It must be brought. You have a rock." So begins For a Change, one of the most unusual games in...

Galatea

ZiNc

Released

2000

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

Galatea is loosely based around the myth of Pygmalion who carved the sculpture of a woman. In the myth he falls in...

Goteras

ZiNc

Homebrew

2006

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

A "hard" Sci-Fi short tale. A crippled ship, a tired crewman.... with some humor twists. You're onboard a small...

Hoist Sail for the Heliopause and Home

ZiNc

Released

2010

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

“Myrmidal is the queen of the bright worlds, and you’ve walked her million cities beneath her sky and beyond it....

Hunter, in Darkness

ZiNc

Released

1999

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

An interactive cave crawl. Play Hunter, in Darkness if you’re in the mood for a tense and harrowing chase in a...

Jigsaw

ZiNc

Homebrew

1995

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

A whirlwind tour of the 20th century. Hunt for the jigsaw pieces that allow you to travel trough time, following a...

Losing You Grip

ZiNc

Homebrew

1998

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

Large, highly complex and introspective game. You're a fellow named Terry, in rehab for nicotine addiction, and the...

Lost Pig

ZiNc

Homebrew

September 30, 2007

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

"Grunk orc. Grunk work on pig farm. Grunk lose pig. Boss tell Grunk go find pig. Grunk fall down hole. Land on...

Macetas

ZiNc

Homebrew

October 30, 2007

Community Rating: 5.00
Total Votes: 2

5.0

A "hard" Sci-Fi tale, sequel to Goteras. A difficult mission on an asteroid mining base. After a nearly...

Metamorphoses

ZiNc

Homebrew

2000

Community Rating: 1.00
Total Votes: 1

1.0

You're a slave girl on a mission of sorts for your master, though it's difficult to say what the mission is. The...

Not Just An Ordinary Ballerina

ZiNc

Homebrew

1999

Community Rating: 4.25
Total Votes: 2

4.2

Despite the off-putting title, Not Just An Ordinary Ballerina is an absolute treasure for puzzle-lovers. You are a...

Photopia

ZiNc

Homebrew

October 1, 1998

Community Rating: 4.75
Total Votes: 2

4.8

Scenes from a handful of ordinary lives alternate with chapters of a child's colorful science-fantasy. Sweet and...

Planetfall

ZiNc

Released

1983

Community Rating: 3.25
Total Votes: 2

3.2

"Join the Patrol, and see the Galaxy!" You took the poster's advice, bait and all, and marched right over to the...

Scavenger

ZiNc

Homebrew

September 29, 2003

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

Search a war-shattered world for secrets of the past. Set in a fairly cliche post-apocalyptic environment, but...

Shade

ZiNc

Homebrew

2000

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

"A one-room game set in your apartment." Shade is one of those classics that get recommended anytime anyone...

Slouching Towards Bedlam

ZiNc

Released

September 29, 2003

Community Rating: 5.00
Total Votes: 1

5.0

Enter a steampunk adventure set in a London that might have been. The year is 1885. Bedlam Hospital still stands in...

Sorcerer

ZiNc

Released

January 31, 1984

Community Rating: 3.75
Total Votes: 2

3.8

SORCERER, the second of a spellbinding fantasy series in the tradition of ZORK, takes you on a magical tour through...

Spellbreaker

ZiNc

Released

September 16, 1985

Community Rating: 5.00
Total Votes: 1

5.0

SPELLBREAKER, the riveting conclusion to the ENCHANTER trilogy, explores the mysterious underpinnings of the...

Stationfall

ZiNc

Released

1987

Community Rating: 5.00
Total Votes: 1

5.0

What a trotting krip! Since your incredible heroics in Planetfall, where you risked life and limb to save the...

Suspended: A Cryogenic Nightmare

ZiNc

Released

February 22, 1983

Community Rating: 5.00
Total Votes: 1

5.0

They said you would sleep for half a millennium -- not an unreasonable length of time, considering you'd be in...

Suveh Nux

ZiNc

Homebrew

November 19, 2007

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

Your master, a wizard, sends you to put something away in his vault. Someone shoves you roughly from behind and...

Textfire Golf

ZiNc

Homebrew

January 3, 2001

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

Stand steady at the tee... head down... slow backswing. Now, drive your tee shot 220 yards down the fairway,...

The Baron

ZiNc

Released

2006

Community Rating: 1.00
Total Votes: 2

1.0

It is not explained at first who you are. You are wielding a battle axe and wearing a helmet and a full suit of...

The Dreamhold

ZiNc

Homebrew

2004

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

"You don't remember who you are. You are lying on a smooth cold stone floor in a small unfurnished stone cell. You...

The Gostak

ZiNc

Homebrew

October 1, 2001

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

"Finally, here you are. At the delcot of tondam, where doshes deave. But the doshery lutt is crenned with glauds....

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

ZiNc

Released

1984

Community Rating: 2.50
Total Votes: 3

2.5

Don't Panic! Relax, because everything you need to know about playing The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is...

The Lurking Horror

ZiNc

Released

June 5, 1987

Community Rating: 5.00
Total Votes: 1

5.0

A winter night at the G.U.E. tech campus with most students away on vacation serves as the backdrop for this tale...

The Space Under the Window

ZiNc

Released

1997

Community Rating: 5.00
Total Votes: 2

5.0

A new, experimental game that has no puzzles but uses only words that change your focus on things, thereby adapting...

To Hell in a Hamper

ZiNc

Homebrew

April 1, 2003

Community Rating: 5.00
Total Votes: 1

5.0

Professor Pettibone, eminent Victorian balloonist, has a problem. He can't get it up. His balloon that is. If he...

Treasures of a Slaver's Kingdom

ZiNc

Released

December 24, 2007

Community Rating: 4.50
Total Votes: 1

4.5

In the cruel kingdoms north of the Viraxian Empire, a barbarian seeks treasure - and vengeance! Having escaped the...

Trinity

ZiNc

Released

May 9, 1986

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

It's the last day of your $599 London vacation. Unfortunately, it's also the first day of World War III. Only...

Varicella

ZiNc

Released

1999

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

You are Primo Varicella, Palace Minister at the Palazzo del Piemonte. You are carrying a letter from the Queen and...

Violet

ZiNc

Homebrew

October 1, 2008

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

Calm down. All you have to do is write a thousand words and everything will be fine. And you have all day, except...

Wishbringer

ZiNc

Released

1985

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

It's an ordinary day in your ordinary little town, and you've been performing your ordinary mail clerk's duties in...

Worlds Apart

ZiNc

Homebrew

1999

Community Rating: None
Total Votes: 0

Extraordinarily rich and imaginative. You wake up on a strange beach with no memory of who or where you are, and...

ZiNc

9:05

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1999

3.4

A Beauty Cold & Austere

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October 1, 2017

4.6

A New Day

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1997

3.0

Afuera

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December 21, 2007

2.7

Aisle

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May 28, 1999

3.0

All Roads

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2001

2.2

Amanda

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2009

2.0

An Act of Murder

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September 30, 2007

3.6

Anchorhead

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1998

4.5

Break-In

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1999

Bronze: A Fractured Fairy Tale

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January 21, 2006

2.0

Bureaucracy

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1987

1.0

Counterfeit Monkey

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December 30, 2012

Curses

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1993

3.5

Deadline

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1982

Degeneracy

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2001

Enchanter

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August 10, 1983

For a Change

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1999

5.0

Galatea

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2000

Goteras

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2006

Hoist Sail for the Heliopause and Home

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2010

Hunter, in Darkness

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1999