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New on IFDB
All Updates | Site News | RSS FeedA new competition page: Spring Thing 2026 created April 6, 2026
A new competition page: 16th IF Grand Prix 2025 created April 4, 2026
Games
Add a game listingJoin the Swarm, by Senica Thing Twine |
Unseelie, by Alun Clewe TADS 3 |
Exchange, by Peter Johnston Ink |
The Universal Robot (Assembled By Hex), by Agnieszka Trzaska Twine |
Strings: a (bug)folk song, by Tabitha and baezil Inform 7 |
Social Democracy: Popular Front, by Autumn Chen DendryNexus |
Reviews
archcorenth reviews Mystery Science Theater 3000 Presents "Detective": "It stinks!"  - See full review |
MathBrush reviews Encounter: A 8-Bit Noir Adventure: "A graphical remake of an old detective game with 2-hour time limit"  |
Jo the Plunderer reviews The Road to Canterbury: "Enjoyable if you go in with the right expectations" |
Denk reviews Attack of Doc Lobster's Mutant Menagerie of Horror: "Speed IF (played with Parchment): Creative monster creation!" |
MathBrush reviews War for the West: "Medieval Lord simulator with mild fantasy elements" |
Competitions
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Create a pollHelp other IFDB members find the games they're looking for by voting in their polls. Here are a few recent ones:
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IFDB Recommends
| Planetfall, by Steve Meretzky "Join the Patrol, and see the Galaxy!" You took the poster's advice, bait and all, and marched right over to the recruitment station near... |
| 80 DAYS, by inkle, Meg Jayanth 1872, with a steampunk twist. Phileas Fogg has wagered he can circumnavigate the world in just eighty days. Choose your own route around... |
| Lost Pig, by Admiral Jota Pig lost! Boss say that it Grunk fault. Say Grunk forget about closing gate. Maybe boss right. Grunk not remember forgetting, but maybe... |
| Superluminal Vagrant Twin, by C.E.J. Pacian A text-only space sim. Ply the spaceways. Make five million credits. Buy back your twin. (Superluminal Vagrant Twin is a shallow but... |
| Toby's Nose, by Chandler Groover A murder most foul has been committed and Sherlock Holmes is on the case. You are his dog. |
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